Terms And Conditions
Terms and Conditions of Use
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Welcome to lonely.ie. Lonely.ie is a social networking site with dating functionality and capabilities. Review these Terms and Conditions of Use before you sign up. This is your contract with Lonely.ie!
What follows outlines the contract with lonely.ie and you. The terms include rights and requirements between users and New Media Lotteries which operate and manage lonely.ie. This includes all services, productions and third party partners and all communications between said parties.
The information on this Website is not intended to be provided to and should not be used in any State or jurisdiction of any nature in which access to or use of such information is prohibited, whether in the format in which it is presented on this Website or otherwise. If you have any doubts about the legality of your using this Website, you should not continue any further.
THIS WEBSITE IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THOSE OVER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS (OR ANY EQUIVALENT AGE IN ANY OTHER JURISDICTION). NO ONE UNDER THAT AGE SHOULD CARRY OUT ANY ACTIVITY WHATSOEVER BASED ON THE INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS OR DO NOT WISH TO BE EXPOSED TO TEXT OR MEDIA CONTENT OF A DATING NATURE PLEASE LEAVE THE WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY.
The current most recent version of the Terms & Conditions for the time being as displayed on the website shall apply, as same may be amended, updated and or replaced from time to time.
1 Introduction
1.1 This page states the "Terms & Conditions of Use" under which Members and users (collectively "Users") may use www.lonely.ie, and or any other websites under lonely.ie's control (whether partial or otherwise)(the "Website").
1.2 Access to this Website and the use of services (if any) or information on it is subject to these Terms & Conditions of Use. You should carefully read these Terms & Conditions of Use. By accessing this Website and or proceeding further, you will be deemed to have accepted them.
1.3 Lonely.ie is for adults of over 18 only. By signing up as a user you are confirming your age with us and confirming that you can enter into contract with lonely.ie and agree to abide with the terms and conditions. Lonely.ie can reserve the right to 'take down' any profiles that it believes do not abide by the Terms and Conditions of Use set out relating to age qualification of the site until a identify of age is proven by users. For verification purposes lonely.ie reserves the right to require production and proof of age, which may include producing your passport and or driving licence to us, and which you agree to do as part of your membership agreement and or your application to become a member.
2 Definitions
In these Terms & Conditions of Use, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:-
"Members" means members and potential members who wish to access the Website(s) of lonely.ie, to become a member, to place or access profiles, advertise and or view service offerings;
"lonely.ie" means Lonely.ie which is owned and operated by New Media Services, 22-23 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland;
"Privacy Statement" means our statement of practice as regards the privacy and security of your information when accessing and/or using this Website and any of the feature hereon;
"Terms and Conditions of Use" means these Website Terms and Conditions of Use and any other rules and policies of lonely.ie, including Privacy Statement, Member application terms, purchasing terms, as same may be amended and or replaced from time to time by lonely.ie at lonely.ie's sole and absolute discretion;
"you" means any and all persons accessing or using this Website and/or availing of any information and/or services available on or via this Website;
"we" and "our" and "us" means lonely.ie.
3 Membership
3.1 When you join lonely.ie you become a member of lonely.ie and agree to abide by the terms and conditions. You will be sent an email to verify your email address before your profile is activated and your membership accepted. By verifying your email address you are agreeing to lonely.ie sending you a weekly email containing products, content, and third party offers. You are also agreeing to receive one free weekly text from lonely.ie on behalf of third party suppliers advertising a product or offering. Both of these services are free to the member of lonely.ie and they are obliged as part of membership to receive them. You may cancel your membership to the Website at any stage and delete your profile by emailing support@lonely.ie
3.2 We reserve the right to introduce new services and facilities and also to introduce a cost for use of additional facilities, capabilities and functionality on the Website.
3.3 You are solely responsible for the content that you place on your profile and publish and post or send to other members. We reserve the right to edit, suspend, take down, delete and or ban user submissions or any user that post potentially harmful content or content that does not comply with the Terms and Conditions of Use.
3.4 For your safety please do not post your address or telephone or mobile phone contact number on lonely.ie, you may however post your email address.
3.5 You agree not to post, publish or upload or email any content that is unlawful, defamatory, or libelous. Lonely.ie reserves the right to refuse profiles and/or photographs that it feels are not appropriate for the Website.
4 Permitted Use of the Website
4.1 You agree to use the Website only for lawful purposes in accordance with these terms and conditions.
4.2 You undertake to ensure that all information, content and photographs which you supply is true, and or your own, accurate, up-to-date and not misleading or likely to mislead or deceive and that it is not illegal, unlawful, offensive or in breach of any applicable legislation, including infringement of any third party intellectual property rights.
4.3 You confirm that you understand and acknowledge that lonely.ie has not taken steps to verify the identity or details about any of the person whose information appears on the Website.
4.4 Lonely.ie does not guarantee to monitor communications made via the Website. You agree that you are responsible for all communications you enter into and for any consequences thereof. We strongly advise against giving personal contact details (such as private telephone, mobile phone and addresses) to other users of the Website in any communications made via or in consequence of use of the Website.
4.5 You agree to use any chat room, email, advice facility, or message board (if any) available on or via the Website only to send and receive messages and material that is legal and which is not obscene or inappropriate.
4.6 You warrant that you are at least 18 years old or the appropriate legal age where 18 is not the age of majority.
4.7 You warrant that you will not:
4.7.1 defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (including rights of privacy) of others (whether or not those others are users of the Website);
4.7.2 publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate or circulate any inappropriate material, photographs, audio visual content, or views, including but not limited to, defamatory, infringing, obscene, or unlawful material or information, racist, sexist or homophobic material and any material which contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage or impair the operation of the Website or a third party's computer or which may reasonably be expected to do so or which infringes or may infringe third party intellectual property;
4.7.3 post any material that infringes any copyright or other proprietary rights of any party including confidential information;
4.7.4 advertise or offer to sell any goods or services for any commercial purpose;
4.7.5 post, conduct or forward any surveys, contests or chain letters;
4.7.6 impersonate another person or falsify or delete any details of other users of the Website or other notices or any messages or details;
4.7.7 restrict or inhibit any other user from using the Website;
4.7.8 you will not permit any person(s) under 18-years of age to have access to any of the materials contained within the Website;
4.7.9 you warrant that you have not and will not use and/or view the Website in a restricted location - namely a place, country, or location in which doing so would, or could be deemed a violation of any law, regulation, rule, ordinance, edict or custom.
4.8 You acknowledge that any communications which you post to the Website are not private and that therefore others may read your communications with or without your knowledge and or may try to contact you.
4.9 In the event that lonely.ie in its absolute discretion believes that any of the information supplied by you does not comply with the obligations of these Terms and Conditions of Use it may refuse to register you as a user/member or may suspend registration. In the event that you are in breach of any terms and obligations lonely.ie may in its absolute discretion suspend your access to the Website and refuse to permit you to use it in future.
4.10 You hereby indemnify upon demand lonely.ie for all costs, claims, liabilities and expenses (including legal expenses) whether direct or indirect which it may suffer as a result of your breach of any of the terms these Terms and Conditions of Use.
4.11 Lonely.ie reserves the right to edit any personal details you submit to the Website whether by editing, cropping, re-sizing or otherwise.
4.12 By posting communications to the Website, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant lonely.ie and it's members a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to exploit, use, copy, reproduce, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the communication alone or as part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether now known or hereafter developed. If you provide lonely.ie or any of it's members with your email address via a registration process or post it on the Website you thereby authorize lonely.ie and it's affiliates and any entities lonely.ie becomes involved with or merges with, the right to use and/or sell your valid email address for any marketing programs or communications with you.
4.13 (Where applicable) you warrant that if you upload a sexually explicit image to the Website and that any images uploaded or submitted are your own.
4.14 Use of Material: lonely.ie grants a non-exclusive non-transferable, limited personal licence to Users to view and print copies for the sole purpose of viewing for your own personal use of (i) the publicly accessible material and (ii) the material available from those additional areas of this Website to which Users may be permitted access pursuant to the terms of this Website and any other websites under lonely.ie's control (whether partial or otherwise) (collectively the "Lonely.ie Sites") for User's personal use in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of Use of these Terms and Conditions of Use and any related terms. Capitalised terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Agreement.
4.15 The contents of Lonely.ie Sites, such as text, graphics, images, logos, button icons, software and other material (collectively, "Material"), are protected under international copyright, database right, sui generis right, trade mark and other intellectual property laws. Except as provided herein, all Material is the property of lonely.ie or its content suppliers or Members. The compilation (meaning the collection, arrangement and assembly) of all content on each Lonely.ie Site is the exclusive property of lonely.ie. Unauthorised use of the Material may violate copyright, trade mark, and other laws. Lonely.ie retains all copyright, trade mark, service-mark and other proprietary notices contained in the original Material on any copy Users makes of the Material. Users may not sell or modify the Material or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the Material in any way for any public purpose. Except to the extent otherwise permitted by terms herein, the use of the Material on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited.
4.16 Users may not copy or adapt the HTML code that lonely.ie creates to generate its pages. Such HTML code is also protected by lonely.ie's copyright.
5 Acceptable Site Use
General Rules: Users may not use any Lonely.ie Site in order to transmit, distribute, store or destroy material (a) in violation of any applicable law or regulation, (b) in a manner that will infringe the copyright, trade mark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others or violate the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of others, or (c) that is defamatory, obscene, threatening, harassing abusive, hateful or otherwise illegal.
6 Lonely.ie Site Security Rules
6.1 Users are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of any lonely.ie Site, including, without limitation, (a) accessing data not intended for such party or logging into a server or account which such party is not authorised to access, (b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorisation, (c) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to any Lonely.ie Site, overloading, commercial communications, "flooding," "spamming," "mailbombing" or "crashing" (d) sending unsolicited email, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services, or (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. Lonely.ie may investigate occurrences, which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting parties who are involved in such violations.
6.2 Lonely.ie is committed to ensuring the privacy of your information and seeking to attain the highest standards of security at all times. However, you should note that messages and information passing over the Internet may not be free from interference by third parties and should be independently verified. Please note that lonely.ie cannot guarantee the privacy or confidentiality of information relating to you passing over the Internet. In accessing this Website or any Lonely.ie Site and in availing of any of the services/information available on or via this Website or any Lonely.ie Site, you are deemed by these Terms and Conditions of Use to accept that electronic mail messaging and Internet communication may not be free from interference by third parties and may not remain confidential. The use by you of this Website or any Lonely.ie Site is at your sole risk.
7 Specific Prohibited Uses
7.1 Lonely.ie specifically prohibits any use of the Website or any Lonely.ie Site, and all Users agree not to use any Lonely.ie Site, for any of the following:
· Posting any incomplete, false or inaccurate information or information which is not User's own accurate information;
· Posting any franchise, pyramid scheme, "club membership," distributorship or sales representative agency arrangement or other business opportunity which requires an up front or periodic payment, pays commissions only (no significant salary), requires recruitment of other members, sub-distributors or sub-agents;
· Deleting or revising any material posted by any other person or entity;
· Using any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of any Lonely.ie Site or any activity being conducted thereon;
· Taking any action, which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on any Lonely.ie Site's infrastructure;
· Disclosing to or sharing a password with any party that is not expressly permitted to use such password, or using a password for any unauthorized purpose;
· Attempting to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of any Lonely.ie Site;
· Hacking, sending viruses or other malicious code;
· Spamming or sending commercial communities.
7.2 The information on this Website is not intended to be provided to and should not be used in any State or jurisdiction of any nature in which access to or use of such information is prohibited, whether in the format in which it is presented on this website or otherwise. If you have any doubts about the legality of your using this Website, you should not continue any further.
8 User Submissions
8.1 Users are responsible for their own communications (and attachments, including media and photographs) and for the consequences of postings and other submissions of Users, if any. Users shall not do the following things: post material that is copyrighted, unless the User is the copyright owner or has the permission of the copyright owner to post it; post material that reveals trade secrets, unless the User owns them or has the permission of the owner; post material that infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy data protection or publicity rights of others; post material that is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive or hateful; post sexually-explicit images or statements; post advertisements or solicitations of business; post chain letters or pyramid schemes; impersonate another person; or post material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines or engines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information.
8.2 Lonely.ie does not represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of communications posted by Users or endorse any opinions expressed by Users. Users acknowledge that any reliance on material posted on or via any Lonely.ie Site will be at the User's own risk.
8.3 Lonely.ie acts as a passive conduit for the online distribution of profile information and has no obligation to screen communications or information in advance and is not responsible for screening or monitoring material posted or supplied by users or third parties particularly where located abroad. If notified by the User or any other user of communications which allegedly do not conform to these Terms & Conditions of Use or, with respect to non-member users of any Lonely.ie Site, which do not conform to the terms of use applicable to the public access areas of any Lonely.ie Site (if any), lonely.ie may investigate the allegation and determine in its sole discretion whether to remove or request the removal of the communication. Lonely.ie has no liability or responsibility to Users or other users for performance or nonperformance of such activities. Lonely.ie reserves the right to remove communications that are abusive, illegal or disruptive. Lonely.ie may take any action with respect to user-submitted information that it deems necessary or appropriate in its reasonable discretion if it believes it may create liability for lonely.ie or may cause lonely.ie to lose (in whole or in part) the services of its ISPs or other suppliers.
9 Registration and Password
Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their information and password(s). Users shall immediately notify lonely.ie of any unauthorised use of any password of which Users become aware. Lonely.ie reserves the right to cancel such password and issue a new password in lieu thereof. Lonely.ie reserves the right to periodically change issued passwords.
10 Registration (and Payment) (If any)
10.1 Upon registration with lonely.ie you may:
10.1.1 Register for free (trial) membership, which entitles you (subject to compliance with these Terms and Conditions of Use) to use those areas of the Website available to such members as shown from time to time on the Website; or
10.1.2 Pay an upgrade fee (if any), which, subject to your payment being accepted and maintained and to compliance with these terms and conditions, will enable you to use those areas of the Website available from time to time to such upgraded members (if any).
10.2 The upgrade fee and the length of upgrade referred to herein are as advertised on the Website from time to time. Lonely.ie reserves the right to alter or introduce a fee and amend the services available to subscribed members at any time.
10.3 We reserve the right to introduce a cost for use of additional facilities, capabilities and functionality on the Website.
11 Offers and Promotions
11.1 Lonely.ie reserves the right to modify or withdraw any competitions and/or special offers associated with lonely.ie and/or the Website at any time without prior notice.
11.2 The decision of lonely.ie is final in all matters.
11.3 We may advertise or offer third party products or services.
12 Notify and Take Down Policy
12.1 Lonely.ie does not monitor the Website but it shall retain the right at all times to refuse to publish and/or to take down any personal details submitted by a user and/or any message or notice posted to the Website where it reasonably believes that the message or notice is incorrect, deliberately misleading, illegal, illicit, obscene, defamatory, infringing of third party rights or is likely to harm the reputation of lonely.ie.
12.2 Upon receipt of notification from a third party to the effect that a message or notice of the type referred to above appears on the Website, lonely.ie may in its absolute discretion take down or amend such message or notice without reference to you.
12.3 In the event that lonely.ie believes that you are persistently abusing the Website it may in its absolute discretion prohibit you from using the Website in future.
12.4 Lonely.ie's rights shall be without prejudice to the sole responsibility you have for content of any messages, content or notices posted to the Website and to the warranties given you in relation to that content.
13 Lonely.ie Rights
13.1 Lonely.ie does not monitor or control information posted to the Website by users of it but it reserves the right to do so.
13.2 Lonely.ie reserves the right at all times to disclose any information necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, police request or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, for any reason whatsoever, in lonely.ie's sole discretion.
14 Lonely.ie's Liability
14.1 Lonely.ie is only an information service, namely a contact profile listing and dating service. We do not carry out a detailed evaluation or survey of any profiles listed or offered. Members are solely responsible for assessing their requirements and each and every profile which may be located or accessed by them (if any). Members are also solely responsible for formulating and accurately formulating their requirements to lonely.ie. Lonely.ie is not involved in the actual contact between Members. Lonely.ie has no control over the quality, safety, legality, planning, satisfaction for use or requirements or the truth or accuracy of any profiles, statements, recommendations or details furnished. In addition, note that there are risks, including but not limited to the risk of physical harm, of dealing with strangers, foreign nationals, local laws and regulations, underage persons or people acting under false pretenses. Members assume all risks associated with dealing with other users with whom Members come in contact through any Lonely.ie Site.
14.2 Because user authentication on the Internet is difficult, lonely.ie cannot and does not confirm that each User or Member is who he, she or it claims to be. Because lonely.ie does not and cannot be involved in user-to-user dealings or control the behaviour of participants on any Lonely.ie Site, in the event that a User has a dispute with one or more Users, Users release lonely.ie (and its officers, agents and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential, direct and indirect) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, to the extent resulting from such disputes.
14.3 Lonely.ie is under no legal obligation to, and generally does not, control the information provided by other users or third parties which is made available through any Lonely.ie Site. By its very nature, other people's information may be offensive, harmful or inaccurate, and in some cases will be mislabeled or deceptively labeled. Lonely.ie expects that Users will use caution and common sense when using Lonely.ie Sites.
14.4 The Material may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. Except and only to the extent expressly provided to the contrary, (i) lonely.ie makes no representations about the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of Lonely.ie Sites or the Material and (ii) changes are periodically made by lonely.ie to Lonely.ie Sites and may be made by lonely.ie at any time and without notice.
14.5 Users acknowledge and agree that they are solely responsible for the form, content and accuracy any posting or any material placed by Users on any Lonely.ie Site.
15 General Disclaimer of Liability
15.1 No member of lonely.ie (or any other person involved with the provision and maintenance of this Website) takes any responsibility for the accuracy of the information provided on this Website or services or products provided. No guarantee is or can be provided that any profile or introduction shall be made or that a Member will be satisfied with each or any profile, introduction or details furnished (if any). Use of such information is at the User's sole risk. No member of lonely.ie accepts any liability for any loss or damage of any nature, including but not limited to loss of reputation, profits, goodwill, personal injury or any other type of financial or other pecuniary or direct or special indirect or consequential loss howsoever arising whether in negligence or for breach of contract or other duty as a result of:
· use of this Website, including but not limited to any electronic mail messaging and Internet communication that may arise from, in the course of or pursuant to such use; and/or
· reliance on the information contained in this Website, whether: (a) downloaded or not; (b) authorised or not.
15.2 Lonely.ie makes no representation or warranty or undertaking of any kind in relation to the analysis or information contained on this Website or the completeness or accuracy of such information.
15.3 This Website does not make and should not be taken to make any representations or warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Lonely.ie make no representations, warranties or undertaking about any of the materials or any content or information on this Website or any other website referred to or accessed by hypertext link or otherwise through this Website ("third party site"). Lonely.ie do not endorse or approve the content of any third party site, nor will we have any liability in connection with any third party site.
15.4 We endeavour to have the Website running 24/7 (365) but give no guarantee, warranty or otherwise and the Website is available on an "as is" and "as available" basis only and subject to maintenance, downtime, upgrades, etc.
16 Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, neither lonely.ie nor any of our partners, associates, consultants, employees, affiliates or other representatives will be liable for loss or damage arising out of or in connection with your use of the Materials or any profiles, goods, facilities or services offered through this website (including, but not limited to, indirect or consequential loss or damages, loss of data, income, profit or opportunity, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties) even if lonely.ie has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damages or such loss or damages were reasonably foreseeable. In no event shall any liability attach to lonely.ie greater than the amount of any fees actually received by lonely.ie from a member.
17 Disclaimer
17.1 The information on the Website has been compiled from a variety of sources and is subject to change without notice.
17.2 Lonely.ie accepts no liability for use of or reliance on information contained on the Website.
17.3 Comments, advice, reviews and information provided on the Website are for guidance only. Lonely.ie gives no warranty as to the identity or accuracy of information regarding any individual appearing on the Website. Lonely.ie shall not be liable for any error, omission therein or for any loss suffered by you or any third party in consequence of reliance thereon.
17.4 Lonely.ie does not accept any liability for any error or omission in relation to content of the Website and lonely.ie shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, claims or losses of any nature (including, but not limited to, loss of profits, direct, indirect, special or consequential damages) arising in contract, tort or otherwise from the use or inability to use the Website, or any material contained in it by you or any third party, or from any action or decision taken as a result of using the Website or any such material. You expressly agree that use of the Website is at your sole risk.
17.5 Unless clearly stated to the contrary, the ideas and opinions expressed on the Website are not those of lonely.ie and lonely.ie disclaims all liability for the contents thereof.
18 General
Lonely.ie makes no claims that the Materials or services may be lawfully viewed or used or downloaded. Access to the Materials may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If Users access a Lonely.ie Site, they do so at their own risk and are solely responsible for compliance with the laws of, or applicable to, their jurisdiction. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under the Agreement, including but not limited to these Terms & Conditions of Use, shall lie exclusively with the Irish Courts and the Terms & Conditions of Use shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Ireland. If any provision or part of these Terms & Conditions of Use is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision or part shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms & Conditions of Use, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term of these Terms & Conditions of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term.
19 Disclaimer as to Accuracy of Information
Care has been taken in the preparation of the information contained on this Website. However, we do not make any representations or warranties as to the accuracy of the information contained on this Website.
20 Not an Offer or Solicitation
The information contained on this Website is not intended to nor does it constitute an offer or solicitation of services or products. Lonely.ie does not offer for sale any products and or services and is not a party to any contact or other relationship which may occur between Users and other Users and or persons and or firms listed or advertised on the Website or any other Lonely.ie publication. Users and anyone entering into a relationship or engaging purchasing advise, products and or services from other Users or persons and or firms listed or advertised on the Website or any other Lonely.ie publication do so solely at their own risk and responsibility. Lonely.ie accepts no liability for any listings or reference material published on the Website (including without limitation lonely.ie membership listings). Lonely.ie accepts no liability for any materials or listings published on the Website or any other lonely.ie publication (including without limitation LONELY.IE membership listings). Lonely.ie excludes all warranties and/or representations (including those implied by statute or common law) regarding the products, qualifications, status or services of members, Users and or persons and or firms listed or advertised on the Website or any other Lonely.ie publication. Lonely.ie accepts no liability whatsoever in contract, in tort or otherwise, for any loss or damage whatsoever arising directly or indirectly from any lonely.ie member, Users and or persons and or firms listed or advertised on the Website or any other lonely.ie publication with whom you may deal or engage or purchase from.
21 Privacy Policy
21.1 You may contact lonely.ie via the help form on the site.
21.2 Subject to the terms set out in these Terms and Conditions of Use lonely.ie will display information supplied by you (including, without limitation, sensitive personal data) on the Website for the purposes of its introduction and adult personals service and will process it for associated administrative functions, informing you of special offers, providing you with other marketing information which it believes may be of interest to you, undertaking product or customer research/development and informing you of other related products. By clicking "I/We accept the terms and conditions" on the registration page you agree to your personal data being used as described above.
21.3 Your personal information may be processed both by lonely.ie and its associated companies. If you do not want your personal information shared in this way please notify lonely.ie. Each of the companies authorized to process your information as mentioned above will do so in accordance with this privacy policy.
21.4 Your information will not be disclosed to government or local authorities or other government institutions save as required by law or other binding regulations.
21.5 Some of the information collected and processed by lonely.ie and or those companies to whom lonely.ie may transfer information (as specified above) may be collected and or located outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). By clicking the "I/We accept the terms and conditions" on the registration page you will be indicating your consent to the collections, processing and transfer of your data to the country/countries referred to above.
21.6 Lonely.ie may send a small file to your computer when you visit the Website. This will enable lonely.ie to identify your computer, track your behavior on our Website and to identify your particular areas of interest so as to enhance your future visits to the Website. Lonely.ie may use these cookies to collect and store personal data and to link information stored by cookies with personal data you supply to it. Save for the use of cookies, lonely.ie does not automatically log data or collect data save for information you specifically provide to it. You can set your computer browser to reject cookies but this may preclude your use of certain parts of this website.
21.7 Lonely.ie has implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that it has under its control from unauthorized access, improper use and disclosure, unauthorized destruction or accidental loss.
21.8 You may request a copy of personal information lonely.ie holds about you by contacting lonely.ie and upon payment of a minimum fee, lonely.ie will provide you with a copy of the personal data it holds about you by email. Lonely.ie may ask for proof of your identity before providing any information and reserve the right to refuse to provide information requested if identity is not established.
22 Links
22.1 Lonely.ie Sites may contain links to third party websites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to Users and/or other users and not as an endorsement by the lonely.ie of the contents on such third-party websites. lonely.ie is not responsible for the content of linked third-party websites and does not make any representations or warranties regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such third party websites. If Users decide to access linked third party websites, Users do so at their own risk.
22.2 This Website contains hypertext links to websites not maintained by lonely.ie or any member of the lonely.ie group. Neither lonely.ie nor any member of the lonely.ie group endorses or represents the reliability, accuracy, or quality of any information, goods, services, or products displayed or advertised on such other websites. No member of the lonely.ie group is or shall be (or be deemed to be) a party to any contract that you may or do enter into with the providers of such goods, services or products. You are reminded that different Terms and Conditions of Use will apply to you as a user of such websites. Lonely.ie hereby disclaims any and all liability for the content of such websites and any loss or damage of any nature suffered by you as a result either: (a) of accessing or using such websites; or (b) availing of or acquiring any or all of the goods, services or products advertised or available on or via such websites. The use by you of such websites is at your sole risk.
22.4 This Website contains hypertext links to websites maintained by members of the lonely.ie group other than lonely.ie. You are reminded that different Terms and Conditions of Use may apply to you as a user of such websites.
22.5 No third party is permitted to create a link from another website to this website without our prior written consent.
22.6 Loely.ie accepts no responsibility for the content of any linked website, any link contained in a website, any changes or updates to such websites or any web casting or other form of transmission received from any linked website. You acknowledge the reliability, availability accuracy and performance of linked websites are beyond lonely.ie control and are not warranted or supported by lonely.ie.
22.7 Inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement thereof by lonely.ie.
23 Copyright
23.1 The copyright in the Website belongs to lonely.ie and all rights in it are expressly reserved to lonely.ie. The copying, reproduction, redistribution, retransmission or storage of all parts of the contents of this web site is expressly prohibited (save only that you may download and print out pages from the Website for the sole purpose of viewing for your own personal use).
24 Copying
The information contained on or via this Website may not be copied, transmitted, amended or reproduced in any form whatsoever without the prior written consent of lonely.ie. All content on this Website is copyright © 2007 (as same may be updated from time to time) lonely.ie and its licensors.
25 Changes to These Terms
The contents of this Website, including these Terms & Conditions of Use, any information contained on this Website and lonely.ie's Privacy Statement are subject to change and to being updated without notice from time to time lonely.ie reserves the right to add to or change these terms. Any changes will be posted to the Website and you acknowledge that it is your responsibility to refer to the terms on accessing the Website. Changes will be effective 48 hours after being posted to the Website and you will be deemed to have accepted any change if you continue to access the Website after that time.
26 Privacy Statement
Your privacy is important to us. Please examine our Privacy Statement which governs any information you provide to us through this Website. Lonely.ie will use your personal data in the manner set out in its Privacy Statement. However, in the event of a conflict between the Privacy Statement and these Terms & Conditions of Use, the Terms and Conditions of Use shall prevail.
27 Force Majeure
Lonely.ie accepts no liability to you for any direct or indirect loss suffered, whether financial or otherwise, as a result of interruption to delivery or delays in accessing the Website, downtime or technical errors, irrespective of the cause. Neither lonely.ie nor any of its information providers, licensors, employees or agents give any warranty that the service will be error free or uninterrupted.
28 Viruses
Lonely.ie shall have no liability to you for any direct or indirect loss suffered, whether financial or otherwise, as a result of viruses or other malicious software transmitted via or as a result of the Website.
29 Refund Policy
The membership fee (if any) is non refundable.
30 Cancellation Policy
The member is free to cancel (or any other) membership at any time. You understand and agree that the only way this can be done is via the options within the profile section of the Website. It is not possible to cancel via email or the support form.
31 Legal
This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws and jurisdiction of Ireland. We do not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to our services, and operation of our site may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. If any provision or part of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision or part shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. You agree that this Agreement and all incorporated agreements may be automatically assigned by lonely.ie, in our sole discretion, to a third party in the event of a merger or acquisition. Headings are for reference purposes only and in no way define, limit, construe or describe the scope or extent of such section. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. This Agreement sets forth the entire understanding and agreement between us with respect to the subject matter hereof.
32 Assignment
You do not have the right to assign this agreement or any of your rights to the membership service to anyone. Lonely.ie has the right to assign any or all of its rights and duties under this agreement or to the service to any third party. At the election of lonely.ie, if lonely.ie obligations hereunder are assumed by a third party, lonely.ie shall be relieved of any and all liability under this Agreement.
33 Disclosure
The services hereunder are operated by New Media Services, 22-23 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
34 Acceptance
In order to use the Website, you must signal acceptance of the terms and disclaimer set out above by clicking on the "I/We accept the terms and conditions" on the registration page on joining. If you do not accept any of these terms, leave this Website now.
Website Privacy Statement
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Privacy Statement
Lonely.ie world.com ("lonely.ie") is committed to protecting the privacy of your information. We understand that as a member or visitor using lonely.ie's website, the privacy and the security of your information is very important to you. The purpose of our Privacy Statement is to outline lonely.ie's practices in this area.
We want to provide a safe, secure user experience. We will use our best efforts to ensure that the information you submit to us remains private, and is used only for the purposes as set forth herein. The following reflects our commitment to you.
PLEASE NOTE that this Privacy Statement is subject to the Terms & Conditions of Use of the lonely.ie Website. You can read a copy of the Terms & Conditions of Use by clicking here. We recommend that you read the Terms & Conditions of Use. If there is a conflict between the Terms & Conditions of Use and this Privacy Statement, the Terms & Conditions of Use shall prevail. Except as otherwise provided, terms used herein and defined in the Terms & Conditions of Use shall have the same meaning that is given to them in the Terms & Conditions of Use.
The contents of this Privacy Statement are subject to change and to being updated without notice from time to time.
Information About All Lonely.ie Visitors
In general, we gather information about all of our users collectively, such as what areas users visit most frequently and what services users access the most. We only use such data in the aggregate. This information helps us determine what is most beneficial for our users, and how we can continually create a better overall experience for our users. We may share this information with our partners, but only in the aggregate, so that they too may understand how lonely.ie users, collectively, use areas and our site, so they may create a better overall experience for you, as well.
Information About You Specifically
In some instances, such as when you register or apply to become a member, sign up to use a service, or purchase a product or service, we may need more specific information about you, such as name, address, email address, telephone number, type of computer, etc. This second set of information which is personal to a specific user who knowingly chooses to provide their information and details. We may use that information to make you aware of additional products and services which may be of interest to you, or to contact you regarding Website changes. We may also ask you for other information, such as information on your interests, your likes and dislikes regarding the website, the types of jobs you are interested in, etc., in an effort to deliver to you the best possible website experience.
Through this Website you may have an opportunity to sent as information, such as postings, profiles, through the "contact us" pages, etc., or any other area where you may send emails, request brochures or provide feedback. By choosing to participate in these, you will be providing us with some level of personal information relating to you. This information will only be used by lonely.ie for:
· registration;
· the purposes for which it was provided by you;
· verification purposes and statistical analysis;
· marketing and administration purposes;
· advertising and promoting third party products and services from time to time;
· offering you new and enhanced products and services from time to time.
The Information We Collect
As you browse through our website, our web server collects information about your visit, not about you personally. We gather and monitor statistics such as, for example:-
· the number of people who visit the website;
· the date and time of visits;
· the number of pages viewed;
· the amount of time spent on the website;
· the most popular sections of the website.
This information is anonymous and no attempt is or will be made to identify visitors. So, for example, on a specific day we can identify that our site has thousands of visitors. However, we know nothing about these visitors in terms of email addresses or any other personal information.
We only ask and will only ask for personal information from which you can be identified where the information is required for particular purposes e.g. applying online, for services or the process of facilitating the introduction by parties to other parties. Examples of details that may be sought include your name, address, email address, profile, preferences, etc.
All information provided to us by you will be treated with the utmost confidentiality in accordance with all applicable legislative and regulatory standards. If you ever decide that you no longer wish us to keep or use information or you want the information to be revised or updated, please feel free to contact us at [insert]. We will remove or amend the information as appropriate in accordance with applicable legislative and regulatory requirements.
General Information Disclosure
We do not disclose information about your individual visits to lonely.ie, or personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, etc., to any outside parties, except to group companies and entities, potential vendors or agents (as appropriate) or when we believe the law requires it. But we may record and share aggregated information with group companies and entities and our partners. Also, if you input your information on a co-branded web page, such as that of group companies and entities, and partners, then your information becomes the property of both lonely.ie and such entity. In that instance, lonely.ie is not responsible for the information that the other party receives.
Feedback
Lonely.ie may have an area on the website where you can submit feedback. Any feedback that is submitted through this area becomes the property of lonely.ie. We may use this feedback, such as success stories, for marketing purposes, or to contact you for further feedback on the website.
Use of "Cookies"
Lonely.ie may use cookies. This is to facilitate greater personal user experience.
(A cookie is a small piece of information that a website stores through your web browser on your PC that it can later retrieve when you log back onto that website. This means that the site will remember your preferences and possibly even your name).
Security of Information
We understand how important the security and confidentiality of your information is to you. Keeping customer information secure is a top priority for lonely.ie. Our goal is to protect your information on the Internet in the same way as we would over the phone or in person.
Even so, lonely.ie cannot guarantee the privacy or confidentiality of information relating to you passing over the Internet. In accessing this website and in availing of any of the services/information available on or via this website, you accept and are deemed to accept that electronic mail messaging and Internet communication may not be free from interference by third parties and may not remain confidential. The use by you of this website is at your sole risk.
Hyperlinks
Some of the pages on this website contain hypertext links to websites not maintained or operated by lonely.ie. You are reminded that different terms and conditions of use will apply to you as a user of such websites. In addition such websites may not attain the same privacy standards that lonely.ie maintains.
Changes
If we decide to change our Privacy Statement, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about lonely.ie's privacy commitment, please feel free to email us at.
No Liability
No member of lonely.ie or any of its agents or employees accepts any liability for any loss or damage of any nature, including but not limited to loss of reputation, profits, goodwill, or any other type of financial or other pecuniary or direct or special indirect or consequential loss howsoever arising whether in negligence or for breach of contract or other duty, arising out of or in relation to the use and/or dissemination of personal information relating to you where such use and/or dissemination of information is done in accordance with this Privacy Statement and the Terms & Conditions of Use (in the event of conflict the Terms & Conditions of Use shall prevail).
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