TERMS & CONDITIONS
These terms and conditions apply to use of this website. In using this website, you agree to be
bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you must
refrain from using this website. YoungHuns is a service initiative of RIK Youth Services
Inc.
We reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions from time to time. Amendments will be
effective immediately upon notification in this website. Your continued use of the website
following such notification will represent an agreement by you to be bound by the terms and
conditions as amended. The most current version of the Terms & Conditions can be reviewed
by clicking on the "Terms & Conditions" hypertext link located in the "About" InfoBox on
the right-hand side of the website.
DISCLAIMER
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of all details within this website. However,
no warranty can be given by RIK Youth Services Inc. regarding the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of any
information presented in the website.
Photographs and graphics are for presentation purposes only and are indicative only.
To the extent permitted by law, any condition or warranty, which would otherwise be implied
into these terms and conditions, is hereby excluded. RIK Youth Services Inc. accepts no
responsibility for any loss, damage, cost or expense (whether direct or indirect) suffered or
incurred by you as a result of or in connection with your use of this website or any linked
website or your reliance on any information contained or accessed through this website. This
disclaimer does not attempt or purport to exclude liability arising under statute or law if,
and to the extent, such liability cannot be lawfully excluded.
Unless explicitly stated, the photographs in this website are the property of RIK Youth
Services Inc. and reserve the right to display and use as we see fit. If you have any
concerns about any photographic material used in this website, then please contact
the
Site Administrator.
All information on the site is subject to change without notice.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES
RIK Youth Services Inc. provides you with access to a variety of resources, including
communication forums, messaging system and chat room. The services, including any
updates, enhancements and new features are subject to the Terms & Conditions.
USE OF SERVICES
The services may contain e-mail services, chat areas, forums, calendars, member reviews,
guestbook comments, user polls, surveys and/or other message or communication facilities
designed to enable you to communicate with others (each a "communication service" and
collectively "communication services"). You agree to use these communication services
only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and, when
applicable, related to the particular communication service. By way of example, and not
as a limitation, you agree that when using the communication services, you will not:
- Use the communication services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid
schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited
messages (commercial or otherwise).
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights
(such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others. Publish, post, upload,
distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, obscene, indecent
or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
- Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs,
software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, including, by
way of example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark laws (or by rights of
privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received
all necessary consent to do the same.
- Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which are made
available through the website in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark,
patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party.
- Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots,
corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the
operation of another's computer or property of another.
- Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business
purpose, unless such communication service specifically allows such messages.
- Download any file posted by another user of a communication service that you
know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed, performed,
and/or distributed in such manner.
- Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author
attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels
of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is
uploaded.
- Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the communication
services.
- Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any
particular communication service.
- Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail
addresses.
- Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
- Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
- Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a
person or entity any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage
information or any portion thereof.
- RIK Youth Services Inc. has no obligation to monitor the communication services.
However, RIK Youth Services Inc. reserves the right to review materials posted to
the website and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. RIK Youth Services Inc.
reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the communication
services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.
- RIK Youth Services Inc. reserves the right at all times to disclose any
information as RIK Youth Services Inc. deems necessary to satisfy any applicable
law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post
or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in RIK Youth Services
Inc.'s sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about
yourself or your children in any communication services. RIK Youth Services Inc. does
not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any communication
services and, therefore, RIK Youth Services Inc. specifically disclaims any liability
with regard to the communication services and any actions resulting from your
participation in any communication services.
Materials uploaded to the communication services may be subject to posted limitations
on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination; you are responsible for adhering to such
limitations if you download the materials.
PRIVACY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
See the
Privacy Policy disclosures relating to the
collection and use of your information.
NOTICE SPECIFIC TO DOCUMENTS & PHOTOGRPAHS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE
Permission to use documents and photographs from the website is granted, provided that:
- The copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice
and this permission notice appear,
- Use of such documents and photographs from the website is for informational and
non-commercial or personal use only and will not be copied or posted on any network
computer or broadcast in any media, and
- No modifications of any documents and photographs are made.
Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe
civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent
possible.
Documents specified above do not include the design or layout of the YoungHuns website
or any other RIK Youth Services Inc. owned, operated, licensed or controlled site.
Elements of RIK Youth Services Inc. websites are protected by trade dress, trademark,
unfair competition, and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part.
No logo, graphic, sound or image from any RIK Youth Services Inc. website may be copied
or retransmitted unless expressly permitted by RIK Youth Services Inc..
RIK YOUTH SERVICES INC. MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE
INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE DOCUMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED AS
PART OF THE SERVICES FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL SUCH DOCUMENTS, PHOTOGRPAHS AND RELATED
GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. RIK YOUTH SERVICES INC.
HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION,
INCLUDING ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR
STATUTORY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
SHALL RIK YOUTH SERVICES INC. BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER
IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE WEBSITE.
THE DOCUMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND RELATED GRAPHICS PUBLISHED ON THE WEBSITE COULD INCLUDE
TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE
INFORMATION HEREIN. RIK YOUTH SERVICES INC. MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE
SERVICES AND FEATURES DESCRIBED HEREIN AT ANY TIME.
MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY
To become a member of the YoungHuns website you must complete the registration process
by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the
membership application form. You also will choose a password and a nickname. You are
entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account.
Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under
your account. You agree to notify RIK Youth Services Inc. immediately of any
unauthorised use of your account or any other breach of security. RIK Youth Services Inc.
will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using
your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you could be
held liable for losses incurred by RIK Youth Services Inc. due to someone else using
your account or password. You may not use anyone else's account at any time, without
the permission of the account holder.
NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE
As a condition of your use of the website, you will not use the website for any purpose
that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use
the website in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the hosting
server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the website. You may
not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, other accounts, computer systems
or networks connected to the website, through hacking, password mining or any other
means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any
means not intentionally made available through the website.
MATERIALS PROVIDED TO RIK YOUTH SERVICES INC. OR POSTED AT ANY RIK YOUTH SERVICES INC.
RIK Youth Services Inc. does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to
RIK Youth Services Inc. (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or
submit to any website or its associated services for review by the general public, or
by the members of any public or private community, (each a "submission" and collectively
"submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting
("posting") your submission you are granting RIK Youth Services Inc. to use your
submission, including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute,
transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat
your submission; to publish your name in connection with your submission.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your submission, as provided
herein. RIK Youth Services Inc. is under no obligation to post or use any submission
you may provide and RIK Youth Services Inc. may remove any submission at any time in
its sole discretion.
By posting a submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all
of the rights to your submission as described in these Terms & Conditions including,
without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or
submit the submissions.
In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by posting a submission
that contain images, photographs, pictures or that are otherwise graphical in whole or
in part ("images"), you warrant and represent that:
- You are the copyright owner of such images, or that the copyright owner of such
images has granted you permission to use such images or any content and/or images
contained in such images consistent with the manner and purpose of your use and as
otherwise permitted by these Terms & Conditions and the website,
- You have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in
these Terms & Conditions, and
- That each person depicted in such images, if any, has provided consent to the
use of the images as set forth in these Terms & Conditions, including, by way of
example, and not as a limitation, the distribution, public display and reproduction
of such images.
By posting images, you are granting:
- To all members of your private community (for each such images available to
members of such private community), and/or
- To the general public (for each such images available anywhere on the website,
other than a private community), permission to use your images in connection with
the use, as permitted by these Terms & Conditons, of the website, (including, by
way of example, and not as a limitation, making prints and gift items which include
such images), and including, without limitation, a non-exclusive, world-wide,
royalty-free license to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly
perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your images without having your
name attached to such images, and the right to sublicense such rights to any
supplier of the website.
The licenses granted in the preceding sentences for a images will terminate at the time
you completely remove such images from the website, provided that, such termination
shall not affect any licenses granted in connection with such images prior to the time
you completely remove such images. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use
of your images.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
THE LINKS IN THIS AREA WILL LET YOU LEAVE THE YOUNGHUNS SITE. THE LINKED SITES ARE NOT
UNDER THE CONTROL OF RIK YOUTH SERVICES INC. AND RIK YOUTH SERVICES INC. IS NOT
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENTS OF ANY LINKED SITE OR ANY LINK CONTAINED IN A LINKED SITE,
OR ANY CHANGES OR UPDATES TO SUCH SITES. RIK YOUTH SERVICES INC. IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR
WEBCASTING OR ANY OTHER FORM OF TRANSMISSION RECEIVED FROM ANY LINKED SITE. RIK YOUTH
SERVICES INC. IS PROVIDING THESE LINKS TO YOU ONLY AS A CONVENIENCE, AND THE INCLUSION
OF ANY LINK DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT BY RIK YOUTH SERVICES INC. OF THE SITE.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2003 RIK Youth Services Inc. Copyright in this website subsists under
the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). It is owned by RIK Youth Services Inc. unless otherwise stated. All
rights reserved. You are provided access to this website for personal use only. You may print a
copy of information contained on this website for your personal use, unless such printing is
expressly prohibited. You may not on-sell or otherwise commercialise any information obtained
from this website. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) or other applicable
laws or as expressly authorised by these terms and conditions, no part of this website may be
otherwise reproduced, adapted, stored, distributed, printed, displayed, performed, published,
communicated or transmitted in any form or by any means or process (graphic, electronic or
mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by storage in an information retrieval
system) without the specific written consent of RIK Youth Services Inc..
All other registered trademarks and information that explicitly states ownership by organisations
other than RIK Youth Services Inc. remain the right of the respective organisations.