Terms of Service

Terms of Service ("Terms")
Last updated: March 17, 2023
Please read these Terms of Service ("Terms", "Terms of Service") carefully before using the https://penpal-gate.net web site (the "Service") operated by Penpal-Gate ("us", "we", or "our").

Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.

Content

Our Service allows you to post, link, store, share and otherwise make available certain information, text, graphics, videos, or other material ("Content"). You are responsible for the Content that you post to the Service, including its legality, reliability, and appropriateness.

By posting Content to the Service, you grant us the right and license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content on and through the Service. You retain any and all of your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Service and you are responsible for protecting those rights. You agree that this license includes the right for us to make your Content available to other users of the Service, who may also use your Content subject to these Terms.

You represent and warrant that: (i) the Content is yours (you own it) or you have the right to use it and grant us the rights and license as provided in these Terms, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through the Service does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person.

Furthermore, you herein agree not to make use of the Service for the purpose of uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting, or otherwise making available any content that shall be deemed unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, or invasive of another's privacy or which is hateful, and/or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable.

Use License

The materials contained in this web site are protected by applicable copyright and trade mark law.

Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on the Penpal-Gate web site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:

• modify or copy the materials;
• use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
• attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on the Penpal-Gate web site;
• remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
• transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server.

This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Penpal-Gate at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

Disclaimer

The materials on the Penpal-Gate web site are provided "as is". Penpal-Gate makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, Penpal-Gate does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet web site or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.

Accounts

When you create an account with us, you must provide us information that is accurate, complete, and current at all times. Failure to do so constitutes a breach of the Terms, which may result in immediate termination of your account on our Service.

You are responsible for safeguarding the password that you use to access the Service and for any activities or actions under your password.

You agree not to disclose your password to any third party. You must notify us immediately upon becoming aware of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account.

You may not use as a username the name of another person or entity or that is not lawfully available for use, a name or trade mark that is subject to any rights of another person or entity other than you without appropriate authorization, or a name that is otherwise offensive, vulgar or obscene.

You grant us the right to use personal information that you provided on your profile page. Such information will be visible to all visitors from the home page of our web site, and may include a picture of you, as well as textual content or an extract of textual content that you posted. You also grant us the right to modify such content to adapt its wording or spelling. The information used will not link to your profile page or use personal data such as your name, age or location. You may be notified of the exploitation of your information as well as its exact content prior to the actual display. You may opt out of this section through your account settings page.

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Penpal-Gate members. Penpal-Gate reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor and arbitrate disputes between you and other Members.

Links To Other Web Sites

Our Service may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by Penpal-Gate.

Penpal-Gate has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that Penpal-Gate shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.

We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party web sites or services that you visit.

Termination

We may terminate or suspend your account immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms.

Upon termination, your right to use the Service will immediately cease. If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontinue using the Service.

Limitations

In no event shall Penpal-Gate be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on the Penpal-Gate web site, or any other matter relating to the Service.

Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of France, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our Service, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have between us regarding the Service.

Changes

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material we will try to provide at least 30 days notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

By continuing to access or use our Service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using the Service.

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us.

Privacy Policy

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you, including, but not limited to, username, date of birth, gender, location (city and/or country), user identifier on third party services in connection with your Penpal-Gate account. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Log Data

We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service ("Log Data"). This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. The information collected may be used to diagnose and prevent service or technology problems, or monitor and prevent fraud and abuse.

Data Deletion

As an account holder, you may request for your personal information to be permanently removed from our servers. You may use our contact form to do so.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer's hard drive.

We use "cookies" to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Cookies are used to log you into your account, to display ads through Google AdSense - you may opt out of personalized ads - and to collect browsing information for analytics purposes so we better understand how our Service is used.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Third party login information shared by Google, Facebook, or Twitter will exclusively be used to fill out your member profile. Such information may include your username, email, gender, date of birth, or location if available.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 ("Children").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we discover that a Children under 13 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.

If you have any questions about these our Privacy Policy, please contact us.