Terms & Conditions Of Use
By entering and using this chat site you have agreed to the
following, and agree to be legally bound by the following.
Should
you not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions you will
immediately leave the system and not return.
Proceeding past the
initial login of the chat system will indicate your acceptance of
these conditions.
- You will not
and cannot hold QChat, its staff or owners responsible for the
content of third-party owned rooms hosted by this system. Nor
can you hold QChat, its staff or owners responsible for the
conduct or behaviour of the users that use this service.
- You will not
and cannot contact any QChat staff or owner in regard to the
conduct of another user of this service or the content of any
room on this service unless a breach of the Terms & Conditions
has been committed by the user or room. In this case you will
state exactly which part of the Terms & Conditions have been
breached and will explain the situation in your own words giving
the time and date in GMT format of the incident or incidents in
question. You will not and cannot include any transcript of chat
activity in your communication. Your communication must be
received less than 48 hours from the incident or incidents. You
will accept the decision (if any) of the QChat staff or owner
without question and will not take any action that is contrary
to that decision. Nor shall you contact them again on the same
matter unless given permission to do so.
- You will and
must accept any decision made by server staff or owners without
question.
- You will not
and cannot request private information about this system or
users of this system.
- You agree
that all activity occurring within registered rooms on this
server is logged and may be reviewed at any time by the server
staff or owners for any reason.
- All chat
activity within the server is the property and copyright of the
server owners. You will not and cannot record and/or duplicate
any chat activity from this server in any way without permission
from a server owner.
- You will not
use this system for any kind of commercial gain or profit. This
doesn’t mean that you cannot own a room here if you are a
commercial organisation, rather that you do not use this system
as a means to make money.
- You will not
conduct yourself within this system in a manner that contravenes
the laws of the United Kingdom or the local laws wherever you
are. Doing so will make you solely responsible for your own
actions and will result in your activities being reported to the
relevant authorities.
- You will
promptly leave any room hosted on the server if instructed to do
so by the room owner or server management.
- You will
promptly leave the server if instructed to do so by server staff
or owners.
- You agree
that should you be forcefully removed or banned from a room
hosted on this system or this system as a whole, you will not
attempt to re-enter the room or system, and will not and cannot
pursue legal action for the removal or for any event following
as a direct or indirect result of the removal.
- You will not
and cannot pursue legal action against QChat, its staff or
owners based upon events occurring, images seen or conversations
witnessed whilst connected to this system.
- You agree
that you enter the chat system entirely at your own risk. Any
damage or loss to yourself, your privacy, your equipment or data
residing on that equipment is purely your own liability.
- You will not
and cannot take any action that would or could result in closure
of this service, limiting of this service or any kind of
degradation of this service.
- The server
staff or owners reserve the right to terminate your service at
any time, without warning or explanation. This includes but is
not limited to; banning you from the server, removal of
privileges, revoking room ownership or disallowing your use of a
nickname.
- The views
expressed by, actions taken by and content of rooms owned by
users of this system are in no way the responsibility or
liability of QChat, its staff or owners.
- You will
ensure that persons under the age of 18 are not exposed to
conversations, images or sounds of an adult nature as a result
of your usage of this service.
- You accept
that QChat will co-operate with law enforcement, copyright,
child protection and other similar agencies and will submit logs
and private information to such agencies if requested. You also
accept that operatives from these agencies can be given the
ability to monitor activity within rooms on this system in the
course of carrying out their duties and that any such monitoring
is unannounced.
- Any sounds,
images, graphics, conversations, ideas or intellectual property
used/discussed on this system by the copyright owner are from
the time of use, free for the server owners to duplicate and use
for any reason or purpose.
- You will not
and cannot disclose personal information on this system about
any individual without the consent of the individual concerned.
This includes but is not limited to: real names, addresses,
pictures, conversations and sound recordings.
- The server
owners can change these conditions at any time without notice or
explanation. All changes made will be in effect from the date of
acceptance of this agreement or from the date the change was
made whichever is the earlier or unless otherwise stated. A
change can mean an amendment of, addition of or removal of terms
from this agreement.
- Each one of
these conditions is a separate agreement and are in no way
linked. Should any of these conditions in whole or in part be
found void or proved void for any reason, this will not render
all conditions, any other condition or part of any condition in
this agreement void as a result.
Please remember that you *MUST* agree to these terms and conditions
to remain in this chat system. Failure to comply with these terms
and conditions after using this server will result in a permanent
ban and an abuse report made to your ISP including a log of your
activity.