Terms and conditions
Welcome to RomanceOnTheRoad.com, the service for travelers to meet each other online (the
"Service"). The following describes the terms on which “Haslop Company Limited” offers you
to access the RomanceOnTheRoad.com website (hereinafter referred to as the “Site”). The Site is operated by
“Haslop Company Limited” (hereinafter referred to as the “Company” or “we”), a company registered
under the laws of Cyprus, whose company number is HE 160855 and whose registered office is
Chrysanthou Mylona, 10 MAGNUM HOUSE, 3030, Limassol. Please read these terms and conditions
carefully to be sure that you understand them. By using this Site, you agree to comply with and be
legally bound by the following terms of use (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms"),
whether or not you become a registered user of the Site. If you do not agree to the Terms, you have
no right to obtain information from or otherwise continue using this Site. Failure to use this Site
in accordance with the following Terms may subject you to civil and criminal penalties. We reserve
the right to make changes to these terms at any time. Your continued use of the Site constitutes
your acceptance of such changes. Accordingly, you should review these terms from time to time for
such changes.
By entering and/or registering on the Site you give your consent to and accept the following
terms:
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1. General terms
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1.1
You must be 18 or over to register as a member of or use this Site. Membership in the
service is void where it is prohibited. While using and/or viewing this site, you
represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into
this Agreement and to abide by all of its terms and conditions that you are at least
18-years old and that you are not prohibited by law from using the Site.
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1.2
This Site is intended to serve your entertainment and educational purposes and has no
intention to support immoral interests.
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1.3
You hereby represent and warrant to the Company that: (a) you have the full power and
authority to enter into and perform under these Terms and Conditions; (b) your use of
this Site will not infringe the copyright, trademark, right of publicity or any other
legal right of any third party; (c) you will comply with all applicable laws in using
the Site and in engaging in all other activities arising from, relating to or connected
with these Terms, including, without limitation, contacting other members and/or viewers
of the Site; (d) you own or otherwise have all rights necessary to license the content
you submit and that the posting and use of your content by the Company will not infringe
or violate the rights of any third party.
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2. Fees and non – commercial use by members and/or viewers
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2.1
The Site and related service usage and/or subscription fees and duration of services
were provided to you upon registration and may be changed from time to time upon
electronic notice to you. We reserve the right to terminate your access to the site for
any reason or no reason and may terminate your membership upon sending notice to you at
the email address you provide in your application for membership or such other email
address as you may later provide to us. If we terminate your membership because you have
breached this Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund of any unused
subscription fees.
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2.2
According to the fact that some of the services might be charged, the member or user of
the Site consents to recurring billing for services/access provided on an ongoing basis.
Such recurring billing shall continue until such time as the member or user cancels the
service. It is solely the member's or user's responsibility to cancel the
service and the payment.
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2.3
The member or user has a right to cancel the service and require a refund following the
conditions of the Refund and Cancellation Policy (Section X of the Terms and
Conditions).
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2.4
We reserve the right to change the price for provided services at any time. The members
or users, who have been already using our services prior to any changes of prices for
provided services, will not be subjected to new prices, unless the case of rejoining the
Site.
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2.5
In case of any violation of legal acts, committed during the process of payments
concerning services of the Site, the member or user will be immediately restricted from
using the Site and all relevant useful data about member's or user's personal
identification information will be shared with legal authorities in cooperation for
investigation.
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2.6
We may use third party companies to process the Site's payments on the Company’s
behalf. These companies are fully responsible for your personal data filled during
payment process privacy under their Privacy Policy.
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2.7
This Site is for the personal use of individual members and viewers only and may not be
used in connection with any commercial endeavors. Organizations, companies, and/or
businesses may not become members of this Site and shall not use the service or the Site
for any purpose including but not limited to: sending unsolicited commercial e-mails to
members, advertisements to other web sites and services on this site's chat rooms,
or using the member's personal identifying information for commercial purposes.
Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the site, including unauthorized framing of or
linking to the site or sending of unsolicited commercial emails will be investigated,
and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation, civil,
criminal, and injunctive redress and/or termination of a membership at sole discretion
of the Company. In order to prevent unsolicited commercial emails or chat messages being
sent to its members, the Company may take reasonable steps, including the limiting of
the numbers of emails or chat messages sent or received by a member and electronically
filtering or throttling or terminating e-mail and chat messages at sole discretion of
the Company.
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3. Security capabilities and policy for transmission of payment card details
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3.1
When purchasing from the Company your card details are protected using Transport Layer
encryption — TLS 1.2 and application layer with algorithm AES and key length 256 bit.
All your personal information including your card details and name are encrypted. All
credit card payments are processed securely through PayPal Pro and ECommPay payment
providers. The Company does not store any of its users payment details on its servers.
If you have any questions regarding our security policy, please contact by email at
[email protected].
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4. Termination
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4.1
The Company reserves the right to terminate your access to the Site for any reason or no
reason (such cause may include your breach of these Terms). The Company may terminate
your membership upon sending notice to you to the email address you provide in your
application for membership or such other email address as you may later provide to us or
via any other method in its sole discretion. If the Company terminates your membership
on the Site because you have breached these Terms, in the sole discretion of the
Company, you will not be entitled to any refund of any unused subscription fees and
thereby you agree to waive any claim to such refund of fees. Upon termination of your
membership for any reason or no reason any and all points accumulated in any of the
Site's programs shall be terminated with no liability to you. You expressly
acknowledge that any program providing points or other credits and your participation in
it can be terminated in the sole discretion by the Company at any time with no liability
to you whatsoever and that you did not join or remain a member of the Site or any other
services in reliance on any such program(s), or the use or availability of such points
or credits, or the continuation of the program(s). Points and credits have no monetary
value whatsoever and may not be transferred to other persons. Even after your membership
is terminated, all provisions of these Terms will remain in effect.
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4.2
The Company may, in it’s discretion and without liability to you, with or without prior
notice and at any time, modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any portion
of the Site.
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4.3
Under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000, if you are defined as
a consumer and are resident within the EU, you may cancel your order for the services
within an initial seven day cooling off period. However, in accordance with those
regulations, if you choose to use any of the full membership facilities on the site
during the seven day cooling off period then you are electing to commence the Service
immediately and will no longer have a right to terminate your contract during this
period and receive any refund. During this period only, cancellation may be done by
giving us written notice or emailing us at [email protected]. Within 30 days of your
notice we will provide you with a refund.
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4.4
You may at any time and without the need to provide any reason end your registration
with us by requesting the closure of your account in the area of the website designated
for such purposes. Such request shall be deemed effective from the first working day
after receipt by us of the request for closure of the account concerned. Such a request
does not trigger reimbursement of, if appropriate, any time remaining on the
Member's subscription. Termination of a subscription, by you, shall be effective on
the applicable subscription's expiration date provided that you have contacted us
at least 48 hours before subscription expiration date in order to terminate the
subscription.
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5. Responsibility of the members and/or viewers
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5.1
This Site is a venue. Services provided by the Company do not include the introduction
of users to one another. This Site is merely a venue for members and/or viewers to learn
about one another and, if they wish, arrange stays with one another. The Company is not
involved in the actual contact between members and/or viewers. As a result, the Company
has no control over the conduct of members and/or viewers or the truth or accuracy of
the information that members and/or viewers post on the Site.
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5.2
The Company cannot and do not confirm purported identity of the members and/or viewers.
Although the Company provides tools intended to assist you, you are responsible for
determining the identity and suitability of others with whom you may match by means of
this Site. The Company does not endorse any persons who use or register for the services
which are provided by the Company. The Company does not investigate reputation of the
members and/or viewers, conduct, morality, criminal background, or verify the
information such of the members and/or viewers may submit to the Site. You shall
communicate directly with potential hosts and guests through the tools available on the
Site and take the same precautions you would normally take when meeting a stranger in
person for the first time.
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5.3
You shall be solely responsible for your interactions with other members and/or viewers
of this Site. The Company will not be responsible for any damage or harm resulting from
your interactions with other members and/or viewers of this Site. The Company reserves
the right, but has no obligation, to monitor interactions between you and other members
and/or viewers of this Site and to take any other action in good faith to restrict
access to or the availability of any material that the Company or another members and/or
viewers of this Site may consider obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing
or otherwise objectionable.
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5.4
Whereas this Site is merely a venue, in the event that you have a dispute with other
members and/or viewers of this Site, you release the Company and officers, directors,
members, employees, agents and affiliates of the Company from claims, demands and
damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown,
suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way
connected with such disputes.
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5.5
In-person meetings, which are held by groups of interested members and/or viewers are
not sponsored or organized by the Company. Members who organize meetings should make
clear in their announcements, invitations and signage that their meetings have not been
organized or approved, and are not run, by the Company. The Company cannot guarantee the
quality, organization or safety of any in-person meeting (whether or not sponsored by
us). Members attend meetings at their own risk.
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5.6
This Site is created for non-sexual purposes. The member or user of the Site cannot use
the Site for the provision of sexual or erotic services. The Site cannot be used as an
instrument for sexual or erotic proposals.
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6. Conduct of the members and/or viewers
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6.1
In your use of this Site, you must act responsibly and exercise good judgment. By way of
example and not limitation, you shall not:
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6.1.1
violate any applicable law or regulation;
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6.1.2
infringe the rights of any third party, including without limitation, intellectual
property, privacy, publicity or contractual rights;
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6.1.3
use information obtained through the Site for any unauthorized purpose;
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6.1.4
interfere with or damage the Site, including, without limitation, through the use of
viruses, cancel bots, Trojan horses, harmful code, flood pings, denial-of-service
attacks, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or electronic mail address information or
similar methods or technology;
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6.1.5
use the Site to transmit, distribute, post or submit any information concerning any
other person or entity, including without limitation, photographs of others without
their permission, personal contact information or credit, debit, calling card or account
numbers;
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6.1.6
use the Site in connection with the distribution of spam (which shall be defined as
unsolicited bulk e-mail or any other e-mail of a commercial, religious or political or
other nature not within the intended purposes of the Site);
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6.1.7
harass other members and/or viewers of the Site;
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6.1.8
collect or store any information about other members and/or viewers for purposes other
than of the permitted use of the Site;
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6.1.9
register for more than one member account or register for a member account on behalf of
an individual other than yourself;
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6.1.10
impersonate any person or entity, or falsify or otherwise misrepresent yourself or your
affiliation with any person or entity, whether by providing or omitting to provide
information;
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6.1.11
attempt to defeat any security or verification measure relating to use of the Site;
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6.1.12
assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing;
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6.1.13
use the Site to transmit, distribute, post or submit any proposals of sexual or erotic
content and/ or use the Site to transmit, distribute, post or submit any proposals of
sexual or erotic services, works and other offers.
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6.2
Content uploaded to the Site is moderated. Inappropriate content violating the Site
rules will be deleted and users posting it can be banned.
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6.3
You can flag content that you find inappropriate. When something is flagged, it’s not
automatically taken down, but reviewed by moderators along the Site rules within 24
hours.
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In order to flag inappropriate photo, you should open the full preview of the photo and
tap the block icon. To flag profile you should go to this profile and tap the complain
button.
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6.4
You can block a user whose conduct you find inappropriate. Once you do that, you will
not be receiving messages from the blocked user anymore.
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In order to block a user, you should open a chat with this user and tap the block button
at the top right corner of chat window.
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7. Privacy
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7.1
This Site is designed to allow members and/or viewers to post photographs and
information about themselves for public review and comment. Accordingly, by submitting
your photograph and/or any other personal information, you waive any privacy
expectations you have with respect to use of such likeness or personal information. If
you do not wish to have your picture or information about yourself viewed by or
disclosed to others, you shall not use the Site. The Company may collect certain other
personal information from you that the Company does not post on the Site. The Company
does not intentionally transfer this information to unaffiliated third parties without
your consent, but the Company reserves the right to transfer such information without
your consent to prevent an emergency, to protect or enforce our rights, to protect or
enforce the rights of a third party or in response to a court order or subpoena as
otherwise required or permitted by law. The Company also provides this personal
information to third-party service providers who help maintain the Site and deliver
information and services to you and other members and/or viewers of the Site.
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7.2
By submitting any content (including without limitation, your photograph) to the Site,
you hereby grant the Company a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license
to use, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, distribute, have distributed and
promote such content in any form, in all media now known or hereinafter created and for
any purpose.
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7.3
You are solely responsible for any content that you submit, post or transmit via the
Site. You may not post or submit any content that:
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7.3.1
is defamatory;
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7.3.2
may disparage any ethnic, racial, sexual or religious group by stereotypical depiction
or otherwise;
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7.3.3
exploits images or the likeness of individuals under 18 years of age;
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7.3.4
depicts use of illicit drugs;
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7.3.5
makes use of offensive language or images;
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7.3.6
characterizes violence as acceptable, glamorous or desirable;
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7.3.7
provides a link to any commercial websites;
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7.3.8
contains any of your personal contact information, except as specifically required or
requested as part of your registration on this Site.
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7.4
The Company has no obligation to post any content from you or anyone else. In addition,
the Company may, in it’s sole and unfettered discretion, edit, remove or delete any
content that you post or submit.
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7.5
In using the Site, you may be exposed to content from other users or third parties,
either at this Site or through links to third-party websites. The Company does not
control, and shall have no responsibility for, third-party content, including material
that may be misleading, incomplete, erroneous, offensive, indecent or otherwise
objectionable. You must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, third-party
content, including without limitation, profiles of other members and/or viewers of this
Site.
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7.6
You will select a username and password as part of the registration process. You are
solely responsible for the confidentiality and use of your username and password. You
must: (a) log off from your account at the end of each session on the Site; (b) notify
the Company immediately of any unauthorized use of your username and password or any
other breach of security.
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8. Limitation on liability
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8.1
The company shall not be liable for damages of any kind (including, but not limited to
any direct, indirect, incidental, general, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive
damages) even if the company has been advised of the possibility of such damages,
arising from or relating to: (a) the use or inability to use the site; (b) the cost of
replacement of any goods, services or information purchased or obtained as a result of
any information obtained from or transactions entered into through or from the site; (c)
disclosure of, unauthorized access to or alteration of your content; (d) damages for
loss or corruption of data or programs, service interruptions or procurement of
substitute services, even if we know or have been advised of the possibility of such
damages; (e) statements, conduct or omissions of any service providers or other third
party on the site; (f) your or anyone else’s conduct or acts in connection with the use
of the site, including without limitation, bodily injury, emotional distress, death or
any other damages resulting from communications or meetings with other registered users
of our services or persons introduced to you by the site, whether on-line or off-line;
(g) any other matter arising from, relating to or connected with the site or these
terms.
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8.2
The company shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performing under these
terms, whether or not such failure or delay is due to causes beyond the company’s
reasonable control.
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8.3
If you use the site, you do so at your sole risk. the site is provided on an "as
is" and "as available" basis. The company expressly disclaim,s and you
waive, all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, without
limitation, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and
non-infringement.
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8.4
The company does not warrant that: (a) the site will meet your requirements; (b) the
site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; (c) any information that you
may obtain through the site will be accurate or reliable; (d) the quality of any
products, services, information or other material purchased or obtained by you through
the site will meet your expectations; (e) any information you provide or the company
collects will not be disclosed to third parties; (f) any errors in any data or software
will be corrected.
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8.5
If you access or transmit any content through the use of the site, you do so at your own
discretion and your sole risk. You are solely responsible for any loss or damage arising
out of such access or transmissioN.
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8.6
No data, information or advice obtained by you in oral or written form from the company
or through or from the site will create any warranty not expressly stated in these
terms.
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8.7
This section (and any other clause excluding or restricting company’s liability) applies
to our directors, officers, employees, subcontractors, agents and affiliated companies
(who may enforce this clause under the contracts (rights of third parties) act 1999) as
well as to the company. Nothing in this agreement in any way limits or excludes copany’s
liability for negligence causing death or personal injury or for fraudulent
misrepresentation or for anything which may not legally be excluded or limited.
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9. Proprietary rights
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9.1
All material on the Site are protected by rights of publicity, copyright, trademarks,
service marks, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws, as may be
applicable. Except as expressly authorized by the Company, you may not sell, license,
rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform,
publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from such material. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, you may use such material in the course of your normal, personal,
non-commercial use of the Site.
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9.2
You may not systematically retrieve data or other content from the Site to create or
compile, directly or indirectly, in single or multiple downloads, a collection,
compilation, database, directory or the like, whether by manual methods, through the use
of "bots" or otherwise. You may not use of any of trademarks of the Company as
meta tags on other websites, written materials or otherwise. You may not display any
portion of the Site in a frame (or any content from the Site through in-line links)
without prior written consent of the Company.
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10. Refund and cancellation policy
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10.1
Members can join the Company's website for free and try out the system before
deciding whether to pay for Full membership if they so wish. The fee paid for Full
membership is for the ability to use the extra features of Full membership - it does not
give you any guarantees of level of service. The Company can refund you money only for
the periods of your subscription, during which you did not use paid features (the
maximum refund period is 60 days after purchase). If during the subscription periods you
use paid features on the the Company's website, the fee for such periods will not
be returned. In case of refund Full membership will be canceled.
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Whilst we wish our members many happy introductions we can make no guarantee about the
number or quality of these introductions and we cannot guarantee lots of compatible
members in your area - it's the member's responsibility to check this through
the free search facility before paying for Full membership.
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10.2
Cancellation of subscription is easy: you have to press the "Unsubscribe me"
button at bottom of the “Billing” page (accessible from main menu). Upon initiating the
cancellation process you should receive an email as receipt. You should receive the
email immediately (or worst case scenario within 24 hours). If you do not receive any
email then you should contact us at [email protected] immediately and we will cancel
your membership.
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The email acts as official confirmation that we have received your instruction to cancel
your membership. We have designed our cancellation to be easy to use, robust and have
records/failsafes in case things go wrong. Part of having a robust system is that you -
the person pressing the button - takes responsibility to check you receive a
confirmation message + email receipt ...and email us reasonably promptly if it does not
happen.
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11. Pricing and payment processing
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11.1
All subscription plans are recurring. The subscription can be canceled at any time. It
is solely the member's or user's responsibility to cancel the service and the
payment
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11.2
You can see current membership fees here.
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11.3
We reserve the right to change the price for provided services at any time. The members
or users, who have been already using our services prior to any changes of prices for
provided services, will not be subjected to new prices, unless the case of rejoining the
Site. The members or users, who have been already using our services prior to any
changes of prices for provided services, can be subjected to new prices if they were
informed about changes of the prices in advance.
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12. Miscellaneous
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12.1
These Terms shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of Cyprus. These Terms
contain the entire agreement, and supersede all prior and contemporaneous
understandings, between the parties regarding their subject matter. Failure or delay of
the Company in exercising any right, power or privilege under these Terms shall operate
as a waiver thereof. The invalidity or unenforceability of any of these Terms shall not
affect the validity or enforceability of any other of these Terms, all of which shall
remain in full force and effect.