Choyr

Terms & Conditions and User Agreement

This document was updated on 14th March, 2019. Changes come into effect on 14th March, 2019.

1. Introduction

Contract

You agree that by clicking "Join Now", "Join Choyr", "Sign Up" or similar, registering, accessing or using our services (described below), you are agreeing to enter into a legally binding contract with us (even if you are using our Services on behalf of a company). If you do not agree to this contract "Contract" or "User Agreement", do not click "Join Now" (or similar) and do not access or otherwise use any of our Services.

Your use of our Services is also subject to our Privacy Policy, User Guidelines and Cookie Policy.

You must be at least 16 years old to register for a user account on Choyr. You must be at least 18 years old to register a church (also known as signing up as an admin) on Choyr.

Change

We may modify this Contract, our Privacy Policy, User Guidelines and our Cookies Policies from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we will provide you notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may close your account. Your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to these terms means that you are consenting to the updated terms.

2. Obligations

Your account

Members are account holders. You agree to: (1) try to choose a strong and secure password; (2) keep your password secure and confidential; (3) not transfer any part of your account (e.g., connections) and (4) follow the law, our list of Dos and Don'ts and User Guidelines. You are responsible for anything that happens through your account unless you close it or report misuse.

Sharing

Our Services allow messaging and sharing of information in many ways, such as your profile, posts, links to news articles, messages, etc. Information and content that you share or post may be seen by other Members or Visitors. Where we have made settings available, we will honor the choices you make about who can see content or information.

We are not obligated to publish any information or content on our Service and can remove it in our sole discretion, with or without notice.

For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, such as photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Choyr (IP Licence). This IP Licence ends when you delete your IP content or your account, unless your content has been shared with others and they have not deleted it. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).

3. Rights and limitations

Service availability

We may change or discontinue any of our Services. We don't promise to store or keep showing any information and content that you've posted.

We are not a storage service. You agree that we have no obligation to store, maintain or provide you a copy of any content or information that you or others provide, except to the extent required by applicable law and as noted in our Privacy Policy.

Limits

We reserve the right to limit your use of the Services. We reserve the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate your account in our sole discretion but particularly if we believe that you may be in breach of this Contract or law or are misusing the Services (e.g. violating any Do and Don'ts).

Intellectual property rights

We reserve all of our intellectual property rights in the Services. Using the Services does not give you any ownership in our Services or the content or information made available through our Services. Trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services are be the trademarks of their respective owners. Choyr, logos and other trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos used for our Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of us.

Ads and commercial content

We do not share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks for their advertising.

Content

You own the content you create and share on Choyr and nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want.

4. "Dos" and "Don'ts"

Dos

You agree that you will:

Comply with all applicable laws, including, without limitation, privacy laws, intellectual property laws, anti-spam laws, export control laws, tax laws, and regulatory requirements;
Provide accurate information to us and keep it updated;
Use your real name on your profile;
Use the Services in a professional manner.
Adhere to the User Guidelines.

Don'ts

You agree that you will not:

Act in an unlawful or unprofessional manner in connection with our Services, including being dishonest, abusive or discriminatory;
Post inaccurate, defamatory obscene, shocking, hateful, threatening or otherwise inappropriate content or airing personal grievances or disputes;
Use an image that is not your likeness or a head-shot photo for your profile;
Create a false identity on Choyr. The occasional creation of clearly fictional profiles by Choyr or with its express permission in connection with a promotional campaign does not waive this obligation;
Misrepresent your identity (e.g. by using a pseudonym), your current or previous positions, qualifications or affiliations with a person or entity; you will keep your contact information accurate and up to date;
Create a Member profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person);
Use or attempt to use another's account;
Harass, abuse or harm another person;
Send or post any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes", or any form of solicitation unauthorized by us;
Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots, or any other means or processes (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons, or any other technology or manual work) to scrape the Services or otherwise copy profiles and other data from the Services;
Bypass or circumvent any access controls or Service use limits (such as caps on keyword searches);
Copy, use, disclose or distribute any information obtained from the Services, whether directly or through third parties (such as search engines), without the consent of us;
Solicit email addresses or other personal information from Members you don't know, without authorization.
Use, disclose or distribute any data obtained in violation of this policy;
Disclose information that you do not have the consent to disclose (such as confidential information of others); and you will not post anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information;
Violate the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights. For example, do not copy or distribute (except through the available sharing functionality) the posts or other content of others without their permission, which they may give by posting under a Creative Commons license;
Violate the intellectual property or other rights of us, including, without limitation, (i) copying or distributing our learning videos or other materials or (ii) copying or distributing our technology, unless it is released under open source licenses; (iii) using the word "Choyr" or our logos in any business name, email, or URL except as provided in the Brand Guidelines;
Use Choyr invitations to send messages to people who don't know you or who are unlikely to recognize you as a known contact;
Post anything that contains software viruses, worms, or any other harmful code;
Manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or post transmitted through the Services.
Create profiles or provide content that promotes escort services or prostitution.
Create or operate a pyramid scheme, fraud or other similar practice;
Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Services or any related technology that is not open source;
Imply or state that you are affiliated with or endorsed by Choyr without our express consent;
Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell access to the Services or related data;
Sell, sponsor, or otherwise monetize any Service without Choyr's consent;
Deep-link to our Services for any purpose other than to promote your profile or a Group on our Services, without our consent;
Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on our Service;
Remove, cover or obscure any advertisement included on the Services;
Use bots or other automated methods to access the Services, add or download contacts, send or redirect messages;
Monitor the Services' availability, performance or functionality for any competitive purpose;
Engage in "framing", "mirroring" or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Services;
Overlaying or otherwise modifying the Services or their appearance;
Access the Services except through the interfaces expressly provided by Choyr;
Use a Service for tasks that it is not intended for;
Override any security feature of the Services;
Interfere with the operation of, or place an unreasonable load on, the Services (e.g., spam, denial of service attack, viruses, gaming algorithms);
If you select a username or similar identifier for your account or Page, we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe it is appropriate (such as when a trademark owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user's actual name); and/or
Violate the Professional Community Guidelines or any additional terms concerning a specific Service that are provided when you sign up for or start using such Service.

5. Donations

Choyr does not warrant that your donations will be used for any particular purpose and shall not be responsible for any dissatisfaction you may have regarding the recipient cause's use of any donation you may make or for any misuse or non-use of such donations by the recipient cause. Choyr shall have no liability to donors whatsoever for any use or misuse of donations. If you have any doubts as to how the money will be spent then you should contact the recipient directly to seek reassurance. After donations are made, all further dealings are solely between the donor and such recipient.

Choyr charges a small transaction fee on every donation made on the website. The fee is currently up to 5% of the gross donation. Donations are also subject to third party payment processing fees.

6. Updating our Terms

We work constantly to improve our services and develop new features to make our products and services better for you and our community. As a result, we may need to update these Terms from time to time to accurately reflect our services and practices. We will only make changes if the provisions are not appropriate anymore or if they are incomplete, and only if the changes are reasonable for you in consideration to your interests. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you of the changes and the choices you have (for example, by email or through our Products). Once any updated Terms are in effect, you will be bound by them if you continue to use our products and services. We hope that you will continue using our services, but if you do not agree to our updated Terms and no longer want to be a part of Choyr, you can delete your account at any time.

7. Termination

Both you and us may terminate this Contract at any time with notice to the other. On termination, you lose the right to access or use the Services. The following shall survive termination:

Our rights to use and disclose your feedback;
Members and/or Visitors' rights to further re-share content and information you shared through the Service to the extent copied or re-shared prior to termination;
Sections on Disclaimer and limit of liability, Dispute resolution and General terms of this Contract.

8. Disclaimer and limit of liability

No warranty

TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED UNDER LAW, CHOYR AND ITS AFFILIATES (AND THOSE THAT CHOYR WORKS WITH TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES) (A) DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS (E.G. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY OF DATA, AND NONINFRINGEMENT); (B) DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS, AND (C) PROVIDE THE SERVICE (INCLUDING CONTENT AND INFORMATION) ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS.

SOME LAWS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN DISCLAIMERS, SO SOME OR ALL OF THESE DISCLAIMERS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Exclusion to liability

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER LAW (AND UNLESS CHOYR HAS ENTERED INTO A SEPARATE WRITTEN AGREEMENT THAT OVERRIDES THIS CONTRACT), CHOYR AND ITS AFFILIATES (AND THOSE THAT CHOYR WORKS WITH TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES) SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR OTHERS FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, OPPORTUNITIES, REPUTATION, PROFITS OR REVENUES, RELATED TO THE SERVICES (E.G. OFFENSIVE OR DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS, DOWN TIME OR LOSS, USE OF, OR CHANGES TO, YOUR INFORMATION OR CONTENT).

If anyone brings a claim against us related to your actions, content or information on Choyr, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from and against all damages, losses and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such claim. Although we provide rules for user conduct, we do not control or direct users' actions on Choyr and are not responsible for the content or information that users transmit or share on Choyr. We are not responsible for any offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful or otherwise objectionable content or information that you may encounter on Choyr. We are not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of Choyr.

9. General terms

If a court with authority over this Contract finds any part of it not enforceable, you and us agree that the court should modify the terms to make that part enforceable while still achieving its intent. If the court cannot do that, you and us agree to ask the court to remove that unenforceable part and still enforce the rest of this Contract. To the extent allowed by law, the English language version of this Contract is binding and other translations are for convenience only. This Contract (including additional terms that may be provided by us when you engage with a feature of the Services) is the only agreement between us regarding the Services and supersedes all prior agreements for the Services.

If we don't act to enforce a breach of this Contract, that does not mean that we have waived its right to enforce this Contract. You may not assign or transfer this Contract (or your membership or use of Services) to anyone without our consent. However, you agree that we may assign this Contract to its affiliates or a party that buys it without your consent. There are no third party beneficiaries to this Contract.

We reserve the right to change the terms of this Contract and will provide you notice if we do and we agree that changes cannot be retroactive. If you don't agree to these changes, you must stop using the Services.

You agree that the only way to provide us legal notice is at the addresses in the section "How to contact us".

10. Dispute resolution

You agree that the laws of England, excluding conflict of laws rules, shall exclusively govern any dispute relating to this Contract and/or the Services. We both agree that all of these claims can only be litigated in London, England, and we each agree to personal jurisdiction of the courts located in London, England.

11. How to contact us

support@choyr.com