Our Terms of Service

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You are responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with these terms. Your use of the Ideal Lives Site and services following this notification constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions of these terms of service.

Ideal Lives User Agreement

SITE RULES
Following are some basic rules that apply to the Site and that you agree to follow. If you violate any of the Site rules, or if we have reasonable grounds to so believe, we have the right to deny you access to the Site.

You agree not to:

• impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; 
  
• forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any material transmitted through the Site; 
  
• disrupt the normal flow of dialogue, cause a screen to scroll faster than other users of the Site are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real-time exchanges; 
  
• interfere with or disrupt the Site or servers or networks connected to the Site, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Site; 
  
• try to gain access to areas that are private to Site administrators or to other users; 
  
• violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law or any regulation having the force of law; 
  
• stalk or otherwise harass another; 
  
• harm minors in any way, including, without limitation, to establish unlawful contact with minors (whether on or off the Site); 
  
• collect or harvest screen names; collect or store personal data about other users of the Site; or solicit or attempt to discover a user's password, screen name, or other registration information without the user's express knowledge and consent; 
  
• engage in or run raffles, lotteries, contests or sweepstakes; 
  
• promote or provide instructions of information about how to engage in illegal conduct or commit illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury, or promote any illegal act; or 
  
• store any information or use any Web page or directory you create for remote loading or as a door or signpost to another Web page, whether inside or outside the Site.

You acknowledge that we do not prescreen material posted or transmitted on the Site, but that we shall have the right (but not the obligation) in our sole discretion to review and edit, delete or refuse to post any material submitted for display or placed on the Site, including but not limited to message board posts, profiles, and member-to-member messages. Without limiting the foregoing, we shall have the right to remove any material that violates this Agreement, that we believe in good faith may create liability for us, or that we deem is otherwise objectionable.

You acknowledge and agree that we may preserve material and may disclose material if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to:

• comply with legal process; 
• enforce this Agreement; 
• respond to claims that any material violates the right of third parties; or 
• in our sole judgment, protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Ideal Lives, its users and the public.

OWNERSHIP OF MATERIALS
The contents of the Site, including without limitation text, software, photos, graphics, and all other audiovisual elements are copyrighted by Ideal Lives as a collective work under the United States copyright laws. Except for material in the public domain, Ideal Lives and its licensors hold copyrights to all content appearing on the Site. Ideal Lives permits, without charge, the reproduction and distribution of Ideal Lives material contained on the Site for non-commercial educational and personal uses; provided that such materials remain unaltered and are accompanied by a clearly visible copy of any copyright notice appearing on such materials and by the Site's URL (http://www.ideallives.com). Other reproduction, distribution, retransmission, modification, public display, and public performance of such materials is prohibited without the prior written consent of Ideal Lives. To obtain such consent, please contact us at lisa@ideallives.com.

REMOVAL OF MATERIAL FOR WHICH COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS CLAIMED
Ideal Lives respects the intellectual property rights of others. Pursuant to Title 17 U.S.C.512, as amended by Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("the Act"), Ideal Lives has implemented procedures for receiving written notification of claimed copyright infringements and for processing such claims in accordance with the Act. If you believe your copyrights are being infringed, please contact us.

The information requested by the Notice of Infringement Form substantively complies with 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3)(A), which provides:

To be effective under this subsection, a notification of claimed infringement must be a written communication provided to the designated agent of a service provider that includes substantially the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. 
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material. 
• Information reasonably sufficient to to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party such as an address, telephone number, and if available, electronic e-mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted. 
• A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. 
• A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. 
• Notification from a copyright owner or from a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner that fails to comply substantially with the provisions above shall not be considered as providing actual knowledge or an awareness of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent.

Please provide a Notice of Infringement Form information each time you wish to report alleged acts of infringement.

INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to hold harmless Ideal Lives and its Information Providers and any other person or entity involved in creating or distributing the Site, as well as each of their respective affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) and expenses that such parties may incur as a result of or arising out of your (or, in the case of Members, anyone using your account's) use of, or conduct with respect to, the Site.

MODIFICATION OF AGREEMENT
You agree that Ideal Lives may change the terms and conditions of this Agreement, unilaterally, and at any time, by conspicuously posting notice of such change on the Site for a period of five (5) consecutive days. Continued use of the Site after such notice will constitute your acknowledgment and acceptance of the revised terms and condition.

GENERAL
This Agreement contains the complete and final statement of the understanding between you and Ideal Lives and supercedes any and all agreements or communications, whether written or oral, between you and Ideal Lives concerning, the subject matter of this Agreement.

You agree that, regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action that you may have arising out of or related to use of the Site or this Agreement must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section titles in this Agreement are solely used for convenience and have no legal or contractual significance.

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