Transpacific Marriage Agency Agreement

Welcome to Transpacific Marriage Agency ("TMA"), a service for matching Japanese women to men of all nationalities. Please read this agreement before registering for the service. By using TMA services and/or the TMA Website (the "Website") you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth in this Transpacific Marriage Agency Agreement (this "Agreement"), whether or not you register as a member ("Member"). If you wish to become a Member and communicate with other Members and make use of the TMA service (the "Service"), read this Transpacific Marriage Agency Agreement and indicate your acceptance of this Agreement by following the instructions in the registration process. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you aren't eligible to register with the Service. The Transpacific Marriage Agency Agreement is subject to changes made by us, at any time, effective upon notice to you, which notice shall be deemed to have been provided upon our posting at http://m.tma-marriage.com/agreement.html of the current version of this Agreement on the Service. This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms of your use of the Website and your membership in the Service and is subject to changes by TMA, at any time, whereby such modifications to be effective upon posting by TMA on the Website. This Agreement includes Content on the Website, in Members' Personal Profiles, and in Communications between Members, TMA's Privacy Policy, and any notices regarding the Website.

1. Eligibility.

You must be at least eighteen years old and NOT MARRIED to register as a Member of TMA or use the Website. You affirm that you are in sound physical and mental health and able to conduct a normal social and married life. Service may be refused for any reason, in the sole judgment of TMA, to people TMA determines are unsuitable. By using the Website or our Services, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Membership in the Service is void where prohibited.

2. Term.

This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you are a Member or a user of TMA. You may terminate your membership at any time, for any reason, by notifying TMA of your intention to do so.  If you violate this Agreement, TMA may terminate your membership, effective upon sending notice to you at the email address you provide in your application for membership, or other email or postal addresses you provide to TMA. In the event that you terminate your membership or TMA terminates your membership in the Service because you have breached the Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund of unused membership fees.

3. Registration and Membership.

The price list is part of this Agreement and we reserve the right, at any time, to change any fees or charges for using the Service. If and when you register to become a Member, you agree to provide accurate, current and complete information about yourself and abide by the terms of the International Marriage Brokers Act. You agree that we may rely on your registration data as accurate, current and complete.

4. Profile & Photo Distribution.

You grant TMA permission to distribute your profile & photo. You understand that some editing of your profile and photo by TMA may be necessary. TMA will distribute your profile and photo for a minimum of one year unless you request TMA to stop. You agree to notify TMA upon becoming engaged or married so that TMA can cease distributing your profile and photo.

5. Email Communications.

You agree to accept and consent to receiving email communications initiated from us or through us including but not limited to: message notification emails, emails informing you about events, emails informing you of promotions we run and emails informing you of changes to the Service.

6. Non-Commercial Use by Members.

You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purpose, any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service. TMA is for the personal use of individual Members and viewers only and may not be used in connection with any commercial enterprise. Organizations, companies, and/or businesses may not become Members of TMA and should not use the TMA Service or Website for any purpose. Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Website or Service, including unauthorized framing of or duplication of content of the Website or the sending of unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail will be investigated, and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation, civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.

7. Proprietary Rights to Content.

TMA owns and retains other proprietary rights to the TMA Website and the TMA Service. The Website contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of TMA, and its licensors. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given permission, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.

8. Content on the Website, in Members' Personal Profiles, and in Communications between Members.

• You must use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations. You understand and agree that TMA may monitor, review, and delete any content, including, but not limited to, messages, photos, videos, profiles, text, graphics, and written or oral communications (collectively, "Content") which does or may, in the sole judgment of TMA, violate the terms of this Agreement or which might be considered offensive or illegal and/or that might violate the rights or otherwise harm, or threaten the safety of Members.
• You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service, or send to other Members.
• By asking TMA to post Content to any public area of the TMA Website, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant to TMA irrevocable, perpetual, fully paid, worldwide permission to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content on the TMA Website.
• The following is a partial and non-exhaustive list of the kind and type of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website, in Members' Personal Profiles and in communications between Members. TMA reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Service and terminating the membership of such violators. It includes Content that:
  • "stalk" or otherwise harass any person;
  • is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
  • promotes information that you know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
  • promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
  • contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunication equipment;
  • contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
  • solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
  • involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
  • displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind;
  • provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18, or harm minors in any way;
  • provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses; and
  • engages in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes;
• You may not include in your Member profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URL's or email addresses.
• You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other Members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You may not send any chain letters or junk email to other Members. Although TMA cannot monitor the conduct of its Members, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent.

 

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