TERMS OF SERVICE
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By using the Hi Ghana community (the "Community") that Hi Ghana Networks ("Hi Ghana", "us", or "we") operates on our website, currently located at http://www.highana.com (the "Website"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (this "Agreement"), whether or not you register as a member of the Hi Ghana Community ("Member"). The Hi Ghana services (the "Services") consist of the Community and the Website. If you wish to become a Member, communicate with other Members, and make use of the Service, read this Agreement and follow the instructions in the registration process. This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms for your membership and may be modified by Hi Ghana from time to time. Any modifications shall be effective upon posting by Hi Ghana on the Website. You may also receive a copy of this Agreement by emailing us at: info@highana.com, Subject: "Terms of Service Agreement". In addition, when using particular functionalities and features that are part of the Services, you may be subject to additional guidelines, terms, or rules applicable to such functionalities and features ("Additional Terms"), which may be posted from time to time. All such Additional Terms of Hi Ghana and the Hi Ghana Privacy Policy (www.highana.com/privacy.php) are hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement. If such additional functionalities and features are provided to us by any of our partners (such as, but not limited to, media players for content provided by our licensors) the additional terms that govern your use of such functionalities and features are not incorporated into this Agreement, but shall govern your use of such functionalities and features and you hereby agree to comply with and be bound by such terms as a condition to your access and use of such functionalities and features. 1. ELIGIBILITY. THE SERVICES ARE INTENDED SOLELY FOR ACCESS AND USE BY INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE THIRTEEN (13) YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. BY ACCESSING AND USING THE SERVICES, YOU ARE CERTIFYING THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST THIRTEEN (13) YEARS OLD. By using the 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. If you are merely surfing or browsing through the Website and have not yet registered to become a Member, your use of the Website is still subject to this Agreement; if you do not agree to this Agreement, do not use the Services. 2. PASSWORD. When you sign up to become a Member, you will also be asked to choose a username and a password for your Member profile. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree not to use the Member profile, username, or password of another Member at any time. You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your Member profile or access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your Member profile.
3. TERM. This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use the Services and/or are a Member. You may terminate your membership at any time, for any reason by following the instructions on the "Help" pages, or upon receipt by Hi Ghana of your written or email notice of termination. Hi Ghana may terminate your access to the Website. Hi Ghana may terminate your membership for any reason effective 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 Hi Ghana. If Hi Ghana terminates your membership in the Community because you have breached the Agreement, you will not be entitled to a refund of any unused subscription fees, if any. Even after this Agreement is terminated.
CONTENT POSTED ON THE SERVICES. You understand and agree that Hi Ghana may (but is not obligated to) review any classified ads, content, communication, information, Intellectual Property, material, messages, photos, videos, URLs, profiles and the like (collectively, "Content") that is uploaded, published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on the Services and delete or refuse to take online any such Content, including, without limitation, any Content that in the sole judgment of Hi Ghana violates this Agreement or which might be offensive, inappropriate, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of other Members or third parties. You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on the Services, or transmit to other Members or third parties. By posting Content to any area of the Services, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Hi Ghana an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully paid, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, publicly display and perform (including by means of a digital audio transmission), and otherwise use Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. In addition, you represent and warrant that you have the right to post the Content and you will not post any illegal or prohibited Content and will not infringe, misappropriate, violate or contravene any third party rights (including, without limitation, any intellectual property rights). The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website ("Prohibited Content"). Hi Ghana reserves the right (but is not obligated) to investigate and to take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending Content from the Service and terminating the membership of such violators.
Prohibited Content includes Content that: (a) is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; (b) harasses or advocates harassment of another person; (c) involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming"; (d) promotes information that you know is false, misleading or that promotes illegal activities or conduct that is illegal, abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous; (e) promotes an illegal and/or unauthorized ("pirated") copy of another person's copyrighted work (whether marked as such, or not), such as, but not limited to, providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent copy-protection mechanisms, or providing pirated music, video or other pirated Content, or links to such pirated music, video files, or files that contain such other pirated Content; (f) contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page); (g) displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind and in any form; (h) provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18; (i) provides instructional information about illegal activities such as, but not limited to, making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses; (j) solicits passwords or personal identifying information of any kind for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; and engages in commercial activities and/or commercial sales without our prior written consent, including, without limitation, contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes;
You must use the Services in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations. You may not include in your Member profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs 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 Services, except as to the extent expressly allowed by Hi Ghana in specific sections of the Services, such as the ?Classifieds? or similar section of the Services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members or other parties. Although Hi Ghana cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the Services, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Services 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. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, Hi Ghana reserves the right to restrict the number of emails and other communications (including sharing of Content) which a Member may send to other Members in any twenty-four (24) hour period to a number which Hi Ghana deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
MEMBER DISPUTES. Your interactions with other Members in connection with the Services or with advertisers, including, without limitation, payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and the other Members or the advertiser. You agree that Hi Ghana will not be responsible for any loss or damage incurred as the result of any such dealings or with respect to any other Member?s use or disclosure of your personally identifiable information. If there is a dispute between you and any third party (including, without limitation, any Member), Hi Ghana is under no obligation to become involved; however, we reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
THIRD PARTY CONTENT. Content from other Members, advertisers, and other third parties may be made available to you through the Services. Because we do not control such Content, (a) you agree that we are not responsible for any such Content and (b) we make no guarantees about the accuracy, currency, suitability, or quality of the information in such Content, and we assume no responsibility for unintended, objectionable, inaccurate, misleading, or unlawful Content made available by other Members, advertisers, and other third parties.
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