Terms and Conditions

Terms & Conditions of TennisMates.com

Please review the following terms of service carefully. The terms of service posted on the day of use govern all use of TennisMates' services. Our site is only for individuals 13 years of age and older.

1. Registration Process: You can begin using our site by filling out our online registration form. By registering with us, you agree to provide accurate and current information about yourself and to update that information if it changes.

2. Email Products Selection: Soon to come.

3. Levels of Membership: TennisMates currently offers one free membership level: Memberships (which is free to all registered visitors) are available to everyone.

All members may:

Post their name in all relevant areas;
Search for friends;
View the various member directories including browsing other areas;
Read message board postings (Coming Soon!);
Play games (selection will vary);
View our exclusive areas (Coming Soon!);
Receive emails from other players
Receive class-specific information on tennis;
Participate in Private Groups (Coming Soon!);

4. Payment Information:

Offers Vary: All service is currently free, we do not ask for any credit card information or anything.

5. Privacy: In general, TennisMates does not rent or sell your personal information. We may provide your personal information to the police or other investigating agencies to assist them in the investigation of any suspected violations of law. We also have the right to share your name and contact information with our attorneys in the event of serious violations of conduct. These terms apply to California Law.

6. Member Conduct: Although we have no obligation to screen or edit information that is posted or shared by members, we reserve the right to remove any objectionable information, at our discretion, without notice.

You agree to:

Follow all local, state, national and international laws and regulations.
Take responsibility for all acts that occur under your account or password, including any content transmitted or broadcast from your account.
Maintain the confidentiality of your password and login identity.
Comply with all intellectual property and other proprietary rights laws, including but not limited to federal copyright and trademark laws, in the use of the site and in making your personal profile and submissions of stories.
Provide only accurate and appropriate personal information about yourself. Please do not post sexually explicit language. You agree to keep your personal information posted on the site within the convention of good taste. We do not review the directory or individuals' profiles looking for inappropriate material, but if it is brought to our attention, we will require that you revise or delete the inappropriate information. We have the right to request edits or make edits to your personal information at our discretion.
Avoid postings to our workplace section that would be a violation of your employer's policies.

You agree NOT to:

Use incognito names when registering or communicating on our site.
Use your access to TennisMates for any commercial purpose with the exception of professional planning of a class reunion (for this purpose, you must obtain written permission from our Reunion department - http://www.TennisMates.com/reunion/proplanners/).
Send junk mail to our members or solicit our members for commercial purposes.
Post your email address anywhere on the site including your member profile or on any message posts. TennisMates' primary source of revenue comes from our belief that if we create a great thing, the sponsors will assist us in making this site a success for all.
Post your phone number or addresses. You can be contacted by your friends via TennisMates' "IM" service (Coming Soon!). Once two members are connected, you can share your personal information (email address, phone number, etc.) directly with the person contacting you if you so choose.
Republish information found in the site without first obtaining written permission from TennisMates.
Post any false, misleading, slanderous, libelous, or inaccurate information about others on our site. In the event you do, we have the right to release your identifying information to the police, our attorneys or the individual you mentioned in your posting so that they may take action against you. A few individuals have abused their membership privileges in the past and they are hereby notified that we will not tolerate slanderous postings.
Post or forward any confidential correspondence from TennisMates.
Post any material that is not entirely your own or for which you do not have full rights to use.
Delete or otherwise revise any material posted by any other person.
Use any device, software, or routine to interfere (or attempt to interfere) with the proper working of TennisMates' Site or any activity being conducted on this Site.
Post insider information or corporate trade secrets.
Post inaccurate or deceptive information about yourself, others or your employer.
Post threats of bodily harm or any other illegal activities.
Take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on this Site's infrastructure (including without limitation, "flooding," "spamming," "mailbombing," or "crashing" the Site).

Other important rules:

TennisMates reserves the right to modify, suspend or terminate access to the site at any time without notice or refund if you are suspected of violating any of these Terms of Service. We also reserve the right, on occasion, to require you to change your login name and password.
Swearing, obscenities, and inappropriate behavior (as solely determined by TennisMates) on bulletin or message boards, chat rooms, or otherwise on the site will not be tolerated, and your membership will be immediately terminated if we determine that you have participated in such behavior on the site.

7. Abuse of Conduct:

Reporting abusive conduct: Please contact us at TMabuse@intrawork.com in the event you need to report abusive conduct. Although we have no obligation to police the site, we do try to remove content that is clearly inappropriate when it is brought to our attention.

Consequences for abusive conduct: In the event you violate these Terms of Service, TennisMates has the right to terminate your account without refund. In the event of a serious violation (as solely determined by TennisMates) TennisMates may also file suit against you for business interference or other appropriate legal theories and we will seek compensation from you for potential damage to our reputation caused by your actions. TennisMates has the right to eliminate any Private Group suspected of violations of the law or our Terms of Service. TennisMates will cooperate with the authorities on any said suspected violations.

8. Content Rights: Please do not copy content from our site without our permission. This site (TennisMates.com), and all of the content of the site, is protected by intellectual property and other laws throughout the world, and is the copyrighted property of TennisMates Online, Inc. ("TennisMates") and/or its various third party licensors. None of the content found on this site may be copied, reproduced, republished, distributed, sold, licensed, transferred, distributed or modified without the express written permission of TennisMates. Unauthorized use of the site would be a violation of TennisMates' and its licensors' rights. In addition, the trademarks, logos and service marks displayed on this site (collectively, the "Trademarks") are the property of TennisMates, its affiliates, and various third parties. The site and the software incorporated in the site may not be reverse engineered, decompiled or disassembled.

9. Personal Information and Submissions: By submitting your personal, reunion and related information to us, you are thereby granting to TennisMates a royalty-free, worldwide, nonterminable, exclusive license to use this information and your exact words and photos (and excerpts and edited versions of your submissions) in all media now known or hereinafter developed, and in promotions, and to sublicense and transfer this right to third parties, and you waive all claims against TennisMates for any violations of copyright, rights of privacy, publicity, and defamation or other personal torts arising from TennisMates' use of the information in such media. No payments shall be due to you for such grant of rights, and you may or may not receive credit as the author of such works in any use of them.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties: EXCEPT AS SPECIFICALLY PROVIDED IN THIS PROVISION, THE SITE AND ITS CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND TENNISMATES DISCLAIMS, AND YOU WAIVE, ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR ANY OTHER WARRANTY, CONDITION, GUARANTY, OR REPRESENTATION RELATED TO THE SITE AND ITS CONTENT AND THOSE ARISING BY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE IN LAW OR FROM A COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. THE FUNCTIONS, MATERIALS AND CONTENT OF THE SITE ARE NOT WARRANTED TO BE UNINTERRUPTED OR WITHOUT ERROR, AND TENNISMATES AND ITS PROVIDERS DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, CURRENCY OR RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION ON THE SITE. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK AND COST OF REPAIRS OR CORRECTIONS TO YOUR HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE DUE TO THE USE OF THE SITE. This disclaimer of warranty may not apply to all users.

11. Limitations of Liability & Remedies: YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TENNISMATES, AND TENNISMATES'S DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, LICENSORS, AGENTS OR AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER FROM USE OF THE SITE OR VIRUSES, OR DIRECT OR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OR LOSSES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOST PROFITS OR LOST SAVINGS), WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, WHICH YOU MAY INCUR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR NONPERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF REVENUES, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OR OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS EVEN IF TENNISMATES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSS. Your sole and exclusive remedy for any breach of this agreement by TennisMates shall be a refund of the fees paid for membership. TennisMates is not responsible for, and shall have no liability with respect to, the content of third party Web sites that are linked to or from the site. TennisMates is not responsible for the user generated content on the site. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability to the extent set forth herein; therefore, this provision may not apply to every person as written.

12. Customer Warranties & Indemnification: You warrant and represent that

You shall abide by all the terms and conditions of this agreement;
You are of sufficient legal age to use this site and to create binding legal obligations for any liability you may incur as a result of the use of this site;
You will not take any action which would derogate TennisMates' or its licensors' rights in and to their intellectual property or content;
You will not infringe on the copyrights of any third parties;
You will not violate any laws in your use or postings of information on the site; and
You will not interfere in the business of TennisMates by posting information that violates the rules outlined above or by attempting to divert traffic from the Site. You shall indemnify and hold harmless, and at TennisMates' request defend, TennisMates, its directors, officers, shareholders, employees, agents, affiliates and owners (each, an "Indemnified Party") from and against any and all claims, proceedings, damages, injuries, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees, an allocation for in-house counsel, and other legal costs) arising out of any claim of any third party resulting from any breach of your representations, warranties or covenants set forth in this agreement. You shall reimburse each Indemnified Party on demand for any costs, expenses and liabilities incurred by such Indemnified Party to which this indemnity relates.

13. Links to Other Sites: The site may contain links to other sites. TennisMates does not endorse any other site and is not liable for any loss or damages related to the content, products or services available through those sites. If you have any problems or concerns regarding other sites, please contact their site administrator or Web master directly.

14. Changes to Site & this Terms of Service: TennisMates reserves the right to discontinue, delete and change the content or purposes of the site from time to time. TennisMates also reserves the right to change the Terms of Service. The Terms of Service in effect at the time of your use shall govern your use of the site.

15. Choice of Law & Venue: This Agreement shall for all purposes be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Washington, United States of America, applicable to contracts negotiated and fully performed within that State, and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Washington in any action brought to enforce or arising out of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, TennisMates shall have the right to commence and prosecute any legal or equitable action or proceeding before any Unites States or non-United States court of competent jurisdiction to obtain injunctive or other relief in TennisMates' sole discretion.

16. Miscellaneous Terms:

No Partnership/Assignment. Our relationship is not one of agency or partnership and you will not be deemed to be a partner, employee, fiduciary, agent or representative of TennisMates by your use of the site. You may not assign or transfer your rights to any third party.
Severability. These terms are severable. In the event that any provision is determined to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision shall nonetheless be enforced to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and such determination shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any other remaining provisions.
No Waiver. Failure to enforce a term of this agreement shall not be deemed a subsequent waiver of that term or other terms.
Termination of Membership Permitted. The license granted in this agreement shall terminate automatically without notice from TennisMates if you fail to comply with any provision of this agreement. TennisMates may terminate a free membership at its sole discretion.
Headings of No Effect. The headings in this agreement are used for convenience only and not for interpretation.
Entire Agreement. This agreement is the entire understanding between us regarding your access to, license and use of the site and its content and supersedes any prior agreements, statements or representations with respect to the same.

We sincerely hope you enjoy your use of the TennisMates.com site. Please understand that these rules help protect the integrity of the information for all of our members.