TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT
Great Life Stories.com is an Internet service (the “Service”) owned and operated by Great Life Stories, Inc. (“GLS”). "You" or "your" means an adult user of the Service for itself and you as parent or guardian for any minor who you allow to access the Service, for whom you will be held strictly responsible. Your use of the Service indicates that you are bound by this Agreement with us.
General
The Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as “Agreement”) sets forth the legally binding terms for your use or subscription to GREAT LIFE STORIES (hereinafter referred to as “GLS”) services. By using GLS, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a “Visitor” or “Member.” As a visitor, you are simply browsing the GLS website. As a member, you have been registered with GLS. The term “User” refers to a visitor or a member. You are only authorized to use GLS services, regardless of whether your access or use is intended, if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read and review this Agreement and save it. If you do not agree to the terms of this Agreement, you should leave the GLS website immediately and discontinue use of the GLS services. If you wish to become a member, communicate with other members and make use of the GLS services, you must read this entire Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the registration process.
This Agreement includes GLS’s policy for acceptable use of GLS Services and Content posted on the GLS website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the GLS services and GLS’s Privacy Policy. In order to participate in certain GLS services, you may be notified that you are required to download software or content and/or agree to additional terms and conditions. Unless otherwise provided by the additional terms and conditions applicable to the GLS services in which you choose to participate, those additional terms are hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement.
GLS may modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting by GLS on the GLS website. You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the GLS services after any modification is posted. It is therefore important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes.
Please choose carefully the information you wish to disseminate on the GLS website and that you provide to other users. GLS profiles may not include the following items: any photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd, excessively violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable subject matter. Despite this prohibition, information provided by other GLS members may contain inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive, or sexually explicit material, products, or services, and GLS assumes no responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse of GLS services by any person, please contact GLS.
GLS reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting, including private messages, by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the GLS services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.
GLS contains graphics, information, data, editorial and other content accessible by any registered Internet user and similar content, which is accessible only to our subscribing members. Whether in the free section or in the subscription section of the Service, all Content is owned and/or copyrighted by GLS, or third party providers and may be used only in accordance with this limited use license. GLS is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions, and other copyright laws.
Limited Use License
You are licensed to use the content only for personal or professional family history research, and may download content only as search results relevant to that research. The download of the whole or significant portions of any work or database is prohibited. Resale of a work or database or portion thereof, except as specific results relevant to specific research for an individual, is prohibited. Online or other republication of content is prohibited except as unique data elements that are part of a unique family history or genealogy. Violation of this License may result in immediate termination of your membership and may result in legal action for injunction, damages or both. You may use access software provided on the Service only while on line and may not download, copy, reuse or distribute that software, except where it is clearly stated in connection with software that it is made available for offline use and a license for that use is provided in connection with that software.
User provided content
Portions of the Service will contain user provided content, to which you may contribute appropriate content. For this content, GLS is a distributor only. By submitting content to GLS, you grant GLS a license to the content to use, host, distribute that content and allow hosting and distribution of that content, to the extent and in that form or context we deem appropriate. Should you contribute content to the site, you understand that it will be seen and used by others under the license described herein. You should submit only content which belongs to you and will not violate the property or other rights of other people or organizations. GLS is sensitive to the copyright of others. We will not edit or monitor user provided content, with the exception that, to promote privacy, an automated filtering tool will be used to suppress, and omit from display, information submitted to the tree areas of the site which appears to pertain to a living person. We also reserve the right to remove any user provided content that comes to our attention and that we believe, in our sole discretion, is illegal, obscene, indecent, defamatory, incites racial or ethnic hatred or violates the rights of others, or is in any other way objectionable.
LIABILITY DISCLAIMER
The information, products, and services included on GLS may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically made to the information herein. We and our third party suppliers provide all content in this service "AS IS", and without any warranty of any kind.
GLS makes no representations concerning the suitability, reliability or accuracy of the Content or the service provided on GLS for any purpose. We disclaim all warranties, expressed or implied, in connection with the content and the services provided on GLS, including conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. In no case will we be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, special or other damages including, without limitation, lost or delay of use, lost profits, loss of data or any other damage in contract, tort, equity or any other legal theory, even if advised of the possibility thereof.
GLS may, from time to time, provide opportunities to users of the service to link to or buy services from third parties. Sites of those third parties will be subject to terms and conditions different from those found here. GLS makes no warranty concerning third party provided goods or services, and you agree that any recourse for dissatisfaction or problems with those goods or services will be sought from the third party provider and not from GLS.
Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow exclusions as broad as those stated above or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitations may, in whole or in part, not apply to you. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THIS WEB SERVICE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, IMMEDIATELY CEASE USE OF GLS.
Additional Guest or Subscribing Member Terms
1. REGISTRATION AND SECURITY
1.1 As part of the registration process, you will select a username and password. You must provide GLS with accurate, complete, and up-to-date registration information. Failure to do so will constitute a breach of this Agreement. You understand that you may not (i) select or use a name of another person with the intent to impersonate that person; (ii) use the rights of any person other than yourself without authorization; or (iii) use a name that we, in our sole discretion, deem inappropriate. As you submit information, you understand that GLS is owned and operated by GREAT LIFE STORIES, Inc., incorporated in CALIFORNIA, USA. The Sites are operated in the United States of America and operated to be in compliance with the laws of the United States. Access is governed by these terms and conditions under the laws of the State of California and the United States. Registration as a user of or subscriber to any of the Sites or services provided on them results in your customer information being stored and processed in the United States, and you, in registering or subscribing, specifically consent to that storage and processing. You may access that information at any time to confirm its correctness and to keep it current in connection with your registration or subscription. If you are subscribing or registering for use of this site from outside of the United States of America, you consent to the storage and processing in the United States of the personal data you submit. You may and should review and correct this information regularly.
1.2 You shall notify us by regular mail or by e-mail of any known or suspected unauthorized use(s) of your account, or any known or suspected breach of security, including loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure of your password or billing information. You will be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You will never be required to reveal your password to any representative or agent of GLS, its owners or agents.
1.3 You must be 18 years or older to subscribe.1.4 You are responsible for all usage or activity on GLS via your password account. Distribution of your password to others for access to GLS is expressly prohibited and shall constitute a breach of this Agreement. Any fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise illegal activity may be grounds for termination of your account, at our sole discretion, and you may be referred to appropriate law enforcement agencies.
2. FEES AND PAYMENTS
2.1 Continuous Service Membership. Basic GLS services are free. Premium GLS services are clearly labelled and use of these Premium services is at the discretion of the user. Subscription membership in the Service is on a continuous service basis. This means that once you have become a subscribing member, your subscription will be automatically renewed and your billing choice will be charged based on the subscription program (annual, quarterly, monthly, etc.) you have chosen. Billing charges for Premium services will be processed within 24 hours your order is taken and products included in memberships will be shipped shortly thereafter with a separate billing unless shipped within that 24 hours. Except in the case of monthly subscriptions, you will be notified by e-mail 15 days before your subscription will end, asked to correct any information which has changed and reminded of the opportunity to "opt out" of your renewal. From the United States, you may only cancel by phone and must call GLS at 408-314-4818 at least two days before the renewal date for the cancellation to be effective. You must provide the following:
Given name and surname
Username
E-mail address used when subscribing
Phone number including country code
Country
2.2 Cancellations. Initial Annual Subscription. An initial annual subscription for Premium services comes with the option to cancel during the first 7 days and receive a full refund, unless the subscription began with a free trial period. (Also, no refund is available in the case of a gift subscription.) The 7 day period begins on the day you register for the subscription Service, which is also the day you are given access to the subscription area of the Service. If you subscribe to the Service following a free or other trial period, that trial period takes the place of the 7 day cancellation period, and once the paid subscription begins, no refund will be provided. Cancellations during the 7 days may only be made by phone if you are a United States customer and must be made by calling us and providing the same information that you provided when you subscribed:
Given name and surname
Username
E-mail address used when subscribing
Phone number including country code
Country
Your cancellation call must be received by end of business (5:00 p.m. Pacific Time) on the 7th subscription day. Refunds are subject to return of goods. Please allow a reasonable time for the refund to reach you or be charged back to your account. All other subscriptions, including monthly subscriptions, quarterly subscriptions, initial annual subscriptions after the 7 days or annual renewals may be canceled by you at any time but no refund will be made for unused subscription periods.
2.3 Subscription costs may be changed by GLS at any time and each renewal of your subscription will be at the then standard renewal cost for the period that you originally selected when you subscribed.
3. COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN GLS AND YOU.
GLS will send electronic mail to you, for the purpose of informing you of changes or additions to GLS, or of any GLS related products and services. You may opt out of this notification service by replying to the electronic mail that was sent with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line.
4. TERMINATION
Should you breach this Agreement we will revoke your license to use the Service and suspend your right of access. In such a case, no portion of your subscription payment will be refunded. Should we decide to suspend your subscription service for any reason other than breach, we will refund to you the unused portion of your subscription payment, which will be your sole and exclusive remedy upon such a suspension of service.
5. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE SERVICE.
GLS has the right, at its sole discretion, to modify this Agreement or the Service, including the Content of the Service, at any time. Changes in Service will be posted on GLS.com, or sent via e-mail, or postal mail to you. If any portion of this Agreement or any change of this Agreement of the Service is unacceptable to you or will cause you to no longer be in compliance with the Agreement, you may cancel your subscription by calling GLS. Continued use of the Service now or following posted notices of changes in this Agreement, (notice is given by changing the date of last revision), means that you have accepted and are bound by the changes.
6. MISCELLANEOUS
6.1 This Subscriber Agreement is governed by the law of the State of California, without regard to its principles on conflicts of laws, and the federal law of the United States of America. Any action to enforce this Agreement shall be brought in the federal or state courts located in Santa Clara County, California.
6.2 Official correspondence must be sent via postal mail to: GREAT LIFE STORIES, Inc. Attn: Customer Solutions, PO Box 2127, Sunnyvale, CA 94087-0127.
Please contact us at: webmaster@greatlifestories.com with any questions regarding this Agreement.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.