Terms and Conditions
Updated February 12, 2006.
Before using or subscribing to FamilyTree123.com,
please review the following terms and conditions which define
your rights, responsibilities and benefits as a user of Family Tree Website.
Family Tree Website License and
Terms and Conditions of Use
FamilyTree123.com is an Internet service (the Service)
owned and operated by Websketching (hereafter "we", "our"
or "us"). "You" or "your" means an adult user of the Service
for itself and you as parent or guardian for any minor which
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. If you don't agree
with any of these terms and conditions, don't use the Service.
We may alter this agreement at our discretion and your continued
use after any change indicates your acceptance of that change.
If you don't want to be bound by a change, discontinue use
of the Service.
Family Tree Websites contains graphics, information, data, editorial
and other content accessible by any Internet user and similar
content which is accessible only to our subscribing members,
(the Website.) Whether in the free section or in the subscription
section of the Service, the Website is owned and/or copyrighted
by Websketching or third party providers and may be used only
in accordance with this limited use license. Websketching
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 Website only for personal family
use, and may download your data only. 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 the Website
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.
For this, Websketching is a distributor only. By submitting
your content to Websketching, you grant Websketching, the
corporate host of the Service, a limited license to the content
to use, host, distribute that content and allow hosting and
distribution on co-branded Services of that content. You should
submit only content which belongs to you and will not violate
the property or other rights of other people or organizations.
We will not edit or monitor user provided content. Websketching
also reserves the right to remove any user provided content
that comes to its attention and that it believes, in its sole
discretion, is illegal, obscene, indecent, defamatory, incites
racial or ethnic hatred or violates the rights of others.
LIABILITY DISCLAIMER
The information, products, and services included on this Web
Service may include inaccuracies or typographical errors.
Changes are periodically added to the information herein.
Websketching and its third party suppliers provide all content
in this Service "AS IS", and without any warranty of any kind.
Websketching, and its third party suppliers make no representations concerning the suitability, reliability or accuracy of the Website or the service provided on the Service for any purpose. We and our third party suppliers disclaim all warranties, expressed or implied, in connection with the Website and the services provided on the Service, including conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. In no case will we or our third party providers 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.
Websketching may, from time to time, provide opportunities to users of the Web Service to link to or buy services from third parties. Sites of those third parties may be subject to terms and conditions different from those found here. Websketching 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 Websketching
Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, this limitation may not apply in part to you. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THIS WEB SERVICE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THIS WEB SERVICE.
Additional Guest or Subscribing Member Terms
1. REGISTRATION AND SECURITY
1.1 As part of the registration process, you will select
a password and Subscriber name ("Username"). You must provide
Websketching with accurate, complete, and updated registration
information. Failure to do so will breach 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 offensive. The Site is 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
New Jersey and the United States. Registration as a user
of or subscriber to the Site or services provided on th
site results your customer information being stored and
processed in the United States, and you, in registering
or subscribing, specifically consent 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, within
the scope of the PRIVACY POLICY,
you may and should review and correct this information
regularly.
1.2 You shall notify us by regular mail or by email at
support@FamilyTree123.com 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 credit card information. (b) 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 Websketching, 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 the
Website via your password account. Distribution of your
password to others for access to the Website is expressly
prohibited and shall constitute a breech 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. 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
credit card will be charged based on the subscription program
(annual, quarterly, monthly, etc.) you have chosen.
Credit card charges will be processed within 24 hours after
subscription and products included in memberships will be
shipped shortly thereafter. Except in the case of monthly
subscriptions, you will be notified by email 15 days before
your subscription will end, asked to correct any information
which has changed and given the opportunity to "opt out"
of your renewal.
In order to cancel your subscription, you must send an email
to cancel@FamilyTree123.com and provide the following information:
Your First and Last Name
Your Username
Your Email address used when subscribing
2.2 Cancellations. Initial Annual Subscription.
An initial annual subscription 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 must be made by
email to cancel@FamilyTree123.com and provide the following
information:
Your First and Last Name
Your Username
Your Email address used when subscribing
Your cancellation notice must be received by end of business (5:00 p.m. Eastern 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 credit card if you have subscribed by credit card. All other subscriptions, including monthly subscriptions, quarterly subscriptions, 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 Websketching at
any time and each renewal of your subscription will be at
the then standard renewal cost for the period which you
originally selected when you subscribed.
3. COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN Websketching
AND YOU.
Websketching will send electronic mail to you, for
the purpose of informing you of changes or additions to Websketching,
or of any Websketching 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. For further information
on our use of subscriber demographic information, see the
Privacy Policy.
4. TERMINATION
Should you breach this Agreement, Websketching 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 Websketching decide to suspend the subscription service for any reason other than breach, it 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.
Websketching has the right, at its sole discretion,
to modify this Agreement or the Service at any time. Changes
in service will be posted at FamilyTree123.com, or sent via
email, 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 emailing
Account Services at cancel@FamilyTree123.com. (See section
2 regarding cancellation of subscription.) Continued use of
the service now or following posted notices of changes in
this Agreement 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 New Jersey, 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 Salem,
New Jersey.
6.2 Official correspondence must be sent via postal mail
to: Websketching Attn: FamilyTree123.com Customer Service,
440 Whig Lane Rd., Pilesgrove, New Jersey, 08098.
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