Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing and/or using this website, you are agreeing to abide by and be bound by these website Terms and Service, including the Site Rules and Privacy Policy, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site.

If for any reason your account is suspended, banned, restricted, blocked (by another user), or otherwise disabled by Scarves & Coffee, you agree not to create another account with the intent to bypass these limitations without our permission. Any effort to evade these limitations may result in the termination of all current and future accounts you register.

2. Disclaimer, Services and Accessibility

Your use of our Services and any content is solely at your own risk and discretion. The materials and services on Scarves & Coffee are provided “as is” and “as available”. Scarves & Coffee makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, security, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation rights. You release us from liability concerning:

• Disputes between you and other users.
• Acts of third parties.
• Unauthorized access by anyone to any data communications related to, or content stored under, your account.
• Links posted by users.
• Issues relating to occurrences that happen at any face-to-face meeting that was organized on Scarves & Coffee or by Scarves & Coffee, unless expressly disclosed in writing that Scarves & Coffee is sponsoring the event.

Further, Scarves & Coffee does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet web site or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site. The materials appearing on Scarves & Coffee could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. Scarves & Coffee does not warrant that any of the materials on its web site are accurate, complete, or current. Scarves & Coffee may make changes to the materials contained on its web site at any time without notice. Scarves & Coffee does not, however, make any commitment to update the materials.

3. Account Registration and Usage

In order to access or use parts of Scarves & Coffee services, you will be required to create a user account. You agree to provide Scarves & Coffee with accurate and truthful information for registration.

Scarves & Coffee reserves the right to suspend your user account, terminate your user account, or remove any submitted content at our discretion without notice or explanation and regardless of your conduct or submitted content. You agree that we are not responsible for any loss of data, information, or financial hardships that may result from us enforcing these terms. Users are encouraged to backup all of their data and submitted content.

It is your responsibility to ensure that your password credentials are kept confidential and to inform Scarves & Coffee if you have reason to believe your account has been compromised. You are responsible for all activity on your account. You may never use another's account without permission.

By accessing this website and/or registering an account, you agree that you are at least 13 years of age. No individual under the age of 13 may register an account, use our services, provide any personal information to Scarves & Coffee, or otherwise upload or transmit personal information through our services (Name, address, telephone number, email address, etc.).

You agree that we reserve the right to remove, reclaim, or rename any account/username for any reason.

You may NOT for any reason:

• Transfer your account ownership to another user.
• Use your account to impersonate individuals or organizations.
• Use your account to aid any user in circumventing the terms and policies of Scarves & Coffee.
• Tamper with or use non-public areas of these services.
• Probe, scan, or test any of our systems or networks for any reason.
• Attempt to breach or circumvent any security or authentication measure.
• Attempt to access or search our services by any means (automated or otherwise) that negatively impacts site performance.
• Scrape our services, content, or content belonging to those using our services in a way that negatively impacts site performance.
• Attempt to, interfere, or disrupt the access of any user, host or network.
• Take apart or reverse engineer any aspect of the site or services in an effort to access things like source code, underlying ideas, or algorithms.
• Create accounts simply to reserve them and prevent their use by others.
• Solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts.
• Violate any international, federal, provincial, or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances.
• Infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others.
• Harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability.
• Collect or track the personal information of others.
• Spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, etc.
• Steal, reproduce, or distribute any content from another user's submissions without permission of the author.

Scarves & Coffee is for personal and non-commercial use only. Don't sell access to the site or services in any way. Don't use the site or services for the purpose of advertising any goods or services.

4. User Created Content

"User content" refers to any materials including without limitation text, images, audio, video, and audio-visual material that is submitted by a Scarves & Coffee user. For the sole purpose of making your content available on Scarves & Coffee, you grant to Scarves & Coffee a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to use, host, store, cache, reproduce, display, transmit, modify, adapt, and distribute any user content that you submit to the site. Scarves & Coffee does not claim ownership over any user content submitted to the site. You're responsible for the content you post. This means you assume all risks related to its publication and display. Any submitted user content must not be illegal in nature and must not give rise to legal action whether against you, Scarves & Coffee, or a third party (under any applicable law). Scarves & Coffee reserves the right to remove any user content at our discretion.

Although Scarves & Coffee can display artistic renditions of and written stories containing adult content, the feature is disabled by default and may only be enabled via your account settings if you are legally allowed to view it in the United States (18 years of age). If we determine that you may not be legally allowed to access this content, we will restrict your access to mature and adult content until you can verify your age via government photo identification. Any attempt to bypass this measure may result in all current and future accounts registered by you being permanently banned.

Any content you submit to the site must meet and adhere to all Terms of Service conditions, as well as the Site Rules. We may, but have no obligation to, monitor, edit, or remove content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, dangerous to the site or users of the site, or otherwise objectionable. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any comments posted by you or any third-party. Scarves & Coffee does not undertake to comprehensively monitor the submission of user content to this website, nor do we take responsibility for content that is submitted to this website or what effects it may have on you. As stated in the Site Rules, any content that does not comply with site guidelines, such as not having explicit content tagged appropriately, may be removed at any time.

You understand that when using Scarves & Coffee, you will be exposed to user submissions from a variety of sources, and that Scarves & Coffee is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of or relating to such user submissions. You further understand and acknowledge that you may be exposed to user submissions that are inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable, and you agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against Scarves & Coffee with respect thereto, and agree to indemnify and hold Scarves & Coffee, its Owners/Operators, affiliates, and/or licensors, harmless to the fullest extent allowed by law regarding all matters related to your use of the site.

5. Policy Modifications and Updates

Scarves & Coffee reserves the right to revise or change these terms of service/use (or Site Rules or Privacy Policy) for its website at any time without notice and for any reason. By using this website, you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms of Service. If at any time you do not agree with changes to the Terms of Service, you are not permitted to use our services or access our website and must discontinue using them immediately. Your continued use or access to the website following the posting of any changes constitutes acceptance of those changes. You may be notified of major changes via site announcements (News Posts), a banner at the top of the site, or by email, though it is your responsibility to check this page and the Site Rules page periodically for changes. You are responsible for reviewing, becoming familiar with, and adhering to any modifications to this agreement.

Privacy Policy

• At the time of registration, Scarves & Coffee will collect from you a username, password, and valid email address in order to verify your identity.
• Your email address will be stored for the duration of your account's existence in order to be used for account retrieval in the event your account details are lost, as well as for notifications where the user has agreed to receive notifications of site activity to the email address on their account. Your email address will never be sold or be sent unsolicited promotional mail from Scarves & Coffee.
• Your IP address will be logged throughout your usage of the site. This is used for (1) verifying individual user identities in case of malicious site usage or unauthorized account accesses, and for (2) updating the site's online user counts.
• When logging in, session information will be kept in your cookies.
• The personal information listed above will only be made available to Scarves & Coffee administrators for the purposes of administering site services and enforcing site rules.
• Scarves & Coffee will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. We will not release your personal information under any circumstances short of as a requirement by the laws of the United States.
• You may request your account to be closed and data to be expunged from our server at any time by emailing admin@scarvesandcoffee.net.