Scikids Mail Terms of Service (TOS) 

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE OF THIS SCIKIDS MAIL SERVICE (THE "SERVICE"). PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY. THIS SERVICE IS PROVIDED ONLY TO INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE 13 YEARS OR OLDER . BY CLICKING THE "YES (Yes! I agree)" BUTTON AND COMPLETING THE REGISTRATION PROCESS, YOU ("USER") ARE STATING THAT YOU ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A SCIKIDS MAIL ACCOUNT AND THAT YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE SCIKIDS MAIL TERMS OF SERVICE ("TOS").

1. MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY
To open a Scikids Mail account, you must complete the registration process by choosing a username and password and  providing us with current and accurate information as prompted by the Registration Form.
You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account.  Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account.  Scikids Mail may access your account, including its contents to conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process or to respond to service or technical issues.

2. MEMBER PRIVACY
It is Scikids Mail's policy to respect the privacy of its members. Scikids Mail will not monitor, edit, or disclose any personal information about you or your Scikids Mail account, including its contents, without your prior permission unless Scikids Mail has a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of Scikids Mail; (3) enforce the TOS; or (4) act to protect the interests of its members or others. Scikids Mail does provide certain user information in aggregate form to third parties, including its advertisers, for demographics. In addition, your Internet Protocol address is transmitted with each message sent from your Scikids Mail account. You agree that Scikids Mail may access your account, including its contents, as stated above or to respond to service or technical issues. For more information, please check our "Privacy Statement".

3. MODIFICATIONS TO TERMS OF SERVICE, MEMBER POLICIES
Scikids Mail reserves the right to change the TOS or policies regarding the use of the Service at any time and to notify you by posting an updated version of the Terms Of Service on the Scikids Mail site. Continued use of the Service after any such change shall constitute your consent to such changes.

4. EMAIL STORAGE, OUTBOUND MESSAGES AND OTHER LIMITATIONS
The amount of storage space per member is currently limited to 2 MB, and some messages may not be processed due to space constraints or outbound message limitations. You agree that Scikids Mail is not responsible or liable for the deletion or failure to store email messages.

5. MEMBER CONDUCT
Scikids does not, and cannot monitor, censor or edit the contents of your email messages. You alone  are solely responsible for all acts or omissions that occur under your account or password, including the content of your transmissions through the Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to:

  • Use the Service in connection with chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages.
  • Create a false identity or forged email address or header, or otherwise attempt to mislead others as to the identity of  the sender or the origin of the message.
  • Transmit through the Service unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable material of any kind of nature or that encourages conduct that could constitue a criminal offense, give rise to civil liabilty or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation.
  • Transmit any material that contains viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or any other harmful or deleterious programs.
  • Violate any U.S. law regarding the transmission of technical data or software exported from the United States through the Service or  transmit any material that may infringe the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties, including trademark, copyright or right of publicity.
6. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
Scikids Mail provides electronic mail service, including information and links to content from third parties. Scikids Mail does not control in any respect any information, products or services offered by these third parties. The materials available through Scikids Mail and any third party are provided "as is" and "as available" and without warranties or conditions of any kind either express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Scikids Mail expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, merchantable quality, correspondence to description and fitness for a particular purpose. Scikids Mail does not represent or warrant that the Service materials will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available, are free of viruses or other harmful components. Scikids Mail does not warrant or represent that the use or the results of the use of the materials available through the Service or from third parties will be correct, accurate, timely, reliable or otherwise.

7.  LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall Scikids Mail be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of or the inability to use the Service, any changes to the Service, unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data, any material or data sent or received or not sent or received, or any transactions entered into wih third parties, advertisers through the Service. You specifically agree that Scikids Mail is not responsible or liable for any threatening, defamatory, obscene, offensive or illegal content or conduct of any other party or any infringement of another's rights, including intellectual property rights. If you are dissatisfied with the Service, the materials available on or through the Service, or with any of Scikids Mail's terms and conditions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using Scikids Mail.

8.  INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify and hold Scikids Mail, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, harmless from any claim, demand, or damage, including reasonable attorneys' fees, asserted by any third party due to or arising out of your use of or conduct on the Service.

9.  TERMINATION
Scikids Mail may terminate the Service with or without cause at any time and effective immediately. In addition, Scikids Mail, in its sole discretion, may terminate your account for violation of the letter or spirit of the TOS. In addition, Scikids Mail may terminate your account for inactivity, which is defined as failing to log into the Service for  180 days since your last log-on. Upon termination of the Service, your right to use the Service immediately ceases. Scikids Mail shall have no obligation to maintain any content in your account or to forward any unread or unsent messages to you or any third party.

10.  LAWS
The TOS shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of California and the United States of America, excluding their conflict of law provisions.


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