The following terms of service (“Terms of Service”) are a legal agreement between you and FtFtL — Finding the Freedom to Live (“FtFtL”, ”we”, ”us”), and govern your use of ftftl.org (the “FtFtL Site”) and any sub-domains of this domain. These Terms of Service include the FtFtL Privacy Policy, and all other policies referenced below or elsewhere on the FtFtL Site.
You understand that by using the FtFtL Site, you are agreeing to these Terms of Service. If you do not accept all of these Terms of Service, you may not access or use the FtFtL Site.
In these Terms of Service, the FtFtL website, downloads, and services, and all related content, and documentation, are collectively referred to as the “Services”.
1. Registration
You do not need to register to visit the FtFtL Site. However, you may register with the FtFtL Site using one of the third-party login options provided in order to comment or perform any other interactions with the site.
2. Content
All FtFtL Site content is copyright to or licensed to FtFtL, and is subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights under European laws, foreign laws and international conventions. FtFtL Site content is provided to you AS IS and may not be used, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners. FtFtL reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to the FtFtL Site content.
You agree to not engage in the use, copying, or distribution of any of the FtFtL Site content other than expressly permitted herein. If you download or print any FtFtL Site content for personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein.
You agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security related features of the FtFtL Site or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any FtFtL Site content or enforce limitations on use of the FtFtL Site or FtFtL Site content.
You retain all rights in any content that you provide to the FtFtL Site (“User Content”). You are solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of posting or publishing it. You grant to FtFtL a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, publish, perform, transmit and access your User Content in connection with the operation of FtFtL, the FtFtL Site and Services in any media formats and through any media channels, and you grant to each other FtFtL Site user a similar non-exclusive license to access and use your User Content through the FtFtL Site. You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, permissions and releases to grant the foregoing licenses.
FtFtL does not guarantee that any FtFtL Site content or User Content will be made available through the FtFtL Site, continuously or at all. WHILE FtFtL IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO DO SO, FtFtL RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REMOVE AND PERMANENTLY DELETE ANY CONTENT FROM THE FtFtL SITE WITHOUT NOTICE, AND FOR ANY REASON FtFtL DEEMS SUFFICIENT. FtFtL does not have any obligation to monitor any User Content for any purpose and, as a result, is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, appropriateness, legality or applicability of such content or anything said, depicted or written by FtFtL Site users, including, without limitation, any information obtained by using the FtFtL Site or Services. FtFtL does not endorse any User Content or any opinion, recommendation or advice expressed therein and you agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against FtFtL with respect thereto.
3. Purpose of FtFtL Site Content
The FtFtL Site content and Services are provided for information only and are not a substitute for any kind of medical treatment, psychiatric treatment, psychotherapy, therapeutic counselling or any other kind of professional therapy. You are not placing yourself under the care of FtFtL, and accept that it remains your own personal responsibility to make provision for your own needs of any form of professional counselling, therapy or medical advice.
4. Obligations of FtFtL Site Users
The FtFtL Site may be used and accessed for lawful purposes only. You agree to abide by all applicable local, state, national and foreign laws, treaties and regulations in connection with your use of the FtFtL Site. In addition, without limitation, you agree that you will not do any of the following while using or accessing the FtFtL Site:
- Upload, post, submit or otherwise transmit any User Content:
- to which you do not have the lawful right to copy, transmit and display;
- that infringes any third party’s intellectual property rights (including without limitation copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property right or moral right or right of publicity).
- that is unlawful, obscene, harmful, threatening, harassing, defamatory or hateful or that contains objects or symbols of hate, invades the privacy of any third party, contains any pornography, erotica, child pornography or child erotica, is deceptive, threatening, abusive, inciting of unlawful action, defamatory, libelous, vulgar or violent or constitutes hate speech or is otherwise objectionable in the opinion of FtFtL;
- that includes unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, “pyramid schemes” or any other form of unsolicited or unauthorized solicitation;
- that contains a software virus or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to (A) interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software; or (B) interfere with the access of any user, host or network, including without limitation sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming or mail-bombing the FtFtL Site; or
- that includes code that is hidden or otherwise surreptitiously contained within the data, images, audio or video of any User Content that is unrelated to the immediate, aesthetic nature of the User Content.
- Circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security related features of the FtFtL Site or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content;
- Use any meta tags or other hidden text or metadata utilizing a FtFtL trademark or logo, URL or product name;
- Forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any posting or in any way use the FtFtL Site to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information;
- Tamper with, interfere with or disrupt (or attempt to do so) the availability of any aspect of the FtFtL Site or Services, any servers or networks connected to the FtFtL Site or Services, or the technical delivery systems of FtFtL or any provider of services to the FtFtL Site;
- Attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any FtFtL system or network or breach or impair or circumvent any security or authentication measures protecting the FtFtL Site or Services;
- Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the FtFtL Site or Services;
- Attempt to access, search or meta-search the FtFtL Site or Services with any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism other than software and/or search agents provided by FtFtL or other generally available third party web browsers;
- Collect or store personal data about other FtFtL Site or Services users without their express permission; or
- Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, through pretexting or some other form of social engineering or otherwise commit fraud.
5. Termination or Modification
FtFtL reserves the right in its sole discretion, at any time, to modify, discontinue or terminate the FtFtL Site or modify or terminate these Terms of Service or the FtFtL Privacy Policy without advance notice. If any modification is not acceptable to you, your only recourse is to cease using the FtFtL Site. By continuing to use the FtFtL Site after any such modifications, you accept and agree to be bound by such modifications.
Without limiting other remedies, FtFtL may at any time and without any further notice suspend or terminate your access to the FtFtL Site or Services if FtFtL determines in its sole discretion that you have failed to comply with any provision of these Terms of Service.
6. Indemnification
You, intending to be legally bound, for yourself, your heirs and assignees, executors or administrators, agree to defend, indemnify and hold FtFtL and its affiliates, subsidiaries and distribution partners and their respective officers, directors, employees and/or agents harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, arising out of or in any way connected with: (i) your access to or use of the FtFtL Site, FtFtL Site content or User Content; (ii) your communications with any member or officer of FtFtL whether through the FtFtL Site or any other means; (iii) your violation of this Agreement; (iv) your violation of any third party right, including, without limitation, any intellectual property right, publicity, confidentiality, property or privacy right; or (v) any claim that your User Content caused damage to a third party, including, without limitation, claims that your User Content is infringing.
7. Disclaimer
THE FtFtL SITE AND ALL CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE FtFtL SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITH NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. FtFtL EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE FtFtL SITE AND SUCH CONTENT, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF QUALITY, AVAILABILITY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN ADDITION, FtFtL MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY THAT THE FtFtL SITE OR ANY SUCH CONTENT WILL BE ERROR FREE OR THAT ANY ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
8. Limitation of Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL FtFtL OR ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, PARTNERS OR LICENSORS OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND/OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD-PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH USE OF THE FtFtL SITE OR ANY CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE FtFtL SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, INJURY OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE CONDUCT OF ANY FtFtL SITE USER, ONLINE OR OFFLINE, WHETHER OR NOT FtFtL HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. FtFtL WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY ERRORS OR ANY SCHEDULED OR UNSCHEDULED SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS RELATING TO THE FtFtL SITE. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
9. Consent to Electronic Notice
You consent to the use of (a) electronic means to complete these Terms of Service and deliver any notices pursuant to these Terms of Service, and (b) electronic records to store information related to these Terms of Service or your use of the FtFtL Site or Services. Any notice or other communication to be given hereunder will be in writing and given (x) by FtFtL via email (in each case to the address that you provide), (y) a posting on the FtFtL Site or (z) by you via FtFtL Site message or to such email address as FtFtL may specify in writing. The date of receipt will be deemed the date on which such notice is transmitted.
11. Third Party Websites
The FtFtL Site may provide links to third party websites, and such links are provided for reference only. We encourage you to read the use terms of each third party website you visit, including websites which are linked to FtFtL.
Please keep in mind that FtFtL has no control over (and FtFtL disclaims any responsibility or liability to you for) the content, privacy policies, activities or practices of any third party websites or for any harms, injuries or losses you might suffer as a result of using or accessing such websites.
12. Miscellaneous
In the event that any provision in these Terms of Service is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the unenforceable part will be given effect to the greatest extent permitted by law and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect to the maximum extent permitted by law. The failure of a party to enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Service will not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision.
This Agreement will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales excluding that body of law pertaining to conflict of laws. Any legal action or proceeding arising under these Terms of Service will be brought exclusively in courts located in England and Wales and the parties hereby irrevocably consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue therein.
These Terms of Service together with the rules and policies of FtFtL incorporated herein by reference constitute the entire agreement between FtFtL and you with respect to your use of the FtFtL Site.