Effective Date: March 20th 2007

By using The Datevine.com site, you agree to the following Terms of Use. If you don’t like these Terms of Use, please do not use the site, because by doing so, you explicitly agree to abide by these Terms, which we may change from time to time as necessary. If we change these Terms, we will update the Effective Date above, and the new Terms will be effective as of the date listed above.

Privacy Policy

Please take a look at our Privacy Policy to find out what we collect, use and disclose in terms of personal information from our users.

Content Ownership

The Datevine owns all the text, images, marks, logos and other content contained in the site (including all designs, text, graphics, pictures, information, data, software, files, content and the layout, style and arrangement thereof (collectively, the "Site Content")). Please don’t rip us off.

If you submit a tip to The Datevine’s database, we consider it to become part of The Datevine’s Site Content. By submitting a tip under these Terms, and upon acceptance and publication by The Datevine on the site, you are agreeing that we can use your tips as we see fit to improve the site and for any other reason (e.g. highlighting top Tips of the Week in email newsletters etc). The real legals on this should read something like this:

By submitting Content to The Datevine.com, you grant The Datevine.com and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform such Content throughout the world in any media, now known or hereafter devised.

Oof, that’s heavy. But you get the idea.

Trademarks

The Datevine’s logo and name is ours. Please don’t use it without asking us first.

Licenses and Hyperlinks

Feel free to link to The Datevine, highlight a tip of the week on your site, whatever. But if you do, please have the courtesy to credit us for the tip, include our logo on any page showing our content, and don’t run ads alongside our content. Please also don’t associate The Datevine with illegal or objectionable material. Thanks.

Tips and Comments content

We want to make sure the data submitted to The Datevine is accurate, and clean, and useful to the community. Though we do not actively moderate submissions, we reserve, in our sole discretion, the right to (but not the obligation to) modify, or, subsequent to publication, to delete, or edit any tip or comment that we feel is inappropriate for the site. Inappropriate material includes:

- Illegal content: material the user doesn’t have the legal right to post, content that is obscene, and content that defames someone.
- Spam: this will be deleted outright.
- Inaccurate or misleading content: any content that clearly is useless (e.g. a tip suggesting you visit the Empire State Building in Paris) may be edited for accuracy or deleted altogether.
- Incomprehensible content: content that is so poorly written that it is completely nonsensical and useless to The Datevine community. If we can edit it into some sense, we'll try!
- Irrelevant tip content: questions, feedback or comments, which should be sent to support @ thedatevine.com, are not appropriate tip submissions.

If you think a tip is bad, please flag it for attention and we will review it.

Formal Content Complaints

If you believe that someone else plagiarized you or posted content on The Datevine.com that infringes upon your copyright, or is defamatory or libellous, let us know with an email to support @ thedatevine.com, including the following information:

• Your name and mailing address
• Your email address and phone number so we can contact you (state preferred method; we prefer email)
• The URL of the tip that you are complaining about
• A description of what’s wrong with it
• A statement under penalty of perjury that you claim copyright in the content in question

We’ll investigate, and if necessary, delete the tip and, if the tipster is a repeat offender, and doesn’t respond to rational words of warning, we’ll close his or her account.

Other legals like Warranties and Disclaimers

This legal stuff is all too much. We’re giving you some ideas for great dates. We are not promising that you *will* have a great time, that she’ll like you, that you’ll get to kiss her (or more), or that flying her to Iceland for a night in the Ice Hotel is the best use of your time and money. So don’t get mad with us if it doesn’t work out. That’s basically our way of saying that you can’t say you are relying on our tips for anything more than what they are: tips on how to have a good time. Which means you can’t sue us if the date doesn’t work out, and you can’t say that you acted on a tip and something bad happened to you and that that’s our fault. It sounds negative to say it, but apparently we have to disclaim that the site is fit for any purpose than what we’ve already said on here. So, basically, caveat emptor. You get the message.

There’s a lot of other legal things we should apparently be saying here, but since this is just a beta, we’ll leave it at that for the moment. If you check back in a few months, I am sure this section will be much longer than it is now.

Questions and Comments

If you have any questions or comments about our Terms of Use, please send us an email at questions @ thedatevine.com.