www.loveonline.co.nz is owned and operated by Riptide Communications Limited. This company is registered under New Zealand law and has it's registered offices in New Zealand. - Loveonline.co.nz provides services to people looking to find someone to share their lives with and get to know other people of either sex. - Loveonline.co.nz acts at all times as merely a passive conduit for you to distribute your profile information to others.-

Our terms and conditions include our privacy policy as listed on our home page and are designed to help us maintain a safe environment for everyone.

1.1 - Acceptance of terms and conditions

These terms and conditions are the terms on which Riptide Communications Ltd offers you access to the www.loveonline.co.nz services and web site. By registering as a member you accept these terms and conditions, as amended by us from time to time. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you must not use the services. Posting of a profile or any information or visual material posted by you or on your behalf will be deemed as you having read and accepted all the terms and conditions outlined in this section. -

1.2 - Amendment of terms and conditions

These terms and conditions may be amended in whole or in part by Riptide Communications Ltd as it sees fit. Amendments will be effective immediately upon posting of the amended terms and conditions on this web site. You are responsible for ensuring you are familiar with the current terms and conditions. Your continued access or use of the website shall be deemed to be evidence of your acceptance of any updates and changes.Your use of the services or this web site represents your agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions as amended. -

1.3 - Terminology

In these terms and conditions, the following expressions have the following meanings:"member" means any registered member of www.loveonline.co.nz including premium members."Loveonline/www.loveonline.co.nz / Riptide Communications Ltd", "we", "us", and "our" are references to Riptide Communications Limited

."profile" means the profile you submit to www.loveonline.co.nz from time to time.

"services" means any one or more of the services offered by Riptide Communications from time to time, including message boards and any other service that we may offer .

"you" and "your" are references to you the member.

"web site" means any www.loveonline.co.nz website through which the services are offered, including (without limitation) on behalf of Riptide Communications Limited.- 

2. - General Rules - 2.1 - You may not join this web site if: -

a. - You cannot form a legally binding contract. By registering as a member, you warrant to us that you can form a legally binding contract. In any case, you must be at least 18 years old to become a member. - b. - You have ever been convicted of a violent or sexually related criminal offence. - c. - You have previously been banned from using this website for whatever reason. - d. - You are directly or indirectly involved (in any capacity) in the operations of a service that competes with the services. - e. - You are currently in a marriage or long term relationship. - f. - You are not currently living in New Zealand although this is waived if you are temporarily out of the country.-

2.2 - Riptide Communications Limited utilises responsible and approved people to monitor profiles and photos. Without limiting any other remedies available to us, we reserve the right at any time to suspend or remove you, your profile and any content you submit from the web site at our sole discretion. If we do remove your profile or any content you submit we will not be liable to you in any way.-

3. - Specific warnings - 3.1 - You are solely and legally responsible for: - a. - the content and legality of all information contained in your profile; - b. - the content and legality of any material, including photos and messages, you post to or enter on the web site; - c. - all of your communications with and behaviour towards other members - d. - compliance with all applicable laws at all times when using the services and/or the web site or in circumstances arising out of your use of the services and/or the web site. This specifically also applies to the cross -content posted by or between members or posting on the blogs or groups.- Riptide Communications Limited is not responsible for any profile or other content posted or entered on the web site www.loveonline.co.nz - You should not include any identifying information or illegal or unlawful information in your profile. Riptide Communications Ltd will endeavour to oversee specifically any video or audio material posted by members on the Site but we will not be held responible for any outcomes be they legal or otherwise resulting from the posting by a member of such material irregardless of the nature of the said material -

Information you provide in your profile may be published through any of Riptide Communications Limited network of web sites if they develop such sites in the future.

We reserve the right to store any information you enter, even if deleted from tools provided on the web site. - 3.2 - You make contact with other members entirely at your own risk. You are legally responsible for your own actions. You agree that Riptide Communications Limited has no responsibility or liability for any actions by or of you or other members including, without limitation, members that have registered under false pretences or who attempt to defraud or harm you . Riptide Communications Limited is also not responsible for ensuring members comply with these terms and conditions. - 3.3 - You must not communicate with in any shape or form, or attempt to communicate with, any person who has indicated that he or she does not wish to communicate with you or to continue to communicate with you. - 3.4 - Riptide Communications Limited may be requested to assist in any prosecutions or other proceedings brought by members or third parties against other members and will do so if required by law or if we believe a member has breached our terms and conditions. You agree to us providing such assistance, including the release of any relevant information we may hold about you. - 3.5 - Members may not be who they say they are. Although we employ technology and staff to protect members, Riptide Communications Limited is unable to confirm that any member on this web site is who they say they are. You must therefore exercise caution when dealing with other members. As an Internet-based service, there are risks of members misrepresenting themselves or presenting themselves under false pretences. This can include misrepresentations about age, gender, marital status or any other attribute which we ask the member to provide when posting their profile. It is also possible that members from other countries will access this service. It may not be practically possible for Riptide Communications Limited to enforce these terms and conditions against such members. - 3.6 - Without limiting any right that we may have, we may, at our sole discretion, edit, modify, or delete content from your profile, delete any other content or material you have posted to the web-site, or suspend or cancel your membership if we believe that content entered creates, or may create, liability for Riptide Communications Limited or if we believe the information to be inappropriate or if we believe you have breached these terms and conditions. We are not liable to you if we exercise any of these rights, including cancellation of any type of membership. - 3.7 - Riptide Communications Limited reserves the right to decline to register or to suspend or terminate your membership without entering into further discussions with you. Without limiting the foregoing, we may terminate your membership if: - a. - a serious complaint or multiple complaints are received about you from other members, - b. - you breach these outlined terms and conditions, - c. - you impersonate another member, or - d. - if we, in our sole discretion, deem your behaviour to be unacceptable. -

Members who have registered under multiple aliases will have all of their aliases and profiles disabled and will be banned from any future membership. It is also to be understood by any person posting a profile that our website is designed for citizens of New Zealand only.

4. - Your obligations as a user and member - 4.1 - You will provide complete and accurate personal information when registering to use the service including your first names and surname. You will maintain your personal information as supplied to us to keep it true, accurate and complete at all times. Riptide Communications Limited reserves the right to contact you from time to time to verify your details. Failure to respond will result in banning from future membership and removal from www.loveonline.co.nz - 4.2 - You agree to comply with all applicable laws when using the services and dealing with other members. - 4.3 - You are responsible for keeping your password secret and secure. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree: - a. - not to permit any other person to use your user name and password; and - b. - not to disclose, or provide to any other person, your password.-

4.4 - You will not attempt to damage or harm the web site or the services. - 4.5 - You will not use the web site for commercial purposes or for the promotion of any business.Should you register as a member and then proceed to contact our existing member base to promote your own or another website, please be aware that your acceptance of our terms and conditions upon joining LoveOnline.co.nz as a member, makes you liable for payment to our parent company, the sum of ten thousand dollars(NZ10,000.00) should you be detected approaching our member base for such purposes as promotion of your site(s) or affiliated companies  - 4.6 - You will only interface with this website manually and through a web browser. You are not permitted to programmatically or otherwise automatically interface with this website. This includes "spidering" or interfacing for the purposes of harvesting information from this website. - 4.7 - You will not enter obscene, abusive, defamatory, threatening, harassing, illegal or objectionable material on the web site. This includes messages, images, the information in your profile or any other form of information that can be entered on the website (including communications with other members). Riptide Communications Limited will be the sole arbitrator of what is considered a breach of this obligation. Riptide Communication Limited reserves the right to refer such material to the relevant authorities to consider prosecution, or to assist other members in the prosecution of members. - 4.8 - Members accounts, including platinum members' accounts, are not transferable. - 4.9 - You must not use the www.loveonline.co.nz messaging system or message boards for the discussion of competing services or any illegal or unlawful activity. - 4.10 - You must not enter any contact or identifying information in your profile. This includes, but is not limited to, your email address, phone number, physical address, ICQ number. - 4.11 - You must not disclose any details of any other members or disclose personal information of others through the Loveonline message boards, messaging system or otherwise.-

5. - Fees and refunds - 5.1 - Riptide Communications Limited offers paid memberships to utilise www.loveonline.co.nz facilities . The fees specified on the web site are payable in advance and are non-refundable. Fees paid will not attract credit interest or other financial charges. In the event that you are removed from a website for breach of our terms and conditions or for any other reason, your remaining subscription will be lost and is not refundable. - 5.2 - The fees specified on the web site include all applicable taxes, including sales tax and consumption taxes such as goods and services tax (GST). - 5.3 - Riptide Communications Limited reserves the right to change the fees charged or introduce fees for any of the services at any time. If we introduce a new service, the fees for that service are effective at the launch of the service, unless otherwise stated.-

6. - Disclaimer

You expressly understand and agree that: - a. - Your use of the web site and the services is at your sole risk. Riptide Communications Limited and www.loveonline.co.nz expressly disclaims, to the maximum extent permitted by law, all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. - b. - Riptide Communications Limited makes no warranty, to the maximum extent permitted by law, that i) the services provided will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free, ii) the information provided on the web site is error-free or reliable, iii) the quality of any products or services obtained through the website will meet your requirements, or iv) members are who they say they are. - c. - No advice or information that is obtained by you from Riptide Communications Limited or otherwise shall create any warranty not expressly stated in the Terms and Conditions. - d. - Responsibility for the content of advertisements appearing on the web site (including hyperlinks to advertisers' own websites) rests solely with the advertisers. The placement of such advertisements on the web site does not constitute Riptide Communications Limited’s recommendation or endorsement of the advertised product or service. Each advertiser is solely responsible for any representation made in connection with its advertisement.-

7. - Limitation of Liability

You expressly understand and agree that: - a. - Riptide Communications Limited shall not be liable under any circumstances for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary loss or damages, including but not limited to damages for loss of profit, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses that result from the service, or the inability to access the service or services offered by Riptide Communications Limited or its website www.loveonline.co.nz - b. - Riptide Communications Limited shall not be liable for the cost of procurement of substitute goods or services resulting from services provided by Riptide Communications Limited. - c. - Riptide Communications Limited shall not be liable for the conduct or statements of members or third parties in relation to the service.-

8. - Indemnity

You agree to indemnify fully Riptide Communications Limited and www.loveonline.co.nz from and against all claims, liability, loss, costs and expenses (including the full amount of legal costs) incurred or suffered by Riptide Communications Limited and www.loveonline.co.nz in respect of or in connection with: - a. - information contained in your profile; - b. - any material, including (without limitation) photos and messages, you post to or enter on the web site; - c. - your communications with or behaviour towards other members; - d. - any death, or personal injury inflicted upon you or by you or any damage to your property or other property that you may cause; - e. - your breach of these terms and conditions or any applicable laws.-

9. - GENERAL PROVISIONS -

9.1 - System integrity

Riptide Communications Limited will use all its reasonable endeavours to ensure the availability of the web site and services, subject to any downtime required for maintenance. However, Riptide Communications Limited takes no responsibility for any system unavailability, or for any loss that is incurred as a result of web site or services being unavailable. Further, Riptide Communications Limited assumes no responsibility for the corruption of any data or information held by Riptide Communications Limited and it’s website www.loveonline.co.nz . -

9.2 - Resolution of disputes

As Riptide Communications Limited is not a party to any dispute between you and another member, you agree: - a. - not to involve, or attempt to involve, Riptide Communications Limited in any dispute or in the resolution of disputes that arise between you and another member as a result of the services provided; and - b. - not to use the services or web site to engage in or attempt to resolve the dispute.-

9.3 - Riptide Communications Limited message boards

Riptide Communications Limited provides message boards for use by members. The message boards may not be used to promote web sites or any commercial, business, illegal or unlawful activity. Riptide Communications Limited is not responsible for any of the opinions or other information expressed in the message boards. By posting a message to the message board you take full legal responsibility and liability for your comments, including for offensive or defamatory statements, and do accept and indemnify Riptide Communications Limited and www.loveonline.co.nz for any liability it may incur in relation to your comments.-

- 9.4 - Extra-curricular circumstances..acts of God

Riptide Communications Limited, the parent company of LoveOnline.co.nz and it's directors and staff has no liability either financially or circumstantially for any lack of performance, security breaches caused by software malfunction, unavailability or failure of the services or the web site, or for any failure of Riptide Communications Limited to comply with these terms and conditions where the same arises from any cause reasonably beyond the control of Riptide Communications Limited -

9.5 - No Waiver

If we do not exercise or enforce any right available to us under these terms and conditions, it does not constitute a waiver of those rights or provision. If any provision or part provision of these Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties intention as reflected in the provision and other provisions of these Terms remain in full force and effect. The section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. -

9.6 - Partial Invalidity

If any provision of these terms and conditions becomes or is held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason and in any respect, that provision shall be severed from the remaining terms and conditions, which shall continue in full force and effect. -

9.7 - Governing Law

These terms and conditions and your membership are governed by the laws of New Zealand. You submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of New Zealand. -

9.8 - Intellectual Property Rights

Riptide Communications Limited (and its licensors or suppliers, as the case may be) owns all intellectual property rights and other proprietary rights in the web site (including text, graphics, logos, icons and sound recordings) and the software and other material underlying and forming part of the services and the web site. You may not without our prior written permission, in any form or by any means: - a. - adapt, reproduce, copy, store, distribute, print, display, perform, publish or create derivative works from any part of the web site; or - b. - commercialise, copy or on-sell any information or items obtained from any part of the web site.You acknowledge that the content , organisation, graphics, design, compilation of, and other matters relating to , the site (collectively content) are or may be protected by copyright,trade marks or other proprietary rights and that these rights may extend to all forms of internet technologies existing now and into the future. You may not copy, modify, remove, delete, augment, publish, display, enter into a database, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from or otherwise exploit the Site or the Content otherwise than for your own personal non-commercial use and in accordance with the intent of these terms or as permitted under New Zealand law. You agree not to infringe any copyright or other intellectual property rights. Any material submitted by you to a public area of the Site will be deemed to be subject to a royalty-free perpetual license for us to use , modify, publish and distribute the material in any way or form.-

9.9 - Entire agreement

These terms and conditions, our privacy policy and the code of ethics supersede all previous conditions, understandings, commitments, agreements and representations whatsoever whether oral or written and constitute the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions. -

9.10 - Privacy

Please refer to our privacy policy on our HOME page . Riptide Communications Limited collects personal information about you through your use of the services and the web site, including: - a. - your registration details; and - b. - information relating to your use of the web site and the content you post and access. -

You agree that Riptide Communications Limited may use this personal information to assist us to provide the services to you, for internal research purposes, to verify your identity, for promoting and marketing other Riptide Communications Limited products and services to you, and for any other use that you authorise. If you select "show my photos to anyone" your profile or photo may also feature in potential www.loveonline.co.nz newsletters on and into the future. - We will not sell or allow third parties to access your personal information without your consent, however you agree that Riptide Communications Limited may disclose your personal information, including your name and contact details, to the relevant authorities if we consider that you are in breach of these terms and conditions at any time. -

9.11 - Emails and newsletters

Riptide Communications Limited will send you emails relating to your membership, transactions and other activities on the Website, and for promoting and marketing other Riptide Communications Limited products and services to you. These communications will be utilised very sparingly, with integrity and only relevant to the concept. Riptide Communications Limited may also send regular electronic newsletters to members. Newsletters will contain clear and obvious instructions for how you can unsubscribe from the mailing list. -

9.12Service Marks

You acknowledge that www.LoveOnline.co.nz and other identifying parts of the site content are service marks, trade marks or trade names proprietary to us, the parent company.- 

Riptide Communications Limited reserves the right to add to or amend these conditions as they see fit. These are the current conditions as of 13/01/2010. It is the responsibility of members to keep updated with any changes made to these terms and conditions even if no notification of said changes are notified to the member..Copyright notice. Copyright@2009 www.LoveOnline.co.nz

Posting of a profile on the www.loveonline.co.nz website will be deemed as proof and evidence that you have read and agreed to all the terms and conditions outlined in above charter. Thank you.....New Zealand's Love and Romance Dating Site - LoveOnline.co.nz