Terms of Use – The Armenian Social Network

Welcome to the Armenian Social Network!

These Terms of Use (or “Terms”) govern your use of the Armenian Social Network, except where we expressly state that separate terms (and not these) apply, and provide information about the Armenian Social Network Service (the “Service”), outlined below. When you create an Armenian Social Network account or use the Armenian Social Network, you agree to these Terms.

The Armenian Social Network Service is provided to you by Tun Online Armenian School. These Terms of Use therefore constitute an agreement between you and Tun Online Armenian School.

The Armenian Social Network Service

We agree to provide you with the Armenian Social Network Service. The Service includes all of the Armenian Social Network products, features, applications, services, technologies and software that we provide to advance our mission: To strengthen and build the Armenian culture. The Service is made up of the following aspects:

Offering personalised opportunities to create, connect, communicate, discover and share. Features to help you create, connect, share, grow your presence and communicate with people on and off The Armenian Social Network, for the purpose of making new friends, improving your speaking proficiency, building business connections and discovering how other Armenians live.
Fostering a positive, inclusive and safe environment.
We develop and use tools and offer resources to our community members that help to make their experiences positive and inclusive. We also have teams and systems that work to combat abuse and breaches of our Terms and policies, as well as harmful and deceptive behaviour. We use all the information we have – including your information – to try to keep our platform secure. We may also share information about misuse or harmful content with law enforcement. Learn more in the Privacy Policy.
Providing consistent and seamless experiences across other Meta Company Products.
The Armenian Social Network is part of Tun Online Armenian School, which means we share technology, systems, insights and information, including the information that we have about you (learn more in the Privacy Policy) in order to provide services that are better, safer and more secure. We also provide ways to interact across both products, such as a single login, and have designed systems to achieve a seamless and consistent experience for you.
Ensuring access to our Service.
To operate our global Service, we must store and transfer data across our systems around the world, including outside of your country of residence. The use of this global infrastructure is necessary and essential to provide our Service. This infrastructure may be owned or operated by Tun Online Armenian School or their affiliates.
Connecting you with brands, products and services in ways that you care about.
We use data from The Armenian Social Network and Tun Online Armenian School, as well as from third-party partners, to show you ads, offers and other sponsored content that we believe will be meaningful to you. And we try to make that content as relevant as all your other experiences on The Armenian Social Network.
Research and innovation.
We use the information we have to study our Service and collaborate with others on research to make our Service better and contribute to the well-being of our community.

How our Service is funded

You can choose either a free, or paid membership with the Armenian Social Network. The paid membership includes premium features, such as video chat.

By using the Service covered by these Terms, you acknowledge that we can show you ads that businesses and organisations pay us to promote on and off the Armenian Social Network.

We show you relevant and useful ads without telling advertisers who you are. We don’t sell your personal data. We allow advertisers to tell us things such as their business goal and the kind of audience they want to see their ads. We then show their ad to people who might be interested.

We also provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads to help them understand how people are interacting with their content on and off The Armenian Social Network. For example, we provide general demographic and interest information to advertisers to help them better understand their audience. We don’t share information that directly identifies you (information such as your name or email address that by itself can be used to contact you or identifies who you are) unless you give us specific permission.

You may see branded content on The Armenian Social Network posted by account holders who promote products or services based on a commercial relationship with the business partner mentioned in their content.

The Privacy Policy

Providing our Service requires collecting and using your information. The Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and share information. It also explains the many ways in which you can control your information. You must agree to the Privacy Policy to use The Armenian Social Network.

Your commitments

In return for our commitment to provide the Service, we require you to make the below commitments to us.

You must be at least 18 years old or the minimum legal age in your country to use The Armenian Social Network.
You must not be prohibited from receiving any aspect of our Service under applicable laws or engaging in payments-related Services if you are on an applicable denied party listing.
We must not have previously disabled your account for violation of law or any of our policies.
You must not be a convicted sex offender.
You will not impersonate others or provide inaccurate information.
You don’t have to disclose your identity on The Armenian Social Network, but you must provide us with accurate and up-to-date information (including registration information), which may include providing personal data. Also, you may not impersonate someone or something you aren’t, and you can’t create an account for someone else unless you have their express permission.
You will not do anything unlawful, misleading or fraudulent or for an illegal or unauthorised purpose.
You will not violate (or help or encourage others to violate) these Terms or our policies.
You will not do anything to interfere with or impair the intended operation of the Service.
This includes misusing any reporting, dispute or appeals channel, such as by making fraudulent or groundless reports or appeals.
You will not attempt to create accounts or access or collect information in unauthorised ways.
This includes creating accounts or collecting information in an automated way without our express permission.
You will not copy, sell, license or purchase any account or data obtained from us or our Service.
This includes attempts to buy, sell or transfer any aspect of your account (including your username); solicit, collect or use login credentials or badges of other users; or request or collect The Armenian Social Network usernames, passwords or misappropriate access tokens.

You will not trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords.
You will not circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Services and/or the Content contained therein.
You will not disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Services.
You will not use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
You will not post, send, publish, upload, or transmit through the Services any Submission nor post any Contribution that is illegal, harassing, hateful, harmful, defamatory, obscene, bullying, abusive, discriminatory, threatening to any person or group, sexually explicit, false, inaccurate, deceitful, or misleading;
You will not make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
You will not engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
You will not post someone else’s private or confidential information without permission or do anything that violates someone else’s rights, including intellectual property rights (e.g. copyright infringement, trademark infringement, counterfeit or pirated goods).
You may use someone else’s works under exceptions or limitations to copyright and related rights under applicable law. You represent that you own or have obtained all necessary rights to the content you post or share.
You will not modify, translate, create derivative works of or reverse-engineer our products or their components.
You will not use a domain name or URL in your username without our prior written consent.
The Services are not tailored to comply with industry-specific regulations (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), etc.), so if your interactions would be subjected to such laws, you may not use the Services. You may not use the Services in a way that would violate the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA).

Permissions you give to us. As part of our agreement, you also give us permissions that we need to provide the Service.

We do not claim ownership of your content, but you grant us a licence to use it.
We do not claim ownership of your content that you post on or through the Service. However, we need certain legal permissions from you (known as a “licence”) to provide the Service. When you share, post or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights (such as photos or videos) on or in connection with our Service, you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide licence to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings). This licence will end when your content is deleted from our systems. You can delete content individually or all at once by deleting your account.
You agree that we can download and install updates to the Service on your device.

Additional rights we retain

If you select a username or similar identifier for your account, we may change it if we believe it is appropriate or necessary (for example, if it infringes someone’s intellectual property or impersonates another user).
If you use content covered by intellectual property rights that we have and make available in our Service (for example, images, designs, videos or sounds we provide that you add to content you create or share), we retain all rights to our content (but not yours).
You can only use our intellectual property and trademarks or similar marks as expressly permitted with our prior written permission.
You must obtain written permission from us or under an open-source licence to modify, create derivative works of, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us.
You are solely responsible for the submissions and/or contributions you make on the Armenian Social Network and you expressly agree to reimburse us for any and all losses that we may suffer because of your breach of (a) this contract, (b) any third party’s intellectual property rights, or (c) applicable law.
We may remove or edit your Content: Although we have no obligation to monitor any Contributions, we shall have the right to remove or edit any Contributions at any time without notice if in our reasonable opinion we consider such Contributions harmful or in breach of these Legal Terms. If we remove or edit any such Contributions, we may also suspend or disable your account and report you to authorities.

Content removal and disabling or terminating your account

We can remove any content or information that you share on the Service if we believe that it violates these Terms of Use, our policies, or we are permitted or required to do so by law. We can refuse to provide or stop providing all or part of the Service to you (including terminating or disabling your account) immediately to protect our community or services, or if you create risk or legal exposure for us, violate these Terms of Use or our policies, if you repeatedly infringe other people’s intellectual property rights or where we are permitted or required to do so by law. We can also terminate or change the Service, remove or block content or information shared on our Service or stop providing all or part of the Service if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts on us. If we take action to disable or terminate your account, we will notify you where appropriate.
Content that you delete may persist for a limited period of time in backup copies and will still be visible where others have shared it. This paragraph, and the section below called “Our agreement and what happens if we disagree”, will still apply even after your account is terminated or deleted.

Our agreement and what happens if we disagree

Our agreement.

If any aspect of this agreement is unenforceable, the rest will remain in effect.
Any amendment or waiver to our agreement must be in writing and signed by us. If we fail to enforce any aspect of this agreement, it will not be a waiver.
We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

Who has rights under this agreement.

This agreement does not give rights to any third parties.
You cannot transfer your rights or obligations under this agreement without our consent.
Our rights and obligations can be assigned to others. For example, this could occur if our ownership changes (as in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets) or by law.

Who is responsible if something happens.

Our Service is provided “as is”, and we can’t guarantee that it will be safe and secure or will work perfectly all the time. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE ALSO DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
We also don’t control what people and others do or say, and we aren’t responsible for their (or your) actions or conduct (whether online or offline) or content (including unlawful or objectionable content). We also aren’t responsible for services and features offered by other people or companies, even if you access them through our Service.
Our responsibility for anything that happens on the Service (also called “liability”) is limited as much as the law will allow. You agree that we won’t be responsible (“liable”) for any lost profits, revenues, information or data, or consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms. This includes when we delete your content, information or account.

How we will handle disputes.

If you are a consumer, the laws of the country in which you reside will apply to any claim, cause of action or dispute that you have against us that arises out of or relates to these Terms (“claim”), and you may resolve your claim in any competent court in that country that has jurisdiction over the claim. In all other cases, you agree that the claim must be resolved exclusively in Australian courts, that you submit to the personal jurisdiction of these courts for the purpose of litigating any such claim, and that the laws of Australia, and more specifically, the state of New South Wales, will govern these Terms and any claim, without regard to conflict of law provisions. Without prejudice to the foregoing, you agree that, in its sole discretion, we may also bring any claim that we have against you related to efforts to abuse, interfere or engage with our products in unauthorised ways in the country in which you reside that has jurisdiction over the claim.

Unsolicited material.

We always appreciate feedback or other suggestions, but may use them without any restrictions or obligation to compensate you for them, and are under no obligation to keep them confidential.

Updating these Terms

We may change our Service and Policies, and we may need to make changes to these Terms so that they accurately reflect our Service and Policies

Supplemental terms and conditions or documents that may be posted on the Services from time to time are hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to make changes or modifications to these Legal Terms from time to time. We will alert you about any changes by updating the ‘Last updated’ date of these Legal Terms, and you waive any right to receive specific notice of each such change. It is your responsibility to periodically review these Legal Terms to stay informed of updates. You will be subject to, and will be deemed to have been made aware of and to have accepted, the changes in any revised Legal Terms by your continued use of the Services after the date such revised Legal Terms are posted.

You have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your Contributions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.

PAYMENT TERMS

We may offer products and services for purchase (“Purchase”). If you choose to make an Purchase, you acknowledge and agree that additional terms, disclosed to you at the point of purchase, may apply, and that such additional terms are incorporated herein by reference.

You may make a Purchase through the following payment methods (“Payment Method”): (a) making a purchase through a third-party such as the ApplePay and Google Pay (“Third Party”), or (b) paying with your credit card, debit card, or PayPal account, which will be processed by a third-party processor. Once you have made a Purchase, you authorise us to charge your chosen Payment Method. If payment is not received by us from your chosen Payment Method, you agree to promptly pay all amounts due upon demand by us.

Subscriptions and Auto-Renewal: We may offer some services as automatically-renewing subscriptions. IF YOU PURCHASE AN AUTOMATICALLY RENEWING SUBSCRIPTION, YOUR SUBSCRIPTION WILL RENEW AT THE END OF THE PERIOD, UNLESS YOU CANCEL, AT THE THEN-CURRENT PRICE FOR SUCH SUBSCRIPTIONS.

To avoid charges for a new subscription period, you must cancel, as described below, before the end of the then-current subscription period.

Canceling Subscriptions. If you purchased a subscription directly from us, you may cancel or change your Payment Method via your user portal. If you purchased a subscription through a Third Party, you may need to access your account with that Third Party and follow their instructions to change or cancel your subscription. If you cancel your subscription, you may use your subscription until the end of the period you last paid for, but (i) you will not (except as set forth in the subsection entitled “Refunds” below) be eligible for a prorated refund, (ii) your subscription will not be renewed when that period expires and (iii) you will then no longer be able to use the Premium Services or Purchases enabled by your subscription.

Because our Services may be utilised without a paid subscription, cancelling your subscription will not necessarily remove your profile from our Services. If you wish to fully terminate your account, you must complete this as a separate step.

TERMINATION AND REMEDIES

These Terms commence on the date you accept them (as described in the preamble) and continue until terminated in accordance with the terms herein.

In the event that we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have breached any portion of these Terms, have misused the App, or have otherwise demonstrated conduct which we regard as inappropriate or unlawful (whether on or off the App), we reserve the right to: (a) warn you via email (to any email addresses you have provided to us) that you have violated the Terms; (b) delete your User Content; (c) discontinue your Account; (d) discontinue your subscription(s) without refund; (e) notify and/or send your User Content to and/or fully cooperate with the proper law enforcement authorities for further action; and/or (f) pursue to any other action which we deem to be appropriate. You agree that all terminations for cause shall be made in our sole discretion and that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your Account.

Termination of these Terms or your Account includes the removal of access to your Account, and all related information and content associated with or inside your Account.

If your account is terminated by you or by us for any reason, all provisions of these Terms which by their nature should survive, shall survive termination of these Terms, including, without limitation, the Arbitration Agreement, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers and limitation of liability. Your information will be maintained and deleted in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

PAYMENT AND REFUNDS POLICY

Digital and subscription products are exempt from returns or refunds, due to their nature. However, customer satisfaction is important to us, so please contact us if you have any issues or concerns, and we will do our best to remedy them for you.

Please be aware that if you subscribe to services for a term (the “Initial Term”), then the terms of your subscription will be automatically renewed for additional periods of the same duration as the Initial Term at the then-current fee for such services, unless you cancel your subscription.

If you cancel your paid subscription, you will continue to have access to the Service until your next renewal date. If you fail to make payment for your paid subscription, your access will be revoked immediately, until such time as payment has been made.

MISCELLANEOUS

These Terms, which we may amend from time to time, constitute the entire agreement between you and us. The Terms supersede all previous agreements, representations and arrangements between us (written or oral), excluding the Privacy Policy. Nothing in this clause shall limit or exclude any liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

We have taken reasonable steps to ensure the currency, availability, correctness and completeness of the information contained on the Armenian Social Network and provides that information on an “as is”, “as available” basis. We do not give or make any warranty or representation of any kind about the information contained on the Armenian Social Network, whether express or implied. Use of the Armenian Social Network and the materials available on it is at your sole risk. We are not responsible for any loss arising from the transmission, use of data, or inaccurate Member Content.

You are responsible for taking all necessary precautions to ensure that any material you may obtain from the Armenian Social Network is free of viruses or other harmful components. You accept that the Armenian Social Network will not be provided uninterrupted or error free. We are not responsible for any damage to your computer hardware, computer software, or other equipment or technology including, but without limitation damage from any security breach or from any virus, bugs, tampering, fraud, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer line or network failure or any other technical or other malfunction.

The communications between you and us may take place via electronic means, whether you use the App or send emails, or whether we post notices in the App or communicate with you via email or social media. For contractual purposes, you (a) consent to receive communications from us in electronic form; and (b) agree that all terms and conditions, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy if it were to be in writing. The foregoing does not affect your statutory rights.

If, for any reason, any of the Terms are declared illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by a court of a competent jurisdiction, then to the extent that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from the Terms and the remainder of the Terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

No failure or delay in exercising any right, power or privilege under the Terms shall operate as a waiver of such right or acceptance of any variation of the Terms and nor shall any single or partial exercise by either party of any right, power or privilege preclude any further exercise of the right or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.

Effective date

The Terms were last updated on: August 10, 2023.