1: OBJECT
These Terms and Conditions of Use (the "Terms of Use") shall govern the use of the services proposed by BuddiesDen located at www.BuddiesDen.com and the legal rights and obligations of the users (collectively, "The User").
Before using any services of the site, the User must read and accept the BuddiesDen Terms of Use by checking on ‘I agree to the BuddiesDen Terms of Use’ checkbox on registration page

2: DEFINITIONS
- Members: All the persons that are registered with BuddiesDen.com and who have free access to the Services.

- Visitors: All the persons that are not registered with the Site yet and who can't use the Services.
- Services: All the online applications that enable the Member to post content on the site such as text, graphics, images, sound or messages, for which BuddiesDen.com assures the storage.

3: CONDITIONS OF REGISTRATION
The registration with the site is free and open to all.
In order to become the Member of the Site, one has to fill out the registration form beforehand.
When filling out the registration form, the Member must acknowledge that he will need to provide some personal information such as, name, school, email, city, date of birth, which will be kept highly confidential.
In addition, the Member will need to provide BuddiesDen.com with his professional position, his date of birth, sex and choose a username and a password that will be required to sign in to the site and access BuddiesDen services.

The Member agrees to provide truthful and accurate information in the registration form.
Once these steps are completed, one has to click << Submit >>.
If the information provided is correct, the Member will receive an email confirming that the registration was taken into account.
In order to validate the registration and activate the account, the User will have to go to the URL sent by email by clicking on the specified link.
Once the validation is complete, the Member becomes a full member of the site and can begin using all of its Services.

4: PERSONAL PAGE
BuddiesDen enables Members to send and receive messages on their personal page.
The personal page is an online tool of communication with the public edited by the Member where BuddiesDen doesn't exercise any control over the content whatsoever.
Therefore it is the responsibility of the Member who created the personal page to supervise the content published on his personal page.
For this purpose, the Member should be aware that alert links on the site are at his disposal.

The Member is fully responsible for the messages he posts and content he submits to his personal page and BuddiesDen.com only takes the responsibility for the storage.
As a consequence he has to act responsibly and to notably commit oneself:
-Not to publish on one's personal page or other personal pages messages that are insulting, defamatory, containing pornographic or pedophilic content, terrorist threats , crimes against humanity, promoting violence or racism,
- Immediately delete all the messages of this nature that are posted on the personal page and swiftly inform BuddiesDen.com, through the links of alerts that are at one's disposal on the site,
- Not to solicit any information that concerns the personal life of or contains personal information about other people,
- Respect the rights of others and notably the rights of authors,
- In all circumstances maintain moderate, polite and non-offensive language,
- Not to embrace subjects that are discriminatory against race, ethnicity or religion of other Members or of any person,
- Not to post messages that are of pedophilic or pornographic nature.
The Member can delete the message that he posts on his personal page at any moment by following the instructions on the Site.
Furthermore, messages that are insulting, defamatory, containing violence, pedophilic or pornographic content, justifying terrorist threats or war crimes, crimes against humanity, promoting violence or racism, when brought to the attention of BuddiesDen.com, will be immediately deleted and will be referred to the judiciary authorities.
The Member, the author of this message, will be immediately expelled from the site and have his membership terminated.

5: TALK
This area is meant to enable the Member to contribute to the discussions proposed on the Site.
The Member can freely converse in different sections of the forum.
The Member should be aware that BuddiesDen.com is not in a position to check all the content of every message before its publishing and proceeds only one kind of control a posteriori of them, by the means of voluntary moderators placed in each section of the forum, who are in charge of alerting the unlawful messages.
Therefore, the Member is advised to respect at all times the principles declared below that have value of a charter and that he explicitly agrees by accepting the Terms of Use, the Member commits:
-Not to post messages that are insulting, defamatory, containing violence, pedophilic or pornographic, justifying terrorist threats or war crimes , crimes against humanity, or promoting violence or racism,
- Immediately alert BuddiesDen.com of all the messages of this nature that are posted on the talk by sending an e-mail at info[at]buddiesden.com,
- Not to solicit any information that concerns the personal life of or contains personal information about other people,
- Respect the rights of others and notably the rights of authors,
- In all circumstances behave with respect towards the other Members. Be polite and non-offensive,
- Not to embrace subjects that are discriminatory against race, ethnicity or religion of other Members or any person,
- Contribute to the prevention of all the unlawful content and conduct interactions in a responsible and mature manner.
The Member can delete the message that he posts on the forum at any moment by following the instructions on the Site.
Furthermore, messages that are insulting, defamatory, containing violence, pedophilic or pornographic, justifying terrorist threats or war crimes, crimes against humanity, promoting violence or racism, when brought to the attention of BuddiesDen.com, will be immediately deleted and will be referred to the judiciary authorities.
The Member, the author of this message, will be immediately expelled from the site and his membership terminated.

6: USE AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The personal information collected is to enable the identification of the persons that wish to use the services proposed by the Site.
The Member has the right of access, modification, correction and deletion of his personal information.
BuddiesDen.com will store the provided information over the period that will not exceed 3 years following the termination of the Member's account.
BuddiesDen.com assures the privacy of the provided information.
This obligation ceases in case of judiciary requisitioning.
The Member should be aware that the site uses the navigation cookies that save on the Member's computer the information concerning the navigation on the site that is transmitted to BuddiesDen.com during the visit.
None of those cookies collect the personal information of the User.
The period of the cookies storage on the Member computer can't exceed 3 months and the User can deactivate or delete the cookies at any time by using the navigation options.
Once registered on the site, the Member authorizes BuddiesDen.com to send information about promotional offers from partners by email. The Member keeps the possibility to opt-out of receiving promotional newsletters at anytime.

7: BUDDIESDEN.COM RESPONSIBILITIES
BuddiesDen.com takes all the necessary measures to assure the security of the User and, notably, to pursue active policy preventing and deleting the unlawful content.
BuddiesDen commits:
- To enable the Member to report unlawful content and take immediate action against it.
- Remove from the Site or make the access impossible of all the unlawful content that was brought to the Site's attention.
- Inform immediately the authorities of all the unlawful content defined in the articles aforementioned that the Site will have knowledge of.
However, as a host, BuddiesDen.com is generally not obliged to supervise the content published on the Site.
The Member is solely responsible for using the proposed Services and of the content he publishes on the Site.
BuddiesDen.com is not responsible for the content published on the Site.
In like manner, BuddiesDen.com is not responsible for the content published on the other sites whose hypertext links are sent on the Site.
Furthermore, even if BuddiesDen.com takes all the necessary measures to assure the confidentiality of the information transmitted by the Member, it is not responsible (and will not be held liable) for the automatic use of the information in case of the intrusion and, as a result, disclosure of confidential information.

8: MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
The Member commits to civil and criminal responsibility if he commits one of the actions mentioned below :
-Attempt to access the automatic data processing system,
-Abuse the rights of a third party and notably the rights of authors and ownership of their assets,
-Advocating violence and racial hatred,
-Libel, threats and offenses,
-Publishing images of pedophilic and /or pornographic nature,
-Justifying war crimes and /or crimes against humanity
-Provocation of suicide,
-Soliciting information about the personal life of another person,
-All actions that endanger the health, security and morality of a minor,
- False declaration of one's identity,
-Attempt to access the confidentiality of correspondence.
The Member is reminded that intrusion and fraudulent behavior in the automatic data processing system is punishable by.
Additionally, if the aforementioned actions are committed by a minor, the civil responsibility will be placed on his parents or legal guardians.

9: CHANGES TO THE TERMS OF USE
Updates to and modifications of The present Terms of Use will be brought to the Member's attention by sending an email to the Member.
Nonetheless the Member should regularly consult the Terms of Use on his own initiative.
It is agreed, that these Terms of Use will be applicable to the Member continuing to use the proposed services on the Site, 30 days after publishing them online.