Terms of Service

Revision date: January 01, 2008

All services provided by The Hive ("Cherubi", etc) may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States federal, state or city law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, or material protected by trade secret and other statute. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Cherubi from any claims resulting from the use of service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Prohibited are sites that promote any illegal activity or present content that may be damaging to Cherubi's servers, or any other server on the Internet. Links to such materials are also prohibited.

Examples of unacceptable content or links: Pirated software, hacking or cracking, programs or archives, warez sites, child pornography, or anything that may hinder the services of Cherubi or other businesses or web sites.

NOTICE: IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS FOUND TO CONTAIN ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, ILLEGAL MP3 FILES, PIRATED SOFTWARE, HACKING OR CRACKING PROGRAMS, WAREZ, OR ANY OTHER ILLEGAL FILES OR PHOTOGRAPHS, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY, WITHOUT NOTICE. ADDITIONALLY, CHERUBI WILL NOTIFY THE PROPER AUTHORITIES OF YOUR ACTIONS.

Refusal of Service

We reserve the right to refuse, cancel or suspend service, at our sole discretion. All sub-networks, distributive hosting sites and dedicated servers of Cherubi must adhere to the above policies, with the exception of system resources in respect to dedicated servers.

General Rules

All registered users must agree to the following:

To not use the service to harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of other users.
To not use the site in an unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair Cherubi or its web sites.
To not use automated scripts to collect, archive, or otherwise interact with Cherubi or its web sites.
To not upload, transmit, share, store, or otherwise make available any threatening material, or otherwise material that promotes or enables illegal activities.
To not have more than one account per individual.
To not use the service to transmit, upload, share, or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, spam, chain letters, and so forth.
To not use scripts or programs, or promote said scripts or programs, that will hinder Cherubi's advertisements or ability to communicate with users.
To not use the service to harass or intimidate other users.

Cherubi has the right to remove an account or content without prior notification for violating the above rules or anything else contained within this Terms of Use document or in its own right.

Limitation of Liability

Cherubi shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental and consequential damages, which may arise from Cherubi's servers going off-line or being unavailable for any reason whatsoever. Furthermore, Cherubi shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental or consequential damages, resulting from the corruption or deletion of any web site from one of Cherubi's servers. All damages shall be limited to the immediate termination of service.

Violations

Violations of these Terms of Use should be referred to report abuse page. All complaints will be investigated promptly. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation.

Disclaimer

Cherubi cannot be held liable for system down time, crashes or data loss. We cannot be held liable for any predicated estimate of profits which a client would have gained if their site was functioning. Moreover, Cherubi holds no responsibility for the use of our clients' accounts. Failure to comply with any terms or conditions will result in the automatic deactivation of the account in question. We reserve the right to remove any account, without advance notice for any reason without restitution, as Cherubi sees fit.

Account Activation

By activating your account with Cherubi, you agree to the above policies and disclaimer. Upon requesting activation of an account, you are required to accept these policies, guidelines and disclaimer, and a copy of your acceptance is forwarded along with your activation request to be maintained with your account information.