It is important that you read these terms and conditions before registering as a member of Homolicious. The Terms and Conditions are a legally binding contract between you and Homolicious, so you should only join Homolicious if you have read them and are content to be bound by them. You MUST not join Homolicious if any part of the site is illegal in the country in which you live.

In these terms and conditions, ‘you’ and ‘yours’ means the member and user of Homolicious. ‘We’, ‘our’ and ‘us’ means Homolicious.com. ‘The web site’ means the Homolicious / homolicious.com web site.

1. Age restrictions: Homolicious is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender international information, listings, and social networking web site. Homolicious is for adults aged 18 or over only. By joining Homolicious, you promise that you are aged 18 or over and that you will not allow access to Homolicious by anybody under the age of 18. While we cannot guarantee to vet the age of everyone registering as a member of Homolicious, anyone who we suspect pretends to be over 18 when they are not, or who uses Homolicious to try to make contact with people under 18, will not be allowed to use Homolicious and all information about them will be removed from the web site immediately.

2. Sexually explicit content: Homolicious may contain content that is sexually explicit and if this might offend you, you should not join Homolicious. We will only agree to remove content that is offensive if it is in breach of our content policy and we are not liable for any offence caused. Members must not post photos on their profile that feature full frontal nudity.

3. Membership: Membership of Homolicious is free of charge. Membership entitles you to make limited use of the Homolicious web site. We promise that we will never make any charge to your credit or debit card without your explicit consent. You can terminate your membership of Homolicious at any time, but if you do, we will not be under any obligation to refund any fees you have paid to Homolicious.

4. Password confidentiality: When registering as a Silver or Gold member of Homolicious, you will be asked to choose a password and name. These will enable you to log in to the Homolicious site and make use of the members’ facilities there. You promise to keep your password confidential. We will not be liable if as a result of misuse or carelessness your password has been used by someone else.

5. Safeguarding your security: When registering, you will be asked to give us your full name, date of birth, e-mail address, and home address. We promise that we will not post these details on the Homolicious web site. We also promise that we will not pass your personal details on to anyone else, including other companies; and that we will take all reasonable steps to protect your personal details from being obtained by anyone else for whatever purpose. We promise that we will comply with our obligations under the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 concerning information that we hold about you. You promise to inform us immediately if you suspect that someone has made any unauthorised use of your password, has interfered with your profile, or if you suspect there has been any other breach of security concerning your profile, personal details, or password.

6. Using Homolicious – you promise that:

a. You will not upload, send, store, or create links to any offensive or Illegal Material and that you will not use Homolicious to unfairly or unlawfully discriminate against any other person on the grounds of their gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, physical ability, age or class

b. You will not create more than one profile on the web site, unless you are responsible for a business listed on Homolicious, in which case you may have a personal profile on Homolicious and a separate profile of your business

c. The information that you give about yourself is true and that you will not impersonate any other person. You will not upload onto your profile any material of which you are not the originator and which is subject to copyright, or about which you do not own the intellectual property

d. You will not use offensive, obscene or insulting language about anyone else on the web site

e. You will not use the site for advertising or promoting products, services, goods, political or religious causes; for sending chain letters or for pyramid selling

f. You will not transmit to Homolicious or any other Homolicious member any files that contain worms, viruses, Trojans, or other potentially harmful content

g. You will respect copyright concerning Homolicious content and will not copy Homolicious content or software. You may copy small amounts of information from Homolicious, including photos, onto your hard disc or print them off; as long as this is for your own private use only and not for publication or reproduction on another web site

h. You will not attempt to interfere with Homolicious software, security provisions, another member’s profile, or any other part of the web site to which you do not have legitimate access

i. You will inform us of any abuses of Homolicious, or any breaches of these terms and conditions, that you suspect or encounter

j. You will indemnify us against any claims, liabilities and costs that occur if you breach any of these terms and conditions.

7. Our response to any breaches of these terms and conditions: to safeguard everyone’s enjoyment of the facilities Homolicious provides, we may, if these terms and conditions are breached:

a. remove a member’s profile or material from that profile, at our discretion

b. remove a member’s profile or material from that profile if it might subject us to liability or be illegal, or if it is in breach of any part of these terms and conditions

c. cancel a membership, without making any refund, if we believe you have breached these terms or conditions or exposed us to any liability

d. Intercept or copy any messages between members if we suspect these might breach these terms and conditions

e. Report to the police any evidence of criminal activity being promoted or conducted via Homolicious.

8. Amending these terms and conditions: we reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions at any time. If we do so, we will publicise changes on the Homolicious web site.

9. Liability for viruses, worms etc: you should maintain up to date virus protection software. We promise that we will take all reasonable steps to protect members from viruses, worms, Trojans etc being transmitted via the Homolicious web site. However, we cannot accept any liability for damage to your computer or software caused by harmful files downloaded via the Homolicious web site.

10. Downtime: we will keep any downtime to the absolute minimum required for essential maintenance of Homolicious software and hardware. We will give members reasonable notice of any anticipated downtime for maintenance. We will not accept liability for any loss of members’ enjoyment or facility as a result of downtime. This applies whether it is planned; or unplanned as a result of software difficulties, hardware breakdown, interruptions in services provided by contractors, or emergencies.

11. Liability for site content and links: we make all reasonable efforts to maintain the accuracy of information on Homolicious but we cannot be held liable for the quality, completeness or accuracy of information on the website, whether this is posted by us or by members. We advise you to check the reliability of the information yourself before you rely on it. Nor can we accept any liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of information derived from the web site. We cannot accept any liability for any inaccurate or misleading information contained in other web sites to which there are links from Homolicious. We encourage members of Homolicious to post their own reviews and feedback about places on the web site. We do not control the content of what is posted by members. Views expressed by members are not necessarily our views.

12. Monitoring of site content: we reserve the right to monitor the content of profiles, reviews, messages etc on Homolicious, and to remove any content that appears potentially illegal or which may be in breach of these terms and conditions.