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Terms of Use Agreement  

Purpose:

Susie’s AlaskaMen is a magazine that is produced for the purpose of helping single men find their potential mates. The other related services of the AlaskaMen website, in which men and women who are single adults can communicate, can find potential mates and request matchmaking advice and help, are included in and are produced by Susie’s AlaskaMen Inc. With your use of AlaskaMen.net and its related user services, purchases, and related website AlaskaMen.com you will be bound by this Terms of Use Agreement.

Term:

The Terms of Use within this agreement are subject to change by Susie’s AlaskaMen at any time, whether or not you register as a member of AlaskaMen or any of its services. Please read these Terms of Use.

Acceptance: If you object to anything in this Agreement or AlaskaMen’s Privacy Policy, do not use the Website or any of the Services. Your acceptance of this Agreement is effective upon visitation to, or logging onto the AlaskaMen.net or AlaskaMen.com website, and you agree to accept any ongoing changes.

Age:

You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age and single to register as a member of any of the services of AlaskaMen in use of the Website. By using the AlaskaMen Website, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority and capacity to enter into this Agreement and you will be bound and abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

Costs:

When you register you will have the ability to participate in some, but not all, of the features and services available within the Service. In order to access additional features and services, including the ability to communicate with other Members, you must become a paying subscriber to the Service. Please go to the subscription services link for a description of the current subscription plans and their prices. Please note that the subscription guidelines are included in this Agreement. Please see the membership rules for billing and description of those billing procedures. For purposes of this Agreement the term “Member” includes subscribers of the services, unless where its usage in magazine subscriptions indicates otherwise. The company reserves the right to remove the profiles of anyone who may be offensive in their use of the website services.

Information:

Your member information must be accurate, current and complete. For your own privacy protection, Do Not include in your Member profile: any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses. Your use of the Service, including but not limited to the Content you post on the Service, must be in accordance with any and all applicable laws and regulations.

Rules:

You may not transmit any requests for money, bank information use, chain letters or junk email to other Members. We cannot oversee the conduct of individual member’s behavior off the Website. It is a violation of our rules and policies to use any information obtained from the Service in order to abuse, harass or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent.

Member Prohibitions:

Advertising to, or solicitation of, other Members is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: Any solicitation or advertising to buy or sell any products or services through the Service or to attend parties or other social functions or networking for commercial purposes. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, we reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which we deem appropriate in our sole discretion.

Term of Use:

This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use the Website and/or are a Member. You may terminate your membership and/or subscription at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Opt-Out link or by sending written notice of your intention to terminate your account to AlaskaMen, 205 E. Dimond Blvd. Suite 522, Anchorage, AK. 99515. Your membership will remain active until the period through which you had paid prior to your notice. AlaskaMen.com may end your membership and/or subscription by sending notice to you at the email address you provide in your application for membership, or any other email address as you may later provide to AlaskaMen. If your membership in the Service is discontinued because you have breached this Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund of unused fees.

Termination:

Any termination of membership, magazine, or service accounts shall be made in the sole discretion of Susie’s AlaskaMen or Susie Carter. They may review and delete any content, messages, double-blind emails, photos or profiles or any material that they feel might violate this Agreement or which might be in their opinion, offensive, illegal, might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of Members. It is not required that they provide you notice prior to terminating your membership and/or subscription, or from disclosing a reason for the termination of your account. Even after your membership or subscription is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect. All terms that by their nature may survive termination of this Agreement shall be deemed to survive such termination.

Member use:

The Website is for the personal use of individual Members only and may not be used by members in connection with any commercial endeavors. Organizations, companies, and/or businesses may not become Members and should not use the Service or the Website for any purpose. Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Website, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email and unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website may be investigated, and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation, civil, criminal, and injunctive redress. Utilizing any of the Website or Website services is with the permission of Susie’s AlaskaMen Inc. and Susie Carter, which may be revoked at any time, for any reason, in their sole discretion.

Member Responsibility:

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the username and password that you designate during the Registration process, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your username and password. You agree to immediately notify AlaskaMen.com of any unauthorized use of your username or password or any other breach of security, and you ensure that you will exit from your account at the end of each session. Liability for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this provision will be your responsibility. When accessing your account from a public or shared computer you should use particular caution so that others are not able to view or record your password or other personal information.

Member Contacts:

You are solely responsible in all ways for your contacts and interactions with other members. You understand that AlaskaMen.com does not in any way screen its membership, or inquire into the backgrounds of its membership, or attempt to verify the statements of the members. Never, send money requested by a member, or provide your financial information (for example, your credit card or bank account information) to other Members. Please take time to read our Privacy Policy and Using Common Sense.

Representations and Warranties:

Susie’s AlaskaMen Inc. or AlaskaMen.com makes no representations or warranties as to the conduct of Members or their compatibility with any current or future Members. In no way will Susie’s AlaskaMen Inc., AlaskaMen.com or Susie Carter be liable for any damages whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, general, special, compensatory, consequential, and/or incidental, arising out of or relating to the conduct of you or anyone else in connection with the use of the Service, including without limitation, bodily injury, emotional distress, and/or any other damages resulting from communications or meetings with other registered users of this Service or persons you meet through this Service. You agree to take reasonable precautions in all interactions with other Members of the Service, particularly if you decide to meet offline or in person. In addition, you agree to read over the Privacy Policy and Using Common Sense prior to using the services. Susie’s AlaskaMen Inc, AlaskaMen.com and Susie Carter make no guarantees, in any way shape or form regarding your compatibility with any individuals you meet through the services.

Trademarks, Proprietary Information, and copyrights:

The AlaskaMen.com website contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary material and information which are protected by copyright and Trademark Laws and are the property of their owners.  Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given written permission, you may not copy, modify, display, publish, transmit, adapt or in any way distribute, perform, display, or sell or exploit any such proprietary information.

Third Party Links:

We do not take responsibility for any other site links, advertising, or endorse their content or goods or services. We will not be held for any liability or responsibility for direct or indirect losses, or damages caused to you in any with your use of any of those goods or services or contacts.

Losses:

We will not be responsible for any unhappiness, loss of expectations, any mental or emotional problems, loss or damage resulting from reliance on information or other content on the Website or transmitted to or from any Members. We do not guarantee the members, what the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information from them on the Service.

Member’s Content Consent Use:

If you enter any content to AlaskaMen.com in any public area, you give your consent and represent and guarantee that you have the right to grant to Susie’s AlaskaMen and successors, an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, reproduce, adapt, modify and distribute such information and content. You also give all rights to prepare any articles, books, or derivative works, or to incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. In doing so you also represent and warrant that if you use any services or public postings on the website that use of your content by the website will not cause harm, infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

Members Content Responsibility:

Please remember that it is your total and sole responsibility for any content that you place, or post on the any of the website services. In addition, you will not post on the Service, or transmit to other Members, any false, or dishonest, inaccurate information to the website, company, or any member. Included in the list of unacceptable messages or postings are those that are: abusive, defamatory, harassing, of illegal content material, or any material that infringes or violates another party’s rights (including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, and rights of privacy and publicity), inaccurate, obscene, profane, offensive, racially offensive, sexually oriented, threatening, emotionally or that is physically upsetting.

Customer Service:

Please remember when communicating with our customer care representatives to be considerate, they are working hard to help you. Being abusive, obscene, profane, offensive, sexist, threatening, harassing, racially offensive, or in anyway behaving inappropriately is not acceptable and that if your behavior is at any time threatening or offensive, we reserve the right to immediately terminate your membership, disconnect the contact and you will not be entitled to any refund of unused subscription fees.

Shipping and Handling Policy

AlaskaMen magazines are shipped via US Postal Service by first class or Priority Mail from Anchorage, AK, Seattle, WA and Forgo, ND.

All orders will be shipped in 3-5 business days of receipt of request.

Merchandise shipping information is shown on the merchandise pages.

 

Using Good Sense

 

How many of you remember your mom telling you to use common sense? I sometimes wondered where the reference book was located in the library for “common sense”.

Since “common sense” seems to be different to all people depending on who they are and where they are, I thought I would spell it out just as if you were my kids.

My “common sense” has been acquired by 64 years of experience.

After twenty years working with men and women with AlaskaMen and prior to that my 28 years working with day care children, foster children, foster teens and my own always  enlightening family I feel qualified to write the book so that I can pass it all on to you.

 

1.      Do not mail your driver’s license to anyone because it has your photo on it. Trying to obligate someone into writing back to you cause they have to send back the I.D. is not smart. Protect your privacy; we are living in an age of identity theft and all manner of bad people.

 

 

2.      Do not lie about any of your information, especially marital status, age, hair, height, profession, being incarcerated, financial and education background. People do get upset when they find out the truth.

 

 

3.      Do not use anyone else’s photos for your profile.

 

 

4.      Do not post information in your profile or give out that would make you at risk.

 

 

5.      Be especially careful of giving anyone any of your personal information. Feeling ready to communicate?

a.      When you feel like you have gotten to know each other well by email, you might want to talk in person. All I can say in order to cover that is not allow your phone to come up in the caller ID. Check with your phone manual on that.

b.      You might want to make sure that callers won’t get through to you unless they unblock the caller I.D. I know this is contradictive, but that is where your own decision factor comes in. Communication is always an unpredictable factor.

c.      Email: be sure you use the double blind email we provide on our site, it protects your privacy. You might want to set up a dedicated separate email rather than your own personal email that you use exclusively for that purpose.

 

 

10. You might want to use a PO Box for mailing via the postal system.

11. Don’t send anything you won’t miss if you never get it back.

12. If you feel uneasy about anything, think about it. It might be your inner “common sense” trying to tell you something. You just have to go over everything until you spot what it is. You can always go back and say, I felt great until… that will give you a clue where to start. I usually suggest a list of things I’ve noted that are Ok and Not OK. Most people have a tendency to ignore minor Not Ok things, which is ok unless you find out that they all add up to a Big NO WAY.

13. SEXY? Suggestive or off color messages are better left unsaid, same on dirty jokes. Sexy names and double meaning names: TACKY! People judge you by your handle. Most times it is a turn off not a turn on.

When you Plan to meet

A first meeting with any new love interest can be exciting - and most first meetings are perfectly safe, but it's always smart to take basic precautions. Trust your instincts. And be sure to keep the following guidelines in mind:

1. DO NOT HAVE THEM PICK YOU UP AT YOUR HOME! KEEP YOUR RESIDENCE PRIVATE! No excuses, no, no, no to them all.

2. Keep meetings in a public place, not a private home, remove location or hotel. Coffee houses or restaurants are good. Have some identifying way of picking the person out in the crowd. What color clothing, or even better their photo. If you don’t like the way things look, you can always call from your cell phone and cancel without embarrassing each other.

3. Its ok to tell the date you have a friend meeting you too or that you have another appointment in case it isn’t working out. Be sure to tell a friend, make sure they know when and where, when you will be back and perhaps a prearranged call they call you or you call them. My mother always told me… bring a friend along. If you feel pressured in any way, end the meeting and leave at once. This is not someone who cares about YOU! No matter how much they say they are “taken” with you or love at first site, soul mate or what ever.


4. TAKE YOUR CELL!!! Learn how to set your cell phone on speed dial for either 911 or your emergency number.


5. Stick to soft drinks, coffee, or ice tea. People tend to judge you by what you do on that first casual meeting. Also, it’s easier to make good decisions and keeps you from being vulnerable or  at risk. Remember the old country western song how much “better” someone gets the more you drink.

6. DO NOT LEAVE YOUR PERSONAL BELONGINGS OR DRINKS UNATTENDED. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, SOMEONE PLACING ITEMS IN YOUR BELONGINGS OR RISK HAVING SOMEONE PLACE DRUGS IN YOUR DRINK. If you must leave your drink unattended to go to the restroom, order another drink when you return or don’t drink it.

7. If you need to, stop at the entry and ask the person in charge to delay the person or to call for their security person.  Watch that your are not followed, especially if the parking place is dark or if you feel uneasy. If you are followed to where you parked your car, stop and hail a taxi or go into another public place to use the telephone to phone a friend. The newer cars have emergency buttons on their click opener that will start the lights flashing and horn beeping. You can always come back later with your friend to get your car.

What Next? Ok! You survived all of that and it went good, you want to meet again. Once you have all the safety down it will become routine. Most of these “common sense” ideas are good for every day use in personal and business matters. On any other meetings and on follow up dates if the person is genuine, sincere and truly interested in you, they will want you to feel safe too.

 

What if? Coming to Alaska or planning to meet elsewhere that is long distance?

Before you plan anything please read over all the items 1-7.

9. Do stay at a credited B&B or hotel. NEVER STAY AT THE OTHER PERSON’S HOME ON YOUR FIRST VISIT.  If you can't afford it, don't go. It’s just not good sense. Don’t tell where you are staying until you are completely certain you feel safe.

10. Arrange to meet at the baggage area, airport restaurant or lobby and then use a taxi or rent a car and go alone to your hotel. It shows that the other person is polite and interested when they want to greet you at the airport and that is great! But they will understand your own self protection that you DO NOT get into a personal vehicle with someone you are meeting for the first time.

11. Listen to what they are saying to you, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
If they seem to be hiding something put a red flag by that in your mind. Some people are very private or may have had a bad experience themselves, just remember sharing info is part of progression. If they continually answer questions with questions that may be a red flag.

12. We have all seen so many romantic movies that we seem to want to jump into love, please proceed with caution. If it is real love it isn’t going away, it will grow and so will respect with general caution. People also get scared or hold back if someone seems to be going To Fast, To soon.

13. Money, having it or not having it. Beware of someone who is bragging about what they have, or how broke they are. Usually people who brag are people who need to feel important or are not confident of themselves. Previous marriage debts, being laid off or being taken for all their money are indicators. In themselves they are things that happen but someone who has that going on all the time may have that continue on in the future too.

 

14. If anyone asks you for money, (especially if they are incarcerated), or airline tickets, or to pay bills, or to make donations or to give them your credit card information for any reason, DO NOT DO IT! I SHOULDN’T EVEN HAVE TO SAY THAT!

15. Do not allow anyone to take over your life. Whether you are a man or a woman you need to decide whether you want someone else making all your decisions.

16.   Please help us help you and others. If you know anyone who is or has been:

a.      harassing others, is abusive, is lying about their profile information, or is inappropriate for our website, who is currently married, or is a minor, is an endangerment to others, sending harassing or abusive emails, sending spam, links to other sites or

b.       request for interviews, photo opportunities, invitations to other sites or for modeling, for being in movies or that they want to write a book about them, or

c.      attempts to sell services or products or requests for anything please contact us. This doesn’t mean getting even with your “ex” by sending us condemning emails about them. I understand that revenge and spitefulness feeds Karma, so enough said on that.

 

IN ENDING…I am sure most of you know all these things, but I feel better just having them there for you to review in your own mind.

 

 I am sure some of you will come up with your own ideas too. Sometime you might even want to pass this kind of information on to your own children, friends or other loved ones. They might think it is naggy, but that is what we do when we love people, it shows that you care about them.

 

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