Terms of Use

    Neighborpal.com Terms of Service Agreement

    Neighborpal.com is an online community that connects people through networks of neighbors for communicating, sharing and supporting. The Neighborpal.com service is operated by NeighborPal, Inc. ("We, "us," or "Neighborpal.com," “NeighborPal”). By using the NeighborPal.com web site (the "Website") you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (this "Agreement"). In addition, when one chooses to become a NeighborPal.com Member (a "Member") and communicate with other Members and make use of the NeighborPal.com service (the "Service"), that indicates your acceptance of its terms.

    This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms of your use of the Website (whether or not you become or remain a Member) and your membership in the Service, if any, and may be modified by us at any time without prior notice. All such modifications will be effective upon posting on the Website, and any use by you of the Website or the Service after the posting of any such modification will constitute your agreement to that modification. The terms of our Privacy Statement, and any notices regarding the Website or the Service sent to you or posted on the Website are incorporated into and made part of this Agreement. Links to copies of each of these policies and notices can be found on the Neighborpal.com Home Page.

  1. Eligibility. You must be eighteen or over to register as a Member or to use the Website. Use of the Website and membership in the Service are void where prohibited. By agreeing to these terms or by using the Website, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
  2. Term. This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use the Website and/or are a Member. You may terminate your membership at any time, for any reason by following the instructions on the Cancel Account page in Account Settings. We may terminate your membership for any reason, at any time.
  3. Other Agreements. Any other arrangements or agreements you make between yourself and any other Members are strictly between you and the other party and Neighborpal.com is not a party to any such agreements. Should a party fail to perform under any such agreement, your rights and remedies are solely against such third party and you specifically acknowledge that you shall have no rights, remedies, or causes of action against Neighborpal.com under any conditions or for any reason by reason of such agreements. Without limiting the generality of Section 13 below, should Neighborpal.com be threatened by any party or named in any lawsuit or cause of action related to any such agreement, you agree to hold harmless and indemnify Neighborpal.com, including but not limited to payment to NeighborPal.com of its reasonable attorneys fees in defending any such claims.
  4. Use by Members. The Services are for the use of Members only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except the connection of members for the sharing of information related to neighborhoods. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or text messages or unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website is prohibited. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from Member profiles without notice and may result in termination of Membership privileges. Appropriate legal action will be taken for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Services. *per event liquidated damages***


  1. Proprietary Rights in Content on Neighborpal.com.
    1. By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") on or through the Services, you hereby grant to NeighborPal.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services. This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from the Services. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the Services or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through the Services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of any Content posted by you to or through the Services.
    2. The Services contain Content of Neighborpal.com, LLC ("NeighborPal.com Content"). NeighborPal.com Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and/or other laws, and NeighborPal.com owns and retains all rights in the NeighborPal.com Content and the Services. NeighborPal.com hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the NeighborPal.com Content (excluding any software code) solely for your use in connection with viewing the Website and using the Services.
    3. The Services contain Content of Users and other NeighborPal.com licensors. Except for Content posted by you, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any Content appearing on or through the Services.
  2. Content Posted by You to the Service and the Website.
    1. Profile Information. Your public profile will be available to anyone, regardless of the level of access you've chosen for your full Neighborpal.com profile. You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any of the Services, and any material or information that you transmit to other Members and for your interactions with other Users. NeighborPal.com does not endorse and has no control over the Content. Please choose carefully the information you post on NeighborPal.com and that you provide to other Users. Neighborpal.com prohibits all Members to include and any photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd, excessively violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable subject matter on profiles. Despite this prohibition, information provided by other Neighborpal.com Members (for instance, in their Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive or sexually explicit material, products or services, and Neighborpal.com assumes no responsibility or liability for this material.
    2. Public Profile Information. Regardless of what personal information a you choose to include in your Neighborpal.com profile, or what level of sharing of your profile you choose, certain information about every Neighborpal.com Member will be included in that Member's "public profile." A Member's public profile is an abbreviated version of the Member's regular Neighborpal.com profile, containing the information listed below, which will be available to any user of the Website, as well as to the general public through, for instance, search engines like Yahoo! or Google. Each Member's public profile includes the following information about the Member:

      • Member Type
      • Name (first, or first and last, username, depending on which option the Member chooses)
      • Gender
      • Age
      • Location
      • "Member Since" date
      • Profile views
    1. Removal of Content. You understand and agree that we may review and delete any Content that you include in your profile, or otherwise Post on any area of the Website (which may include deleting your entire profile) that we, in our sole judgment, believe (1) violates this Agreement, (2) might be offensive or illegal, or (3) might violate the rights of, harm, or threaten the safety of any other Member.
    2. Member Identity. Your profile must accurately describe you, an individual person or the neighborhood association that you represent. Examples of inappropriate profiles include, but are not limited to, profiles that purport to represent an animal, inanimate object, fictional character, or real individual who is not you.
    3. Member Responsibility for Content. You are solely responsible for the Content that you Post on the Website or the Service, or transmit to other Members.
    4. Prohibited Content. Below is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website. Posting of any of this Content by you may, in our sole discretion, result in termination of your membership. In addition, we reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action, in our sole discretion, against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Website and reporting such violators to the appropriate legal authorities. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, Content which, in our sole judgment:
      • is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
      • harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
      • involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," "spam," or any other unsolicited mass mailing, e-mailing, or other communication;
      • includes any information that (1) you know is false or misleading, (2) promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, or (3) is threatening, obscene, defamatory, or libelous;
      • constitutes or includes any illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted or copyrightable work, including, but not limited to, (1) pirated computer programs or links to them, (2) information which circumvents manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, (3) pirated music or links to pirated music files, or (4) Content which otherwise violates the terms of Section 8 below;
      • displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind;
      • includes material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or is intended to solicit personal information from anyone under 18;
      • provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
      • solicits passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Members;
      • constitutes or includes any promotion, sales or other commercial activity such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes; or
      • solicits people you don't know to add you or accept you as a friend on the Service.

    Even though all of the above Content is strictly prohibited, there is a small chance that you might become exposed to such items while using the Website or the Service. If so, neither we, nor any of our officers, directors, employees, shareholders, advertisers, or corporate partners will in any way be responsible for any damages (to or from any party) related to any such exposure.

  1. Further Restrictions on Your Use of the Website and the Service.
    1. You must use the Website and the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
    2. You may not include in your Member profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, or e-mail addresses.
    3. Although Neighborpal.com cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the Website, it is a violation of this Agreement to use any information obtained from the Service or the Website in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without the prior explicit written consent of such Member and Neighborpal.com. In order to protect our Members from such conduct, we reserve the right to restrict the number of e-mails or other communications which a Member may send to other Members at any time and in our sole discretion.
    4. You may not use the Website in such a manner that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionably large burden on our infrastructure, as determined by us in our sole discretion; and/or
    5. You may not use any automated means (including, without limitation, agents, robots, scripts, or spiders) to monitor or copy the Website or its content or bypass our tools or services or to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website.
  2. Copyright Protection Policy. You may not Post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information owned by another party without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner. If you believe that your work has been copied and Posted on the Website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact us at copyright@Neighborpal.com. We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) and will act upon any DMCA take down notice which conforms to legislative requirements and is properly sent to us. Any Member whose action is the subject of a DMCA take down notice is subject to termination of their account and permanent exclusion from the use of the Website.
  3. Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Members. We reserve the right, although we have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members, we reserve the right to take any action that we feel may be appropriate in our sole discretion, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, including the termination of the membership of one or more Members.
  4. Disclaimers.
    1. NeighborPal.com not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content Posted on the Website or in connection with the Service, whether caused by users of the Website, Members, our advertisers or corporate partners, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the operation of the Website or the Service.
    2. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONDUCT, WHETHER ONLINE OR OFFLINE, OF ANY MEMBER OR OTHER USER OF THE WEBSITE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE, INCLUDING PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH, RESULTING FROM ANYONE'S USE OF THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE, ANY CONTENT POSTED ON THE WEBSITE OR TRANSMITTED TO MEMBERS OR OTHER USERS, OR ANY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN OR AMONG MEMBERS OR OTHER USERS OF THE WEBSITE, WHETHER ONLINE OR OFFLINE.
    3. WE ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMMUNICATIONS LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, OR ALTERATION OF, USER OR MEMBER COMMUNICATIONS. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PROBLEMS OR TECHNICAL MALFUNCTION OF ANY TELEPHONE NETWORK OR LINES, COMPUTER ONLINE SYSTEMS, SERVERS OR PROVIDERS, COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, FAILURE OF E-MAIL OR PLAYERS ON ACCOUNT OF TECHNICAL PROBLEMS OR TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON THE INTERNET OR AT ANY WEBSITE OR COMBINATION THEREOF. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURY OR DAMAGE TO ANY COMPUTER EQUIPMENT BELONGING TO ANY USER OF THE WEBSITE, ANY MEMBER, OR ANY OTHER PERSON RELATED TO OR RESULTING FROM USE OF THE WEBSITE, VIEWING, PLAYING OR DOWNLOADING ANY MATERIALS ON OR FROM THE WEBSITE, OR OTHERWISE IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE. THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICE, AND THE CONTENT ARE ALL PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE CANNOT GUARANTEE AND DO NOT PROMISE ANY SPECIFIC RESULTS FROM USE OF THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US, OR FROM OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED HEREIN.
  5. Limitations on Liability. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, our entire liability to you for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to us for the Service during the term of this Agreement. Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no event will we be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including lost profits arising from your use of the Website or the Service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
  6. Disputes. If there is any dispute between you and us about or involving the Website or the Service, by using the Website or the Service, you agree that the dispute will be governed by the laws of the State of Illinois without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction under and venue in the state and federal courts located in Chicago, Illinois for the resolution of any such dispute.
  7. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold Neighborpal.com, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, and corporate or other partners harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys. fees, arising out of or relating to: (a) your use of the Website or the Service (including the Posting by you of any Content on the Website) in violation of this Agreement; (b) any other breach of this Agreement by you; or (c) any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above.
  8. Breach of Agreement. If you breach this agreement, you acknowledge that you (1) have exceeded your authorized access to the Website; and (2) will have caused substantial harm to us, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay us $1000 for each such instance of breach. For the avoidance of a doubt, if you use an automated system to access our Website for a purpose which is contrary to your obligations under this Agreement, each such instance of access is considered a separate breach and subject to a separate payment of $1000.
  9. No Agency. There is no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship between you and us or between us and any other Member or user of the Website.
  10. Survival Although this Agreement may be terminated by you or us at any time and for any reason, the terms of the following sections of this Agreement will survive any such termination, and you and we will continue to be bound by such terms indefinitely: Section 2 (Term), Section 5 (Proprietary Rights in Content), Section 9 (Member Disputes), Section 10 (Disclaimers), Section 11 (Limitation on Liability), Section 12 (Disputes), Section 13 (Indemnity), Section 14 (Breach) Section 16 (Survival), and Section 18 (Other).
  11. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all previous communications or agreements between the parties and/or their respective representatives relating to the subject matter hereof. No oral understandings, statements, promises, or inducements contrary to the terms of this Agreement exist. This Agreement cannot be changed, modified or terminated orally.
  12. Other. This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the Website or any of the Services and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and NeighborPal.com regarding the use of the Services. The failure of NeighborPal.com to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

    I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.