Acceptable Use Policy

1. Introduction

1.1 This is the acceptable use policy of FriendsAbroad.com Ltd, an English registered company (number 04567782 with registered office at 20 Bedford Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4TH, United Kingdom. Our fax and email contact details are specified on our website.

1.2 This policy forms part of our Terms of Use. Any changes to this policy follow the same procedure as changes to our Terms of Use.

2. Policy

2.1 You may use our website and services only for the genuine and bona fide purpose of communicating with other Members in order to practise and/or improve your language skills.

2.2 You must not post, transmit, upload or store any content (including without limit all information, software, data, text, photographs, graphics, sound and video) on, via or in connection with our website or services which involves or includes or relates to:

a) advertising or purchase or sale of any goods or services or any other commercial purpose;

b) conduct that is unlawful (including breach of any applicable laws, statutes, regulations, standards or codes of conduct whether or not compulsory), harmful, threatening, a nuisance, abusive, harassing, stalking, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, indecent, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, inflammatory, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

c) the infringement of third party intellectual property or other rights;

d) viruses or anything else designed to damage, destroy or limit the functionality of any software or hardware;

e) junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or any similar or fraudulent schemes or any inappropriate form of solicitation; or collection of the responses to any such schemes or solicitation;

f) disguising the origin or authorship of any content;

g) the provision of false or misleading information;

h) denial of service attacks;

i) attempting to or gaining unauthorized access to, or interfering with or damaging, our or any third party's computer or content;

j) unauthorized monitoring or interception of content;

k) potential or actual interference with or disruption to our computers or services including excessive use of our server resources;

l) damage to our commercial reputation; or

m) breach of generally accepted norms of the Internet community.