The use of our Services implies your acceptance of these Terms ofUse, andyou are invited to read them carefully.
Our Services are very varied, so additional or specific conditions for certain Services (e.g., age limits) may apply. These additional conditions will be made available to you with the Relevant Services. If you choose to use these Services, you agree that these additional conditions will also be part of your contractual commitment with us.
Lifestory Member:
By accepting these terms of use and regulations, you are subscribing as a Lifestory member within the digital platform Lifestory.com. After confirming youraccount, you will have an account.
Using our Services
You must follow the rules applicable to the Services you use.
Do not use our Services improperly. For example, don't try to interfere with or access our Services using a method other than the interface and instructions we provide. You must only use our Services in accordance with applicableèlaws, including applicable laws andregulations regarding export controls and re-exports. We may suspend or discontinue the provision of our Services if you do not comply with applicable conditions or regulations, or if we consider a suspicion of improper use.
The use of our Services does not give you any intellectual property rights over our Services or the content you access. You must not use any content obtained through our Services without the permission of the owner of that content, unless authorized by law. These Terms of Use do not give you the right to use any brand or logo in our Services. You are not allowed to delete, hide or change the legal notices displayed in or with our Services.
Our Services display content that does not belong to Lifestory. This content is entirely the responsibility of the entity that made it available. We may check the contents to ensure that they comply with the law or our terms of use. We reserve the right to delete or refuse to display any content that we reasonably believe toibe in violation of the law orour regulations. The fact that we reserve this right does not necessarily mean that we are checking the content. Therefore, please do not assume that we are checking the contents.
We do everything we can to make Lifestory a safe service, but we cannot guarantee absolute security. To keep Lifestorysafe, we need your help, which includes the following commitments from you:
You will not allow or encourage violations of this Declaration or our regulations.
As part of your use of the Services and the execution of our contractual commitment, we may send you messages related to the operation or administration of the Services as well as other information. You can choose not to receive some of these messages anymore.
Some of our Services are available on mobile devices. Do not use them in a way that distracts you and prevents you from complying with the Code of the road and the safety rules of driving.
Your Lifestory account
You may need a Lifestory account to use some of our Services. Your Lifestory account can be created by yourself..
To protect your Lifestoryaccount, keep your password confidential. You are responsible for the activity in or through your Lifestory account. Be careful not to reuse the same password associated with your Lifestoryaccountin third-party apps. If you discover that your password or Lifestory account has been used unauthorised, follow these instructions..
Registration and account security.
People who use Lifestory give their real names and real information about them, and we ask you to help us make sure that doesn't change. Here are some of the conditions you agree to meet regarding the registration and security of your account:
3. If we delete your account, you won't create more without our permission.
4. You will not use your newspaper or personal services for commercial purposes.
5. You will not use Lifestory if you are under 16.
6. You will not use Lifestory if you have been convicted of sexual violence.
7. Your contact information should always be accurate and up-to-date.
8. You will not share your password (or, in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone access youraccount, or do anything that could compromise the security of your account.
If you select a username or similar identifier for your account or Page, we reserve the right to remove it if we deem it necessary (for example, when the trademark holder complains about a username that does not match the actual name of the person who logs in using that username).
Protecting the rights of others.
We respect the rights of others and ask you to do the same.
You will not identify people who use Lifestory and will not send invitational emails to people who do not use Lifestory without their consent. Lifestory offers tools that allow users to report and comment on IDs in various content to a team called "Manager." ».
Privacy rules:
Lifestory's Privacy Rules are simple, no personal information is collected and therefore relays where to keep. Lifestory this limit to the volume statistics of pages, consultations or spikes of connections or network traffic ...
The information we collect is used to improve the services offered to all our users. This can be basicinformation. Improving our services requires only surveys, tests or reports ... By using our Services, you agree that Lifestory may use this data in accordance with these privacy rules.
We respond to notifications of alleged copyright infringement and disable the accounts of users who have repeatedly infringed these rights, in accordance with the procedure established by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
If you think a user is infringing your copyright and would like to notify us, please follow the instructions available in our Notification Assistance Centre. You'll also find information on Lifestory's rules for responding to such notifications.
We collect data in the following ways:
Lifestory does not collect any information when you use our services.. !
Newspaper files
When you use our services or view content provided by Lifestory,we collect and store information in our server log files. This includes:
Location data
When you use Lifestoryservices, we don't collect any geolocation data! We check your country via the source of your IP for technical and linguistic purposesss . (CDN, Language..).
We may collect and store data (including personal data) on the device you are using, using mechanisms such as web browser storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches.
Our Connection Cookies are purelytechnical and we strive that no abuse can be committed by a third partytherefor the purpose of tracing the use of your account oryour browsing. We use the information provided by cookies and other technologies, such as pixel tags, to provide you with better user comfort and improve the overall quality of our services. Recording your language preferences allows us, for example, to display our services in the language you use most often. We do not associate any identifiers of cookies or similar technologies with sensitive data, such as race, religion, sexual orientation or health status.
The data we collect when you are logged into Lifestory can be associated with your Lifestoryaccount. We then treat them as personal and privateesdata. By default, thises es published datas was limitedto strict personal use. You have the opportunity to share them with thirdparties, friends and family.
How do we use the data we collect?
The data we collect allows us to manage, protect and improve our services, develop new ones, and protect both our users and ourselves. This data also allows us to provide you with appropriate content, such as more relevant search results.
We may use the name provided in your Lifestory Profile in all of our services that require the use of a LifestoryAccount. We may also replace old names associated with your LifestoryAccount, so that you are presented consistently across all of our services.
When you contact Lifestory,weare likelys to keeper a record of your communication in order to better resolve the problems you are experiencing. We may use your email address to keep you informed, for example, of future changes or improvements to our services.
Our automated systems analyze your published content for indexing purposes for our search engines to provide you with personalized search results features. Under no circumstances do we read or browse your personal messages orposts. Only our spam and malware detection engine is likely to block inappropriate sending.
Any use of data for any purpose other than those set out in these Privacy Rules will require your explicit consent.
We process your personal data on Lifestory servers in many countries around the world. Your personal data may therefore be processed on a server outside your country of residence.
About the software used by or present in our Services
If a Service requires or includes the use of downloadable software, updates to that software (new versions or features) can be done automatically on your device. Some Services allow you to change your automatic update settings.
Lifestory grants you, for free, a personal license, non-transferable, non-exclusive and for the whole world, to use the software provided to you by Lifestory as part of the Services. This license is exclusively intended to allow you to use and benefit from the services provided by Lifestory,in accordance with these Terms of Use. You are not allowed to copy, modify, distribute, sell or lease any or all of our Services or software that are part of it. Similarly, you are not allowed to decompilize or attempt to extract the source code from these software, except in cases where the right to decompilation is authorized by law and within the limits of that law, or where you have obtained our written prior authorization.
Your content and our services
Some of our Services allow you to import, submit, store, send or receive content. You retain all your intellectual property rights over this content. In short, what's yours is up to.
When you import, submit, store, send or receive content through our Services, you grant Lifestory(and anyone working with Lifestory)a worldwide license touse, hosting, storage, reproduction, editing, and creating derivative works (translations, adaptations or other changes designed to improve the way your content works through our Services).
The rights you grant under this license are limited to the operation and improvement of our Services, or to the development of new Services. This permission remains for the legal duration of your content protection. If you stop using our Services, you will have the option to deletee all the data you have received,esimport, submit, store or send. Make sure you have all the rights to grant us this license for the content you submit to our Services.
We conduct surveys and studies, test development features, and analyzes the information available to us to evaluate and improve our products and services, develop new products and features, and conduct verification and troubleshooting activities.
Communicate with you.
We also use your information to respond when you contact us.
Nobroadcasts and evaluate advertisements and services.
Under no circumstances do we use the information at our disposal for advertising systems, which allows us to guarantee you perfect confidentiality. Under no circumstances will it bepermitted to use information to directly or indirectly transmit du advertising content to you.
Promote safety.
We use the information at our disposal to verify users' accounts and activities, and to ensure security both within and outside our Services. For example, we may review any suspicious activity or violation of our terms and conditions or regulations. We strive to protect your account through our teams of engineers, automated systems and sophisticated technologies, such as encryption and machine learning. We also offer simple security tools that make your account more secure.
We use cookies and other similar technologies to provide our Services and each of the uses described in this section of our policy. Please see our cookie use policy to find out more.
Share through our Services
People use our Services to communicate with others. We make this possible by sharing your information as follows:
The people you communicate with and share with.
When you communicate through our Services, you have the option to choose the audience that is allowed to see what you share. For example, when you post on Lifestory,you select your publication's audience by choosing a personalized circle of people, friends orfamily members. Similarly, when you use the private message,you also choose the people you want to send photos or messages to.
The term public information refers to the information you share with everyone in your Lifestory community profile, or the content you share on a LifestoryPage. Public information is accessible to everyone, inside and outside our Services, and can be seen or found using online search engines.
In some cases, the people you communicate with and share with have the option of downloading or sharing this content with others within our Services. When you comment on someone else's post or say they like content they've shared on Lifestory,they decide who's allowed to see your comment or likes. If the chosen audience is public, your comment will also be public.
People who have access to content about you shared by others.
Some people use our Services to share content about you with other people of their choice. For example, these people can share a photo of you, identify you in a post, or share information about you that you've previously shared with them.
No integrated apps, websites and third-party services using our Services will be tolerated or allowed to collect, take, steal or request access to your data! No information will be sharedée with third parties.. Tout abuse would be likely to sue and technical action that tries to demonstrate the abuse and block the possibles site, person or individual identified as such.
Share with third-party partners and customers
Only technical information,s aonymiser stats can be transmitted to our service providers who help us to provide and improve our Services, or who use our services or other similar products.
Suppliers, service providers and other partners.
No specific information will be passed on to our suppliers,service providers and other partners workings with us around the world, for example by providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing the use of our Services, assessing the effectiveness of our services, providing customer support, facilitating various payment processes, and conducting various investigations and studies. These partners must adhere to the strictest confidentiality obligations in accordance with this Data Use Policy and the agreements we have signed with them.
Delete information about me?
You can manage the content and information you share when you use Lifestory using the tools you need.
We keep the data for as long as ittakes to provide our services, including those described above. The information associated with your account will be stored until it is deleted by you.
You can delete your account at any time. When you delete your account, your account will be suspended for 90 days. Exceed this time, your account and the content you have published, such as vs. photos and your statuses will be deleted with the exception of your contributions within a group that has one or more other managers, in this context you grant a right of use strictly related to your publication contexts.
Keep in mind that information about you that other people have shared is not part of your account and is not deleted when you delete your account.
How do we respond to legal requests and avoid any risk of harm?
We will be able to access your personal data, store it and share it in response to a legal request (search warrant, court order or other) if we believe in good faith that the law requires us to do so. This may include responding to legal requests from jurisdictions outside the Kingdom of Belgium, when we have every reason to believe that the answer is required by the law of that jurisdiction, that it applies to users dependent on that jurisdiction and that it complies with recognised European standards. We may also access, retain and disclose your information when we believe it is necessary to detect and prevent fraud or other illicit activity, to protect your interests, our own or those of others, including in the course of an investigation, or to avoid any risk of imminent death or bodily harm. Information about you that we receive, such as banking transaction data with Lifestory,may be used, processed and retained for a period of time when it is subject to a legal obligation, government investigation or investigations into possible violations of our terms of use or regulations, or to avoid further harm. We are also likely to retain account information that has been deactivated due to a breach of our terms of use for a minimum of one year in order to avoid repeated abuse or other offences.
How do our global services work?
Lifestory, S.A.does not share any information except in a legal framework or jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Belgium.
Howwillwe proceedto notify you of changes to this policy?
We will notify you of any significant changes to this policy, and will give you the opportunity to view the revised version before continuing to use our Services.
How do I direct your questions to Lifestory??
To learn more about how the privacy principle works on Lifestory,,
If you have any questions about this policy, here's how to contact us:
If you live in Belgium or Europe
Please contact Lifestory, Inc.
Online or by mail at:
Lifestory, S.A20,
boulevard Paepsem
1070 Brussels,
Belgium
Special Clauses for Internet Users Outside the United States
We strive to create a borderless community with consistent standards for all, while respecting local laws. The following clauses apply to Internet users who interact with Lifestory from the United States:
Definitions
10. You will bring any complaint, legal action or challenge ("action") relating to this Declaration or Lifestory exclusively bto a b elge court and you agree torespect the jurisdiction of those courts in the context of such actions. The law of the state belge governs this Declaration, as well as any action between you and us, regardless of the conflict provisions of laws.
11. In the event of action against us by a third party as a result of your actions, content or information on Lifestory,you will compensate and protectè Lifestory from all damages, losses and costs, including reasonable legal fees, relating to this action. Although we enact the rules of behavior of Internet users, we do not control and direct the actions of Internet users on Lifestory, and we are in no way responsible for the content and information transmitted or shared by users on Lifestory. We are not responsible for any offensive, inappropriate, obscene, illegal or otherwise offensive content or information you may find on Lifestory. We are not responsible for driving, online or offline, people who use Lifestory..
WE TRY TO PROVIDE LifestoryIN A FLAWLESS AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT, BUT YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE PROVIDE Lifestory "AS IT STANDS" WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED GUARANTEES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLICIT GUARANTEES OF QUALITY, ADEQUACY TO A PARTICULAR USE OR NON-VIOLATION. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT LifestoryIS ALWAYS SAFE, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT LifestoryALWAYSOPERATES WITHOUT INTERRUPTION, DELAY OR IMPERFECTION. Lifestory ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACTIONS, CONTENTS, INFORMATION OR DATA OF THIRD PARTIES, AND YOU ABSOLVE Lifestory, MEMBERS OF ITSMANAGEMENT, MEMBERS OF ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, ITS EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS OF ANY LIABILITY IN THE EVENT OF KNOWN AND UNKNOWN COMPLAINTS OR DAMAGES ARISING FROM, OR RELATED COMPLAINTS OR DAMAGES AGAINST THESE THIRD PARTIES. WE CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANY OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGE, WHETHER AS A RESULT OF THIS STATEMENT OR FROM Lifestory,EVEN IF LifestoryHAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. THE TOTAL AGGREGATE OF OUR LIABILITY TO YOU IN CONNECTION WITH THIS DECLARATION OR LifestoryMAY NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU IN THE PREVIOUS TWELVE MONTHS OR SIX EUROS. THE HIGHEST AMOUNT IS THE AMOUNT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT. THE APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW FOR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOUR CASE. IN SUCH CASES, Lifestory'S LIABILITYWILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUMPERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.