Terms and Conditions

(last updated: 23rd October 2007)

IMPORTANT: by accepting these terms and conditions you are entering into a legally binding contract. It is therefore important that you read these terms and conditions carefully.

If you do not agree to any part of these terms, or if any content of the sites is illegal in the territory where you currently reside, then please do not proceed.

Please note that if you are or will be a Premium Member, by commencing your membership immediately, you lose your right to cancel your membership and demand a full or partial refund.

Interpretation
Headings do not form part of these terms and conditions and will not affect their interpretation.

In these terms and conditions, "you" refers to the member and "we", "us" refers to T101 Limited. Recon is a network of associated websites ("the sites") owned and operated wholly by us and consists of the following URLs:

www.recon.com, bears.recon.com, bikers.recon.com, bondage.recon.com, boots.recon.com, feet.recon.com, fighting.recon.com, fisting.recon.com, hoods.recon.com, leather.recon.com, masterslave.recon.com, military.recon.com, muscle.recon.com, punks.recon.com, men.recon.com, rubber.recon.com, skinheads.recon.com, sportsgear.recon.com, suits.recon.com, tattoos.recon.com.

User age warranty & adult content warning
The sites are for adults aged 18 years of age or older. Persons under 18 years, pretending to be under 18 years or soliciting persons under 18 years will be removed from the sites and further use will be blocked.

The content of the sites may be of an explicit gay nature and contain sexual imagery and text. You agree that this type of content does not cause you offence. We are not liable to remove content that causes you offence though we will do so if it is in breach of our own content policy.

Membership fees
Standard Membership is free. Premium Membership fees are at the rates shown on this site. If you are a Premium Member, you must pay renewal fees before expiry of your current membership in pounds sterling, USA dollars or Euros. If you do not pay on time, your Premium Membership will be downgraded to Standard Membership until you have paid your membership fees.

Paying membership fees
You agree to pay, using a valid credit card (or other form of payment which we may accept from time to time) the membership fees at the rates shown on this site. The charge will appear on your credit card as one of the following: www.recon.com, MC-T101.com, info@T101.com, Netbanx-recon.com or WP-T101 Limited. You will receive an email receipt for any charges to your card on the date the payment is taken.

You agree to provide us with true, accurate and complete information as required by the subscription or registration process including your legal name, address, postcode, e-mail address and applicable billing information (e.g. credit card number and expiry date) and to allow us to pass this information to a third party credit card processor for the purpose of verifying the information you provide and billing your credit card.

Recurring billing

Where you have chosen a recurring billing option, the following sections also apply.

If you subscribe to a recurring 30 day membership your membership will automatically continue at the end of the relevant 30 day period for a further 30 day period unless we are notified at least 48 hours before the relevant renewal period begins.

Recurring 30 day memberships are subject to a minimum 60 day membership.

If you subscribe to a recurring 90 day membership, your membership will automatically continue at the end of the 90 day period for a further 90 day period unless we are notified at least 48 hours before the relevant renewal period begins.

Recurring 90 days memberships are subject to a minimum 180 day membership.

You may notify us that you wish to cancel your membership at any time prior to 48 hours before the relevant renewal period by either clicking on the "cancel my recurring billing option" in Edit My Account. Alternatively, you may write to support@recon.com requesting cancellation, and confirming your profile name and secret question/answer details.

You agree that we may charge the credit card (or other form of payment, if applicable) that you have given us details of for recurring payments. In the event that we cannot charge your credit card, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your membership at our absolute discretion.

We reserve the right to increase membership fees at any time upon providing you with at least two weeks' notice in advance to give you time to decide whether you wish to continue with your subscription. If you do not wish to continue you should let us know and we shall cancel your membership at the end of your current membership period.

If your credit card expires, is cancelled, lost or is subject to use without your authorisation you agree to promptly notify us by writing to support@recon.com to provide details of an alternative current, valid credit card (or other form of payment which we may accept from time to time).

Guidelines on Safer Dating (Safety tips)
Our website is about fun and exploring your sexuality in a friendly environment. You are responsible for your own safety - clearly we cannot accept responsibility for your personal safety under any circumstances. However, we are committed to our users having fun and being safe. Please therefore read our Guidelines on Safer Dating (accessed via the link at the bottom of the homepage or via Recon Help). These guidelines are there for your protection and to offer practical tips to enhance safety. However, be aware that nothing we say can completely protect you and you must therefore exercise your own judgment when meeting people and in choosing the activities you get involved in.

Member conduct on the sites
Members must not:

post, send, email, store, upload, or link to any material or content that is or may be offensive, illegal, unlawful or discriminate against any persons race, ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, beliefs, sexual orientation or any other preferences;
interfere with another's enjoyment of any of the sites;
impersonate any person or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person;
create more than one profile on any of the sites: multiple profiles are not permitted and if you are found to have created multiple profiles we will terminate your membership immediately without refund of any membership fees;
use the sites for advertising goods or services without our written consent;
upload to any of the sites or do anything that breaches these terms and conditions;
copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer or assemble or otherwise abuse our rights in relation to any of our software;
attempt to access any area of any of the sites for which you are not authorised or access our system without our written consent;
do anything which materially affects (or may materially affect) the functionality of our systems of any of the sites.

We reserve the right to (without notice or justification in our absolute discretion but not so that we are obliged to exercise any right):

take down or alter any material you upload to the sites;
cancel your membership at any time - fees will not be reimbursed unless we are unable to justify the cancellation;
charge for Standard Membership (but you will not have to pay any fees without choosing to do so but we may withdraw your right to membership in that event);
withdraw any of the sites at any time - again, fees will not be reimbursed unless we are unable to justify the withdrawal;
read your messages to and from other members and copy any such messages that may be evidence of breach (if we reasonably believe you, or another member with whom you are in contact, have breached our terms and conditions) - usually we will only do this if we receive a complaint from another member.

Password use
On becoming a member you choose your username and password. You must not disclose your password to anyone and should be aware that we will never ask you for it other than in logging on to the sites so anyone asking you to produce it is to be regarded as doing so for malevolent purposes. You are responsible for all acts done in your account name and therefore for the acts of anyone you give your password to in breach of these terms and conditions.

Reporting site abuses
We ask for your help in maintaining the high standards of the sites and the communities within them by immediately notifying us of any material or communications that are in breach of these terms or that are, or appear to be, illegal. Remember that while the sites belong to us they are also yours to enjoy.

Privacy policy
Our privacy policy applies to all personal data you submit to us. It can be found by clicking the link at the bottom of the Recon homepage, or via Recon Help.

Personal use only
Any material on the sites is strictly for personal use and must not under any circumstance be used by any user for commercial purposes or used in a defamatory or derogatory manner. Material must not be duplicated in any way for use outside of the sites as this is in breach of international copyright and intellectual property laws.

Your warranties regarding uploaded materials
You warrant that all material you upload to any of the sites:

is true, accurate and up-to-date (and you agree to maintain it as such at all times);
is your own creation/property or that you have consent to upload it to the sites and in all cases that uploading the material does not breach any third party's intellectual property rights;
is not defamatory, illegal, unlawful, offensive or discriminatory in any way;
has been processed by up-to-date virus-checking software and found to be free of any virus, worm, Trojan or other similar device or effect that alters or may alter the functioning of any of the sites or any computer system at any time.

Your Indemnity
You agree to indemnify (reimbursing all liabilities, costs and expenses actually incurred) us against any costs, claims, liabilities or expenses arising out of breach of these terms and condition and to keep us so indemnified at all times.

Use of material you submit
We reserve the right to use any material submitted to the site during or after the registration process for online and offline promotional purposes without limit on time or usage. We try to contact originators of such material prior to its use but we do not have to do so.

Monitoring of content
Although we do not actively monitor submissions to the site or content posted by users and accept no responsibility or liability for this, submission and content posted may be subject to real-time vetting and monitoring. We reserve the right to amend or remove content without justification. In particular, we may do so if we receive a complaint about content, feel the content is unsuitable, in violation of the law, contains political content or in any way breach of these terms and conditions.

Ownership of trademarks etc. on this website
The trademarks, logos, names and images displayed on this website are the registered or unregistered trademarks of the company and others. Except where expressly stated to the contrary, nothing in this website confers any licence or right to use any trademark displayed on this website without our prior written approval or the owner of the relevant trademark. We reserve the right to notify members via email of promotional offers, news and other information - we will only do so if members have opted-in to receive such communications.

Downtime
We may occasionally have to perform necessary network maintenance and/or network upgrades. These specified time periods are referred to as "Scheduled Maintenance Windows".

In the event of plans to bring down the service during a Scheduled Maintenance Window, we try to provide 24 hours notice to our members in advance of the Scheduled Maintenance Window. In addition, we reserve the right to perform any required maintenance work outside of the Scheduled Maintenance Window with a minimum of 12 hours notification to members.

Members must be aware that, at any time, we may perform emergency maintenance as needed to preserve the overall integrity of the services with no notice and with without compensation for such activities.

Supported Browsers
We support most of the popular web browsers currently in use. However, we can not guarantee that the specific browser you use will be able to display the site and all its features accurately. Please refer to our Help section for a full list of supported browsers.

Right to alter or suspend any site, service or feature
We reserve the right to alter or suspend any site, service or feature at any time without prior notification or explanation.

Rights in website content
All rights, including copyright and database rights, in the sites and the content thereof are owned or controlled by us. We retain all copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights in material contained on or in relation to the sites and you may not copy, reproduce, download, republish, extract, broadcast, transmit, display, modify or re-use any of the materials on the sites for any other purpose.

Linking to the sites
Subject to acceptance of our linking terms users and others shall be entitled to set up hypertext links from their own websites to the home page only of any of the sites. Please contact our customer support team to receive a copy of our linking terms and conditions of use.

Exclusion of liability for linked websites
Whilst we exercise reasonable care in the selection of websites to which we link, we do not control their content, format or availability. Therefore:

we give no warranties, endorsements or recommendations in relation to any products or services mentioned or any statements contained in third party sites;
we disclaim all responsibility for any content you encounter, or events which may occur once you have transferred out of this website and are not be liable to you or anyone for any damages or other losses of any type whatsoever incurred by visiting a linked site.

Exclusion of liability for site content
You agree that whilst we take all reasonable measures to ensure the truth and accuracy of information on the sites, we are not responsible for any wrong, inaccurate information whether it is posted by us or a member and you are advised to independently verify such information before relying on it. We also accept no responsibility for any misleading information posted by other members and accordingly are you are advised to proceed with caution in dealing with other members.

Exclusion of liability for viruses, etc
Whilst we take all reasonable precautions to protect the sites and its users against worms, viruses and other harmful material, before downloading or using any potentially harmful material on the sites, you are advised to ensure that your systems have up-to-date virus detecting software and have that software check the safety of any materials. Therefore, we do not accept responsibility for any defects, viruses or other harmful components that may be contained within any of the sites.

Exclusion of liability for loss
To the extent permitted by applicable laws, no liability is accepted for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage or loss of use, data, business opportunity or profits, whether in an action in contract, negligence or other tortious action, however resulting from the access to and use of this website and the information and materials contained on it (but for the avoidance of doubt this clause does not exclude liability for death or personal injury).

Termination of website use rights
A user's authorisation to use this website automatically terminates without notice if the user fails to comply with any of these terms. On termination, the user must cease all use of the sites.

Right to amend these terms
We may at any time revise these terms by posting changes on the sites. The continued use of this website after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the modified terms. If you choose not to accept the modified terms and you are a fee paying member, we will upon request return a fair proportion (related to the time left unexpired on your membership) of the membership fee.

Applicable laws
These terms are governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England. If any of the terms is held to be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining terms. You agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.