Definitions

Each of the terms mentioned below have in these Conditions of Sale VSocia Classified Service (hereinafter the "Conditions") the following meanings:

• Announcement: refers to all the elements and data (visual, textual, sound, photographs, drawings), presented by an Advertiser editorial under his sole responsibility, in order to buy, rent or sell a product or service and broadcast on the Website and Mobile Site.
• Advertiser: means any natural or legal person, a major, established in France, holds an account and having submitted an announcement, from it, on the Website. Any Advertiser must be connected to the Personal Account for deposit and or manage its ads. Ad first deposit automatically entails the establishment of a Personal Account to the Advertiser.
• Personal Account: refers to the free space than any Advertiser must create and which it should connect from the Website to disseminate, manage and view its ads.
• VSocia: means the company that publishes and operates the Website and Mobile Site VSocia sub entity of SamanBox Marketplace, registered at the Trade and Companies Register of Faisalabad under the Company Registration law in Pakistan whose registered office is at Riwaz Abad, P.O. Khas, Faisalabad, PK.
• Customer Service: means the department to which the Advertiser may obtain further information. This service can be contacted via email by clicking the link on the Website and Mobile Site.
• VSocia Service: means the services made available to Users and Advertisers on the Website and Mobile Site.
• Website: means the website operated by VSocia accessed mainly from the URL https://VSocia.com and allowing Users and Advertisers to access the Service via internet.
• Mobile Site: is the mobile site operated by VSocia accessible from the URL https://VSocia.com and allowing Users and Advertisers to access via their mobile phone service VSocia.
• User: any visitor with access to VSocia Service via the Website and Mobile Site and Consultant Service VSocia accessible from different media.

Subject

These Terms and Conditions of Use establish the contractual conditions applicable to any subscription by an Advertiser connected to its Personal Account from the Website and Mobile Site.

Acceptance

Any use of the website by an Advertiser is full acceptance of the current Terms.

Responsibility

Responsibility for VSocia cannot be held liable for non-performance or improper performance of due control, either because of the Advertiser, or a case of major force.

Modification of these terms

VSocia reserves the right, at any time, to modify all or part of the Terms and Conditions.

Advertisers are advised to consult the Terms to be aware of the changes.

Miscellaneous

If part of the Terms should be illegal, invalid or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever, the provisions in question would be deemed unwritten, without questioning the validity of the remaining provisions will continue to apply between Advertisers and VSocia.

We run this website and permits its use according to the following terms and conditions:

Currently we don’t charge you to use vSocia or the other products and services covered by these Terms. Instead, businesses and organizations pay us to show you ads for their products and services. By using our Products, you agree that we can show you ads that we think will be relevant to you and your interests.

We don’t sell your personal data to advertisers, and we don’t share information that directly identifies you (such as your name, email address or other contact information) with advertisers unless you give us specific permission. Instead, advertisers can tell us things like the kind of audience they want to see their ads, and we show those ads to people who may be interested. We provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads that help them understand how people are interacting with their content.

The services vSocia is providing:

Our mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. We are providing the Products and services described below to you:

Provide an awesome experience for you:

Your experience on vSocia is awesome: from the posts, stories, events, ads, and other content you see in News Feed or vSocia Pages you follow and other features you might use, such as Trending, vSocia Marketplace, and Explore. We use the data we have - for example, about the connections you make, the choices and settings you select, and what you share and do on and off our Products - to personalize your awesome experience.

Connect you with people, friends and organizations:

We help you find and connect with people, groups, businesses, organizations, and others that matter to you across the vSocia Products you use. We use the data we have to make suggestions for you and others - for example, groups to join, events to attend, vSocia Pages to follow or send a message to, shows to watch, and people you may want to become friends with. Stronger ties make for better communities, and we believe our services are most useful when people are connected to people, groups, and organizations they like them.

Empower you to express yourself and share your thoughts that matters to you:

You can express yourself on vSocia by different ways and to communicate with friends, family, and others about what matters to you - for example, sharing status updates, photos, videos, and stories across the vSocia Products you use, sending messages to a friend or several people, creating events or groups, or adding content to your profile.

vSocia Helps you discover content, products, and services for you:

vSocia shows you ads, offers, and other sponsored content to help you discover content, products, and services that are offered by the many businesses and organizations that use vSocia and other vSocia Products.

Combat harmful conduct and protect and support our vSocia community:

People will only build community on vSocia if they feel safe. We hire experienced and dedicated teams around the world and develop advanced technical systems to detect misuse of our Products, harmful conduct towards others, and situations where we may be able to help support our community. If we detect content or conduct like this, we will take appropriate action - for example, offering help, removing content, removing or restricting access to certain features, disabling an account, or contacting law enforcement. We share data with other law enforcement agencies when we detect misuse or harmful conduct by someone using one of our Products.

Research ways to make vSocia services better:

We engage in exploration to develop, test, and improve our Products. This includes analyzing the data we've about our users and understanding how people use our Products, for example by conducting surveys and testing and troubleshooting new features.

Provide constant and awesome experiences across the vSocia Company Products:

Our Products help you find and connect with people, groups, businesses, organizations, and others that are important to you. We design our systems so that your experience is consistent and seamless across the different vSocia products that you use. For example, we use data about the people you engage with on vSocia to make it easier for you to connect with them and we enable you to communicate with a business you follow on vSocia.

How our services are funded

May be in future we implement subscription fees for all users to use vSocia and the other products and services we offer, by using the vSocia Products covered by these Terms, you agree that we can show you ads that businesses and organizations pay us to promote on and off the vSocia Products. We use your personal data, such as information about your activity and interests, to show you ads that are more relevant to you.

Protecting people's privacy is central to how we've designed our ad system. This means that we can show you relevant and useful ads without telling advertisers who you are. We don't sell your personal data. We allow advertisers to tell us things like their business goal, and the kind of audience they want to see their ads (for example, people between the age of 18-35 who like smart watch). We then show their ad to people who might be interested.

We also provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads to help them understand how people are interacting with their content on and off vSocia. For example, we provide general demographic and interest information to advertisers (for example, that an ad was seen by men between the ages of 24 and 35 who lives in Karachi and likes website developing) to help them better understand their audience. We don’t share information that directly identifies you (information such as your name or email address that by itself can be used to contact you or identifies who you are) unless you give us specific permission.

Your commitments to vSocia and our community

To use vSocia and vSocia Products we need you to make the following commitments:

1. Who can use vSocia

When people stand behind their opinions and actions, our community is safer and more accountable. For this reason, you must:

• Use the real name that you use in everyday life.
• Provide accurate information about yourself.
• Create only one account (your own) and use your timeline for personal purposes only.
• Not share your password, give access to your vSocia account to others, or transfer your account to anyone else (without our permission).

We try to make vSocia broadly available to everyone, but you cannot use vSocia if:

• You are under 13 years old (or the minimum legal age in your country to use our Products).
• You are a convicted sex offender.
• We've previously disabled your account for violations of our Terms or Policies.
• You are prohibited from receiving our products, services, or software under applicable laws.

2. What you can share and do on vSocia

We want people to use vSocia to express themselves and to share content and their thoughts that is important to them, but not at the expense of the safety and well-being of others or the integrity of our community. You therefore agree not to engage in the conduct described below (or to facilitate or support others in doing so):

1. You may not use our Products to do or share anything:
• That violates these Terms, and other terms and policies that apply to your use of our Products.
• That is unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent.
• That infringes or violates someone else's rights, including their intellectual property rights.
2. You may not upload viruses or malicious code or do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working or appearance of our Products.
3. You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data you do not have permission to access.

We can remove or restrict access to content that is in violation of these provisions.

If we remove content that you have shared in violation of our Community Standards, we’ll let you know and explain any options you have to request another review, unless you seriously or repeatedly violate these Terms or if doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.

To help support our community, we encourage you to report content or conduct that you believe violates your rights (including intellectual property rights) or our terms and policies.

We also can remove or restrict access to your content, services or information if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts to Meta.

4.     The permissions you give us

We need certain permissions from you to provide our services:

1. Permission to use content you create and share: Some content that you share or upload, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property laws.

You own the intellectual property rights (things like copyright or trademarks) in any such content that you create and share on vSocia you use. Nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want.

However, to provide our services we need you to give us some legal permissions (known as a ‘license’) to use this content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our Products and services as described in Section 1 above.

Specifically, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings). This means, for example, that if you share a photo on vSocia, you give us permission to store, copy, and share it with others (again, consistent with your settings) such as service providers that support our service. This license will end when your content is deleted from our systems.

You can delete content individually or all at once by deleting your account. You can download a copy of your data at any time before deleting your account.

When you delete content, it’s no longer visible to other users.

• After deletion your content will be deleted immediately.
• your content has been used by others in accordance with this license and they have not deleted it (in which case this license will continue to apply until that content is deleted); or
• where immediate deletion would restrict our ability to:
• investigate or identify illegal activity or violations of our terms and policies (for example, to identify or investigate misuse of our Products or systems);
• comply with a legal obligation, such as the preservation of evidence; or
• comply with a request of a judicial or administrative authority, law enforcement or a government agency;

in which case, the content will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it has been retained (the exact duration will vary on a case-by-case basis).

In each of the above cases, this license will continue until the content has been fully deleted.

2. Permission to use your name, profile picture, and information about your actions with ads and sponsored content: You give us permission to use your name and profile picture and information about actions you have taken on vSocia next to or in connection with ads, offers, and other sponsored content that we display across our Products, without any compensation to you. For example, we may show your friends that you are interested in an advertised event or have liked a vSocia Page created by a brand that has paid us to display its ads on vSocia. Ads like this can be seen only by people who have your permission to see the actions you've taken on vSocia.
3. Permission to update software you use or download: If you download or use our software, you give us permission to download and install updates to the software where available.

4. Limits on using our intellectual property

If you use content covered by intellectual property rights that we have and make available in our Products (for example, images, designs, videos, or sounds we provide that you add to content you create or share on vSocia), we retain all rights to that content (but not yours). You can only use our copyrights or trademarks (or any similar marks) as expressly permitted or with our prior written permission. You must obtain our written permission (or permission under an open source license) to modify, create derivative works of, decompile, or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us.

Basic Terms:

1. Using this website implies your acceptance of these conditions. If you do not fully accept them, your entry to this site will be considered unauthorized and you will have to stop using it immediately
2. You must be 13 years or older to use this site.
3. You are responsible for any activity that occurs under your screen name.
4. You are responsible for keeping your account secure.
5. You must not abuse, harass, threaten or intimidate other Socia users.
6. You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, screen names, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, links ("Content") that you submit, post, and display on the vSocia service.
7. You must not modify, adapt or hack vSocia or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with vSocia.
8. You must not create or submit unwanted email to any vSocia members ("Spam").
9. You must not transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature.
10. You must not, in the use of vSocia, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws).

Violation of any of these agreements will result in the termination of your vSocia account. While vSocia prohibits such conduct and content on its site, you understand and agree that vSocia cannot be responsible for the Content posted on its web site and you nonetheless may be exposed to such materials and that you use the vSocia service at your own risk.

General Conditions:

1. We reserve the right to modify or terminate the vSocia service for any reason, without notice at any time.
2. We reserve the right to alter these Terms of Use at any time. If the alterations constitute a material change to the Terms of Use, we will notify you via internet mail according to the preference expressed on your account. What constitutes a "material change" will be determined at our sole discretion, in good faith and using common sense and reasonable judgement.
3. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.
4. We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Use.
5. vSocia service makes it possible to post images and text hosted on vSocia to outside websites. This use is accepted (and even encouraged!). However, pages on other websites which display data hosted on vSocia must provide a link back to vSocia.

Copyright (What's Yours is Yours):

1. We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the vSocia service. Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours. You can remove your profile at any time by deleting your account. This will also remove any text and images you have stored in the system.
2. We encourage users to contribute their creations to the public domain or consider progressive licensing terms.

Last updated on: April 10, 2024