Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Disclaimer of Liability
- FriendsRecover.com is a solution-based online recovery community. It is a fellowship for people in recovery, those considering recovery, and the families and friends of those suffering from illness. It was created for people to meet, help others, and share their solution through an online medium. This site will offer a virtual environment to share your story and to give and gain support in a community of friends.
- Our Commitment to Privacy. We are committed to combining quality products and services with integrity in dealing with our customers. Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how our system and website works and how you use our products and services.
- Additionally, FriendsRecover.com is a website which provides an opportunity for participants to express their own opinions about their recovery. Notwithstanding applicable restrictions, members are free to post their own opinions, which do not reflect the opinion of anyone at FriendsRecover.com and are not endorsed by FriendsRecover.com. You agree when you enroll as a participant that you understand that all posts reflect the opinion of the poster, not the opinion of FriendsRecover.com, and that we do not endorse any of the advertisers or their sites, or any third parties or their sites or any of their products, services, opinions, or advice, and in order to participate, you waive your right to hold Friends Recover, LLC and FriendsRecover.com legally responsible for all website matters, and you agree to release, indemnify, and hold harmless Friends Recover, LLC and FriendsRecover.com from any and all responsibility, liability, claims, or lawsuits regarding said website, your participation therein, and any and all matters relating to advertisers and third party users. THIS FriendsRecover.com WEBSITE IS OWNED BY Friends Recover, LLC, A MASSACHUSETTS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AND BOTH REFERENCES ARE INTERCHANGABLE THROUGHOUT THIS AGREEMENT AND ARE HEREIN REFERRED TO AS "FriendsRecover".
- Eligibility: By using FriendsRecover, you represent and warrant that (a) all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; (c) you are 13 years of age or older; and (d) your use of FriendsRecover does not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your profile may be deleted and your membership may be terminated without warning, if we believe that you are under 13 years of age.
- Term: This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use FriendsRecover or are a Member. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Member's Account Settings page. FriendsRecover.com may terminate your Membership at any time, without warning. Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect.
- Password: When you sign up to become a Member, you will also be asked to choose a password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify FriendsRecover.com immediately at admin@friendsrecover.com. If you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account.
- Non-commercial Use by Members: FriendsRecover is for the personal use of Members only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by FriendsRecover.com. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of FriendsRecover, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized framing of or linking to the FriendsRecover 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 FriendsRecover.
- No Medical or Psychiatric Advice: FriendsRecover does not provide medical advice or offer medical or psychiatric opinions. While we will monitor content as time allows, we are not responsible for the opinions, advice, recommendations, advertising or suggestions of any participating member. Anyone who has a medical problem should contact a physician to get medical or therapeutic help. Anyone who feels at risk for suicide should call 911 immediately. The function of this site is simply to allow a circle of friends to exchange opinions and information and nothing more. Therefore, before you create a profile and enter into conversation in a forum, we will require you to sign an acknowledgement that you understand these terms of use and that you forever agree to release, discharge, indemnify, and hold harmless Friends Recover, LLC and FriendsRecover.com, its agents, employees and owners from any and all claims, debts, actions, causes of action, suits, damages, and any and all claims, demands, and liabilities, both in Law and in Equity regarding said Website and LLC in general and your participation therein.
- No Offensive Material: As a member of FriendsRecover, we will expect you to follow certain content rules, including the prohibition of any content which is illegal or otherwise prohibited. Illegal or prohibited content would include content which holds itself out as medical or legal advice, which invites other participants to engage in a criminal activity which offers other participants an opportunity to participate in a financial scheme, pyramid, chain letter, or otherwise invites participants to send money to the poster, or which contains sexually suggestive, racially offensive, threatening or abusive language. The right to determine what material offends the online community will be the sole decision of the moderator.
- Information We Collect: Use of the Site requires that you create an account with our Site. The process of creating an account requires that you provide us with certain information, referred to herein as "Account Data." Account Data shall include your functioning email address, birth date, desired user name, password, and any other information you may choose to provide in connection with the creation of your account profile. During sign-up and thereafter, we may also require and/or collect your IP address(es), referring website information, Internet browser used to access the Site, country, zip code, gender, and/or other data regarding search history, browsing history, and registration and user history (collectively, "Passive Information"). Please note that we may log and store your IP address information, which, while it does not identify an individual by name, it may, with the cooperation of the ISP, be used to locate and identify an individual using the Internet. Used alone or in cooperation with your ISP, your IP address can be used to reveal what geographic area you are connecting from, or which ISP you are using. Your IP address may be used to address problems with our server, administer our Site and/or to gather broad demographic information about our Members. Finally, the other websites that you visit have IP addresses, and we may collect the IP addresses of those websites and their pages, as well. We also collect information regarding all messages posted, shared, and/or sent through the Site (the "Public Information").
- How This Information is Used: Account Data is used for customer support, to convey messages regarding your membership with the Site and other matters related to the use of your account. Passive information is used to help better tailor your experience on the Site with reading suggestions and advertisements based upon your past use of the Site. Passive Information is also used in the aggregate to maintain and improve the Site based upon all members' usage of the Site. Passive Information may be collected through the use of "cookies." If you do not wish to store "cookie" information on your computer, you may turn off this in your web browser; however, please be aware that doing so will not disable the Passive Information collected by the Site. We may use the Account Information and/or Passive Information to contact you about changes to the Site, new services, features, or products we offer, or other information we think you may find valuable. If at any time you do not wish to receive such information, you may "opt-out" by changing your account settings here or by emailing us at privacy@FriendsRecover.com.
Please note that it may take up to ten (10) days for the change to be fully effective. Please note, we will never send you an email directly or through our marketing partners without your consent. Please immediately report to us any email you may receive, without your prior authorization, that purports to promote the Site or relates to the Site in any other way. - With Whom We Share Information: Please note that all Public Information is considered to be in the public domain and will be readily available to our members. However, we do not share your information with any third party without your prior consent.
- Miscellaneous: We reserve the right to release your information (both Account Information and Passive Information) in the event that:
- at our sole discretion if we believe that the Site is being or has been used to commit, or help commit, any unlawful act;
- we believe that you may harm, or have harmed, the property or rights of us, the Program's other members or any other third party;
- to third parties such as Internet credit processors, server security contractors or other necessary for us to provide you with services, if applicable,;
- if another party is reviewing our records because our company or assets may be sold or acquired;
- if the information is subpoenaed or otherwise required in a court proceeding;
- in the event that you violate or breach an agreement with the Site including, but not limited to, this Privacy Policy or Terms of Use;
- when we otherwise deem it necessary or appropriate; and/or
- in the event that you have submitted fraudulent or otherwise invalid information to this Site.
If requested or required to disclose your identity or contact information by legal order or action, your use of the Site indicates your agreement that we shall not be liable for damages or results thereof, and you agree not to bring any action or claim regarding such disclosure and you agree to release, indemnify, and hold harmless FriendsRecover from any and all responsibility, liability, claims, or lawsuits regarding said website and your participation therein. - How We Secure Account Information and Passive Information: We secure your personal information submitted by you by using reasonable technical efforts to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, or accidental loss or destruction of Account Information and Passive Information. Efforts we may take to ensure security include but are not limited to: maintaining our own servers under our control and/or monitoring of our network and data for intrusions. Communications you may have with us via email or mail may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures are in place prior to your sending information. Therefore, if you choose to communicate with us through these means, you are assuming the risk of doing so, and we request that you do not send or post sensitive information through these means.
- Privacy Policy and Security: FriendsRecover will collect information from participants and store it. The information we will collect when you visit our website includes: your email address and IP address, along with the information you have entered (name, date of birth, location, pictures). FriendsRecover will never share your information with other parties without your consent. Consent to share your information is asked when you register and can be changed at any time through your account settings. On occasion, we may send you an email notifying you of new services available or containing marketing information. You will always have the opportunity to click on "Remove me from the notifications emails" on your website so that you do not receive advertising information. FriendsRecover has implemented security procedures designed to protect your data privacy, and we monitor our site to make sure the data we have collected remains secure, to delete spam, and to identify and report attempted security breaches. Nevertheless, you agree to use this website "as is;" there may be occasions when the site is down for service or otherwise, or when security is breached. We ultimately make no warranty or guaranty as to the quality, accuracy, reliability, or security of the webpage.
- Changes to this Privacy Policy: The Privacy Policy may change at any time by posting such revised policy with a new effective date. You agree that we are under no duty to send you notice of any such change and that your continued use of the Site following the posting of a revised Privacy Policy with a new effective date indicates your agreement to the changes.
- Links to Other Websites: This website will contain links to Third Party sites, which will contain content over which FriendsRecover has no control. Bear in mind when you follow a link to another website, that FriendsRecover has no responsibility for what you find there, and does not review, moderate or maintain those sites. We do not endorse or recommend their products. Follow those links and use those websites at your own risk.
- Third Party Advertisements: We may utilize the services of outside advertising agencies to advertise our services and goods and/or services offered by themselves or by third parties. Either we or our advertising agencies may use cookies and/or "action tags" to measure advertising effectiveness on an anonymous basis. Should you elect to visit any advertiser's website, we cannot and do not make any warranties or representations about products and services or applicable terms and conditions or privacy policies for such advertiser's website. Also, we cannot, and do not, make any warranties or representations about the products, services, or applicable terms and conditions or privacy policies of any business with advertisements appearing anywhere on the Site or brought to your attention through the Site or any email from the Site or its advertising partners, regardless of whether or not there may be any mention of, or references to, the Site on such business's website.
Note that we do not endorse any of the advertisers or their sites, or any third parties or their sites or any of their products, opinions, and advice, and you agree to release, indemnify, and hold us harmless regarding any loss, claim, damages, lawsuits, and liability regarding said advertisers and third parties for any of their products, services, opinions, and advice. - Proprietary Rights in Content on FriendsRecover.com:
- We rely on your representation that you own the content posted by you on our website and/or that you have the right to grant a license for the same. And further that you have not violated any person's rights or any privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, and contract rights. By posting on this site, you agree to be responsible for all royalties, fees, or any monies due another.
- FriendsRecover.com does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post to the FriendsRecover website. After posting your Content to the FriendsRecover website, you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the FriendsRecover website, you hereby grant to FriendsRecover.com a limited license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on and through the FriendsRecover website.
- The FriendsRecover website contains Content of FriendsRecover.com. In FriendsRecover.com, Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other laws, and FriendsRecover.com owns and retains all rights in the FriendsRecover.com Content and FriendsRecover website. FriendsRecover.com hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the FriendsRecover.com Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal use in connection with viewing the FriendsRecover website and using the FriendsRecover website.
- The FriendsRecover website contains Content of Users and other FriendsRecover.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 FriendsRecover website.
- 19. Content Posted:
- FriendsRecover.com may delete any Content that in the sole judgment of FriendsRecover.com violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal, or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person. FriendsRecover.com assumes no responsibility for monitoring FriendsRecover for inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time FriendsRecover.com chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor, FriendsRecover.com nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the content, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting any such Content.
- You are solely responsible for the content that you post on or through any of the FriendsRecover website and any material or information that you transmit to other Members and for your interactions with other Users. FriendsRecover.com does not endorse and has no control over the Content. Content is not necessarily reviewed by FriendsRecover.com prior to posting and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of FriendsRecover.com. FriendsRecover.com makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the Content or to the accuracy and reliability of the Content or any material or information that you transmit to other Members.
- Content/Activity Prohibited: No illegal or harmful contact or activity is allowed to post on or through the FriendsRecover website. FriendsRecover.com reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in FriendsRecover.com's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from FriendsRecover and terminating the Membership of such violators.
- Proprietary Material:
- All material created for this website, including software, design, language, and the FriendsRecover name and logo, is protected by copyright, trademark patent, trade secret, and any other applicable laws. You may not copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell the contents. If you have any questions, comments, or complaints, please contact the webmaster at copyrights@FriendsRecover.com.
- By posting your own Content, pictures, or opinions, to the website, you give FriendsRecover.com a limited license to use, modify, display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on our website and through the FriendsRecover website. We need this so that we may publish your information, your Content, music, or image, without paying you a fee. This license is non-exclusive (you can give or sell the same material to anyone else) and will terminate when you remove your Content from the FriendsRecover website, which you may do at any time.
- Under special agreement with certain authors who have been invited to participate on the website, their copyrighted material has been loaned to the FriendsRecover website under a limited license. No user, participant, or member of FriendsRecover may copy, use, modify, reproduce, distribute, or otherwise disseminate this copyrighted material, under the full penalty of law. These authors have not waived any of their intellectual property protections, and their material is protected by copyright law.
- Agreement: I agree that the following is a partial list of the kind of content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the FriendsRecover website:
- is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
- solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
- promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, or libelous;
- promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protected devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
- contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
- solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;
- includes a photograph of another person that you have posted without that person's consent;
- harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
- contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
- provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses
- furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to, making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
- involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
- involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming;"
- uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other unfair, misleading, or deceptive Content intended to draw traffic to the profile.
Terms of Service
Remember the following important considerations:This Agreement sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the FriendsRecover website. By using the FriendsRecover website, you agree to be found by this Agreement. The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use the FriendsRecover website (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully and save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave the FriendsRecover website and discontinue use of the FriendsRecover website immediately. If you wish to become a Member, communicate with other Members, and make use of the FriendsRecover website, you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the Registration process.
This Agreement includes the FriendsRecover's website policy for acceptable use, Content posted, your rights, obligations, and restrictions regarding your use of the FriendsRecover website and FriendsRecover Privacy Policy.
FriendsRecover.com may modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting by FriendsRecover.com on the FriendsRecover Website. You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the FriendsRecover website after any such modification is posted. It is therefore important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes.
Please choose carefully the information you post on FriendsRecover.com and that you provide to other Users. Your FriendsRecover.com profile may not include the following items: telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, and any photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd, excessively violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable subject matter. The FriendsRecover website assumes no responsibility or liability for this material.
FriendsRecover.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any positing (including private messages) by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the FriendsRecover website at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.
Additional Consideration
- Copyright Policy: You may not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of FriendsRecover.com to terminate Membership privileges of any Member who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others upon receipt of proper notification to FriendsRecover.com by the copyright owner's legal agent. Without limited the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the FriendsRecover website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information: (i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (iii) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the FriendsRecover website; (iv) your address, telephone number, and email address; (v) a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (vi) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. FriendsRecover.com's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reach as follows: Copyright Manager, Friends Recover, LLC, 121 Lauricella Lane, Waltham, MA 02452; Attn: copyright Manager, and email copyrights@ FriendsRecover.com.
- Member Disputes: You are solely responsible for your interactions with other FriendsRecover.com Members. FriendsRecover.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
- Privacy: Use of FriendsRecover is governed by our Privacy Policy set forth in this Agreement.
- Disclaimers: FriendsRecover.com is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the FriendsRecover website or in connection with FriendsRecover, whether caused by Users of FriendsRecover or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in FriendsRecover. Profiles created and posted by Members on the FriendsRecover Website may contain links to other websites. FriendsRecover.com is not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites, and such websites are in no way investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy or completeness by FriendsRecover.com. Inclusion of any linked website on FriendsRecover does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by FriendsRecover.com. When you access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. FriendsRecover.com takes no responsibility for third-party advertisements which are posted on this FriendsRecover Website or through FriendsRecover, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers. FriendsRecover.com is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any Use of FriendsRecover. FriendsRecover.com assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any User or Member communications. FriendsRecover.com is 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 any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet or on or to any person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with FriendsRecover. Under no circumstances shall FriendsRecover.com be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of FriendsRecover, attendance at FriendsRecover.com event, from any Content posted on or through FriendsRecover, or from the conduct of any Users of FriendsRecover, whether online or offline. FriendsRecover is provided "AS-IS' and as available and FriendsRecover.com expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. FriendsRecover.com cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of FriendsRecover. FriendsRecover does not endorse any of its advertisers, their websites, or conduct of any of its parties.
- Release and Indemnity: You agree to release, indemnify and hold harmless Friends Recover, LLC, and FriendsRecover.com, it's subsidiaries and affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners, employees, and owners from any loss, lawsuit, damages, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by you or any third party due to your membership, use, or participation in this website or arising out of your use of the FriendsRecover website in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above and/or if any Content that you post on the FriendsRecover website or through the FriendsRecover website.
Also, in no event shall Friends Recover, LLC and FriendsRecover.com be liable to you or any third party for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages with regard to your membership, use, or participation in this website. - You agree that this Agreement shall be binding, not only on you but also upon your heirs, successors and assigns, fiduciaries and personal and legal representatives.
- U.S. Export Controls: Software available in connection with FriendsRecover (the "Software") is further subject to United States export controls. No Software may be downloaded from the FriendsRecover website or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws. Downloading or using the Software is at your sole risk.
- Disputes: If there is any dispute about or involving the FriendsRecover website, you agree that the dispute shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA, without regard to conflict of law provisions and you agree to exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts of the United States located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and/or the City of Waltham. Either FriendsRecover.com or you may demand that any dispute between FriendsRecover.com and you about or involving FriendsRecover website must be settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, provided that the foregoing shall not prevent FriendsRecover.com from seeking injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.
- Other: This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the FriendsRecover Website and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and FriendsRecover.com regarding the use of the FriendsRecover website. The failure of Friends Recover, LLC and FriendsRecover.com to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. FriendsRecover.com is a trademark of Friends Recover, LLC. 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. THIS WEBSITE IS OWNED BY Friends Recover, LLC, A MASSACHUSETTS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

