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Terms & Conditions

(General Public)

Updated September 30, 2019

The terms and conditions below (the “terms”) are what govern your use of the TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) website on the Internet and World Wide Web. These terms are a legal contract between you and TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) and it’s parent company and sole intellectual property holder ANYA MANES ENTERPRISES, LLC, a limited liability company located in San Francisco, CA (“we” or “us”.) They govern your access to, and your use of our website, which (as you know) is located at https://www.talkingaboutsex.com (the “site”). These terms also govern your use of any services and products we provide on the site. If you do not agree with any of these terms, please do not access or otherwise use this site and/or our services and products.

Your use of this site, services and/or products on this site means that you agree to abide by each of the terms below. TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) may make changes to the services and products offered on this site, at any time and without notice, and TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) can change these terms at any time without notice by posting updated terms of use here on the site.

If you continue to use the site after such changes have been posted, it means that you agree to the new terms, even if you have not reviewed the changes. Therefore you really should check the terms of use posted here periodically for updates and changes.

REFUND POLICY

All purchases from TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) are subject to our companies refund policy. You can find detailed information about the product you purchased and it’s refund policy on our Refund Policy page.

GENERAL USE

TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) provides content, services and products throughout this site. All information, documents, products and services, including content, trademarks, logos, graphics and images (which are grouped together under the term “Materials”) are the copyrighted work of TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) licensors and/or contributors.

TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use the Materials solely for your personal use or internal business use. You agree that you will only use this site and the Materials for lawful uses.

You agree that you have no right to modify, edit, copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, alter, enhance or in any way exploit any of the Materials provided by TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) in any manner. Your limited license terminates automatically, without notice to you, if you breach any of these terms.

Upon termination of your limited license, you agree to immediately destroy any downloaded or printed Materials. Except as stated herein, you acknowledge that you have no right, title or interest in or to the site or any Materials on any legal basis.

You are prohibited from taking any action to circumvent or attempt to circumvent the security and access control provisions of the site. Such prohibited conduct includes, but is not limited to, any efforts to: (a) log into an account with a password not assigned to you; (b) access personally identifiable information not intended for you; (c) test the security measures on the site and/or attempt to identify system vulnerabilities; (d) impersonate any other user of the site and/or the products and services, forge any of the header information in any posting, or tamper with the TCP/IP packet header; (d) modify, reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile or otherwise attempt or allow others to attempt to discover the underlying software code for the site and/or the products and services; or (f) overwhelm or disable the site or the products and services or interfere with the access and use of the site and/or the services by any other user.

If TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) becomes aware of any of the aforementioned activities on your part, we may investigate and take action. When appropriate, we may work with law enforcement to investigate and prosecute offenders.

Your continued use of the Site and/or the products and services is expressly conditioned on your compliance with the prohibitions, obligations and restrictions just stated. Without limiting the foregoing, you acknowledge that TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) prohibits and you agree not to:

  • Take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large burden on the site’s infrastructure;
  • Intentionally expose the site and/or any products or services provided on TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) to a computer virus or any other program or code that is intended to disrupt or disable the operations of the site and/or our products or services;
  • Frame or link to the site or any of the content or information available from the site, unless TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) expressly consents to such linking and/or framing;
  • Use any spider, robot or other program, code or device to copy, retrieve or index any portion of the TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) site;
  • Harvest or otherwise collect information about other users for any purpose other than expressly permitted herein;
  • Post any false or inaccurate Submissions (defined below) or information on any part of the site;
  • Use the products and/or services and/or the site to violate any applicable law or regulation, including, without limitation, the infringement of any copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property rights, or violate the privacy or rights of any other person;
  • Post any Submission or information that is discriminatory, hateful, obscene, vulgar, abusive, defamatory, sexually-orientated, threatening, or otherwise objectionable;
  • Include any hyperlinks or any misleading, irrelevant and/or hidden code or keywords in any Submissions posted by you;
  • Harass, stalk, or otherwise subject any other user of the site and/or products and services to inappropriate or unwanted contact;
  • Make any additions, changes, alterations and/or deletions to any Submissions posted by any user without the express written authorization of such other user;
  • TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) reserves the right to terminate our relationship with you under these terms and prohibit your access to the site and/or products or services or to edit, remove or close any Submission or thread for any reason.

The foregoing list of prohibitions is not intended to be complete or exclusive.

You acknowledge and agree that there is the chance that you may be exposed to content that may be offensive or objectionable to you. You hereby acknowledge and agree that all submissions submitted by you or any other user express the views of the author, and TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM). will not be held responsible for or liable for the content in such submissions.

Your access to the site and Services is undertaken at your own risk and TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) is not responsible for any offensive or otherwise objectionable materials that may be posted by any third party.

In addition, the foregoing prohibitions do not impose on TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) any obligation to monitor or remove any Submissions or other information or communication submitted by you or any other user.

SUBMISSIONS

Subject to the terms and conditions of the TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) Privacy Policy, when you submit data and/or post communications on the site (collectively “Submissions”), you grant to TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) , an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide right (including moral right) and license to use, reproduce, display, distribute, modify and create derivative works of Submissions, in whole or in part, and to incorporate Submissions into other works in any media and utilizing any technology now known or later developed. You warrant that you have all rights, and no third party has retained any such rights, (including moral rights) in and to Submissions you may post to the site.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) site may be linked to other sites that are not owned, operated, or managed by TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM). We provide these links to you only as a convenience, and TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) is not responsible for the content or links displayed on these third party sites.

THIRD PARTY CONTENT

Some information and content may be provided by third parties to TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) (“Third Party Content”). The Third Party Content is the copyrighted work of the creator/licensor, and TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) .

You agree that you will only display the Third Party Content on your personal computer for your personal or internal business use. You acknowledge and agree that you have no right to download, cache, reproduce, modify, display (except as set forth in this paragraph), alter, edit, manipulate or enhance any of the Third Party Content in any manner.

TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) disclaims all express, implied and statutory warranties and conditions with regard to third party content. This includes, but is not limited to, all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

UNAUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES

Unauthorized use of any Materials or Third Party Content contained on this site may violate certain regulations and laws. You shall indemnify and hold TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) and its officers, directors, employees, affiliates, agents, licensors, and business partners harmless from and against any and all damages, costs, expenses, and liabilities, including attorneys’ fees, that TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) or any other indemnified party suffers in relation to, arising from, or for the purpose of avoiding any claim or demand from a third party in the event that your use of the site or the use of the site by any person using your user name and/or password violates any applicable law or regulation, or the rights of any third party.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

All information, data, and screens appearing on TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) , including web pages, documents, site design, text, graphics, logos, images and icons, and the selection and arrangement thereof, are the sole property of TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) and ANYA MANES ENTERPRISES unless otherwise specified.

All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved worldwide. Any reproduction, distribution, modification, retransmission, or publication of any copyrighted material on the site is strictly prohibited without the express written consent of the copyright holder, except as otherwise required by applicable law.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

Your use of this site, the Materials and/or the products and services is at your own risk. You assume all risks of using this site, the Materials and/or the products and services. TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) does not warrant the accuracy or timeliness of the materials or the Third Party Content contained on this Site. Neither the Materials nor the Third Party Content have been verified or authenticated in whole or in part by TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM), and they may not be current or may include inaccuracies or typographical errors.

TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) shall have no liability for Materials and/or Third Party Content that is not current or for any errors or omissions in the Materials and/or the Third Party Content, whether provided by TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) or our licensors. TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) does not guarantee that you will achieve any economic return or benefit from the use of the Materials.

TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) , for itself and its licensors, makes no express, implied or statutory representations, warranties, or guarantees in connection with the site, the products and services or any Materials or Third Party Content, relating to the quality, suitability, truth, accuracy, currency or completeness of any information or material contained on the site. This includes, without limitation, the Materials and the Third Party Content.

TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) disclaims and excludes any and all implied warranties, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of third party rights. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the site, the products and services, the Materials, Third Party Content, and any information or material contained on the site is provided to you on an “as is,” “as available” and “where is” basis with no warranty of any kind.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

In no event shall TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) be liable to you or any third party for any indirect, extraordinary, exemplary, punitive, special, incidental, or consequential damages (including loss of data, revenue, profits, use or other economic advantage) however arising, even ifTALKING ABOUT SEX(TM), have been advised of the possibility of such damage.

TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) aggregate liability to you or any third party for any damages resulting from your displaying, copying, or downloading any material on the site or reliance on the information and/or material presented on the site shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00).

LOCAL LAWS AND EXPORT CONTROL

If you use this site outside the United States of America, you are responsible for compliance with all applicable local laws. TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) controls and operates this site from its headquarters in the United States of America and the Materials may not be appropriate or available for use in other locations.

CONSEQUENCES OF VIOLATION

If you violate these terms, TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) may terminate your access to the site or Password-Restricted Areas without notice. TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) prefers to advise you of your inappropriate behavior and recommend any necessary corrective action. However, certain violations of these terms, as determined by TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM), will result in immediate termination of your access to the site or Password-Restricted Areas.

TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) reserves the right to terminate any password-restricted account for any reason. These terms are governed by California Law and controlling U.S. Federal Law, without regard to the choice or conflicts of law provisions. Any disputes relating to these terms or the site will be heard in courts located in California. If any of these terms is found to be inconsistent with applicable law, then such terms shall be interpreted to reflect the intentions of the parties, and no other terms will be modified.

TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) ‘s failure to enforce any of these terms is not a waiver of such terms. These terms are the entire agreement between you and TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) and supersede any and all prior or contemporaneous agreements and understandings between you and TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM) These terms may not be modified except pursuant to a written amendment that is executed by an officer of TALKING ABOUT SEX(TM)

Affiliate Program Terms of Service

(Affiliates Only)

Agreement

By signing up to be an Affiliate in the Talking About Sex Affiliate Program (“Program”) you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Service”).

Talking About Sex reserves the right to update and change the Terms of Service from time to time without notice. Any new features that augment or enhance the current Program, including the release of new tools and resources, shall be subject to the Terms of Service. Continued use of the Program after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes.

Violation of any of the terms below will result in the termination of your Account and for forfeiture of any outstanding affiliate commission payments earned during the violation. You agree to use the Affiliate Program at your own risk.

Account Terms

  • You must be 18 years or older to be part of this Program.
  • You must live in the United States to be an Affiliate.
  • You must be a human. Accounts registered by “bots” or other automated methods are not permitted.
  • You must provide your legal full name, a valid email address, and any other information requested in order to complete the signup process.
  • Your login may only be used by one person – a single login shared by multiple people is not permitted.
  • You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and password. Talking About Sex cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation.
  • You are responsible for all Content posted and activity that occurs under your account.
  • One person or legal entity may not maintain more than one account.
  • You may not use the Affiliate Program for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. You must not, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws).
  • You may not use the Affiliate Program to earn money on your own Talking About Sex product accounts.

Links/graphics on your site, in your emails, or other communications

Once you have signed up for the Affiliate Program, you will be assigned a unique Affiliate Code. You are permitted to place links, banners, or other graphics we provide with your Affiliate Code on your site, in your emails, or in other communications. We will provide you with guidelines, link styles, and graphical artwork to use in linking to Talking About Sex. We may change the design of the artwork at any time without notice, but we won’t change the dimensions of the images without proper notice.

To permit accurate tracking, reporting, and referral fee accrual, we will provide you with special link formats to be used in all links between your site and the Talking About Sex. You must ensure that each of the links between your site and the Talking About Sex properly utilizes such special link formats. Links to the Talking About Sex placed on your site pursuant to this Agreement and which properly utilize such special link formats are referred to as “Special Links.” You will earn referral fees only with respect to sales on a Talking About Sex product occurring directly through Special Links; we will not be liable to you with respect to any failure by you or someone you refer to use Special Links or incorrectly type your Affiliate Code, including to the extent that such failure may result in any reduction of amounts that would otherwise be paid to you pursuant to this Agreement.

Affiliate links should point to the page of the product being promoted.

Referral fees/commissions and payment

For a Product sale to be eligible to earn a referral fee, the customer must click-through a Special Link from your site, email, or other communications to https://www.talkingaboutsex.com and complete an order for a product during that session.

We will only pay commissions on links that are automatically tracked and reported by our systems. We will not pay commissions if someone says they purchased or someone says they entered a referral code if it was not tracked by our system. We can only pay commissions on business generated through properly formatted special links that were automatically tracked by our systems.

We reserve the right to disqualify commissions earned through fraudulent, illegal, or overly aggressive, questionable sales or marketing methods.

Payments only begin once you’ve earned more than $20 in affiliate income. If your affiliate account never crosses the $20 threshold, your commissions will not be realized or paid. We are only responsible for paying accounts that have crossed the $20 threshold.

Identifying yourself as a Talking About Sex Affiliate

You may not issue any press release with respect to this Agreement or your participation in the Program; such action may result in your termination from the Program. In addition, you may not in any manner misrepresent or embellish the relationship between us and you, say you develop our products, say you are part of Talking About Sex or express or imply any relationship or affiliation between us and you or any other person or entity except as expressly permitted by this Agreement (including by expressing or implying that we support, sponsor, endorse, or contribute money to any charity or other cause).

You may not purchase products through your affiliate links for your own use. Such purchases may result (in our sole discretion) in the withholding of referral fees and/or the termination of this Agreement.

Payment schedule

As long as your current affiliate earning are over $20, you’ll be paid each month. If you haven’t earned $20 since your last payment, we’ll pay you the following monht after you’ve crossed the threshold.

Customer definition

Customers who buy products through this Program will be deemed to be our customers. Accordingly, all of our rules, policies, and operating procedures concerning customer orders, customer service, and product sales will apply to those customers. We may change our policies and operating procedures at any time. For example, we will determine the prices to be charged for products sold under this Program in accordance with our own pricing policies. Product prices and availability may vary from time to time. Because price changes may affect Products that you have listed on your site, you should not display product prices on your site. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to present accurate information, but we cannot guarantee the availability or price of any particular product.

Your responsibilities

You will be solely responsible for the development, operation, and maintenance of your site and for all materials that appear on your site. For example, you will be solely responsible for:

– The technical operation of your site and all related equipment
– Ensuring the display of Special Links on your site does not violate any agreement between you and any third party (including without limitation any restrictions or requirements placed on you by a third party that hosts your site)
– The accuracy, truth, and appropriateness of materials posted on your site (including, among other things, all Product-related materials and any information you include within or associate with Special Links)
– Ensuring that materials posted on your site do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights, trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights)
– Ensuring that materials posted on your site are not libelous or otherwise illegal
– Ensuring that your site accurately and adequately discloses, either through a privacy policy or otherwise, how you collect, use, store, and disclose data collected from visitors, including, where applicable, that third parties (including advertisers) may serve content and/or advertisements and collect information directly from visitors and may place or recognize cookies on visitors’ browsers.

Compliance with Laws

As a condition to your participation in the Program, you agree that while you are a Program participant you will comply with all laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, permits, judgments, decisions or other requirements of any governmental authority that has jurisdiction over you, whether those laws, etc. are now in effect or later come into effect during the time you are a Program participant. Without limiting the foregoing obligation, you agree that as a condition of your participation in the Program you will comply with all applicable laws (federal, state or otherwise) that govern marketing email, including without limitation, the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and all other anti-spam laws.

Term of the Agreement and Program

The term of this Agreement will begin upon our acceptance of your Program application and will end when terminated by either party. Either you or we may terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without cause, by giving the other party written notice of termination. Upon the termination of this Agreement for any reason, you will immediately cease use of, and remove from your site, all links to https://www.talkingaboutsex.com, and all of our trademarks, trade dress, and logos, and all other materials provided by or on behalf of us to you pursuant hereto or in connection with the Program. Talking About Sex reserves the right to end the Program at any time. Upon program termination, Talking About Sex will pay any outstanding earnings accrued above $20.

Termination

Talking About Sex, in its sole discretion, has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Program, or any other Talking About Sex service, for any reason at any time. Such termination of the Service will result in the deactivation or deletion of your Account or your access to your Account, and the forfeiture and relinquishment of all potential or to-be-paid commissions in your Account if they were earned through fraudulent, illegal, or overly aggressive, questionable sales or marketing methods. Talking About Sex reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.

Relationship of Parties

You and we are independent contractors, and nothing in this Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between the parties. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our behalf. You will not make any statement, whether on your site or otherwise, that reasonably would contradict anything in this Section.

Limitations of Liability

We will not be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits, or data) arising in connection with this Agreement or the Program, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Further, our aggregate liability arising with respect to this Agreement and the Program will not exceed the total referral fees paid or payable to you under this Agreement.

Disclaimers

We make no express or implied warranties or representations with respect to the Program or any products sold through the Program (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, noninfringement, or any implied warranties arising out of a course of performance, dealing, or trade usage). In addition, we make no representation that the operation of the Talking About Sex will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.

Independent Investigation

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY AT ANY TIME (DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY) SOLICIT CUSTOMER REFERRALS ON TERMS THAT MAY DIFFER FROM THOSE CONTAINED IN THIS AGREEMENT OR OPERATE WEB SITES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO OR COMPETE WITH YOUR WEB SITE. YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT.

Arbitration

Any dispute relating in any way to this Agreement (including any actual or alleged breach hereof), any transactions or activities under this Agreement or your relationship with us or any of our affiliates shall be submitted to confidential arbitration, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate our intellectual property rights, we may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court (and you consent to non-exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts) or any other court of competent jurisdiction. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator’s award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

Miscellaneous

This Agreement will be governed by the laws of The United States, without reference to rules governing choice of laws. You may not assign this Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Subject to that restriction, this Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns. Our failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provision of this Agreement.

The failure of Talking About Sex to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The Terms of Service constitutes the entire agreement between you and Talking About Sex and govern your use of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and Talking About Sex (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the Terms of Service).