Terms of Use

Portions of this 12 Million Lives website (the “Site”) provide you and other users an opportunity to transmit, post, display, submit and exchange information, opinions, ideas, photographs, images, video, creative works, information, messages, transmissions and material to us, the Site and others (“Post” or “Postings”). Postings do not reflect the views of 24 Hour Fitness, and 24 Hour Fitness does not have any obligation to monitor, edit or screen any Postings, but may do so in its sole and absolute discretion. 24 Hour Fitness is not endorsing any Post in any way. Neither 24 Hour Fitness nor its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies, and their respective officers, directors, and employees, subsidiaries and/or affiliates shall be liable for any Posting that is in violation of these Rules or for any other reason.

If a Posting originates from you or your account, you hereby agree not to post any materials that:

  1. interfere with anyone else’s use of the Site;

  2. are abusive, illegal, defamatory, libelous, indecent, obscene, offensive, or threatening in any way;

  3. encourage anyone to break the law;

  4. violate anyone’s copyright, trademark or other property right;

  5. interfere with the privacy of any other user;

  6. contain a virus or any other harmful component; or

  7. contain false or misleading statements of fact or descriptions of the origin of the material or the communication.

You acknowledge that anything you submit to the Site by way of any Posting is routed through 24 Hour Fitness’ servers and the Internet and that, therefore, you have no expectation of privacy with regard to any such submission. You acknowledge that the Posting and features on this Site are postings for public and not private communications. Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online, for example, via message boards or chat rooms, that information can be collected and used by people you do not know. We cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online; you make such disclosures at your own risk. Users under the age of 18 should be especially careful not to provide any personally identifying information while using chat rooms or message boards. All users of chat rooms and message boards must follow acceptable standards of behavior when posting messages online.

The message boards provided on this Site are for the purpose of exchanging views and information about experiences with 24 Hour Fitness [note: define further?]. 24 Hour Fitness reserves the right to terminate the account or suspend the posting privileges of anyone who Posts materials unrelated to this topic or for any other reason. Further, please do not send original creative materials of any kind. All Postings and information contained therein will be deemed, and will remain, the property of 24 Hour Fitness. You represent and warrant that you are authorized to grant all rights in the Posting to 24 Hour Fitness. Disclosure, submission, or offer of any Posting shall constitute an assignment to 24 Hour Fitness of all worldwide rights, titles, and interests in all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in such Posting.

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any defamatory, libelous, obscene, pornographic, profane, threatening, or unlawful material or any material that constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. Although 24 Hour Fitness reserves the right from time to time to monitor or review bulletin boards, chatrooms, discussions, postings, transmissions, and the like on the Site, 24 Hour Fitness is under no obligation to do so and assumes no liability or responsibility arising from the contents of any such communications or for any defamation, error, inaccuracy, libel, obscenity, or profanity contained in any such communication. 24 Hour Fitness reserves the right to remove or edit content from any Posting at any time and for any reason although we have no duty to do so. 24 Hour Fitness may change, edit, or remove any user material or conversations that are illegal, indecent, obscene, or offensive, or that violate 24 Hour Fitness’ policies in any way. Further, 24 Hour Fitness may, copy, publish, distribute, translate, and otherwise use in any medium any Posting and 24 Hour Fitness will own exclusively all such rights, titles, and interest and shall not be limited in any way in its use, commercial or otherwise, of the Posting.

24 Hour Fitness will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing 24 Hour Fitness to disclose the identity of anyone posting such materials. 24 Hour Fitness is and shall be under no obligation to: (1) maintain any of your or any user’s Posting in confidence; (2) to pay to you or any user any compensation for any Posting; or (3) to respond to any of your or any other user’s Postings. Posting is for noncommercial purposes only and you may not Post in any manner which does or is intended to promote or generate revenue for any business enterprise or commercial activity.

You may report any users or content on the site that is in violation of our terms of use. You will need to be logged in and then visit one of the stories on the site in order to flag the offending content. From there, you may flag the specific user and/or content, provide the reason(s) they are in violation, and privately communicate directly to us about your concerns. We will not respond to your message and we reserve the right to take or refrain from taking any or all steps available to us once we receive any such message. We appreciate your assistance in helping us maintain 12millionlives.com.

You agree to comply with any additional terms which are referred to on this Site or any subsite within the Site. 24 Hour Fitness reserves the right to modify these Rules of Conduct at any time by posting amended Rules of Conduct on the Site. The modifications will become effective immediately upon posting.

The Postings are subject to 24 Hour Fitness’ Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. For information on 24 Hour Fitness’ Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, please click here.

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