House Rules and Terms of Service

Welcome to HotPop.biz (we call ourselves "HotPop"). HotPop is devoted to helping you have the most fun possible during your visit which is why we have posted on this page a few mandatory rules (we call them "House Rules"). Please take a moment to review our House Rules because by visiting this site you are agreeing to abide by them. If the House Rules don’t work for you and you don’t want to abide by them, please leave and don’t visit our site anymore. If you continue to visit our site, your consent is implied.

1. Registration and Terms
When you fill out our member registration, you are agreeing to follow all our House Rules (it’s not like you have to remember them all--you can check back on this page whenever you want and they’ll be here for your reading pleasure). House Rules might change from time to time, and we will let you know if they do through an e-mail announcement. If you continue to visit HotPop after such a change, understand that your continued visits signify that you agree to abide by the new House Rules.

Also, if you go shopping or use other services through our partners or links, be aware that you are subject to their terms and conditions, so make sure you check them out.

2. Age Participation
If you are under the age of 13, HotPop must have your parents approval before you can become a member and participate in chats, focus groups, sweepstakes, promotions, contests or other things that require you to submit personal information on the HotPop.biz website. HotPop has implemented all kinds of processes and procedures so that we can proudly call ourselves COPPA compliant. COPPA is legislation that makes it illegal for us to collect information or communicate with kids under the age of 13 without their parent or guardian’s written consent. So if you are under 13, Click here and give us your parent or guardian’s home postal address and electronic mail (e-mail) address (if they have one). For more information about COPPA and the way we handle personal information check out our privacy policy. Once we’ve gotten your parents consent and you have been approved to become a member, HotPop will not require our under 13 members to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary for participation in any activity.

3. HotPop Party Etiquette in our chat rooms and message boards
HotPop party etiquette is our way of making sure that you don’t get bummed out because someone doesn’t respect your privacy or doesn’t give you the respect you deserve. We want all of our members to treat each other with common courtesy so that the HotPop environment is fun to be in. Our chat rooms are meant to be friendly places, so if your conduct is rude and/or offensive, you will be asked to leave or escorted off the site by our HotPop’s party bouncers (monitors) and your account could be permanently terminated. Rude and/or offensive behavior includes such things as use of profanity or racial slurs, or by being sexually explicit. You will be able to find a full list of Community Guidelines at link to Guideline page, but the following are the basics:

a.) Personal Information: When registering to become a HotPop member, you promise to provide accurate and complete information about yourself. Accurate records are tremendously important in our effort to protect your privacy and comply with the law. It is also really important because it allows HotPop to maintain the site’s freshness by offering services and information that interest you.

b.) Password Protection: We have lots of good stuff that will be saved on our site for your sole viewing pleasure (such as your Sweet 16 party planning, your party photos, your address book and lots more). You will choose a password so that you can access this information. It is your responsibility to keep your password private and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur on your account. So, you shouldn’t share your password with others. And please contact HotPop quickly if you think someone might be using your password without permission. Click here to contact us.

c.) Illegal Activities: Remember the difference between right and wrong when you are visiting HotPop. HotPop is not a place for abusive or threatening behavior, promotion of illegal activity, or invading the privacy of other members. We are here to have a great time but only within the confines of the law. Don’t hang out on our site for illegal purposes such as transmission of material that is unlawful, harassing, libelous (untrue or damaging to others) and don’t infringe the copyright or intellectual property of others either.

d.) HotPop’s Cool Content: Some of what you see on our web pages has been created by either HotPop employees or HotPop members (see below). All text, designs, and graphics seen here are protected by some copyright and/or trademark laws. So please use our page for entertainment purposes, but do not copy, reproduce or distribute the content on our site.

e.) Your Cool Content: HotPop may want to use your thought provoking, poetic, witty, wise or wacky message board posting, e-mail or chat remark. By communicating your ingenious thoughts on the HotPop site, you are telling us it is OK to repeat what you say, put it in one of our advertisements or use it in the marketing of the HotPop site, etc. By sharing your greatness with the HotPop community you are granting us a license to use your comments in any way we want, anywhere and forever (immortality is yours!). But please don’t post materials that have been trademarked or copyrighted by anyone other than yourself as by communicating them on the site you are representing that you have the right to do it, regardless of everything we just said in this paragraph, we will not do anything that conflicts in any way, shape or form with our privacy policy.

4. Privacy
HotPop and our partners respect your privacy and security issues. Our privacy policy is linked to every page so that a complete description of all of your privacy rights is accessible and convenient. Please feel free to look at them often.

5. Visitor Polls/Pop Quiz
Every so often, HotPop will put a Poll or "pop Quiz" on our site. By voting you are not disclosing any other information other than the answer to the question posed. Your vote will not be traced or linked to you in any way.

6. Contests/Sweepstakes
HotPop often hosts all kinds of Sweepstakes and Contests. In order to register, you have to enter some personal information (like your name, phone number, e-mail address, etc.). HotPop uses this information to contact the lucky winners and deliver their prizes. HotPop will not share this information with third parties unless we disclose that fact to you first.

7. General Disclaimer
All information on this site is provided courtesy of HotPop. While HotPop makes every reasonable effort to give you accurate information, HotPop makes no claims, warranties, promises, or guarantees as to the accuracy, reliability, currency, adequacy or completeness of the information provided and urges you to obtain independent verification. As we mentioned previously, all inquiries or comments submitted to HotPop become the property of HotPop and may be posted or published on HotPop’s website, in its magazine or on its television or radio programs.

HotPop provides information of a general nature which is designed for informational and entertainment purposes only and are not meant to be a substitute for medical, health, legal, or financial advice from a professional. Consult with a professional for any specific medical, health, legal, or financial concern. HotPop does not endorse any of the treatments, medications, or products discussed herein.

8. Limitation Of Liability
You agree that HotPop will not be liable for any harms (which lawyers and courts often call direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages) including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even if HotPop has been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from: the use or the inability to use the site; any cost of getting substitute goods and services resulting from any products, data, information or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through or from HotPop; unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data; statements or conduct from anyone on the site; or any other matter relating to HotPop.

If you don’t understand the House Rules or have any kind of question, comment or suggestion, please click here to email us. We would love to hear from you.