Hi,

We appreciate your interest in Google Friend Connect and would now like to invite you to try the service. You can get started by visiting our homepage and clicking the “Set up a new site” button. Please sign in with your youremail@gmail.com account to http://www.google.com/friendconnect

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If you need additional support, please visit our Help Center:
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Google Friend Connect Team

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Friend Connect Developer Terms of Service

1. Your Terms with Google

Your use of Google’s Friend Connect services (collectively, the “Services”) is governed by these Terms of Service (the “Terms”). “Google” means Google Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States, and its subsidiaries or affiliates involved in providing the Services.

2. Your Account and Use of the Services

You are responsible for the security of your passwords and for any use of your account. You must immediately notify Google of any unauthorized use of your password or account by following the instructions at this link: http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=58585.

Your use of the Services must comply with all applicable laws, regulations and ordinances, including any laws regarding the import or export of data or software.

You may not interfere with the Services or access the Services other than by the interface provided by Google.

3. Service Policies

Your use of the Services is limited to their intended use. You agree to comply with Google’s program policies and other published policies related to the Services. Google’s Privacy Policy explains how Google treats your personal information and protects your privacy when you use the Services. Google responds to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable intellectual property law (including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and may terminate the accounts of infringers.

4. Service Content

The Services may include content that you find offensive. Google may screen, modify, refuse or remove certain content, but is not responsible for and does not endorse any third-party content. Some Services may display advertisements that may be targeted to content or information stored on the Services or to queries you made through the Services or to other information. If you create, transmit, display or store content while using the Services, you must have the legal right to do so. When you provide your content through the windows and other gadgets constituting the Services, you give Google a perpetual license to copy, distribute, create derivative works based on, perform, display, and otherwise use the content in connection with the Services.

5. Third Party Gadgets

You understand and agree that your use of the Services may cause you to interact with products or services not operated or controlled by Google (”Third Party Gadgets”), and that Google does not represent or endorse, and shall not be responsible for the availability, safety, quality, accuracy, reliability, integrity or legality of any such Third Party Gadgets or any content displayed or distributed through such Third Party Gadgets. Your display, distribution, integration, or other use of any Third Party Gadget is limited to such Third Party Gadget’s intended use and subject to your compliance with the applicable terms of the Syndicated Google Gadgets Terms of Service for Webmasters at http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/terms.html.

6. Modification and Termination of the Services

Google may place limits on, modify, suspend, or terminate the Services generally, and may suspend or terminate your use of the Services for any reason. The suspension or termination of Services may delete your account information, files and other previously available content. If Google terminates the Services or your use of the Services, these Terms will also terminate, but Sections 7 through 12 shall continue to be effective after the Terms are terminated.

7. Google Proprietary Rights and Software

You do not acquire any propriety rights to the Services through your use of the Services. You may only use Google’s trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features in accordance with the Services’ intended use and in compliance with Google’s then-current brand feature use guidelines, which may be found at www.google.com/permissions/guidelines.html. You may not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notices which may be affixed to or contained within the Services. If Google provides you with access to downloadable software to enable you to use the Services, the software may include periodic updates which you should always accept and install to continue to use the Services. Google gives you a personal, revocable, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the Service and the software under these Terms.

8. Information Rights

Google may retain and use, subject to the terms of the Google Privacy Policy, all information you provide, including but not limited to Web site demographics and contact information. You agree that Google may transfer and disclose to third parties personally identifiable information about you for the purpose of approving and enabling your use of the Services, including to third parties that reside in jurisdictions with less restrictive data laws than your own. Google may also provide information in response to valid legal process, such as subpoenas, search warrants and court orders, or to establish or exercise its legal rights or defend against legal claims. Google disclaims all responsibility, and will not be liable to you, however, for any disclosure of that information by any such third party. Google may share non-personally-identifiable information about you, including Web site URLs, site-specific statistics, and similar information collected by Google, with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. In addition, you grant Google the right to access, index and cache your Web sites, or any portion thereof, including by automated means including Web spiders or crawlers.

9. Indemnification

You will defend or settle any third-party claim against Google arising out of or related to your Web sites, your use of the Services and/or any Third Party Gadget, and/or your breach of any term of these Terms.

10. Exclusion of Warranties

GOOGLE AND ITS LICENSORS MAKE NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES AND DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES REGARDING THE SERVICES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

11. Limitation of Liability

NEITHER PARTY MAY BE HELD LIABLE UNDER THESE TERMS FOR ANY DAMAGES OTHER THAN DIRECT DAMAGES, EVEN IF THE PARTY KNOWS OR SHOULD KNOW THAT OTHER DAMAGES ARE POSSIBLE OR THAT DIRECT DAMAGES ARE NOT A SATISFACTORY REMEDY. THE LIMITATIONS IN THIS SECTION APPLY TO YOU ONLY TO THE EXTENT THEY ARE LAWFUL IN YOUR JURISDICTION.

NEITHER PARTY MAY BE HELD LIABLE UNDER THESE TERMS FOR MORE THAN $1,000.

The limitations of liability in this Section 12 do not apply to indemnification obligations or to breaches of any intellectual property provisions of Section 4 or 7.

12. General Legal Terms

There are no third party beneficiaries to these Terms. The parties are independent contractors, and nothing in the Terms creates an agency, partnership or joint venture.

Failure to enforce any provision will not constitute a waiver of that provision. If any provision is found unenforceable, it and any related provisions will be interpreted to best accomplish the unenforceable provision’s original purpose.

THESE TERMS ARE governed by California law, excluding California’s choice-of-law rules. THE EXCLUSIVE VENUE FOR ANY DISPUTE RELATING TO THESE TERMS IS SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. YOU AND GOOGLE CONSENT TO THE PERSONAL JURISDICTION OF THESE COURTS. Nothing in THESE TERMS limits either party’s ability to seek equitable relief.

November 23, 2008