Site Terms & Conditions

Introduction: Welcome to thegolfroom.net. The following rules and regulations apply to all visitors, members or users of thegolfroom.net.

Overview: The Golf Room LLC, also commonly referred to as The Golf Room in Great Falls and The Great Falls Golf Room, (“The Golf Room" / "The Room”), was created to give people a place to relax, watch television or practice their golf game on a PGA Certified Golf Simulator. Its website, www.thegolfroom.net, (“website”) is primarily used for scheduling the room. Any and all features, functions or content offered by The Golf Room in connection with its website are collectively referred to as, (“Service”).  The Service offered by The Golf Room is hosted in Great Falls, Montana, (United States of America).

Legally Binding: This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the Service. By using the Service, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a "Visitor" (which means you are viewing the website) or you are a "Member" (which means you are registered to participate within the website and/or post your own material on the website). The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. 

You are only authorized to use the Service (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 thegolfroom.net and discontinue use of The Golf Room’s Service immediately.

This Agreement includes the policy for acceptable use of the Service and Content posted on thegolfroom.net, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the Service. In order to participate in a certain Service, you may be notified that you are required to download software or content and/or agree to additional terms and conditions. Unless otherwise provided by the additional terms and conditions applicable to the Service in which you choose to participate, those additional terms are hereby incorporated into this Agreement. You may receive a copy of this Agreement by emailing us using our Contact Us page.

The Golf Room reserves the right to modify this Agreement and may modify this Agreement from time to time.  Such modification will be effective upon The Golf Room posting the modifications on thegolfroom.net.  Your continued use of the Service after The Golf Room modifies the Terms of Use will mean you agree to the Terms of Use as modified. 

Thus, you agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement upon using the Service after any such modification is posted.  If you do not agree to any modification, you must stop using the Service immediately.  It is therefore important that you return to this page on a regular basis and review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes. 

This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Service or are a Member. The Golf Room may terminate your Membership at any time, without warning.

Eligibility: Use of and Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. By using the Service, 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 at least 18 years old or have permission from your parent or guardian to use this site, and (d) your use of the Service does not violate any applicable law or regulation.

Right to Refuse: The Golf Room is a For Profit business and reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to refuse to post or to remove any posting by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Service at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.

Posted Material: You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any of the Service, and any material or information that you transmit to other Members and for your interactions with other Users.  The Golf Room does not endorse and has no control over the Content. Content is not necessarily reviewed by The Golf Room prior to posting and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of The Golf Room. The Golf Room 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.

Inappropriate Material: The Golf Room may delete any Content that in its sole judgment violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person.  If you become aware of misuse of the Service by any person, please contact us by emailing us via our Contact Us page.

The Golf Room assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Service for inappropriate Content or conduct.  If at any time The Golf Room chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the Service, The Golf Room 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.

Non-Commercial Use: You are granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service solely for your own personal, non-commercial purposes.  The Service may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by The Golf Room. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Service, 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 Golf Room’s website is prohibited. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from the Service without notice and may result in termination of Membership privileges. Appropriate legal action will be taken for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Service.

Fees: You acknowledge that The Golf Room reserves the right to charge for the Service and to change its fees from time to time in its discretion. If The Golf Room terminates your Membership because you have breached the Agreement, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion of membership fees and/or subscription fees.

Password: When you sign on as a member, you may have to choose a password.  You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password.  You will hold The Golf Room harmless for any damage arising from a third party accessing the Service using a password you disclosed.

Proprietary Rights of Posted Material: You retain ownership rights to your Content.  The Golf Room 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 Service. After posting your Content to the Service, you continue to retain all ownership rights in said Content, and you continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. 

Use of Posted Material by The Golf Room: When you post Content on thegolfroom.net, you hereby grant The Golf Room a temporary license to broadcast it.  Thus, upon posting Content, you grant to The Golf Room a limited license to transmit, use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on and through the Service.  The license you grant to The Golf Room is non-exclusive (meaning you can also license your Content to anyone else), fully paid and royalty-free (meaning that The Golf Room is not required to pay you for the use of the Content you post) and this license is worldwide.  This license exists as long as the Content remains posted on thegolfroom.net and/or you remain a Member.  In the event your membership is terminated, this license shall expire upon termination of any relevant promotional or marketing activities ongoing at the time.

Members' Warranty of Posted Material / Copyright Infringement: When posting material on thegolfroom.net, you represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the Service or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through the Service does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of any Content posted by you to or through the Service.

The Golf Room Content: The Service contains Content of The Golf Room ("The Golf Room Content"). U.S. and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property laws, protect The Golf Room Content.  The Golf Room owns and retains all rights in its The Golf Room Content and the Service.  The Golf Room hereby grants you a limited and revocable license to display The Golf Room Content solely for your personal use in connection with using the Service.  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 Service.

Prohibited Content: The following is a partial list of rules that apply to any and all Content posted on thegolfroom.net.  The rules describe what is illegal and/or prohibited to post on thegolfroom.net.  The Golf Room may remove any offending Content from thegolfroom.net and terminate the violator’s Membership.  The Golf Room reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who violates this provision.  Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, the following Content that:

  1. promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against oneself, an individual or any group or stalks, harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
  2. contains nudity, harms a minor in anyway, is obscene, lewd, violent, sexually explicit, contains sexually suggestive imagery, exploits people in a sexual or violent manner or is otherwise offensive, objectionable or disruptive or contains a link to an adult website;
  3. solicits personal information from anyone under 18 or solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Users;
  4. provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses;
  5. promotes information that you know is false or misleading, including but not limited to your birthday or age;
  6. involves illegal, intentionally or unintentionally violations of any applicable local, state, nation, foreign or international law or regulation or promotes illegal activities or conduct;
  7. appears to be patently offensive, abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
  8. impersonates any person or entity, including but not limited to, The Golf Room staff member or falsely misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;
  9. 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-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
  10. involves a photograph that you do not have a right to post under a contractual or fiduciary relationship or a non-public photograph of another person without that person's consent;
  11. involves any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, contest, sweepstakes, barter,  promotional material, "junk mail," "chain letters," “pyramid schemes” or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
  12. contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
  13. furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities, including but not limited to: drug use, child predation, terrorist activities, making or buying illegal weapons or bombs, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
  14. contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or disrupts the Service or the servers used to provide the Service.

Prohibited Activity: The following is a partial list of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on thegolfroom.net and through your use of the Service. The Golf Room reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in The Golf Room’s sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity, includes but is not limited to, using the Service for:

  1. criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;
  2. advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. It is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, The Golf Room reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period.  If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the Service, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to The Golf Room, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay The Golf Room $40 for each such unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication you send through the Service;
  3. covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any thegolfroom.net page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
  4. any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages; interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Service or the networks or services connected to the Service;
  5. copying the code for a specific music player and/or embedding it into other areas of the Service or asking other Members to embed it into an area of the Service;
  6. attempting to impersonate another Member or person; using the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;
  7. selling or otherwise transferring your information or profile;
  8. using any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person;
  9. displaying an advertisement on your Content, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity on or through the Service on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content on your profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose, selecting a profile with a commercial purpose or sending private messages with a commercial purpose; or
  10. using the Service in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.

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 The Golf Room to terminate Membership privileges of any Member who infringes the copyright rights of others upon receipt of prompt notification to The Golf Room by the copyright owner or the copyright owner's legal agent. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our staff 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 Golf Room Services; (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.  Please submit the above information by emailing us using our Contact Us page.

Privacy: Use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.

Indemnity: You agree to indemnify and hold The Golf Room, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service 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 Service or through the Service that causes The Golf Room to be liable to another.  Simply put, you are solely responsible for your actions when using the Service.

Limitation on Liability: You expressly understand and agree that in no event shall The Golf Room be liable to you or any third party for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including lost profit damages arising from your use of the Service, even if The Golf Room has been advised of the possibility of such damages.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, The Golf Room’s liability to you for any cause whatsoever and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to The Golf Room for the Service during the term of membership.

Transmission of Data: You acknowledge that The Golf Room has no control of the communications lines used to access the Service because such lines are owned by third parties and therefore is not responsible for the security of transmissions to and from the Service.

U.S. Export Control: Software available in connection with the Service is further subject to United States export controls. No such software may be downloaded from The Golf Room Service or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws. Downloading or using said software is at your sole risk.

Governing Law: If there is any dispute about or involving the Service, you agree that the dispute shall be governed by the laws of the State of Montana, 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 State of Montana, County of Cascade, City of Great Falls.

Trademarks: The Golf Room, thegolfroom.net and Love Life – Simulator Golf are common-law and registered trademarks of The Golf Room.  The Golf Room retains all rights regarding these trademarks and trade names.  These marks may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not The Golf Room’s in any manner.  

Related Links: The Service may include related links to other websites or resources operated by third parties (“Third Party Sites”).  Links to these Third Party Sites are provided for your convenience only.  The Golf Room has no control over such sites and resources and is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources.  The Golf Room does not endorse and is not responsible for any content, advertising or other material available from other sites or resources.

Linking to The Golf Room: The linking of your site to thegolfroom.net is prohibited absent express written permission from The Golf Room.  Upon a Third Party Site receiving written permission to link to thegolfroom.net, it is understood that none of these links are deemed to imply that The Golf Room endorses the Third Party Site or any content therein.

U.S. Government Restricted Rights: The materials on the Service are provided with “RESTRICTED RIGHTS.” Use, duplication, or disclosure by the U.S. Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in applicable laws and regulations. Use of the materials by the U.S. Government constitutes acknowledgment of The Golf Room’s proprietary rights in them.   Disclaimer Of Warranties: You expressly understand and agree that:

  1. The Golf Room is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on thegolfroom.net or in connection with the Service whether caused by Users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service.
  2. Your use of the Service is at your sole risk. The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. The Golf Room expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
  3. The Golf Room makes no warranty that (i) the Service will meet your requirements, (ii) the Service or any software provided to you through the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, (iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of the Service will be accurate or reliable, (iv) the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you through the Service will meet your expectations, and (v) any errors in  software and any software provided to you through the Service will be corrected.
  4. Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the Service is done at your own discretion and risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data or other liability that results from the download of any such material.
  5. The Golf Room is not responsible for: (i) the conduct, whether online or offline, of any member or other user of the website; (ii) for any loss or damage, including but not limited to, personal injury or death resulting from one’s use of the website or Service.
  6. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from The Golf Room or through or from the Service shall create any warranty not expressly stated in the terms of use.

Member Disputes: You are solely responsible for your interactions with other members.  The Golf Room reserves the right, although we have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members and to take any action that we feel may be appropriate, in our sole discretion, including the termination of the membership of one or more Members.

No Agency: There is no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship between you and The Golf Room or between The Golf Room and any other Member or user of the Website.

Other: This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and The Golf Room regarding the use of the Service. The failure of The Golf Room to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision.  The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.  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.

Please contact us with any questions regarding this Agreement.

Sincerely The Golf Room Staff

Love Life - Simulator Golf