Legal Agreement

LA First Dates organizes social events referred to as "speed dating" events to introduce adult singles to each other for love, friendship, business, or any other type of social relationship.

This page contains the "Terms of Use" of LA First Dates. The "Terms of Use" is also referred to as our "Disclaimer" or "Terms and Conditions." Our Terms of Use constitute a "Legal Agreement" between every Visitor of our website (LAFirstDates.com) and/or Participant of our speed events. Our Terms of Use are subject to change at any time with or without prior notice. Every Visitor and/or Participant takes all responsibility and agrees to be solely accountable for not abiding by the Terms of Use as outlined in this "Agreement."

All Participants must be 21 years old or older. If requested, Participant(s) must carry and immediately provide proof of identity and age to our host.

By registering for one of our speed events You declare that You are single and not otherwise attached and available. LA First Dates does not check the background or marital status of any Participant. You agree that it is your sole responsibility to perform these checks if desired.

LA First Dates will do its best to introduce single couples, but it does not guarantee that its services or efforts will result in "matches" as defined within the LA First Dates web site nor will result in any future meeting or date with other Participants.

At our speed event You are not allowed to ask for someone's contact information directly. You are not allowed to make any sexual, lewd, or inappropriate remarks. You are not allowed to ask any sexual, lewd, or inappropriate questions. You are not allowed to touch anyone in an inappropriate way or follow someone home. You are not allowed to loiter outside the venue after the event if the venue owner, manager, or staff has asked you leave. You must immediately leave the venue if our host asks you to leave.

LA First Dates reserves the right to reject any Participant from registering to one of our speed events for any reason whatsoever, or if registration has been effectuated, refund Participant's registration fee in full and prevent User from participating in any LA First Dates event.

If an event is canceled you will be notified immediately by LA First Dates and refunded the money you paid to register for the event. If an event is postponed (moved to another date), you agree to attend the new event. If an event is moved to another venue, you agree to attend the event at the new venue. If you cannot attend due to a postponement or venue change, You are required to notify LA First Dates immediately, so that We can then issue you a refund for the amount paid or give you credit toward another event.

Please note, if you signed up for an online event - and received a low turnout code as a result - but wish to attend an in-person event in the future, simply pay the difference in cost between the online and in-person event. If you originally signed up for an online event and received a low turnout code as a result then you can use the low turnout code to signup for any future online event - less than or equal to - at no extra charge.

LA First Dates will not sell or misuse any Participant's information. LA First Dates will provide only your "matches" with Your name, email, and phone number. By registering for an event online (at LAFirstDates.com) or attending one of our events, you give us permission to distribute Your name, email, and phone number to your "matches." Your matches are other Participants who you notified us You liked and who shared a similar interest in You.

You agree that you will use the LAFirstDates.com website lawfully and ethically. Our website contains copyrighted and proprietary information. No visitor or Participant is allowed to download or share any images or text from our site. No visitor or Participant is allowed to recreate our website for personal use, that includes saving our website in full or in part on their hard drive or in a PDF or other file.

In this paragraph "Competitor" refers to any company or organization in the same industry as LA First Dates, or friend, relative, or employee of anyone in or associated with any company or organization in the same industry as LA First Dates, including, and relationship websites or organizers of social events. If you are a Competitor of LA First Dates you cannot visit our website to learn "tricks of the trade." You cannot use software to examine our website's PageRank, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, our number of visitors each month, what venues we work with, or view our website source code. You also cannot use any software on our website to check Our website grade, number of backlinks, or other information. If you are a Competitor you are not allowed to Register for any of our speed events without prior consent from the President of LA First Dates. If you are a competitor you are required to inform LA First Dates that you are a Competitor if you plan to attend one of Our events.

It is Your responsibility to take care of your property during and after our event. We are not responsible for any lost or stolen property, or any property you may have left behind at any of our events. We will make our best effort to help you search/or report any stolen or lost property, or any property left behind, so as long as we have been notified of the problem in a reasonable and timely manner.
All gift certificates must be purchased by a person of 18 years of age or more, and for a person of 21 years of age or more.

LA First Dates does not offer any monetary refunds unless we have purposefully cancelled an event or postponed an event to a date/time/place You are unable to attend. Under all other circumstances, our sole liability is to replace admission for one event with the admission of another event.

Participant must notify LA First Dates via email or phone to give prior notice of cancellation or reschedule. If Participant fails to show at our event and did not give us more than 5 days notice of their planned absence, Participant forfeits his/her admission and all refunds and transfers. LA First Dates can make exceptions to this Rule at its discretion.

LA First Dates organizes many ethnic-themed events. Any paying Participant is free to attend any of our ethnic events whether he/she is of the same ethnic group specified for the event or not.

From time to time LA First Dates has "Price Specials" for men or women based on gender, ethnicity or lifestyle. You agree that it is up to LA First Dates who it wishes to give a price special to.

You agree that in case of any damage to You, our sole liability will be equal to the price of the event ticket that You purchased.

If you dispute our charge for any reason and initiate a charge back with your credit card company, we are authorized by You to send your credit card company a copy of the credit card authorization form you signed as well as a copy of your signed match card as proof of attendance. If you fail to attend an event without notifying us of your absence within 5 business days (as aforementioned), you are in no way entitled to a refund. In case you cannot attend, and notify us after the 5 allotted days, we can apply your payment toward a future speed event, but you are not entitled to a monetary refund. If you initiate a charge back in violation of our terms and conditions, you agree that we may take legal action against you and that you are solely responsible for all legal fees (Yours and LA First Dates's), and that you will also compensate us for the time our staff spent fighting the charge back.

You agree to let us publish any testimonial you submit to LA First Dates on its website.

Upon registering for a speed event, contacting us through a contact form, or entering your email address on any form on the LA First Dates website, you consent that your email will be collected for the purposes of email promotions, including any notifications of upcoming speed dating events, or other singles parties. The messages may pertain to LA First Dates or events and news by other sites run by LA First Dates's managers.

TERMS OF USE