Terms and Conditions - Viral Global News

Introduction

These terms and conditions govern your use of the Website, including the features and services provided by the website (collectively “viralglobalnews.com,” “Site” or “Website”); by using the Website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions, or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use the Website.

You must be at least 18 years of age to use the Website. By using the Website, and by agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

The Website uses cookies. By using the Website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to viralglobalnews.com’s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of viralglobalnews.com’s Privacy Policy.

License to use website

Unless otherwise stated, viralglobalnews.com and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or additional content from the Website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

republish material from the Website (including republication on another website);
sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
show any material from the website in public;
reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on the Website for a commercial purpose;
edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
redistribute material from the Website, except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution;

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organization, or social group.

Copyright Ownership

viralglobalnews.com contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, photos, videos, Site layout and the arrangement thereof. The entire contents of viralglobalnews.com are copyrighted as a collective work under the United States copyright laws. You may not modify, adapt, translate, publish, transmit, decompile, participate in the transfer or sale, develop derivative works from, or in any way exploit, any of the Website content. You may download copyrighted material for personal use only. You agree not to copy, publish, redistribute, retransmit or commercially exploit any material downloaded from viralglobalnews.com. You acknowledge that you do not gain any ownership privileges or rights by downloading copyrighted material.

Acceptable use

You must not use the Website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use the Website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to the Website without viralglobalnews.com’s express written consent.

You must not use the Website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use the Website for any purposes related to marketing without viralglobalnews.com’s express written consent.

Restricted access

Access to certain areas of the Website is restricted. viralglobalnews.com reserves the right to restrict access to any part of the Website, including the entire Website. The decision to restrict user access to parts of the Website is at viralglobalnews.com’s discretion.

If viralglobalnews.com provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of the Website, or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

viralglobalnews.com may disable your user ID and password in viralglobalnews.com’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User content

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to the Website, for whatever purpose.

You grant viralglobalnews.com a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, edit, publish, translate, create derivative works from, integrate into other works, distribute and sub-license your User Content in any existing or future media. You also grant viralglobalnews.com the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action, whether against you, or viralglobalnews.com, or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is, or has ever been, the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings, or other similar complaint.

viralglobalnews.com reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to the Website, or stored on viralglobalnews.com’s servers, or hosted, or published on the Website.

Notwithstanding viralglobalnews.com’s rights under these terms and conditions, in relation to user content, viralglobalnews.com does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, the Website.

Additional information on submission of user content can be located in the “Contact Us” section of viralglobalnews.com.

Community Guidelines

Interactive Areas. viralglobalnews.com may contain comments sections and other interactive features (“Interactive Areas”), in which you may post comments, video, photos, messages and other materials or items (collectively, “User Content”). By using Interactive Areas, you agree you are solely responsible for your use of these features and you agree to use them at your own risk.

Under the circumstances you submit any form of User Content and/or participate in the afore-mentioned Interactive Areas, you agree to adhere to the following community guidelines and rules of conduct:

You agree not to upload or post User Content that, in any way, violates or breaches the rights of others, and agree not to upload or post defamatory, threatening or abusive comments.

You agree not to upload or post material that contains or promotes bestiality, incest, pedophilia, pornography, or any obscene content.

You agree not to upload or post User Content that could be considered offensive to Viral Global News readers or the rest of the online community. You agree not to express profane, vulgar, racist, sexist, homophobic or bigoted views in viralglobalnews.com’s Interactive Areas.

You agree not to upload or post User Content that infringes any law, advocates any illegal activity, or perform any activity that could potentially result in a civil liberty.

You agree not to impersonate any individual or entity, including, but not limited to, any Viral Global News employee, or falsely state or misrepresent your association with any individual or entity.

You agree not to collect, redistribute or abuse personally-identifiable data about viralglobalnews.com users, or upload or post information about third-parties, without their express consent.

You agree not to transmit upload or post User Content protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity, or any other proprietary right, without obtaining express permission of the owner of said content. It is your responsibility to ensure any User Content uploaded or posted is not protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity, or any other proprietary right. In the event of damage resulting from infringement of these protections, or if any other harm arises from your submissions, you will be solely liable.

If deemed necessary, you agree to gain the consent of each individual included in submission(s), when using viralglobalnews.com’s Interactive Areas, to the name or likeness of the individual or individuals.

You agree, in using viralglobalnews.com’s Interactive Areas, that any individual who appears in your submission(s) who is currently a member of any rights society is not entitled to recompense by Viral Global News.

Viral Global News reserves the right to amend, modify or delete any User Content submitted by you for any reason. Viral Global News is not responsible for User Content posted by Site users in viralglobalnews.com’s comments sections or other Interactive Areas.

Monitoring. Viral Global News has no obligation to monitor, screen, amend, modify or delete User Content posted or uploaded onto viralglobalnews.com, but has the right, and absolute discretion, to do so if required to ensure users comply with the terms and conditions outlined.

License to User Content. You grant viralglobalnews.com a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, edit, publish, translate, create derivative works from, integrate into other works, distribute and sub-license your User Content in any existing or future media. You also grant viralglobalnews.com the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

DISCLAIMERS & WARRANTIES

YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. viralglobalnews.com MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES IN RELATION TO THE WEBSITE OR THE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS PROVIDED ON THE WEBSITE. NEITHER VIRAL GLOBAL NEWS NOR ITS CONTENT PROVIDERS WARRANT THAT viralglobalnews.com WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; NOR DO THEY PROVIDE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM USE OF viralglobalnews.com.

WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING PARAGRAPH, viralglobalnews.com DOES NOT WARRANT THAT:

THE INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE IS COMPLETE, TRUE, ACCURATE, NON-MISLEADING OR TIMELY; OR
THE SITE OR SERVER WILL BE SECURE AND VIRUS-FREE
EQUIPMENT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OBTAINING AND MAINTAINING ALL CONNECTIVITY, COMPUTER SOFTWARE, HARDWARE AND OTHER EQUIPMENT NEEDED FOR ACCESS TO, AND USE OF, VIRALGLOBALNEWS.COM AND ALL CHARGES RELATED OF THE SAME.
CHANGES TO THE WEBSITE. VIRAL GLOBAL NEWS MAY ALTER OR DISCONTINUE ANY ASPECT, SERVICE OR FEATURE OF viralglobalnews.com AT ANY TIME, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, HOURS OF AVAILABILITY, AND EQUIPMENT REQUIRED FOR ACCESSING AND USING THE WEBSITE.

IF YOU DOWNLOAD ANY DATA FROM THE WEBSITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK AND DISCRETION. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER, MOBILE DEVICE OR HARDWARE, INCLUDING ANY DATA LOSS, THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY MATERIALS OR DATA FROM viralglobalnews.com.

NOTHING ON THE WEBSITE CONSTITUTES, OR IS MEANT TO CONSTITUTE, ADVICE OF ANY KIND. IF YOU REQUIRE ADVICE IN RELATION TO ANY LEGAL, FINANCIAL OR MEDICAL MATTER YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL. viralglobalnews.com MAY PROVIDE FITNESS, HEALTH, AND OTHER SUCH INFORMATION; THIS INFORMATION IS SOLELY AIMED AT PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF A SELECT TOPIC, BUT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE MEDICAL ADVICE, OR THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. VIRAL GLOBAL NEWS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACTION OR INACTION OF viralglobalnews.com USERS, BASED UPON THE INFORMATION PRESENTED ON THE WEBSITE.

Limitations of liability

viralglobalnews.com will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, the Website:

to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if viralglobalnews.com has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Advertisements and Promotions

viralglobalnews.com may run advertisements and promotions from third parties on the Site. Your business dealings or correspondence with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers other than Viral Global News, and any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such third party. Viral Global News is not responsible or liable for any loss or damage, of any sort, incurred as the result of any such dealings, or as the result of the presence of third-party advertisers on the Site.

Additional information on the advertisers used on viralglobalnews.com can be located in the Privacy Policy section of the Website.

DCMA Policy/Removal Request

viralglobalnews.com is in compliance with 17 U.S.C. § 512 and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). It is our policy to respond to any infringement notices and take appropriate actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) and other applicable intellectual property laws.

If your copyrighted material has been posted on viralglobalnews.com or if links to your copyrighted material are returned through our search engine and you want this material removed, you must provide a written communication that details the information listed in the following section. Please be aware that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) if you misrepresent information listed on the Site that is infringing on your copyrights. We suggest that you first contact an attorney for legal assistance on this matter.

The following elements must be included in your copyright infringement claim:

Provide evidence of the authorized person to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Provide sufficient contact information so that we may contact you. You must also include a valid email address.

You must identify, in sufficient detail, the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed and include at least one search term under which the material appears in viralglobalnews.com search results.

A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Must be signed by the authorized person to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly being infringed.

Send the infringement notice via email to [email protected]

Please allow 1-3 business days for an email response. Note that emailing your complaint to other parties such as our Internet Service Provider will not expedite your request and may result in a delayed response due to the complaint having not been properly filed.

Exceptions

Nothing in the Website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in the Website disclaimer will exclude or limit viralglobalnews.com’s liability in respect of any:

death or personal injury caused by viralglobalnews.com’s negligence;
fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of viralglobalnews.com; or
matter which would be illegal or unlawful for viralglobalnews.com to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Reasonableness

By using the Website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in the Website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use the Website.

Other parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, viralglobalnews.com has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against viralglobalnews.com’s officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.

Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in the Website disclaimer will protect viralglobalnews.com’s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as viralglobalnews.com.

Unenforceable provisions

If any provision of the Website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of the Website disclaimer.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify viralglobalnews.com and undertake to keep viralglobalnews.com indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by viralglobalnews.com to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of viralglobalnews.com’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by viralglobalnews.com arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions[, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to viralglobalnews.com’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, viralglobalnews.com may take such action as viralglobalnews.com deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation

viralglobalnews.com may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of the Website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on the Website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Assignment

viralglobalnews.com may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with viralglobalnews.com’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by arbitration or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Entire agreement

These terms and conditions, in addition to any requested documentation, constitute the entire agreement between you and viralglobalnews.com in relation to your use of the Website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of the Website.

Law and jurisdiction

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with United States federal laws, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of America.

Registrations and authorizations

viralglobalnews.com is registered with United States Patent and Trademark Office. You can find the online version of the register at http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4809:8420dz.2.1. viralglobalnews.com’s registration number is 86205713.

viralglobalnews.com is registered with the Ohio Secretary of State, which is supervised by Ohio governing laws.

viralglobalnews.com is a subdivision of Virtual Solutions Center, Inc. which is filed with the Internal Revenue Service. viralglobalnews.com’s professional title is Newspaper Publication and it has been granted in the United States.

viralglobalnews.com’s details

The full name of viralglobalnews.com is Viral Global News

viralglobalnews.com is registered in Ohio as a trade name and subdivision of Virtual Solutions Center, Inc.

viralglobalnews.com’s registered address: P.O. Box 38181 Olmsted Falls, Ohio 44138-8181

You can contact viralglobalnews.com by email to [email protected]

These terms and conditions were last updated on July 21, 2015.