Headline Surfer Terms of Service
Introduction. Welcome to
HeadlineSurfer.com (the "Website"). Your use of the Website, and Headline Surfer's ("Company's") online products and services (referred to collectively as the “Services”) is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Company. That agreement is comprised of these Terms of Service and Company's Privacy Policy (collectively the “Terms").
1. Website. The term Website, as used herein and defined in paragraph 1 includes, without limitation, information, links, and any other service which may be accessed through any medium or device now known or hereafter developed and available on the Website, including without limitation the Services. You understand and agree that your use of the Website may result in certain communications from Company, such as service announcements, order processing and administrative messages.
2. Acceptance of Terms. In order to use the Services, you must first agree to the Terms. You may not use the Services if you do not accept the Terms. You can accept the Terms by (i) clicking to accept or agree to the Terms, where this option is made available to you in the user interface for any Service; or (ii) by actually using the Services. In this case, you understand and agree that Company will treat your use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards. You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if: (i) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Company; or (ii) you are a person barred from receiving the Services under the laws of the United States or other countries, including the country in which you are resident or from which you use the Services. Before you continue, you should print or save a copy of the Terms for your records.
3. Changes to Terms. Company may change the Terms from time to time. When these changes are made, Company will post the revised Terms here. You understand and agree that if you use the Services after the date on which the applicable Terms have changed, your use constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
4. Requirements. To post information or comments, or to receive emails, or other offers from Company, you may become a registered user of the Services. In order to register, you are required to provide your email address and may provide your name. You agree to (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself (the “Registration Data”) and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. Company may reject or terminate the use of any account for any reason.
5. Account Requirements. You agree to use the Website only for purposes that are permitted by the Terms and any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices in the relevant jurisdictions. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Registration Data, and are responsible for all activities that occur under your account. If you discover or suspect any unauthorized use of your account, you agree to immediately notify Company.
6. Disclosure of Account Information. You acknowledge and agree that Company may access, preserve and disclose your account information or Registration Data if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the Terms; (c) respond to your requests for customer service; or (d) protect the rights, property or safety of you, Company or any third party.
7. Use and Storage. You acknowledge and agree that Company may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Services, including without limitation, the maximum number of days that Content (as hereinafter defined) will be retained by Company, the maximum amount and size of Content that may be sent from or received by an account, the maximum disk space that will be allotted on servers on your behalf, and the maximum number of times (and the maximum duration for which) you may access the Website in a given period of time. You agree that Company has no responsibility or liability for the deletion, or failure to store, any Content.
8. Prohibited Conduct. You agree that you will not:
a. Engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Website, the Services or the servers and networks which are connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services;
b. Use the Services for any fraudulent or illegal purpose, or to gather personally identifiable information without prior consent;
c. Forge headers, manipulate identifiers, or engage in any other conduct to disguise the origin of any Content or alter any Content;
d. Post any Content, or link to any website, containing any obscene, violent, illegal or objectionable material (as determined in Company's sole discretion) ;
e. Upload, post, email, transmit, or otherwise make available any Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under any contractual or fiduciary relationship (including but not limited to inside information, or proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of an employment relationship or under a non-disclosure agreement);
f. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary right of any party;
g. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that 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 any telecommunications equipment;
h. Upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any commercial Content; or
i. Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, during registration or otherwise.
9. Monitoring. Company reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor, filter, review, refuse, or remove any Content from the Website for any reason and with or without notice.
10.
Termination. The Terms will continue to apply until terminated by either you or Company. If you want to terminate your legal agreement with Company, you may do so by: (i) notifying Company at any time by sending written notice to
henryfrederick@nsbnews.net; (ii) closing your accounts on the Website, where Company has made this option available to you; and (ii) ceasing your use of all Services. Company may terminate its legal agreement with you at any time, in its sole discretion, and with or without notice, including if: (i) you have breached any provision of the Terms; (ii) Company is required to do so by law; or (iii) the Services are modified, eliminated, or no longer commercially viable.
11.Illegal Conduct. Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, with or without notice, to investigate, and to involve and cooperate with law enforcement authorities, and to pursue a civil lawsuit or criminal prosecution, for any alleged or actual illegal activities involving the Services or the Website.
12.Intellectual Property. You understand that all information or material accessible as part of, or through, the Services or the Website (the "Content") is the sole responsibility of the person from which such information or material originated. All Content, including but not limited to advertisements, posts, blogs, messages, and third-party links on the Website, may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by the provider of the Content (or by other persons or entities). You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, copy, or create derivative works based on this Content (either in whole or in part) unless you have been given written permission by the owners of that Content. You acknowledge and agree that: (i) Company (or its licensors) owns all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services and to the Content created by Company, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights might exist); (ii) by posting any Content, you grant an irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to Company to use, reproduce, modify, and redistribute such Content alone, as a part of the Services, or as a part of other works in any form, in Company's sole discretion; and (iii) that Company is in no way responsible for, nor shall have any liability related to, any Content which is not created by Company. The trademarks, service marks, and trade names appearing on the Website are the common law or registered trademarks of Company, its licensors, or others. No trademark, service mark, or trade name may be used without the express written permission of the owner.
13.Contributions. By submitting ideas, suggestions, reviews, documents, and/or proposals (“Contributions”) to Company, you acknowledge, represent, and agree that:
a. Your Contributions do not contain confidential or proprietary information;
b. Company is not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the Contributions;
c. Company shall be entitled to use or disclose such Contributions for any purpose;
d. Company may have something similar to the Contributions already under consideration or in development;
e. Your Contributions automatically become the property of Company without any obligation of Company to you; and
f. You are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from Company under any circumstances.
14.Links.
a. Outgoing. The Services may include hyperlinks to other web sites or resources. Company may have no control over any such web sites or resources. You acknowledge and agree that Company is not responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or available from such web sites or resources. You acknowledge and agree that Company is not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by you as a result of the availability of those external sites or resources, or as a result of any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy, or existence of any advertising, products or other materials on, or available from, such web sites or resources.
b. Incoming. You are free to establish a link to the Website so long as the link does not create a likelihood of confusion with respect to the source of your site, or state or imply Company's endorsement or sponsorship of you, your company, or your site. You may not frame any portion of the Website without the prior written permission of Company.
15.Disputes with Third Parties. If there is a dispute between Website users, or between a user and any third party, you understand and agree that Company is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other participants or third parties, you release Company, its officers, employees, agents, representatives and successors from any claims, demands and damages of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes.
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