SITE USER AGREEMENT
NEWS OF THE WORLD TERMS &
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WELCOME TO News of the World (the "Internet
Edition").
By accessing the Internet Edition you confirm
that you are an individual at least 18 years old and you agree to
be bound by the following terms and conditions (the "Terms") including
the following policy setting out what you will/will not do when
using the Internet Edition ("Acceptable Use Policy").
If you go to another site from the Internet Edition
you will no longer be subject to the Terms but be subject to the
terms applicable to that site, until you return to the Internet
Edition.
The Internet Edition is free, with no monthly
or annual service fees, however you will be liable for paying for
the local telephone call charges at the rates publicised by the
telephone operator with whom you make your local calls.
1. As part of the Acceptable Use
Policy you agree to:
Abide by all applicable laws, regulations and
codes of conduct and ensure any content uploaded or distributed from,
or stored by you does not infringe the rights of others, and you agree
to be solely responsible for all things arising from your use of the
Internet Edition. Respect the privacy of your fellow internet users.
You agree not to:
Make available or upload files that contain software
or other material, data or information not owned by or licensed
to you or collect information about others (eg. names/addresses)
without their prior consent. Damage, interfere with or disrupt access
to the Internet Edition or do anything which may interrupt or impair
its functionality.
Save as authorised in these Terms, make any commercial
or business use of the Internet Edition or resell or commercially
benefit from any part or aspect of the Internet Edition.
Publish, post, distribute, disseminate or otherwise
transmit, defamatory, offensive, infringing, obscene, indecent or
other unlawful or objectionable material or information.
Threaten, harass, stalk, abuse, disrupt, or otherwise
violate the rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of,
others.
Make available, upload or distribute by any means
any material or files that contain any viruses, bugs, corrupt data,
"trojan horses", "worms" or any other harmful software.
Falsify the true ownership of software or other
material or information contained in a file made available via our
Internet Edition. Obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorised access,
through whatever means, to the Internet Edition, other services
or computer systems or areas of our, or any of our partners', networks
which are identified as restricted.
Set up links to the Internet edition of The News
of the World website at http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk
without the express written permission via e-mail or letter of the
webmaster.
We retain the absolute right to prevent you accessing
the Internet Edition, without prejudice to any of our accrued rights,
where we in our sole discretion consider you are contravening our
Acceptable Use Policy or any other aspect of these Terms.
2. Liabilities You agree that we
have no control over third party content and information which can
be accessed using the Internet Edition and that we do not examine
or edit the use to which you or others put the Internet Edition
or the nature of the content or information being accessed and that
we are excluded from all liability of any kind arising from such
content or information.
We exclude any warranty, express or implied,
as to the quality, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or fitness
for a particular purpose of the Internet Edition. You agree that
except for death or personal injury arising through our negligence,
we shall not be liable whatsoever for any loss or damage arising
from the Internet Edition. You will remain responsible and liable
for material you upload on to, or access from, the Internet Edition,
and you will indemnify us in the manner set out below in the Terms
in relation to your accessing or uploading.
We reserve the right to remove any information/material
we deem to be in breach of any of these Terms without warning, and
without prejudice to any other accrued rights, and/or to make available
such information/material when required to do so by law or when
requested to by regulatory bodies or law enforcement organisations.
While we will take all reasonable steps to ensure
a fast and reliable service, we will not be held responsible for
the security of the Internet Edition or for any disruption of the
Internet Edition however caused, loss of or corruption of any material
in transit, or loss of or corruption of material when downloaded
onto any computer systems.
We make no warranty whatsoever as to any goods
or services purchased or obtained or offered to you through the
Internet Edition, whether accessed direct or from the Internet Edition.
3. Indemnity You agree to indemnify
and hold us, and any of our officers, employees and agents harmless
from and against all and any expenses, losses, liabilities, damages,
costs or expenses of any character incurred or suffered and any
claims or legal proceedings which are brought or threatened, in
each case arising from your use of, or conduct on, the Internet
Edition and/or a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy and /or any
of these Terms
4. News Group Newspapers Limited
will only use any personal data collected during your use of this
website in accordance with current UK data protection legislation.
Please look at our Privacy
Policy to find out what we propose to do with your data
and your options.
5. Partner's Sites and Links For
your interest and/or amusement, from time to time we will make available
hypertext links from the Internet Edition to third party sites and
partner sites both within and outside European Union. However, these
sites are not in any way approved, checked, edited, vetted or recommended
by us and you agree that we shall not be liable in any way for the
content of such sites or for any dealings that you may have, or
the consequences of such dealings, with such third party site operators.
In particular you agree that any dealings you have with such third
party site operators shall be on the terms and conditions (if any)
of the third party operator.
6. Software The material and content
provided with the Internet Edition is for your personal, non-commercial
use only, save where expressly provided, and you agree not for yourself
or through or by way of assistance to any third party distribute
or commercially exploit such material or content. All intellectual
property rights, including the trade mark "News of the World", and
in particular copyright in content provided on the site vests in
us (or is expressly licensed to us).
You may make a copy of this content for your
personal non-commercial use only provided that you keep all copyright
and other proprietary notices intact, and you agree not to modify,
reproduce, republish, upload, post, distribute or otherwise transmit
or use the content provided by us in any way without our prior written
consent. If you do wish to use any material please contact us on
telephone: 0171 782 4436, email: enquiries@syndication.newsint.co.uk
and we will let you know on what terms such material may be available.
7. Termination We may terminate the Internet
Edition, or restrict your access to it, without prejudice to any
other accrued rights, without prior notice to you where:
(i) there is a regulatory or statutory change
limiting our ability to provide the Internet Edition; (ii) any event
beyond our reasonable control prevents us from continuing the Internet
Edition (for example, and without limitation, technical difficulties,
capacity problems and communications failures); (iii) we consider
in our sole discretion that you are abusing the Internet Edition
or are otherwise acting in breach of these Terms.
8. Additional services From time
to time we may provide games and other content for your downloading,
however, the download time may vary considerably between the types
of content and you agree that you are wholly liable and responsible
for any telephone call and/or other charges incurred in downloading
the same.
9. Alterations to these Terms: We
reserve the right to amend these Terms at any time and you will
be notified of the same.
10. About Us: The Internet Edition
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11. Laws & Miscellaneous Provisions
These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of England and Wales and you hereby submit to the non-exclusive
jurisdiction of the English courts.