Terms & Conditions
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Web Site Terms and Conditions: Your use of this website is subject to the following terms and conditions. By accessing or using the Happy News Gazette (http://happynewsgazette.com) website ("Site"), you agree to the terms of use of the Site as set out herein.

Changes to Terms Of Use: The Site Owner may at any time revise these Terms of Use by updating this page without notice. By using this Site, you agree to be bound by any such revisions. It is advised that you periodically visit this page to view the current Terms of Use.

Disclaimer: Whilst the Site Owner has taken all reasonable care in the preparation of the contents of this Site, this Site is provided on an "as is" basis. Much information has been supplied by third parties and is reproduced in good faith. The Site Owner disclaim (to the extent permitted by law) all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information of any information or material on this Site as there may be delays, errors or omissions. The Site Owner does not accept any liability for losses or damages, whether direct or indirect, that you may suffer as a result of your use of this Site or reliance upon any information contained within this Site. The Site Owner is free to change, amend, add to or remove any material the Site at any time and without notice.

Using this Site: You acknowledge that the Site contains information, software, photographs, audio and video clips, graphics, links and other material (collectively, the "Content") that are the property of the Site Owner or third parties who have authorized the appearance of their content on this site.

You shall not post on the Site any Content that

(a) is libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, harassing or threatening;
(b) contains viruses or other contaminating or destructive features;
(c) violates the rights of others, such as Content that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or violates any right of privacy or publicity; or
(d) otherwise violates any applicable law.
(e) You may not post on the Site any links to any external Internet sites that are obscene or pornographic.
(f) With the exception of agreed advertisers by the Site Owner, you shall not use the Site for any commercial purpose, to distribute any advertising or solicitation of funds or goods and services or to solicit users to join competitive online services.

You may post on the Site any Content owned by you (such as your original statements, pictures, and videos), Content for which you have received express permission from the author or owner, and Content in the public domain. You assume all risk and responsibility for determining whether any Content is in the public domain. You grant to the Site Owner an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid, worldwide license to use, edit, copy, publish, distribute, translate and otherwise use in any medium any Content that you place on the Site without compensation to you. You represent and warrant that you are authorized to grant all rights set forth in the preceding sentence.

The Site Owner does not and cannot review all Content posted by users on the Site and is not responsible for such Content. However, The Site Owner reserves the right to delete, move or edit any Content that it may determine, in its sole discretion, violates these Terms or is otherwise unacceptable. You shall remain solely responsible for all Content posted by you. The Site Owner shall have the right, but not the obligation, to correct any errors or omissions in any Content, as it may determine in its sole discretion.

You are solely responsible for all Content you post on the Site. You can be held legally liable for all Content you post on the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, you may be held legally accountable if any Content you post on the Site includes, for example, material protected by copyright, trademark, patent or trade secret law without the permission of the author or owner, or defamatory comments.

Content Providers and Advertisers: Although the Site Owner chose content providers and advertisers carefully the Site Owner has no control over some of the content. If you see anything that offends please contact the Site Owner who will attempt to rectify the problem.

Representations: Any information found on this Site is intended for guidance only. The Site Owner excludes all liability (to the extent permitted by law) for any reliance upon any information contained within this Site.

Liability: The Site Owner does not guarantee that use of this Site or electronic products or services will be compatible with all hardware and software that may be used by visitors to the Site. The Site Owner will not be liable for damage to, or viruses that may affect, your computer equipment, software, data or other property as the result of your access to, use of or browsing of this Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text or images.

Links: This Site contains links to other websites. The Site Owner accepts no responsibility or liability for the content of websites that are not under its strict control.

Data: The Site Owner may use this Site to collect information about visitors to the site, which may include gathering information using cookies. You may configure your web browser to prevent the use of cookies however this may reduce the functionality of some pages on this site. The Site Owner uses this information to provide data on numbers of visitors to advertisers.

Shopping: As a service to its visitors the Site Owner allows other businesses to advertise their goods and services on this Site. The Site Owner does not sell these goods and any contract of sale will be made between yourself and the advertiser. The Site Owner accepts no liability for any problems arising between yourself and the advertiser, and The Site Owner strongly advises that you read the advertisers terms and conditions of sale before purchasing from them.

Privacy Policy: This Web site does not request any personal information or collect any information that personally identifies you or allows you to be personally contacted with the exception of the submission forms which require registration using your email address. This information will not be passed on to third parties without expressly asking for your permission. If the Site Owner collects any personal information from you (for example your name and address) that may be passed to other businesses you will be informed how the information will be used before it is collected. The Site Owner will also ask if such information can be used for direct marketing purposes. If you wish any personal information removed from the Site Owner's records you may request this by writing to the address above.

Copyright: Copyright in this Site (its text, graphics, design layout, look, appearance, etc) are copyright of the Site Owner and/or its licensors and it is a violation of copyright law to download, save, redistribute, reproduce, publish or sell any content on this site without the permission of the copyright Site Owner.

The reproduction of any content from this site that is the copyright of the Site Owner without a written licence from the Site Owner is subject to a charge of £5,000 for past usage in addition to future usage charges. Removal of unlicensed content does not void the £5,000 fee for past usage. The reproduction of any part of this site shall constitute acceptance of these terms and all legal remedies will be taken to recover payment.

The reproduction of any content from this Site that is copyright of the Site Owner licensors without a written licence from the copyright Site Owner may also be subject to financial charges and/or legal action.

You have the right to view this site and copy to cache for personal reference by yourself only. You are not granted any other rights.

Trademarks, patents etc: Names, products, designs, information and technology described on this Site are widely protected by trademarks, patents, design rights etc owned by Acorn Internet Ltd or by others. Unauthorised use of the same may lead to infringement.

Law & Jurisdiction: Any disputes arising in connection with the use of this Site will be governed by English law and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

 

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