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Trademarks and Copyrights
1stNews.org website and all materials incorporated by 1stNews.org on its website (“Material”) are protected by copyrights, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights (“Copyrights”). Some of the characters, logos or other images incorporated by 1stNews.org on the 1stNews.org website are also protected as registered or unregistered trademarks, trade names and/or service marks owned by or others (“Trademarks”). 1stNews.org respects the intellectual property rights of others and asks users of the 1stNews.org website to do the same.
Your Use of Material
Your right to make use of the 1stNews.org website and any Material or other content appearing on it is subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use. Modification or use of the Material or any other content on 1stNews.org website for any purpose not permitted by these Terms of Use may be a violation of the Copyrights and/or Trademarks and is prohibited.
You may access and display Material and all other content displayed on the 1stNews.org website for non-commercial, personal, entertainment use on a single computer only. The Material and all other content on the 1stNews.org website may not otherwise be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed or used in any way unless specifically authorized by 1stNews.org. Any authorization to copy Material granted by 1stNews.org in any part of the 1stNews.org website for any reason is restricted to making a single copy for non-commercial, personal, entertainment use on a single computer only, and is subject to your keeping intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Using any Material on any other web site or networked computer environment is prohibited. Also, decompiling, reverse engineering, disassembling, or otherwise reducing the code used in any software on the 1stNews.org website into a readable form in order to examine the construction of such software and/or to copy or create other products based (in whole or in part) on such software, is prohibited.
External Link Disclaimer
The 1stNews.org website contain links to external, third party web sites along with relevant commentary to provide our visitors with an up to date digest of current news stories.
By providing links to other sites, 1stNews.org does not guarantee, approve or endorse the information or products available at these sites, nor does a link indicate any association with or endorsement by the linked site to the 1stNews.org website in question.
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Visitors to 1stNews.org website assume complete responsibility and risk in their use of any external sites. Visitors should direct any concerns regarding any external link to its site administrator or webmaster.
Comments and Discussion Groups Terms of Use
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* Keep all comments relevant and ‘on topic’ to the particular 1stNews.org website posting open for comments.
* 1stNews.org will not accept responsibility for information posted in the Comments.
If 1stNews.org receives notice that any posting is not in keeping with these terms and conditions or the intended use of the Comments, 1stNews.org may remove that posting and/or any other related postings.
Notification of Changes
Whenever 1stNews.org changes its Terms of Use, it will post those changes to this Statement, and other places we deem appropriate to make users aware of such changes.
Submission Terms of Use
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Disclaimer of Warranties
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Limitation of Liability
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Forums
THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION AND OPINIONS INCLUDED AND/OR EXPRESSED IN OR ON BULLETIN BOARDS, CHAT ROOMS, COMMUNITY PAGES, POSTS OR OTHER FORUMS ON THE 1stNews.org WEBSITE (“FORUMS”) ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF 1stNews.org OR ITS AFFILIATED OR RELATED ENTITIES OR CONTENT PROVIDERS. 1stNews.org DOES NOT UNDERTAKE TO MONITOR OR REVIEW FORUMS, AND THE CONTENT OF FORUMS IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF 1stNews.org.
1stNews.org MAY REMOVE OR MODIFY ANY CONTENT WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY AT ANY TIME IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION.
ANY USE OF THE FORUMS WILL BE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY SET OUT ABOVE.
Our Use of Content
1stNews.org will consider anything you provide to 1stNews.org and/or contribute to the 1stNews.org website as available for our use free of any obligations to you, except where we have expressly solicited Invited Submissions and those submissions are expressly governed by Additional Terms appearing elsewhere on the 1stNews.org website, in which event those Additional Terms will determine how we will treat your Invited Submissions.
Subject to the provisions of any Additional Terms, by posting or uploading any content to the 1stNews.org website and/or providing any communication or material to 1stNews.org (“User Content”), you automatically and irrevocably: (a) grant and assign to 1stNews.org any and all rights in the User Content throughout the world including without limitation all copyright, together with all consents (if any) necessary to enable its reproduction, distribution, modification, publishing and/or other exploitation by 1stNews.org and/or by any person authorized by 1stNews.org, by any means and in all media now known or hereafter devised without payment or other reference to you or any other person, and to advertise and promote such exploitation, for the full period of all such rights (together with any extensions and renewals) and insofar as possible in perpetuity; (b) waive all moral rights in the User Content which may be available to you in any part of the world and confirm that no such rights have been asserted; (c) appoint 1stNews.org as your agent with full power to enter into any document and/or do any act 1stNews.org may consider appropriate to confirm the grant and assignment, consent and waiver set out above; (d) warrant that you are the owner of the User Content and entitled to enter into these Terms of Use; (e) confirm that no such User Content will be subject to any obligation, of confidence or otherwise, to you or any other person and that 1stNews.org shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of such User Content.
Claims of Infringement
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Contact Information
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