Neotribune Terms of Service

Effective: January 1, 2015

Welcome to the Neotribune, a news website created by Neotribune, Inc. (“Neotribune”, “Neotrib”, “We”, “Us”) which lives at neotrib.com (“Neotrib”, “Website”, “Site”). This Terms of Service (“Terms”) — including our Privacy Policy — is a contract between Us and you that articulates your rights and our rights relating to the Site.

What is the Neotribune?

The Neotrib.com Website is a news website devoted to local news. We publish news articles, photos, videos, and audio about the city, schools, and especially the people.

Legal

The Neotribune grants you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use Neotrib.com in the manner described herein.

This means that you can read, listen to, watch, and intellectually consume everything on the Site. In exchange, we ask that you use the Site in the manner and spirit for which it was created and that you adhere to the policies that govern the Site’s use.

So in case it is unclear, you are NOT permitted to interrupt the serving of our Site, introduce malicious code to our forum, assist anyone in misusing the Site in any way, or use the Site to violate the law or the safety or dignity of another person in any way. It takes a lot of work to make this site run. Be cool.

Accounts

You can browse and read the entire site without logging in. However, if you wish to contribute content — which encourage everyone to do — you must create an account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information. You are solely responsible for all activity that occurs with your account, regardless of whether you have authorized such activities. If the security of your account has been compromised, contact us immediately at [email protected].

Control

We may, in our sole discretion and without any forewarning, suspend or terminate your account for violating these Terms, or for any other reason we choose. We can remove your User Content without any forewarning, for any reason we choose. And even when we don’t terminate you or remove your stuff, we want to be clear that it does not imply that we assume any responsibility for, or endorse your User Content.

We can also remove the content we post on our site, without any forewarning, for any reason we choose.

Children

The United States government has put limits on our ability to accept users under a certain age through the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. So to be clear, Neotrib.com is not intended for users under the age of 13. Nobody under 13 may create an account or use any part of the Site that requires the submission of personally identifiable information, like email or name. Any account that is created by a person under 13 will be terminated and any content created will be removed from the Site.

Content

Linking to neotrib.com with attribution is allowed and encouraged. Link to the Website. Do not hot-link directly to images themselves. Content may be used for personal use so go ahead and print out the pictures and post them on your wall. Permission must be obtained for using any content for commercial use.

Anything submitted content including letters, comments, images, videos, text, or other works, are considered User Content. By submitting content you assert that you have all the relevant copyright, trademark, and intellectual property rights to make that work available or have a well-reasoned belief that your republication of the work is a “fair use.”.

By submitting User Content, you grant us an unlimited license to use your content in any way we choose. This includes creative uses such as republishing the work on our ad-supported Website, forums, and elsewhere, and practical uses such as copying your content to make back ups of it, displaying it on the website, and distributing and modifying it as needed to make the Site work.

Because our servers are located remotely, and because User Content is retained indefinitely, you grant us these rights worldwide and irrevocably, and agree that we don't owe you royalties for any use of your content based on these rights.

All other content is copyright Neotribune Inc.

Third-party links

It should go without saying, but we'll say it anyway: this Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by the Neotribune. Please be aware that we, the Neotribune, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This Terms of Service applies only to this Website.

No implied endorsement

Neotribune Inc takes no responsibility for, nor assumes any liability, and expressly does not endorse or share the opinion of your User Content.

Indemnities and warranties

When you create content, you are solely responsible for it and the opinions that you express are your own. You will not hold us responsible [you indemnify us] for any User Content that violates any law or infringes the rights of any third party.

In the legal world, indemnify means you agree to hold Neotribune Inc, its officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and defend them against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including without limitation reasonable attorney’s fees and costs, arising out of or in any way arising out of or in any way connected with your access to or use of the Site, Services, and all Neotrib.com and User Content, your violation of these Terms of Service, your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any intellectual property right, publicity, confidentiality, property or privacy right; or (iv) or any claim that your User Content caused damage to a third party.

NEOTRIBUNE INC WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, WHETHER IN TORT, CONTRACT, OR OTHER LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF THE NEOTRIB.COM WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, OR DATA.

Governing law

Any claim or dispute between you and Neotribune Inc arising out of or relating to these Terms, in whole or in part, shall be governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without respect to its conflict of laws provisions.

Changes

We may modify our Terms at any time.

Acknowledgement

These terms of service are based on the clearly written terms of service agreement on boingboing.net. These terms are separate from their terms and in no way implies a relationship between BoingBoing.net and Neotrib.com. We are just very grateful for their good work and want to thank them.