Terms and Conditions for Crimson Chronicle
1. Introduction and Agreement
Welcome to Crimson Chronicle. These Terms and Conditions govern your access to and use of our online newspaper, including all content, functionality, and services offered on or through our website (referred to collectively as "our service" or "this service"). By accessing or using our service, you signify your unreserved agreement to be bound by these Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use our service.
Crimson Chronicle, located at 145 Main Street, Suite 100, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203, provides daily news updates, investigative journalism, opinion columns, sports coverage, entertainment news, local reporting, digital archives, video content, and podcasts with the purpose of delivering comprehensive news and commentary to a broad readership.
2. Changes to Terms
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. Should a revision be material, we will provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion. By continuing to access or use our service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using the service.
3. Accessing Our Service and Account Security
We reserve the right to withdraw or amend our service, and any service or material we provide, in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of our service is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our service, or the entire service, to users, including registered users.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our service and for ensuring that all persons who access our service through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and comply with them.
4. Intellectual Property Rights
The service and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof) are owned by Crimson Chronicle, its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.
You are permitted to use our service for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our service, except as generally and ordinarily permitted through the service's functionality.
5. Prohibited Uses
You may use our service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to use our service:
- In any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation.
- For the purpose of exploiting, harming, or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable information, or otherwise.
- To transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material without our prior written consent, including any "junk mail," "chain letter," "spam," or any other similar solicitation.
- To impersonate or attempt to impersonate Crimson Chronicle, a Crimson Chronicle employee, another user, or any other person or entity.
6. User Contributions
Our service may contain message boards, chat rooms, personal web pages or profiles, forums, bulletin boards, and other interactive features that allow users to post, submit, publish, display, or transmit to other users or other persons (hereinafter, "post") content or materials (collectively, "User Contributions") on or through the service.
Any User Contribution you post to the site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. By providing any User Contribution on our service, you grant us and our affiliates and service providers a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, perform, display, distribute, and otherwise disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose.
You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions and have the right to grant the license granted above to us and our affiliates and service providers.
7. Disclaimer of Warranties
You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the internet or our service will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output.
YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICE, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH OUR SERVICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. OUR SERVICE, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH OUR SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
8. Limitation on Liability
IN NO EVENT WILL CRIMSON CHRONICLE, ITS AFFILIATES, OR THEIR LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, OR DIRECTORS BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE, OR INABILITY TO USE, OUR SERVICE, ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO IT, ANY CONTENT ON OUR SERVICE OR SUCH OTHER WEBSITES, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF DATA, AND WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORESEEABLE.
9. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
All matters relating to our service and these Terms and any dispute or claim arising therefrom or related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Tennessee without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule. Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms or our service shall be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of the United States or the courts of the State of Tennessee, in each case located in the City of Nashville and County of Davidson, although we retain the right to bring any suit, action, or proceeding against you for breach of these Terms in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
10. Entire Agreement
The Terms and our Privacy Policy constitute the sole and entire agreement between you and Crimson Chronicle regarding our service and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written and oral, regarding our service.
11. Your Comments and Concerns
This service is operated by Crimson Chronicle, located at 145 Main Street, Suite 100, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203. All feedback, comments, requests for technical support, and other communications relating to our service should be directed to: info@crimsonchronicle.com.