Terms of Service

NewsWhip Legal Statement

1. Introduction Welcome to NewsWhip.com, which is owned and operated by NewsWhip Media Ltd (NWM). This statement (the Statement) covers all of your use of NewsWhip.com and its related local sites (such as NewsWhip.co.uk, NewsWhip.ie, NewsWhip.net), emails, and applications, which together are referred to as the Service. By viewing and remaining on this site, or using our emails or mobile applications, you are deemed to consent to and accept this Statement. Please read this Statement carefully and understand its terms before accessing the site as it sets out your rights and obligations with respect to the use of Service. This statement comprises the entire agreement between you and NWM relating to your use of NewsWhip.com.

2. Modification
NWM reserves the right to modify the terms and conditions of the Statement at any time and at its sole discretion and without notice to you. It is your responsibility to regularly review the Statement for modifications. By continuing to use NewsWhip.com, you agree to be bound by the modified Statement.

3. Site publisher Information
NewsWhip.com is a web address of NWM. NWM may be contacted through this website or at NewsWhip Media Ltd., NDRC, Crane Street, Dublin 8, Ireland. The registered address of NewsWhip Media Limited is Lucca, Castletroy, Limerick. Its company registration number is 485016.

4. Rights Associated with the Service
The Service is designed to help you find news information that resides on sites not owned or controlled by NWM. NewsWhip.com provides brief descriptions of news stories, which are ranked based on their recent popularity on social networks in order to help you identify the stories of interest to you. When you click on a story, you will be linked to the site on which that story appears. NWM owns and retains all intellectual property rights to the Service; but NWM does not claim ownership rights to the full news stories, which are instead held by the sites to which the Service links.

By providing links to other sites, NWM 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 NewsWhip.com. Users of the Service assume complete responsibility and risk in their use of any external sites.

5. Use of the Service
You may only display the content of the Service for your own personal non-commercial use and may not otherwise copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content. You may not use any robot, spider, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service. If you are uncertain whether your intended use of the Service is permissible, please contact us. NWM shall have the right in its sole discretion to suspend or terminate the Service or your access to it.

NWM provides the content on NewsWhip.com "as is" and NWM shall not be held liable for your use of the information or the feeds. The next bit is important, so we've put it in all capitals. Please forgive us.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED UNDER LAW, NWM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES INCLUDING WARRANTIES FOR MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

6. Corresponding with or submitting information to NWM

Any correspondence with NewsWhip.com or with NWM or other material submitted or sent to us, including any documents, letters, or notices is considered property of NWM. NWM reserves the right to reproduce or publish such content, in whole or in part, on any of the NWM Services or its affiliates, and to use it in any way we choose, including allowing third parties to republish the material.

7. Commenting

In order to make our comments useful and interesting, follow the following guidelines in making any comments on NewsWhip.com:
- Do not post threatening, harassing, defamatory, or libelous material.
- Do not intentionally make false or misleading statements.
- Do not offer to sell or buy any product or service.
- Do not post material that infringes copyright.
- Do not post information that you know to be confidential or sensitive or otherwise in breach of the law or the rights of any third party.
The comments are not monitored by NWM. NWM will not accept responsibility for information or content posted in the Comments.
NWM reserves the right to remove comments entirely at its discretion, including for alleged violations of terms of service or legal rights
8. Indemnification

The User agrees to indemnify, defend (at NWM's request), and hold NWM, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal expenses, made or brought by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service.
9. Complaints Procedure

Any abuse of the Service, including but not limited to a violation of this Statement or any provision therein, should be reported immediately to NWM at issues@NewsWhip.com.
10. Advertising

NewsWhip.com may serve advertisements to the Site or work with a third party to serve the advertisements. NWM does not control the content of any services supplied by third parties and the inclusion of content does not imply endorsement of the third party by irishtimes.com or any association with that third party.
11. Limitation of Liability

NewsWhip.com shall not be liable for any loss of use, interruption of business, or any direct or indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any kind regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise, even if NWM has been advised of the possibility of such damages, howsoever arising, out of use of the Service.
12. Miscellaneous

If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be deemed superseded by a valid enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. NWM's failure to act with respect to a breach by you or others does not waive its right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches. The failure of NWM to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these terms and conditions shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
14. Law

Any dispute arising from or relating to the use of the Service shall be submitted to binding arbitration before a single arbitrator in accordance with the commercial rules of the American Arbitration Association, incorporating and including the rules for emergency measures of protection. The seat of the arbitration shall be in Dublin, Ireland. The language of the arbitration shall be English. This Statement, which comprises a contract, shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the substantive laws, including the contract laws, of the state of New York.
15. NewsWhip Daily and other Information Services

With your consent, NWM may send you email communications containing information, images, and links to websites, including but not limited to a service titled NewsWhip Daily (the Email Service). All of the above disclaimers apply to the Email Service, in particular Users of the Email Service or any similar information services provided by NWM assume complete responsibility and risk in their use of or visits to any external sites, which may be accessed via hyperlinks in emails. NWM 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 NewsWhip.com. Additionally, users of the Service assume complete responsibility and risk in their use of any information contained in the emails. If you create an account with NWM, you agree and understand that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password which, together with your email address or social network profile, allows you to access NWM services. By providing us with your e-mail address, you agree to receive all required notices electronically, to that e-mail address. It is your responsibility to update or change that address, as appropriate.
16. Interruptions
Your access and use of the Service may be interrupted from time to time for any of several reasons, including, without limitation, the malfunction of equipment, periodic updating, maintenance or repair of the Site or other actions that NWM may take.

NewsWhip Privacy Statement

1. Introduction

This privacy statement describes how NewsWhip Media Ltd. collects, uses and protects any information you give us when you use NewsWhip.com. Your privacy is important to us. If you give us any information by which you can be identified when using NewsWhip.com, it will be used in accordance with this privacy statement. We may change this privacy statement from time to time.
2. What information does NewsWhip.com Collect?

We collect the following information:
Information which you supply when you subscribe to our emails;
Information which you provide to us directly (for example by email or private message);
Information which you post in the comments on NewsWhip.com;
Information provided through Facebook, if you use Facebook Connect to connect with NewsWhip.com; and
Information relating to your use of NewsWhip.com generally. This may include login and logout times and the number of visits you make.
In addition, we log technical data in connection with visits to this website for our statistical and business purposes. The data logged may include:
- The IP address of each visitor and the domain of their internet service provider (The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company's computer),
- The previous website address from which a visitor reached us, including search terms used if the previous site was a search engine like Google;
- The data which shows the traffic of visitors around NewsWhip.com (for example showing which stories have been read and which links have been clicked); and
- The type of web browser used by a visitor.
We also use tools provided by outside providers to analyse our web-site statistics and technical data. Additionally, NewsWhip.com uses cookies (Small pieces of information, stored in simple text files and placed on your computer by a web site) to improve your experience and the speed of our service and to provide services and advertising. In particular, cookies are used to keep a record of your preferences and to keep you logged in between visits if you so choose.
3. Reasons for Collecting Information:

We require information for the operation of NewsWhip.com and use it to provide you with a better service and understand better the preferences of our users. In particular, we may use or disclose your information for the following reasons:
We may use this information for technical processing and to address technical problems or service complaints;
We may use this information to deal with cases of illegal activity, abuse or harassment;
We may transfer this information or technical data to enable a third party auditor to verify our traffic figures and statistical data;
We may use this information for our administration or record keeping;
We may use this information to provide the Service to you, such as sending you emails.
We may disclose this information where required by law to do so or if we determine that disclosure to law enforcement, courts, or government officials is necessary and proportionate; and
We may disclose this information where we believe that disclosure is necessary and proportionate for the protection of the legitimate interests or rights of ourselves or of a third party.

We will not otherwise disclose, sell or distribute your information to any third party without your permission.
4. Anonymous and aggregated data

Separately, we may aggregate data while preserving individual anonymity for disclosure to advertisers or business associates for promotion and marketing purposes. For example, we might disclose to a potential advertiser the number of unique visitors in a daily period or the percentage age groups of our members. No personally identifiable information will be disclosed.
5. Information you post

Any personal information that you volunteer when commenting will be available worldwide to anyone with access to the website. Please do not post any information you are not happy to leave up indefinitely. We recommend you do not post any information that may permit someone to identify you (such as name, address, email address, identity of friends) if you do not wish to be identified. Please note that certain information (such as photographs) might reveal your personal information.
6. Information security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
7. Controlling of personal information

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you or rectify any personal information which is incorrect or incomplete under the Data Protection Acts 1988-2003. If you would like a copy of such information please email us at issues@NewsWhip.com
Information posted by another person

If someone else has posted your personal information on NewsWhip.com without your permission and you would like it removed please contact us at issues@NewsWhip.com.
Facebook Comments
For commenting on NewsWhip.com, we use an external provider, Facebook Comments. This means that Facebook may store any comments you make on NewsWhip.com, and may remember that you made comments on NewsWhip.com when you visit another site that uses Facebook Comments. This service is designed to save you from re-entering information when you comment on different sites around the internet. We do not take responsibility for information stored by Facebook - for that, please visit Facebook.com. At the time of publication of this Privacy Statement, the Facebook privacy policy could be viewed here: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Children under the age of 13
NewsWhip.com is not directed at children younger than 13 years of age and is offered only to users who are 13 or older. We do not knowingly collect information from or about people below the age of 13. If you believe we might have any information from or about a person under 13, please contact us at issues@NewsWhip.com.
Persons aged 13 to 17
We recommend that young people aged 13 to 17 ask their parents or legal guardians for permission before using NewsWhip.com or sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.

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