Terms & Conditions
User Agreement
A. INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY USERS
Registration data:
These Terms of Use govern your use of the websites, content, and community services offered through https://www.bbnewsgujarat.com (“Site”), any mobile or internet-connected device, or otherwise (the “Service”).
These terms of use (Terms) constitute a legally binding agreement between you and the Company regarding your use of the website and/or app, i.e., www.bbnewsgujarat.com (the Site), and any services offered by the company, including but not limited to the delivery of content via the Site, any mobile or internet-connected device, or otherwise (the “Service”).
By accessing the Site or Service and/or by clicking “I agree,” you agree to be bound by these Terms. You hereby represent and warrant to the Company that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age or above and are capable of entering, performing, and adhering to these Terms, and that you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions.
While individuals under the age of 18 may utilize the Service of the site, they shall do so only with the involvement & guidance of their parents and/or legal guardians, under such Parent/Legal guardian’s registered account.
You agree to register prior to uploading any content and/or comment and any other use or services of this site and provide your details, including but not limited to complete name, age, email address, residential address, contact number.
Definition of “User” or “You”: means any person who accesses or avails of this site of the Company for the purpose of hosting, publishing, sharing, transacting, displaying or uploading information or views and includes other persons jointly participating in using the site of the Company.
We May Discontinue or Suspend our Site or Terminate Use
We reserve the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, our site (or any part thereof) with or without notice without any liability whatsoever. BB News Gujarat reserves the right to suspend/cancel or discontinue any or all channels, categories, products or service or any part thereof at any time without notice, make modifications and alterations in any or all of the content, products and services contained on the site without prior notice.
BB News Gujarat shall not be liable to you or any third party for any such modification, suspension or discontinuance of our site. In addition, we reserve the right to terminate your access to our site for any reason and to take any other actions that BB News Gujarat, in its sole discretion, believes to be in the interest of our company and of our users as a whole.
Our site (including all text, photographs, graphics, video and audio content contained on our site) is protected by copyright as a collective work or compilation under the copyright laws of India and other countries, and we (subject to the rights of our licensors and licensees under applicable agreements, understandings and arrangements) have all rights therein. Hence, all articles, blogs, videos, content, and other elements comprising our site are also copyrighted works, and we (subject to the rights of our licensors and licensees under applicable agreements, understandings and arrangements) have all rights therein. You must abide by all copyright notices/restrictions on our site.
BB News Gujarat shall moderate the comment threads.
Charges
BB News Gujarat reserves the right to charge subscription and/or membership fees from a user, by giving reasonable prior notice, in respect of any product, service, or any other aspect of this Site.
Copyright and Trademarks
Unless otherwise stated, copyright and all intellectual property rights in all material presented on the site (including but not limited to text, audio, video, or graphical images), trademarks, and logos appearing on this site are the property of BB News Gujarat, its parent, affiliates, and associates (subject to the rights of our licensors and licensees, etc., under applicable agreements, understandings, and arrangements) and are protected under applicable Indian laws. You agree not to use any framing techniques to enclose any trademark or logo or other proprietary information of BB News Gujarat; or remove, conceal or obliterate any copyright or other proprietary notice or any credit-line or date-line on other marks or source identifier included on the Site/Service, including without limitation, the size, color, location, or style of all proprietary marks. Any infringement shall be vigorously defended and pursued to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Restricted Use of Content
You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, enter into a database, display, perform, modify, create derivative works from, transmit or in any way exploit any part of our site or any content thereon. You may not distribute any part of this site or any content thereon over any network, including, without limitation, a local area network, or sell or offer it for sale. In addition, these files may not be used to construct any kind of database.
We are concerned about the integrity of our site when it is viewed in a setting created by a third party that includes advertising or other materials that we have not authorized to be displayed with the content of our site. Neither you nor any third party shall make use of the contents of our site in any manner that constitutes an infringement of our rights, including copyright.
BB News Gujarat grants you permission to only access and make personal use of the Site, and you agree not to, directly or indirectly download or modify/alter/change/amend/vary/transform/revise/translate/copy/publish/distribute or otherwise disseminate any content on BB News Gujarat’s Site/Service, or any portion of it; or delete or fail to display any promotional taglines included in the Site/Service either directly or indirectly, except with the express consent of BB News Gujarat, or decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible at the Sites.
However, you may print or download extracts from these pages for your personal/individual, non-commercial use only provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. You must not retain any copies of these pages saved to disk or to any other storage medium except for the purposes of using the same for subsequent viewing purposes or to print extracts for personal/individual use.
BB News Gujarat forbids you from any attempts to resell or put to commercial use any part of the Site; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of the Site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of any other merchant; any renting, leasing, or otherwise transferring rights to the Site/Service; displaying the name, logo, trademark, or other identifier of another person (except for www.bbnewsgujarat.com) in such a manner as to give the viewer the impression that such other person is a publisher or distributor of the Service on the Site, or any data gathering or extraction tools; or any use of meta tags.
You may not (whether directly or through the use of any software program) create a database in electronic or structured manual form by regularly or systematically downloading and storing all or any part of the pages from this site.
No part of the Site may be reproduced or transmitted to or stored in any other website, nor may any of its pages or part thereof be disseminated in any electronic or non-electronic form, nor included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without prior written permission. Requests to republish BB News Gujarat’s material for distribution should be addressed to editorial@bb
newsgujarat.com
Individual Registration, Access, and Exchange of Information
For certain services, registration by the visitor may be required. To register for these services, you have to open an account by completing the registration process (i.e. by providing your current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the applicable registration form). You agree to provide and promptly update true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself, and if BB News Gujarat believes such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, BB News Gujarat has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Sites by you. Our use of any personally identifying information you provide to us as part of the registration process is governed by the terms of our Privacy Policy.
You also will choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. By registering, you agree to the following terms in addition to any other specific terms that shall be posted at an appropriate location of the Site. Each registration is for a single individual user only.
To access these services, you will be asked to enter your individual User Name and Password, as chosen by you during your registration. Therefore, we do not permit any of the following: any other person sharing your account and password; any part of the Site being cached in proxy servers and accessed by individuals who have not registered with BB News Gujarat as users of the Site; or Access through a single account and Password being made available to multiple users on a network.
If BB News Gujarat reasonably believes that an account and Password is being used/misused in any manner, BB News Gujarat shall reserve the right to cancel access rights immediately without notice, and block access to all users from that IP address.
Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under your account. You agree to notify BB News Gujarat immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. BB News Gujarat will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using your password or account or your failure to protect your password or account information. However, you could be held liable for losses incurred by BB News Gujarat or another party due to someone else using your account or password.
Material Posted/transmitted at BB News Gujarat’s Site
All information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, or other materials (“Content”), whether publicly or privately transmitted/posted, is the sole responsibility of the person from where such content is originated (the Originator). By Posting any material that contains images, photographs, pictures, or that are otherwise graphical in whole or in part (“Images”), you warrant and represent that (a) you are the copyright owner of such Images, or that the copyright owner of such Images has granted you permission to use such Images or any content and/or images contained in such Images consistent with the manner and purpose of your use and as otherwise permitted by these Terms of Use and the Services, (b) you have the rights necessary to grant the licenses and sublicenses described in these Terms of Use, and (c) that each person depicted in such Images, if any, has provided consent to the use of the Images as set forth in these Terms of Use, including, by way of limitation, the distribution, public display, and reproduction of such Images.
You represent that you have valid rights and title in any and all Content/Images that you submit on the Site, that you have not infringed on any IPR belonging to any party, and further that you will indemnify BB News Gujarat or its affiliates for all claims arising out of any content that you post on the Site.
BB News Gujarat accepts no responsibility for the said Content/Images. However, you understand that all Content/Images posted by you become the property of BB News Gujarat, and you agree to grant/assign to BB News Gujarat and its affiliates a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content/Images (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it into other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed throughout the world.
You represent that you are a responsible adult (18 years or above) and you shall be solely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, or otherwise transmit.
BB News Gujarat endeavors to provide a web platform for various community interactions for persons to interact and exchange views with each other. Members of the general public post content on such services, and therefore the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content cannot be guaranteed. You understand that by using such services, you may be exposed to objectionable matter.
You may not send, submit, post, or otherwise transmit, material or messages that contain software virus, or any other files that are designed to interrupt, destroy, and negatively affect in any manner whatsoever, any electronic equipment in connection with the use of this Site, or other user’s ability to engage in real-time exchanges.
Not Responsible For and Not Necessarily Hold the Opinions of our Contributors/Bloggers/Commenters, etc.
Opinions and other statements expressed by users and third parties (e.g., bloggers) are theirs alone, not opinions of BB News Gujarat. BB News Gujarat is not responsible for the accuracy and completeness of Blogger/Contributor content, neither does it endorse or guarantee the same, nor accept any obligation or liability for the same. BB News Gujarat and its affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers, and shareholders do not undertake or assume any duty to monitor its site for inappropriate or unlawful content.
BB News Gujarat and its affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers, and shareholders assume no responsibility or liability that may arise from the content thereof, including, but not limited to, claims for defamation, libel, slander, infringement, invasion of privacy and publicity rights, obscenity, pornography, profanity, fraud, or misrepresentation.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, BB News Gujarat reserves the right to block or remove communications, postings, or materials at any time in its sole discretion.
Not Responsible for Linked Sites
We are not responsible for the availability or content of other services that may be linked to our site. Because we have no control over such services, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such external services, and that we do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, accuracy, quality, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such services. You further acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services available on or through such services.
Prohibited Activities
As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices.
You shall not post, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information on the Site, that:
a) Belongs to another person and to which you do not have any right to;
b) Is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, paedophilic, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable