NEWSPAGE JOURNALIST / BLOGGER TERMS OF USE
THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONSTITUTE A BINDING CONTRACT ON YOU AND GOVERNS THE USE OF AND ACCESS TO THE PLATFORM AND SERVICES BY YOU (AGREEMENT).
BY CONTINUING TO USE THE PLATFORM, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT AS OF THE DATE OF SUCH ACCESS OR USE OF THE PLATFORM (EFFECTIVE DATE)
BACKGROUND
Newspage Media Limited, a company incorporated in England, with registered number 13306602 and registered address 2 Lansdown Square East, Bath, England, BA1 9DS (trading as “Newspage” (Newspage, we or us) offers access to a Platform which allows journalists (Journalist, you, yours) and bloggers (Blogger, you, yours) to create News Alerts (or media requests) on your chosen topic (News Alerts) via Newspage (the Platform). Users of the Platform will be able to view your News Alert and respond with a View and Opinion.
YOU WILL BE SUBJECT TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND THE PRIVACY POLICY ON THE WEBSITE AS SOON AS YOU CREATE A NEWS ALERT ON NEWSPAGE. IF YOU DON’T WISH TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU SHOULD NOT USE THE PLATFORM.
WE ASSUME THAT YOU ARE AUTHORISED TO REPRESENT THE VIEWS AND INTERESTS OF THE MEDIA THAT YOU REPRESENT. WE WILL NOT MAKE ENQUIRIES ABOUT WHETHER A JOURNALIST OR BLOGGER IS SO AUTHORISED AND WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE IF A JOURNALIST OR BLOGGER MISREPRESENTS THE VIEWS OR INTENTIONS OF THE MEDIA WHICH HE OR SHE REPRESENTS.
AGREED TERMS
1. Interpretation
The definitions and rules of interpretation in this section apply in this Agreement.
Applicable Law: any law (including common law or other binding law), statute, regulation, code, ordinance, rule, judgment, order, decree or directive or any determination by or requirement of a competent authority, as amended from time to time and as applicable to each party in relation to its provision of services to the other party pursuant to this Agreement.
Blogger: an individual who owns, operates or publishes a blog.
Confidential Information: information of commercial value, in whatever form or medium disclosed by the party to the other party, including commercial, financial, and information pertaining to business operations of either party. The technology and know-how relating to the Platform is confidential to us and our licensors. Information contained in any Story is not Confidential Information.
Data Protection Legislation: UK Data Protection Legislation and any other European Union legislation relating to personal data and all other legislation and regulatory requirements in force from time to time that apply to a party relating to the use of personal data (including, without limitation, the privacy of electronic communications).
Expert: the individual contributor(s) to a Newspage who either (i) acting on his/her own behalf; or (ii) is designated by the User.
Harmful Code: viruses, worms or similar harmful code.
Intellectual Property Rights: all patents, copyrights, design rights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, know-how, database rights and other rights in the nature of intellectual property rights (whether registered or not), and all applications for the same which may now, or in the future, subsist anywhere in the world, including the right to sue for and recover damages for past infringements.
Journalist: an individual journalist or a journalist who represents a specific Media outlet (print and/or online, or broadcast).
Licence: your right to access to the Platform, as set out in Section 2.
Media: print publications, websites, broadcast outlets and individual journalists and newswires.
Newspage: a Journalist’s personalised Newspage on the Platform through which they issue News Alerts.
Personal Data: has the meaning set out in the Data Protection Legislation.
UK Data Protection Legislation: all applicable data protection and privacy legislation in force from time to time in the UK including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018; the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC (as updated by Directive 2009/136/EC) and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/2426) as amended.
User: a body corporate, organisation, government or other legal entity.
Website: Our website: The UK’s first FREE PR platform – #BeTheStory | Newspage
2. Grant of Licence
3. Use of the Platform
4. Intellectual Property Rights
5. Your Obligations
You undertake:
In the event of any loss or damage of Stories or Views and Opinions directed to your Newspage, your sole and exclusive remedy shall be for us to use reasonable endeavours to restore the lost or damaged Stories or Views and Opinions from the latest back-up of your Newspage maintained by us.