Introduction
Welcome to The Palestine Chronicle (www.palestinechronicle.com). We hope that you will find your visit to our online publication both beneficial and worthwhile. While we will strive to provide you with the most relevant material on Palestine, Israel, the ‘Middle East’ region, and current affairs worldwide, we would like you to note the following:
The views expressed in this online publication are the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of The Palestine Chronicle and its editorial team. The Palestine Chronicle makes no representation concerning and does not guarantee the source, originality, accuracy, completeness or reliability of any of the material herein including statements, news, commentary, features, photos, video, audio, art, political cartoons, and other materials containing information, data, findings, interpretation, advice, opinion, or views.
Agreement and Definitions
This Disclaimer and Service Agreement (“Agreement”) constitutes the agreement between The Palestine Chronicle Web Site (“PalestineChronicle.com” or “Service”) and you as a user who accesses or establishes a connection (“user”, “you” or “your”) to or with The Palestine Chronicle, which is owned and controlled by PINA Online Inc.
General Terms of Use
You agree to abide by all of the provisions in this Agreement in order to remain an authorized user of the Service, and your use of the Service constitutes your agreement to abide by these provisions. You are solely responsible for your use of the Service and any use of the Service made by others using your user name and password, if any. You are also solely responsible for ensuring that such use complies fully with the provisions of this Agreement.
The Palestine Chronicle reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, modify, limit or discontinue any aspect, content, or feature of the Service, as well as any aspect pertaining to the use of the Service. The Palestine Chronicle further reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to restrict the use of the Service as well as suspend or revoke your rights to use the Service based on The Palestine Chronicle’s belief that your use of the Service violates this Agreement or the applicable law.
The Palestine Chronicle reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, modify or amend any or all of the provisions of this Agreement at any time or to impose new conditions including, but not limited to, adding fees and charges for use of the Service. The Palestine Chronicle will notify you of any changes by posting them on the Service or through other reasonable means of providing notice. Any changes to this Agreement will be effective immediately upon notice to you. Your use of the Service, after notice of changes to this Agreement have been made, will be deemed to be an acceptance by you of the changes.
If you do not agree to the provision of this Agreement or are not satisfied with the Service, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue your use of the Service.
Rights in the Service
All content (including, but not limited to, text, software, photos, audio, video and graphics) provided by The Palestine Chronicle on the Service is protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable intellectual property and proprietary rights laws and is owned, controlled, and/or licensed by PINA Online Inc. and/or The Palestine Chronicle or their respective owners whenever indicated. The Service is protected by copyright, patent, trademark, and other applicable intellectual property and proprietary rights laws and is owned, controlled, and/or licensed by The Palestine Chronicle. All other trademarks appearing on the Service are the property of their respective owners.
User Activities and User Information
You will use the Service and any content, material or information found on the Service solely for lawful purposes. You shall not upload, post or otherwise distribute to or disseminate through the Service any material or information of any kind that is unlawful, threatening, vulgar, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise objectionable or violates any law or infringes or violates any rights of any other person or entity, or contains a commercial solicitation of funds, advertising, or a solicitation for goods or services. Any conduct by you that, in sole discretion of The Palestine Chronicle, restraints or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Service is not permitted.
By making any material or information available through the Service, you automatically grant The Palestine Chronicle a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute and sublicense any such material or information (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other works regardless of form, media, or technology. By making any material or information available through the Service, you also grant to users other than yourself the right and license to access, view, store, or reproduce your material and information for that user’s personal, internal use.
The Palestine Chronicle reserves the right to collect and use data about you and your use of the Service for purposes such as, for example, performing statistical analyses to assist us in improving the Service.
Disclaimer of Warranties & Limitation of Liability
You expressly agree that your use of the Service is at your sole risk. Neither The Palestine Chronicle nor any of its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, agents, distributors, third party content providers or licensors (and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents) warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted or error free, or as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or contents of any content, information, material, postings, or posting responses found on the Service, any merchandise or services provided through the Service, or any links to other sites or services made available on the Service.
The information on the Service is provided solely on the basis that users will be responsible for making their own assessments of the matters discussed and are advised to verify all relevant representations, statements and information and obtain independent legal advice before acting on any information contained in or in connection with this site.
The Service, all content, material, information or postings found on the Service are provided on an ‘as is’ basis without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied.
Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall The Palestine Chronicle (or any of its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, agents, distributors, third party content providers, or licensors (and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents)), be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, any content, information, material or postings found on the Service or the Service itself. These limitations apply regardless of whether the party liable or allegedly liable was advised, had other reason to know, or in fact knew of the possibility of such damages.
Termination
The Palestine Chronicle may terminate this Agreement and your use of the Service, or discontinue the Service at anytime in its sole discretion.
The Palestine Chronicle is not responsible for the content of external linked Web sites.