​Terms of Use
As of: [December 17, 2023]
These conditions
(1) This website (the “Journalism International | Investigative Journalism (ajournalisminterna.wixsite.com)”) and/or the services, including any related mobile applications (collectively: the “Services”) are owned by [Journalism International] and is operated by it (hereinafter also: “we”, “us” and “our”). These Terms of Use (“Terms”) set forth the terms and conditions under which visitors or users (collectively: “User” or “you”) may access or use the Site and/or the Services.
(2) By accessing or using the Services, you agree to the Terms and Conditions and agree to them in a binding manner. If you do not agree to all of the terms and conditions, then you may not access the site or use the services. Please read these Terms carefully before accessing our Site or using the Services. These Terms tell you who we are, how to use the Services and what you can do if you have any problems.
(3) You represent that you are of legal age and have the legal authority, right and freedom to enter into a binding agreement based on these Terms and to use the Services. If you are a minor, you can only use the Services with the permission of your parents or legal guardian.​
Member account
(1) In order to access and use certain areas and functions of our Site, you must first log in and create an account (“Member Account”). You must provide accurate and complete information when registering your member account.
(2) If a person other than you accesses your member account and/or your settings, they can carry out all actions available to you, e.g. B. Make changes to your member account. We therefore strongly advise you to keep your member account login details safe. Any such activities may be deemed to have been made for and on your behalf and you may be solely responsible for such activities that occur under your Member Account, whether or not expressly authorized by you, and for all Damages, expenses and losses arising herefrom. You will be liable for activities related to your Member Account in the manner described if you negligently enabled use of your Member Account by failing to take reasonable care to protect your login information.
(3) You may create and access your Member Account through a dedicated website or through a third-party platform such as Facebook (the “Social Network Account”). If you log in using a third-party platform account, you hereby grant us access to certain information about you stored in your social network account.
(4) We may permanently or temporarily suspend or suspend your access to the Member Account, without liability to you, in order to protect us, our Site and our Services or other users, for example if you violate any provisions of these Terms or applicable law or regulation in connection with them your use of the Site or your Member Account. This may be done without notice if circumstances require immediate action; in this case we will inform you as soon as possible. In addition, we reserve the right to terminate your membership account upon two months' notice by email if, for example, we discontinue our membership account program. You can discontinue use and request deletion of your member account at any time by contacting us.​
Permitted Use
(1) Our services are made available to you for informational purposes and only for private, non-commercial use. When using our Services, you must comply with these Terms and all applicable laws.
(2) Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, you may not: (i) use our Services in any unlawful or fraudulent manner (including violating the rights of third parties) or for any purpose to collect personal data or impersonate other users to spend; (ii) modify or use our copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices or interfere with security-related features of our Services; (iii) use our Services in any way to manipulate or distort any content or undermine the integrity or accuracy of any Content, or take any action to interfere with, damage or disrupt any portion of our Services; (iv) use our Services to send, receive, upload/post, download any material that does not comply with our content standards; (v) use our Services to transmit or facilitate the transmission of any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material; (vi) use our Services to transmit data or upload data to our Services that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, keystroke logging, spyware, adware or other harmful programs or similar computer code that may interfere with the operation of any computer software or hardware (vii) use any robot, spider, other automatic device or manual process to monitor or copy our website or other web pages or the content contained in our Services, or use network monitoring software to determine the architecture of our Services or Extract usage data from our Services; (viii) engage in any conduct that restricts or inhibits any other user from using our Services, or (ix) use our Services for commercial purposes or in connection with any commercial activity being conducted without our prior written consent. You agree to cooperate fully with us in the investigation of any activity that is alleged or actual to violate these Terms and Conditions.​
Intellectual Property Rights
(1) Our Services and related content (and any derivative works or improvements thereof), including without limitation any text, illustrations, files, images, software, scripts, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, information, content, materials , products, services, URLs, technology, documentation, trademarks, service marks, trade names and trade dress, and interactive features and all intellectual property rights therein are either owned or licensed by us (collectively, "our intellectual property rights") and none of the phrases in these Terms gives you rights in relation to our intellectual property rights. Except as expressly set forth herein or as required by law governing use of the Services, you do not acquire any right, title or interest in or to our intellectual property rights. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are expressly reserved.
(2) If the Services include the provision of digital content, such as music or videos, you are granted the rights as set out in relation to such content on the Site.​
User Content
(1) You may use texts, files, images, photos, videos, sounds, musical works, copyrighted works, audio files, fonts, logos, trademarks, illustrations, compositions, applications, comments, information in or through the Services and post other appropriate material (collectively, “User Content”).
(2) By displaying or publishing (“posting”) User Content on or through the Services, you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, limited license to use, modify, delete, amend , public performance, public display and reproduction of such User Content as part of the Services by distributing part or all of the Services in the appropriate media formats through the media channels supported by us, except that User Content that has not been shared publicly (“private”) , not distributed outside of the Services.
(3) You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the User Content uploaded or made available via the Services or you otherwise have the right to grant the license described in this section, (ii) that Posting and use of your User Content on or through the Services will not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights, intellectual property rights or other rights of any person, and (iii) posting your User Content on the Services will not violate any contract between you and any third party violates.
(4) If you believe that your work has been copied or otherwise used in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may notify us using the following information (our contact details for this can be found in the last section of these Terms):
(i) the contact details of the person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner;
(ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
(iii) a description of the material that you claim is infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to remove the material find (including URL address);
(iv) a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law, and
(v) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are either the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner of a copyright that is allegedly infringed.
(5) We reserve the right to inform the natural or legal person who reported the violation of any counter-notification and to provide all the details contained therein.
(6) We can be reached at the following address:
name: [Journalism International]
Mail: [a.journalisminternational@gmail.com]
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Disclaimer of Warranties for Use of the Site and Services
The Services, our intellectual property rights and all information, materials and content provided in connection therewith and made available to users free of charge are provided on an "as is" or "as available" basis and without warranties of any kind, express or implied (warranties of suitability for a specific purpose or warranties regarding the security, reliability, timeliness, accuracy and performance of our Services, among others) - except in cases of malicious failure to disclose defects. We do not warrant that the free services will be uninterrupted or error-free or that they will meet your requirements. Access to the Services and the Site may be suspended or restricted for repairs, maintenance, or updates.​
Exemption
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any actual or alleged claims, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorney's fees) arising out of or relating to your use of the Site and Services in violation of these Terms, including, without limitation, any use that violates the restrictions and requirements set forth in the "Acceptable Use" section, or any User Content that you uploaded or made available in violation of the warranties set forth in the "User Content" section unless these circumstances are not your fault.​
Limitation of Liability
(1) We are only liable in the event of intent, gross negligence, negligent injury to life, body, health or slightly negligent violation of an essential contractual obligation, and only in the case of paid services. An “essential contractual obligation” means an obligation the performance of which is a prerequisite for the proper implementation of the Agreement and on which you normally rely and can reasonably rely. Our liability for a slightly negligent breach of an essential contractual obligation is limited to the amount of normal and foreseeable damage for this type of contract.
(2) The above provisions apply to our contractual (including liability for wasted expenses) and non-contractual liability (including liability in tort) as well as to liability arising from transactions before the conclusion of the contract (culpa in contrahendo). They also apply to the benefit of our managing directors, senior employees or other legal representatives, employees and vicarious agents.​
Changes to the Terms and Services; Attitude
(1) We reserve the right to change these Terms from time to time in our sole discretion to reflect changes in the law or additional features we may introduce or as we otherwise develop our business. Therefore, you should review these Terms regularly and in each case when you register for a Member Account (if applicable). The new Terms will apply to your use of the Service upon their entry into force. If ongoing services you use are affected by the changes to the Terms, we will take due account of your legitimate interests. We will notify you of any such changes in advance. You will be deemed to have accepted the changes if you do not object to these changes within two months of such notice. We will inform you of this in our communication. If you object to the changes, we will have a special right of termination - without further obligation to you - which will take effect on the date the changes come into force.
(2) We may change the services, stop providing the services or one or more functions of the services offered or limit the services. We may terminate or suspend access to the Services or the Services themselves, permanently or temporarily, for any reason or without further obligation. We will, where possible under the circumstances, inform you in good time in advance and take appropriate account of your legitimate interests when taking such action.​
Links to third party websites
The Services may contain links that allow you to leave the Site. Unless otherwise stated, the Linked Sites are not under our control and we are not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to such sites. We are not responsible for any transmissions received from any linked website. Links to third party websites are provided for informational purposes only. The fact that we have included links to other websites does not mean that we endorse their owners or their content.​
Applicable Law
(1) These terms and conditions are subject to the laws of the [Federal Republic of Germany] (without regard to conflict of law provisions) and are to be interpreted accordingly.
(2) The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (OS), which can be accessed at: https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. Please note that we are not obliged to resolve disputes with consumers through alternative dispute resolution bodies.​
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(1) A waiver by either party of any breach or default under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default.
(2) The headings used in these conditions are only for better understanding and are not to be assigned any legal significance.
(3) Unless expressly stated otherwise, if any part of these Terms is deemed unlawful or unenforceable for any reason, it is agreed that that part of the Terms will be deleted and the remaining Terms will remain unaffected and in full force and effect.
(4) You may not assign your agreement with us under these Terms or all or part of your contractual rights or obligations without our prior written consent.
(5) These Terms constitute the entire agreement and supersede all prior written or oral agreements between you and us in connection with the Services.
(6) The provisions of these Terms which by their nature are intended to survive any such action on our part shall survive, including, without limitation, provisions relating to indemnification, indemnification, disclaimers, limitations of liability and this Miscellaneous section.​
Contact
To contact us, please send an email to:
name: Journalism International
Anna Li