Terms of Service

Using this service

When using this website and/or any of our services you consent to the following terms. If you are under 16 years old you may not use this service without explicit prior consent of your legal guardian to the following terms.

Limitations of use and prohibited actions

You may use this site only in compliance with the law and for lawful purposes. You may not use this site for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm individuals or other parties in any way. You may not attempt to access accounts of other users without their permission and you may not try to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt

• any part of this site;
• any equipment or network on which this site is stored;
• any software used in the provision of this site;
• any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Contributing and uploading material

Whenever you add content (text, links, files, images, videos, etc.) to this page you take full responsibility and liability for it and you grant us permission to store that content on our servers. You may only add content that you either own or for which you have explicit permission by the owner to use it and to upload it to our servers. You must under no circumstance knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware. You must also not transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).

Account obligations

When signing up and thereby creating a user account you agree that all account information you provide to us will be true, accurate, complete and current information, and that you will maintain and update your account information as needed throughout your use of the service to keep it accurate and current. Failure to provide accurate, current and complete account information may result in the suspension and/or termination of your account. You are not allowed to create more than one account per person (physical identity) without explicit permission from our side. You understand and agree that we may access, use, preserve and/or disclose your account information and content if legally required to do so or if we have a good faith belief that such access, use, disclosure, or preservation is reasonably necessary to:

• comply with legal process or request;
• enforce these terms of service, including investigation of any potential violation thereof;
• detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues;
• protect the rights, property or safety of this service, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

Where we give you or where you choose a password which enables you to access certain parts of this site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Third party services

We might use third party services (Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.) to enhance user experience, especially for authentication. We take all reasonable effort to verify the correct functioning and legality of those services at all times, but do not take any responsibility for them since their functioning is beyond our control. See also the related section in our Privacy Policy.

Linking our page

You may link to this website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. We reserve the right to demand removal of links to this website without further reasoning.

Links to other pages

Where our site links to content on other pages provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over those contents and do not take responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Privacy and cookies

By using this website you consent to our Privacy Policy.

Communication

All contact details on this page (email addresses and phone numbers) must only be used to contact us for one or several of the following:

• questions about using our service;
• reporting problems with our page or bugs;
• requesting support regarding the use of this service.

You must however, under no circumstance, share those provided contact details with anyone or use them for advertising purposes or in order to sell services to us. Also, you must never send us messages or emails generated by an automated system. We reserve the right to invoke legal action against any such attempt.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold our brand, its affiliates, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, agents, partners and licensors harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by a third party, relating to or arising from:

• any content you submit, post, transmit, or otherwise make available through the service;
• your use of the service;
• any violation by you of these terms of service;
• your violation of any rights of another service.

This obligation shall survive the termination or expiration of these terms of service and/or your use of the service. You acknowledge that you are responsible for all use of this service through your account, and that these terms of service apply to any and all usage of your account. You agree to comply with these terms of service and to defend, indemnify and hold harmless our entity from and against any and all claims and demands arising from usage of your account, whether or not such usage is expressly authorized by you.

Intellectual property

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights of this site. Those rights are protected by copyright laws and treaties in Germany and around the world. All such rights are reserved. You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from this site for your personal reference. You must however not modify this copy in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our sites must always be acknowledged in a proper way. If you breach any of these terms of use, your right to use this site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Some of the intellectual property used on this page requires attribution. All those items including proper attribution are listed in the Impressum.

Disclaimer

We do not guarantee that our service as a whole or parts of it will be error-free, correct or available at all times. Even though we try to fix bugs and errors on a regular basis there is no guarantee that we will do so. The entire page is provided "as-is", all information and content on the site might be subject to change or deletion without further notice. Using our page or downloading anything from it happens on your own risk. We cannot ensure that files or other data you download will be free of viruses, contamination or destructive features. This also includes the source code itself. We herewith disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including accuracy, non-infringement, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. We also explicitly disclaim any liability for third party services integrated on our page. Please refer to the terms of service of those third parties for more information regarding their use. When using our service you assume full responsibility for your usage and actions on this page and all content and links you add to it. Commentary and other materials posted on our sites are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our sites, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. We reserve the right to do any of the following, at any time, without further notice:

• terminate operation of the site and/or the service, partially or completely. This includes the deletion or change of data and content without specific reason;
• modify or change the site and/or the service, partially or completely, including policies and terms;
• temporarily interrupt the operation of the site and/or the service, partially or completely, in order to perform updates, maintenance, error correction, or other changes;
• change or delete content, links or files that have been added by you.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

This contract shall be governed by German law and all legal issues shall be settled by German courts.

Changes to this document

Any changes that we make to this document in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, sent to you by email if you are a registered user.

• December 28, 2019:
  Original version
• May 25, 2020:
  Attriubtion notice and link added

Questions?

If you have any questions about the above terms, please contact us at

contact@journalisticapp.com