Terms and conditions

Terms and conditions of use

Welcome to our digital information network. These are our terms and conditions for use of the network, which you may access in several ways, including but not limited to the World Wide Web via www.bdallhour.com, digital television, PDA, mobile phone and RSS feeds. In these terms and conditions, when we say the “www.bdallhour.com Site” we mean the digital information network operated by or on behalf of www.bdallhour.com. News & Media Limited or its parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “www.bdallhour.com”), regardless of how you access the network, as well as any Www.bdallhour.com apps whether you access those via a www.bdallhour.com Site or a third-party site. However you access the www.bdallhour.com Site, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you have accessed the www.bdallhour.com Site from the United States or Australia, you also agree to be bound by additional terms contained at the end of these terms and conditions.

1. Registration

You may access areas of the www.bdallhour.com Site that require registration by becoming a registered member and creating an account with us. You agree to be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your passwords or other account identifiers which you choose and all activities that occur under your account.

By registering on the www.bdallhour.com Site, you agree that:

(i) your account and password are personal to you and may not be used by anyone else to access the www.bdallhour.com Site;

(ii) you will not do anything which would assist anyone who is not a registered user to gain access to any registration area of the www.bdallhour.com Site; and

(iii) you will not create registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor will you seek to pass yourself off as another user.

You agree to notify us immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or account identifiers by others.

2. Termination of registration

If you no longer wish to have a registered account, you may terminate your account by sending an email to smartboy162001@gmail.com. If you no longer accept these terms and conditions, or any future modification to these terms and conditions, you must cease using the www.bdallhour.com Site. Continued use of the www.bdallhour.com Site indicates your continued acceptance of these terms and conditions.

If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these terms and conditions, we may, at our sole discretion, cancel your access to the registration areas of www.bdallhour.com Site immediately and without prior notice.

We may terminate your registered account, at our sole discretion, by emailing you at the address you have registered stating that the agreement has terminated.

3. Use of material appearing on the www.bdallhour.com Site

Your use of the www.bdallhour.com Site is for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You acknowledge that, as between www.bdallhour.com and you, except for user content and advertisements (as discussed below), www.bdallhour.com is the sole owner of all content on the www.bdallhour.com Site, including, without limitation, all applicable copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, trade names, logos, and other intellectual property rights thereto, as well as text, images, graphics, logos, audio, video and other material appearing on the www.bdallhour.com Site (“www.bdallhour.com Content”). The www.bdallhour.com Site and the www.bdallhour.com Content are protected by the copyright laws and other intellectual property laws of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia and are protected globally by applicable international copyright treaties.

You may download and print extracts from the www.bdallhour.com Content for your own personal and non-commercial use only, provided you maintain and abide by any author attribution, copyright or trademark notice or restriction in any material that you download or print. You may not use any www.bdallhour.com Content for any other purpose without our prior written approval. Except as expressly authorized by the www.bdallhour.com, you are not allowed to create a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the material appearing on the www.bdallhour.com Site.

If you wish to use our content other than as permitted by these terms and conditions, please contact us at www.bdallhour.com. If you operate a news aggregation service that charges a subscription fee to its users, then you need to approach the NLA directly to discuss your licensing requirements.

For all other inquiries about the distribution or reproduction of the materials, please contact www.bdallhour.com.

4. Disclaimer of liability

To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the www.bdallhour.com Content. Nothing in the www.bdallhour.com Content is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person. For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to the www.bdallhour.com Content or any part of it. You can access other sites via links from the www.bdallhour.com Site. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.

We give no warranties of any kind concerning the www.bdallhour.com Site or the www.bdallhour.com Content. In particular, we do not warrant that the www.bdallhour.com Site or any of its contents is virus-free. You must take your own precautions in this respect as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything which has destructive properties.

Although we will do our best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to the www.bdallhour.com Site, we do not guarantee this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.

If you are accessing the www.bdallhour.com Site from the United States or Australia, the additional disclaimers and limitations of liability in Sections 16 and 17 and apply.

5. Third-party advertising on the www.bdallhour.com Site

You will see advertising material submitted by third parties on the www.bdallhour.com Site. Each individual advertiser is solely responsible for the content of its advertising material. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission, or inaccuracy therein.

If you want to advertise on the www.bdallhour.com Site, please email the user help team at smartboy162001@gmail.com, and they will pass your details on to our advertising sales team.

6. User content

Users of our site may be permitted to submit content for publication in various areas of the www.bdallhour.com Site. Interactions with our site are governed by our Community Standards and Participation Guidelines accessible at www.bdallhour.com which are incorporated in these terms and conditions. You will be deemed to consent to these guidelines, and these terms and conditions, if you choose to post any content or comments to the www.bdallhour.com Site.

When you submit content to us, you agree and represent that you have created that content, or you have received permission from, or are authorized by, the owner of any part of the content to submit it to the www.bdallhour.com Site.

You or the owner of the content still own the copyright in the content sent to us, but by submitting content to us, you are granting us an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide license to use, publish and/or transmit, and to authorize third parties to use, publish and/or transmit your content in any format and on any platform, either now known or hereinafter invented.

You acknowledge and agree that when you post content on the www.bdallhour.com Site or view content provided by others, you are doing so at your own discretion and risk, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, of that content. You further acknowledge and agree that the views expressed by you and other users in that content do not necessarily reflect the views of www.bdallhour.com, and we do not support or endorse any user content. You acknowledge that we have no obligation to pre-screen, monitor, review, or edit any content posted by you and other users on the www.bdallhour.com Site.

We, or authorized third parties, reserve the right to cut, crop, edit or refuse to publish, your content at our or their sole discretion. We may remove your content from use at any time.

We accept no liability in respect of any content submitted by users and published by us or by authorized third parties.

You warrant that the content you submit to us is not obscene, threatening, harassing, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another’s privacy, offensive, defamatory of any person, or illegal. You warrant that the content you submit to us does not infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other intellectual or proprietary or privacy rights of any party or individual. You agree not to (i) post content which is deliberately intended to upset or harm other users; (ii) use the www.bdallhour.com Site to post or otherwise transmit content that victimises, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of any impermissible classification, including, without limitation, religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, creed, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, military status or disability; (iii) post or otherwise transmit any content that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of the www.bdallhour.com Site or any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment; (iv) upload or otherwise transmit any content, or take any other actions with respect to your use of the www.bdallhour.com Site, that would constitute, or would otherwise encourage, criminal conduct or give rise to civil liability; or (v) use the www.bdallhour.com Site for commercial purposes, including, without limitation, submitting any material to solicit funds or to promote, advertise or solicit the sale of any goods or services.

You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the www.bdallhour.com Site may involve (i) transmissions over various networks; and (ii) changes to the content to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices. www.bdallhour.com assumes no responsibility for the deletion or failure to store postings of content or other information submitted by you or other users to the www.bdallhour.com Site.

If you are under 16, you confirm that you have the permission of your parent or www.bdallhour.com to submit content.

Any queries regarding copyright and your content should be directed in the first instance to www.bdallhour.com Readers of our print products submitting content to www.bdallhour.com News & Media should read our terms here.

7. Apps

You may download certain www.bdallhour.com (“Apps”) either from www.bdallhour.com Sites or from third-party app stores or shops. All of these terms apply to the maximum extent relevant to your use of the Apps (and in particular, the terms of section 6 apply where you are using an App to submit user content to the www.bdallhour.com Sites).

In addition to the limitations on our liability set out in Section 4, 16, and 17, we shall not be liable for any damage caused to or interference with any equipment or other Apps or content of any description.

8. Data protection

To find out what personal data we collect and how we use it, please visit our privacy policy at https://www.bdallhour.com/p/disclaimer-privacy-policy.html

9. Changes to these terms and conditions of use

Please note that we may change these terms and conditions from time to time at our sole discretion and we reserve the right to do without your consent. Any revised terms and conditions will be applicable at the time of posting on the www.bdallhour.com Site. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the www.bdallhour.com Site after it has been posted.

10. Governing law & jurisdiction (except for US users)

These terms and conditions are governed by English law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts, provided that use of the www.bdallhour.com Site in the United States is governed by Section below entitled

11. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless www.bdallhour.com, its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, and employees from any and all claims, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees and expenses, arising out a breach by you or any user of your account of these terms and conditions or privacy policy or arising out of a breach of your obligations, representation, and warranties under these terms and conditions.

12. No waiver

Our failure to insist upon or enforce any provision of these terms of service shall not be

construed as a waiver of any provision or right of www.bdallhour.com.

Additional terms of use for users in the United States and Australia

13. Additional restrictions on user content for US users

In addition to section 6 the terms in Section above, you agree not to use the www.bdallhour.com Site to upload, post, e-mail, or otherwise transmit any content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or regulation or under any contractual or fiduciary relationship (such as insider information, intellectual, proprietary or confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements and to intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or the NASDAQ, and any rules, regulations, orders, directives and the like having the force of law).

14. DMCA notice for US users

If you are a US copyright owner or an agent of a US copyright owner and believe that any user content or other content on the www.bdallhour.com Site infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(3), the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) by providing our designated copyright agent with the following information in writing:

(i) identification of the copyrighted work or works claimed to have been infringed;

(ii) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;

(iii) your contact information including your name, an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email 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 owner of the work, its agent, or the law;

(v) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; and

(vi) your physical or electronic signature;

www.bdallhour.com designated copyright agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is www.bdallhour.com. Only DMCA notices should go to the designated copyright agent. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section, your DMCA notice may not be valid.

15. Governing law & jurisdiction (for US users)

If you have accessed the www.bdallhour.com Site from the US, these terms and conditions are governed by the laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of New York. You agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or dispute with www.bdallhour.com or relating in any way to your use of the www.bdallhour.com Site resides in the courts of the County of New York, State of New York, and you further agree and expressly consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction in the courts of the County of New York, State of New York, in connection with any such dispute and including any claim involving www.bdallhour.com News & Media LLC or its affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, contractors, officers, directors, telecommunication providers, and content providers. You agree that any cause of action or claim that you may have with respect to your use of the www.bdallhour.com Site must be commenced within one year after the act or omission giving rise to the claim or cause of action arose.

16. Additional disclaimers

Visitors to the www.bdallhour.com Site agree that their use of the www.bdallhour.com Site is at their own sole risk. The www.bdallhour.com 0Site is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied including but not limited to: (i) any warranties concerning the availability, accuracy, appropriateness, reliability, timeliness, or usefulness of the content of the www.bdallhour.com Site; and (ii) any warranties of title, warranty of non-infringement, or warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. www.bdallhour.com also makes no representations and warranties as to any linked sites and www.bdallhour.com has no liability or responsibility with respect to your use of such sites. In some instances, content made available on the www.bdallhour.com Site may represent the opinions and judgments of providers or users, such as user content. www.bdallhour.com and its affiliates do not endorse nor shall they be responsible or liable for the accuracy or reliability of any statement made on the www.bdallhour.com Site by anyone other than authorized www.bdallhour.com employees acting in such capacity.

This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injuries caused by the Www.bdallhour.com Site, including, without limitation, those damages or injuries occurring as a result of (i) any error, omission, deletion, or defect in the content available on the www.bdallhour.com Site; or (ii) any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction of records, information or data, unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of records, information or data, whether for breach of contract, tort, negligence, defamation, or any other cause of action. www.bdallhour.com does not warrant or guarantee that access to the www.bdallhour.com Site will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

17. Limitation of liability

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, IN NO EVENT WILL www.bdallhour.com OR ITS AFFILIATES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT LOSS, DAMAGE, COST, EXPENSE OR LIABILITY OF ANY KIND (“LOSS”) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE AVAILABILITY, USE, RELIANCE ON, OR INABILITY TO USE THE www.bdallhour.com SITE, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION): (i) DAMAGES FOR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS AND OTHER PROFITS, LOSS OF PROGRAMS, COST OF REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR SOFTWARE OR LOSS OF RECORDS, INFORMATION OR DATA, LOSS OF USE OF DATA, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF CUSTOMERS, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO REPUTATION, LOSS OF CAPITAL, DOWNTIME COSTS, LOSS UNDER OR IN RELATION TO ANY OTHER CONTRACT, OR LOSS OF ANTICIPATED SAVINGS OR BENEFITS; (ii) ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS; OR (iii) ANY LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN THE www.bdallhour.com SITE. THE EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY IN THIS SECTION 17 APPLIES EVEN IF www.bdallhour.com SHALL HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS.

BECAUSE SOME STATES OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR PARTICULAR KINDS OF LOSS, IN SUCH STATES OR JURISDICTIONS, www.bdallhour.com’S LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW (THEREBY MINIMIZING www.bdallhour.comS LIABILITY TO YOU TO THE LOWEST AMOUNT THAT APPLICABLE LAW PERMITS).

18. Exclusion of warranties (for Australian users)

The Australian Consumer Law may confer certain rights and remedies on you in relation to the provision by www.bdallhour.com of goods and services under these terms and conditions. Notwithstanding the disclaimers and limitations of liability in Sections 4, 16 and 17 above, these terms and conditions do not exclude, restrict or modify the application of any condition, warranty, guarantee, right or remedy conferred by or implied under any provision of the Australian Consumer Law or any other statute where to do so would: (i) contravene the relevant statute; or (ii) cause any part of these terms and conditions to be void and/or unenforceable (“Non-Excludable Obligation”).

Except in relation to Non-Excludable Obligations, all conditions, warranties and other provisions implied or conferred by statute, custom, or the general law that impose any liability or obligation on www.bdallhour.com are expressly excluded under these terms and conditions.

19. Non-Excludable Obligations (for Australian users)

In relation to Non-Excludable Obligations (other than a guarantee as to title, encumbrances or quiet possession conferred by the Australian Consumer Law), except for goods or services of a kind ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic or household use or consumption (in respect of which our liability is not so limited under these terms and conditions), www.bdallhour.com’s liability to you for a failure to comply with any Non-Excludable Obligation is limited to: (i) in the case of services, the lowest of the cost of supplying the services again and payment of the cost of having the services supplied again; and (ii) in the case of goods, the lowest of the cost of replacing the goods, supplying equivalent goods or having the goods repaired, or payment of the cost of replacing the goods, supplying equivalent goods or having the goods repaired.

Details of variations

September 8, 2005: Section 1 adapted to include the reference to mobile phones. Section 7 adapted to include references to blogs and Been There service.

November 1 2005: Addition to Section 8 regarding email alerts for www.bdallhour.com Jobs users.

When you register for www.bdallhour.com Jobs services you will be asked to provide some further information.

If you have asked to receive email alerts about specific jobs the frequency with which you will receive these will depend upon the service that you have chosen. Additionally, you will receive regular newsletters with information about developments with the www.bdallhour.com Jobs website. If you have not subscribed to specific email alerts you will still receive these regular emails but can unsubscribe at any time.

We do not allow employers to view any of your personal details without your express consent.

www.bdallhour.com Jobmatch only operates as an employment agency in relation to the hirer to the extent that it matches profiles submitted by job seekers in response to existing job vacancies on the site. www.bdallhour.com Jobmatch does not have any authority as an employment agency or otherwise to act for the hirer and does not affect introductions between hirers and jobseekers, or vice versa.

May 7, 2008: Link to privacy policy inserted to replace text in Section 8 for consistency. Community Standards and Participation Guidelines incorporated in Sections 6 and 7.

1 February 2010: A reference to the www.bdallhour.com headline service was removed from Section 3 and replaced with information about the NLA’s ability to issues licenses to certain news aggregators.

In Section 6 the license granted in respect of graphical and photographic works submitted to us was updated to include print use.

18 April 2011: Revised and merged terms for the submission of content by site users. Subsequent paragraphs renumbered.

19 September 2011: Modified to cover www.bdallhour.com and to introduce specific terms for users accessing the site in the US.

27 February 2012: New section included at 7 to address Apps and consequential section renumbering.

17 January 2013: Section 6 amended to include the reference to under 16s submitting content. Section 7 modified to capture user content submitted via Apps.

2 May 2013: New Sections 18 and 19 included to introduce specific terms for users accessing the site from Australia. Amendments to section 17. Consequential amendments to other provisions.

30 July 2013: Modified to include the reference to www.bdallhour.com

25 May 2018: Updated reference to the privacy policy in Section 8.

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