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The euronews website contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text, photos, video, graphics, music, sound and software.
The entire contents of euronews’ website are copyrighted under the French copyright laws. You may not modify, publish, translate, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part.
You may download copyrighted material for your personal use only. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under French copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without the express permission of euronews and the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made.
You shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on euronews any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission.
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Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall we be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the site or materials or functions on our site, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
euronews suggests to watch over children when they use the website. euronews is not responsible for consequences of children’s access to the website.
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of this website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
Your access to the Site may be terminated immediately without notice from us if in our sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of these terms. Upon termination, you must cease use of the Site and destroy all materials obtained from such site and all copies thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise.
These terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of France.
Last Updated: 06 April 2011
You are subject to both the euronews.net and the euronews community terms of use. To the extent there is a conflict between the euronews.net and the euronews community terms of use, the euronews community terms of use shall govern relating to any submission you make to the euronews community.
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING OR USING THE EURONEWS COMMUNITY WEB PAGES. YOUR USE OF OR ACCESS TO, OR LICENSE OF INFORMATION, MATERIALS, PROGRAMMING, PRODUCTS, OR ANYTHING ELSE OF USE OR VALUE ON THE EURONEWS COMMUNITY WEB PAGES CONSTITUTES AGREEMENT TO ABIDE BY THE TERMS OF USE THEN IN EFFECT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THE EURONEWS COMMUNITY WEB PAGES.
Welcome to the euronews community, a section of euronews.net ("euronews", or "we"). The euronews community provides various services subject to the following Terms of Use ("TOU" or "Terms of Use"). euronews reserves the right to alter these Terms of Use without advance notice by posting revised Terms of Use. Accordingly, you should review these Terms of Use each time you access any euronews community Web pages to stay informed of any changes to the Terms of Use. If the Terms of Use have been changed, the "Last Updated" notation at the top of this page will reflect the date of those changes. Any access to the euronews community by you after such notice shall be deemed to constitute acceptance by you of such changes, modifications or additions.
The euronews community is available for individuals aged 18 years or older.
These TOU apply to all of euronews community current and future Web pages, unless otherwise provided, including but not limited to, the following site: http://www.euronews.net.
For any portion of the euronews community Web pages that requires a user Account and/or password ("Account"), you are responsible for all use of your Account (under any screen name or password) and for ensuring that all use of your Account complies fully with the provisions of these Terms of Use. You shall be responsible for protecting the confidentiality of your user name(s) or password(s), if any.
euronews shall have the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of the euronews community, including, but not limited to, content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access or use.
euronews shall have the right at any time to change or modify the Terms of Use and conditions applicable to your use of the euronews community, or any part thereof, or to impose new conditions. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by means including, but not limited to, posting on the euronews community Web pages, or by electronic or conventional mail, or by any other means by which you obtain notice thereof. Any use of the euronews community by you after such notice shall be deemed to constitute acceptance by you of such changes, modifications or additions. We recommend you bookmark this page and review it each time you use or access the euronews community, noting the "Last Updated" information at the top of this page.
By submitting your material, for good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which you hereby acknowledge, you hereby grant to euronews and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to edit, telecast, rerun, reproduce, use, create derivative works from, syndicate, license, print, sublicense, distribute and otherwise exhibit the materials you submit, or any portion thereof in any manner and in any medium or forum, whether now known or hereafter devised, without payment to you or any third party. This authorisation is notably granted for all photographic, videographic, phonographic, audiovisual and electronic media, in particular via: the Internet, mobile-telephony networks, terrestrial, cable and satellite networks, and on mobile personal devices such as digital personal stereos, mobile televisions, among others.
Your submissions are deemed non-confidential and euronews has no obligation to maintain the confidentiality of any information, in whatever form, contained in any submission.
You represent and warrant to euronews that you have the full legal right, power and authority to grant to euronews the license provided for herein, that you own or control the complete exhibition and other rights to the materials you submitted for the purposes contemplated in this license and that neither the materials nor the exercise of the rights granted herein shall infringe upon or violate the right of privacy or right of publicity of, or constitute a libel or slander against, or violate any common law or any other right of, any person or entity.
Users are solely responsible for anything contained in their submissions. euronews does not verify, endorse or otherwise vouch for the contents of any submission. Users may be held legally liable for the contents of their submissions, and may be held legally liable if their submissions include, for example, material protected by copyright, trademark, patent or trade secret law or other proprietary right without permission of the author or owner, or defamatory comments.
euronews and/or its partners are the sole holders worldwide of all intellectual-property rights pertaining to both the structure and content of the euronews community’s Web pages.
Unless euronews gives prior express authorisation, you will refrain from reproducing and/or using the brands and logos present on the euronews community’s Web pages, and from modifying, copying, translating, reproducing, selling, publishing, exploiting or disseminating in digital or any other format all or part of the information, text, photos, images, videos and data present on these euronews community’s Web pages. Any breach of these mandatory provisions renders the offender, and all persons responsible therefor, liable to the criminal and civil penalties set out by law.
If you submit any materials within the euronews community, you agree to abide by the following rules of conduct:
The foregoing provisions of this Section 7 are for the benefit of euronews, its subsidiaries, affiliates and its third party content providers and licensors and each shall have the right to assert and enforce such provisions directly or on its own behalf.
The euronews community may provide links to other world wide web sites or resources. Because euronews has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that euronews is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that euronews shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource. You should direct any concerns regarding any external resource to the proprietor(s) of that site.
The euronews community may contain commercial images and/or links to sponsors of the euronews community. euronews is not responsible or liable for the content of those images and/or links.
You expressly agree that access of the euronews community is at your sole risk. Neither euronews, its affiliates nor any of their respective employees, or agents warrant that the euronews community will be uninterrupted or error free; nor do they make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from use of the euronews community, or as to the accuracy, reliability or content of any information, service, or merchandise provided through the euronews community.
THE EURONEWS COMMUNITY IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OTHER THAN THOSE WARRANTIES WHICH ARE IMPLIED BY AND INCAPABLE OF EXCLUSION, RESTRICTION OR MODIFICATION UNDER THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO THESE TERMS OF USE.
THIS DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY APPLIES TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION,COMPUTER VIRUS, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF RECORD, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION.
IN NO EVENT WILL EURONEWS, ITS PARENT OR AFFILIATED COMPANIES, OR ANY PERSON OR ENTITY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DISTRIBUTING THE EURONEWS COMMUNITY, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE ACCESS OR INABILITY TO ACCESS THE EURONEWS COMMUNITY , NOR SHALL EURONEWS, ITS PARENTS OR AFFILIATED COMPANIES, OR ANY PERSON OR ENTITY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DISTRIBUTING THE EURONEWS COMMUNITY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, CLAIMS, OR INJURY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR PERSONAL OR BODILY INJURY, ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR CREATING CONTENT, BY VIDEOTAPING, PHOTOGRAPHY OR OTHERWISE, FOR SUBMISSION TO THE EURONEWS COMMUNITY, AND YOU HEREBY ASSUME ALL RISK FOR ANY DAMAGES, CLAIMS OR INJURIES. YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 9 SHALL APPLY TO ALL CONTENT ON THE EURONEWS COMMUNITY.
IN ADDITION TO THE TERMS OF SERVICE SET FORTH ABOVE, NEITHER EURONEWS, NOR ITS PARENT OR AFFILIATED COMPANIES, INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR CONTENT PARTNERS SHALL BE LIABLE REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE OR DURATION, FOR ANY ERRORS, INACCURACIES, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER DEFECTS IN, OR UNTIMELINESS OR INAUTHENTICITY OF, THE INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THE EURONEWS COMMUNITY, OR FOR ANY DELAY OR INTERRUPTION IN THE TRANSMISSIONTHEREOF TO THE USER, OR FOR ANY CLAIMS OR LOSSES ARISING THEREFROM OR OCCASIONED THEREBY. NONE OF THE FOREGOING PARTIES SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS OR LOSSES OF ANY NATURE INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOST PROFITS, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. NEITHER EURONEWS, NOR ITS PARENT OR AFFILIATED COMPANIES, INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR CONTENT PARTNERS WARRANT OR GUARANTEE THE TIMELINESS, SEQUENCE, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THIS INFORMATION. ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE INFORMATION.
euronews disclaims any and all liability of any kind for any unauthorized access to or use of your personally identifiable information. By accessing the euronews community, you acknowledge and agree to euronews’ disclaimer of any such liability. If you do not agree, you should not access the euronews community.
You agree that euronews, in its sole discretion, may terminate your Account, password, and User Name and/or access to the euronews community Web pages, and may remove and discard any content within the euronews community Web pages, for any reason, including, without limitation, if euronews believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms of Use. You agree that any termination of your access to the euronews community Web pages under any provision of this Terms of Use may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that euronews may immediately deactivate or delete your Account, password, and User Name and all related information and files associated with it and/or bar any further access to such files or the euronews community Web pages. Further, you agree that euronews shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Web pages. The provisions of Sections 9, 12, and this Section 10, shall survive termination of these Terms of Use.
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless euronews, its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of the access to the euronews community by you or your Account by you or any other person using the Account. euronews reserves the right to take over the exclusive defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification under this Section. In such event, you shall provide euronews with such cooperation as is reasonably requested by euronews.
These Terms of Use and any operating rules for the euronews community established by euronews constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. These Terms of Use shall be construed in accordance with the laws of France, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. If you access the euronews community from any location other than France, you accept full responsibility for compliance with all local laws. If any part of these Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, it will be replaced with language reflecting the original purpose in a valid and enforceable manner. The enforceable sections of these Terms of Use will remain binding upon the parties.
Neither euronews nor you shall be liable for damages or for delays or failures in performance resulting from acts or occurrences beyond their reasonable control, including, without limitation: fire, lightning, explosion, power surge or failure, water, acts of God, war, terrorism, revolution, civil commotion or acts of civil or military authorities or public enemies: any law, order, regulation, ordinance, or requirement of any government or legal body or any representative of any such government or legal body; or labor unrest, including without limitation, strikes, slowdowns, picketing, or boycotts; inability to secure raw materials, transportation facilities, fuel or energy shortages, or acts or omissions of other common carriers.
The euronews community respects its Users’ privacy and complies strictly with current legislation on the protection of personal data and freedoms. This section illustrates its commitment regarding its Users’ privacy and the protection of data collected and processed when they access the euronews community’s Web pages under the conditions set out in the present Terms of Use.
The Data collected and subsequently processed by euronews are voluntarily supplied by the User via the registration form to the euronews community’s Web pages and consist at least of a pseudonym and a valid e-mail address. The euronews community’s Web pages may use an automatic tracing method (cookie), which the User can block, if they are not registered, by changing the relevant settings on their web browser.
The Data identified as compulsory in the Form are required to benefit from the functionalities of the euronews community’s Web pages (content management). The Data collected automatically by the euronews community’s Web pages allow the publisher to generate statistics on viewing of the euronews community’s Web pages. This processing gives rise to a statement to the French data-protection watchdong (CNIL) (receipt number 1493988).
The User is informed that their Data may be disclosed in application of a law or regulation, by virtue of a decision by a competent regulatory or judicial authority, or, if necessary, to protect euronews’ rights and interests.
euronews reserves the right to inform its registered members by email of changes to its own services or commercial offers.
The User may delete their registration. In this case, euronews will keep none of their personal information.
Data are stored at euronews for the time strictly required to achieve the purposes set out above. After this time, they will be kept solely for statistical reasons and will not be exploited in any way whatsoever.
These Data are confidential. Therefore, in accordance with the French data-protection and freedoms act of 6 January 1978, the User is entitled to access, amend and remove their personal Data. The User can exercise this right by email or post.
