Jerusalem Post Online Terms of Service, Revision 1.0, Last modified January 1st,
2011.
Preamble: These Terms of Service govern your use of the Jerusalem Post website,
purchases you make through the website and any content contribution you may make
to the website. While the formal and full agreement governs your use of the website,
The Jerusalem Post has posted, for your convenience and use, a brief summary of
your rights, duties and obligations:
- You may use the site to read content, post user comments, purchase premium subscriptions
or content and register to any of our newsletters.
- If You register to any of our subscription services, we will bill you until you
notify us otherwise.
- If you purchase our premium subscription, you can't go around, resell it or send
your username and passwords to friends.
- Any comment you may post shall be non-offensive.
- The Jerusalem Post may charge fees for parts of the services.
- Some personal information about you may be saved.
- No matter what, The Jerusalem Post shall never be liable for any damage incurred
by using this website or service.
We recommend that you read the full terms of service prior to posting any content
to the website, registering to any newsletter or purchasing premium content.
- 1.Scope of Services: These Terms of Service are the
biding agreement between The Jerusalem Post Ltd., a duly incorporate Israeli corporation,
whose principal place of business is Jerusalem, Israel (“The Jerusalem Post”) and
Yourself, an individual or a person acting on behalf of a corporation or organization
which authorized you in order to enter into these terms of service (“You”). For
the purpose of these Terms of Service, the term “Service” shall refer to any of
the following services provided by The Jerusalem Post, as described in this clause,
including any of their features.
- 1.1News & Updates: The Jerusalem Post shall provide
You with access to articles, news updates, opinion columns and other content, all
through its website located at http://www.jpost.com
(“Website”). Such content shall be provided either by The Jerusalem Post or by chosen
affiliates and 3rd parties, where marked as such.
- 1.2Blogs and Commentary: The Jerusalem Post shall
provide You with access to blog posts, videos and other media made by selected 3rd
parties. such content is brought at the sole responsibility and liability of such
3rd Parties.
- 1.3User Submissions, Including Comments: The Jerusalem
Post shall provide You with an option to contribute and post Your commentary in
regards to News, Updates, Blogs or other users contributions or commentaries.
- 1.4Premium Content: The Jerusalem Post shall provide
You with additional content, commentary and information, all defined as “Premium
Content” including online editions of the daily "Jerusalem Post" electronic paper,
and a selection of exclusive articles from "The Jerusalem Report," The Jerusalem
Post's youth magazine "Dash," The Jerusalem Post's "Christian Edition," an easy-Hebrew
magazine "Ivrit,", The Jerusalem Post's weekend magazines and more. Such access
shall be made against payments and fees, as as described in these Terms of Service
- 1.5Newsletter: The Jerusalem Post shall provide You
with an option to receive timely updates through Electronic mail, including promotional
offers and other relevant information.
- 1.5.1Registration: In order to register to the Newsletter,
You will be required to enter some relevant information, so that The Jerusalem Post
may provide You with better services and promotional activity.
- 1.5.2Authentication: Following the Registration process,
an email will be sent to Your email box to confirm and authenticate that You requested
to register to the Newsletter.
- 1.5.3Timely Updates: From time to time, and according
to Your preferences, The Jerusalem Post shall send You updates through electronic
mail.
- 1.6Electronic Edition: The Jerusalem Post shall provide
You with an interface to access a digital edition of the Jerusalem Post Print Edition;
such access shall be made payments and fees, all as described.
- 1.7Archive:The Jerusalem Post shall provide You with
access to on-line archives of news articles and any other information stored on
the Website.
- 1.83rd Party Services: The Jerusalem Post may, from
time to time, offer more services provided by 3rdparties, such as Browser toolbars,
educational services, dating services and other services. Such 3rdParty services
may be either personalized or non-personalized, and may be branded with The Jerusalem
Post's name, but are not provided by it and contain different terms of service which
You must accept prior to using them.
- 1.9Polls:The Jerusalem Post shall present, from time
to time, user polls which shall present its users' views and opinions in regards
to statements or questions of interest.
- 1.9.1Voting: You may vote once, and once only on each
poll. You acknowledge and consent that The Jerusalem Post may track and monitor
Your votes and present them to its users, as well as track attempts to fraud it.
- 1.9.2Results: The The Jerusalem Post shall avail the
results of such polls and may allow access to its polling archive. You acknowledge
that the polls made by The Jerusalem Post do not reflect the general public, nor
do they reflect the users of The Jerusalem Post's website, as voting in polls is
voluntary and not mandatory
- 1.10News Ticker:The Jerusalem Post shall avail to
you, all with accordance to the features inherent in the code, a short HTML code
which you may install, at your own discretion and risk, at any website you may control
or own.
- 1.10.1License: You are hereby granted a limited, non-exclusive,
worldwide, temporary, revocable, non-sublicensable, nontransferable and non-assignable
license to use and display such HTML code at websites, according to the stipulations
and restrictions setforth.
- 1.10.2Risk: You hereby undertake to incur and bear
all risk associated with the execution of such computer code.
- 1.10.3Derivative Works: You may not amend, modify
or otherwise create any derivative works from the HTML code, including any code
meant to exploit any vulnerability in Website, inject malicious content or computer
code, circumvent The Jerusalem Post's s erver, or otherwise create any work falsifying
the origin of the content in the News Ticker
- 1.10.4Crediting: Any use of the News-Ticker shall
be where The Jerusalem Post is properly credited for the origin of the news.
- 1.11Send Article: The Jerusalem Post provides you
with an Interface to send articles to your friends by electronic correspondence.
- 1.12Additional Services: The Jerusalem Post may, from
time to time, add additional services and portions to the Website, which may include
additional terms.
- 1.13 Classified Ads: The Jerusalem Post may avail you to an interface to
publish and/or search classified ads, either for real estate, employment or
other matters. In such case, the Jerusalem Post may charge rates in accordance
to article 3 to these Terms and the content of any classified ad you submitted
shall be subject to the Jerusalem Post's Contribution Policy as set forth in
article 4 to these terms.
- 2.Fees and Charges: Services are provided either free
of charge or against a set fee, all with consideration of the Service's scope and
field. You hereby acknowledge that the free nature of a specific Service is not
guaranteed and should any Service incur any costs, You shall pay them in order to
use that Service.
- 2.1Fees: The Jerusalem Post may, from time to time,
set fees as deemed in each Service. The fees set-forth are for non-commercial and
personal uses of Service and not for commercial effort or endeavor. Such fees may
be monthly, daily or yearly, and you shall be billed according to the fee policy
of such service.
- 2.2Payment: All payments according to these Terms
of Service shall be made by a credit card which You own and for purchase of subscription,
personalized service or content. By agreeing to pay or committing to purchase, you
shall be required to provide The Jerusalem Post with Your Credit Card
- 2.3Subscription: When you register to a subscription
service, such as The Jerusalem Post's Premium Service or Electronic Edition Subscriptions,
You hereby grant The Jerusalem Post permission to bill you on each calendar month
for the services rendered on that specific month. The payment shall be processed
by The Jerusalem Post and until you shall notify The Jerusalem Post that you wish
to cancel such subscription.
- 2.4Refunds: As content is considered intangible goods
under Israeli Law, The Jerusalem Post shall by no mean, cause or reason issue any
refund, rebate, discount, credit or other form of payment to You, should you decide
to annul, cancel or void your subscription.
- 3.Your User Account and Use: In order to use some
of the Services, you will be required to register and open User Account(s), where
different accounts may be used for different services. When signing up for a User
Account and when using each of the services, You hereby undertake to comply with
the following stipulations, as well as any other reasonable orders by The Jerusalem
Post, as you may be instructed from time to time.
- 3.1Eligibility: You are eligible to enter into these
Terms of Service and: (i) were not prohibited by any authorized authority, judicial
order to law into entering in any agreement; (ii) are over 18 years of age or obtained
consent to enter into these Terms of Service from your parent or guardian; (iii)
were not previously prohibited by The Jerusalem Post from using Services or held
another User Account; (iv) do not reside in and proscribed proscribed state or member
of any proscribed organization; and (v) have all proper authorization, if you are
acting on behalf of a corporation, into entering into these Terms of Service.
- 3.2Personal Use: Your use of the Services shall be
personal and non-commercial; You shall not transfer, distribute or publish any content
or portion of the Services to any 3rd parties apart from where available through
Service itself (such as in the news-ticker or RSS feed) and shall not sell, resell,
syndicate or republish any of the Services.
- 3.3Authentication of Registration: When registering
to services, you may be required to authenticate Your mean of payment, email address
or both in order to make sure that emails will be received and payments shall be
made.
- 3.4True and Correct Information: You hereby warrant
that any information you provided to The Jerusalem Post is true and correct. You
shall not use Service to impersonate anyone else or to register on behalf of any
other person.
- 3.5Use of Services: You will use Services only in
a bona-fide manner, and avoid any use which may obstruct, interfere or delay the
Services to any other person. You will not use the Services to spam, send unsolicited
publications, stalk, harass or threaten any other person or computer system.
- 3.6Harvesting: You will not use any automated means,
including computer code, crawlers, robots or scripts in order to harvest information,
parse, cache or otherwise provide service to any 3rd person. You will not create
or use any script, software, code or program that otherwise manipulates, falsifies,
adds or removes functionality to the Services.
- 3.7Copyright: Apart from where specifically permitted,
nothing in these Terms of Service shall constitute as a license to use any portion
of copyrighted material titled by The Jerusalem Post; You will not modify, create
derivative works, distribute or otherwise amend the Services, apart from where specifically
permitted, any portion of the Service.
- 3.8News Ticker: When using the News-Ticker in any
of Your websites, you hereby grant The Jerusalem Post the right to track, monitor
and inspect any elements and any visits to such website, as well as retain statistical
and analytical information, all as made available by The Jerusalem Post's servic
- 3.9RSS: You may use The Jerusalem Post's RSS feed
in order to create any application, service or website as well as other services,
as longs as such services do not crawl or otherwise parse, display or publish any
content from the Website which was not presented in the RSS feed. You may use and
display the images attached to the RSS feed in Your website, application or service
only with the content and text attached to it.
- 3.10Newsletter: You may read the Jerusalem Post's
Newsletter and even forward it to your friends, as long as the following conditions
are met: (i) you do not falsify any information and keep all original text intact;
(ii) you will not use the Service to spam others; and (iii) you shall comply with
the specific copyright license as set-forth in the copyright chapter.
- 3.11Send Article: You may use The Jerusalem Post's
Send Article feature only in a bone-fide manner and avoid spamming, sending mass
unsolicited emails or impersonating others when doing so.
- 4.Contribution Policy: By either providing The Jerusalem
Post with textual material or by using The Jerusalem Post's Services to create textual
or other content, You hereby accept The Jerusalem Post Contribution Policy as set
forth. You acknowledge that any violation of the Contribution Policy may cause termination
of Your Service, removal of Your content or contribution and legal action by both
The Jerusalem Post and the person whose rights were infringed. For the purpose of
this Policy, the term Contribution shall refer to: (i) images and/or text used in
creating user generated content, comments or blog posts; (ii) images retrieved from
3rd parties in such comments; (iii) description, text and information processed
through Service; (iv) submissions made through Service.
- 4.1Copyright License: You hereby grant The Jerusalem
Post an irrevocable, permanent, unlimited, world-wide, royalty-free, sublicensable,
non-exclusive license to use Your Contribution and to allow Users to view Your Contributions
according to the functionality of Service and through or other 3rd party services,
including the creation of derivative works and the creation of three dimensional
works.
- 4.2Model Release: You hereby grant The Jerusalem Post
the permission to use and display Your Contribution and Your Name in order to endorse
The Jerusalem Post.
- 4.3Offensive Content:You hereby warrant that Your
Contribution are not offensive and do not infringe the right of any 3rd party, including,
but not only:
- 4.3.1Intellectual Property Infringing: Your Contribution
does not infringe any 3rd party copyright, design, patent, trademark, trade secrets
or any other intellectual property rights.
- 4.3.2Pornography: Your Contribution does not contain
any text, image or depiction including nudity, profanity, sexual activity, sexual
innuendos, sexually offensive or otherwise obscene.
- 4.3.3Slanderous: Your Contribution does not slander,
defame or otherwise harm the good name of others.
- Hate Speech and Racist: Your Contribution does not include any
hate speech or racist opinions, as well as does not incite others for violent acts
against persons solely in regards to their inclusion of a specific groups.
- 4.3.4Scams: Your Contribution is not used to initiate
any scam, market manipulation, pyramid scheme, phishing or otherwise any use which
may be used to extract goods and/or money from others, including any virtual property.
- 4.4Warranty: You hereby warrant that You are either
the sole proprietor or a designated licensee of any Contribution You process through
service and that no other party's rights are infringed or violated by using Contribution
and Service. You moreover warrant that that no legal claim, dispute or lawsuit was
filed against You or threatened against You for publishing Contribution.
- 4.5Notice and Takedown Mechanism: In order to protect
Your rights, The Jerusalem Post has set up this Notice and Takedown Mechanism to
help You protect Your Contributions and to ensure that no unauthorized use is made.
- 4.5.1Prescreen and Moderation: You acknowledge that
The Jerusalem Post cannot pre-screen all Contributions, but that it shall have the
right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or remove any
Contribution or User Account that is available via the Service. The Jerusalem Post
shall have the right to remove any Contribution or User Account that violates these
Terms of Service or is otherwise objectionable.
- 4.5.2Disclosure of Content: : You acknowledge and
agree that The Jerusalem Post may preserve Contribution and may also disclose Contribution
if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or
disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce
these Terms of Service; (c) respond to claims that any Contribution violates the
rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety
of The Jerusalem Post, its Users, and the public. You understand that the technical
processing and transmission of the Service, including your Contribution, may involve
(a) transmissions over various networks and (b) changes to conform and adapt to
technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.
- 4.5.3Harmless: You agree and warrant to hold The Jerusalem
Post and Users harmless and to immediately indemnify The Jerusalem Post or Users
for any claim of copyright infringement, trademark dilution or patent infringement
for any use of Contribution according to these Terms of Service. You also agree
to indemnify The Jerusalem Post and/or Users for any 3rd party lawsuit for Copyright
infringement due to their use of Contribution made available by You.
- 4.5.4Cease and Desist:The Jerusalem Post values others
Your Rights, and therefore shall comply with all state regulations regarding 3rd
party rights. Should you encounter any Contribution which you believe to be in violation
of any of Your rights, good name or copyrights, Please file an infringement complaint
to our Content officer: updates@jpost.com; Our officer shall examine your complaint
and shall forward it to the User who published said Contribution for his answer,
if possible. Should Your complaint be false, harassing or in order to prevent legal
use of Service, you shall bear all liability to compensate the User which you reported
as infringing and/or The Jerusalem Post. In your complaint you will be required
to inform us with: (i) a written statement regarding what Contribution infringes
your rights and proof that You hold those rights; (ii) what is the exact URL of
the Contribution; (iii) notification that you believe that the use made by the Contribution
is not considered fair-use, criticism, consumer protest or any other protected speech.
- 4.5.5Moderation: Pursuant to any Cease and Desist
notification, and promptly thereafter, The Jerusalem Post will moderate the Content
and review your request; The Jerusalem Post shall notify the User who posted the
Content on Your complaint, including Your information and request his response,
if possible.
- 4.5.6Removal or Restoration: Should the User who posted
the content fail to respond within 96 hours, The Jerusalem Post shall remove the
Content; had he responded, The Jerusalem Post will inspect his response and had
there any material questions of fact or law arise, The Jerusalem Post shall forward
his personal information directly to You so you could commence litigation over You
complaint.
- 4.6Indemnification:You hereby warrant and agree to
hold The Jerusalem Post harmless and to indemnify The Jerusalem Post for any damage,
loss, expense, legal expense or cost incurred as a result of (i) Your posting of
any Contribution in direct violation of The Jerusalem Post Contribution Policy,
including any false representation; OR (ii) any claim, complaint or notification
filed maliciously or negligently against any User where no such claim had any legal
standing.
- 5.Privacy:: In order to protect Your Privacy, The
Jerusalem Post has set up this extensive Privacy Policy. When You use Services,
certain information is retained at The Jerusalem Post's servers, as well as at 3rd
Parties. Such information may be stored in databases, conveyed to 3rd parties or
used to provide You with better Service, all according to the following policy:
- 5.1What Information is stored? The Jerusalem Post
retains certain information you provide it when you browse its Services, as well
as information tracked using automated means.
- 5.1.1Information You Provide Directly: The Jerusalem
Post retains the following information when you register to its services, and may
request, from time to time, additional information:
- 5.1.1.1Commenting: The Jerusalem Post retains the
following information when You post any Contribution or comment through Service:
Your Name , Email address and Country.
- 5.1.1.2Premium Service: The Jerusalem Post retains
the following information when You sign up to The Jerusalem Post Premium Service:
Your Full Name, Your Email address, Your Password for the Service, Your Title, Your
Date of Birth, Your Residence, Your Phone Number, Your Social Security Number or
ID Number, Your Credit Card and Payment Information.
- 5.1.1.3Newsletter: The Jerusalem Post retains the
following information when You sign up to The Jerusalem Post's newsletter: Your
Name, Email address, Gender, Date of Birth, Country, State, Family Status, Income,
Education, Religious Affiliation and Fields of Interest
- 5.1.2Information You Provide Indirectly:
The Jerusalem Post may retain and store information you provide when browsing Services
such as Your IP address, Your browser and operating system, Your session number,
Your geolocation and other browsing information.
- 5.2Who Has Access to the Information? Selected 3rd
Parties who provide The Jerusalem Post with services have a unique access to specific
information required in order to provide such services, and The Jerusalem Post may
convey information to such parties in order to provide You with Service. For example,
The Jerusalem Post may use 3rd parties to send its Newsletter, display videos or
other content and/or provide You with advertisements.
- 5.3How is the information collected? Information is
collected in two distinct ways, when You browse the site, a cookie is placed in
Your browser; a cookie is a small text file which may allow The Jerusalem Post to
identify You personally and provide You with Services; You also provide, when using
Services, some information about Yourself to The Jerusalem Post. Finally, the Jerusalem
Post, either by itself or through 3rd parties, may collect Your browsing habits
and browsing data.
- 5.4How is the information processed? The information
You provide with The Jerusalem Post shall be processed by it and by selected 3rd
parties in order to provide You with the Services You requested (such as The Jerusalem
Post's Newsletter), moreover, The Jerusalem Post may process Your information in
order to include you in specific user groups or tiers and to provide you with personal
solicitations.
- 5.53rd Party Services: In order to provide You with
Services and to better understand what You and other users engage in Services, The
Jerusalem Post retains and uses 3rd party services, such as Google, Facebook, CrazyEgg,
Wibiya, DoubleClick and Conduit. Each of these services has a unique and distinct
privacy policy which You should read and inspect prior to using Services.
- 5.6What uses are made with the information? The Jerusalem
Post uses the information You provided in order to provide You with Services. Moreover,
in specific Services, Your Information is used in the following way:
- 5.6.1Premium: When You register to The Jerusalem Post's
Premium Service, The Jerusalem Post shall process Your credit card and retain it
for that period and send you communications from time to time.
- 5.6.2Newsletter: When You register to The Jerusalem
Post's Newsletter, The Jerusalem Post shall send you, from time to time, personal
or tiered solicitations and use Your information for direct marketing.
- 5.7Can You Review, Amend or Remove Information? Yes,
You may contact the Jerusalem Post at any time in regards to Your Personal Information,
and after You provided the Jerusalem Post with sufficient evidence that You are
the data-subject of the information, receive the option to either remove all Your
personal information from The Jerusalem Post's Servers or Amend it. Please note
that such removal or amendment may be a costly process, depending on the amount
of personal information retained, and that The Jerusalem Post may charge fees for
such service.
- 6.Copyright:Unless specifically stated, all content
and title in Service is copyrighted and titled to The Jerusalem Post. The Jerusalem
Post provides you with a limited, personal license to use and view Services for
your personal use.
- 6.1Licenses:The Jerusalem Post hereby licenses you,
in regards to these specific Services, the following licenses:
- 6.1.1RSS: You are hereby granted a limited, non-exclusive,
limited, temporary, nonassignable, non-transferable, restricted and revocable license
to use, publish and display the information provided by the Jerusalem Post's RSS
feed, as long as no derivative work of the text, images or videos in the feed are
changed or modified and as long as both The Jerusalem Post and the original author
of the text are attributed properly.
- 6.1.2News Ticker: You are hereby granted a limited,
non-exclusive, limited, temporary, non-assignable, non-transferable, restricted
and revocable license to use, publish and display the information provided by the
Jerusalem Post's News Ticker, as long as no derivative work of the text, images
or videos in the feed are changed or modified and as long as both The Jerusalem
Post and the original author of the text are attributed properly
- 6.1.3Newsletter:You are hereby granted a limited,
non-exclusive, limited, temporary, non-assignable, non-transferable, restricted
and revocable license to use, publish and display the information provided by the
Jerusalem Post's Newsletter, as long as no derivative work of the text, images or
videos in the feed are changed or modified and as long as both The Jerusalem Post
and the original author of the text are attributed properly.
- 7.Warranty and Liability:
- 7.1No Warranty: The Jerusalem Post does not warrant
for Service and supplies it on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis. Your Use of
Service is at your own risk and under your liability. The Jerusalem Post makes no
warranty that (i) the Service will meet your requirements and (ii) the Service will
be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free and (iii) the results that may be
obtained from the Use of the Service will be accurate or reliable and (iv) the quality
of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained
by You through Service will meet your expectations, or (v) any errors in the Service
will be corrected.
- 7.2No Liability: For no case and for no reason shall
The Jerusalem Post be held liable for any damage, direct or indirect, consequential,
exemplary, physical or special, to You, any User or any 3rd party due to its misperformance
of duties herein. The Jerusalem Post provides Service on an AS-IS basis and shall
not be held liable, to the extent permitted by law, by any case of misconduct, negligence,
gross negligence, malice or any other mean, to any damages or loss of property,
including damages to: virtual property, reputation and business reputation, User
Account information including login information, loss of profit, loss of good name,
all resulting from the use or inability to use Services rendered by The Jerusalem
Post.
- 8.Amendments: The Jerusalem Post may amend, from time
to time, these Terms of Service and may, or may not, notify you as these amendments
are made. Should you decide that any amendment in these Terms of Service does not
constitute as your understanding with The Jerusalem Post, you may, at your own will,
terminate these Terms of Service and terminate your User Account. All Contributions
you created shall remain stored on Service and shall be used according to The Jerusalem
Post' Policies and amended terms of service. In no case will these Terms of Service
have any retroactive change nor would they apply on Your conduct without your consent,
therefore you undertake to examine, from time to time, any amendments in these Terms
of Service.
- 9.Termination: The Jerusalem Post may, at its sole
discretion, terminate these Terms of Service, Service or any other service rendered
by it due to any reason, for any User, including You, or with no reason at all or
for any reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use or if The Jerusalem
Post believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the understandings
or spirit of the Terms of Service. The Jerusalem Post may also, in its sole discretion,
and at any time discontinue providing the Service, or any part thereof, with or
without notice. You agree that any termination of your access to the Service under
any provision of these Terms of Service may be effected without prior notice, and
acknowledge and agree that The Jerusalem Post may immediately deactivate or delete
your account and all related information and files in your account and/or bar any
further access to such files or the Service. Further, you agree that The Jerusalem
Post shall not be liable to you or any 3rd party for any termination of your access
to the Service.
- 10.3rd Party Advertisements: The Jerusalem Post may,
at its own discretion and for its causes, include within Service any links for 3rd
party websites, advertisements or links for applications (3rd Party Content). The
Jerusalem Post does not warrant for 3rd Party Content or availability thereof nor
does it endorse it. The Jerusalem Post shall not be held, or claimed to be held,
liable for any 3rd Party Content, its legality or illegality, its adequacy with
regulations and its quality.
- 11.Entire Agreement, Waiver: These TOS constitute
the entire understandings between parties and will only be amended in writing. No
waiver to perform any The Jerusalem Post' rights under this agreement shall constitute
amendments of it.
- 12.Governing Laws, Jurisdiction, No Class Action:
These Terms shall be solely governed by the laws of the state of Israel, including
their statutes regarding conflict of laws and may be solely brought to the competent
courts of the Tel-Aviv-Jaffa District. You undertake not to initiate any class action,
for any reason, against The Jerusalem Post and to claim your damages only according
to this agreement.