Zimbabwe Guardian
Zimbabwe Guardian
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Terms of website use
Access to and use of www.talkzimbabwe.com or The Zimbabwe Guardian (TZG) both within the UK and internationally is provided by TZG (international users of the site may see some advertising on certain pages which is provided by our sponsors.
1. By using TZG you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of TZG. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to TZG.
2. TZG may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of TZG will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using this website. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific local terms appearing elsewhere on TZG (including house rules) then the latter shall prevail.
Use of TZG
3. You agree to use TZG only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of TZG. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within TZG.
Intellectual Property
4. All copyright, trade marks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on TZG and all content (including all applications) located on the site shall remain vested in TZG or its licensors (which includes other users). You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use TZG content in any way without prior written consent by TZG. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any TZG content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of TZG content requires the prior written permission of TZG.
5. The names, images and logos identifying TZG, or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of TZG and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, design right or copyright of TZG or any other third party.
Contributions to TZG
6. By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with TZG you agree to grant to TZG, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) for TZG services in any media worldwide (including on TZG's site accessed by international users). In certain circumstance TZG may also share your contribution with trusted third parties*.
7. Copyright in your contribution will remain with you and this permission is not exclusive, so you can continue to use the material in any way including allowing others to use it.
8. In order that TZG can use your contribution, you confirm that your contribution is your own original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any UK laws, that you have the right to give TZG permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that you have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in your contribution or the consent of their parent / guardian if they are under 16.
9. We normally show your name with your contribution, unless you request otherwise, but for operational reasons this is not always possible. TZG may need to contact you for administrative or verification purposes in relation to your contribution, or in relation to particular projects.
10. Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating content you may share with TZG.
11. If you do not want to grant TZG the permission set out above on these terms, please do not submit or share your contribution to or with TZG.
*In the case of news-related material please note that this may be shared with TZG's overseas partners; these are all reputable foreign news broadcasters who are prohibited from altering the material in any way or providing it to other UK broadcasters or to the print media.
12. If you have any questions about contributing content to TZG, please email us at info@thezimbabweguardian.com
TZG communities
13. In order to participate in and contribute to selected TZG communities you may be required to register with TZG. Any personal information supplied to TZG as part of this registration process and/or any other interaction with TZG will be collected, stored and used in accordance with TZG Privacy Policy.
14. You agree to use TZG forums (including message boards) in accordance with the following Forum Rules. These apply across all TZG community sites and services.
(i) About your posts:
Contributions must be civil and tasteful.
No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.
Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant TZG community.
No spamming or off-topic material: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
No advertising or promoting.
Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed unless allowed in the relevant local house rules.
No impersonation.
No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.
Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your account.
(ii) Your ZIMBABWE GUARDIAN Account:
If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting a community or annoying other users you may have action taken against all of your accounts.
All accounts must be registered with a valid personal email address that you access regularly so that moderation emails can be sent to you. Accounts registered with someone else's email address, or with temporary email addresses may be closed without notice. We may require users to re-validate their account if we believe they have been using an invalid email address.
TZG reserves the right to close accounts if any user is seen to be using proxy IPs (Internet Protocol addresses) in order to attempt to hide the use of multiple ZIMBABWE GUARDIAN accounts, or if a non UK user pretends to be a UK user, or disrupts any of our services in any way.
(iii) Safety:
We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, postal address, home address or email address or any other details that would allow you to be personally identified) in any ZIMBABWE GUARDIAN community.
(iv) Legal requirements:
You may not submit or share any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in TZG communities. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.
Contributing material to a TZG community with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
You agree to submit to or share with TZG communities only contributions which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of TZG or third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.
(v) If you're under 16:
Please get a parent's or guardian's permission before taking part in any TZG community.
Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, school, telephone number, your full name, home address or email address).
(vi) If you breach these Forum Rules:
If you fail to abide by these Forum Rules (and/or any variations in relevant local house rules) when taking part in a TZG community, you will be sent an email which informs you why your contribution has been refused or edited. This email will also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts.
This action may include any content posted by you being checked before allowed to go on the site or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of TZG community areas.
If you submit or share offensive or inappropriate content to or with any TZG communities or anywhere else on TZG or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on TZG, and TZG considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, TZG may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the infringement(s).
TZG reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any ZIMBABWE GUARDIAN account, at any time, for any reason.
Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
15. The majority of content posted in TZG communities is created by members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of TZG or ZIMBABWE GUARDIANW. Neither TZG are responsible for any content posted by members of the public on TZG or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through TZG. Any links to third party websites from TZG do not amount to any endorsement of that site by TZG or and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.
16. TZG content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to TZG and/or, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis. To the extent permitted by law, TZG excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. TZG does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided by TZG is correct at the time of publication no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of TZG for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.
17. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes TZG's liability for death or personal injury caused by its proven negligence. Subject to the previous sentence, TZG shall not be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of TZG regardless of the form of action.
18. TZG do not warrant that functions available on TZG will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that TZG or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.
General
19. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.
20. The failure or delay of TZG to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive TZG's right to enforce that right.
21. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.
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