Terms of Use AND SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
Welcome to the Jonesboro Sun website (this
"Site"). This Site is owned and operated by Paxton Media Group, LLC ("Paxton
Media"). Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using this Site.
By accessing or using this Site in any way, including without limitation,
browsing this Site, using any information, and/or subscribing to an online
edition of a newspaper, you agree to and are bound by the terms, conditions,
policies and notices contained on this page (these "Terms"), including
conducting this transaction electronically.
These
Terms were last updated on March 1, 2006.
1. Use of this Site
(a)
Ownership. This Site is for your personal and noncommercial
use. All contents of this Site are owned by the Site’s publishers. This Site
contains copyrighted material, trademarks, service marks, trade dress and other
proprietary content, including but not limited to text, software, sound,
photographs, buttons, images, logos, video and graphics (the "Content"), and the
entire selection, coordination, arrangement and "look and feel" of this Site
and the Content are copyrighted as a collective work under United States
copyright laws (collectively, "Intellectual Property Rights"). Neither these
Terms nor your use of this Site transfers any right, title or interest in the
Site or the Content to you, and Paxton Media and its third party licensors
retain all of its and their respective right, title and interest to the Site
and Content.
(b)
Restrictions. Except as provided in these Terms, you may not use,
modify, republish, frame, print, display, perform, reproduce, license,
transfer, sell, assign, post, transmit, distribute, reverse engineer, create
derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any Content or information from this
Site, in whole or in part, without the express permission of Paxton
Media. In addition, you agree not to use any data mining, robots, or
similar data gathering and extraction methods in connection with this Site.
(c)
Site Interruptions; Site
Content. This Site is available
worldwide to anyone with Internet access. However, this Site may not be
continuously available due to maintenance or repairs or due to computer
problems or crashes, disruption in Internet service or other unforeseen
circumstances. The Content of this Site, including advertising content, is
intended for use and display only where its use and display are permissible in
accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
(d) Third Party Information. Certain materials on
this Site may be furnished by third parties, including any advertisements.
Certain product, service, or company designations for companies other than
Paxton Media may be mentioned in the Site for identification purposes only. A
reference to a product or service on this Site does not imply that such product
or service is or will be available in your location. Third party trademarks,
trade names, logos, product or services names contained on this Site are the
trademarks, registered or unregistered, of their respective owners.
(e) No License. Nothing contained in
these Terms shall be construed as conferring any other license or right,
express or implied, under any of our Intellectual Property Rights or under any
third party's Intellectual Property Rights. Any rights not expressly
granted herein are reserved.
2. Subscription Agreement
(a) Online Subscription. During the subscription process, you will choose a user name and
password and provide various other information. You are responsible for
providing accurate registration information and for updating it as required.
Paxton Media reserves the right to change or revoke your user name as it deems
necessary. You are also responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your
password.
(b) Fees and Payments. You agree to pay the subscription fees (including any applicable
taxes). If your Subscription includes access to portions of this Site
containing premium content, your access to such areas may be subject to
additional fees, terms and conditions. We will bill all charges automatically
to your credit card. Subscription fees will be billed at the beginning of your
subscription or any renewal. All fees and charges are nonrefundable. Paxton
Media may change the fees and charges then in effect, or add new fees or
charges, by sending a notice to your email address you submit during the
subscription process. If you want to use a different credit card or there is a
change in credit card validity or expiration date, please contact us.
(c) Renewal.
Your Subscription will renew automatically, unless we terminate your
Subscription or you notify us by telephone, mail, or e-mail (receipt of which
must be confirmed by email reply) of your decision to terminate your
Subscription.
(d) Restrictions.
You may occasionally distribute a copy of an article, or a portion of an
article, from your Subscription in non-electronic form to a few individuals
without charge, provided you include all copyright and other proprietary rights
notices in the same form in which the notices appear.
(e) Changes to Subscriber Agreement. Paxton Media may change the terms of this Agreement
at any time by notifying you of the change in writing or electronically. The
changes also will appear in these Terms. You signify that you agree to be bound
by such changes after changes are made to these Terms.
3. User Conduct
By
using this Site, including all Content and services available through it, you
agree that you shall not:
(a)
Delete, modify, hack or attempt to
change or alter any of the Content on the Site;
(b)
use any device, software or routine
intended to damage or otherwise interfere with the proper functioning of the
Site or servers or networks connected to the Site, or take any other action
that interferes with other parties' use of the Site;
(c)
use any robot, spider or other
automatic or manual device or process for the purpose of harvesting or
compiling information on the Site for purposes other than for a generally
available search engine;
(d)
use any Paxton Media newspaper
names, service marks, or trademarks without our prior written consent,
including without limitation as metatags, search engine keywords, or hidden
text;
(e)
use any material or information,
including images or photographs, which are made available through this Site in
any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or
other proprietary right of any party;
(f)
upload files that contain viruses,
Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other
similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's
computer or property of another; or
(g)
provide false information on your
registration form or in any Subscription, or impersonate someone else.
Paxton
Media has no obligation to monitor any bulletin board services, chat areas,
blogs or other forums on this Site. However, Paxton Media reserves the right
to review materials posted to these common areas and to remove any materials in
its sole discretion.
4. Permissible Use
Except as indicated to
the contrary elsewhere on this Site, you may view, copy, retransmit and print
the Content available on this Site subject to the following conditions:
(a)
The Content is used solely for
personal, informational, or internal business purposes;
(b)
the Content is not provided, sold,
licensed or leased (nor is access provided to the Content) for any fee or other
consideration;
(c)
all copyright, trademark and other
proprietary rights notices included in the Content as presented on this Site
appear on all copies;
(d)
the Content is not modified or
altered in any way; and
(e)
no graphics are used separately from
accompanying text.
You
may also link or hyperlink to this Site from any Acceptable Site (as defined
below), but only if:
(a)
you do not frame this Site or any
portion of this Site;
(b)
the hyperlink to this Site is not
used in a way that suggests that Paxton Media endorses you or your website;
(c)
the link to this Site is not used
or presented in any way that disparages Paxton Media or tarnishes, blurs or
dilutes the quality of Paxton Media’s names or trademarks or any associated
goodwill; and
(d)
the link to this Site is not
displayed on any web page that displays objectionable content or links.
An
"Acceptable Site" means a website that displays no objectionable content,
including, but not limited to, any content, information in any medium or
format, such as text, data, graphics, audio or video, that: (i) is
libelous or defamatory, pornographic, sexually explicit, unlawful or
plagiarized; (ii) a reasonable person would consider harassing, abusive,
threatening, harmful, profane, obscene, racially, ethnically or otherwise
objectionable or offensive in any way; (iii) constitutes a breach of any
person's privacy or publicity rights, a misrepresentation of facts or hate
speech; or (iv) violates or encourages others to violate any applicable law.
5. Modifications To Terms
Paxton
Media may change these Terms from time to time. Please review these Terms
periodically for any updates or changes. Your continued use of this Site
following the posting of any updates or changes to these Terms constitutes your
acceptance of such changes. If you object to any provision of these Terms or
any subsequent modifications to these Terms, your only recourse is to
immediately terminate use of this Site.
6. Termination of Site/Modifications To Site
Paxton
Media reserves the right to modify or terminate your access to this Site (or
portions of the Site) at any time, temporarily or permanently, with or without
notice to you, and is not obligated to support or update the Site. Sections 1,
2, 3, this Section 6 and 8-18 of these Terms shall survive any
termination. Paxton Media may also impose limits on certain features and services,
restrict your access to parts or all of this Site, or charge fees for access to
portions of this Site without notice or liability. You acknowledge and agree
that Paxton Media will not be liable to you or any third party in the event
that Paxton Media exercises its right to modify or terminate access to this
Site or portions of the Site.
7. Your Privacy
Paxton
Media uses any information collected through this Site for internal purposes
only. We may use your information to send you correspondence relating to
Paxton Media products, subscriptions and services or to support your continued
relationship with Paxton Media. Should you send us your comments or questions
via email to any email address provided on our Site, we use your communication
until we have done our very best to provide you with a complete and
satisfactory response and then we will either discard it or, in some cases,
archive it. We may disclose personal information if we are required to do so
by law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to (1) comply
with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and
property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Site; or (4)
protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public. We do not
sell, rent or otherwise knowingly disclose our mailing lists or other
personally identifiable information you may provide without your consent.
8. Copyright Infringement
In
accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/,
Paxton Media has designated an agent to receive notifications of alleged copyright
infringement associated with the Site. Paxton Media will, upon receiving
proper notice as set forth below, use commercially reasonable efforts to
investigate notices of copyright infringement and take appropriate action under
the DMCA. If you believe that your copyrighted work or the copyrighted work of
another party is being infringed, please notify our copyright agent at publisher@jonesborosun.com,
or through the address set forth at the end of this page. When notifying
Paxton Media of the alleged copyright infringement, please include all of
the following information:
(a)
a
physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the
owner of the copyright interest that is claimed to have been infringed;
(b)
identification of the copyrighted
work alleged to have been infringed;
(c)
a description of the material that
is claimed to be infringing and information sufficient to locate the material
on the Site;
(d)
information sufficient to contact
the complaining party, such as a physical address, telephone number, and, if
available, an electronic mail address;
(e)
a statement that the complaining
party has a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner
complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
and
(f)
a statement that the information
in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the
complaining party is authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
If
material is believed in good faith by Paxton Media to infringe a copyright or
otherwise violate any Intellectual Property Rights, Paxton Media will remove or
disable access to any such material.
9. Other Sites, Content, Products and Services
As
a convenience to you, this Site may provide links to websites and access to content,
products and services of third parties, including without limitation, Paxton
Media’s advertisers and strategic partners and other entities with which our
connection consists of only a hyperlink ("Linked Sites"). You should refer to
the separate terms of use, privacy policies, and other rules posted on Linked
Sites before you use them. Paxton Media does not author, edit or monitor these
Linked Sites, and is not responsible or liable for (a) the availability of or
content provided on such Linked Sites, nor does inclusion of any link imply
endorsement of the Linked Sites by Paxton Media, or vice versa; (b) third party
content accessible through such Linked Sites; (c) any loss or damage whatsoever
you may incur from dealing with any Linked Site; or (d) your dealings with any
third parties found on or through this Site, including your participation in
promotions, the payment for and delivery of goods if any, and any terms,
conditions, warranties, or representations associated with such dealings. You
bear all risk associated with the use of such Linked Sites, third party
services, and your correspondence or business dealings with advertisers other
than Paxton Media found on or through this Site.
10. Typographical Errors
Our goal is to provide complete, accurate, up-to-date
information on our Site. Unfortunately, it is not possible to ensure that any
website is completely free of human or technological errors. This Site may
contain typographical mistakes, inaccuracies, or omissions, and some information
may not be complete or current. Paxton Media therefore reserves the right to
correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions and to change or update
information at any time without prior notice.
11. Disclaimer
TO
THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, THIS SITE AND ALL CONTENT,
MATERIALS, INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES PROVIDED THROUGH THIS SITE, ARE
PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS, WHERE IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITH ALL FAULTS.
PAXTON MEDIA AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND
SECURITY AND ACCURACY, AS WELL AS ALL WARRANTIES ARISING BY USAGE OF TRADE,
COURSE OF DEALING, OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE. PAXTON MEDIA MAKES NO
WARRANTY, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY OBLIGATION, THAT: (A) THE SITE WILL MEET
YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR WILL BE AVAILABLE ON AN UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR
ERROR-FREE BASIS; (B) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE
SITE; (C) THE QUALITY OF ANY SUBSCRIPTION, PRODUCTS, SERVICES,
INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIAL OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR
EXPECTATIONS; OR (D) THAT DEFECTS, IF ANY, WILL BE CORRECTED.
12. Limitation of Liability
IN
NO EVENT SHALL PAXTON MEDIA BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
PUNITIVE, INCREASED OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA,
GOODWILL OR USE, INCURRED BY YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN
CONTRACT OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE AND STRICT LIABILITY), ARISING FROM YOUR
ACCESS TO OR INABILITY TO ACCESS, OR USE OF, THIS SITE OR ANY SERVICES PROVIDED
IN CONNECTION WITH THIS SITE, EVEN IF PAXTON MEDIA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILTY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS LIMITATION ON LIABILITY APPLIES TO, BUT
IS NOT LIMITED TO, THE TRANSMISSION OF ANY DISABLING DEVICE OR VIRUSES WHICH
MAY INFECT YOUR EQUIPMENT OR SYSTEM, FAILURE OF MECHANICAL OR ELECTRONIC
EQUIPMENT OR COMMUNICATION LINES, TELEPHONE OR OTHER INTERCONNECT PROBLEMS,
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, THEFT, BODILY INJURY, PROPERTY DAMAGE, OPERATOR ERRORS,
STRIKES OR OTHER LABOR PROBLEMS OR ANY FORCE MAJEURE. SOME JURISDICTIONS
DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY IN SOME
CIRCUMSTANCES. CONSEQUENTLY, SOME OF THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO
YOU.
13. Indemnity
You
agree to indemnify, defend and hold Paxton Media, its shareholders, directors,
officers, co-branders, subsidiaries, parents, employees and agents, harmless
from any claim, demand, liability, dispute, damage, cost, expense, or loss,
including attorneys' fees and costs of litigation, arising out of or in any way
related to your use of or access to this Site, your use of the Content
(including any use by your employees), your violation of these Terms or your
violation of any rights of another.
14. Limitation on Actions Brought Against Paxton
Media
You
agree that any claim or cause of action arising out of your use of this Site or
these Terms must be filed within one year after such claim or cause of action
arose or it shall forever be barred, notwithstanding any statute of limitations
or other law to the contrary. Within this period, any failure by Paxton Media
to enforce or exercise any provision of these Terms or related right shall not
constitute a waiver of that right or provision.
15. Dispute Resolution
You
agree that any dispute arising out of or relating in any way to your use of
this Site requires that such claim be resolved exclusively by confidential
binding arbitration except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated
or threatened to violate Intellectual Property Rights, Paxton Media may seek
injunctive or other appropriate relief. The arbitration shall be conducted
before three neutral arbitrators in Jonesboro, AR, in accordance with the rules of the American
Arbitration Association ("AAA"), as then in effect. No claims of any other
parties may be joined or otherwise combined in the arbitration proceeding.
Unless otherwise expressly required by applicable law, each party shall bear
its own attorneys' fees without regard to which party is deemed the prevailing
party in the arbitration proceeding. Except for punitive and consequential
damages (which may not be awarded), and subject to these Terms, the arbitrators
shall be authorized to award either party any provisional or equitable remedy
permitted by applicable law. The parties shall equally share all AAA charges
and fees associated with the arbitration.
BECAUSE
THE USE OF THIS SITE REQUIRES THE ARBITRATION OF ANY CLAIMS OR DISPUTES
EXISTING BETWEEN THE PARTIES, NEITHER PARTY WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PURSUE THAT
CLAIM IN COURT OR BEFORE A JUDGE OR JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION OR
ANY OTHER COLLECTIVE OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATORS' DECISION
WILL BE FINAL AND BINDING. OTHER RIGHTS THAT EITHER PARTY WOULD HAVE IF SUCH
PARTY WENT TO COURT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE RIGHT TO CONDUCT
DISCOVERY OR TO APPEAL, MAY BE LIMITED OR UNAVAILABLE IN ARBITRATION.
The
award of the arbitrators may be enforced in any court having jurisdiction
thereof. Each party hereby consents (a) to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of
the courts of the State of Tennessee or to any Federal Court located within the
State of Tennessee for any action (i) to compel arbitration, (ii) to enforce
any award of the arbitrators, or (iii) at any time prior to the qualification
and appointment of the arbitrators, for temporary, interim or provisional
equitable remedies, and (b) to service of process in any such action by
registered mail or any other means provided by law. Should this Section 15 be
deemed invalid or otherwise unenforceable for any reason, it shall be severed
and the parties agree that exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any claims will
be in state or federal courts in Arkansas.
16. Acknowledgement
You
acknowledge (a) that you have read and understood these Terms; and (b) that
these Terms have the same force and effect as a signed agreement.
17. General
If
any provision in these Terms is found by a court or arbitrator to be invalid,
the parties agree that the court or arbitrator should give effect to the
parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of
these Terms will remain in full force and effect. Paxton Media's failure to
act with respect to a breach by any visitor using the Site does not constitute
a waiver of its right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of Tennessee without regard to its choice of law provisions. In
the event of any conflict between foreign laws, rules and regulations and those
of the United States, the laws, rules and regulations of the United States
will govern. These Terms and the Privacy Policy as posted from time to time by
Paxton Media on this Site, and any modifications to the foregoing, constitute
the entire agreement between the parties with regard to the subject matter in
these Terms and supersede all prior understandings and agreements, whether
written or oral, as to such subject matter.
18. Contact Information
If you have any questions about these Terms, your
Subscription, or your dealings with this Site, please contact us through the
address below. You may also contact us to update your personal information by
notifying us when you change your name or email address.
Publisher:David Mosesso,
Address: 518 Carson
Jonesboro, AR 72401
publisher@jonesborosun.com
Thank you for visiting this Site.
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