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INDEPENDENT TALK – TERMS & CONDITIONS OF USE

About the terms

Access to and use of ‘independenttalk.com’ is provided. [hereinafter referred to as ‘Independent Talk’] on the following terms:

By using this website you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of the site. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to independenttalk.com.

Independent Talk may change these terms from time to time. You are advised to review these terms every time you use this site. Your use of independenttalk.com will be deemed acceptance of the terms as updated or amended. If there is any conflict between any term herein and a specific term appearing elsewhere on independenttalk.com, then the conflict shall be resolved in favour of the latter.

Use of independenttalk.com

You shall use this site 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 this site. 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 this site.

Intellectual Property

All copyright, trade marks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered or unregistered) in and on this website and all content (including all applications) of the website shall remain vested in Independent Talk or its licensors. You shall not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use the content of this website in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You shall not adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any content of this website except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of the content of this website requires the prior written permission of Independent Talk.

The names, images and logos identifying Independent Talk or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of Independent Talk and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any intellectual property of Independent Talk or any other third party.

Contributions to Independent Talk

By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with Independent Talk you grant to Independent Talk, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants without any restriction (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) for Independent Talk services in any media worldwide. In certain circumstances Independent Talk may also share your contribution with other news agencies or other trusted third parties.

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.

You confirm that your contribution is your own original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any Pakistani laws, that you have the right to give Independent Talk the 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 18.

We may show your name with your contribution, unless you request otherwise. Independent Talk may need to contact you for administrative or verification purposes in relation to your contribution, or in relation to particular projects. For full details of when and how we may contact you please refer to our Privacy Policy plus any local terms where applicable.

Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating content you may share with Independent Talk.

Independent Talk communities

In order to participate in and contribute to selected independenttalk.com communities you may be required to register with independenttalk.com. Any personal information supplied as part of this registration process and/or any other interaction with independenttalk.com will be collected, stored and used in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Independent Talk communities (including message boards) shall be used in accordance with the following Community Rules and the local house rules, if any, of the particular service you’re using.

The following is unacceptable:

• Disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour or material
• Unlawful or objectionable content
• Spamming or off-topic material
• Advertising or promoting
• ‘Spoilers’, i.e., material that contains plot developments which haven’t been previously transmitted or published in Pakistani media, unless submitted specifically marked as a ‘spoiler’.
• Impersonation
• Inappropriate user names
• Posting of URLs (web site addresses), unless allowed under any relevant local house rules.
• Misuse of the complaints facility
• Contributions which are not your own original work; which infringe the rights of others
• Accounts that are not registered with a valid personal email address accessed regularly.
• The use of multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting a community or annoying other users
• Attempts to hide the use of multiple accounts, or pretending to be a Pakistani user, or attempting to disrupt any service in any way

We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else in any Independent Talk community.

Consequences of breach of Rules:

If Independent Talk is of the opinion that you have breached any of the above Rules, Independent Talk may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further breach. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the breach.

Independent Talk reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take any action against any Independent Talk account, at any time, for any reason whatsoever, without assigning any reason for such action.

For users under 18:

You are required to get a parent’s or guardian’s permission before taking part in any independenttalk.com community or making any contribution.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

The majority of content posted in independenttalk.com community pages is created by members of the public. Hence, views expressed therein may not be those of Independent Talk. Independent Talk is not responsible for any content posted by members of the public on independenttalk.com or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through independenttalk.com. Any links to third party websites from independenttalk.com do not amount to any endorsement of that site by Independent Talk and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.

All content of this website is provided “AS IS” and on an “AS AVAILABLE” basis. Independent Talk does not make any representation or warranty of satisfactory quality, fitness, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy, nor does it guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided is correct at the time of publication, no responsibility is accepted for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.

Independent Talk 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 this website regardless of the form of action.

Independent Talk does not warrant or guarantee that functions available on this website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that independenttalk.com or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. 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

The failure or delay of Independent Talk to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not amount to waiver.

These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Pakistan.