Terms of Service
Welcome! The Guam Daily Post (the “Company”) that is providing this site (the “Web Site”) through its relationship with TownNews, provides a variety of online services from free news and weather information to sports and entertainment and electronic commerce on the web site subject to your acceptance and compliance with the terms and conditions set forth below (The Agreement).
By accessing or using this web site, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth below. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you should not access or use this web site. Please read the following information carefully:
As the web is an evolving medium, the terms of this Agreement may change from time to time. Please periodically review and become familiar with these terms. Your continued use of the Web site after the posting of changes to these terms will signify your acceptance of these changes. Frankly or this Station may immediately terminate any individual's use of the Web site and/or such user's password(s) or account(s) in the event user violates the terms of this Agreement or engages in conduct that TownNews or The Guam Daily Post, in its sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable. Such removal or termination may occur without notice to the user.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
© Copyright The Guam Daily Post. All Rights Reserved.
Although the Web site is freely accessible, by providing such access TownNews and The Guam Daily Post do not intend to relinquish our respective rights, or any other party's rights, to the materials appearing on the Web site. Unless otherwise noted, TownNews and The Guam Daily Post owns all materials, including images, illustrations, designs, icons, photographs, video clips, and written and other materials that are part of the Web site. The material on the Web site is provided for private, non-commercial use only.
Reporting Copyright Infringement:
If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe any content or other information appearing on the Web site infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification of claimed infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") containing the following information:
(i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of a copyright interest that is allegedly infringed;
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of the infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address;
(v) A statement that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and made under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Notifications of claimed infringement should be sent to: The Guam Daily Post, 388 S. Marine Corps Drive, Suite 301, Tamuning, Guam 96913; email webmaster@postguam.com.
If you consider any material appearing on the Web site to be objectionable and would like to report it, please send an email to webmaster@postguam.com.
TRADEMARK NOTICE
The Guam Daily Post sign is a trademark and service mark of this newspaper. All other trademarks, service marks and logos used in the Web site are the trademarks, service marks or logos of their respective owners. You may not use any trademark or service mark appearing on the Web site without the prior written consent of the owner of the mark.
CODE OF CONDUCT
You agree not to engage in any of the following conduct. Such conduct is unacceptable and may result in termination of your use of the Web site:
• Restricting or inhibiting any other user from using and enjoying the Web site and services;
• Impersonating any person or entity or posting personally identifying information of any other person;
• Posting or transmitting any unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable or harmful information of any kind;
• Without the Company’s or TownNews’ prior written approval, posting or transmitting any advertisement, promotion or solicitation of goods or services for commercial purposes (including without limitation the solicitation of users of the Web site to become users of other online services competitive with The Guam Daily Post and TownNews;
• Posting or transmitting any information or software that contains a virus, worm, time bomb, Trojan horse, or other harmful or disruptive component;
• Posting or transmitting materials in violation of another party's copyright or intellectual property rights;
• Using the Web site for any commercial or unlawful purposes, including "spamming"; or
• Modifying, adapting, sublicensing, translating, selling, reverse engineering, decompiling or disassembling any portion of the Web site.
YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD TOWNNEWS, ITS SPONSORS, AND THE GUAM DAILY POST HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DAMAGES, COSTS OR OTHER EXPENSES THAT ARISE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY OUT OF OR FROM (A) YOUR BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO CONTENT SUBMITTED BY YOU, (B) YOUR VIOLATION OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT ABOVE, AND/OR (C) YOUR ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEB SITE OR SITE-RELATED SERVICES.
By using the Web site you are indicating that you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If you do not agree to the terms of this Agreement, please do not enter the Web site. If you are not yet 18 years old, a parent or guardian may agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement on your behalf.
MAKING PURCHASES
You are free to license or purchase products or services described on the Web site. You may be asked by the applicable merchant or service provider to supply certain information, including but not limited to credit card or other payment information. You understand that any such information will be treated by TownNews and The Guam Daily Post as described in our Privacy Policy. To read our Privacy Policy, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Privacy Statement." You must provide to any such merchant or service provider information that is accurate, complete and current. You agree to review and to comply with the terms and conditions of any specific agreement that you enter into with the merchant and/or service provider in connection with the licensing or purchase of any product or service. You are responsible for all charges incurred by users of your account and credit card or other payment mechanism at the prices in effect when such charges are incurred. You will also be responsible for paying any applicable taxes relating to your purchases.
SUBMISSIONS
You may submit any text, images, data, or other materials ("Content") to the Web site. In so doing, you acknowledge and agree that you grant to TownNews and The Guam Daily Post a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide right and license to:
• Link to, use, reproduce, transmit, modify, adapt, publish, display, perform, distribute, and translate such Content without notice, attribution or payment to you.
• Sublicense such Content (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such material without notice, attribution or payment to you.
Further, by submitting Content to the Web site, you acknowledge that you have the authority to grant such rights to and use of the Content by TownNews and The Guam Daily Post, will not violate the rights of any third party. You further acknowledge that the burden of determining whether any Content posted or transmitted to the Web site by you is protected by copyright or will otherwise violate the rights of any third party rests solely with you. Each of this newspaper, Web site, and its subsidiaries, licensees and third party content providers and licensors have the right to assert and enforce these provisions relating to the submission of Content directly or on its own behalf.
CONTESTS, SWEEPSTAKES, AND PROMOTIONS
You acknowledge that if and when TownNews and The Guam Daily Post sponsors contests, sweepstakes, or promotions, or third parties sponsor a special promotion in conjunction with this, TownNews and The Guam Daily Post, or the third party will post terms and conditions in the official rules and/or registration area for the special promotion that apply to the particular special promotion. Those terms and conditions, to the extent they conflict with this Agreement, will govern that particular special promotion.
PRIVACY
Personal information that Web site users provide in connection with purchases, contests, polls, chat rooms and forums or other usages of the Web site or site-related services is collected by TownNews and The Guam Daily Post. Any such information will be treated as described in our Privacy Policy. To read our Privacy Policy, scroll to the bottom of this page and click "Privacy Statement." Users are discouraged from posting personally identifying information about themselves on public areas of the Web site, such as within classified advertisements, comments/reviews for display on the Web site or other "user generated content" submitted for display on the Web site or in any other communications with other users of the Web site.
USE OF SECURE AREA AND PASSWORD
You are given access to any password-protected area of the Web site when you are given permission and a password to enter such area. You may not distribute your password to others, but if you wish to authorize another individual to use your password, you must request permission from TownNews in writing, with the understanding that TownNews is under no obligation to approve any such request. You are responsible for all uses of your password and any and all damages to TownNews and The Guam Daily Post resulting from the distribution of your password, whether or not authorized by you.
CONTENT MONITORING
You acknowledge and agree that TownNews and The Guam Daily Post have the right, but not the responsibility, to monitor the Web site and site-related services, including without limitation chat rooms and forums, and to disclose any information to any third party in order to operate the Web site properly, to protect itself, its sponsors and The Guam Daily Post’s customers, and to comply with legal obligations or governmental requests, or to respond to any circumstance that TownNews and the Company deems to be an emergency. TownNews and The Guam Daily Post reserve the right to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in the sole discretion of TownNews and The Guam Daily Post, that are unacceptable, offensive or in violation of this Agreement, in the sole determination of TownNews and The Guam Daily Post.
PROHIBITED USES
This Web site is not intended for use by persons located within the European Economic Area (EEA). We do not request or accept personal information concerning or supplied by persons who are located within the EEA at the time they access this Web site. If you have accessed this Web site from within the EEA, you should immediately discontinue your use. If you have supplied personal information to us in violation of this provision, whether through the registration of new user accounts or otherwise, please contact us at webmaster@postguam.com.