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News Terms

By using this Website, you will be deemed to have read, understood, and agreed to accept these Terms and any additional terms as outlined below; If you disagree with these Terms or any part of thereof, you must not use this Website. By using this website, you also agree that the disclaimers, exclusions, and limitations of liability set out in these Terms are reasonable; If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website. We recommend you print a copy of these Terms for future reference, and we encourage you to check these Terms for any updates whenever you visit the Website to make sure you understand the Terms that apply at that time. Please also note that Applicable Laws in the jurisdiction where you reside may affect the content of this Website.

Any information contained on the Website is for general information and educational purposes only and all authors opinions are their own. No information contained on this Website should in any way be considered financial advice in any form or to any extent. Nothing published on this Website is a recommendation for any investments, and nor should anything published on this website be relied on for any investment decisions. Please conduct your own independent research and seek independent financial, investment or other relevant professional advice before entering into any financial transaction, or otherwise relying on any information or Content on this website.

 

Coin Rivet News, an independent global news, information, and education platform, is NOT a subsidiary of, or parent company to, Galias Services, UAB (trading as Coin Rivet), a Lithuanian virtual currency exchange and deposit virtual currency wallet operator.

 

We operate independently of Galias Services, UAB to provide you with impartial, informative, and insightful journalism. Coin Rivet News and Galias Services, UAB operate with, and abide by, strict independence from each other to ensure that we provide our platform with editorial independence, integrity, and high journalistic standards free from any bias or influences.

 

Coin Rivet News provides its platform and content with on its own initiative and with its own objectives in mind. Galias Services, UAB is not involved in any way with editorial or content decisions, and our journalists cover Galias Services, UAB and the services it provides with the same level of scrutiny and attention to detail as they would with any other legal or natural person.

Definitions

In these Terms, capitalised words and expressions have the following meanings, unless otherwise stated:


“Applicable Law”
means any applicable statutes, laws, ordinances, orders, judgments, decrees, rules or regulations issued by any government authority, and any judicial or administrative interpretation of any of these;

“Business User” means any user who uses and/or accesses the Website, Content or any Services in the course of any trade or business or otherwise for or in connection with a commercial or business purposes;

“Consumer User” means any user who uses and/or accesses the Website, Content or any Services for a personal purpose which is not for or in connection with any commercial or business purpose;

“Content” means the same as set out in Clause 4;

“Contribution Request” means any request to upload or otherwise contribute to content uploaded on our Website whether in the form of a press release, sponsored article, personal opinion or any other form of content in accordance with Clause 3;

“Notice” means any notice published or provided to you by Coin Rivet News via the Website, your email or any other method as Coin Rivet News may use from time to time;

“Losses” means all losses, damages, claims, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ and other reasonable legal fees and expenses, any penalties imposed by a government body or under Applicable Laws);

“Services” means the provision of the newsletter by Coin Rivet News to you via an email if you sign up to be a subscriber in accordance with Clause 2 or any other services which may be provided by Coin Rivet News in future;

“Website” means the Coin Rivet News Website.

 

(i) References to “include” or “including” do not limit the generality of any preceding words and are to be construed without limitation;

(ii) References to a “person” include any individual, company, partnership, joint venture, firm, association, trust, government authority or other body or entity (whether or not having separate legal personality);

(iii) The headings are inserted for convenience only and do not affect the construction of these Terms; and

(iv) Unless the context otherwise requires, words in the singular include the plural and vice versa and a reference to any gender includes all other genders.

Additional Terms

The Terms include the following additional terms, which also apply to your access to and use of the Website and Services and should be read in conjunction with these Terms as together they constitute the whole agreement, along with any other additional terms we may publish from time to time:

 

  • Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process your personal data. You agree that any and all personal data provided by you is accurate and complete.

 

  • Our Cookie Notice, which is relevant to web access to Coin Rivet News is found on, and which sets out information about the cookies used on, our Website.

 

  • Our Acceptable Use Policy, which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our Website.

 

  • Our Editorial Policy, which outlines who we are and our mission to publish independent global news and additionally governs our Website.

 

The Company reserves the right to make additions, deletions, or modification to these Terms, any Content and the Website at any time without prior notice. The Company does not warrant that the Website is free of viruses or other harmful components. As we cannot control the reliability and availability of the internet, we will not be responsible for any distortion, delay, link failure or any other internet disruptions.

 

You are solely responsible for understanding and complying with any and all Applicable Laws of your specific jurisdiction or any other jurisdiction in which you may be located in from time to time that may apply to you in connection with your access to and/or use of any and all of the Content, Website and/or Services.

External Links Disclaimer

The Website may contain links to external websites that are not provided or maintained by or in any way affiliated with the Company. Please note that the Company does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any information on these external websites. You acknowledge that we cannot guarantee, nor are we in any way responsible for, the acts or omissions of third parties or the performance of their products, services, or websites. We may from time to time add or remove any links to external websites without notice to you. You agree that we shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of any Content, the Website and/or any services.

 

For any such products and services which are made available (directly or indirectly) by third parties, we do not make any express or implied warranties or conditions, including of quality, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. You expressly agree that we shall not be held liable for (and you expressly assume the risk of) any matters arising out of or relating to the actions and omissions of such third parties or their products, services, and websites.

1. Changes

1.1.  We may, in our sole discretion, update these Terms, the Website and any Services from time to time to reflect changes to our users’ needs and/or our business priorities. Every time you wish to use our Website or any Services, please check these Terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. If you disagree with these Terms, now or as amended, you may discontinue your use of the Website and Services by ceasing to visit our Website, ceasing to use our Services and/or unsubscribing to our email newsletters. We will attempt to give you reasonable notice in advance of any such changes of a material nature being effective.

 

1.2.  Changes to these terms and Website are effective as of the effective date indicated in the relevant Notice provided and will apply prospectively to any use of the Services that take place following the effective date. Any continued use of the Website and/or Services after a change becomes effective will constitute your agreement to have any such changes govern your future use and any access connected with your use.

2. Registration

2.1.  To register as a subscriber to our email newsletters, you must be 18 years of age and be acting in your own individual capacity, and you warrant that the information provided by you to us is complete and accurate. You must inform us promptly and in writing of any change to information, you have provided.

 

2.2.  If you know or suspect that anyone other than you, knows your email log in details or otherwise has unauthorised access to or use of your email account, you must promptly notify us at hello@coinrivet.com.

3. Use of Website

3.1.  This Website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the Website, including by them providing us with a Contribution Request. Coin Rivet News reserves the right to decide in its sole discretion whether to any accept or refuse a Contribution Request. If a Contribution Request is accepted by Coin Rivet News, we may impose conditions for the content before we choose to upload it to be viewed on our Website. Such conditions may include editing, making additions, making deletions to the content or any other form of modification that we deem necessary to uphold our content standards, Editorial Policy, and any other internal policies. The views expressed by other users on the Website do not represent our views or values.

 

3.2.   Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our Website, you must comply with the content standards set out in these Terms and any additional Terms referred to therein. You also agree that any content uploaded by you will be reviewed, verified and may be moderated by a member of the Coin Rivet News Editorial Team before it is published on our Website.

 

3.3.   You warrant that any such content contribution does comply with any standards set by us, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty. We reserve the right to prevent or remove any posting you have contributed to from our Website if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards or any of our internal policies.

 

3.4.    We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

 

3.5.   Any content you upload to our Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us (and other users of our Website) a limited licence to use, store, copy and modify that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described below.

 

3.5.1. When you upload or contribute to content on our Website, you grant us the following rights to use that content (i) A perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the Services provided by our Website and across different media and to use the content to promote our Website or Services; and (ii) A perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to allow third parties (for example, other users, partners or advertisers) to use the content for their purposes or in accordance with the functionality of our Website.

 

3.5.2. The licences granted by you shall expire when we have received any request from you for the deletion of the content from our Website by contacting hello@coinrivet.com. You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

 

3.6.  You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it and otherwise must be in good faith. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to our Website in any website that is not owned by you. Our Website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our Website other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards as set out in the additional terms outlined above.

 

3.6.1. We may revoke our consent to a link to our home page at any time, without prior notice. If we notify you that our consent for such links has been revoked, you must promptly (and, in any event, within three (3) business days) remove all such links from your site.

4. Intellectual Property

4.1.  All of the information and content displayed on, transmitted through, or used in connection with the Website including but not limited to, advertising, guides, articles, opinions, reviews, text, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips, video, HTML, source and object code, software, trademarks, the “look and feel” of the Website, any data and any other content (collectively, the “Content”) are protected under applicable copyrights and other intellectual property rights, and are the property of Coin Rivet News unless otherwise stated. We reserve any and all applicable rights accordingly and will protect them to the fullest extent in accordance with Applicable Law. No intellectual property rights in the Content, Website and/or in the Services are transferred to you unless otherwise stated.

 

4.2.  You may use the Content and Website solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not remove any trademark, copyright or other indicia of origin contained in such Content. You are expressly prohibited from any act or attempt to archive, modify, copy, frame, reproduce, sell, store, publish, transmit, display, or otherwise use any portion of the Content on any internet, any external website or otherwise for any commercial use, unless expressly permitted by us. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on the Website must always be acknowledged. You must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. If you print off, copy, or download any part of the Website in breach of these Terms, your right to use our Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

 

4.3.  Any request to use the Content should be submitted to us in accordance with Clause 6 and we reserve the right to make any decision in our sole discretion.

 

4.4.  We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe we have infringed your copyright or other intellectual property rights please contact us in writing in accordance with Clause 6.

5. Liability

5.1.  Nothing in these Terms shall limit or exclude our liability: (i) For fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (ii) For death or personal injury caused by our negligence; or (iii) Where such limitation or exclusion would be contrary to Applicable Law.

 

5.2.  Except as provided in Clause 4.1, if you are a Business User we shall not be liable under or in connection with these Terms, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, even if foreseeable, for any: indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss or damage of any kind; or loss of profits, business, revenue or savings (actual or anticipated), loss of agreements or contracts, loss of opportunity, loss of data or loss of, or damage to, goodwill or reputation arising from or in connection with use of or inability to use the Website, or your reliance on anything contained in the Website or related Content.

 

5.3.  If you are a Consumer User please note that we only provide our Website to you for domestic and private use. To the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, in addition to the limitations in Clause 5.2, you agree not to use our Website for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity arising from or in connection with use of or inability to use the Website, or your reliance on anything contained on the Website or related Content.

 

5.3.1  If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation only up to the monetary value of direct damage suffered. This limitation is effective only to the maximum extent permitted by law. However, we will not be liable for any damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system or security requirements advised by us or otherwise that is limited or disclaimed in these Terms.

 

5.4.  Subject to Clause 4.1, The Website, Content, and any information provided therein, in whole and in part, are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without express or implied warranties of any kind, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement or warranties arising from the course of performance, course of dealing or usage in trade. Although the information and Content provided to you by the Website is obtained or derived from sources we believe to be reliable, we cannot and do not guarantee the accuracy, validity, timeliness, or completeness of any information, content or data made available to you.

 

5.5.  We do not guarantee that: (i) The Website, Content or the Services are free from any viruses, trojan horses, worms, software bombs or similar items; or (ii) Access to the Website, Content or the Services will be free from interruptions. (iii) Any information provided on the Website or in any Content or Services, including but not limited to any historical data, analysis and any other materials or other information is accurate, reliable, complete, or free from errors. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of the Website and/or Services for business and other operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any such suspension or withdrawal.

 

5.6.   You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Website. You should use your own virus protection software for such technology, and we encourage you to make sure it is up to date and adequate to meet the requirements of any intended use.

 

5.7.   You must not, and you warrant that you will not misuse our Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Website, the server on which our Website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our Website. You must not attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Website will cease immediately.

 

5.8.   To the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Coin Rivet News and our directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates, and subcontractors against any and all claims, actions, proceedings, investigations, demands, suits and Losses suffered or incurred by us that arise out of, or in connection with, or related to your access to or use of the Website, Content or any breach by you, of any of these Terms or of any Applicable Law, any enforcement by us of these Terms and/or your violation of any rights of any third party.

6. Contact Details

If you wish to contact us, such as to notify us of a change in your details, inform us of a complaint you may have, to make an intellectual property request, or for any other reason, you may do so by emailing us at hello@coinrivet.com.

 

7. Miscellaneous

7.1.  If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under the law of any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby, and such provision shall be deemed to be restated to reflect yours and our original intentions as nearly as possible in accordance with Applicable Laws.

 

7.2.  No waiver of any of our rights under these Terms shall be effective unless in writing. Unless expressly stated otherwise, a waiver shall be effective only in the circumstances for which it is given, and no delay or omission by us in exercising any right or remedy provided by law or under these Terms shall constitute a waiver by us of such right or remedy.

 

7.3. These Terms and the additional terms referred therein, constitute the whole agreement between you and us relating to the subject matter of these Terms and supersedes any prior written or oral arrangement, understanding or agreement relating to such subject matter.

8. Governing Law and Jurisdiction.

8.1.  These Terms, and any noncontractual obligations arising out of or in connection with these Terms, are governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, the English Law

 

8.2.  Each party irrevocably agrees that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with the Services, these Terms or their subject matter or formation, unless they are settled by negotiations between you and us and confirmed in writing.