USE OF THE SITES BY YOU
1.1. Hearst Magazines or its licensors own all material on the Sites. You may retrieve and display content from these Sites on a computer screen, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disk (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not in any way make commercial or other unauthorised use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution, performance, caching or otherwise, of material obtained through the Sites.
1.2. You acknowledge that all magazine brands are trade marks and that you may not use them without prior written permission from Hearst Magazines.
1.3. You may not authorise others to use the Sites, and you are responsible for all of your own use of the Sites. You agree not to use any obscene, indecent or offensive language, or to place on the Sites any material that is false, defamatory, abusive, harassing or hateful. Further, you may not place on the Sites any material that is encrypted, constitutes junk mail or unauthorised advertising, invades anyone’s privacy, encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence or give rise to civil liability, or that otherwise violates any local, state, national or international law or regulation. You agree to use the Sites only for lawful purposes and you acknowledge that your failure to do so may subject you to civil and criminal liability.
1.4. You are responsible for all activities under your password or account, and you must keep your password confidential. You must immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of your password or account or any other breach of security. You must not disrupt the functioning of the Site, solicit or use another user’s password or otherwise act in a way that interferes with other users’ use of the Site.
1.5. Other than connecting to Hearst Magazine’s servers by HTTP requests using a web browser, you may not attempt to gain access to Hearst Magazine’s servers by any means, including, without limitation, by using administrator passwords or by masquerading as an administrator while using the Sites or otherwise.
1.6. You are responsible for ensuring that any material you provide to the Sites or post in a Discussion Forum, including but not limited to text, photographs and sound, does not violate the copyright, trade mark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party.
1.7. You agree not to disrupt, modify or interfere with the Sites or their associated software, hardware and servers in any way, and you agree not to impede or interfere with others’ use of the Sites. You further agree not to alter or tamper with any information or materials on, or associated with, the Sites.
1.8. You acknowledge that Hearst Magazines has not reviewed and does not endorse the content of all sites linked to from the Sites, and is not responsible for the content or actions of any other sites linked to from the Sites. Linking to any other service or site from this Site is at your sole risk.
USE OF THE DISCUSSION FORUMS BY YOU
2.1. These Terms have been put in place to help ensure that the Discussion Forum is a welcoming and useful resource for all users. These Terms outline what is deemed unacceptable behaviour and it is important to read them carefully.
2.2. Users of the Discussion Forums warrant and undertake that they will not:
post libellous or defamatory comments;
post anything relating to any ongoing or pending trial;
post content which you have copied from someone else (i.e. you do not own the copyright);
post a personal insult about another user;
advertise or solicit;
impersonate another user;
or post material that is deliberately intended to upset other users.
2.3. We cannot and do not review every post before it appears on the Sites. Hearst Magazines operates a ‘notice and take-down’ policy, which means if Hearst Magazines notices or is made aware of a post that contravenes these Terms, Hearst Magazines reserves the right to amend or remove the post.
2.4. Hearst Magazines encourages you to contact us if you feel a post violates these Terms. Please use the report function on the Site to let us know.
2.5. You are responsible for the content of your posts and Hearst Magazines does not accept any liability for the content or accuracy of your messages.
2.6. Users of the Site may submit material for publication in the Discussion Forums. Hearst Magazines accepts no liability in respect of any material submitted by users and published by Hearst Magazines, and Hearst Magazines is not responsible for its content or accuracy.
2.7. If you want to submit material to the Discussion Forums you may do so on these Terms.
4.8. You warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, harassing, defamatory or otherwise illegal.
4.9. You acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause Hearst Magazines damage or loss, and agree to indemnify and hold harmless Hearst Magazines in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage incurred by Hearst Magazines as a result of publishing any material you submit to us, including consequential loss.
COPYRIGHT AND COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS
3.1. All copyright, trademarks, design rights and all other intellectual property rights (registered or unregistered) where relevant in and on the Site and all content located on the Site shall at all times remain vested in Hearst Magazines.
3.2. Hearst Magazines grants you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable licence to use the Site content solely for personal use relating to your use of the Site. Except as expressly set out herein, neither you nor anyone acting on your behalf acquires any intellectual property rights relating to any Site content. Any rights not expressly granted within these Terms are reserved.
3.3. By sharing any contribution(s) with us (including but not limited to data, text, photo, message, posting, image, logo, attachment, hyperlink and all other content (collectively ‘Contribution(s)’) to the Site, you agree and grant Hearst Magazines and its sub-licensees free-of-charge permission to use the Contribution(s) at Hearst Magazines’ sole discretion (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) in connection with the operation of the Site and our business. The licence extends to copying, distributing, broadcasting or otherwise transmitting, adapting or editing the Contribution(s).
COMMENTS BY USERS ARE NOT ENDORSED BY HEARST MAGAZINES
Hearst Magazines does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted by users in Discussion Forums or elsewhere on the Sites. Any information or material placed online by users, including advice and opinions, is the view and responsibility of those users and does not necessarily represent the view of Hearst Magazines.
