Privacy & Legal

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

News Media Group, Inc., (News Media Group) provides this website and other related or linked News Media Group sites (Site) to you subject to your agreement to comply with the following terms of use (the General Terms). Your use and access to this Site will constitute your acceptance of the General Terms. Once accepted, the General Terms will constitute a binding agreement between News Media Group and you governing your use of the Site or (the Agreement). If you are not willing to abide by the General Terms, do not use this Site.

1) Changes and Special Additional Terms and Conditions

News Media Group may revise the General Terms at any time without notice. You should revisit this Site periodically to make sure you are aware of the most recent General Terms because they will be binding on you. Your use of the Site after such changes constitutes your agreement to the changes.

You are advised to check each page you visit on the Site. Some locations may have special additional terms and conditions that apply to the use of or interaction with that location. Your use of that location constitutes your acceptance of those special additional terms and conditions.

2) Use of the Site

A. Site Security. You are prohibited from violating, or attempting to violate, the security of the Site. Any such violations may result in criminal and civil liabilities to you. We will investigate any alleged violations and, if a criminal violation is suspected, we will cooperate with law enforcement agencies in their investigations. Violations of the security of the Site include, without limitation, the following:

  • Logging into or attempting to log into a server or account that you are not authorized to access; 
  • Accessing data or taking any action to obtain services not intended for you or your use; 
  • Attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system, subsystem or network; 
  • Tampering, hacking, modifying or otherwise corrupting or breaching security or authentication measures without proper authorization; 
  • Transmitting material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines or engines with the intent or effect of damaging, destroying, disrupting or otherwise impairing a computer’s functionality or the operation of the Site; 
  • Interfering with, intercepting or expropriating any system, data or information; or 
  • Interfering with service to any user, host, or network including, without limitation, by means of overloading, “flooding,” “mailbombing,” or “crashing” any computer system. 

B. “Spam” and Similar Actions. You are prohibited from transmitting the same or similar unsolicited e-mail messages, bulk commercial advertising, or chain letters to one or more e-mail groups (which are two or more e-mail addresses aggregated as a single e-mail addressee).

C. Infringement. You are prohibited from using the Site to infringe on any person’s copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property rights. We may terminate your right to access the Site if we believe you are using the Site in a manner that infringes the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property rights of another. You may be ordered by a court to pay money damages to us and to the rightful owner of any intellectual property rights you violate.

D. Other Prohibited Actions. In using the Site, you must not:

  • Post, e-mail, or otherwise transmit or use the Site in furtherance of any unlawful, harmful, harassing, defamatory, threatening, vulgar, sexually explicit, hateful or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, any material that exploits children or is invasive of another person’s privacy or other rights, or any material that News Media Group, in its sole discretion, does not wish posted or transmitted on the Site; 
  • Continue to send e-mail to a recipient who has indicated that he/she does not wish to receive a communication from you; 
  • Engage in and/or encourage conduct that would: 1) violate any applicable law or regulation; or 2) give rise to civil liability; 
  • Engage in conduct which could damage or impair the intended operability of the Site.
  • Impersonate any individual or entity, falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your identity or affiliation in any way, or forge, delete or alter any part of TCP/IP packet header information in any e-mail or other posting; 
  • Engage in deceptive online marketing; or 
  • Assist or permit any persons in engaging in any of the activities described above. 

E. Your Content. You must exercise caution, good sense and proper judgment in using the Site. You are responsible for any material you place on or transmit to or through the Site. You agree, represent and warrant that any information you post to or transmit through the Site is truthful, accurate, not misleading and offered in good faith, and that you have the right to post or transmit such information. Such information (including without limitation, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or any other materials whatsoever), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is your sole responsibility.

F. You agree that use of any information obtained via the Site is at your own risk.

G. Consequences of Unacceptable Use. We reserve the right (but not the obligation) in our sole discretion to refuse or delete any of your content as well as suspend or terminate without notice your access to the Site upon a violation or attempted violation of this Agreement. Indirect or attempted violations of this Agreement, and actual or attempted violations by a third party acting on your behalf, shall be deemed violations by you of this Agreement. Furthermore, it is a violation of this Agreement to use the services of another company for the purpose of facilitating any of the activities which violate this Agreement if such use of another company’s service could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the Site any manner.

H. No Licensing. By your use of the Site you receive no license, express or implied, under any patent, trademark, copyright, or trade secret rights now or hereafter, owned, controlled or possessed by News Media Group.

I. Linking. You may not link to this site without prior written permission from News Media Group. You may download and print one copy of content on this Site for your personal non-commercial use, or in connection with your purchase or license of any News Media Group products, provided that you leave any copyright or trademark information intact and unchanged. Other than as specifically set out in this paragraph you may not copy (whether by printing off onto paper, storing on disk, placing on another site, downloading in any other way), distribute (including distributing copies), broadcast, alter or tamper with in any way any portion of this Site.

3) Trademark and Copyright

NEWS MEDIA GROUP, ENVIROMINUTE, INTHENEWS, KILLER APPS and other brands, logos, trademarks and services marks displayed on this Site are marks of News Media Group and/or of its clients and third-parties. Not all marks of News Media Group will appear on this Site and not all products or services listed on this Site are available for sale or license in every country. Some products or services may be marketed under local trademarks in specific countries. Marks of third parties may appear on this Site when referring to those entities or their products or services. No license, express or implied, is provided to any such third-party marks by or on behalf of News Media Group and said third parties.

The user may forward, distribute, and/or photocopy copyrighted materials of News Media Group located on this Site only if the entire relevant page or document is unaltered and complete, including all of their headers, footers, disclaimers, and other information. You may not copy these documents to a Web site.

4) Privacy Statement (find below)

5) No Warranty

This Site is provided “AS IS” and without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, to the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, News Media Group disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. News Media Group does not represent or warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this Site or the server that makes the Site available are free of viruses or other harmful components. News Media Group does not make any warranties or representations regarding the use of contents of this Site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, adequacy, usefulness, timeliness, reliability or otherwise. Some jurisdictions do not allow exclusion of implied warranties, so the above limitations and exclusions may not apply to you.

6) Limitation of Liability

News Media Group shall not be liable to you or any other party for any compensatory, punitive, special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the Site or the contents on this Site or the performance of the Site, or any products described on this Site, even if News Media Group has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.

If you are dissatisfied with any portion of the Site or with any of these terms, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Site.

7) Non-Confidentiality of User Materials

You are not to transmit any material to or through this Site that you consider to be confidential or proprietary. Any material which you transmit to or through this Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. Except as expressly provided in News Media Group’s Privacy Statement or separate written agreement between you and News Media Group, you give News Media Group an unrestricted, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, display, publicly perform, transmit and distribute such information. You further agree that News Media Group has the right to use, without any payment or accounting to you or others, any concepts, know-how or ideas which you (and those who act on your behalf) transmit to or through the Site.

8) Use of Third-Party Web sites

As a convenience, News Media Group may provide links to Web sites operated by third parties. If you decide to access a third party’s Web site through a link provided by this Site, you do this at your sole risk. News Media Group is not responsible for any viruses or other damaging elements encountered in linking to a third-party Web site. News Media Group makes no warranty or representation regarding and if not responsible for the linked Web sites or the content of such Web sites.

9) User Communications Areas

The Site may contain areas where users communicate with each other, including but not limited to bulletin boards, calendars, chat areas, or personal web pages.

News Media Group has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor or review any part of the Site, including the user communication areas. However, News Media Group shall have no liability related to the content of any communications made in these areas.

10) Disclosure; Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the information on this Site may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of News Media Group. We wish to caution you that these statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially.

11) Global Availability/Export Controls

Portions of this Site may be controlled and operated by News Media Group from various offices in the United States. News Media Group makes no representation that the Site, or any materials accessed or described on the Site, are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access to them from other countries where their contents are illegal or penalized is prohibited. Access to or use of the Site, or materials accessed on or described on the Site, by persons or from countries sanctioned by the United States is specifically prohibited.

Those who access the Site do so on their own accord and are responsible for compliance with all applicable US and local laws. You may not export or re-export information or materials accessed on or described on this Site, except in full compliance with all United States laws and regulations. In particular, you may not export or re-export into (or to a national or resident of) any country to which the United States embargoes or sanctions goods, services or technology, to any person or entity on the U.S. Treasury Department’s List of Specially Designated Nationals, the U.S. Bureau of Export Administration Entity List, the U.S. Bureau of Export Administration Denied Persons List or the U.S. Commerce Department’s Table of Denial Orders. In addition, you are responsible for complying with any local laws in your country, which may impact your right to import, export or use the Site, information, or materials accessed or described on the Site.

12) Indemnity of Company

You agree to indemnify, hold harmless, and defend News Media Group, as well as its officers, directors and employees, from and against any claim, demand, cause of action, debt, loss or liability, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, to the extent that such action is based upon, arises out of, or relates to your violation, or violation by any other person using your password or account of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

13) Applicable Law and Dispute Resolution

This Agreement shall be governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of Florida, USA (without giving effect to its principles of conflict of laws). Where federal jurisdiction exists over any action, suit or proceeding arising out of or in any way connected with this Agreement, you and News Media Group designate the United States District Court for the Southeast District of Florida, for the exclusive resolution of that dispute and submit to the jurisdiction of that court. Where federal jurisdiction does not exist over that action, suit or proceeding, you and News Media Group designate the Circuit Court for Palm Beach County, Florida, for the exclusive resolution of that dispute and submit to the jurisdiction of that court.

14) Special Note for Parents

Portions of this Site and Services may be of special interest to children, but News Media Group does not seek through this Site to gather personal information from persons under the age of 17.

15) How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about the online statement for this Site or its implementation you may contact us at:

News Media Group, Inc.
5710 S. Dixie Hwy., Suite A
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405

PRIVACY STATEMENT

News Media Group, Inc., (“News Media Group”) appreciates your interest in this Web site and other related or linked News Media Group sites (Site). Your privacy is important and we want you to understand our practices with respect to gathering information from visitors to the Site and with respect to the uses we make of that information. Please check each portion or page of the Site that you visit. Certain portions or pages of the Site may contain changes to the Privacy Statement applicable to your use of that portion or page, for example, certain applications may request additional information from you.

When we make material changes to this Privacy Statement, we will post the changes on this page and update the revision date at the top of the Privacy Statement. We encourage you to visit our Privacy Statement regularly for updates.

Information and Uses

When someone visits the Site, our web servers automatically gather information that allows the site to communicate with the visitor’s computer during the visit. We also track other information from time-to-time, such as the number of visits to the site, which parts of the site visitors select, IP address (the Internet address assigned to your computer from your Internet Service Provider), domain type, browser type (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.), date and time of day. If we do collect such information, we will use it for statistical purposes to help us design and administer the Site. Please note that this information does not disclose Personal Information that would permit us to identify or locate individual visitors.

Privacy concerns focus on “Personal Information,” which is information that could identify a specific individual (such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers). If during your visit you personalize the Site, complete an order form, or submit other information to us, you may be asked to provide us with Personal Information. We may collect and use that Personal Information to provide you with products or services, to bill you for products and services you request, to market products and services which we think may be of interest to you, or to communicate with you for other purposes.

As explained below in the section on Dissemination of Information to Third Parties, we do not distribute or sell Personal Information to third parties for the purpose of allowing them to market their products and services to you. Moreover, as explained in the Opt Out/Modify Information section, we will make a reasonable effort to remove your Personal Information from our database in such a way that you will not receive future communications from us. If you notify us that Personal Information previously submitted to our site is no longer accurate, we will make a reasonable effort to make appropriate corrections. To facilitate our efforts, it would be helpful if you could let us know the context in which you provided Personal Information.

Information Placed on Your Computer

We may store some information (commonly known as a “cookie”) on your computer when you look at or use the Site. This information facilitates customizing your use of the Site and ensures that you do not need to re-enter your details every time you visit it. You can erase or block this information from your computer if you want to. (Your ‘help’ screen or user manual should tell you how to do this.)

Information From Children

The Site contains information that may be of special interest to children, but News Media Group does not seek through the Site to gather Personal Information from or about persons under the age of 17.

Hyperlinks

The Site may have links to sites that News Media Group does not own, control or maintain. We cannot be responsible for their privacy policies and practices and make no representations or warranties about the privacy practices of those sites. Similarly, we cannot be responsible for the policies and practices of any site from which you linked to our Web site. We recommend that you check the privacy policy of other sites and contact the operator if you have concerns or questions.

Sensitive Information

News Media Group does not seek any sensitive information from visitors to our Site, unless legally required to do so, for example, in connection with recruiting or hiring. Sensitive information includes a number of types of data relating to: race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other similar beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life or criminal record. We suggest that you do not provide sensitive information of this nature. However, if you do provide such information, News Media Group accepts your explicit consent to use that data in the ways described in this Privacy Statement or in the ways described at the point where such information is disclosed.

Opt Out/Modify Information

You can request the removal or modification of your Personal Information by sending an e-mail to the appropriate area under “Contact Us”. We will then make a reasonable effort to accommodate your request. As previously noted, it would be helpful to let us know the context in which you provided Personal Information.

Conditions of Use, Notices and Revisions

If you choose to visit our Site, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Statement and our General Terms of Use, including any limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes and application of law provisions. We reserve the right to change this statement at any time without notice except as otherwise provided herein.

Contacting News Media Group

If you have any questions about the content of this Privacy Statement, please contact News Media Group at the following address:

News Media Group, Inc.
5710 S. Dixie Hwy., Suite A
West Palm Beach, Florida 33405