Week 4: theguardian.com - Terms & Conditions

Hi there!

This week we are supposed to talk about the Terms & Conditions of our news outlet (theguardian.com).

After going through briefly of the T&C page of theguardian.com, I find a few conditions that are quite interesting.

For example, Registration. The Guardian stated that there are some access areas of the Guardian Site that require registration by becoming a registered member and creating an account with them. By registration to become a member, one agrees that:

"(i) your account and password are personal to you and may not be used by anyone else to access the Guardian Site;

(ii) you will not do anything which would assist anyone who is not a registered user to gain access to any registration area of the Guardian Site; and

(iii) you will not create registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor will you seek to pass yourself off as another user."

The next one that caught my interest is the Use of material appearing on the Guardian Site.The Guardian stated that "Guardian is the sole owner of all content on the Guardian Site, including, without limitation, all applicable copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, trade names, logos, and other intellectual property rights thereto, as well as text, images, graphics, logos, audio, video and other material appearing on the Guardian Site ("Guardian Content")." Also, users may "download and print extracts from the Guardian Content for your own personal and non-commercial use only, provided you maintain and abide by any author attribution, copyright or trademark notice or restriction in any material that you download or print".

Also, The Guardian also stated that there will be Third party advertising on the Guardian Site.

"You will see advertising material submitted by third parties on the Guardian Site. Each individual advertiser is solely responsible for the content of its advertising material. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein."

Lastly, the last statement that I find interesting is that The Guardian stated that all the conditions listed in the T&C page are governed by English law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts, provided that use of the Guardian Site in the United States is governed by Section below entitled Governing law & jurisdiction (for US users).

Cheers!

J.