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Governing Terms. This website, including the features and services that may be available from the site such as RSS feeds, podcasts, and embeddable video, (collectively “Southsouthnews.com” or “Site”) is an on-line service operated by SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS. These Terms of Service, along with any additional terms and conditions that are referenced herein or that are presented elsewhere on the Site in relation to a specific service or feature (collectively “Terms of Service”) and the SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS Privacy Policy, set forth the terms and conditions that apply to your use of Southsouthnews.com. By using Southsouthnews.com, you agree to comply with all of the terms and conditions hereof. If you do not agree to these Terms of Service, you should not access or use Southsouthnews.com.

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Changes to Terms of Service. SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS may modify the Terms of Service, or any part thereof, or add or remove terms at any time, and such modifications, additions or deletions will be effective immediately upon posting. Your use of Southsouthnews.com after such posting shall be deemed to constitute acceptance by you of such modifications, additions or deletions.

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Changes to Site. SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS may change or discontinue any aspect, service or feature of Southsouthnews.com at any time, including, but not limited to, content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access or use.

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Registration. You may be given the opportunity to register via an online registration form to create a user account (your “Account”) that may allow you to receive information from SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS and/or to participate in certain features on the Site such as certain Interactive Areas. SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS will use the information you provide in accordance with the SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS Privacy Policy. By registering you represent and warrant that all information that you provide on the registration form is current, complete and accurate to the best of your knowledge. You agree to maintain and promptly update your registration information on the Site so that it remains current, complete and accurate. During the registration process, you may be required to choose a password. You acknowledge and agree that SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS may rely on this password to identify you. You are responsible for all use of your Account, regardless of whether you authorized such access or use, and for ensuring that all use of your Account complies fully with the provisions of these Terms of Service.

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Equipment. You are responsible for obtaining and maintaining all connectivity, computer software, hardware and other equipment needed for access to and use of Southsouthnews.com and all charges related to the same.

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Interactive Areas. Southsouthnews.com may contain comments sections, discussion forums, bulletin boards, or other interactive features ("Interactive Areas”) in which you may post or upload comments or user-generated content such as video, photos, messages, other materials or items (collectively, “User Content"). You are solely responsible for your use of any Interactive Areas and you use them at your own risk. By submitting User Content to an Interactive Area, you represent that you are 13 years of age or older and, if you are under the age of 18, you either are an emancipated minor, or have obtained the legal consent of your parent or legal guardian to enter into these Terms of Service, submit content, participate on Southsouthnews.com, and fulfill the obligations set forth in these Terms of Service, which forms a binding contract between you and SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS.

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Community Guidelines. If you submit any User Content or participate in an Interactive Area within or in connection with Southsouthnews.com, you agree to abide by the following rules of conduct:

• a). You agree not to upload, post or otherwise transmit any User Content that violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, including any statements which may defame, harass, stalk or threaten others;
• b). You agree not to upload, post or otherwise transmit any User Content that is offensive to the online community, including blatant expressions of bigotry, racism, abusiveness, vulgarity or profanity.
• c). You agree not to upload, post or otherwise transmit any material that contains or advocates pornography, pedophilia, incest, bestiality, or that is otherwise obscene.
• d). You agree not to upload, post or otherwise transmit any User Content that violates any law or engage in activity that would constitute a criminal offense or give rise to a civil liability;
• e). You agree not to upload, post or otherwise transmit any User Content that advocates or provides instruction on illegal activity or discuss illegal activities with the intent to commit them;
• f). You agree not to upload, post or otherwise transmit, without SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS's express prior approval, User Content which contains advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services;
• g). You agree not to upload, post or otherwise transmit User Content that does not generally pertain to the designated topic or theme of any Interactive Area;
• h). You agree not to impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, any SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS employee, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;
• i). You agree not to interfere with any other user's right to privacy, including by harvesting or collecting personally-identifiable information about Southsouthnews.com users or posting private information about a third party;
• j). You agree not to upload, post or otherwise transmit any User Content, software or other materials which contain a virus or other harmful or disruptive component;
• k). You agree not to interfere with or disrupt Southsouthnews.com or the servers or networks connected to the Site, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Site;
• l). You agree not to upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;
• m). You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purpose, any portion of Southsouthnews.com, use of Southsouthnews.com, or access to Southsouthnews.com;
• n). You agree not to upload, post, or otherwise transmit any User Content protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of such copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or other proprietary right. The burden of determining that any User Content is not protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or other proprietary right rests with you. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, rights of publicity or other proprietary rights or any other harm resulting from such a submission. Any person determined by SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS, in its sole discretion, to have violated the intellectual property or other rights of others shall be barred from submitting or posting any further material on Southsouthnews.com;
• o). You agree that if necessary, you have the consent of each and every identifiable natural person in any submission to use such persons name or likeness in the manner contemplated by Southsouthnews.com;

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Monitoring. SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor User Content posted or uploaded to Southsouthnews.com to determine compliance with these Terms of Service and any operating rules established by SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS and to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized government request. Although SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS has no obligation to monitor, screen, edit or remove any of the User Content posted or uploaded to Southsouthnews.com, SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS reserves the right, and has absolute discretion, to screen, edit, refuse to post or remove without notice any User Content posted or uploaded to Southsouthnews.com at any time and for any reason, and you are solely responsible for creating backup copies of and replacing any User Content posted to the Site at your sole cost and expense.

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License to User Content. By submitting User Content to Southsouthnews.com, you automatically grant SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS and its parent company and affiliates, the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, publish, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, translate, create derivative works from, incorporate into other works, distribute, sub-license and otherwise exploit such User Content (in whole or in part) worldwide in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such User Content. You warrant that such User Content is accurate and not misleading, and that use and posting or other transmission of such User Content does not violate these Terms of Service and will not violate any rights of or cause injury to any person or entity. You further grant SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS the right to pursue at law any person or entity that violates your or SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS's rights in the User Content by a breach of these Terms of Service.

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Moral Rights. If it is determined that you retain moral rights (including rights of attribution or integrity) in the User Content, you hereby declare that (a) you do not require that any personally identifying information be used in connection with the User Content, or any derivative works of or upgrades or updates thereto; (b) you have no objection to the publication, use, modification, deletion and exploitation of the User Content by SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS or its licensees, successors and assigns; (c) you forever waive and agree not to claim or assert any entitlement to any and all moral rights of an author in any of the User Content; and (d) you forever release SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS, and its licensees, successors and assigns, from any claims that you could otherwise assert against SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS by virtue of any such moral rights. You also permit any other user to access, view, store, or reproduce the User Content for that user's personal use.

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User Content submitted by you will be considered non-confidential and SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS is under no obligation to treat such User Content as proprietary information except pursuant to the SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS Privacy Policy. Without limiting the foregoing, SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS reserves the right to use any User Content as it deems appropriate, including, without limitation, deleting, editing, modifying, rejecting, or refusing to post it. SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS is under no obligation to offer you any payment for User Content that you submit or the opportunity to edit, delete or otherwise modify User Content once it has been submitted to SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS. SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS shall have no duty to attribute authorship of User Content to you, and shall not be obligated to enforce any form of attribution by third parties.

6.1

YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF SOUTHSOUTHNEWS.COM IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. NEITHER SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS, ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, ITS OTHER AFFILIATES, NOR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS OR LICENSORS WARRANT THAT SOUTHSOUTHNEWS.COM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; NOR DO THEY MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF SOUTHSOUTHNEWS.COM, OR AS TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY OR CONTENT OF ANY INFORMATION, SERVICE, OR MERCHANDISE PROVIDED THROUGH SOUTHSOUTHNEWS.COM.

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SOUTHSOUTHNEWS.COM, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DOWNLOADABLE SOFTWARE AND CONTENTS, IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OTHER THAN THOSE WARRANTIES WHICH ARE IMPLIED BY AND INCAPABLE OF EXCLUSION, RESTRICTION OR MODIFICATION UNDER THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE.

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NEITHER SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS, ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, ITS OTHER AFFILIATES, NOR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS OR LICENSORS ARE LIABLE FOR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD-PARTIES AND THAT THE RISK OF INJURY FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU.

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IN NO EVENT WILL SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS, ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, ITS OTHER AFFILIATES NOR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS OR LICENSORS OR ANY PERSON OR ENTITY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DISTRIBUTING SOUTHSOUTHNEWS.COM OR THE SOUTHSOUTHNEWS.COM SOFTWARE AND CONTENTS, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE SOUTHSOUTHNEWS.COM..

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IN ADDITION TO THE TERMS SET FORTH ABOVE NEITHER, SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS, ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, ITS OTHER AFFILIATES, NOR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS, LICENSORS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR CONTENT PARTNERS BE LIABLE REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE OR DURATION, FOR ANY ERRORS, INACCURACIES, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER DEFECTS IN, OR UNTIMELINESS OR UNAUTHENTICITY OF, THE INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN SOUTHSOUTHNEWS.COM, OR FOR ANY DELAY OR INTERRUPTION IN THE TRANSMISSION THEREOF TO YOU, OR FOR ANY CLAIMS OR LOSSES ARISING THEREFROM OR OCCASIONED THEREBY. NONE OF THE FOREGOING PARTIES SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS OR LOSSES OF ANY NATURE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOST PROFITS, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. NEITHER SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS, ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, ITS OTHER AFFILIATES NOR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS, LICENSORS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR CONTENT PARTNERS WARRANT OR GUARANTEE THE TIMELINESS, SEQUENCE, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THIS INFORMATION. ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE INFORMATION.

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SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS disclaims any and all liability of any kind for any unauthorized access to or use of your personally identifiable information. By accessing Southsouthnews.com, you acknowledge and agree to SOUTH-SOUTH NEWS’s disclaimer of any such liability. If you do not agree, you should not access or use Southsouthnews.com.

• a). A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
• b). Identification of the copyright 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;
• c). Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of 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;
• d). Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party;
• e). A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• f). A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.