These terms and conditions govern your use of this website and all services provided on any digital and/or printed platforms by ShushMag.com, a trading name of Shush Magazine. These are henceforth known as the ‘Company’, while ShushMag.com may be referred to below as the ‘Website’. By using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. Where we refer to ‘Content’ we mean all content, information and material broadcast by the Company. This includes stories and all links within the stories. It includes text, images, illustrations, graphics, posts, messages, videos, sounds and all other audio-visual imagery and words. This Content will have been made available by ShushMag.com via it’s staff and external third parties including licensors, vendors and/or service providers, along with, at times, you and other users and other third parties. Where we refer to ‘Shush Magazine’, ‘ShushMag.com’, ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ we mean Shush Magazine, Shush Media Group©, it’s associated companies and business partners, each of our and their respective staff members, freelance sub-contractors and representatives. ‘You’ in these terms and conditions means you, the user.
The following terms and conditions (henceforth known as the ‘T’s & C’s’) may be amended and updated when necessary. We will do our utmost to ensure users and members of ShushMag.com are kept updated about any such amendments, but it should be noted it is the responsibility of the user/users to monitor these terms. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, please do not use the Website.
You understand and agree that we may add to or change these terms and conditions at any time. New terms and conditions are effective immediately once posted to the Company in this terms and conditions contract. Your use of the Company means you accept these terms and conditions, as updated when and where deemed to be necessary. Because you accept these and future terms and conditions, we recommend you check this page regularly should you feel you have any concern about their implementation.
You must be at least 18 years of age to use this website. By using this website you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this Website.
LICENSE TO USE WEBSITE
Unless otherwise stated, Shush Magazine owns the intellectual property rights in and to all aspects of the website, including, but not limited to, all material on the website. Except as specifically set forth below, all rights are reserved by Shush Magazine. You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print webpages or portions of webpages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
– republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
– sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
– show any material from the website in public;
– reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for any commercial purpose;
– edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
– redistribute material from this website
ACCEPTABLE USE
You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including, but not limited to, without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without Shush Magazine’s express written consent.
You may retrieve and display Content from this Service on a computer screen or other device, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form for your own personal, non-commercial use.
You may not in any way make commercial or other unauthorised use, whether by publication, re-transmission, distribution, performance, caching or otherwise, of any Content on this Service.
You agree to use the Service only for your own personal non-commercial use and lawful purposes. You acknowledge your failure to do so may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.
In addition to other items mentioned in these terms and conditions you agree not to use the Service to in any way breach any applicable local, national or international law or regulation. You agree not to use the Service in any way which could be illegal.
You agree not to use the Service in any way to transmit or procure the sending of unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation. This means but is not limited to spam communications.
Other than connecting to Shush Magazine’s servers by HTTP requests using a web browser, you may not attempt to gain access to Shush Magazine’s servers by any other means. This includes, without limitation, using administrator passwords or by masquerading as an administrator while using the Service.
You agree not to disrupt, modify or interfere with the Service or its associated software, hardware and servers in any way. You also agree not to impede or interfere with anyone else’s use of the Service.
You agree not to copy, adapt, modify, disassemble or otherwise tamper with, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast or otherwise exploit the software or any portion of the Service, except as expressly permitted in these terms and conditions.
You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
PROHIBITED CONTENT
Users are prohibited from, and shall not encourage, the posting of any User Content which may be deemed Prohibited Content or any content which infringes intellectual property rights, publicity rights, privacy rights or any other third party rights. Prohibited Content means any obscene, pornographic, defamatory, libelous, infringing, abusive, or illegal content, that promotes hate or discrimination, facilitates the sale of firearms or illegal drugs, or that participates or encourages participation in, illegal activities.
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
Shush Magazine will not be liable to you (whether under contract law, tort law or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:
– to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
– for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential loss; or
– for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.
These limitations of liability apply even if Shush Magazine has been expressly advised of the potential loss.
REASONABLENESS
By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable. If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use or otherwise remain on this website.
OTHER PARTIES
You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against Shush Magazine’s officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website. Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect Shush Magazine’s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as Shush Magazine.
INDEMNITY
You hereby agree to indemnify Shush Magazine and undertake to hold Shush Magazine harmless against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Shush Magazine to a third party in connection with the settlement of any claim or dispute on the advice of Shush Magazine’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Shush Magazine arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions. ShushMag.com is provided ‘as is’ and you agree to indemnify Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine and ShushMag.com and to hold it harmless from any and all claims, actions, suits and liabilities, losses, damages, costs and expenses (including legal fees) that may arise from your UGC, or from your unauthorised use of our Content or from your breach of these terms and conditions in any way.
BREACHES OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Without prejudice to Shush Magazine’s other rights under these terms and conditions and/or under law, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Shush Magazine may take such action as Shush Magazine deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
TERMINATION OF USE
We have the right to terminate your use of the Service and ability to access the Service for any reason, without notice. We have the right to place a temporary block on your access to the Service at any time, also without notice.
SEVERABILITY
If a provision of these terms and conditions, including, but not limited to, the other policies included on this website (i.e. the Privacy Policy and Terms Of Service) is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
COMPLAINTS
We ask our users to respect the intellectual property rights of others, as Shush Magazine and ShushMag.com does. We may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, terminate the access of user(s) who infringe on the rights of others. If you believe your work has been copied and is accessible on the Website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that the Website contains links or other references to another online location that contains material or activity that infringes your copyright, please contact us at info@shushmag.com. If you believe our content or that of another user has defamed you on the Website through their User Generated Content, please contact us through our various forms of contact, which include our website’s contact page, our email address (info@shushmag.com) or our social media accounts. You will need to give us certain information to allow us to investigate properly. With any complaint, include by email or letter a digital or hard copy of the content with which you are concerned.
MEMBERSHIP
To join the Company means you entrust us with certain personal data and enter into a contract with the Company under these and other terms. It is your responsibility to also read and understand our Privacy Policy in relation to these actions.
USER GENERATED CONTENT
User Generated Content is henceforth referred to as ‘UGC’. UGC means any Content that you or other users upload, submit to or make available to the Company. You understand, by submitting UGC, your communications on the Website are not private or confidential and may be viewed by others accessing the Website / Company. The terms of our Privacy Policy also applies to UGC. We reserve the right to review, edit or delete any UGC at our sole discretion and without notice to the user(s) who have provided such content. We do not necessarily endorse, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted as UGC. Any information or material posted by you or other users of the Company / Website is solely the view and responsibility of those users. However, we will constantly review any UGC shared on the site to ensure it complies with acceptable standards. When reading and or/posting yours or other users’ UGC, you agree that, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we have no responsibility or liability to you for UGC including for any failure to or delay in removing UGC. You are solely responsible for your UGC and may be held liable for UGC that you post.
Please bear in mind the following points about the content of your UGC:
UGC must not be in any way offensive. This encompasses UGC which is racist, sexist, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, threatening to other persons or in any way constituting a hate crime. Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine and ShushMag.com invokes it’s editorial right to decide whether a post is offensive and/or objectionable to its readership. UGC must not be illegal in any way.
UGC must not infringe third party rights (such as copyright, trademark, trade secret or other confidentiality and any other rights) or invade personal privacy or publicity rights.
UGC must not promote any form of illegal activity. This includes but is not limited to hacking, drug taking, terrorism and distribution of counterfeit software or illegal imagery or video.
UGC must not contain advertising, promotions or commercial solicitations of any kind and any UGC we share is not, unless an exception is clearly stated, intended as promotion, endorsement or advertising of any product or service.
UGC must not contain any virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, cancelbot or other similar harmful programming routine.
When you submit UGC, you automatically grant Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine and ShushMag.com a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable licence to use it in any manner without notice, payment or attribution of any kind to you or any third party. You waive, and agree not to assert, any moral or similar rights you may have in your UGC, unless otherwise explicitly agreed with Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine and ShushMag.com or any of our associates.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
All Content and other material on the Website is owned by us or our third party licensors. It is protected by international copyright, trade dress, design, patent and trade mark laws, international conventions and other laws protecting intellectual property and related proprietary rights. All such rights are reserved to us and our licensors. You acknowledge that ‘Shush Magazine’, ‘Shush Media Group©’, ‘ShushMag.com’ and any other brands or logos belonging to us within the Company are trade marks of Shush Media Group©. You may not use them without written permission from Shush Media Group©. You agree not to remove, obscure or alter any aspect of these trade marks, including their copyright, patent or any other rights notices appearing on the Company. You may not sell, license, distribute, copy, modify, display, transmit, publish, edit, adapt or create derivative works from the Company without written permission from Shush Media Group©. Making unauthorised copies of Content found on this Company / Website may result in the prohibition of your use of the Website. It may also result in legal action under applicable copyright or other law.
COMPETITIONS
Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine and ShushMag.com and our business partners and associates may run competitions, promotions and free prize draws on the Website or through the Company. These are all subject to competition terms and conditions which will be made available whenever such a competition, promotion or free prize draw is offered to Company users. Employees and associates of Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine and ShushMag.com are barred from entering any competitions run by the Company. Winners will always be drawn at random after a competition’s closing date. Shush Magazine will fulfil it’s obligations to competition winners, unless a prize has been cancelled or otherwise withheld by an external third party. In this instance, Shush Media Group© – Shush Magazine – ShushMag.com will endeavour to seek recompense or an agreed alternative prize from any competition provider involved with the Company.
THIRD PARTY LINKS
The Company may include links to services supplied by or operated by third parties including advertisers and other content providers. We do not control such linked services, and are not responsible for their content or legality. You should be aware those third parties may collect data or solicit personal information from you and we recommend you familiarise yourself with safe Internet use on sites such as ukccis. The Company may also include certain features, functionality, and/or Content that may be operated by third party service providers. This includes, but is not limited to, public discussion areas, photo/video galleries, blogs, shopping or payment processing. These service providers may require you agree to their additional terms, conditions, contracts, agreements and/or rules. Your compliance with any such additional terms and conditions is solely your responsibility and will have no effect on your continuing obligation to comply with the terms and conditions of Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine and ShushMag.com as laid out here. Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine and ShushMag.com specifically disclaims any and all liability in connection with the acts or omissions of such third party service providers. Any external service which links to or otherwise interacts with the Company / Website must not create a frame or any other browser around our Content, unless previously agreed with us. It must not harvest Content from our Website unless previously agreed with us, nor imply Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine or ShushMag.com endorses it’s own Company, without prior permission. External service providers agree not to offer any service that is in any way offensive or illegal. Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine and ShushMag.com expressly reserves the right to require any link or activity which is in breach of these terms and conditions can be removed and/or ceased and to take whatever other action we deem appropriate under applicable laws.
PERSONAL DATA & COOKIES
The information you provide about yourself to us or which is collected by us about you will only be used by Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine, ShushMag.com and our associates in accordance with our Privacy Policy. This website uses cookies. By entering and using the site, you consent to Shush Magazine’s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of Shush Magazine’s Privacy Policy. By entering and using this website, you also agree to the terms and conditions.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you expressly agree your use of the Company / Website is at your own risk. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine, ShushMag.com and the Company’s licensors, vendors, suppliers, service providers, and their respective officers, directors, members, employees, sub-contractors, freelance writers, agents and representatives hereby expressly disclaim any and all warranties, express and implied. These include but are not limited to any warranties of accuracy, reliability, title, merchantability, non-infringement, fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, condition, guarantee or representation. This includes but is not limited to the accuracy or completeness of any information contained within or provided by the Company. Shush Media Group© Shush Magazine and ShushMag.com does not guarantee access to the Company / Website will be uninterrupted or that there will be no failures, errors, viruses or omissions or loss of transmitted information. In no event shall Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine, ShushMag.com or our licensors, vendors, suppliers, service providers and their respective officers, directors, members, employees, sub-contractors, agents and representatives be liable for direct, indirect, special, consequential or punitive damages arising from your use of the Company or for any other claim related in any way to your use of the Company. This includes for viruses alleged to have been obtained from the Website, your use of or reliance on the Company / Website or any of the information or materials available on the Website, regardless of the type of claim or the nature of the cause of action, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Shush Media Group©, Shush Magazine, ShushMag.com and our associates do not endorse, warrant or guarantee any third party product or service offered through the Service and will not be a party to or in any way be responsible for monitoring any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or services.
GENERAL
In the event any term of these terms and conditions is held to be invalid or unenforceable the remainder of the terms and conditions laid out here shall still remain valid and enforceable.
These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the rest of Europe.
These terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the rest of Europe.
These terms and conditions, together with the other policies included on this website (i.e. the Privacy Policy, and Terms Of Service) constitute the entire agreement between you and Shush Magazine in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.