Welcome to The Monitor Daily, an online news organization dedicated to bringing you the latest and best-quality news coverage of all that which you deem important. This document represents the “Terms of Use” that governs your use of The Monitor Daily website and all of its online services.

This document may imply certain supplements applicable to your access of additional The Monitor Daily services. Please make sure to also consult the website’s Privacy Policy to ensure that you are kept abreast of our policies regarding your personal information.

Our Terms of Use as well as our Privacy Policy and any applicable “Additional Terms” are collectively referred to as “Terms”. The Monitor Daily (“we”, “our”, “us”, “the site” or “the website”)  reserves the right to modify these Terms at any given time and without offering any prior notice to you. Make sure to review the Terms of Use regularly in order to be sure that you have read any modification. Upon being posted, the modification to this Terms of Use become enforceable. Your continued use of The Monitor Daily and of its online services represents a binding agreement that you have read and pledged to adhere to the terms as they are herein stated.

1.    Introduction

YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF THE MONITOR DAILY REPRESENTS A BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND US. AS SUCH, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ THE PRESENT TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING ANY OF THE SERVICES OR THE WEBSITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THE TERMS AS THEY ARE HEREIN PRESENTED, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU BY THE MONITOR DAILY.

The Monitor Daily has produced the hereby Terms of Service page after long and valuable consideration of your use of our website and our services as well as the written, audio and video materials presented to you as well as the public User Content (as it is defined in the present document).

The services are brought to you by The Monitor Daily and any reference in these terms to “you”, “your” or “users” refer to non-business individuals accessing the website. The Monitor Daily “Services” include, but are not limited to, internet services, websites, online applications, software applications enabling your access to The Monitor Daily content, embedded media players, RSS feeds, etc.

2.    The Monitor Daily Content

The Monitor Daily content is created, selected, edited and made available to you free of charge and refers to the multitude of content, including but not limited to: text, written content, news articles, audio and video content, images, photographs, illustrations, graphics, sounds, files, information, products, URL’s, software, documentation, interactive features, the overall feel and design of the website. The Monitor Daily is the sole owner of the aforementioned content, collectively referred to as “Website Content”. We, our licensors or both are the sole intellectual owners of the intellectual property rights over the Website Content.

Moreover, any other right marks, trademarks, service marks, names or trade dress appearing on the Website Content or on the Website are owned by The Monitor Daily.

3.    Your Use of the Services

Your use of The Monitor Daily Services must comply with the Terms of Use as they are herein stated. You may only use the Services for personal, non-commercial, educational purposes. Upon viewing the content presented to you by The Monitor Daily, you agree to comply with any local, state and federal applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to copyright law.

Your use of the services may not infringe upon or attempt to infringe upon the privacy and rights of other The Monitor Daily users, including, but not limited to, personal data storage, user detail storage or personal information storage.

Unless expressly stated in the hereby Terms of Use document, you MAY NOT copy, reproduce, use, distribute, sell, make copies, create derivative works based upon, publish, transmit, display, or in any way exploit the Website Content as it is presented to you on The Monitor Daily. In order to use the Website Content for any other purpose than personal, non-commercial, educational purposes, you are required to obtain a prior written consent form from The Monitor Daily or the respective intellectual right owners of the materials in question.

You may use the services and access the Website Content on The Monitor Daily in accordance to these Terms of Use in order to view, read, access, consult or listen to the content for your personal, non-business use. You are allowed, in certain instances, to print or download one copy of our website’s content for your personal use, however, in such a case, YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NOT ACQUIRED ANY INTELLECTUAL OWNERSHIP RIGHTS BY PRINTING THE AFOREMENTIONED CONTENT.

4.    User Limitations connected to Website Content

Apart from the aforementioned rules and regulations regarding the website content, you are EXPRESSELY prohibited from:

• Claiming that the website content is owned by you;
• Removing, covering, airbrushing, altering or distorting intellectual right trademarks, copyright or any other proprietary rights notices present on the Website or the Website Content;
• Employing any type of automatic device, robots, software, crawlers or spiders that copy or “scrape” the content present on The Monitor Daily for any purpose. We have granted express permission for public search engine operators that regularly crawl The Monitor Daily content in order to create a searchable index of our website’s content and make it accessible to the general public.
• Interfering, disabling, circumventing or otherwise disturbing the security-related features of The Monitor Daily;
• Impairing the proper functions of The Monitor Daily;
• Copying any of the website content;
• Obtain, collect or harvest any personally identifiable information about the Website’s users, including but without limitation, user names, email addresses, passwords, birth dates, gender;
• Offering organization memberships without our prior written approval;
• Using any types of decompiling, reverse-engineering or disassembling software on the Website or attempt to extract Website usage data or website architecture;
• Directly or indirectly charging other The Monitor Daily users for accessing, listening to, or viewing any portion of The Monitor Daily content;
• Directly or indirectly suggesting endorsements;
• Acting in a manner that is viewed as inconveniencing, distressing, harassing, obscene, offensive, disruptive, ethically, racially, sexually or in other way objectionable;
• Promoting or publishing offensive images;
• Contributing content that is in any way facilitative of violent behavior, that encourages anti-social behavior, that facilitates or encourages terrorism or activities that poses a risk to national security, that is discriminative of any social, racial, ethnical groups, that promotes or encourages illegal activity, that is defamatory, that is misleading, that contains illegal or any type of questionable content;
• Contributing content that infringes upon the rights of any person;
• Displaying content or products that jeopardizes the welfare of children;
• The above list is not exhaustive and may be subject to amendments by The Monitor Daily at any time.

5.    Registration and Subscribing to The Monitor Daily

Despite the fact that the Services are offered to you free of charge, certain features may only be accessed if you are a registered user of The Monitor Daily. Our website is not designed for users under the age of 13. You are therefore not permitted to register as a user if you have not met the required age requirement. Additionally, you are also not permitted to submit any personal information.

Upon becoming a registered user, you are expected to provide The Monitor Daily with correct, true and complete information as this data is requested from you. Additionally, we recommend that you periodically verify this information and keep it updated. The registration process will require you to create a “user name” and a “password” that are required to enter your account. With the help of this membership, you will be permitted to access specific areas of The Monitor Daily that are otherwise not accessible to non-registered users. Your membership resides under your sole discretion and responsibility, so make sure to correctly safeguard and maintain the confidentiality of this membership. Your use of the website as stemming from your account will fall under your responsibility, regardless of whether this activity is authorized by you or not.

6.    User Generated Content

The Monitor Daily invites its audience and readership to make contributions and submit their own material to the online services. Your contributions lie under your personal responsibility, however, these Terms of Use set out the guidelines for how The Monitor Daily may use these contributions. Users are encouraged to include written material, graphics, photographs, audio or video clips they deem relevant and interesting. This is referred to as “user generated content.”

Please remember that the Monitor Daily does NOT moderate or edit this user generated content. You are therefore solely responsible for monitoring your activity and contributions on the website. This implies that, upon submitting user generated content to The Monitor Daily, you offer your guarantee that you are the sole copyright owner of the material that you are contributing. You are hereby prohibited from submitting user generated content that is protected by intellectual property or proprietary rights, copyright, trademark patent, trade secret or moral right without having obtained the previous, express and written permission of the respective right owner. Moreover, you hereby agree that, if any damage should result from your inability to obtain such intellectual property permissions, you are solely liable for that damage.

Your user content may NOT:

1. Violate, infringe or limit the rights of others;
2. Be threatening, encouraging of unlawful conduct;
3. Be abusive, violent or encourage criminal offenses;
4. Impersonate any other person;
5. Be libelous, abusive, invasive of privacy, defamatory, obscene, profane, vulgar, sexually explicit, pornographic in nature, objectionable in any way;
6. Represent an advertisement for goods of service;
7. Represent a solicitation of funds;
8. Reveal the personal information of other people, including identifiable information such as social security numbers, personal or mailing addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, employer references;
9. Represent instructions that aim to cause harm or injury;
10. Is a chain letter of any kind.

Upon deciding to contribute user content to The Monitor Daily you grant use the rights to use your material in any way we see fit. Additionally, you allow The Monitor Daily to review, edit or remove any portions of the material. Please note that user content is publicly displayed and as such, may be viewed by any user of the website. As such, your contribution may be shared to other parties, for instance, the users of The Monitor Daily services.

Your decision to contribute content to The Monitor Daily represents your confirmation that the content you have submitted represents your original work. This means that this content is not unlawful, infringing or uncompliant with these Terms of Use.

7.    Website Content and Links to Third Party Websites

The Monitor Daily provides the website and the services on an “as is”, “as available” basis. It is offered for your personal, non-business, educational, entertainment and informational purpose, and as such, you may NOT rely on this information or on the information and opinions that have been expressed anywhere on the website. Our users bear the sole responsibility of evaluating whether the information and content presented to them on The Monitor Daily is timely, correct, relevant, informative, accurate, useful, complete or reflective of your expectations. The Monitor Daily is under no circumstance responsible for any damages or losses that may occur as a result of your reliance on the content.

Please note that the Website contains numerous contributions by third-parties and as such, this content doesn’t reflect the views, opinions and judgements of The Monitor Daily.

THE MONITOR DAILY DOESN’T ENDORSE, OFFER WARRANTIES OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CORECTNESS, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS OR RELIABILITY OF THE INFORMATION THAT IS OFFERED.

Also, please be aware of the fact that The Monitor Daily may contain links leading towards third-party websites that are not operated, controlled or maintained by us. Consequently, The Monitor Daily does not assume responsibility for the results of your access of such third party websites.

8.    Obligations, Indemnification and Disclaimers

Users are solely responsible for the expenses that are connected to using or accessing the Services. Due to the nature of the World Wide Web, The Monitor Daily cannot and will not guarantee that our services will be provided in an uninterrupted, continuous manner. Additionally, The Monitor Daily will also not offer any warranties that its services will be bug-free, virus-free, omission-free, error-free, timely, accurate or correct.

The Monitor Daily offers no warranties and assumes no responsibility for the any type of loss or damage that may result in connection with your use of the website or the services, including but not limited to loss of damage suffered by you or anyone else in compliance or not in compliance with the terms, damages, costs, losses and fees arising from your access to the website, from your reliance on the information presented on The Monitor Daily, the user content, any actual or alleged violation of these Terms of Use.

The information presented to you on the website represents no financial or personal advice and as such, consult with your broker or financial expert before deciding to execute stock trade or to undergo any financial activity. The Monitor Daily offers no warranties or assumes no responsibilities in relation to poor investment decisions that you have based on the information herein offered. Please note that our contributors, editors and reporters may decide to use a pseudonym when exercising their profession.

9.    Additional information

The Monitor Daily reserves the right to discontinue or suspend your membership or access to its services at any time and without any previous notice to you. Even in the case of such a termination or suspension, your responsibilities and obligations as they are expressed herein remain.

Both sides -The Monitor Daily and you- waive our individual rights of pursuing disputes on a classwide basis, meaning that neither of us may join the claim of other entities or people. Additionally, we may also not assert claims that have us in a representative capacity or acting on behalf of other people in a lawsuit or similar proceeding against one and other.

These Terms of Use, together with the website’s Privacy Policy, represent the sole agreement of the parties in regards to the matter hereof. They supersede any and all agreements prior to this.

Last Update: 9.08.2015