Terms and Conditions of Use for the News.Sucial.com Website
Access to and use of the website are governed by these rules of use. Using the website as a visitor and accessing the services offered implies the acceptance of these terms and conditions, together with all consequences arising from such acceptance.
1. ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE:
1.1.
The permitted purpose for using the website is obtaining information and accessing the services offered through it. Any use for purposes other than this is not permitted. In order to access the website and the services and information made available through it, you must obtain Internet access, directly or with the help of other devices through which Internet services can be accessed, paying any fees associated with such access. In addition, you must have all the necessary equipment to establish this Internet connection, including a computer and a modem or other access equipment.
1.2.
News.Sucial.com assumes no responsibility for the security of this website or of your communication line with it.
1.3.
The term “visitor” of the website refers to any natural or legal person who accesses the website.
2. COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
2.1.
News.Sucial.com provides free access to the website and authorizes you to view, print, and transmit information available on the website solely for personal, non-commercial purposes. The copyright for the information available on this website is owned by News.Sucial.com or its affiliates/partners. No material on this website may be reproduced, in whole or in part, or modified without the explicit, written permission of a News.Sucial.com administrator.
2.2.
News.Sucial.com or third parties may provide authorized links (“links”) through the website to other World Wide Web pages or resources. News.Sucial.com does not guarantee and is not responsible in any way for their availability, form, content, advertising, products, or other materials available on those websites. News.Sucial.com shall not be liable or required to pay compensation, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to have been caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on the information, content, goods, or services provided by those websites.
2.3.
The reproduction, copying, multiplication, sale, resale, or exploitation of any part of the services, access to or use of the services or information made available by News.Sucial.com through the website, in a manner that violates Romanian or international copyright and intellectual property laws, entails civil or criminal liability for such actions.
3. RULES OF USE:
3.1. The following are not permitted:
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copying, multiplying, distributing, archiving, or storing, by any means, including electronic, magnetic, or computerized, the materials and information available on this website;
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attempting to intervene, by any means, in the content of this website, deleting or modifying by any means the materials and information published, or attempting to act for this purpose;
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attempting to scan, probe, or test the vulnerability of any system within the News.Sucial.com network or accessing any servers or services within the News.Sucial.com network that are not public, without explicit written authorization from News.Sucial.com;
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attempting to interfere with the operation of hosting servers or the News.Sucial.com network by any means, including attacking them through “flooding” or “DOS”;
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using any email addresses published through the website for distribution on mailing lists or for sending commercial emails (“spamming”) or for any purpose other than sending justified personal emails, without the written consent of the owners of those addresses.
3.2.
Violation of any of these rules entails civil or criminal liability. News.Sucial.com will investigate acts involving such violations, cooperating with authorities to prevent or stop such violations.
4. SERVICE AVAILABILITY
4.1.
News.Sucial.com reserves the right to modify or interrupt, temporarily or permanently, partially or entirely, the services made available to visitors and users through this website, with or without prior notice. News.Sucial.com is not liable to users, any third natural or legal person, or institution for modifying, suspending, or interrupting the services available through the website.
4.2.
News.Sucial.com may change the content and conditions of use of the website at any time. The new conditions become valid at the moment they are made public by posting on this website and do not have retroactive effect.
5. DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY
5.1.
By accepting to use this website, you expressly and implicitly declare that you understand and agree that the use of the website is at your own risk;
5.2.
News.Sucial.com expressly disclaims all liability of any kind, direct or indirect, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
5.3.
News.Sucial.com does not guarantee that:
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the information will meet all your requirements;
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the services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free;
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the results obtained from using the website information will be correct or reliable;
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the quality of any products, services, information, or other materials purchased or obtained through the website will meet all requirements;
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any programming errors will be corrected.
5.4.
The user is solely responsible for any damage caused to computer systems or networks from which the website is accessed or for any data loss that may result from downloading information and services from the website content. No advice or other information, oral or written, obtained from the website or through its services constitutes a warranty unless expressly stated in these terms and conditions of use.
6. CONFIDENTIALITY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION
6.1.
By participating in contests or accessing certain website services, you agree to receive information about products, services, events, etc. offered by this website, the operator’s contractual partners, other companies within the same group as the operator, service and goods providers, and the media.
6.2.
News.Sucial.com undertakes not to make users’ email addresses public and not to disclose them to third parties, except to expressly agreed partners, unless required by law and/or judicial procedures.
6.3.
News.Sucial.com is not responsible for attacks aimed at theft or vandalism that could lead to the disclosure or compromise of data.
6.4.
News.Sucial.com assumes no responsibility for situations in which the user publishes their email address or any other personal data, on their own initiative, in a public message on any page of the website.
6.5.
The website may contain advertisements and/or links to pages of third parties, including partners, advertising providers, or sponsors. Information provided to external pages is not under the control of News.Sucial.com, and any publication of personal data on other Internet pages is done at your own risk.
6.6.
News.Sucial.com reserves the right to modify, revise, or supplement these rules at any time. Any modification will be made public on this page and will take effect from the moment it is posted on the website.
7. EXTERNAL LINKS AND ADVERTISING
7.1.
News.Sucial.com places various external links within articles. These links lead to a merchant’s page based on the keywords from which the link originates. These links are called “affiliate links.” We maintain a clean structure of links to other websites and will never direct you to a site that could affect your computer or any intellectual property.
7.2.
Alongside affiliate links, our website may direct you to various sources of an article, to information about the original author, or to the rights holder of images present in an article. Some published images may be the property of News.Sucial.com, while others are not; copying images published on News.Sucial.com is prohibited.
7.3.
News.Sucial.com offers multiple advertising options. We reserve the right to refuse any advertising requests and do not accept advertising that promotes immorality, weapons and ammunition, pornography, illegal downloads, torrent-type websites, or any other advertising methods that do not comply with the Terms and Conditions on this page.
7.4.
News.Sucial.com offers you the possibility to advertise through us. The available advertising methods differ and vary: advertorial advertising, link advertising, graphic banner advertising, articles promoting a product and/or service.
7.5.
News.Sucial.com will not offer, under any circumstances:
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any form of advertising for illegal websites;
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any form of advertising for businesses/products involving weapons, nudity, immorality, gambling, online games;
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promotion of similar websites through: exclusive promotional articles, background image banner advertising, or banners displayed in the sidebar above the halfway point of the website.
7.6.
We reserve the right to refuse certain advertising requests. Advertising offers are valid according to these terms and conditions of use of the website. For additional information about this website and our activity, please access the About page; any published information request will not be fulfilled.
8. COMMENTS
8.1.
News.Sucial.com is not responsible for the opinions expressed or statements made by users in the Comments section. Comments are published automatically or may be approved and/or reviewed by a site administrator.
8.2.
The administrator reserves the right to delete any comments without prior notice if:
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the comment is considered abusive, threatening, aggressive, harassing, or may infringe the rights of other persons;
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the content of the comment is defamatory, offensive, obscene, vulgar, or describes or incites acts of violence or illegal acts;
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the content expresses hatred towards other persons or incites any form of discrimination (references to religion, race/ethnicity, gender, nationality, or political beliefs);
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the comment uploads, attaches, or distributes files containing software or other materials protected by intellectual property laws, where the user does not hold the legal rights;
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the comment uploads, attaches, or distributes harmful files that may contain viruses, corrupted files, or other types of files that endanger computing units and/or software systems of any kind;
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the comment displays advertising, makes commercial solicitations, publishes email messages, is considered SPAM, is considered a form of advertising without prior agreement, or makes donation requests.
9. COOKIE MODULES
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Cookies are data that a website transfers to a person’s hard drive for storage purposes. Cookies are an industry standard and are used by most websites, including this website, facilitating permanent access for a user to a site. This technology allows us to adapt the website to your needs. If you do not want information collected through the use of Cookies, many browsers offer a simple procedure that allows you to reject or accept Cookies features/functions. However, please note that Cookies may be necessary to provide certain features of our online services.
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Google (or another service provider), as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your website.
Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visits to your websites and other websites on the Internet.
9.2.1.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the privacy policy of Google’s advertising and content networks.
9.3. How can you avoid cookies?
9.3.1.
You can avoid cookies by changing your browser settings. You can also delete existing cookies. Please read the “help” section of your browser to learn how to do this. To find out more about cookies, including how to view their settings and how to manage and delete them.
9.3.2.
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, please visit
https://www.allaboutcookies.org
or
https://cookies.apti.ro
You can delete all cookies from your computer and you can set most browsers to block their placement. If you do this, you may need to manually adjust some preferences each time you visit a website, and some services or options may not function.
9.4. Why do we use cookies?
9.4.1. We use cookies for:
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storing information from the comment form;
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browser and plug-in settings;
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storing user information on our website or on third-party services in order to improve the services we offer;
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distributing advertisements;
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storing your preferences related to this website (for example, the Cookie notification box);
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placing information when clicking on an affiliate link;
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obtaining information about a website visitor (location, referrer, time spent on the website).
9.5. How long are our cookies active?
9.5.1.
Our cookies are installed for a period ranging from 1 day to 2 years; of course, they can be removed earlier.
9.6. Websites and useful information about Cookie modules, their use and management:
https://www.allaboutcookies.org
UK Information Commissioner’s Office – “Guidance on the rule of use of cookies and similar technologies”, May 2012
Directive 2002/58/EC on the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector (PDF)
Directive 2009/136/EC amending Directive 2002/22/EC on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks and services, Directive 2002/58/EC on the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector, and Regulation (EC) No. 2006/2004 on cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws (PDF)
Law no. 506/2004 on the processing of personal data and the protection of private life in the electronic communications sector, with subsequent amendments and additions
Opinion no. 4/2012 of the Article 29 Working Party on cookies exempted from obtaining consent, June 2012 (PDF)
IAB Romania recommendations regarding informing users about the use of cookies on a website
World Wide Web Consortium, Tracking Preferences Expression (DNT), W3C Working Draft, 2 October 2012
Secure Cookies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
10.
This policy may be modified at any time without prior notice.