We don’t mean to turn you off from blogging by immediately inundating you with legalese, but we need to make clear our respective rights and responsibilities related to this service. So, You.GreekReporter.com (“GreekReporter”) offer these blogging services (the “Services”) to you subject to the terms and conditions of use (“Terms”) contained herein. By accessing and contributing to you.GreekReporter.com and in consideration for the Services we provide to you, you agree to abide by these Terms. Please read them carefully before posting.

1. Rights in the Content You Submit

By submitting your material to You.GreekReporter.com (text, images or in any other form) you are granting GreekReporter a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your Content in connection with the operation of the Services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work or share it with a third party.

Attribution

When publicly displaying, publicly performing, reproducing or distributing copies of your Content, or Content as incorporated into a collective work, GreekReporter will make best efforts to credit your authorship. You grant GreekReporter permission to use your name for such attribution purposes. You, likewise, agree to represent yourself accurately. You acknowledge that misrepresentation may lead us, in our sole discretion, to cancel your use of the Services and delete any of your Content.

2. Conduct

Posting

Greek Reporter and its associates believe deeply in free speech. However, we must reserve the right to remove certain content that you may post. As a general matter, you may post content freely so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, infringing of intellectual property rights, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious or objectionable.

By posting content to You.GreekReporter.com, you warrant and represent that you either own or otherwise control all of the rights to that content, including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the content, or that your use of the content is a protected fair use. You agree that you will not knowingly and with intent to defraud provide material and misleading false information. You represent and warrant also that the content you supply does not violate these Terms, and that you will indemnify and hold You.GreekReporter.com harmless for any and all claims resulting from content you supply.

You acknowledge that GreekReporter does not pre-screen or regularly review posted content, but that it shall have the right to remove in its sole discretion any content.

Accessing

You understand that all content posted to You.GreekReporter.com is the sole responsibility of the individual who originally posted the content. You understand, also, that all opinions expressed by users of this site are expressed strictly in their individual capacities, and not as representatives of GreekReporter.

You agree that You.GreekReporter will not be liable, under any circumstances and in any way, for any errors or omissions, loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of use of any content posted on this site. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.

Children

Collecting personal information from children under the age of 13 is prohibited. No Content should be directed toward such children. Greek Reporter is intended for adults and we will not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years old. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child under age 13 who has become a member of a site hosted by http://GreekReporter.com, please contact us to notify us of a suspected violation.

3. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

This site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. You.GreekReporter.com makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the site’s operation or the information, content or materials included on this site. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, Greek Reporter hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. Greek Reporter will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of or inability to use this site. You expressly agree that you use this site solely at your own risk.

4. Modification of These Terms of Use

Greek Reporter reserves the right to change, at any time, at our sole discretion, the Terms under which these Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.

5. Copyright Complaints

Greek Reporter respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that our users do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on this site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please contact us.

6. Privacy Policy

The nature of blogging is to reach a public audience. Please be aware that any information that you submit to us whether through forms or email, including personally identifiable information, may be publicly displayed on sites hosted at http://GreekReporter.com, or on websites not within our control. If you don’t want others to see such information, don’t submit it.

IP Addresses and Referrers

We may publicly display the IP addresses of visitors and contributors to GreekReporter.

We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to tailor site content and to format the site and software to user needs, and to generate aggregate statistical reports. We may use aggregate visitor data to prepare publicly displayed reports regarding the traffic on our site, popularity rankings, and referrers that visitors use to access our site.

Cookies

If you visit our web site, we may use session cookies while your browser is open, or while you are logged into our site. To facilitate our registration and login functions, we may use cookies to recognize you when you return to our website or to individual blogs hosted our site. If you do not logout of your account, these cookies allow us to keep track of your username and password, so that you do not have to resubmit the information to log into your account. Always remember to log out of your site or account so that the computer’s other users cannot access your account.

7) Terms License

This terms of use document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

We would like to thank Harvard University for the creation and distribution of this document.