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Belo Corporation (“AHC”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) and govern your use of certain AHC digital products, including this website (the “Site”), mobile versions of the Site, downloadable mobile applications, services that allow you to submit content to us, blog submission services, RSS feeds, widgets or other embedding technologies, podcasts, chat rooms and message boards, as well as AHC accounts on social media platforms, including, but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (collectively, the “Services”). Any new services made available to you by us that enhance or modify the current Site or Services will also be subject to the TOS.</p> <p><strong>1. YOUR ACCEPTANCE</strong></p><br> <p><strong>BY USING THIS SITE OR THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO ACCEPT AND BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THE TOS. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE TOS AT ANY TIME. WE WILL POST THE REVISED TOS ON THE SITE AND UPDATE THE “LAST UPDATED” DATE TO REFLECT THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE CHANGES. 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By submitting User Content, you represent and warrant: (a) you own, have been granted permission, or otherwise control or have all necessary rights to post, upload, input, provide, or otherwise submit the User Content as required by the TOS; (b) the User Content does not infringe or misappropriate any copyright, trademark, service mark, trade secret, patent, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, rights of privacy, publicity, or likeness; and (c) the User Content will not violate any applicable law or regulation, including, but not limited to, any applicable advertising or fair housing laws or regulations, or cause injury to any person or damage to any property. Using a name other than your own legal name in association with the submission of User Content is prohibited (except in those specific areas of the Site that specifically ask for unique, fictitious names). If the User Content you submit depicts any children under the age of 13, you affirm that you are the child’s parent or legal guardian or that you have written permission and authorization from the child’s parent or legal guardian to provide the User Content as required by the TOS.</p><br> <p>B. <strong>User Content: License.</strong> You grant us a perpetual, nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable license to any User Content submitted by you to the Site or to the Services, which includes, without limitation, the right for us or any third party we designate, to use, copy, translate, edit, reproduce, transmit, excerpt, publish, distribute, publicly display or publicly perform, create derivative works from, host, archive, index, cache, tag, encode, modify and adapt (including, without limitation, the right to adapt the User Content for streaming, downloading, broadcasting, mobile, digital, thumbnail, scanning or other technologies) in any form or media now known or hereinafter developed. As such, we reserve the right to use any User Content in our RSS feeds, application program interfaces (“APIs”), and various other AHC services. You recognize and agree that if you do not want to license your User Content, you should not submit it. You further agree that we are neither liable nor responsible for the proliferation of your User Content, we do not provide nor do we owe compensation for the use of your User Content, and we are unable to terminate any license to User Content that you unwittingly extend.</p><br> <p>C. <strong>User Content: Screening and Removal.</strong> You acknowledge that we may or may not pre-screen User Content, and have the right (but not the obligation) to remove, block, edit, or refuse any User Content for any reason.</p><br> <p>D. <strong>User Content: Assumption of the Risk.</strong> You acknowledge that we cannot and do not monitor, regularly review, or manage submitted User Content. As such, <strong>we cannot guarantee the privacy of User Content submitted to the Site or Services</strong>. To protect your safety, please use your best judgment when submitting any personal information. We discourage divulging phone numbers, addresses, or any personal-identifying information. We cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose, all disclosure is <strong><u>AT YOUR OWN RISK</u>. You further understand that we may publish your user name in connection with any User Content you submit. If you use your legal name as your user name, your legal name may be published.</strong></p><br> <p>E. <strong>No Compensation.</strong> No compensation <u>of any kind</u> will be owed or paid with respect to any User Content submitted or used. </p><br> <p><strong>5. 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and</p> <p><strong> u.</strong> Facilitate or encourage the violation of our TOS or Privacy Policy.</p><br> <br> <p> We reserve the right, but disclaim any obligation or responsibility, to: (i) remove any User Content from the Site, Services, or any AHC websites that violates the TOS (including, without limitation, this prohibited conduct provision), and (ii) comply with any subpoena, order, or otherwise cooperate with any law enforcement officials regarding the identification of any user alleged to be using the Site, Services or AHC websites in violation of the law, or alleged to have any information related to an ongoing investigation. We reserve the right to preserve a record of User Content and transfer all such records to law enforcement officials upon request. </p><br> <p><strong>6. LIMITATIONS ON INLINE LINKING AND FRAMING</strong></p><br> <p><strong>a.</strong> Website operators may include a hyperlink to our Site as long as the hyperlink does not falsely imply or state that we sponsor, endorse, or are otherwise affiliated with your site. You further agree to remove the hyperlink if requested.</p> <p><strong>b.</strong> You may not, however, frame, inline link, or otherwise incorporate Content or User Content into your website or any other service without our express, written approval. </p><br> <p><strong>7.NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT</strong></p><br> <p>If you believe your copyrighted material has been infringed upon, please send written notice to:<br> A.H. Belo Corporation<br> Attn: Christine Larkin<br> 508 Young St.<br> Dallas, TX 75202<br> Email: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150626121015/mailto:copyrights@ahbelo.com">copyrights@ahbelo.com</a> <p>Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, you must include the following information in your written notice for it to be effective: </p><br> <ol> <li>A detailed description of the copyrighted work you believe is being infringed upon;</li> <li>A description (such as the subdomain link) of the location on the Site where the allegedly infringing content appears; </li> <li>Your contact information, including your name, address, telephone number, and, if available, email address; </li> <li>A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the allegedly infringing use is not authorized by you as the copyright owner, by your agent, or by law;</li> <li>A statement affirming that, under penalty of perjury, the information in the notice is accurate and that you are, or are authorized to act on behalf of, the copyright owner; and </li> <li>An original or electronic signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized on the owner’s behalf to assert infringement of copyright and to submit the statement.</li> </ol> <p>The above contact information is for copyright infringement notices only. 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