Terms & Conditions

Terms and Conditions

Acceptance of the Terms of Use

These terms of use are entered into by and between you and [13 Stars Media]. The following terms and conditions, together with any documents they expressly incorporate by reference (collectively, these “Terms of Use”), govern your access to and use of [https://atascaderonews.com] including any content, functionality and services offered on or through [https://atascaderonews.com] (the “Website”), whether as a guest or a registered user.

Please read the Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy, found at https://atascaderonews.com/privacy, incorporated herein by reference. If you do not want to agree to these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.

The Website is offered and available to users who are eighteen years of age or older and reside in the United States. By using the Website, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract with the Company in the state you reside, regardless of your age, and you meet the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not access or use the Website.

Changes to the Terms of Use

We may revise and update these Terms of Use from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them and apply to all access to and use of the Website thereafter. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email and/or through a notice on the Website home page. If you disagree with the changes, you must not access or use the Website. However, any changes to the dispute resolution provisions set forth in Governing Law and Jurisdiction will not apply to any disputes for which the parties have actual notice on or prior to the date the change is posted on the Website.

Your continued use of the Website following the posting of revised Terms of Use means that you accept and agree to the changes. You are expected to check this page from time to time so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.

Accessing the Website and Account Security

We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the Website and any service or content we provide on the Website in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the Website, or the entire Website, to users, including registered users.

You are responsible for:

  • making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website, including registering and paying for a subscription to access subscriber-only content, as well as obtaining and maintaining at your own expense all equipment, hardware, software, and telephone, mobile, wireless, Internet and other services necessary to access, visit, or use the Website.
  • ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your Internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and comply with them.

To access the Website or some of the resources it offers, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. It is a condition of your use of the Website that all the information you provide on the Website is correct, current and complete. You agree that all information you provide to register with the Website or otherwise, including but not limited to through the use of any interactive features on the Website, is governed by our Privacy Policy https://atascaderonews.com/privacy-policy, and you consent to all actions we take with respect to your information consistent with our Privacy Policy.

If you choose, or are provided with, a user name, password as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any other person or entity. You also acknowledge that your account is personal to you and agree not to provide any other person or entity with access to the Website or portions of it using your user name, password or other security information. If you provide someone else with your password, they will be able to view any personal information you included in your registration, make changes to your account, and post User Contributions under your user name. You agree to notify us at nic@colonymedia.us immediately of any unauthorized access to or use of your user name or password or any other breach of security. You also agree to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. You should use particular caution when accessing your account from a public or shared computer so that others are not able to view or record your password or other personal information.

We have the right to disable any user name, password or other identifier, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at any time in our sole discretion for any or no reason, including if, in our opinion, you have violated any provision of these Terms of Use.

Charges for Services

We may charge for access to portions of the Website or the entire Website, and we reserve the right at any time to change the amount we charge for such access or subscription that includes authorization to access content on the Website. Your access to some of the content on the Website may be limited depending on whether you purchased a subscription. You shall pay all applicable taxes relating to your subscription.

Termination of Subscription Services

our subscription will renew automatically unless it is cancelled according to the terms of this section. For annual subscriptions, we will notify you at the address you used during registration, or an updated address if you have provided one, of the pending renewal of your annual subscription at least thirty (30) days prior to the automatic renewal occurring, unless otherwise required by law. For all subscriptions, you must cancel your subscription before it renews in order to avoid automatically charging your credit or debit card the subscription fee for the renewal term.

Information Disclaimer

The content on the Website may include articles or other information on a range of topics, including medical, health, legal, tax, or financial issues. Some of the content on the Website is not moderated, screened or edited, and may be offensive, harmful, or wrong. You should not rely on the Website for individual advice on such issues. Instead, we recommend that you talk in person with a qualified professional. You alone bear the sole responsibility for evaluating the merits and/or risks associated with use of the content obtained on or through the Website before making any decisions based on such content. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by you or any other user, or anyone informed by the content on the Website. All content provided by users expresses solely the opinions of the author.

THE CONTENT AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE IS IN NO WAY INTENDED TO AND SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED TO: (A) CONSTITUTE PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL, HEALTH, LEGAL, TAX, OR FINANCIAL ADVICE; (B) RECOMMEND, ENDORSE, OR ADVISE REGARDING ANY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT OR INVESTMENT STRATEGY; OR (C) DIAGNOSE, CURE, OR TREAT ANY MEDICAL, HEALTH, OR OTHER CONDITION. ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF A QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL.

Intellectual Property Rights

he Website and its entire contents, features and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video and audio, graphics, artwork, metadata and other data, advertising, and the design, organization, look and feel, selection and arrangement thereof, as well as all copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress, or patent rights), are owned by the Company, its licensors or other providers of such material and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

These Terms of Use permit you to use the Website for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, sell, store or transmit any of the material on the Website, except as follows:

Your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials.

You may store files that are automatically cached by your Web browser for display enhancement purposes.

You may print or download a reasonable number of pages of the Website for your own personal, non-commercial use and not for further reproduction, sale, publication or distribution.

If we provide desktop, mobile or other applications for download, you may download a single copy to your computer or mobile device solely for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you agree to be bound by our end user license agreement for such applications.

If we provide social media features with certain content, you may take such actions as are enabled by such features. You must not:

modify copies of any materials from this site;

use or distribute any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from the accompanying text; or

delete or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from this site.

You must not access or use for any commercial purposes any part of the Website or any services or materials available through the Website.

If you print, copy, modify, download or otherwise use or provide any other person or entity with access to any part of the Website in breach of the Terms of Use, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. No right, title or interest in or to the Website or any content on the Website is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Company. Any use of the Website not expressly permitted by these Terms of Use is a breach of these Terms of Use and may violate copyright, trademark and other laws.

Trademarks

The Company name, the terms “Atascadero News,” Colony Media , the Company logo and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans are trademarks of the Company or its affiliates, subsidiaries, parent company or licensors. You must not use such marks without the prior written permission of the Company. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans on the Website are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Prohibited Uses

You may use the Website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You agree not to use the Website:

in any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local or international law or regulation (including, without limitation, any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the US or other countries).

for the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable information or otherwise.

to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with the Content Standards set out in these Terms of Use.

to transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising, promotional, or bulk material without our prior written consent, including any “junk mail”, “chain letter” or “spam” or any other similar solicitations.

to impersonate or attempt to impersonate the Company, a Company employee, another user or any other person or entity (including, without limitation, by using e-mail addresses, screen names or user names associated with any of the foregoing).

to engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the Website, or which, as determined by us, may harm the Company or users of the Website or expose them to liability.

to create derivative works based on the content found on the Website.

to repeatedly post the same User Contribution multiple times a week.

for any commercial product or service, without our express written consent

to create apps, blogs, or other products or services that use the content on the Website or may serve as a substitute for a subscription without our permission.

to stalk other users through the Website.

Additionally, you agree not to:

use the Website in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the site or interfere with any other party’s use of the Website, including their ability to engage in real time activities through the Website.

use any robot, spider or other automatic device, process or means to access the Website for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Website.

Display, post, frame or copy the content for use on another website, app, blog, product or service, except as otherwise allowed under these Terms of Use.

use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the material on the Website, including without limitation the framing, scraping of or in-line linking to the Website or any of its contents, or for any other unauthorized purpose without our prior written consent.

use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Website.

introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful.

attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt any parts of the Website, the server on which the Website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to the Website.

attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

access and/or use anyone else’s registration information or user name.

authorize or permit anyone else to access and/or use your registration information or user name.

falsely state, represent, or imply any affiliation, association or connection between any person or entity, including without limitation, you, your company, your website, application or blog with the Company, the Website, or any of our affiliates, subsidiaries, vendors, or parent company.

otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website.

Unauthorized or prohibited use of the Website or its content may subject you to civil liability, criminal prosecution, or both, under applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, or regulations. We reserve the right to suspend or discontinue any of the content provided as part of the subscription at any time. We also reserve the right to limit certain features or content without notice or liability. If you breach, violate, fail to follow or act inconsistently with the terms and conditions in these Terms of Use, we reserve the right to curtail, restrict or refuse to provide you with any future access or subscription to the Website.

User Contributions

The Website may contain message boards, chat rooms, comment boards, forums, bulletin boards and other interactive features (collectively, “Interactive Services”) that allow users to post, submit, publish, display or transmit (hereinafter, “post”) content or materials (collectively, “User Contributions”) on public or subscription-only areas of the Website, or to be transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties.

All User Contributions must comply with the Content Standards set out in these Terms of Use. All User Contributions must be courteous and respectful.

Any User Contribution you post to the site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. By providing any User Contribution on the Website, you grant us and our affiliates, subsidiaries, parent company and service providers, and each of their and our respective licensees, successors and assigns the perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, irrevocable right and license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, perform, display, distribute, translate, adapt, reproduce, create derivative works, excerpt, publish, host, sell, transfer, modify and otherwise disclose or transmit to third parties any such material, in any and all media or technology, now known or later developed, in whole or in part, with or without attribution, for any purpose. You are responsible for making a copy or back-up of any and all User Contributions you post or submit to be posted to the Website that you wish to retain. We have no obligation to retain, store or provide you with any User Contribution you may have posted.

By providing any User Contribution on the Website, you represent and warrant that:

You own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions and have the right to grant the license granted above to us and our affiliates, subsidiaries, parent company and service providers, and each of their and our respective licensees, successors and assigns.

You are not violating any law or the rights of any person, including by plagiarizing.

All of your User Contributions do and will comply with these Terms of Use.

You consent to the public display and publication of your User Contributions.

You waive all rights to refuse to have the content altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you.

You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Contributions you submit or contribute, and you, not the Company, have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy and appropriateness.

We are not responsible or liable to any third party for the content or accuracy of any User Contributions posted by you or any other user of the Website. We do not endorse any opinion, comment, or recommendation made by any user. User Contributions may be misleading, deceptive or in error.

Monitoring and Enforcement; Termination

We have the right to:

monitor, remove or refuse to post any User Contribution for any or no reason in our sole discretion. We take no responsibility to post, take down, remove or edit any of your User Contributions.

modify or alter your User Contributions without your permission.

authorize the use of your User Contributions, in whole or in part, by other users or third parties, including the right to feature your User Contributions on the Website.

take any action with respect to any User Contribution that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if we believe that such User Contribution violates the Terms of Use, including the Content Standards [INSERT AS LINK TO CONTENT STANDARDS], infringes any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of users of the Website or the public or could create liability for the Company.

disclose your identity or other information about you to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.

take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.

terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Website for any or no reason, including without limitation, any violation of these Terms of Use.

Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Website. YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS THE COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES, subsidiaries, parent company, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE LICENSEES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY ANY OF THE FOREGOING PARTIES DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS AND FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER SUCH PARTIES OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.

However, we do not undertake to review material before it is posted on the Website, and we cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications or content provided by any user or third party. We have no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this section.

Further, please remember that the User Contributions made on the Website may be opinionated, offensive and/or inappropriate. Please refrain from using the Website to lodge complaints against other users to facilitate a personal dispute. If you have reason to believe that another user is acting in a manner that is harmful to you (e.g., to impersonate or imitate you, to stalk, bully, threaten, intimidate or otherwise harass you), we urge you to contact your local authorities or appropriate state or federal agencies. If you believe you have been the victim of an online crime, you may contact the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at https://www.ic3.gov/.

Third Party Services

We will use a third party not affiliated with the Company to process payments for your subscription to the Website. You agree that this third party is solely responsible for controlling, handling, processing or fulfilling purchases processed through its systems. When using such third party services, you may be subject to additional terms of use/service and privacy policies of the third party.

Your use of any third party website, content, data, information, application, good, service or material does not create any obligation, responsibility or liability on our part or for our affiliates, parent company or subsidiaries. We do not endorse, verify, or have any responsibility for the services provided by a third party or the business practices of a third party. The terms and conditions and privacy policies of the third party will apply when you use their services.

Content Standards

These content standards apply to any and all User Contributions and use of Interactive Services. User Contributions must in their entirety comply with all applicable federal, state, local and international laws and regulations. Without limiting the foregoing, User Contributions must not:

contain any material which is defamatory, obscene, crude, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful, inflammatory, libelous or otherwise objectionable;

promote sexually explicit or pornographic material, violence, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, gender or age;

include hate speech or bullying of any kind;

share information that you are bound not to disclose by agreement, contract, fiduciary duty, employment relationship or otherwise, such as insider information, confidential information or trade secrets;

infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual property or other rights of any other person or entity;

violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or contain any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable laws or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy https://atascaderonews.com/privacy;

be likely to deceive any person;

provide professional advice;

promote any illegal activity, or advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act;

impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person, entity or organization;

involve commercial activities or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes and other sales promotions, barter or advertising; or

give the impression that they emanate from or are endorsed by us or any other person or entity, if this is not the case.

Copyright Policy

Pursuant to 17 USC. § 512 as amended by Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”), we have instituted procedures to receive written notification of claimed infringements and to process such claims in accordance with the DMCA. If you believe your copyrights are being infringed, please fill out the Notice of Infringement form below and mail it to us.

The Notice of Infringement contains requested information that substantively complies with the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 USC. § 512(c)(3)(A), providing that to be effective under this subsection, a notification of claimed infringement must be a written communication provided to the designated agent of a service provider that includes substantially the following:

a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;

identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;

information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;

a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and

a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Notification from a copyright owner or from a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner that fails to comply substantially with the provisions above shall not be considered as providing actual knowledge or an awareness of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent.

Our designated agent to receive copyright infringement notifications is listed below on the Notice of Infringement form. Please mail a separate Notice of Infringement each time you would like to report an alleged act of infringement.

We reserve the right to terminate, suspend or restrict the account of any user found to have violated copyright laws in the use of the Website.

Reliance on Information Posted

The information presented on or through the Website is made available solely for general information purposes. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of this information. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by you or any other visitor to the Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

The Website includes content provided by third parties, including materials provided by other users, bloggers and third-party licensors, syndicators, aggregators and/or reporting services. All statements and/or opinions expressed in these materials, and all articles and responses to questions and other content, other than the content provided by the Company, are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity providing those materials. These materials do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Company. We are not responsible, or liable to you or any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials provided by any third parties.

Changes to the Website

We may update the content on the Website from time to time, but its content is not necessarily complete or up-to-date. Any of the material on the Website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Information About You and Your Visits to the Website

All information we collect on the Website is subject to our Privacy Policy https://atascaderonews.com/privacy. By using the Website, you consent to all actions taken by us with respect to your information in compliance with the Privacy Policy.

Additional Terms and Conditions

Additional terms and conditions may also apply to specific portions, services or features of the Website. All such additional terms and conditions are hereby incorporated by this reference into these Terms of Use.

Linking to the Website and Social Media Features

You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part without our express written consent.

The Website may provide certain social media features that enable you to:

link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on the Website.

share or send e-mails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, on the Website.

cause limited portions of content on the Website to be displayed or appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites.

You may use these features solely as they are provided by us and in accordance with any additional terms and conditions we provide with respect to such features. Subject to the foregoing, you must not:

establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

cause the Website or portions of it to be displayed, or appear to be displayed by, for example, framing, deep linking or in-line linking, on any other site.

link to any part of the Website other than the homepage.

otherwise take any action with respect to the materials on the Website that is inconsistent with any other provision of these Terms of Use.

You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking immediately to cease. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

We may disable all or any social media features and any links at any time without notice in our discretion.

Links from the Website

If the Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your convenience only. This includes links contained in advertisements, including banner advertisements and sponsored links. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to the Website, you do so entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such websites.

Geographic Restrictions

The owner of the Website is based in the state of Illinois in the United States. We provide the Website for use only by persons or entities located in the United States. We make no claims that the Website or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States. Access to the Website may not be legal by certain persons or entities or in certain countries. If you access the Website from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

Disclaimer of Warranties

You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the Internet or the Website will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output and for maintaining a means external to our site for any reconstruction of any lost data. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A DISTRIBUTED DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK, VIRUSES OR OTHER TECHNOLOGICALLY HARMFUL MATERIAL THAT MAY INFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DATA OR OTHER PROPRIETARY MATERIAL DUE TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR TO YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON IT, OR ON ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO IT.

YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY OR AVAILABILITY OF THE WEBSITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY REPRESENTS OR WARRANTS THAT THE WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT OUR SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS OR THAT THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL OTHERWISE MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS.

THE COMPANY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY WARRANTIES WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

Limitation on Liability

IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY, ITS AFFILIATES OR THEIR LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS OR DIRECTORS BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE WEBSITE, ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO IT, ANY CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE OR SUCH OTHER WEBSITES OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR SUCH OTHER WEBSITES, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF DATA, AND WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORESEEABLE.

THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY LIABILITY WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE §1542, WHICH SAYS: A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, subsidiaries, parent company, licensors and service providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms of Use or your use of the Website, including, but not limited to, your User Contributions, any use of the Website’s content, services and products other than as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use or your use of any information obtained from the Website.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

All matters relating to the Website and these Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising therefrom or related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Illinois without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of Illinois or any other jurisdiction).

Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms of Use or the Website shall be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of the United States or the courts of the State of CA in each case located in the City of Atascadero although we retain the right to bring any suit, action or proceeding against you for breach of these Terms of Use in your country of residence or any other relevant country. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.

Arbitration

In Company’s sole discretion, it may require you to submit any disputes arising from the use of these Terms of Use or the Website, including disputes arising from or concerning their interpretation, violation, invalidity, non-performance, or termination, to final and binding arbitration under the Rules of Arbitration of the American Arbitration Association applying Illinois law.

Limitation on Time to File Claims

ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OF USE OR THE WEBSITE MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES, OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.

Waiver and Severability

No waiver by the Company of any term or condition set forth in these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or a waiver of any other term or condition, and any failure of the Company to assert a right or provision under these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

Entire Agreement

The Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy, and any other terms and conditions expressly incorporated herein by reference constitute the sole and entire agreement between you and Company with respect to the Website and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations and warranties, both written and oral, with respect to the Website.

Your Comments and Concerns

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5860 El Camino Real, Suite G
Atascadero, CA 93422

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Privacy Policy

rivacy Policy

Introduction

[ 13 Stars Media ] (“Company”, “We” or “Us”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website [https://atascaderonews.com] (the “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • on the Website.
  • in email and other electronic messages between you and the Website.
  • when you interact with our advertising on third-party websites and services.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates, parent company, and subsidiaries); or
  • any third party (including our affiliates, parent company, and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy) https://atascaderonews.com/privacy. Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of any and all of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of Thirteen

The Website is not intended for children under thirteen years of age. No one under thirteen years of age may provide any information to or on the Website, including on the comment section of the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen years of age. If you are under the age of thirteen, do not use or provide any information on the Website or on or through any of its features, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under thirteen years of age, please contact us at https://atascaderonews.com/contact.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of the Website, including information:

  • by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address (including billing and shipping addresses), e-mail address, telephone number, birthday, credit or debit card number, gender, and any information that is provided to us during the subscription process or as a submission for a classified listing or obituary, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
  • that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as screen name or user name, education, occupation, financial information, and interests; and/or
  • about your Internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

  • directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, browser type, geolocation information, hardware and software information, analytics, advertising information, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, Google Adwords and other tracking technologies.
  • from third parties, for example, our business partners, including Stripe (our third party credit and debit card processor).

Information You Provide to Us. The information we collect on or through the Website may include:

  • information that you provide by filling in forms or registering to use the Website. This includes information provided at the time of registration, when subscribing to our service, posting materials, creating a user profile or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with the Website;
  • records and copies of your correspondence (including emails), if you contact us;
  • your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
  • details of your subscription package when you subscribe to access the Website’s content. You will be required to provide financial information when you subscribe to use the Website; and
  • your search queries on the Website.

You also may post, submit, publish, display or transmit (hereinafter, “post”) content or materials (collectively, “User Contributions”) on public or subscription-only areas of the Website, or to be transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties. This includes information provided for the public comment section, letters to the editor, your user name, any image or photo you include in a comment or submissions of classified listings or obituaries. Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Any personal information you submit may be read, collected and used for online or offline promotional or commercial uses. We take no responsibility to post, take down, remove or edit any of your User Contributions. Although we limit access to certain pages to paid subscribers, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons, including other users, search engines, advertisers or third parties.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies. As you navigate through and interact with the Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • details of your visits to the Website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • information about your computer and Internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
  • store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Website according to your individual interests;
  • speed up your searches; and
  • recognize you when you return to the Website

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to the Website.
  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of the Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on the Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information. https://atascaderonews.com/terms
  • Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information. https://atascaderonews.com/terms

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • to present the Website and its contents to you;
  • to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
  • to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
  • to provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices;
  • to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
  • to notify you about changes to the Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
  • to alert you to breaking news stories or other new Website content;
  • to allow you to participate in interactive features, such as classified listings or the public comment section, on the Website;
  • to facilitate sharing information between the Website and a social media website, if you connect a social media account to your subscription (Please note that any information you promote or share on a social media website shall be covered by that website’s own privacy policy.);
  • to respond to comments, requests, questions or other User Contributions you provide to the Website;
  • to help diagnose problems with our servers, to gather broad demographic information, analyze trends and track users’ movements on the Website;
  • to protect our rights, if necessary or appropriate: (i) to protect, enforce or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of Company, its subsidiaries, parent company, or affiliates, or any of their employees, agents, or contractors; (ii) to protect the property, safety, privacy, and security of users of the Website; (iii) to protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; (iv) to comply with the law or legal process; (v) to respond to requests from the public or government authorities; or (vi) to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Website;
  • in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and/or
  • for any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own goods and services, including promotional offers or sales, that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information. https://atascaderonews.com/terms

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to post advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose your User Contributions to anyone who may access the Website.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • to our subsidiaries, parent company and affiliates;
  • to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
  • to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, acquisition or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about the Website users is among the assets transferred;
  • to a third party for payment processing, address verification or credit authorization;
  • to your employer, school, professor or any other third-party provider of your subscription, if your subscription is provided in whole or in part by such third party.
  • to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
  • for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and/or

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • to comply with any court order, law, investigation or legal process, including to respond to any government, law enforcement or regulatory request, including subpoenas, court orders or search warrants.
  • to enforce or apply our Terms of Use https://atascaderonews.com/terms and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
  • Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address or other contact information used by the Company to promote our own products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a registration, subscription, subscription renewal, or other notices.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

We will not sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your email address without your permission.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may send us an email at nic@colonymedia.us to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use https://atascaderonews.com/terms.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of the Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to office@13starsmedia.com or write us at: 5860 El Camino Real, Suite G
Atascadero, CA 93422

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting the Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

to office@13starsmedia.com or write us at: 5860 El Camino Real, Suite G Atascadero, CA 93422