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Contributors to Health Food News and related All Press Wire and other Ratner Media news relay services are provided for PR purposes only. We do not make any claims nor does posting of news constitute any endorsement from us. Any recommendation from us is based ONLY on news value and topic interest for other reporters to pick up and carry as a media story/news article post. Every company & product representative is solely responsible for the facts and accuracy of all information submitted by them for transmission to (news posting on) the Health Food News or affiliated presswire network. The only responsibility of our reporters and editors shall accept is to make reasonable efforts to catch and correct any error of fact, timing or omission as it is brought to our attention. We reserve the right to reject copy when it does fit with our news posting policy.
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HEALTHFOODNEWS.com ( HFN), All Press Wire (APW), MEDIA MEMO, StoryTip.com (among these and other subsidiaries of Ratner Media) invite you to provide our service with various types of content for use within one or several of the news media websites and other formats of publication we distribute to. You may have great information and story leads to send us or still photographs, audio or video footage of newsworthy and noteworthy people and events (referred to in these terms and conditions as your content). We can only accept your content though if you comply with the terms and conditions set out below.
Terms and Conditions for the Acceptance of Your Content
If you send content to us, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
These terms and conditions are subject to change at the sole discretion of our service.
You should only provide your content to us if you are over 18 years of age.
We will determine, at our discretion, whether to publish (or remove from a site) any of your content. We do not make any assertions or promises that your StoryTip, Article or Press Release will be picked up or used by any news agents or reporters. Our service makes available your information to the public and press by posting it on our site.
You acknowledge that any news organization including us may use all intellectual property rights in your content throughout the world, in perpetuity, without restriction and without making payment to you, including publication of that material in hard copy publications or in electronic media, using your content in advertising and promotional material for our service and permitting others to do any of these, including when we and others receive payment for this.
You waive all moral rights in your content and consent to anything which Ratner Media (or any person permitted to do so by us) may do in relation to your content which would otherwise be in breach of your moral rights. This includes that we may use your content without attributing you as the source of your content.
RatnerMedia, MediaMemo, StoryTip, HealthFoodNews or affiliate news sites may edit your content in its discretion.
You warrant that:
you own your content and all rights in relation to your content; you obtained your content in a manner which does not breach any laws or the rights of any person; your content is accurate and reflects actual people and events and you did not digitally alter images or footage in any way to create your content or impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; your content, your provision of your content to us and the use by RatnerMedia news network of site(s) of your content, in each case as contemplated in these terms and conditions, does not breach any law (including laws relating to privacy, intellectual property and defamation) or the rights of any person; your content, at the time you send it to us, contains no virus or other code or material embedded in it which will have a negative impact on our services or infrastructure; your content is not being provided for a commercial purpose (including that you are not soliciting funds or promoting particular goods or services); and you did not forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or SMS.
Ratner Media or its subsidiaries will be under no liability to you in respect of any loss or damage (including consequential loss or damage) which may be suffered or incurred or which may arise directly or indirectly in respect of your supply of your content to us, or the subsequent use of your content within goods or services supplied by us.
On providing your content to us for publication in any media, you indemnify Ratner Media and its officers, employees and agents against any damage or loss made against or suffered by any of those indemnified arising, in whole or in part, as a result of publication by Ratner Media, Media Memo, StoryTip, HFN or a person permitted by us of your content; or a breach by you of these terms and conditions.
When you provide us with your content we will collect certain personal information about you. For details of the information we collect and its use, please see our posting privacy policy. Despite anything in that policy, however, we will not use your personal information collected in relation to you sending us your content to contact you with marketing offers, nor pass that information to our related companies for that purpose, however we may contact you for other reasons relating to your use of our site or the content you have submitted
NOTE: We do not accept links from adult sites, hate, sites, hacker sites or any type of site we deem 'illegal'. We administer all requests and your link will be removed if we do not feel that it meets our criteria.
These terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of the state of California. The parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts exercising jurisdiction there.
Nothing in these terms and conditions has any impact on the terms and conditions of use which apply to the relevant News sites or other services.
Partner programs, allied websites, affiliates and re-distribution sites and participants in our discount promotions must upload & display our link and logo before our admin will accept your link into the directory. Once accepted your posting will be displayed on a text rich "search engine friendly" pages available for view.
Note: In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) this Web site does not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of 13.
