CupertinoTimes.com Terms Of Service (TOS)
Table of Contents
Introduction
Contact
Comments
Indemnification
Electronic Agreement
Inappropriate Content
Disputes
Age Requirements
Unauthorized Users
Unauthorized Use
Blocking of IP Addresses
SPONSORED ARTICLES AND LINK PLACEMENTS
Permanent
Payment Policy
Term
Welcome to CupertinoTimes.com
Introduction
We want our visitors to enjoy their time on CupertinoTimes.com, and utilize the website as intended, as a source of information. The terms of service for CupertinoTimes.com are as follows:
Contact
Our contact form(s) are provided as a courtesy for our visitors to use as a means to reach us with any inquiry they may have. Spamming is not tolerated. If you use our contact form or email addresses as a means to SPAM, your email address will be reported and we will block your IP from future attempts to send us SPAM.
Comments
Comments need to be on-topic and should not contain any profanity, sexually explicit, racism, hate, or any other inappropriate material. Violations of this rule will result in the comment being deleted. This also applies to comments that contain spammy links. Repeat offenders will be banned from the site.
Indemnification
You agree to hold harmless and indemnify CupertinoTimes.com, CTSD Web Publishing, LLC, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and employees from and against any third party claim arising from or in any way related to your use of CupertinoTimes.com, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs, and attorneys’ fees, of every kind and nature.
Electronic Agreement
This Agreement is an electronic contract that sets out the legally binding terms of your use of CupertinoTimes.com and your relationship to the website. This Agreement may be modified by CTSD WebPublishing, LLC. from time to time. Such modifications become effective upon posting to the Website. By accessing the Website or becoming a Member, you accept this Agreement and agree to the terms, conditions, and notices contained or referenced herein. To retain an electronic copy of this Agreement, you may Copy and Paste it into any word processing program.
Inappropriate Content
Offensive, Provocative, Defamatory, and Adult Content is not permitted. Personal attacks, defamation, harassment, spam, hate or offensive content, inappropriately aggressive behavior, or any other content deemed by CTSD WebPublishing, LLC. to be inappropriate is prohibited.
Due to uncertainties in the market, concerns for consumer protections, and shifting regulations, Cupertinotimes.com will no longer accept Crypto related content that promotes a particular investment or gives optimistic outcomes.
Disputes
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other visitors of the CupertinoTimes.com website. CupertinoTimes.com and CTSD Web Publishing, LLC. reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other visitors.
Age Requirements
This website’s content is intended for adults and we will not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a child under age 13 who you believe has submitted personal information to this site, please contact us at info@cupertinotimes.com immediately. You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to subscribe as a Member of CupertinoTimes.com. By using the Website, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
Unauthorized Users
You must be a human. Accounts registered by “bots” or other automated methods are not permitted.
Unauthorized Use
You must not modify, adapt, or hack the website or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with CupertinoTimes.com or CTSD Web Publishing, LLC. You may not reverse engineer or reuse source code that is in public view. This includes any and all javascript. You shall not transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature.
Blocking of IP Addresses
In order to protect the integrity of CupertinoTimes.com, CTSD Web Publishing, LLC. reserves the right at any time, in its sole discretion to block the IP addresses of members or visitors who violate these Terms of Service from accessing the website.
SPONSORED ARTICLES AND LINK PLACEMENTS
Most of our articles will have do-follow links, however, should the link(s) become broken or deemed poor or risky by Google, they will be removed. We have automatic broken link detection on our site that notifies us of broken links. We can not provide dead or risky or toxic links since these harm our site’s credibility and rankings.
It is the responsibility of our clients to ensure that their links are viable, safe, and of decent quality.
From time to time we may have the opportunity to further monetize content by accepting a relevant link and anchor text into published content from a third party. By submitting your content to Cupertinotimes.com you are in agreement with this policy.
Since internal links are a positive ranking factor, we encourage the addition of relevant internal links. We will add at least one relevant internal link to submitted articles.
THE USE OF ANY COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IS USED UNDER THE GUIDELINES OF “FAIR USE” IN TITLE 17 § 107 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE. SUCH MATERIAL REMAINS THE COPYRIGHT OF THE ORIGINAL HOLDER AND IS USED HERE FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION, COMPARISON, AND CRITICISM ONLY. NO INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT IS INTENDED
Permanent
Regarding the “permanent” placement of content. If your content is approved it will be published on our home page, which is our blog roll. When it scrolls off the home page it is still accessible via search and in the archive. We guarantee that approved sponsored articles and link placements will remain on our site for a minimum of one year. In most cases, the content remains on our site for much longer as can be seen in our archive which dates back to August 2014. If after one year, the content has proven to be risky, or of little interest to our visitors it may be removed. We reserve the right to cull content that does not perform, is no longer relevant, or contains broken links.
If at some point in the future CTSD Web Publishing, LLC. no longer owns Cupertinotimes we of course will no longer have any control of the content.
Payment Policy
All orders for link placements and sponsored articles are billed at net-15. That means your order needs to be paid within 15 days from the billing date on the invoice. Failure to pay will result in links being removed. The article will remain on Cupertinotimes. Links can be reinserted anytime after 15 days once payment has been received.
Due to the number of delinquent orders we have received, new clients will now be required to pay in advance. Once creditworthiness has been established, billing at net 15 days will apply.
Once an article or link has been published on our site and has had the benefit of being published, there is no refund. All payments are final. Here’s why:
- Each article is proofread
- grammar and spelling checked and corrected as needed
- up to five keywords are added
- a suitable image is found
- alt tags provided
- A meta description is added
- general editing for readability as needed
- Every effort is made to improve the article’s SEO score
- Articles are also promoted on our social media pages
Our fees cover the costs of these services. Once these services are provided, there is no refund.
Term
This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use the CupertinoTimes.com website. As a subscriber, you may opt-out of our mailing list at any time, for any reason by contacting info@cupertinotimes.com.
Any questions regarding these Terms of Service should be sent to info@cupertinotimes.com.