The Terms and Conditions are as follows:

1. This Agreement is between you (the “User”) and NewsPal: Offline Web Browser (“US, WE”);

2. This Agreement regulates your use of our software and/or our services provided to you including and new updates and/or upgrades that might be released from time to time by us;

3. Eligibility

You are solely responsible for ensuring that these Terms of Service are in compliance with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to you and the right to access the Services is revoked where these Terms of Service or use of the Services is prohibited or to the extent offering, sale or provision of the Services conflicts with any applicable law, rule or regulation. Further, the Services are offered only for your personal use, and not for any commercial use or the use or benefit of any third party.

4. Content

4.1 Definition. For purposes of these Terms of Service, the term "Content" includes, without limitation, information, data, text, photographs, videos, audio clips, written posts and comments, software, scripts, graphics, and interactive features generated, provided, or otherwise made accessible on or through the Services. For the purposes of this Agreement, "Content" also includes all User Content (as defined below).

4.2 User Content. All Content added, created, uploaded, submitted, distributed, or posted to the Services by users (collectively "User Content") is the sole responsibility of the person who originated such User Content. You represent that (i) all User Content provided by you is in compliance with all applicable laws, including those related to the intellectual property rights of third parties, (ii) you either are the sole and exclusive owner of your User Content or you have all the rights necessary to grant us the rights to such User Content under these Terms of Service, and (iii) there are no payments due of any kind to a third party through the use of your User Content through the Services. You acknowledge that all Content, including User Content, accessed by you using the Services is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss to you or any other party resulting therefrom. We do not guarantee that any Content you access on or through the Services is or will continue to be accurate.

4.3 Notices and Restrictions. The Services may contain Content specifically provided by us, our partners or our users and such Content is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws. You shall abide by and maintain all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Services

4.4 Use License. Subject to these Terms of Service, we grant each user of the Services a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable and non-transferable license to use (i.e., to download and display locally) Content solely for your personal, non-commercial use of the Services. Use, reproduction, modification, distribution or storage of any Content for other than purposes of using the Services is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from us. You shall not sell, license, rent, or otherwise use or exploit any Content for commercial use or in any way that violates any third party right.

4.5 License Grant. By submitting User Content through the Services, you hereby do and shall grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, edit, modify, truncate, aggregate, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, perform, and otherwise fully exploit the User Content in connection with the Site, the Services and our (and our successors' and assigns') businesses, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Site or the Services (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels (including, without limitation, third party websites and feeds), and including after your termination of your Account or the Services. For clarity, the foregoing license grants to us and our users does not affect your other ownership or license rights in your User Content, including the right to grant additional licenses to your User Content, unless otherwise agreed in writing. You represent and warrant that you have all rights to grant such licenses to us without infringement or violation of any third party rights, including without limitation, any privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You are solely responsible for your interactions through the Services with other users. We are not liable for any uses of your User Content by any third party that had access to your User Content while such User Content was available on or through the Services.

4.6 Availability of Content. We do not guarantee that any Content will be made available on the Site or through the Services. We reserve the right to, but do not have any obligation to, (i) remove, edit or modify any Content in our sole discretion, at any time, without notice to you and for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such Content or if we are concerned that you may have violated these Terms of Service), or for no reason at all and (ii) remove or block any Content from the Services.

5. NewsPal Application License

5.1 LicenseGrant. Subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions of these Terms of Service, we grant to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, without the right to sublicense, to download and install the Application on up to 10 devices that you own and control and run such cop(ies) of the Application solely for your internal personal use. You acknowledge that new versions of the Application may be provided at additional charge. Furthermore, with respect to any Application downloaded through the iTunes App Store, you will only use such application as permitted by the "Usage Rules" set forth in the Apple App Store Terms of Service. We reserve all rights in the Application not expressly granted to you in these Terms of Service.

5.2 Restrictions: Except as expressly specified in these Terms of Service, you shall not:

  1. copy or modify the Application, including, but not limited to adding new features or otherwise making adaptations that alter the functioning of the Application
  2. transfer, sell, rent, lease, distribute, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to, or any portion of, the Application to any third party;
  3. make the functionality of the Application available to multiple users through any means, including, but not limited to distribution of the Application or by uploading the Application to a network or file-sharing service or through any hosting, application services provider or any other type of service. The Application contains trade secrets, and in order to protect those secrets you agree not to disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer the Application, in whole or in part, or permit or authorize a third party to do so, except to the extent such restrictions are expressly prohibited by statutory law. You will comply with any technical restrictions in the Application that allow you to use the Application only in certain ways;

6. Rules of Conduct:

  1. As a condition of use, you promise not to use the Services for any purpose that is prohibited by these Terms of Service. You are responsible for all of your activity in connection with the Services;
  2. You shall not (and shall not permit any third party to) either (a) take any action or (b) upload, download, post, submit or otherwise distribute or facilitate distribution of any Content on or through the Service, including without limitation any User Content, that:
    1. infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity or other right of any other person or entity or violates any law or contractual duty;
    2. you know is false, misleading, untruthful or inaccurate;
    3. is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, tortious, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, offensive, profane, contains or depicts nudity, contains or depicts sexual activity, or is otherwise inappropriate as determined by us in our sole discretion;
    4. constitutes unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, junk or bulk e-mail ("spamming");
    5. contains software viruses or any other computer codes, files, or programs that are designed or intended to disrupt, damage, limit or interfere with the proper function of any software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment or to damage or obtain unauthorized access to any system, data, password or other information of ours or of any third party;
    6. impersonates any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives;
    7. includes anyone's identification documents or sensitive financial information;

  3. You shall not:
    1. take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by us in our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our (or our third party providers') infrastructure;
    2. interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Services or any activities conducted on the Services;
    3. bypass, circumvent or attempt to bypass or circumvent any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Services;
    4. take any action in violation of our guidelines and policies;

7. Third Party Services. The Services may permit you to link to other websites, applications, services or resources on the Internet, and other websites, applications, services or resources may contain links to the Services. When you access third party resources on the Internet, you do so at your own risk. These other resources are not under our control, and you acknowledge that we are not responsible or liable for the content, functions, accuracy, legality, appropriateness or any other aspect of such websites or resources. The inclusion of any such link does not imply our endorsement or any association between us and their operators. You further acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such website or resource.

8. In-App Purchases. If you are accessing the Services via an Application on a device provided by Apple, Inc. ("Apple") or an Application obtained through the Apple App Store, you may be able to purchase ("In App Purchase") certain goods or additional features or Applications designed to enhance the performance of the Services ("Goods"). When you purchase such Goods, you are doing so through Apple iTunes service and you are agreeing to Apple's iTunes' Terms and Conditions.

  1. NewsPal subscription price starts at $0.99 USD/month or $7.99 USD/year. Prices are in US dollars, may vary in countries other than the US and are subject to change without notice;
  2. If you choose to purchase NewsPal subscription, payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchases a subscription;
  3. For any questions, queries or disputes about your payment or for any questions about refunds you will need to contact App Store;

9. Privacy. We take issues of protection and user information security very seriously. We undertake to treat any and all such information in according to our privacy policy which can be found at: https://www.forestudio.ca/newspal/policy.html. Our privacy policy also forms an integral part of this Agreement. In our privacy policy you can also find information about any information that we might collect, methods of collection and the purpose why we might be collecting them.

9.1 We will never share any personal data with any third party, unless legally obligated to do so.

9.2 We will never share any personal data, without prior informing you (in cases for example we will re-organize, merge or enter into any other similar arrangement).

10. Termination. We may terminate your access to all or any part of the Services at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately, which may result in the forfeiture and destruction of all information associated with your membership. Any fees paid hereunder are non-refundable. All provisions of these Terms of Service which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, licenses of User Content, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

11. Warranty Disclaimer.

11.1 We have no special relationship with or fiduciary duty to you. You acknowledge that we have no duty to take any action regarding:

  1. Which users gain access to the Services;
  2. What Content you access via the Services;
  3. How you may interpret or use the Content;

11.2 You release us from all liability for you having acquired or not acquired Content through the Services. We make no representations concerning any Content contained in or accessed through the Services, and we will not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, or legality of material or Content contained in or accessed through the Services.

11.3 THE SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", "AS AVAILABLE" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ANY WARRANTIES IMPLIED BY ANY COURSE OF PERFORMANCE OR USAGE OF TRADE, ALL OF WHICH ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. WE, AND OUR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, PARTNERS AND CONTENT PROVIDERS DO NOT WARRANT THAT: (I) THE SERVICES WILL BE SECURE OR AVAILABLE AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME OR LOCATION; (II) ANY DEFECTS OR ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED; (III) ANY CONTENT OR SOFTWARE AVAILABLE AT OR THROUGH THE SERVICES IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; OR (IV) THE RESULTS OF USING THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

12. Indemnification. You shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us, our affiliates and each of our and their respective employees, contractors, directors, suppliers and representatives from all liabilities, claims, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, that arise from or relate to your use or misuse of, or access to, the Services, Content, or otherwise from your User Content, violation of these Terms of Service, or infringement by you, or any third party using your Account or identity in the Services, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will assist and cooperate with us in asserting any available defenses.

13. Limitation of liability: We cannot be held liable whatsoever for any kind of special, incidental, consequential or indirect damages (including but not limited to damages for interruption of business, data loss, loss of profits and/or similar) irrespective of the form of action, be it in contract, tort (including but not limited to a claim of negligence), strict product liability and/or otherwise, even if you think that the claiming of such damages is possible. In any case, our cumulative liability arising out of or in relation to this Agreement shall in no event exceed the amount you paid to us in respect to the products and/or services used. In case no fees were paid, then any payment shall not exceed $100.00. In no event will any of our suppliers have any liability towards you under this Agreement. This limitation of liability clause forms an integral part of this Agreement. We would not be able to offer our products and/or services in the absence of such limitation.

14. Governing Law and Jurisdiction. These Terms and Conditions shall be interpreted, construed and governed by the laws in force in the Province of Ontario, Canada, without reference to its conflict of laws principles. You hereby irrevocably agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario and to waive any objections based upon venue

15. Modification. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify or replace any of these Terms of Service, or change, suspend, or discontinue the Services (including without limitation, the availability of any feature, database, or content) at any time without notice or by posting a notice on the Site or by sending you notice through the Services, via e-mail or by another appropriate means of electronic communication. We may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Services without notice or liability. While we may timely provide notice of modifications, it your responsibility to check these Terms of Service periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Services following notification of any changes to these Terms of Service constitutes acceptance of those changes.

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NewsPal: Offline Web Browser

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