Terms & Conditions

These VBK News Service Terms together with the Privacy Policy and all other additional terms and information that may be provided within the Service (collectively “Terms”) govern your use of the service, site, content and software (collectively the "Service"). By registering for or using the Service or any portion of it you accept the Terms. The Terms constitute an agreement between you and VBK News including its affiliates and suppliers (collectively “VBK News”), defining your and VBK News’s rights and responsibilities with respect to the Service.

To use a Service you may need to register and create an account with a username and a password. You may need to provide us with certain personal and other information. VBK News may verify your email address before your account can be used. You agree to provide truthful and complete information when you register for the Service and to keep that information updated. You must take due care to protect your username and password against misuse by others and promptly notify VBK News about any misuse. You are personally responsible for any use of the Service. You may terminate your registration if you no longer wish to use the Service. After termination, you will no longer have access to the Service. VBK News may terminate your registration or restrict your access to certain parts of the Service if VBK News reasonably believes that you have breached the Terms.

VBK News grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license, revocable at any time at VBK News’s sole discretion, to access and use the Service strictly in accordance with the Terms. Use of the Service does not grant you any intellectual property rights in or to any information or content in the Service. As part of the Service, VBK News may provide you with content developed by VBK News or its licensors (“Content”). VBK News grants you a non-exclusive and perpetual license to use Content for the purpose it is intended, unless otherwise defined in the applicable Terms or the purchase order. You are bound by any restrictions applicable to specific Content you obtain through the Service. Any license acquired to third-party Content is a binding agreement between you and the third-party Content provider. You have only the rights to the Content which are expressly granted here. As part of the Service, VBK News may provide you with certain software developed by VBK News or, its licensors (“Software”). Your use of Software may be subject to separate terms and conditions that you must accept before using the Software. If there are no separate terms and conditions applicable to such Software, the following terms apply: VBK News grants to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to install and use the Software on your computer and/or mobile device. You may not copy the Software, except to make a single archival backup copy. You may not distribute, transfer the right to use, modify, translate, reproduce, resell, sublicense, rent, lease, reverse engineer, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of or make derivative works of the Software. For open source licensed software, applicable open source license terms apply. You may be able to submit information or content (“Material”) to the Service. VBK News does not claim ownership in your Material. Your submission of Material does not transfer ownership of rights of the Material to VBK News. VBK News is only transmitting the Material and is not responsible for editorial control over it. By submitting Material to the Service you grant VBK News a world-wide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, assignable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable license to use, copy, publicly perform, display, distribute in any media and modify the Material to incorporate the Material into other works, and to grant similar sublicenses to the extent necessary for VBK News to provide the Service. You may be able to adjust this grant in the privacy and other settings of the Service. You are solely responsible for taking backup copies of the data you store on the Service, including Content you upload. If the Service is discontinued or canceled, VBK News may permanently delete your data. VBK News has no obligation to return data to you after the Service is discontinued or canceled.

Before downloading or accessing any Content, please check whether the Content which you wish to access is restricted by age or marked as potentially ‘offensive’ or ‘explicit’. VBK News shall not be responsible for any claims or offense caused or suffered by you accessing such Content. You agree: To use the Content only for your personal, non-commercial purposes; To use the Content in accordance with the restrictions set out in the applicable laws, additional terms, guidelines and policies or on the product pages that apply to that particular piece of the Content; Not to make copies, give, sell, resell, loan, rent, offer, broadcast, send, distribute, transfer, communicate to the public, reproduce, modify, display, perform, commercially exploit or make the Content available unless otherwise authorized in the applicable Terms and to advise VBK News promptly of any such unauthorized use; Not to remove, circumvent, reverse engineer, decrypt, or otherwise alter or interfere with any applicable usage rules or attempt to circumvent digital rights management or copy protection features associated with the Content or any other technologies used to control the access to or use of the Content or its identifying information; Not to use any automated systems or means, except for those provided by us, for the selection or downloading of the Content; Not to give out your password or otherwise allow other people to access the Content. The restrictions on copying that apply to applicable media also apply to the Content accessed as part of this Service. The Content is owned and/or controlled by VBK News and/or its respective licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. The third party Content provider is solely responsible for any Content it provides, any warranties to the extent that such warranties have not been disclaimed and for any claims you may have relating to that Content or your use of that Content. However, VBK News reserves the right to enforce the third party Content license terms against you as a third party beneficiary of those terms. The third party Content providers are third-party beneficiaries under these Terms and may enforce the provisions that directly concern the Content in which they have rights. VBK News may be acting as an agent for third party Content provider in providing the Content to you. VBK News is not a party to the transaction between you and the third party Content provider for such Content.