Mediolana® Terms and Conditions.
➠These terms and conditions (as amended from time to time) govern your use of
all Services. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, please do not use
the Service.
•If you wish to make a formal complaint about any of the editorial content based
on the Editors' Code of Practice, please email pr@mediolana.com, or write to Company
News Division, Mediolana Limited, Office 4, 219 Kensington High Street, London W8
6BD.
•Please send either a copy of the material you are complaining about or a valid
link to the relevant web page(s).
•Please explain your concern with reference to The Editors' Code of Practice which
can be viewed at: https://www.ipso.co.uk/IPSO/cop.html.
•Please review the following terms and conditions carefully before using this
Service. You should also read our Privacy Policy which can be found here:
legal.mediolana.com/privacy-policy or via the links on the Service.
1. Introduction
1.1 This Service is owned and operated by Mediolana Limited, a company registered in
England and Wales with company number 07397007 with its registered office at Office 4,
219 Kensington High Street, London W8 6BD.
1.2 Where we use the term "Service" we mean any website, mobile site, app, application
and/or other service, regardless of how distributed, transmitted, published, or
broadcast and any related pages and Content, under our control.
1.3 Where we refer to "Content" we mean all content, information and material,
including software, technology, text, links, posts, messages, emails, music, sound,
graphics, pictures, video, games and all audio visual or other material available on or
through the Service, whether posted, uploaded, transmitted, sent or otherwise made
available by us, our licensors, vendors, and/or service providers, or by you, and/or
other users or third parties.
1.4 Where we refer to "Mediolana", "we", "us" and "our" we mean Mediolana Limited, its
group companies and assigns and each of our and their respective officers, directors,
members, employees, sub-contractors, agents, and representatives.
1.5 Where we refer to "you" and "your" this means or relates to you the user.
1.6 You understand and agree that we may add to or change these terms and conditions at
any time. New terms and conditions are effective immediately upon posting to the
Service. Your continued use of the Service shall constitute on-going acceptance of
these terms and conditions, as updated from time-to-time. We therefore recommend that
you check this page regularly.
2. Age Limit
2.1 You must be at least 16 years of age in order to use the Service.
2.2 We strongly recommend that if you are 16 years of age or older but not yet 18, you
ask your parents for permission before sending any information about yourself to anyone
over the internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet
use practices. Parents can find out more at
http://clickcleverclicksafe.direct.gov.uk.
3. Third party links, service providers and linking to the Service
3.1 The Service may include links to services supplied by or operated by third parties
including advertisers and other content providers. We do not control such linked
services, and are not responsible for their content, functionality or legality. Those
third parties may collect data or solicit personal information from you; we are not
responsible for the collection, use or disclosure of any information those services may
collect. Linking to any other service or website from this Service is at your own
risk.
3.2 The Service may also include certain features, functionality, and/or content that
may be hosted, administered, supplied by or operated by third party service providers,
such as social, community and public discussion areas, photo and video galleries,
blogs, auctions, shopping, payment processing etcetera. These service providers may
require that you agree to their additional terms, conditions, contracts, agreements
and/or rules. Your compliance with any such additional terms, conditions, contracts,
agreements and/or rules is solely your responsibility and will have no effect on your
continuing obligation to comply with these terms and conditions. Mediolana specifically
disclaims any and all liability in connection with the acts or omissions of such third
party service providers.
3.3 Any service that links to or otherwise interacts with this Service must not:
3.3.1 create a frame or any other browser or border environment around our Content,
unless previously agreed with us;
3.3.2 harvest or scrape Content either from our pages, databases or our feeds and reuse
for its own or public use, unless previously agreed with us;
3.3.3 imply that Mediolana is endorsing it or its products or services;
3.3.4 use any Mediolana Trade Mark (as defined in clause 8.2 below) without permission
from us;
3.3.5 infringe any intellectual property or other right of any person;
3.3.6 contain content that could be construed as illegal, distasteful, offensive,
controversial or otherwise detrimental to Mediolana's reputation or commercial
interests.
3.4 Mediolana expressly reserves the right to require that any link or activity which
is in breach of these terms and conditions be removed and/or ceased, and to take
whatever other action we deem appropriate.
4. Use of the Service by You
4.1 You may retrieve and display Content from this Service on a computer screen or
other device, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such
pages in electronic form on disk (but not on any server or other storage device
connected to a network) for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not in any
way make commercial or other unauthorised use, by publication, re-transmission,
distribution, performance, caching or otherwise, of any Content. You agree to use the
Service only for your own personal non-commercial use and lawful purposes and you
acknowledge that your failure to do so may subject you to civil and criminal
liability.
4.2 Notwithstanding anything else in these terms and conditions, you agree not to use
the Services:
4.2.1 in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or
regulation;
4.2.2 in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent
purpose or effect;
4.2.3 for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
4.2.4 to send, knowingly receive, upload, submit download, use or re-use any material
which does not comply with our Acceptable Content Policy below;
4.2.5 to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised
advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation
(spam);
4.2.6 to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains
viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any
other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the
operation of any computer software or hardware; or
4.2.7 to copy, harvest, crawl, index, scrape, spider, mine, gather, extract, compile,
obtain, aggregate, capture, or store any Content, including without limitation photos,
images, text, music, audio, videos, podcasts, data, software, source or object code,
algorithms, statistics, analysis, formulas, indexes, registries, repositories, or any
other information available on or through the Service, including by an automated or
manual process or otherwise;
4.3 Other than connecting to Mediolana's servers by HTTP requests using a web browser,
you may not attempt to gain access to Mediolana's servers by any means, including,
without limitation, by using administrator passwords or by masquerading as an
administrator while using the Service or otherwise.
4.4 You agree not to disrupt, modify or interfere with the Service or its associated
software, hardware and servers in any way, and you agree not to impede or interfere
with others' use of the Service.
4.5 To the extent the Service includes an download of software such as an app, you
agree not to (and not to attempt to or encourage others to): (i) use the software or
app for any use or purpose other than as expressly permitted by these terms and
conditions; or (ii) copy, adapt, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble,
otherwise tamper with, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sell,
transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast or otherwise
exploit the software or app or any portion of the software or app, except as expressly
permitted in these terms and conditions.
5. Content Provided by You or other users
5.1 "UGC" means any Content that you or other users upload, submit or make available to
the Service.
5.2 You understand that your communications on the Service are not private or
confidential and may be viewed by others accessing the Service.
5.3 Our Privacy Policy also applies to UGC.
5.4 We reserve the right to, but undertake no duty to, review, edit, move or delete any
UGC in our sole discretion and without notice.
5.5 We do not endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments,
opinions or statements posted as UGC. Any information or material placed online by
other users of the Service, including advice and opinions, is the view and
responsibility of those users and does not represent the view of Mediolana. You agree
that, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we have no responsibility or
liability to you for UGC including for any failure to or delay in removing UGC. If you
have a complaint about any UGC, see the Complaints section below.
5.6 You are solely responsible for your UGC and may be held liable for UGC that you
post. In this regard, you agree that you will comply with the following Acceptable
Content Policy and not submit UGC that:
5.6.1 Is hateful, abusive, racist, discriminatory, sexually offensive, obscene, vulgar,
defamatory, threatening to another user, promotes violence, is infringing of third
party rights (such as copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or
proprietary rights, or confidentiality), invasive of personal privacy or publicity
rights, disruptive to the flow of chat or in our reasonable view, otherwise
objectionable.
5.6.2 impersonates another person (including celebrities), indicates falsely that you
are an employee or a representative of Mediolana Limited or its companies or business
partners.
5.6.3 you do not own or have the rights to submit or that is illegal.
5.6.4 promotes any form of illegal activity including (by way of example) hacking, drug
taking, terrorism, cracking or distribution of counterfeit software.
5.6.5 contains advertising, promotions or commercial solicitations of any kind or could
constitute junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or other commercial
activities.
5.6.6 imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Service's
infrastructure, or otherwise adversely affects, restricts or inhibits any other user
from using and enjoying the Service;
5.6.7 contains any virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, cancelbot or other similar
harmful programming routine.
5.7 When you submit UGC, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual (i.e.
lasting forever), worldwide, irrevocable licence to exploit it in any manner or form
and in any medium or forum, whether now known or hereafter devised, without notice,
payment or attribution of any kind to you or any third party and you waive, and agree
not to assert any moral or similar rights you may have in your UGC.
6. Competitions and Prizes
From time to time we may run competitions, free prize draws and promotions on the
Service. These are subject to the Competition Terms & Conditions and/or separate
terms and conditions that will be made available in each instance.
7. Additional Rules
We reserve the right to post, from time to time, additional terms and conditions that
apply to specific parts of the Service. Such additional terms and conditions will be
posted in the relevant parts of the Service, and will be clearly identified. Your use
of those parts of the Service constitutes your agreement to those additional terms and
conditions.
8. Intellectual Property Rights
8.1 All Content and other material on the Service is owned by us or our third party
licensors (and is protected by international copyright, trade dress, design, patent,
and trade mark laws, international conventions, and other laws protecting intellectual
property and related proprietary rights). All such rights are reserved to us and our
licensors.
8.2 You acknowledge that 'Mediolana', 'Higher Grades Faster!', 'MEDIOLANA',
'シMEDIOLANA', 'ッMEDIOLANA',
'カッコイイMEDIOLANA',
'カッコイイ', 'セクシーな',
'ME!', 'ッME!', 'シME!', 'WE!', 'シ' and 'ッ' and any other
brands or logos that belong to us within the Service are Mediolana trade marks which
may be registered in one or more jurisdiction (the "Mediolana Trade Marks") and that
you may not use them without written permission from Mediolana.
8.3 You agree not to remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, patent, trade mark, or
other proprietary rights notices appearing on the Service. You may not sell, license,
distribute, copy, modify, publicly perform or display, transmit, publish, edit, adapt
or create derivative works from them.
8.4 Making unauthorised copies of Content found on this Service may result in the
prohibition of your use of the Service and further legal action.
9. Complaints
9.1 We respect the intellectual property and other rights of others, and we ask our
users to do the same. We may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion,
terminate the access of users who infringe the rights of others.
9.2 Copyright: If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on the
Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that the Service contains
links or other references to another online location that contains material or activity
that infringes your copyright, please contact us.
9.3 Defamation: If you believe that another user has defamed you on the site through
their UGC, please follow this link to inform us. You will need to give us certain
information to allow us to investigate properly.
10. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify Mediolana and its licensors, vendors, suppliers, service
providers, and their respective officers, directors, members, employees,
sub-contractors, agents, and representatives, and to hold them harmless from any and
all claims, actions, suits and liabilities, losses, damages, costs and expenses
(including legal fees) that may arise from your UGC, from your unauthorised use of our
Content, or from your breach of these terms and conditions.
11. Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liability
11.1 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you expressly agree that your
use of the Service is at your own risk. The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as
available" basis for your use, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, Mediolana
and its licensors, vendors, suppliers, service providers, and their respective
officers, directors, members, employees, sub-contractors, agents, and representatives
hereby expressly disclaim any and all warranties, express and implied, including but
not limited to any warranties of accuracy, reliability, title, merchantability,
non-infringement, fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, condition,
guarantee or representation, whether oral, in writing or in electronic form, including
but not limited to the accuracy or completeness of any information contained therein or
provided by the Service.
11.2 Mediolana does not represent or warrant that access to the Service will be
uninterrupted or that there will be no failures, errors or omissions or loss of
transmitted information, or that no viruses will be transmitted on the Service. We do
not guarantee that you will be able to access or use the Service at times or locations
of your choosing, or that we will have adequate capacity for the Service as a whole or
in any specific geographic area.
11.3 In no event shall Mediolana or its licensors, vendors, suppliers, service
providers, and their respective officers, directors, members, employees,
sub-contractors, agents, and representatives, be liable for direct, indirect, special,
consequential or punitive damages arising from your use of the Service, the Internet or
for any other claim related in any way to your use of the Service, including for
viruses alleged to have been obtained from the Service, your use of or reliance on the
Service or any of the information or materials available on the Service, regardless of
the type of claim or the nature of the cause of action, even if advised of the
possibility of such damages. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or
the limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such
jurisdictions, liability shall be limited to the full extent permitted by law.
Mediolana does not endorse, warrant or guarantee any third party product or service
offered through the Service and will not be a party to or in any way be responsible for
monitoring any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or
services.
11.4 Liability will not be limited only to the extent such liability cannot be excluded
or limited as a matter of applicable law.
12. Termination
We have the right to terminate your use of or ability to access the Service, for any
reason, without notice.
13. Privacy Policy
The information that you provide about yourself to us or otherwise collected by us
about you will only be used by Mediolana in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
14. General
In the event that any term of these terms and conditions is held to be invalid or
unenforceable, the remainder of the terms and conditions shall remain valid and
enforceable. These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of England and Wales and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of
the courts of England and Wales. If you need any help or have any questions, please
feel free to contact us at the postal and/or email address set out at the head of these
terms and conditions.
Last updated: 07/2020
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