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Welcome to Storipress. Its awesome that you've chosen to choose our platform as the home for your publication.
This Terms and Conditions (“Agreement”) is a binding contract between you and Storipress and our corporate entity, Albion Media Pty. Ltd. (“we”, “us”, “our”). It contains the rules and restrictions that govern your use of Storipress' products and services (referred to below simply as “Storipress”) to distribute your articles and content.
Using Storipress in any way means that you agree to this Agreement, and this Agreement will remain in effect while you use Storipress. This Agreement includes everything in this document, as well as those in the Terms of Service, Global Privacy Policy, Content Guidelines, Cookie Policy, and all other rules and procedures that may be published from time to time by us on Storipress. In the event of any conflict between this Agreement and any other terms and conditions you have agreed to with Storipress, this Agreement will prevail with respect to its subject matter.
You must be of legal age to form a binding contract to use Storipress. If you aren’t, you need to get your parent’s or guardian’s permission to use Storipress, and your parent or guardian will agree to this Agreement on your behalf.
If you’re agreeing to this Agreement on behalf of an organisation or entity, you must be authorised to agree to this Agreement on that organisation or entity’s behalf and bind them to this Agreement (in which case, the references to “you” and “your” throughout this document refer to that organisation or entity).
If you do not agree to all of the following, you are not allowed to use or access Storipress in any way. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this Agreement or our products and services, contact us at [email protected].
Firstly, you own everything you create. Any original content that you post, upload, share, store, or otherwise provide to us is yours, will remain yours, and is protected by copyright and any other applicable intellectual property laws.
However, unless you opt out in writing to us, in using Storipress, you agree to grant us a nonexclusive, royalty free, worldwide, fully paid license to use, promote, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform, and display your content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your content in all media formats and distribution methods now known or later developed on the Services. Additionally, you allow Storipress to use your tradename(s), trademark(s), and logo(s) for the purpose of distribution and marketing of your publication(s).
Storipress needs this license as you own your content, which means that we therefore can't promote it or display it across various surfaces (e.g. mobile, web) without your permission.
You agree to the following rules around your relationships with Readers and other users of Storipress:
You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that we have no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any publications you create through Storipress and for the consequences of your actions by doing so. This means that you acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for ensuring distribution of your publications, our actions under this Agreement are solely to assist you in facilitating distribution.
You may delete one or more of your publications from Storipress at your discretion. However, we are under no obligation to issue any refunds to you, and we are entitled to keep any and all portions of any Revenue Share you have paid Storipress.
If there is a dispute between you and a user about payments or any other issue, you agree we are under no obligation to become involved and that we will not be held liable for any such dispute. We are not liable for your relationship with users, and we won’t provide you with any legal advice regarding such matters.
You can flag that a user that is violating our Terms of Use by sending an email to [email protected]. After you provide us with written notice of this violation, we will determine whether this user’s access to some or all of your publications should be suspended or terminated. We will also decide at our sole discretion whether this user’s access to the rest of Storipress will be suspended or terminated.
You shall provide to us a current email address to which we may direct inquiries from Readers and other Storipress users regarding your publication(s).
You are responsible for all your activity in connection with Storipress!
Make sure that you use Storipress in a manner that complies with the law and is permitted by this Agreement. If your use of Storipress is prohibited by applicable laws, then you aren’t authorized to use Storipress. We can’t and won’t be responsible for you using Storipress in a way that breaks the law.
You also represent and warrant that you will not publish publications or otherwise use Storipress in a manner that:
Please review the “Acceptable Use Policy” detailed in the Terms of Service, as those rules are also incorporated into this Agreement by reference.
Storipress takes privacy very seriously. If you store personal or sensitive information provided by or collected from Storipress users, you must do so securely and only for as long as it is needed.
You may not collect from a user via Storipress or any other method any information — personally identifiable or not — beyond what Storipress is permitted to collect from a user under its own Global Privacy Policy.
You are solely responsible for complying with any laws and regulations that apply to user information, including without limitation the posting of your own privacy policy on your subdomain on Storipress if appropriate.
Consistent with our Privacy Policy, we collect certain data on how Readers engage with your publications. We will share, at our sole discretion, some of this information with you, including pageviews, open rates, Reader counts, and referral data. You agree that Storipress is under no obligation to share this data with you.
Either party may terminate this Agreement at any time for any reason. Upon such termination of this Agreement, your right to use Storipress will immediately cease.
We may terminate this Agreement or terminate, suspend, or restrict your access to or use of Storipress at any time, for any reason. Reasons that may lead to us terminating or restricting access to Storipress include a breach of any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement, your offensive or unacceptable behavior, objectionable material, or any other actions in violation of guidelines we specify. We will notify Publishers as soon as reasonably practicable if Publishers’ access to Storipress is suspended or substantially limited due to technical problems with the platform.
You agree that this means that publications (or any content therein) may be removed from Storipress at any time in our discretion. You also agree that we retain the right to immediately halt the creation or hosting of publications at our discretion.
We are constantly trying to improve our products and services, so this Agreement may need to change along with Storipress. We reserve the right to change the Agreement at any time, but if we do, we will bring it to your attention by placing a notice on the website, by sending you an email, and/or by some other means.
If you don’t agree with the new Agreement, you are free to reject them; unfortunately, that means you will no longer be able to use Storipress. If you use Storipress in any way after a change to the Agreement is effective and notice has been provided, that means you agree to all of the changes. Except for changes by us as described here, no other amendment or modification of this Agreement will be effective unless in writing and signed by both you and us.
No Warranties: Storipress is provided to you on an “as-is” basis. This means we provide it to you without any express or implied warranties of any kind. That includes any implied warranties of merchantability, warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or any warranty that the use of Storipress will be uninterrupted or error-free.
Limitation of Liabillity: To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, under no circumstances and under no legal theory shall Storipress, its licensors, or its suppliers be liable to you or to any other person for:
Indemnification: To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold Storipress, its affiliates, officers, agents, employees, and partners harmless from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages (actual and consequential), losses and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) arising from or in any way related to any third party claims relating to (a) your use of Storipress (including any actions taken by a third party using your account), and (b) your violation of this Agreement. In the event of such a claim, suit, or action, we will attempt to provide notice to the contact information we have for your account (provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not eliminate or reduce your indemnification obligations hereunder).
Assignment: You may not assign, delegate or transfer this Agreement or your rights or obligations hereunder, or your Storipress account, in any way (by operation of law or otherwise) without our prior written consent. We may transfer, assign, or delegate this Agreement and our rights and obligations without consent.
Choice of Law: This Agreement is governed by and will be construed under applicable federal law and the laws of the State of New South Wales, without regard to the conflicts of laws provisions thereof.
Arbitration: This Agreement will be construed under the laws of the State of New South Wales, without regard to conflicts of law provisions thereof. Any dispute arising from or relating to the subject matter of this Agreement shall be finally settled by arbitration in Sydney, New South Wales, using the English language in accordance with the Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures of Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. ("JAMS") then in effect, by one commercial arbitrator with substantial experience in resolving intellectual property and commercial contract disputes, who shall be selected from the appropriate list of JAMS arbitrators in accordance with the Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures of JAMS. Judgment upon the award so rendered may be entered in a court having jurisdiction, or application may be made to such court for judicial acceptance of any award and an order of enforcement, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each party shall have the right to institute an action in a court of proper jurisdiction for injunctive or other equitable relief pending a final decision by the arbitrator. For all purposes of this Agreement, the parties consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state or federal courts located in, respectively, Sydney, New South Wales. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding arising out of this Agreement will be entitled to an award of costs and legal fees.
No Third-Party Beneficiaries: We agree there are no third-party beneficiaries intended under this Agreement.
No Joint Venture: You hereby acknowledge and agree that you are not an employee, agent, partner, or joint venture of Storipress Inc., and you do not have any authority of any kind to bind us in any respect whatsoever.
Waiver: The failure of either you or us to exercise, in any way, any right herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder.
Severability: If any provision of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated, to the minimum extent necessary, so that this Agreement shall otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable.
Survival: You agree that the terms under the heading “Privacy”, “Sole Responsibility”, “Acceptable Use”, “Indemnification”, “Stopping Publication or Deleting a Publication”, “No Warranty”, “Limitation of Liability”, “Assignment”, “No Joint Venture”, “Severability”, “Arbitration”, and “Entire Agreement”, and any payment obligations incurred shall survive termination of this Agreement.
Entire Agreement: You agree that this Agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of the mutual understanding between you and us, and that it supersedes and cancels all previous written and oral agreements, communications and other understandings relating to the subject matter of this Agreement.
If you have questions regarding this Policy or about our relationship with publishers, please contact us by email at [email protected], or at:
Albion Media Pty. Ltd.
8 Brewer Ave.,
Liberty Grove, NSW 2138
Australia
