This page represents the Terms of Service by which your use of www.thesilverink.com is bound. It describes all the rules and regulations governing your relationship with The Silver Ink products, including but without limitations, thesilverink.com and its mobile applications as well as its subsidiaries. The Silver Ink will be henceforth referred to as “The Silver Ink”, “the website”, “the site”, “we”, or “us”.

1. Introduction

Your use of The Silver Ink and all of the services it offers, including but not limited to the website itself, mobile websites, mobile apps, on-site features, API, RSS, and software is governed by the Terms of Service as they are herein stated. By using or accessing any of the services that The Silver Ink offers, you agree to abide by all of the terms and regulations between The Silver Ink and yourself.

At any time and without previous notice, The Silver Ink reserves the right to alter, remove portions, or change the Terms of Service. The new regulations shall become effective and enforceable immediately after being posted online. PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION PRESENTED ON THIS PAGE CAREFULLY AND REVIEW IT REPEATEDLY. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE SILVER INK REPRESENTS YOUR AGREEMENT THAT YOU HAVE READ AND ACCEPTED ANY AND ALL CHANGES.

If for any reasons, the rules and regulations presented in this page aren’t acceptable and you do not wish to abide by them, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS THE WEBSITE OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATED SERVICES. Your continued use of the services that The Silver Ink offers represents a binding agreement that you have accepted such rules, modifications, and changes.

At any time and without notice, we may discontinue, terminate or suspend your access to the website or any aspect of the services. This includes the availability of the content and materials present on the website, the database, and any part of the Services. Additionally, we may also choose to limit your access to our features and services without notice and without accepting any liability.

2. Access to the Services

You are offered free-of-charge access to the services, content and materials that The Silver Ink provides. These services may, in some situations, contain links (hyperlinks) leading to related internet sites on the World Wide Web. The Silver Ink is NOT RESPONSIBLE for the availability and safety of these resources found outside of the website, neither are we responsible for the content of those websites.

3. Content and Services

The services, materials, and content presented to you on the website, the applications and any affiliate services is intended to be used by you for personal, educational, and non-commercial purposes. Everything contained on the website (including but not limited to) content, posts, news, articles, images, photographs, audio files, video files, presentations, and illustrations is collectively referred to as “Content” and is protected by copyright. The content on The Silver Ink is the sole property of The Silver Ink, its affiliates, or the party credited to represent the provider of the content. You are expected to abide by all enforceable copyright regulations and restrictions when accessing The Silver Ink.

You are NOT ALLOWED to modify, edit, transmit, publish, sell, re-write, create derivative works, transfer, participate in the transfer and distribution, reproduce or otherwise use and exploit any of the content offered to you on the website.

In some situations, you are permitted to print or download some portions of the content as well as certain downloadable items for PERSONAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. Even then, all the materials offered to you still contain copyright and other proprietary notices.

YOU ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED FROM USING, STORING, COPYING OR DOWNLOADING CONTENT FOR PURPOSES OTHER THAN PERSONAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND PERSONAL ONES WITHOUT PREVIOUS, WRITTEN CONSENT FROM THE SILVER INK OR THE LAWFUL COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OF THE MATERIALS YOU INTEND ON USING.

Because of the volatile nature of the news, The Silver Ink shall not and will not be held liable for any inaccuracies, errors, delays or omissions in the content and news it offers and neither shall it be liable in the case of damages arising thereof.

4. Comments and User Generated Content

The Silver Ink allows its readership to actively engage with one and other by contributing with comments and reader reviews. Because of the large amounts of comments and user-generated materials being uploaded to the website, The Silver Ink cannot monitor and edit incoming content. As such, users are solely responsible for the materials they choose to share on The Silver Ink.

You are hereby prohibited to upload, distribute or publish any materials or user-generated content that is libelous, pornographic in nature, sexually explicit, defamatory, obscene, abusive, infringing on a third party’s copyright or proprietary rights, illegal material, or ethnically, racially, or otherwise questionable material.

Your interaction with other The Silver Ink readers should occur in a civilized manner. Be courteous. You are hereby prohibited from using an offensive, defamatory, threatening or verbally abusive language when engaging with other readers and users of the services. Furthermore, you hereby agree that you will NOT use language that is discriminatory on the base of ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual preference, region, disability, nationality, or age. Although we do not monitor the user generated content on the website, we reserve the right to terminate the access of any user not adhering to the rules and regulations as they are set forth in this Terms of Service document.

You are prohibited from soliciting funds or uploading materials which are advertising or solicitation for goods or services, neither are you allowed to submit user content in the form of a chain letter.

By submitting content to The Silver Ink, users acknowledge that any material they contribute will fall under a non-exclusive, perpetual, global, royalty-free, completely sub-licensable license to Submissions. Users grant The Silver Ink this license to use, transmit, publish, distribute, modify, edit, create derivative works, publicly perform, display, sell, host, tag, adapt and sell the material.

With each submission you make, you agree and consent to this submission being displayed and published on The Silver Ink as well as for any related online use.

By submitting your content to The Silver Ink, you warrant that these materials DO NOT violate, plagiarize or infringe upon the copyright, proprietary rights or any rights of a third party. Additionally, you hereby acknowledge that you are at least 13 years of age. If you are not at least thirteen years old, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SILVER INK OR ANY OF ITS SERVICES.

5. Indemnification

You hereby indemnify, defend and hold The Silver Ink harmless (it as well as its officers, owners, directors, agents, employees, information providers, licensors, licensees, and affiliates) from and against any claim which could arise out of the breaches possibly arising from any breach that you or any user of your account may have committed. This refers to (including but not limited to) liability and costs, reasonable attorney’s fees, damages, and losses.

The Silver Ink does not warrant, represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of the opinion statements, advice and information that is distributed through the services by its users, information providers, or other entity.

All services are provided to you on an “as is” basis and lack warranties of any kind, be they express or implied.

Your use of the services is done solely at your risk. Therefore, neither The Silver Ink nor its subsidiaries, affiliates, parent, directors, agents, employees, licensors, or licensees warrant that the website will offer its services in an uninterrupted or error-free manner. We do not offer any warranties that the results which you may obtain from using the website, the accuracy of the information presented herein, the reliability of the information, or the content itself will meet your requirements.

OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE SITE AND ALL DOWNLOADABLE SOFTWARE IS OFFERED ON AN “AS PRESENTED”, “AS IS” BASIS. WE THEREFORE OFFER NO WARRANTIES, BE THEY EXPRESSLY STATED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF TITLE, OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR OTHER WARRANTIES.

THE WEBSITE COVERS A WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS, INCLUDING HEALTH, FITNESS, NUTRITIONAL, FINANCIAL, NATIONAL, WORLD-INTEREST, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY. THIS INFORMATION IS INTENDED ONLY FOR EDUCATIONAL, INFORMATIONAL AND PERSONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED TO CONVEY ANY TYPE OF MEDICAL, FINANCIAL OR PERSONAL ADVICE. PLEASE DO NOT RELY ON THIS INFORMATION AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL ADVICE, DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT SUGGESTIONS, INVESTMENT OR FINANCIAL SUGGESTIONS. THE SILVER INK IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS STEMMING FROM ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY HAVE OBTAINED AFTER YOUR USE OF THE SITE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THAT THE APPLICABLE LAW ALLOWS, THE SILVER INK IS NOT LIABLE NEITHER IN THE PRESENT OR THE FUTURE FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURY, DAMAGE, PROFIT LOSS, COSTS OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, GOODWILL LOSS, DATA LOSS, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE, TECHNOLOGY FAILURE, COMPUTER MALFUNCTION AS A RESULT OF DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES BASED ON CAUSES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE SILVER INK. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, DELAYS IN SERVICE, DEFECTS, OPERATIONS, OR WRONGFUL TRANSMISSIONS OF INFORMATION. WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ALLEGED COMPUTER VIRUS INFECTIONS, COMMUNICATION FAILURES, THEFT, OR PROPERTY DESTRUCTION.

6. Personal data and user privacy

The Silver Ink may use personally identifiable data as well as non-personally identifiable data in order to improve its services. Please consult the website’s Privacy Policy for a detailed picture of how our website uses, handles and cares for your personal data.

7. Disputes/arbitration

You hereby agree that any dispute between you and the Silver Ink shall be resolved on an individual basis. No claims brought under these Terms of Use can be brought as a class consolidated or representative proceeding. Furthermore, both you and The Silver Ink agree that you will not take part in class, representative, or consolidated proceedings (neither now nor in the future).

8. Miscellaneous

Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, nothing in these Terms of Service will serve to preempt the promises made in the Silver Ink’s Privacy Policy.