Terms of Use

Please read this Terms of Use Agreement (referenced as the “Terms of Use”) carefully. These Terms of Use govern your use of the website located at: http://essentialnews.online (referenced as the “Website”), the software application entitled “Essential News” (referenced as the “App”) and hosted services enabled or available via the Website and App (“the Services” or “the features”) that are offered by Essential News Inc. (referenced as “the Company” or “we”).

By accepting the Terms of Use you have agreed to terms and condition of the Company Terms of Use and Privacy Policy from the Company. If you wish to review the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy you can go to the company website the links will be provided under the end of the website. You have also acknowledge to all the legal terms and have already read through and understand each of the terms. If you do not comply to any of the term you cannot use the service or feature provided by the Company

Use of Service

The Website, App, and the Services provided by the Company via the Website and App (collectively, the “Company Properties”) are protected by copyright laws throughout the world. Unless otherwise specified by the Company in a separate license, your right to use any Company Properties is subject to the Terms.

Subject to your compliance with the Terms, the Company grants you a limited non-exclusive, non-transferable, non sublicensable, revocable license to download, install and use a copy of the App on a single mobile device or computer that you own or control and to run such copy of the App solely for your own personal or internal business purposes. Furthermore, with respect to any App accessed through or downloaded from the Apple App Store, Google Chrome Web Store, Google Play marketplace or any similar store or marketing place (each, an “App Store” and references to an App Store include the corporate entity and its subsidiaries making such App Store available to you), you agree to comply with all applicable third party terms of the relevant App Store (e.g. Apple App Store’s “Usage Rules”) (the “Usage Rules”).

Updates the Company holds the rights to update any features or service provided by the Company without any prior notification. You may also have the rights to upgrade your own personal devices in order to use the service provided by the Company. Fail to comply to such action may results in a non optimal user experience and possible security issues whom the Company will not hold any responsibility for.

Usage Restriction The rights granted to you in the Terms are subjected that you shall not:

  1. Resell the service, rent, lease, redistribute or commercially exploit any features and service provided by the Company.
  2. You shall not rebrand any features and service provided by the Company with any trademark, logo, text description from other Company.
  3. You shall not hide the trademark of the company
  4. You shall not try to reverse engineer any features and service provided by the Company
  5. Any attempt to circumvent any restrictions or limits placed on your API key or account is also not allowed.

The Company, its suppliers and service providers reserve all rights not granted in the Terms. Any unauthorized use of the Company Properties terminates the licenses granted by the Company pursuant to the Terms.

Registration

  1. Account registration In order to access certain features or service by the Company you must be a registered user. For purposes of the Terms, a “Registered User” is a user of the Services (“User”) who has registered an account on the Website or App (“Account”), or has a valid account on the social networking service (“SNS”) through which the User has connected to the App (each such account, a “Third-Party Account”).

  2. Account registration through a third party account If you access the Company Properties through a third party account, your account will be linked through this third party account. By registering your account, you must also agree to shared Third party account data and grant the Company to access your third party account data and without any obligation to pay the third party company owner any fee to access such data. If you wish to remove the Company access to third party account, you can choose to remove the account under the Settings option : “Delete Account”. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR THIRD-PARTY ACCOUNTS IS GOVERNED SOLELY BY YOUR AGREEMENT(S) WITH SUCH THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND COMPANY DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY FOR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT MAY BE PROVIDED TO IT BY SUCH THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS IN VIOLATION OF THE PRIVACY SETTINGS THAT YOU HAVE SET IN SUCH THIRD-PARTY ACCOUNTS

  3. Registration Compliance In registering for use of the Services you agree to (1) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the App’s registration form (the “Registration Data”); and (2) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. By register an account under Company Properties, you must be at least 13 years old to form a binding contact. And you must not be a person banned from the laws from Republic of China. As the owner of the account you are obligated to prevent unauthorized access to Company Properties and your personal data. We do not hold any responsible for any leaks of personal data due to personal negligence.

Ownership

  1. Company properties and services

You hereby agree that all the Company and its partner owns the all rights in the Company properties. You may not hide, obscure or rebrand the Company properties and services which include the company logo, trademark, patents, content, technology which appear on the Company properties and service.

  1. Your data

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, you acknowledge and agree that you shall have no ownership or other property interest in your Account, and you further acknowledge and agree that all rights in and to your Account are and shall forever be owned by and inure to the benefit of the Company.

However, you have the rights to remove the data from our storage and access by removing your account. If you wish to remove the Company access to third party account, you can choose to remove the account under the Settings option : “Delete Account”.

Obligation to pre screen content

You hereby agreed that the Company have no obligation to pre screen any information, data, text, music, sound, video or any form of materials by the third party which are available through the Company properties and services. Any damages cause due to any information, data, text, music, sound, video or any form of materials by the third party, the Company do not hold any responsible for any compensation. In the event of any Third Part have removed or pre screen any content by them, the Company have no obligation to comply to do the same action.

Any agreement with third party provider to access any information, data, text, music, sound, video or any form of materials are not covered by the terms of use from the Company. Please note that such agreement between third party is governed solely by your agreement with the third party only and company disclaim any liability if any identifiable information was provided to the third party. If the third party has violated any agreements, the Company do not hold any liability under such circumstances.

Application Access

You acknowledge and agree that the availability of the App is dependent on the App Store from which you received the App license. You acknowledge that the Terms are between you and the Company and not with the App Store. The Company, not the App Store, is solely responsible for the Company Properties, including the App, the content thereof, maintenance, support services, and warranty therefor, and addressing any claims relating thereto (e.g., product liability, legal compliance or intellectual property infringement). In order to use the App, you must have access to a wireless network, and you agree to pay all fees associated with such access. You also agree to pay all fees (if any) charged by the App Store in connection with the Company Properties, including the App. You agree to comply with, and your license to use the App is conditioned upon your compliance with, all applicable third-party terms of agreement (e.g., the App Store’s terms and policies) when using the Company Properties, including the App. You acknowledge that the App Store (and its subsidiaries) are third party beneficiaries of the Terms and will have the right to enforce them.

Intellectual Rights of content

All editorial content, information, photographs, illustrations, artwork and other graphic materials, and names, logos and trade marks provided on the Company features and services are protected by copyright laws and/or other laws and/or international treaties, and belong to third party, as the case may be. These works, logos, graphics, sounds or images may not be copied, reproduced, retransmitted, distributed, disseminated, sold, published, broadcasted or circulated whether in whole or in part, without referencing to the third party ownership, as the case may be.

Fees and Taxes

If you made any purchase for the Company features and services, you must provide a valid credit card or debit card (Visa, MasterCard, or any other issuer accepted by us) or a accepted third party payment provider.

  1. Service and subscription fee

You are responsible for the service and subscription fee the day you register the account under the Company service.

  1. Auto renewal of subscription service

Your subscription service will be automatically renewed upon the end of subscription period. The auto renewal came into effect during the first day of subscription period. If you wish to cancel the auto renewal of the subscription service or terminate your subscription please go to the account settings and click “Cancel subscription”. By subscribing, you authorized the Company to charge your Payment Provider now, and again at the beginning of any subsequent subscription period. Upon renewal of your subscription, if the Company does not receive payment from your Payment Provider, (i) you agree to pay all amounts due on your Account upon demand, and/or (ii) you agree that the Company may either terminate or suspend your subscription and continue to attempt to charge your Payment. The Company do not hold any liability to losses cause by such sudden termination due to not receiving payment from your Payment Provider.

Once the payment is received, the account will be reactivated and open access again and the subscription period will start on the day the subscription fee was received.

  1. Taxes

Any extra taxes charged by your local governing rules you are solely responsible to pay such taxes. The Company will not notify you such charges as you should confirm with your local jurisdiction. Upon our request, you should provide the Company with any official invoice or means of proof which you have paid all the required taxes for accessing the Company features and services. The Company do not have any liability to inform users of such taxes exist during payment process and users shall held responsible to pay any taxes imposed by their local jurisdiction requirements.

Disclaimer of Certain Damages

You must agree that under no circumstances or no event that the Company holds any liability for any loss of data, physical damage, loss of revenue, void of third party agreement, emotional damage, loss of business liability, personal or property damages.

Terms and Termination

Terms are immediately effective during the date you accepted the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. The affect of the terms will remain in full active when you use the Company properties and services.

If you wish to terminate the agreement, the Company will remove your data from the Company live storage. The Company do not have any liability to your termination of the agreement and services. Any monthly subscription service fee may not be refund upon termination. This include the taxes which was charged along with the subscription service fees.

Once we have received termination of your service, we do not have any responsibility to restore or revert such action.

Violation of Terms and Privacy Policies

If you are found out to have violate any terms under the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy of the Company, the Company has the rights to disrupt, deny and restrict access to any features and service provided by the Company. In the event of violation, you will no longer be entitled to any refund for fees for any related features or service whom originally has refund policy. The Company have the rights to take any legal action against whom had violate any terms of use and privacy policy.

Future change of Terms

Please note that the terms and service may subject to changes in the future. The Company will notify you via email, and we do not hold any responsibility if such notification is not received due to third party issues ( such as lack of network connection, disruption of network service, security failure issue ). So please ensure you have a legitimate email address under your account such that you can receive our latest agreement update.

Once the notification is sent out in email form, you have 30 days window to reject the new agreement. If you do not provide any rejection, you will be entitled to had agreed to the new agreement terms. If you do not agree to the new Agreement, you can terminate the agreement through deletion of your account or contact our support service.

Liability Caps

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL THE COMPANY PARTIES BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR MORE THAN THE AMOUNT RECEIVED BY THE COMPANY AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE COMPANY PROPERTIES IN THE SUBSCRIPTION PERIOD DURING WHICH YOU FIRST ASSERT A CLAIM. IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID THE COMPANY ANY AMOUNTS IN THE SUBSCRIPTION PERIOD DURING WHICH YOU FIRST ASSERT ANY SUCH CLAIM, COMPANY’S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO FIFTY DOLLARS ($50).

Notice change of terms

Where the Company requires that you provide an e-mail address, you are responsible for providing the Company with your most current e-mail address. In the event that the last e-mail address you provided to the Company is not valid, or for any reason is not capable of delivering to you any notices required/ permitted by the Terms, the Company’s dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice. You may give notice to the Company at the following address: support@essentialnews.online . Such notice shall be deemed given when received by the Company by letter delivered by nationally recognized overnight delivery service or first class postage prepaid mail at the above address.

Period Limitation

YOU AND THE COMPANY AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE TERMS, THE COMPANY PROPERTIES OR THE CONTENT MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES. OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.

End of Service

The Company holds the final decision to terminate all features and service with a 30 days prior notice through user email when the company no longer under business. Under such circumstances, all subscription service will not be be refunded to users. And any features and services provided by the Company will be disrupted by the end of service. We shall not be liable for any loss of disruption due to termination of features and services. Once the features and services are no longer available, the Company will remove all user data from live storage and will not hold any related or third party user data on the Company storage. However, user data may still available in the App as it is not accessible by the Company. It is the user responsible to remove the App from their personal devices once the Company features and services are no longer available.

Last update : July of 28th 2018