GSMA Blogs Terms of Use
Welcome to Weblogs of the GSM Association (“Blogs”). The GSM Association (“GSMA”) provides this Blogs to You, Your employees, agents, and contractors, and any other entity on whose behalf You accept these terms (collectively “You”), subject to these Terms and Conditions (“Terms”). These Terms are entered into by and between GSMA and You, and You accept them by: (a) registering as a user of the Blogs; (b) posting on the Blogs; and/or (c) accessing the Blogs (“Agreement”). If You do not wish to be bound by these Terms, please do not use or access the Blogs in any manner.
Prior to use, it is important that You understand the Terms. Please read them carefully before registering, accessing or posting on the Blogs.
1. Eligibility. By registering to use this Blogs, You hereby warrant that You are of legal age and of sound mind. If You are using the Blogs on behalf of Your employer or other third party, You represent and warrant that You are authorized to accept these Terms on Your employer’s or third party’s behalf, and that Your employer or third party agrees to indemnify You and GSMA for violations of these Terms.
2. Proper Use. You agree that You are responsible for Your own use of the Blogs, for any posts You make (“Content”), and for any consequences thereof. You agree that You will use the Blogs in compliance with all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations, including any laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from Your country of residence and all United States export control laws. You agree that You shall not post other’s confidential and/or proprietary information. You also agree not to use the Blogs to spam or transmit malware and or viruses. GSMA reserves the right at all times to remove or refuse to distribute any content on the Blogs, including but not limited to content which violates the terms of this Agreement.
3. Rights in the Content You Post. By posting Your Content using the Blogs, You are granting GSMA a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use Your Content in connection with the operation of the Blogs, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat Your Content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work. You may choose to post Content under a public license (e.g. a Creative Commons license), by manually marking Your materials as such. Notwithstanding, GSMA is not a party to any such public license between You and any third party.
4. Representation and Warranties. By posting content to the Blogs, You warrant and represent that You either own or otherwise control all of the rights to that content, including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for You to provide, post, upload, input or submit the content, or that Your use of the content is a protected fair use. You also warrant that any posting to the Blogs does not infringe the copyright, trademark, publicity rights, common law rights or any other right of any third party or constitute defamation, invasion of privacy or other tortious injury to any third party.
5. No Liability. Content provided by third parties is provided by and is the responsibility of the person or people who made such postings. GSMA does not monitor the content of the Blogs, and takes no responsibility for such content. GSMA does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any communications posted via the Blogs or endorse any opinions expressed via the Blogs. You acknowledge that any reliance on material posted via the Blogs will be at Your own risk.
6. Attribution. When publicly displaying, publicly performing, reproducing or distributing copies of Your Content, or Content as incorporated into a collective work, GSMA will make best efforts to credit Your authorship. You grant GSMA permission to use Your name for such attribution purposes. You, likewise, agree to represent Yourself accurately. You acknowledge that misrepresentation may lead us, in our sole discretion, to cancel Your use of the Blogs and delete any of Your Content.
7. Privacy. As a condition of using the Service, You agree to the terms of the GSMA Privacy Policy –(http://gsmworld.com/privacy.htm#nav-6).
8. Maintaining Postings. GSMA has no responsibility for the deletion of, or the failure to maintain or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by the Blogs.
9. Unauthorized Use of Postings. You agree to not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell or trade for any commercial purpose the Blogs or any Content without the express authorization of the GSMA.
10. Ownership. Use of this Blogs does not grant You any rights to use the name of the GSMA or any of its logos or trademarks. The Services and associated material provided on the Blogs, including all images, designs, photographs, writings, graphs, data, or otherwise are the property of GSMA and are protected by international copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary rights.
11. Term and Termination. This agreement is effective until terminated by GSMA, at any time without notice. In the event of termination, You are no longer authorized to access or use this Blogs or any material therein. You agree that GSMA shall not be liable to You or any third party for any termination of Your access to the Services. The following Sections survive any termination of the Terms: Ownership, No Warranty, Limitation of Liability, and Indemnity.
12. Hyperlink Disclaimers. A party may provide on this site links to Blogss operated by other entities (collectively the “Linked Sites”). If You use any Linked Sites, You will leave Blogs. If You decide to visit any Linked Site, You do so at Your own risk and it is Your responsibility to take all protective measures to guard against viruses or other destructive elements. Linked Sites, regardless of the linking form (e.g., hotlinks, hypertext links, IMG links) are not maintained, controlled, or otherwise governed by the GSMA. The content, accuracy, opinions expressed, and other links provided by Linked Sites are not investigated, verified, monitored, or endorsed by GSMA. The GSMA nor their affiliates operate or control in any respect any information, products, or services on these third-party sites.
13. No Warranty. THE BLOGS ARE PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS”. GSMA GIVES NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES, GUARANTEES, OR CONDITIONS. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER YOUR LOCAL LAWS, GSMA EXCLUDES THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE ENTIRE RISK ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE BLOGS REMAINS WITH YOU. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT SHALL LIMIT OR EXCLUDE GSMA’S LIABILITY FOR THE FOLLOWING: (I) ANY FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION ON THE PART OF GSMA; OR (II) ANY OTHER LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED BY LAW.
14. Limitation of Liability. THE BLOGS, LINKED SITES ARE PROVIDED ‘AS-IS.’ YOU BEAR THE RISK OF USING THEM. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE BLOGS IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. Notwithstanding the above, if GSMA, its affiliates or any of their officers, directors, employees, agents, third-party content providers, licensors or the like are liable to You for any reason, liability will be limited to $1,000.00 USD in the year in which such liability arose. This limit does not apply to any liability that cannot be excluded by law. You agree that any action must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises.
15. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless GSMA, its affiliates, agents, employees, and licensors from and against any and all claims and expenses, including reasonable attorney fees, arising out of or related in any way to Your use of the Blogs, violation of these Terms, violation of any law or regulation, or violation of any proprietary or privacy right.
16. Modifications to the Terms. The Terms are subject to change without notice. All amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted on the Blogs. It is Your responsibility to return to the Terms from time to time to review the most current terms and conditions. GSMA does not and will not assume any obligation to notify You of changes to the Terms.
17. Governing Law. The construction, validity and performance of the Terms are exclusively governed by the laws of the state of Georgia, USA, without giving effect to any principles or conflicts of law or Your actual state or country of residence and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Georgia, USA. If any provision of the Terms are held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable such holding shall not affect any other provision hereof, and the Terms shall be construed as if the invalidated or unenforceable provision had not been contained.
