This page details Daily Maverick Connect’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Terms of Service
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- Important Terms
- Your Permission to Use the Forum
- Conditions for Use of the Forum
- Acceptable Use
- Content Standards
- Enforcement
- Your Account
- Your Content
- Your Responsibility
- Disclaimers
- Termination
- Contact
- Privacy Policy
Important Terms
These terms include a number of important provisions that affect your rights and responsibilities.
Your Permission to Use the Forum
Subject to these terms, the company gives you permission to use the forum. Everyone needs to agree to these terms to use the forum.
Conditions for Use of the Forum
Your permission to use the forum is subject to the following conditions:
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You must be at least thirteen years old.
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You may no longer use the forum if the company contacts you directly to say that you may not.
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You must use the forum in accordance with Acceptable Use and Content Standards.
Acceptable Use
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You may not break the law using the forum.
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You may not use or try to use another’s account on the forum without their specific permission.
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You may not buy, sell, or otherwise trade in user names or other unique identifiers on the forum.
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You may not send advertisements, chain letters, or other solicitations through the forum, or use the forum to gather addresses or other personal data for commercial mailing lists or databases.
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You may not automate access to the forum, or monitor the forum, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the forum to index it for a publicly available search engine, if you run one.
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You may not use the forum to send e-mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or group mail aliases.
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You may not falsely imply that you’re affiliated with or endorsed by the company.
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You may not hyperlink to images or other non-hypertext content on the forum on other webpages.
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You may not remove any marks showing proprietary ownership from materials you download from the forum.
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You may not show any part of the forum on other websites with
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You may not disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the forum.
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You may not strain the infrastructure of the forum with an unreasonable volume of requests, or requests designed to impose an unreasonable load on information systems underlying the forum.
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You may not impersonate others through the forum.
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You may not encourage or help anyone in violation of these terms.
Content Standards
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You may not submit content to the forum that is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes content that is harassing, inappropriate, abusive, or hateful conduct.
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You may not submit content to the forum that violates the law, infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.
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You may not spread mis- or disinformation on the forum, where misinformation is false or factually inaccurate information and disinformation is deliberately misstating the facts with the intention to mislead.
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We do not tolerate sexist, racist language or hate speech. You may not use abusive, threatening, or intolerant remarks, name-calling, ad hominem attacks, or personal insults. This includes remarks towards Daily Maverick’s journalists, politicians or other subjects of our journalism.
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You may not troll other users, i.e. publish posts purely to provoke, derail conversations, or incite conflict.
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You may not defame other users.
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You may not submit content to the forum containing malicious computer code, such as computer viruses or spyware.
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You may not submit content to the forum as a mere placeholder, to hold a particular address, user name, or other unique identifier.
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You may not use the forum to disclose information that you don’t have the right to disclose, like others’ confidential or personal information.
For more, please see our Community Guidelines.
Enforcement
The company may investigate and prosecute violations of these terms to the fullest legal extent. The company may notify and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting violations of the law and these terms.
The company reserves the right to change, redact, and delete content on the forum for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted content to the forum in violation of these terms, contact us immediately.
Your Account
You must create and log into an account to use some features of the forum.
To create an account, you must provide some information about yourself. If you create an account, you agree to provide, at a minimum, a valid and up to date e-mail address and your real name and surname. You may close your account at any time by e-mailing [email protected].
You agree to be responsible for all action taken using your account, whether authorised by you or not, until you either close your account or notify the company that your account has been compromised. You agree to notify the company immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised. You agree to select a secure password for your account, and keep it secret.
Daily Maverick may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the forum according to its policy for handling copyright-related takedown requests, or if the company reasonably believes that you’ve broken any rule in these terms.
Your Content
Nothing in these terms gives Daily Maverick any ownership rights in intellectual property that you share with the forum, such as your account information, posts, or other content you submit to the forum. Nothing in these terms gives you any ownership rights in the company’s intellectual property, either.
Between you and the company, you remain solely responsible for content you submit to the forum. You agree not to wrongly imply that content you submit to the forum is sponsored or approved by the company. These terms do not obligate the company to store, maintain, or provide copies of content you submit, and to change it, according to these terms.
Content you submit to the forum belongs to you, and you decide what permission to give others for it. But at a minimum, you license the company to provide content that you submit to the forum to other users of the forum. That special license allows the company to copy, publish, and analyse content you submit to the forum.
Your Responsibility
You agree to indemnify the company from legal claims by others related to your breach of these terms, or breach of these terms by others using your account on the forum. Both you and the company agree to notify the other side of any legal claims for which you might have to indemnify the company as soon as possible. If the company fails to notify you of a legal claim promptly, you won’t have to indemnify the company for damages that you could have defended against or mitigated with prompt notice. You agree to allow the company to control investigation, defense, and settlement of legal claims for which you would have to indemnify the company, and to cooperate with those efforts. The company agrees not to agree to any settlement that admits fault for you or imposes obligations on you without your prior agreement.
Disclaimers
You accept all risk of using the forum and content on the forum. As far as the law allows, the company and its suppliers provide the forum as is, without any warranty whatsoever.
The forum may hyperlink to and integrate forums and services run by others. The company does not make any warranty about services run by others, or content they may provide. Use of services run by others may be governed by other terms between you and the one running service.
Termination
Either you or the company may end the agreement written out in these terms at any time. When our agreement ends, your permission to use the forum also ends.
The following provisions survive the end of our agreement: Your Content, Your Responsibility, and Disclaimers.
Contact
You may notify the company under these terms, and send questions to the company, at [email protected].
The company may notify you under these terms using the e-mail address you provide for your account on the forum, or by posting a message to the homepage of the forum or your account page.
Privacy Policy
Daily Maverick is solely responsible for the data collected on Daily Maverick Connect. We will not give your individual data to anybody, ever, unless they carry guns accompanied by a valid court order.
Unless you wear a tinfoil hat to bed every night, chances are that we are more paranoid about your privacy than you are. May it long stay that way.
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site and gather data when you participate in the forum by reading, writing, and evaluating the content shared here.
We track reader habits; trending search terms, and top conversations, for example. We also track site traffic such as pageviews and other user activity. We need that data to better understand how we can better serve you, the user.
For statistics and analysis, we use the standard Google Analytics services, like just about any other respectable website in the world. This general data we analyse ourselves (to see what works, where people go, what they read, that kind of thing) and we share some aspects of that data with our advertisers, so they know how many readers we have in Iceland, for example.
The data that we share, however, is generic, overall, and in no way allows for the identification of any reader. You can find the privacy policy for Google Analytics here; it falls under the general Google privacy policy.
When registering on our site, of which Daily Maverick Connect forms part, we ask that you enter your name and e-mail address. You may, however, visit our site without registering. Your e-mail address will be verified by an email containing a unique link. If that link is visited, we know that you control the e-mail address.
Some of our e-mail is sent by third-party providers (who have the servers and systems to do so quickly and efficiently); these providers are highly professional companies that comply with stringent requirements for privacy and security on the lists that we give to them.
We also use technology such as cookies and other forms of monitoring to help us understand reader needs and optimise the website. All of these techniques are stock standard and all data gathered is only shared with outsiders once we are satisfied that it cannot be abused.
When registered and posting, we record the IP address that the post originated from. We also may retain server logs which include the IP address of every request to our server.
What do we use your information for?
When you sign up to Daily Maverick Connect, we ask you for certain personal details in your profile: the city where you live, your job title, and so on. This information is optional, but is requested to foster connections between you and other users.
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To personalise your experience: your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
- To improve our site: we continually strive to improve our site offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
- To improve our service: your information helps us to more effectively respond to your user service requests and support needs.
- To send periodic emails: The email address linked to your account may be used to send you information, notifications that you request about changes to topics or in response to your user name, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.
Do we use cookies?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow). These cookies enable the site to recognise your browser and, if you have a registered account, associate it with your registered account.
We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our site. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Children and Daily Maverick Connect
Our site and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. If you are under the age of 13, we recommend that you do not use this site.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our site and not to information collected offline.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.