The following describes the terms on which The USA Times offers you access to its site and services.

The USA Times can be referred in this document as, "Company", "Website", "site", "us" or "we".

Your continued use of the Site after this time shall signify your acceptance of these terms and conditions. This document and all policies and terms incorporated by reference constitute the entire agreement between you and The USA Times as to its subject matter.

If you do not agree to any of these terms and conditions you should immediately cease to use this website.

1. General

The USA Times is a website on the "WorldWideWeb" (Internet) that provide users with the services including but not limited to web content, information about different topics and locations, Articles, News, User-Submitted content including images, videos and text., press releases, interviews and editorials.

User Registration

By registering on our website and accepting these terms and conditions, you represent that:

• You have read and understood these terms and conditions and you agree to be bound by its terms.
• That you are at least 18 years of age.
• If you are under the age of 18 but are at least 13 years of age you agree that you have the consent of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms. Children under the age of 13 may not use our site or services for other than browsing, and parents or legal guardians may not agree to these Terms on their behalf. You must be 18 years or above to purchase anything on The USA Times. If you are a parent or legal guardian agreeing to these Terms for the benefit of a child between the ages of 13 and 18, be advised that you are fully responsible for his or her use of this website including all financial charges and legal liability that he or she may incur. If you do not agree to (or cannot comply with) any of these terms and conditions, please cease the use of this site immediately.

Joining us as a Blogger/Journalist

We call our users who submit articles or news to The USA Times, Journalists. The term is used to distinguish our bloggers from general users and it does not imply any employer-employee relationship with us. Term "Blogger" or "Journalist" can be used interchangeably on our website and will mean the same.

By joining The USA Times as a Journalist, you agree that:

• Are of legal age to use this site, or have the parental/ guardian consent to do so ; (You may not use this site if you are under 13 years of age, and, you cannot purchase any deals if you are under 18 years of age.)
• Shall not post articles or news that was already published on the Internet by you or someone else.
• Shall protect you login and password used to access The USA Times and you agree that any unauthorized use of your account shall not be the responsibility of The USA Times.
• Shall not use The USA Times to collect any personally identifiable information, including names, email addresses, account information or other such information, for any purpose;
• Shall not use our forums, message board, email or other features for any commercial solicitation purposes;
• Are solely responsible for all the actions and posts made from your account.
• Represent that you own or have the necessary, rights, permissions, licenses and consents to authorize The USA Times to use any and/or all content provided by you to The USA Times in accordance with the licenses granted in this document;
• Hereby grant a non-exclusive license to The USA Times, it's designated employees, user, any application authorized by The USA Times to access the content you submit through The USA Times and to use, edit, reproduce, distribute and display such content at its own discretion.
• Shall make sure that none of your submitted content, including but not limited to text, images and videos, violates the copyrights, violates the laws of your or The USA Times jurisdiction, is racially offensive, promote hatred, is adult by nature, is related to child pornography. You accept the sole responsibility of any such submission and agree to pay The USA Times any damages or claims caused by such actions.
• Agree that The USA Times has right to determine if you submitted content is appropriate and to remove any content at its own discretion.

Your "The USA Times" Account

You can create your account with The USA Times by signing up on theusatimes.com, on our affiliate sites or through our Facebook App. When you join our Facebook App, your account on The USA Times is created automatically as we obtain your email address from Facebook by your permission. The security and privacy of your information including your email address and other information is regulated by our Privacy Policy which you can read by clicking here

The access to your account either created directly or through Facebook is your responsibility and in no way we are responsible for any misuse of your account by unauthorized access or through other means. Your password with The USA Times is always encrypted and not even our employees can know it. It's you responsibility to protect your password and not to disclose it to anyone including our employees, merchants or agents.

The USA Times reserves the right to terminate your account with us at any time with at its sole discretion with or without notification to you.

You herby agree that you shall not create an account on The USA Times if your account or site access has previously been terminated by The USA Times.

Non-Confidentiality and Privacy

You hereby agree that the information you shall provide to or on The USA Times through private emails, contact forms, message boards, chat rooms or on profile can be shared by The USA Times with its merchants and other affiliates and partners on as needed basis. The USA Times shall not treat any information given by you as confidential except your credit card information which is never stored on our servers and is transmitted to our processor through a secure connection (SSL), your password which is stored in encrypted format and your contact information including your address, phone number and email address which may be shared with our third party Email list management company.

Emails you send to The USA Times can be shared by us with the third party support companies, its employees and any other technical or business support company to resolve your issues. Your email messages or any other communication with The USA Times shall not be treated as confidential and we may use this information without any limitations.

Read our Privacy Policy to know exactly how we use the information provided by you.

Right to Modify the Terms and Conditions

The USA Times reserves the right to modify these terms and conditions completely or any part of it with notice to the user or on our Terms and Conditions page. Your continued use of the site after one week of any such change shall signify your acceptance to the new terms.

Any change in this user agreement, Privacy Policy or Anti-Spam Policy shall be effective by the date it is posted on the site. The changes shall not affect the actions before that change. Those changes shall be effective for all the actions taken on the site after the changes have been published on the site and for all the new users who join after that.

Loss of property and information

User shall be responsible for obtaining all the necessary software and hardware to access this site. The USA Times shall not be responsible for any cost incurred by the user to access this site. The USA Times shall not be responsible for any damage caused to the equipment or any loss of information or property resulting from the use of this site.

Rules Regarding Information and other Content

When you use our site you may read, change, use or post information in the form of text, images, videos etc. You shall also be able to post such content on our website.

You hereby agree that you shall not change or obscure any content on our website. You may not post any content on our website that violates the copyrights, trademarks and other legal rights of others, violates the privacy, of others, is unlawful, defamatory, libellous, discriminatory, pornographic, obscene, racially charged, threatening, harassing, pornographic, hateful, or encourages criminal conduct, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate, as determined by The USA Times in its sole discretion, is inaccurate, or could harm our or our affiliates' or our partners' reputation or property.

Though we do our best to identify and remove any inappropriate content from our website but it is not our obligation to do so and during the use of this site you may encounter content that may be offensive and/or otherwise inappropriate for you and The USA Times takes no responsibility for your exposure to such content or any harm or damage caused due to user's exposure to such content.

We do our best to identify and remove any material that violates copyrights of others but it's possible that such content might be published by our users. In any such case, The USA Times will not be held responsible for any damages or loss that may have incurred by any party.

Any copyright or trademark violations can be reported to us by emailing at copyrights@theusatimes.com and we will do our best to remove such content from our website as soon as possible.

Links to Third Party Sites

You may find links to third party sites on our website which are mostly but not limited to advertisers and/or partners. Your use of their site is not related to The USA Times in anyway and is governed by their own Terms and Policies. We are not responsible for any loss resulting from the use of the sites linking to us or by the use of the products or services offered by them. You hereby relieve us from any and all liability resulting from your use of any third party site or their products and services.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

The USA Times's and User's entire liability and exclusive remedy in any cause of action based on contract, tort or otherwise in connection with any Services furnished pursuant to this Agreement including its Exhibits shall be limited to the total amount of money paid by the User to the The USA Times. No action, regardless of form, arising out of this document may be brought by either party more than one (1) year after the occurrence of the event giving rise to such cause of action.

EXCEPT WITH RESPECT TO AMOUNTS PAYABLE ARISING OUT OF CLAIMS BASED UPON SHALLFUL, MALICIOUS OR GROSSLY NEGLIGENT CONDUCT OF THE LIABLE PARTY, NEITHER THE SITE NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THE SERVICES SHALL IN ANY EVENT WHATSOEVER BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES IN EXCESS OF THE TOTAL PRICE PAID BY THE USER TO THE USA TIMES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, AND THE LIKE) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES EVEN IF THE USA TIMES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALLTHE USA TIMES'S LIABILITY IN CONNECTION WITH THE USA TIMES SERVICES EXCEEDS THE AMOUNT PAID FOR SUCH SERVICES.

Cookies

The USA Times uses cookies to retrieve user details for each visit. Cookies are used in some areas of our site to enable the functionality of those areas and ease of use for visitors. Cookies can be used to collect unidentifiable information and store session details. Some of our affiliate partners may also use cookies. You hereby allow The USA Times, its affiliates and partners to store cookies on your computer.

Copyright Notice and Intellectual Property

Copyright and other relevant intellectual property rights exist on all text relating to the Company's services and the full content of this website and our micro sites.

The Company's logo and all other images used on this site and in videos are property of The USA Times and whether registered or not, you shall not use any of it anywhere except for the ones that we explicitly permit you to use in a certain way e.g. banners and text ads, which can be used only for the purpose for which the permission has been granted.

If you think that The USA Times, its affiliates or partners have violated any of your copyrights or any material is used on our website for which you hold the copyrights, please contact us at copyrights@theusatimes.com with all necessary evidence and the material shall be removed from our website as soon as possible.

WEBSITE CHANGES

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

INDEMNIFICATION

YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS THE USA TIMES, AND ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES OR ANY RELATED COMPANIES (INCLUDING THOSE WHICH SHARE SUBSTANTIALLY COMMON OWNERSHIP), AND THE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF ANY OF THEM FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, LOSSES, OBLIGATIONS, DAMAGES, LIABILITIES, COSTS, DEBT, AND EXPENSES (INCLUDING ATTORNEY'S FEES) ARISING OUT OF (I) YOUR USE OR MISUSE OF THE USA TIMES SITE; (II) YOUR USER SUBMISSIONS, INCLUDING THE USA TIMES'S USE, DISPLAY OR OTHER EXERCISE OF ITS LICENSE RIGHTS GRANTED HEREIN WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USER SUBMISSIONS; (III) YOUR VIOLATION OF THESE TERMS; (IV) YOUR VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS OF ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY, INCLUDING CLAIMS THAT ANY USER SUBMISSION INFRINGES OR VIOLATES ANY THIRD PARTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; (V) YOUR BREACH OF THE FOREGOING REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, AND COVENANTS; AN (VI) ANY UNAUTHORIZED USE OF YOUR ACCOUNT NOT CAUSED BY THE USA TIMES. THE USA TIMES RESERVES THE RIGHT, AT YOUR EXPENSE, TO ASSUME THE EXCLUSIVE DEFENSE AND CONTROL OF ANY MATTER FOR WHICH YOU ARE REQUIRED TO INDEMNIFY US AND YOU AGREE TO COOPERATE WITH OUR DEFENSE OF THESE CLAIMS. YOU AGREE NOT TO SETTLE ANY MATTER WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE USA TIMES. THE USA TIMES SHALL USE REASONABLE EFFORTS TO NOTIFY YOU OF ANY SUCH CLAIM, ACTION, OR PROCEEDING UPON BECOMING AWARE OF IT.

Limitations by Applicable Law.

CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF YOU RESIDE IN SUCH A JURISDICTION, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS. THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS OF WARRANTIES, REMEDIES, OR LIABILITY CONTAINED IN THESE TERMS APPLY TO YOU TO THE FULLEST EXTENT SUCH LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS ARE PERMITTED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE JURISDICTION IN WHICH YOU ARE LOCATED.

Electronic Communications

Most of the communication between you and The USA Times shall be through email, web posts or other electronic mediums. You hereby agree that all terms and conditions, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that The USA Times delivers to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were in writing. The foregoing does not affect your non-waivable rights.

SEVERABILITY.

Should any provision hereof be deemed, for any reason whatsoever, to be invalid or inoperative, such provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the force and validity of other provisions of this Agreement.

GOVERNING LAW AND EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION.

Any and all disputes arising out of these Terms and Conditions, its performance, breach, enforcement, existence or validity, including any failure of the parties to reach agreement with respect to matters provided for in these Terms and Conditions and all matters of dispute relating to the rights and obligations of the parties, which cannot be amicably resolved, even if only one of the parties declares that there is a difference, shall be referred to and finally settled by private and confidential binding arbitration before a single arbitrator held in Toronto, Ontario in English and governed by Ontario law pursuant to the Arbitration Act, 1991 (Ontario), as amended, replaced or re-enacted from time to time. The arbitrator shall be a person who is legally trained and who has experience in the information technology field in Canada and is independent of either party.

FORCE MAJEURE.

Both Parties shall not be held responsible for any delay or failure in performance under this Agreement rising out of causes beyond its control, or without its fault or negligence (Force Majeure). For the purposes of these Terms, "Force Majeure" means a strike, lockout, work stoppage or slow down or other labor dispute, popular uprising, sabotage, riot, rebellion, seizure, insurrection, act of terrorism, act of God, fire, storm, flood, war, accident, embargo, hostilities, explosion, perils of navigation, breakdown of or damage to any facilities, machinery or equipment (due to any cause or reason whatsoever) used to manufacture, obtain, store or distribute the Product, an act of any government, or any other event beyond the reasonable control of one party (whether similar or dissimilar to the causes specifically listed).

Advertising Packages

All advertising packages are sold on the website with guaranteed impressions or clicks or delivery to certain number of newsletter subscribers. The guaranteed clicks, impressions or email ads can be served within one year of the purchase of such plans and in case we are not able to deliver part of the agreed clicks, impressions or emails, we will be liable to refund only the amounts corresponding to the part of the clicks, impressions or emails we were not able to deliver within one year.

Refunds

When you buy a product from The USA Times, you shall be entitled for a full refund if requested within 5 days of the time when you purchased the product or committed to the purchase whichever is earlier. After that time, refund can only be issued at the discretion of The USA Times.

Account Cancellation

You can cancel the account with The USA Times anytime by logging in to your account and by clicking "Close My Account". Once your account is closed, you shall not be able to access your account again. All your information shall be deleted and your account details shall not be visible to you anymore. Your submitted articles will not be removed from the website even after you close your account. To remove any article you submitted on The USA Times, you are required to contact us explaining why you want the article to be removed.

Press Releases

The USA Times accept Press Releases from business and might charge business to publish and distribute their Press Release on the website and to several other sources. We have no way to ensure any specific number of hits, clicks or impressions any press release will get. We do not guarantee any number of minimum visitors to any Press Release page. All we guarantee is that the Press Release will be published on our site and will stay there for next 10 years. The URLs will be search engine friendly and will be accessible by the search engines.

Depending on the package you choose, we might send your press release to scores of different Press sources. We do not guarantee that those news sources will publish or pick your press release as they have their own criteria to determine what is newsworthy for them. You hereby agree that you will hold The USA Times responsible for lack of exposure or the news sources other than The USA Times own website.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT.

The provisions herein constitute the entire agreement between the parties and supersede all prior agreements, oral or written, and all other communications between the parties, including any and all supplier or distribution agreements. No term or condition contained in any document provided by one party to the other party pursuant to this document shall be deemed to amend, modify, or supersede or take precedence over the terms and conditions contained herein.

Disclaimers of Warranty

Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES AS TO PRIVACY AND SECURITY OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE PRIVACY POLICY. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT YOU SHALL BE ABLE TO ACCESS OR USE OUR WEBSITE AT ANY SPECIFIC TIME OR LOCATION. ANYTHING SAID EITHER WRITTEN OR ORAL BY ANY OF OUR EMPLOYEE, THIRD PARTY AGENT OR COMPANY SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE A WARRANTY.

Termination

The USA Times reserve the right to terminate the whole website, a part of it at any time with or without prior notice to you. We may end this agreement at any time and in case of such termination you are responsible to cease the use of this website without further delay. If the termination is due to the violation of these terms our anti-spam policy, The USA Times shall not be liable honour any purchase, affiliate payment or any other payment.

Language of this Agreement

Both parties hereby express their wish to write this agreement and all the related agreements in English language and confirm that they fully understand every part of this agreement.