Terms of Service
Last updated: 29-04-2017
The purpose of this website, www.brightmuslim.com (the “Website”), owned and operated by BrightMuslim ApS (“us”, “we”, or “our”), is to publish content for the Muslim youth.
About this document
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) set out the terms on which our Website may be visited, browsed and used, and are supplemental to any other terms we may apply from time to time. Please read these Terms carefully before using the Website or any services provided on the Website (collectively, “Services”).
By accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy, Community Rules, or any other rules found on this Website, whether or not you are a registered user of our Services. These Terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access the Service (“Users”, “you”).
If you disagree with any part of these Terms then you may not access or use our Services and must leave immediately.
Age Restriction
Our Website is intended for use only by those who can form a binding contract with BrightMuslim, and only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations.
Any use or access to the Services by anyone under 13 is strictly prohibited and in violation of these Terms.
We may, in our sole discretion, refuse to offer the Services to any person or entity and change its eligibility criteria at any time.
Use of our Website
You agree to use our Website only for lawful purposes reasonably connected to the intended purpose of our Website, and you must not use our Website for or in connection with any unlawful or criminal activity.
We require from all of our Users to be respectful of other people, and to use the Website and our Service in compliance with the Community Rules. If you notice any violation of the terms set in this document, or other unacceptable behavior by any User, you should report such activity to BrightMuslim at mail at brightmuslim dot com.
Registration
To use some of the Services or features made available to You on our Website (including, but not limited to becoming a contributor and adding content for our Website), it is required to register by creating an account (an “Account”) and accepting any terms applicable to such registration as notified to you at the time of registration.
Information you provide in order to create the Account must be complete and accurate and kept updated, and will include a name, surname, website URL, and a valid e-mail address. After providing these details, you will be contacted by BrightMuslim.
You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your Account, and for keeping your Account password secure. You may not use another person’s user account or registration information for our Website without permission. You must notify us immediately of any change in your eligibility to use the Services, breach of security or unauthorized use of your Account. You shall have the ability to delete your Account, either directly or through a request made to one of our employees or affiliates.
You can join BrightMuslim newsletter, by providing your name, surname and e-mail address.
You can can make and publish your comments on the Content. Depending on the chosen settings, You may leave anonymous comments, or comment by logging in via your Disqus, Facebook, Twitter and Google account. By registering to BrightMuslim with third-party services like Disqus, Facebook, Twitter or Google, you give us the permission to access and use your information from those services as permitted by that service, and to store your log-in credentials for that service. For more information on the types of information we collect from these third-party services, please read our Privacy Policy.
Communication
By providing BrightMuslim your e-mail address in any way, you consent that we may use your e-mail address to send you Service-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail.
We may also use your email address to send you other messages, such as changes to features of the Service and special offers, or to propose services and products provided by third parties or unrelated to the Service. We participate in affiliate marketing and may provide marketing content in our e-mail correspondence with you, due to which BrightMuslim may earn a commission if/when you click on or make purchases via affiliate links. For more information, please read our Privacy Policy.
Community Rules; Suspension and Termination
By using our Website, you agree to be bound by the Community Rules located here which regulate the way our Services may be used and forbidden behavior of the Users.
Accordingly, we may suspend or terminate your registration and/or your ability to access or use any features, services or functionality of our Website at any time and for any reason, with or without prior notification to you.
Content
Content on the Website may be provided by you or by the BrightMuslim.
When the content is provided by you, it will be done under the following conditions:
By creating an Account, you will be allowed to post, link, store, share and otherwise make available certain information, text, graphics, videos, or other material (“User Content”) on the Website. The User Content you submit, post, display or make available by any other means, will be able to be viewed by other Users of the Services and by visitors to the Services from third-party sources. You should only provide User Content that you are comfortable sharing with others under these Terms.
You shall ensure that anything your post to our Website (including text, video and pictures) (a) is in accordance with any rules or acceptable use policies we may publish from time to time; (b) is not posted in breach of any duty of confidentiality or in infringement of any rights of a third party; (c) is not unlawful, defamatory, threatening, racist or libelous, or incitement to hatred or violence; (d) is not detrimental to people, institutions, or religions or to people’s privacy; (e) capable of causing harm to minors or unwarranted distress to any person; (f) is not detrimental to our trademarks or our Website content; (g) is not personal data of a third party; (h) does not advocate illegal activity or discuss illegal activities with the intent to commit them; (i) is not vulgar, obscene, discourteous or indecent.
User Content will be approved by BrightMuslim before made available to the public. We may, in our sole discretion, at any time, without notice to you and for any reason or no reason at all: a)refuse to publish any Content provided by you; b)remove, edit, modify or otherwise manipulate any User Content; c)remove or block any User Content from the Services.
License Grant
In relation to anything your post to our Website (including, but not limited to, text, pictures, video), you hereby grant to BrightMuslim a perpetual, irrevocable, free of charge and royalty free, transferable license, with the right to grant sub-licenses, to use, copy, edit, distribute, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and display, create derivative works from and do anything else whatsoever with that content, including (without limitation) publication and republication in any form, medium or technology (whether now known or later developed) in any part of the world). You agree that this licence will remain in effect even after the termination of your Account or the Services.
In particular, by posting a message or other content on our Website, you understand that such content becomes public domain. We may use your contribution to the Website (User Content), regardless of the form or way in which it has been done, for marketing and other purposes. You understand and agree that we can use these contributions without any compensation required to be paid to you, even after the Termination of the Account or the Services.
You warrant that you have the right to grant the license above, and that the exercise by us of that license shall not infringe any copyright or other intellectual property rights in any part of the world.
Intellectual Property
All materials on the Service and the Service itself and all Intellectual Property Rights contained therein or related thereto, whether contributed by the User, Us or third-parties, are the property of BrightMuslim and/or its licensors (together “Content”). You may not sell, license, modify, copy, or otherwise exploit the Content without our permission.
You specifically and explicitly understand and agree that you may not sell, license, modify, copy, or otherwise exploit, or use for any commercial purposes the Content that You contributed the Website.
Any Content contained on the Website, whether provided by us, our partners or our Users, is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws. You shall abide by all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any content accessed through the Services. The trademarks, logos, trade names and service marks, whether registered or unregistered (collectively the “Trademarks”) displayed on the Website are Trademarks of BrightMuslim and its third party partners. Nothing contained on the BrightMuslim Website shall be construed as granting by implication or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the BrightMuslim Website without the written permission of BrightMuslim or such third party that may own the Trademark.
Any unauthorized commercial use of the Content, including Trademarks, will violate the intellectual property rights of BrightMuslim and/or third parties associated with BrightMuslim and will be subject to BrightMuslim’s and/or those third party’s full legal rights and remedies.
Use licence
However, in accordance with aforementioned, BrightMuslim provides you with a license to use the Service for your personal, noncommercial use only and as expressly permitted by the features of the Service.
Use, reproduction, modification, distribution or storage of any Content for other than purposes of using the Services is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from us. You shall not sell, license, rent, or otherwise use or exploit any Content for commercial use or in any way that violates any third party right. BrightMuslim may terminate this license at any time for any reason or no reason.
WARRANTY DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
THE SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS”, “AS AVAILABLE” AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ANY WARRANTIES IMPLIED BY ANY COURSE OF PERFORMANCE OR USAGE OF TRADE, ALL OF WHICH ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. WE, AND OUR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, PARTNERS AND CONTENT PROVIDERS DO NOT WARRANT THAT: (I) THE SERVICES WILL BE SECURE OR AVAILABLE AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME OR LOCATION; (II) ANY DEFECTS OR ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED; (III) ANY CONTENT OR SOFTWARE AVAILABLE AT OR THROUGH THE SERVICES IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; OR (IV) THE RESULTS OF USING THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
We make no representations concerning any Content contained in or accessed through the Website. Except where such disclaimer of liability is prohibited by applicable law, we will not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, or legality of material or User Content or Our Content contained in or accessed through the Website
IN NO EVENT SHALL BRIGHTMUSLIM OR ANY OF THE PARTIES INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, AND/OR DELIVERING THIS WEBSITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER LOSSES, COSTS, OR EXPENSES OF ANY KIND WHICH MAY ARISE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, THROUGH ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR BROWSING OF THIS SITE OR THROUGH YOUR DOWNLOADING OF MATERIALS FROM THIS SITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANYTHING CAUSED BY BUGS, VIRUSES, OR ANY COMPUTER SYSTEM, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, OR PROGRAM MALFUNCTIONS, OR ANY OTHER ERRORS, FAILURES, OR DELAYS. IN NO EVENT WILL EDICIONES ALUX OR ANY OF OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS, OR ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR OF THE INABILITY TO USE ANY MATERIALS ON THIS WEB SITE. CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES.
IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS, EXCLUSIONS OR DISCLAIMERS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless BrightMuslim and its subsidiaries, agents, licensors, managers, and other affiliated companies, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Service, including any data or content transmitted by you; (ii) your violation of any provision of these Terms; (iii) your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any Right of Privacy or Intellectual Property Rights; (iv) your violation of any applicable law, rule or regulation; (v) any claim for damages that arise as a result of any of your Users Content or any that is submitted via your account; or (vi) any other party’s access and use of the Service with your unique username, password or other appropriate security code.
Availability
We do not guarantee that our Websites, or any Website content, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend our Website at any time without notice and for any reason, including for upgrade, maintenance, repair, prevention of damage, and investigation. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our websites at any time without notice. We shall have no liability to you (including in negligence) if our Website is not available for any reason, and we shall have no obligation to you to make sure that our Websites are available to you at any time.
Ownership and Copyright
Where possible, we will strive to ensure all images and videos are credited with a link back to their source. Should you own the copyright to any of the images or videos featured on our Website and would not like us to utilize them, please contact us via mail at brightmuslim dot com and they will be removed as soon as possible, and not later than 72 hours after the request has been made.
Privacy and security
We care about the privacy of our Users. You understand that by using the Service you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information and aggregate data as set forth in our Privacy Policy, and to have your Personally Identifiable Information collected, used, transferred to and processed by us. You acknowledge that you provide your information at your own risk.
Links to other websites
Our Service may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by BrightMuslim.
BrightMuslim has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that BrightMuslim shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.
Third party affiliates
We participate in affiliate marketing and may allow affiliate links to be encoded on some of our pages, Our Content or User Content. Due to this, BrightMuslim may earn a commission if/when you click on or make purchases via affiliate links.
Governing Law
These Terms shall be governed by the laws of Denmark, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. We each agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of a court located in Copenhagen, Denmark, for any actions for which either party retains the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief.
Changes to this Terms of Service
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. Please review this section from time to time to be aware of the current version of the Terms.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about these terms, please contact us at mail at brightmuslim dot com.