Terms of Use

These Terms of Use are a binding agreement that, together with the Privacy Policy and License Agreement, govern your use of this PressReader service (“Service”), provided on behalf of DT Next. By using this Service, or any other services offered by PressReader, created and branded on behalf of DT Next available through a mobile app store or otherwise (“App”), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, which include our Privacy Policy and Software License Agreement.

If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, don’t use the Service, the Websites, the App, or the e-paper. If you do use the Service, the Websites, App or other services, we’ll take that as your ongoing agreement to these Terms of Use, including any changes that we make to them later.

You are responsible for keeping your account information accurate. That includes your geographic location and account information (where applicable).

You are also responsible for keeping your password confidential as well as anything you do with respect to the Services using your Registered Account.

1. Rights and Responsibilities

Please review our Privacy Policy, because it explains how we collect, use and protect your personal information, including submissions, comments and any other information shared via the app and e-paper.

By posting or uploading Submissions using the Services, you’re giving us permission to host that Submission indefinitely. In legal terms, that means you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce, store, adapt, translate, modify, make derivative works from, transmit, distribute, publicly perform or display such Submissions for any purpose (“Rights”) and to sublicense to third parties the unrestricted right to exercise any of the Rights.

You agree to waive all moral rights in any Submission to DT Next, and you consent to your public-facing Registered Account information, including without limitation your Nickname and photo, appearing as the contributor of any Submission, where applicable. You also consent to the disclosure and/or display of such information and any other information which appears in or is associated with a Submission.

You acknowledge and agree that neither PressReader nor any of our Content Providers (as defined below) are responsible for any loss, damage, or corruption that may occur to your Submissions; and you acknowledge and agree that Submissions are never considered confidential.

DT Next may review Submissions before they are posted and may refuse to post any Submission.

Where applicable, a publisher of a Publication or other content featured as part of the Services (“Content Provider”) to which your Submission relates — for example, where your Submission is a comment on content provided by the Content Provider — may also review a Submission before it is posted and reserve the right, in their discretion, to edit or remove any Submission, for any reason, whether or not the Submission is in violation of these Terms of Use.

Neither DT Next nor any Content Provider is responsible for the content of any Submission. Submissions represent the views and opinions of the person(s) posting the Submission and do not represent the views or opinions of DT Next, the Content Provider, or respective author(s), or publisher(s).

DT Next has no obligation to investigate any complaint regarding any Submission; however, DT Next and any Content Provider may, in their sole discretion, investigate complaints and take any actions deemed appropriate in the circumstances, including, without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Services and terminating the submitting party's right to access and use the Services (or any portion of the Services).

2. Information Technology Rules for India, 2021

As per the Information Technology Rules for India, 2021, please refrain from the following:

Posting or transmitting any threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, that constitutes or encourages conduct that would be a criminal offence, give rise to liability to any person, or otherwise violate any local, state, provincial, national or international law or regulation;
Posting or transmitting any Submission — including, without limitation, articles, images, stories, software or other material — which violates or infringes upon the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by any intellectual property rights, without first obtaining permission from the owner or rights holder;
Posting or transmitting any submission that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual, could be harmful to minors, harasses or advocates harassment of another person, provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, provides instructional information about illegal activities, ...
Posting or transmitting any submission which solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
Posting or transmitting any submission which contains a virus or other harmful component, or provides or creates computer viruses;
Posting or transmitting junk mail, chain-letters, unsolicited mass mailing or spam; or using the Services for commercial purposes — including, without limitation, posting, uploading or transmitting any Submissions which contain advertising or which engage in commercial activities and/or sales, or which involve contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and/or pyramid schemes.

3. Intellectual Property

DT Next owns intellectual property rights in (i) the content included within the Publications; the selection, coordination, and arrangement of the Service, the Website, the App and the Publications contained within them.

Publications may not be modified, reverse engineered, redistributed, sold, publicly displayed, licensed, rented, or otherwise provided to a third party or commercially exploited. We do not grant you any licenses — express or implied — to the intellectual property of DT Next or our licensors and collaborators.

4. Fees, Billing and Payment

(a) Subscriptions

DT Next may charge fees in connection with a Subscription. You agree to pay all applicable fees in connection with your Subscription, by either credit card or other form of payment currently accepted by DT Next, including, where available, election to pay for your Subscription as an item on a bill provided to you by a Partner (each, a “Payment Method”).

(b) Currency Conversion and Associated Fees

When you purchase a Subscription, DT Next will charge you a price in the currency shown. If your financial institution converts the purchase amount to your local currency, the resulting price may change, depending on the conversion rate. Your financial institution may charge you a fee for this service. DT Next is not responsible for any fees that your financial institution charges for performing currency conversions, for any price difference that may result due to conversion rates, or for any changes in conversion rates.

(c) Changes to Payment Method, NSF and Insufficient Funds

You need to make sure your Payment Methods saved are up to date. You’ll be responsible for any costs due to insufficient funds or other charges, including chargebacks, that we incur in connection with payment processing of your account.

5. Disclaimers

You understand and agree that:

Your use of the DT Next e-paper and app is at your sole risk;
The DT Next Products are provided “as is” and “where available” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of title, non-infringement, non-interference, accuracy of data, accuracy of translation, availability, timing, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, other than those warranties which are implied by and are incapable of exclusion, restriction or modification under applicable law;
You bear the sole responsibility for obtaining and maintaining reliable internet connectivity, typically through a third-party internet service provider, and that DT Next is not responsible for nor will issue refunds for your inability to connect to the Websites or the App, or to view the Publications or use the Service;
The Publications, Submissions or other content made available to you through DT Next is for entertainment purposes only, and should not be relied upon. Neither DT Next nor its content partners make any representations concerning the appropriateness, accuracy, reliability, usefulness, completeness or timeliness of such Publications, Submissions or other content made available to you.

6. Limitation of Liability

We’re not responsible for your use or misuse of the DT Next e-paper and app. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will DT Next or its affiliates, licensors, Content Providers, partners or agents be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential (including without limitation loss of profits) or punitive damages arising out of your use of or inability to use the e-paper and app.