Privacy Policy & Disclaimer
The following statements detail the privacy policy of The Minus World, Llc. If you have any questions or comments please contact us at info [at] the-minusworld [dot] com
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TERMS OF USE
This statement cover the Minus World, LLC’s websites (the “Sites”) and any associated content including email and RSS feeds. Please read this statement carefully before proceeding to access any of the sites. Your use of the Sites indicates your agreement to abide by the Terms in effect. Please note that the Minus World websites are entertainment websites and include comedy and parody you are advised that any and all information given on the site is intended solely for the purpose of parody and is protected speech as such.
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Use of Content
The Minus World, LLC provides a general license to use any of our feeds, provided that they are not modified in anyway (including the stripping of ads) with the exception of image stripping as detailed below:
All commercial uses of feeds (e.g. websites generating revenue through advertisements including AdSense) must strip all images from the feed to ensure copyright compliance with our third party photographic agency licenses.
Web Syndication Terms of Use
- The Site logo and URL must appear prominently at the top of each page displaying site content.
- Internal links in the Site content must not be removed.
- The format or branding of the headlines, text and other information provided in the RSS feeds must not be modified.
- “More From…” links back to original Site at the end of each post must be included on content pages and may not be removed.
Print Syndication Terms of Use
- The Site logo and URL must appear prominently at the top of each section displaying site content.
- Content will appear unedited, except for replacement of hyperlinks with full URLs and use of product manufacturer’s site links where appropriate.
- Images from a Site must not be used in print without you obtaining the appropriate copyright clearances yourself.
General Terms of Use
- The RSS feeds may not be spliced into or otherwise redistributed by third-party RSS providers.
- No content, including any advertisements or other promotional content, shall be added to the RSS feeds.
- Images must be removed from open syndication feeds and commercial feeds (please contact The Minus World, LLC for more details)
- The Minus World, LLC reserves the right to object to your presentation of the RSS feeds and the right to require you to cease using the RSS feeds at any time.
- The Minus World, LLC further reserves the right to terminate its distribution of the RSS feeds or change the content or formatting of the RSS feeds at any time without notice to you.
- The Minus World, LLC provides this content “as is” and The Minus World, LLC shall not be held liable for your use of the information or the feeds.
- Use of a Site’s content, including text and images, on your site, or in print, is entirely at your discretion. The Minus World, LLC is not responsible for any complaints regarding content or images that you choose to display on your site or in print.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED, THE MINUS WORLD, LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES INCLUDING WARRANTIES FOR MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. By accessing the RSS feeds or the XML instructions provided above, you indicate that you understand and agree to these terms and conditions.
Corresponding with The Minus World, LLC
Any correspondence with the Sites or with The Minus World, LLC, including any documentation or images, are considered property of The Minus World, LLC. The Minus World, LLC reserves the right to reproduce such correspondence, in whole or in part, on any of the Sites or its affiliates.
Comments Terms of Use
The comments sections on Sites are accessible to users by invitation only (such invitations coming either from The Minus World, LLC editors directly or by referral from existing comment users). GM’s comment user registration system has been designed so that, if the user so chooses, they can remain completely anonymous, even to us.
In order to make our comments useful and interesting, the following guidelines have been established for comment users:
- Do not post threatening, harassing, defamatory, or libelous material.
- Do not intentionally make false or misleading statements.
- Do not offer to sell or buy any product or service.
- Do not post material that infringes copyright.
- Do not post information that you know to be confidential or sensitive or otherwise in breach of the law.
- Keep all comments relevant to the particular GM Site where the comment is being posted.
- The Minus World, LLC will not accept responsibility for information posted in the Comments.
Please note that once you post a comment to one of our sites, it becomes part of the public conversation. Our policy is that we will not remove a user’s comments unless we deem them to be in violation of our Terms of Service. So if you want to say something that you will later regret personally, it is advisable that you use a username that does not identify you. We cannot remove your comments simply because you have a change of heart about making them.
However, The Minus World, LLC reserves the right to remove comments entirely at its discretion, including for alleged violations of terms of service or legal rights.
The Minus World, LLC is not responsible for the content of user comments. If a third party complains that your comment violates our TOS or their rights, we will invite them to respond in the comments themselves. If they pursue the complaint, we will make reasonable efforts to contact you by the means you have provided us, to alert you to the situation. We will protect your contact information as described in our privacy policy, but may be compelled to turn it over pursuant to legal process.
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Image Terms of Use
The Minus World, LLC sites typically display images as part of blog posts written by our editors. The types of images editors are authorized to use on The Minus World, LLC sites include:
- Images licensed from photographic archive vendors
- Images supplied to our editors or released into the public domain by public relations and marketing companies for press purposes
- Reader-submitted images, with the implied representation that the person submitting the image owns the copyright in the image and the right to give it to us for use on our site(s)
- Images published on Flickr or other public photo sites with licenses granted under Creative Commons, with attribution in accordance with the CC license granted in each case
- Images commissioned by The Minus World, LLC
- Images that we believe to be covered by the Fair Use Doctrine, such as:
- Thumbnail images of 150×150 pixels or less, cropped or reduced in size from the original source
- Images used to illustrate a newsworthy story, where the image itself is the story
- Images used in a transformative manner, such as for parody
- Images so widely distributed that they are deemed to have become part of the news
If The Minus World, LLC receives notice that an image posted is not in keeping with these terms and conditions or the intended use of the Comments section where it is posted, we reserve to right to remove that image.
If you think we have published an image or text that infringes your copyright, we will address your concerns; however, if the image falls into one of the categories listed above, we believe that our use of the image is legitimate and we will not remove it from the site.
Please note that we will respond only to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The text of the Act can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site, http://lcWeb.loc.gov/copyright/
To file a notice of infringement with us, you must provide a written communication (by email with an attached and signed PDF or by fax) that sets forth the items specified below. Please do not send us regular mail, as we may not receive it in a timely fashion. In all cases, if you do not hear a response from us within 10 days of submitting a complaint, please telephone us at (212) 655-9524 x432 to confirm that we received your original complaint. Spam blockers sometimes devour important emails from strangers!
To enable us to address your concerns, please provide the following information:
- For each allegedly infringing image or piece of text that you wish to have removed from one of our sites, provide the exact permanent URL for the page containing the material.
- Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you: an email address is preferred, as well as a telephone contact number.
- Provide the following information detailing your claim to ownership of the copyright in the allegedly infringing material:
- Proof of copyright in the image or text concerned, namely proof of registration of the Image under the DMCA, OR, absent such registration, a detailed description of where the photograph was taken, by whom, who or what the subject of the image is, AND Evidence to support your claim that you own the copyright in the image.
- We will not comply with requests to remove an image where the complainant cannot prove that they own the copyright in the image in question.
- Include the following statement: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.”
- Sign the document and email it to: info [at] the-minusworld [dot] com
Please note that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) if you materially misrepresent that any material on our sites is infringing your copyrights.
Indeed, in a recent case a company that sent an infringement notification seeking removal of online materials that were protected by the Fair Use doctrine was ordered to pay such costs and attorneys’ fees. The company agreed to pay over $100,000. Accordingly, if you are not sure whether material available online infringes your copyright, we suggest that you first contact an attorney.
We also reserve the right to publish your letter on the site(s).
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External Links Disclaimer
Sites routinely contain links to external, third party websites. By providing links to other sites, The Minus World, LLC does not guarantee, approve or endorse the information or products available at these sites, nor does a link indicate any association with or endorsement by the linked site to the GM Site in question.
The Minus World, LLC does not operate or control and has no responsibility for the information, products and/or services found on any external sites. Nor do such links represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any information, products and/or services provided on or through any external sites, including, without limitation, warranties of any kind, either express or implied, warranties of title or non-infringement or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Visitors to Sites assume complete responsibility and risk in their use of any external sites. Visitors should direct any concerns regarding any external link to its site administrator or webmaster.
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The Minus World, Llc. will never share or sell your email with any third party. We will never spam you. We will never ask for any personal information via email, including credit card information, passwords, or phone numbers. If a user chooses to sign up to an email list, they will receive regular emails from us which may possibly contain advertisements from our third party sponsors. If you choose to be removed from the email list and/or do not wish to receive emails from The Minus World, we will stop emails to your email address. If you wish not to receive emails from us ahead of time or have issues or problems concerning email or being removed from our email list, please contact us at info [at] the-minusworld [dot] com.
Information Ownership
The Minus World, Llc. is the sole owner of any information collected on the-minusworld.com.]
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Mailing List
The Minus World, LLC may launch a mailing list for some or all of the Sites. In order to sign up to receive regular emails from a site?s mailing list, users must submit information including a valid email address and demographic information such as location and interests. This information will be used in aggregate form only in order to assess general user interest in various internal and third party products and services, and your personal and contact information will not be passed to any other organization. Users who choose to sign up for a mailing list will receive regular emails from the site, including new articles added to the site as well as emails from third party site sponsors. If you do not wish to receive emails from third party advertisers, do not sign up for the mailing list.
Discussion Group and Cookies
In order to further enhance the user experience, The Minus World, LLC may launch a discussion board service on some or all of the Sites where users can discuss common topics of interest. Users will have the option of signing up for this service, and to do so must submit information including a valid email address. The Minus World, LLC uses this information to screen out users who leave comments prohibited by our terms and conditions of use and to pick out topics of interest to discussion board users. The Minus World, LLC will not pass this information to any other organization except in aggregate form.
The discussion board service may use cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We may use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on the user?s hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions.
By setting a cookie on a GM Site, users will not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on the site?s discussion board. We store a cookie on each user’s machine that contains a username and encrypted password. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use The Minus World, LLC products or services that require you to “sign in,” and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings. However, not all The Minus World, LLC services require that you accept cookies.
Comments
A part of creating a rich user experience for the-minusworld.com includes the comment sections. These comments are for entertainment purposes only and are left by users of the site. We collect email addresses to validate users, prevent spam, and moderate inappropriate comments only. Email address will not be sold or shared to third parties. Comments may be deleted if we feel they are inappropriate at our own discretion.
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Cookies
Cookies may be used to record personal information. We do not share or sell this information to or with any third party. You do not need cookies enabled to view the-minusworld.com. Cookies can be disabled within most browsers’ settings if you wish to do so.
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Third Party Cookies
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, The Minus World, LLC has no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by The Minus World, LLC only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Third Party Advertisers
Advertisers placing ads on the-minusworld.com may use cookies to track how many times each visitor views certain ads. We do not retain this data but is collected by the advertisers themselves.
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Traffic Statistics
The Minus World collects data such as visitor internet protocol (IP) addresses, internet service provider (ISP), referring pages, referrer strings, browser software, number of clicks, and the date and time pages are loaded. We only use this information in the aggregate to provide internal information for site optimization and report traffic statistics to advertisers.
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Legal
The Minus World, Llc. takes all measures to preserve privacy. However, we may be required by law to disclose certain information. Such actions will only be done so under that of court order.
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Links
The Minus World frequently links to other websites. This privacy statement only applies to information collected by The Minus World, Llc. The Minus World, Llc. is not responsible for the content or business practices of the websites we may link to. We encourage you to read each website’s privacy policy.
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Notification of Changes
Whenever The Minus World, LLC changes its privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
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Contact Information
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact the editor of the GM site in question, or send an email to info@theminusworld.com, or by mail to info [at] the-minusworld [dot] com. We will try to answer any questions within 48 hours.
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DISCLAIMER
All of the The Minus World, LLC titles are gossip and parody sites. The sites publish both rumors and conjecture, humor and parody in addition to accurately reported information. Information on the sites may contain errors or inaccuracies; the sites’ proprietors do not make any warranty as to the correctness or reliability of the sites’ content. Links to content on and quotation of material from other sites are not the responsibility of The Minus World, LLC.
Email sent to any of the The Minus World, LLC sites is considered our property. We will respect and protect anonymous sources as tipsters, but all correspondence is considered available for publication.
All The Minus World, LLC sites are in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. For more information on the legality of thumbnail usage of photographs, please download the 9th Circuit Court’s ruling (Kelly vs Arriba Soft Corp, July 7th 2003) by clicking here (PDF file).
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The -Minus World is not intended to be read by anyone under the age of 18. Or Canadians.
