Introduction and General Rules
Wall Street Hedge is an online news media outlet that delivers news coverage and articles to its readership. Aside from its public-facing websites, Wall Street Hedge (henceforth named “we”, “us”, “our”, “the website”) also operates mobile-optimized versions of the website, apps and other similar content that is provided to mobile device users. All content, materials and such apps or websites are collectively referred to as “the Sites”.
The present document represents Wall Street Hedge’s Terms of Service Agreement, and is a binding contract between yourself, the visitor, and us. The provisions herein described govern the manner in which you are permitted to use the Sites and their functions and features. Additionally, please make sure to also consult our online Privacy Policy, a document that describes the manner in which Wall Street Hedge collects information, manages it, uses it and stores it. Your use of the Sites must comply with any and all applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations.
Please note that Wall Street Hedge and the services it provides is ever-changing and continuously improving. Consequently, our Terms of Service agreement may also be subject to constant amendments. Ensure that you regularly revisit the Agreement to become aware of these modifications, as they become enforceable from the moment that they have been publicly posted.
YOUR USE OF OR ACCESS TO THE SITES AND THE SERVICES REPRESENTS A BINDING AGREEMENT THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND PROMISED TO COMPLY WITH THE AGREEMENT’S PROVISIONS AS THEY ARE HEREIN PRESENTED. YOUR CONTINUED USE OR ACCESS TO THE SITES AND THE SERVICES ONCE ANY MODIFICATION HAS BEEN MADE PUBLIC ALSO REPRESENTS A BINDING AGREEMENT THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND PROMISED TO COMPLY WITH THE MODIFICATIONS AS THEY ARE POSTED.
If you do not agree with the provisions of this document, please DO NOT access the Sites and do not use the features or the services.
We reserve the right to suspend, terminate or revoke your access to the services at any time and without offering you any prior notice. Additionally, we also reserve the right to modify any components or disclaimers, terms and conditions presented in this document without notice, reason and at any time.
Website access and use
Wall Street Hedge offers its readership free-of-charge access to the Sites and Services, including Mobile content. By doing so, we create no professional relationship between yourself and us.
Your use of the Sites and Services is designed to serve your personal, educational, informational and non-commercial purposes, and as such, you are prohibited from developing any data and information that you may have obtained via Wall Street Hedge for commercial, sale or other similar purposes. More specifically, you are hereby expressly and explicitly forbidden to use the materials, information or content presented to you via the Sites or Services in the following manner:
- To copy, modify or download the material;
- To distribute, upload, sell, perform, or transmit the material;
- To reproduce, copy, translate, sell, us it as the basis for derivative works
- In any way exploit the materials for other purposes than those explicitly contained in this Agreement.
Website content and user generated content
Wall Street Hedge, the Sites and the Services, including but without limitations, any and all content and materials present on the Sites (such as, but not limited to, text, written articles, images, illustrations, graphics, documentation, audio files, video clips, design, website feel, scripts, software, etc.) are protected by US and international copyright law, being the property of Wall Street Hedge except for the situations when otherwise declared. Any other trademarks and copyrights fall under the property of their respective owners.
Upon your use of the services, you are not granted any license or rights to any of the aforementioned patents, trademarks or copyright and any other property of Wall Street Hedge.
Wall Street Hedge allows its readership to contribute to the community by taking part in discussions within our discussion threads and comments sections. Please be advised that your use of such features are connected to certain regulations and provisions that you must comply with. First and foremost, you hereby acknowledge that any materials, content, images, text or data that you have contributed via these mediums are owned by you and that you agree to license and sublicense that particular content to Wall Street Hedge, its partners, and subsidiaries. When doing so, you are granting Wall Street Hedge (including all those that we deem authorized) a perpetual, fully-paid, global, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free and perpetual license to copy, modify, download the material, distribute, upload, sell, perform, or transmit the material, reproduce, copy, translate, sell, us it as the basis for derivative works and exploit the materials in any way we see fit. Additionally, due to the public nature of the Services and discussion forums, you also automatically grant all users of Wall Street Hedge a non-exclusive access license to your content through the Sites as well as the permission of republishing, reproducing, distributing, displaying and performing such Content.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT YOU ARE PROHIBITED FROM POSTING OR CONTRIBUTING CONTENT AND MATERIALS THAT YOU DO NOT OWN OR TO WHICH YOU HAVE NOT OBTAINED THE NECESSARY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PERMISSIONS. WALL STREET HEDGE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR YOUR INABILITY OF OBTAINING THE AFOREMENTIONED RIGHTS.
Your contributions to the discussion threads are your sole responsibility and this use must, first and foremost, not hinder or inhibit the experience of other Wall Street Hedge users. As such, you hereby warrant that you will not engage in any use of the service that is deemed unacceptable or objectionable, including, but without limitation:
- Content that is harmful, abusive, threatening or harassing;
- Content that is unlawful, misleading, error-laden, false, offensive, tortuous, defamatory, abusive, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, pornographic in nature, libelous, hateful, ethnically objectionable, racially objectionable, or objectionable in any way;
- You may not offer to perform financial transactions, sell, purchase or otherwise encourage the trading of equity;
- Attempt to store, harvest, collect, use or disclose personally identifiable information about other Wall Street Hedge users;
- Content that misrepresents you, other people, institutions or entities;
- Content that represents unauthorized and unsolicited advertising, that promotes services, materials, and goods;
- Is in violation of any local, state or federal law;
- Misrepresent your connection with us, or otherwise imply that Wall Street Hedge endorses you or is in any way affiliated to you;
- Employ any software or automatic devices that attempt to crawl, scrape, copy, index, monitor, spider, decompile, reverse-engineer, deconstruct or otherwise disassemble the Site’s architecture and contents;
- Attempt to remove, cover, brush out or otherwise make unavailable the copyright, trademark or other intellectual proprietary notices contained in the website content and sites;
If at any time, the content offered by Wall Street Hedge challenges your beliefs, is deemed unacceptable by you or doesn’t fulfill your expectations and requirements, please discontinue your access to the Services.
Wall Street Hedge reserves the right, however not the obligation, to edit, modify, monitor or remove any such user contributed content. As such, we may alter any parts of the contributions and comments found in the comment areas, it may ask for responses, host discussions and even remove any information that we deem unacceptable, objectionable, inappropriate or unlawful.
Limitation of Liability, Disclaimers, and Indemnity
Despite the fact that Wall Street Hedge strives to offer the best content possible, we cannot warrant as to the accuracy of the materials, information, and content that is delivered through our Services and Sites. As this information mostly relies on data that we obtain through other sources, we cannot offer any warranties as to the error-free, omission-free, accurate nature of the information and any stories derived thereon.
Consequently, you hereby warrant that you are solely responsible for analyzing the completeness, accuracy, correctness, error-free nature, reliability and value of the information brought to you by Wall Street Hedge. Additionally, you hereby acknowledge that this information is presented on an “as available” basis.
WALL STREET HEDGE OFFERS NO WARRANTIES AND ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR THE INACCURACIES, LACK OF TIMELINESS, INTERRUPTIONS OR ERRORS OF THE MATERIALS OFFERED. THESE LIMITATIONS OF WARRANTY, BE IT EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, ALSO APPLIES TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, PURPOSE FITNESS, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTY THAT OUR MATERIALS, INFORMATION OR CONTENT WILL BE SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED, COMPLETE, OFFERED IN A TIMELY MANNER, ERROR-FREE OR CONFIDENTIAL. PLEASE NOTE THAT WALL STREET HEDGE OFFERS NO OPINIONS, ADVICE (BE IT FINANCIAL, HEALTH-RELATED OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF ADVICE) AND AS SUCH, WE OFFER NO WARRANTY IN THE CASE OF ANY AND ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, COSTS OR EXPENSES IN THE CASE OF YOUR RELIANCE ON OR MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY US.
WALL STREET HEDGE HEREBY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY THAT MAY ARISE IN CONNECTION TO OR AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE, MISUSE OR INABILITY TO USE OR UNDERSTAND THE CONTENT, THE SITES, THE SERVICES OR THE MATERIALS PROVIDED TO YOU, EVEN IN THE CASE OF ERRORS, OMISSIONS, INCOMPLETENESS, LIBEL, SLANDER, FALSEHOOD, DEFAMATION, OBSCENITY, PROPHANITY OR INACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION. ADDITIONALLY, WE ALSO DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY THAT MAY ARISE IN CONNECTION TO OR AS A RESULT OF THE INCORRECT FUNCTIONING OF THE SERVICES AND SITES, THEIR INTERRUPTIONS, OR THE SITUATION IN WHICH THEY CONTAIN HARMFUL SOFTWARE AND APPLICATIONS SUCH AS MALWARE, SPYWARE OR VIRUSES.
WALL STREET HEDGE, INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT LIMITATIONS, ITS MANAGERS, PARTNERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, CONTRIBUTORS, OFFICERS, SUBSIDIARIES, PARENT COMPANIES, AFFILIATES, AND LICENSORS, WILL NOT AND CANNOT BE HELD LIABLE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE AND FOR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
- INDIRECT, DIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, EXPENSES, COSTS OR LOSSES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO ATTORNEY’S FEES)
IN ANY AND ALL CASES, LEGAL THEORY THAT INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO BREACH OF WARRANTY, BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERS, REGARDLESS OF THE SITUATION, CIRCUMSTANCE AND EVEN IN THE CASE THAT WALL STREET HEDGE WAS INFORMED THAT SUCH DAMAGES, COSTS, LOSSES OR EXPENSES COULD HAVE ARISEN.
SPECIFIC STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE COMPLETE EXCLUSION OR THE LIMITATION OF SUCH LIABILITIES WHEN PERTAINING TO PARTICULAR TYPES OF DAMAGES, IN WHICH CASE, THE WALL STREET HEDGE’S , INCLUDING ALL THE AFOREMENTIONED MANAGERS’, PARTNERS’, DIRECTORS’, EMPLOYEES’, AGENTS’, CONTRIBUTORS’, OFFICERS’, SUBSIDIARIES’, PARENT COMPANIES’, AFFILIATES’ AND LICENSORS’, LIABILITY WILL ONLY BE LIMITED TO THE MINIMUM AMOUNT AS IT IS PERMITTED BY THE LAW.
You hereby indemnify and hold harmless Wall Street Hedge, including but without limitation, its managers, partners, directors, employees, agents, contributors, officers, subsidiaries, parent companies, affiliates and licensors, from and against any and all costs, damages, losses, claims, expenses that may have resulted out of the following:
- Your inability to respect the present agreement, including any actual or alleged violations of our Terms of Service;
- Any case of copyright infringement regarding or pertaining to the user generated content that you have submitted or transmitted;
- Your use, misuse or inability to use the services as they are provided and under the herein described provisions.
This agreement, including our Privacy Policy, represents our sole statement and are the two documents that completely describe the rules and regulations governing your use of the services.
Last Update: 20.08.2015