Periscope Media Limited welcomes you to PeriscopePost.com, your online source for the best of news and the best of views. These are our terms and conditions for use of the The Periscope Post online network, which you may access in several ways, including but not limited to the World Wide Web, PDA, mobile phone and RSS feeds. These terms and conditions apply whenever you access the network, on whatever device. In these terms and conditions, when we say ThePeriscopePost.com, we mean this network, regardless of how you access it.

By using the network, you are deemed to have accepted these conditions.

Some areas of ThePeriscopePost.com require registration. By completing the initial registration form and by entering your email address and password, you will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. Also, by subscribing to any of our email services, you are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. If you register with ThePeriscopePost.com, you should read our privacy policy.

If you have registered with us and subsequently change your details, you should immediately notify us of any changes by emailing the user support team at registration@periscopepost.com.

Any changes we make to the terms and conditions will be reflected on this page.

1. Registration

When you register, you are registering as a personal user of ThePeriscopePost.com. Access to registration areas is via your email address and password.

We allow you access to the registration areas of the site on the basis that:

(i) your email address and password are personal to you and may not be used by anyone else to access ThePeriscopePost.com

(ii) you will not do anything which would assist anyone who is not a registered user to gain access to any registration area of ThePeriscopePost.com

(iii) you do not maliciously create additional registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor do you seek to pass yourself off as another user

(iv) you comply with these terms and conditions.

If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may, at our discretion, cancel your access to the registration areas of ThePeriscopePost.com immediately and without giving you any advance notice.

2. Termination of registration

If we wish to bring the agreement to an end, we will do so by emailing you at the address you have registered stating that the agreement has terminated. The agreement will terminate and your email address and password will become invalid on guardian.co.uk immediately.

3. Use of material appearing on ThePeriscopePost.com

For the purposes of this agreement, “material” means material including, without limitation, text, video, graphics and sound material, published on the Periscope Post network, whether copyright of Periscope Media Limited or a third party.

You may download and print extracts from the material and make copies of these for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You are not allowed to download or print the material, or extracts from it, in a systematic or regular manner or otherwise so as to create a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the material appearing on ThePeriscopePost.com.

You must not reproduce any part of ThePeriscopePost.com or the material or transmit it to or store it in any other website or disseminate any part of the material in any other form, unless we have indicated that you may do so.

4. Disclaimer of liability

To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the material. You must not rely on any statement we have published on ThePeriscopePost.com without first taking specialist professional advice. Nothing in the material is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person.

For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to the material or any part of it (except for death or personal injury attributable to our negligence and to the extent permitted at law).

You can access other sites via links from ThePeriscopePost.com. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.

We give no warranties of any kind concerning ThePeriscopePost.com or the material. In particular, we do not warrant that ThePeriscopePost.com or any of its contents is virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything that has destructive properties.

5. Third party material on ThePeriscopePost.com

You will see advertising material submitted by third parties on ThePeriscopePost.com. Individual advertisers are solely responsible for the content of advertising material which they submit to us, including ensuring that it complies with relevant legislation. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.

If you want to advertise on ThePeriscopePost.com, please email Thomas D. Gommes at thomas@periscopepost.com or follow the link below:

Advertising contact.

We are not responsible for and do not necessarily hold the opinions expressed by our content contributors: Opinions and other statements expressed by users and third parties (e.g., bloggers and other contributors to the Views section) are theirs alone, and are not opinions of ThePeriscopePost.com or of Periscope Media, Ltd. Content created by third parties is the sole responsibility of the third parties and its accuracy and completeness are not endorsed or guaranteed. You acknowledge that by providing you with the ability to view and distribute content through our site, ThePeriscopePost.com is not undertaking any obligation or liability relating to the content. ThePeriscopePost.com and its affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders do not undertake or assume any duty to monitor our site for inappropriate or unlawful content. ThePeriscopePost.com and its affiliates, successors, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders assume no responsibility or liability which may arise from the content thereof, including, but not limited to, claims for defamation, libel, slander, infringement, invasion of privacy and publicity rights, obscenity, pornography, profanity, fraud, misrepresentation, or copyright violation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, ThePeriscopePost.com reserves the right to block or remove communications, postings or materials at any time in our sole discretion.

6. Submitting graphical material and photography to ThePeriscopePost.com

Interactions with our site are governed by our Community Policies which are incorporated in these Terms and Conditions and reproduced below [Link]. You will be deemed to consent to these policies if you choose to post any content or comments to the site.

When you send a photograph or other graphical material to us you do so in accordance with these Terms of service.

This means that you hereby agree that you have taken the photograph(s) you have sent to us or you have permission from or are authorised by the owner of the photograph(s) to send it (them) to us, and you are granting us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish or otherwise use the photograph(s) in any way and at any time we want on the ThePeriscopePost.com web site.

Selected photographs and graphical material will be published at the discretion of the editor and you will not be paid, even if your photograph(s) is (are) published.

We may cut, edit, crop or arrange your photograph(s) or graphic as we think fit to appear on the ThePeriscopePost.com web site, and we may remove your photograph(s) or graphics at any time.

Your name will be published alongside your photograph(s) or graphic, but we may edit or delete any comments that you submit along with your photograph(s) or graphic.

IMPORTANT: You or the owner of the photograph(s) still own the copyright in the photograph(s) sent to us and are free to republish the photograph(s) wherever you or the owner wish and in whatever medium you or the owner want.

7. Submitting text to ThePeriscopePost.com

Interactions with our site are governed by our Community Policies which are incorporated in these Terms and Conditions and reproduced below [Link]. You will be deemed to consent to these policies if you choose to post any content or comments to the site.

Users of our site may submit material for publication in various areas of the site. We accept no liability in respect of any material submitted by users and published by us and we are not responsible for its content and accuracy.

If you want to submit material to us for publication on ThePeriscopePost.com, you may do so on the following terms and conditions:

(i) publication of any material you submit to us will be at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to make additions or deletions to the text or graphics prior to publication, or to refuse publication.

(ii) you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish any material you submit to us in any format, including without limitation print and electronic format.

(iii) you warrant to us that any material you submit to us is your own original work and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights.

(iv) you warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal.

(v) you agree not to post material which is deliberately intended to upset other users.

(vi) you acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause us damage or loss and you agree to indemnify us in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing material you submit to us, including consequential losses.

(vii) we reserve the right to remove your access to individual services completely if we believe you are abusing the services in any way.

Interactions with our site are governed by our Community Policies, which expand on the points above and are incorporated in these Terms and Conditions. You will be deemed to consent to these policies if you choose to post any content or comments to the site.

8. Data protection

Please see our privacy policy for details of how personal data may be processed.

9. Variations

These terms may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the site after it has been posted. Details of variations will be posted in section 12 below.

10. Force majeure

Although we will do our best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to ThePeriscopePost.com, we do not guarantee this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.

11. Governing law & jurisdiction

This agreement is governed by English law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

12. Details of variations

Variations to these Terms and Conditions are posted below:

There are currently no variations to these Terms and Conditions:

Community Policies

Scope

This document covers all aspects of community interaction and moderation on ThePeriscopePost.com, including comments on blogs or articles.

Moderation aims

ThePeriscopePost.com website provides a growing number of opportunities for readers who wish to discuss content we publish, or debate issues more generally. Our aim is to ensure this platform is inclusive and safe, and that ThePeriscopePost.com is the place on the net where you will always find lively, entertaining and intelligent discussions.

Community standards

There are some basic guidelines that we expect all participants in the community areas of ThePeriscopePost.com to abide by, all of which directly inform our approach to community moderation (detailed below). These apply across the site, while moderation decisions are also informed by the context in which comments are made.

1. We welcome debate and dissent, but personal attacks on authors, other users or any individual will not be tolerated

2. We understand that people often feel strongly about issues debated on the site, but we will consider removing any content that others might find extremely offensive or threatening. Please respect other people’s views and beliefs and consider your impact on others when making your contribution.

3. We will not tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia or other forms of hate-speech, or contributions that could be interpreted as such.

4. We will remove any content that may put us in legal jeopardy, such as potentially libellous or defamatory postings, or material posted in potential breach of copyright.

5. We will remove any posts that are obviously commercial or otherwise spam-like. Our aim is that this site should provide a space for people to interact with our content and each other, and we actively discourage commercial entities passing themselves off as individuals, in order to post advertising material or links. This may also apply to people or organisations who frequently post propaganda or external links without adding substantively to the quality of the discussion on ThePeriscopePost.com.

6. Keep it relevant. We know that some conversations can be wide-ranging, but if you post something which is unrelated to the original topic (“off-topic”) then it may be removed, in order to keep the thread on track. This also applies to queries or comments about moderation, which should not be posted as comments.

7. Be aware that you may be misunderstood, so try to be clear about what you are saying, and expect that people may understand your contribution differently than you intended. Remember that text isn’t always a great medium for conversation: tone of voice (sarcasm, humour and so on) doesn’t always come across when using words on a screen. You can help to keep ThePeriscopePost.com community areas open to all viewpoints by maintaining a reasonable tone, even in unreasonable circumstances.

8. The platform is ours, but the conversation belongs to everybody. We want this to be a welcoming space for intelligent discussion, and we expect participants to help us achieve this by notifying us of potential problems and helping each other to keep conversations inviting and appropriate. If you spot something problematic in community interaction areas, please report it. When we all take responsibility for maintaining an appropriate and constructive environment, the debate itself is improved and everyone benefits.

Community FAQ

Moderation approach

1.  Participants who seriously, persistently or wilfully ignore the community policies, or terms and conditions will have their posting privileges for all ThePeriscopePost.com community areas withdrawn.

This is not an action that we take lightly or arbitrarily. However, we are aiming to create and maintain an online experience consistent with The Periscope Post values, and we reserve the right to make decisions that we feel support that. If a contribution to ThePeriscopePost.com is perceived as breaching the community guidelines set out above, then it will be removed by the community team, in the interests of keeping community areas of the site appropriate for the vast majority of the people who visit.

2. ThePeriscopePost.com pre-moderates comments on our blog posts (the Views section) and post-moderates comments on news stories. We never censor comments based on political or ideological point of view. We only delete those comments that: (i) are abusive, off-topic, use excessive foul language; (ii) include personal attacks including comments that celebrate the death or illness of any person, public figure or otherwise; (iii) contain racist, sexist, homophobic or other forms of hate-speech; (iv) are solicitations and/or advertising for personal blogs and websites; (v) include thread spamming (you’ve posted this same comment elsewhere on the site); (vi) are posted with the explicit intention of provoking other commenters or the staff at ThePeriscopePost; or, (vii) contains content that may infringe the copyright or intellectual property rights of others or other applicable laws or regulations.

3. If you posted a Views contribution or a comment to an article or posting and you do not see it on the site, there are two likely reasons for this. The first possible reason is that your submission is pending approval. Contributions to the Views section are moderated BEFORE they appear on the site, and this takes time. Since the volume of contributions and comments on the site has grown rapidly, there is often a delay between a contribution or comment being posted and it being approved, especially during peak hours. We appreciate your patience and ask that you refrain from posting the same comment repeatedly. The second possible reason is that your contribution or comment violated the policy above. We must respect our writers and protect them from vicious and inflammatory comments. They too are entitled to free speech- the right to share their opinions without being subject to scathing and mean-spirited remarks

If you have suggestions or questions about any aspect of the Community Policies on ThePeriscopePost.com, you can send them to info@periscopepost.com. Please mark all queries clearly in the subject line (e.g. Question about moderation decisions)

For queries about your user account, you should contact us on info@periscopepost.com, indicating the nature of your query in the subject line.