Terms of Service

Agreement to these terms

These terms govern your use of riverdalestandard.com and any newsletter, alert or feed Riverdale Standard publishes from it. By reading the site you agree to them. If you do not agree, the remedy is simple and free: do not use the site. We have tried to write these terms in plain language, because a reader checking a match result or a recall notice should not need a lawyer to know what they have agreed to by reading the news.

Who we are

Riverdale Standard is an independently owned and operated news publisher with an international, English-language readership and no single home city or home country. We publish across ten desks: world news, business, technology, science, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, travel, auto and gaming. Our editorial policies, ownership and funding are described on their own pages, and those pages form part of the promise we make to readers, though they are not part of this legal agreement.

Using the site

You may read, link to, and share our articles for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may quote short passages with attribution to Riverdale Standard and a link to the original. You may not reproduce whole articles, systematically copy or scrape the site, republish our content on another site or service, or use our content to build or train any product or dataset, without our written permission. Search engines indexing the site in the ordinary way are fine. Bulk collection is not.

You agree not to interfere with the operation of the site, probe or breach its security, submit content designed to impersonate others or to deceive, or use the site for any unlawful purpose. We may block access from any source that we believe is abusing the site, without notice.

Our content and intellectual property

The articles, headlines, photographs, graphics, design and code of this site belong to Riverdale Standard or to the licensors who have allowed us to use them. The name Riverdale Standard and the site’s visual identity are ours, and using them in a way that suggests we endorse or produced something we did not is not permitted. Public documents we reproduce, such as court records, official statements, election results or published specifications, remain what they are; our presentation of them is ours.

What you send us

When you send us a tip, a letter, a document, a photograph or any other material, you keep the copyright in it. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to publish, edit, excerpt and archive it in connection with our journalism, in any format, with or without attribution as you and we agree. You confirm that you have the right to send it and that publishing it will not infringe anyone else’s rights. We are not obliged to publish anything you send. Material sent in confidence is handled under the rules on our contact page, which take priority where they conflict with this paragraph.

Comments and contributions

If comments or other public contributions are enabled, you are responsible for what you post. We may remove anything unlawful, defamatory, threatening, discriminatory, spam or off the subject, and bar people who repeatedly post such material. We do not pre-screen contributions and we are not their publisher.

Advertising

Advertisements on the site are labelled and are served through a third-party advertising network. We do not publish sponsored content or paid links. We are not a party to any transaction between you and an advertiser, and we make no promises about advertisers’ products or services. The rules for what advertising we accept are on our advertise page.

Links to other sites

Our stories link to source documents, official sites, league tables and filings where it helps you check our work. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy or privacy practices. A link is a citation, not an endorsement.

The limits of what we can promise

We work to be accurate and we correct errors quickly, as our corrections policy describes. But news is produced under time pressure, prices and scores change after publication, and schedules move. Nothing on the site is financial, medical, legal, travel-safety or other professional advice, and nothing on it creates a professional relationship between you and us. The site is provided as it is and as available, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose or uninterrupted availability. Our disclaimer page says more.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Riverdale Standard and the people who work on it are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages arising from your use of the site or your reliance on anything published on it, including lost profits, trading losses, missed travel, lost data or business interruption. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us to use the site, which is nothing. Where the law does not allow a limitation, it applies only as far as the law permits.

Indemnity

If you send us material that infringes someone’s rights, or use the site in a way that breaks these terms and causes a claim against us, you agree to cover the costs and damages that result, including reasonable legal fees.

Copyright complaints

If you believe material on the site infringes your copyright, follow the process on our DMCA page. It sets out what a notice must contain and what happens next, and we apply it to notices under equivalent laws in other countries.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the publisher of Riverdale Standard is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and disputes arising from them will be brought in the courts of that jurisdiction. We confirm which jurisdiction that is, together with our registered details, in writing to anyone with a legitimate need to know; write to support@riverdalestandard.com with LEGAL in the subject line. If you are a consumer in a jurisdiction whose law gives you the right to sue where you live, nothing here removes that right. Before filing anything, write to us; most disputes about a news site are corrections in disguise, and those we can fix in an afternoon.

Changes, termination and general terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top of the page changes when we do, and a material change is announced before it takes effect; continuing to use the site after that date means you accept the updated terms. We may suspend or end access to the site, or any part of it, at any time. If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force, and our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, with the privacy policy and cookie policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about the site. Questions go to support@riverdalestandard.com with LEGAL in the subject line.