Honolulu Civil Beat Inc. (Civil Beat) Terms of Service

Last updated on 19 June 2024.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE AND THE PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING ANY CIVIL BEAT SERVICES BECAUSE THEY AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

General
  1. By visiting Civil Beat and using its services, you accept and agree to the following terms and conditions (Terms of Service) as well as our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect and use information about you. If you do not accept and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, please do not access or use this website.
  2. You are of legal age to agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (referred to together as the Agreement). If you are under eighteen years old, your parent or legal guardian has read the Agreement and agreed to them and your use of the Civil Beat service.
  3. When we talk about Civil Beat services, we are referring to the Civil Beat website (including Digital Content), any Civil Beat mobile sites, and even print versions of our service. We know, print might be a bit retro but you never know what the future holds.
  4. We may change, add, or remove parts of this Agreement at any time and notify you of the change in writing by updating the “Last Updated On” date above. Any changes, additions, or deletions are effective immediately after we post them.
Behavior and Use
  1. You are responsible for your own behavior. This means you are solely responsible for all the content you post using the Civil Beat services.
  2. You will be civil. You will be respectful and polite. This doesn’t mean you have to be fake — we don’t expect people to agree on everything. We just expect people to be civil. Threatening, harassing, intimidating or abusing others is not what we would call “civil.” So don’t do it.
  3. If you post any content (text, images, videos, links, ideas, or otherwise) on the Civil Beat services, you represent to us that you have the necessary legal rights to post that content and that posting will not violate applicable law or any person’s rights. Violating the law or another person’s rights is not cool.
  4. You agree to not access or use the Civil Beat services in a way that could harm us or someone else.
  5. You will not use the Civil Beat service for any illegal or unauthorized purposes or in a way that violates any laws in any jurisdiction(s) that you or Honolulu Civil Beat Inc. are subject to.
  6. You will not spam other Civil Beat users or harvest information about people who use the Civil Beat services. Nobody likes being spammed.
  7. You will not post defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, false or misleading content.
  8. You will not use the Civil Beat services to advertise goods or services or as a means to solicit funds.
  9. You will not use the Civil Beat services to transmit viruses, worms or other yet-to-be-named malicious software that do bad things to computers, software, or the like. That’s not cool.
  10. You will not try to hack into the Civil Beat services or unduly burden our servers or technology. That is also not cool.
  11. You will not circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with any security-related features of the Civil Beat services. We implement these security-related features for a reason, not because we have nothing better to do. If you try to get around our security features or disable them, it defeats the original purpose of these security-related features. So please just don’t do it.
  12. You will not scrape (whether in an automated or manual fashion) the Civil Beat site or the content on the site without our express written permission. However, we do grant public search engine operators permission to use automatic devices to copy the Civil Beat content that does not require payment from the Civil Beat site for the sole purpose of creating (and only to the extent necessary to create) a searchable index of Civil Beat content that is available to the public. We reserve the right to revoke this permission at any time.
  13. You will not use any of our content or data, including any associated metadata, for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence purposes, including without limitation to train or develop artificial intelligence technologies or tools or machine language learning models, or for use in models to generate any data or content and/or to synthesize or combine with any other data or content. We reserve all rights to license any use of our content and data for any such purposes.

Basically, you agree not to do anything that is against the law, restricts someone else from using or enjoying the Civil Beat services, or interferes with us providing the Civil Beat services. Just be cool.

Digital Content
  1. The Civil Beat services are completely free and enable you to access and view a variety of digitized electronic content (e.g., articles, topic pages, beat updates, discussions, etc.) on various devices. This is what we refer to as “Digital Content.”
  2. We reserve the right to change, modify, or suspend any part of the Civil Beat services at any time, and we may even completely shut down the Civil Beat services, without notice. If we do add new content, features, tools, or functionality to Civil Beat, they will be subject to these Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy. You agree that Civil Beat is not liable for any changes it makes to the Civil Beat services.
  3. Just because you submit content to us does not mean we are obligated to accept and/or display it on the website. If we do post your content, we reserve the right to delete or move your content for any reason.
  4. Sometimes, Civil Beat will have content that was posted by a third-party or will contain links to a third-party website or source. You understand that it is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, timeliness, completeness, or usefulness of the content on the Civil Beat service. Don’t blindly believe something just because someone says so — use judgement and most importantly, use your brain.
  5. Civil Beat does not endorse the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, statement, advice, or other information displayed, uploaded, or distribute through its service by any user, information provider or any other person or entity.
Who Owns What (what is sometimes known as “copyright”)
  1. We own the Civil Beat services, including the website and all the content (except for the content that is provided by our members in #4 below).
  2. In addition, we own all the trademarks, service marks, trade names and trade dress that may appear on Civil Beat.
  3. Because you do not own (or have rights, title or interest in) the Civil Beat services, you may not reproduce, distribute, create derivative works based upon, publicly display, publicly publish, transmit or otherwise exploit the Civil Beat services for any purpose without obtaining our prior written consent (or in the case of content provided by a third party, obtaining the consent of the respective content owner).
  4. We claim no intellectual property rights over the content you post using the Civil Beat services. Your profile and all the content you post/upload to Civil Beat are yours. But because Civil Beat is a service that is used by other people, you understand and agree that other people (including people you may not know or may not have explicitly given permission to) may view your content. You also understand and agree that content you upload and/or submit may be subject to discussion or rated by other people. These discussions or ratings may be viewable by the public. If you don’t want this to happen, just don’t upload or submit content — then people will have nothing to discuss or rate.
  5. As we said above, whatever you post/upload is yours. But when you submit content to us, you give us a fully paid, worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully sublicensable, and transferable right and license to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works based upon, publicly display, and publish your content in connection with our business or to provide the Civil Beat services.
Disclaimers, Limitations on Liability, and Disputes

We tried to strip out as much of the legal jargon as possible. We like agreements that are easy to understand. But we also take liability seriously. So here goes:

  1. We don’t like disputes. But we’re also realistic enough to know that sometimes disputes happen. If you have a dispute with Civil Beat or a dispute arising out of, concerning, or in connection with any Civil Beat services, the laws of the State of Hawai’i will govern the dispute (without regard to principles of conflicts of laws) and interpretation of this Agreement. You also agree that any dispute will be resolved in Hawai’i. If we prevail in the dispute, you agree that we shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorney fees, costs, and other legal expenses.
  2. If something in the Agreement is deemed to be invalid, void or unenforceable, only that specific part will be considered invalid, void, or unenforceable and the rest of the Agreement remains valid and enforceable.
  3. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL CIVIL BEAT, HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT INC., OR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, PARENTS, PARTNERS, SUCCESSORS, AGENTS, DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, OR THEIR RELATED ENTITIES OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, OR OTHERWISE (EVEN IF HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT INC. HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), ARISING OUT OF, RELATING TO, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF THE CIVIL BEAT SERVICES. YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE CIVIL BEAT SERVICES INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WEBSITE CONTENT IS TO STOP USING THE SERVICES. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY OF THE CIVIL BEAT SERVICES OR ANY LINKS ON THE SERVICES, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY OF THE CIVIL BEAT SERVICES OR ANY LINKS ON THE SERVICES. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF ANY CONTENT POSTED BY A THIRD-PARTY OR CONDUCT OF A THIRD-PARTY ON THE SERVICES.
  4. YOU HEREBY AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD HARMLESS CIVIL BEAT, HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT INC., ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, PARENTS, PARTNERS, SUCCESSORS, AGENTS, DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, LICENSORS AND LICENSEES (COLLECTIVELY, THE “INDEMNIFIED PARTIES”) FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LIABILITY AND COSTS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES, INCURRED BY THE INDEMNIFIED PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF (I) YOUR BREACH OF THESE TERMS; (II) YOUR MISUSE OF THE SERVICES; (III) YOUR VIOLATION OF ANY THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK, PROPERTY, PUBLICITY OR PRIVACY RIGHT; AND (IV) ANY CONTENT YOU SUBMIT. YOU AGREE TO COOPERATE AS FULLY AS REASONABLY REQUIRED IN THE DEFENSE OF ANY SUCH CLAIM. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO ASSUME THE EXCLUSIVE DEFENSE AND CONTROL, AT YOUR EXPENSE, OF ANY MATTER THAT IS SUBJECT TO INDEMNIFICATION BY YOU UNDER THIS SECTION.