Content Policy

GOOD NEWS BIG Content Policy

PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

This Content Policy sets out the terms between you and us on which you may submit content to our website goodnewsbig.com (the "Site").

Your use of our Site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies terms in this Content Policy, which supplement our Terms of Website Use.

goodnewsbig.com is a website operated by Better World Creative Limited trading as GOOD NEWS BIG ("We" or "Us"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 9329075 and we have our registered office at Fiscal House 367, London Road, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 3HQ.

Uploading content to our Site

Registered users may contribute their good news to the BIG Picture by choosing a location in the BIG Picture (a "goBIG") and:

• choosing the colour choice of that goBIG;
• uploading an image to that goBIG;
• uploading some text to that goBIG;
• add tags to that goBIG.

Whenever you make use of any feature that allows you to upload content to our Site or make contact with other users of our Site, you must comply with the content standards set out in this policy. You warrant that any such contribution will comply at all times with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty i.e. you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You will retain all your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of the Site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described below (Rights you License).

Any content that you upload to our Site that becomes part of the BIG Picture cannot be removed later.

Please do not send any unsolicited ideas or suggestions concerning the current or future operation of the Site or the BIG Picture. We will not compensate, reimburse or pay you for any ideas or suggestions that you provide to us.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who claims that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible or liable to you or any third party for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our Site.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out below.

The views expressed by other users on our Site do not represent our views or values.

You are solely responsibly for securing and backing up your content.

Registration

In order to submit content to the BIG Picture, you must register with our Site. Our Site is made available free of charge to visitors and registered users.

Your account and password

If you choose, or you are provided with, user identification, log-in details, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party. You are solely responsible for all activity on your account and content uploaded using your account.

We have the right to disable any log-in details or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of this Content Policy.

You must not use domain names or Web URLs in your username.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us by using the Contact form on the Site, selecting the Report category on the form.

You may close your account at any time by clicking on the "Delete Account" button on your settings page. Your account will be deleted as described in our Privacy Policy within 30 days from the time of your click on the "Delete Account" button. Any content uploaded as part of the BIG Picture will not be deleted. Any messages that you have sent to other users on the Site will not be deleted from their messages.

We may retain copies of your information, including your deleted content for legal and reasonable business purposes.

As a registered user, you may:

• Create and share and collect good news stories "goBIGs"
• Create and share a good news newspaper
• Favourite other peoples good news stories "goBIGs"

You may also use additional functionality as released from time to time.

Prohibited uses

You may use our Site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our Site:

• in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
• in any way that is fraudulent, or has any fraudulent purpose or effect;
• for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
• to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards set out below;
• to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other malware or harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:

• not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Site in contravention of the provisions of our Terms Of Website Use;
• not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
• any part of our Site;
• any equipment or network on which our Site is stored;
• any software used in the provision of our Site; or
• any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

Interactive services

We may from time to time provide interactive services on our Site, including, without limitation:

• Space for you to upload content;
• Space for you to fill out your profile;
• Ways to communicate with other users;
• Adding content to the BIG Picture, creating goBIGs, sharing goBIGs, creating Good News Newspapers, sharing Good News Newspapers, uploading content to the Site, choosing a user name and password, using the social media facilities on the Site, sharing content from our Site, reporting something, and communicating with us; and exploring the BIG Picture and the Site.

Our Site is intended for use by people aged 18 years and above. People under the age of 18 are not allowed to register to use the Site. Please inform us if you know of any users on the Site who are under the age of 18. Please inform us by using the Contact form on the Site, with the "Report Something" category.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our Site (contributions), and to any interactive services associated with it.

You must comply with the spirit and the letter of the following standards. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

Contributions will be assessed at our sole discretion and our decision will be final.

All submitted content may be moderated by our personnel and automatically by software prior to publication. Moderating services may be outsourced to third parties including outside the EEA.

We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks.

If the image uploaded to a goBIG fails moderation, then the the goBIG will be forfeited by the registered user. The goBIG location will then be returned to an available status in the BIG Picture.

If the text uploaded to a goBIG fails moderation, then the the goBIG will be forfeited by the registered user. The goBIG location will then be returned to an available status in the BIG Picture.

Should you have any concerns regarding moderation, please contact us using the Contact form on the Site, selecting the "Report Something" category on the form.

Contributions must:

• be accurate (where they state facts);
• be genuinely held (where they state opinions);
• comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted;
• (where images) be in JPEG, JPG or PNG format, and not more than 5 Mb;
• (where links) be to web pages only and begin with https://

Contributions must not:

• be primarily commercial in nature or primarily intended to generate trade for any individual or business;
• contain logos or banners or other images that promote commercial activity;
• primarily consist of material purporting to be professional advice or promotion of any cause;
• contain any material which is defamatory of any person;
• contain any material which is violent, obscene, offensive, pornographic, hateful or inflammatory;
• contain any nudity;
• glorify, promote or advocate self injury or eating disorders or target individuals in respect of such matters;
• promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
• infringe any copyright, database right, trade mark or any other intellectual property right or right of privacy of any other person;
• disclose any person's personal, private or confidential information including, without limitation: credit card details, address, national ID numbers or phone numbers;
• contain or consist of animated images;
• be likely to deceive any person;
• be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
• promote any illegal, dangerous or undesirable activity;
• be threatening, abuse or invasive of another's privacy, or cause unwarranted annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety;
• be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
• be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
• be of a repetitive nature or intended to damage the BIG Picture or Site in any way;
• give the impression that they emanate from us;
• advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as copyright infringement or computer misuse.

Rights you license

When you upload or post content to our Site, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide, perpetual and irrevocable licence (including the right to sub-license) to use and distribute the content including without limitation modifying, reproducing and publishing the content on our Site and to incorporate it in the BIG Picture.

While you retain ownership of your contribution to the Site, you acknowledge and agree that the BIG Picture image (at all stages of completion) and all intellectual property rights in it is exclusively owned by us.

You will have no right, title or interest in the BIG Picture or in any proceeds of commercial exploitation of the BIG Picture.

You unconditionally and irrevocably waive all moral rights in any content you upload or post to our Site.

Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our sole discretion, whether there has been a breach of this Content Policy through your use of our Site and we may take such action as we deem appropriate.

Failure to comply with this Content Policy constitutes a material breach of the Terms of Website Use on which you are permitted to use our Site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

• immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Site;
• immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our Site;
• issue of a warning to you;
• legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
• further legal action against you;
• disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

We exclude all liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this Content Policy. The responses described in this policy are not exhaustive, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

Any provision of this agreement that expressly or by implication is intended to continue in force after termination or expiry of this agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

Changes to the Content Policy

We may revise this Content Policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this Content Policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Site.