Art World Notes® Website Terms & Conditions: updated on  June 10, 2015

  • BY USING THE WEBSITE: www.artworldnotes.com SITE YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS.
  • IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU MUST NOT USE OUR WEBSITE.
  • WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REVISE THESE TERMS AND WILL PUBLISH THE CURRENT VERSION HERE, ON THIS WEB PAGE THESE TERMS WERE LAST UPDATED ON THE DATE SHOWN ABOVE.

Who we are: we are a US limited company Publishing Limited, registered in US under the company number 05446587. Our trade name is Art  World Notes®. 

What we do: we publish the International Edition of Art World Notes®  artworldnotes.com,

To contact us, please email info@www.artworldnotes.com

You may save a copy of these terms and store it on your private device for your own future reference. Please note that these terms and any other material on our websites are Art World Notes® or out licensors’ intellectual property. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

Your use of the material on the website: You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have copied or downloaded from our websites for personal use, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Credits: Art World Notes ® status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

Linking to our website(s): you may link to our home page or the material you are commenting on which we published on our websites, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than for personal non-commercial use, please contact info@newartnews.com. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

Our trademarks: Art World Notes® is the registered trade mark.

Other policies which may apply to your use of our websites: These Terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to you:

  • Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
  • Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

We may suspend or withdraw our site: our site is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business, operational and technical reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

Your subscriber’s profile: if you choose, or you are provided with a password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and must not disclose it to any third party. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your access code or password, you must promptly notify us at admin@theartnewspaper.com. You agree to keep your subscriber’s profile up to date. If, in our reasonable opinion, you fail to comply with these Terms, we reserve the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time.

We do not provide professional advice: The materials published by Art World Notes® are provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our publications. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

Links to external websites: we are not responsible for websites we link to: where our website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

User-generated content on our websites, subscribers’ forums and third party commentary on our social media fields is not approved by us: This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values. If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming 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 have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not, in our view, comply with our the content standards.

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

We are not responsible for malware and you must not introduce them. 

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or malware. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. 

We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you: we do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

If you are a business user: we exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it. We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with: (i) use of, or inability to use, our site; or (ii) use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

  • In particular, we will not be liable for:
  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user: please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. We will not be liable for any damage to your device or data where such damage is caused by our provision of defective digital content, if the damage could have been avoided should you have maintained the reasonable system safety precautions, like running an up-to-date anti-virus software.

Which country’s laws apply to any disputes? These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by US law. You and we both agree that the courts of US will have exclusive jurisdiction.