GAME.PRESS TERMS AND CONDITIONS – PRESS ACCESS

BACKGROUND:

These Terms and Conditions, together with any and all other documents referred to herein, set out the terms of use under which you may use this website, http://www.game.press (“Our Site”). Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully and ensure that you understand them.  Your agreement to comply with and be bound by these Terms and Conditions is deemed to occur upon your first use of Our Site.  If you do not agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms and Conditions, you must stop using Our Site immediately.

1. Definitions and Interpretation

1.1 In these Terms and Conditions, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:

“Account”

means an account required for a User to access certain areas of Our Site, as detailed in Clause 4;

“Our Site”

means the PRESS dashboards of this website, http://www.game.press and a reference to “Our Site” includes reference to any and all content included therein (including User Content, unless expressly stated otherwise);

“User”

means a user of Our Site;

“User Content”

means name, date of birth, email address, country of residence, 3rd party platform access details, and other relevant material submitted by Users to Our Site; it does not mean data We derive from User Data or anonymised User Data ; and

“We/Us/Our”

means Keymailer Ltd, a company registered in England under 09569579 , whose registered and trading address is 10 Broad St, Bath BA1 5LJ .

2. Information About Us

2.1 Our Site, http://www.game.press, is owned and operated by Keymailer Ltd , a limited company registered in England under 09569579 , whose registered address and mai n trading address is is The Guild, High Street, Bath BA1 5EB. Our VAT number is  212 1988 23.

3. Access to Our Site

3.1 Access to Our Site is free of charge.  No part of Our Site requires payment of any kind in order to access or use it.  Certain parts of Our Site may require an Account to log in and submit User Content.  Accounts are free of charge.

3.2 It is your responsibility to make any and all arrangements necessary in order to access Our Site.

3.3 Access to Our Site is provided “as is” and on an “as available” basis.  We may alter, suspend or discontinue Our Site (or any part of it) at any time and without notice. We will not be liable to you in any way if Our Site (or any part of it) is unavailable at any time and for any period.

4. Accounts

4.1 Certain parts of Our Site (including, but not limited to the ability to submit User Content) may require an Account in order to access them.

4.2 You may not create an Account if you are under 13  years of age.

4.3 When creating an Account, the information you provide must be accurate and complete.  If any of your information changes at a later date, it is your responsibility to ensure that your Account is kept up-to-date.

4.4 We recommend that you choose a strong password for your Account, consisting of  a combination of lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols. It is your responsibility to keep your password safe.  You must not share your Account with anyone else.  If you believe your Account is being used without your permission, please contact U s immediately. We will not be liable for any unauthorised use of your Account.

4.5 You may not use anyone else’s Account.

4.6 You may not own or use multiple Accounts.

4.7 Your Account must not misrepresent your identity, such as providing incorrect information about your location and age.

4.8 Any personal information provided in your Account will be collected, used and held in accordance with your rights and Our obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998, as set out in Clause 16.

4.9 If you wish to close and delete your Account, you may do so at any time. Deleting your Account will result in the removal of your information. Deleting your Account will also remove access to any areas of Our Site requiring an Account for access.

4.10 If you close and delete your Account, any User Content you have submitted to Our Site will be deleted and the licence granted to Us under sub-Clause 6.4 will be terminated. Anonymised or aggregated data derived from any User Content may be retained.

4.11 Any person may not own multiple creator Accounts, unless with written permission from Us. Operating multiple creator Accounts will lead to the Permanent Suspension of all associated accounts.

5. Intellectual Property Rights and Our Site

5.1 Subject to the licence granted to Us under sub-Clause 6.4, Users retain the ownership of copyright and other intellectual property rights subsisting in User Content submitted by them (unless any part of such User Content is owned by a third party who has given their express permission for their material to be used in the User Content). All other content included on Our Site (including all user-facing material, and all underlying content such as code, software , databases, data derived from User Data  and anonymised User Data ) and the copyright and other intellectual property rights subsisting in that content, unless specifically labelled otherwise, belongs to or has been licensed by Us. All content is protected by applicable United Kingdom and international intellectual property laws and treaties.

5.2 For personal use (including research and private study) only, you may:

5.2.1 Access, view and use Our Site in a web browser (including any web browsing capability built into other types of software or app);

5.2.2 Download Our Site (or any part of it) for caching;

5.2.3 Print pages from Our Site;

5.2.4 Download, copy, clip, print, or otherwise save extracts from pages on Our Site;

5.2.5 Save pages from Our Site for later and/or offline viewing;

5.2.6 View and use User Content in accordance with the permissions displayed with that User Content and set out in Clause 7;

5.3 You may not use any content (including User Content) downloaded, copied, clipped, printed or otherwise saved from Our Site for commercial purposes without first obtaining a licence to do so from Us, our licensors, or from the relevant User, as appropriate.  This does not prohibit the normal access, viewing and use of Our Site for general information purposes whether by business users or consumers.

5.4 You may not systematically copy content from Our Site with a view to creating or compiling any form of comprehensive collection, compilation, directory, or database unless given Our express permission to do so.

5.5 Subject to sub-Clauses 5.2 and 5.7 and Clause 7 (governing User Content) you may not otherwise reproduce, copy, distribute, sell, rent, sub-licence, store, or in any other manner re-use content or any other material from Our Site unless clearly given express permission to do so.

5.6 Our status as the owner and author of the content on Our Site (or that of identified licensors or Users, as appropriate) must always be acknowledged.

5.7 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions limits or excludes the fair dealing provisions of Chapter III of the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988 ‘Acts Permitted in Relation to Copyright Works’, covering in particular the making of temporary copies; the making of personal copies for private use; research and private study; the making of copies for text and data analysis for no-commercial research; criticism, review, quotation and news reporting; caricature, parody or pastiche; and the incidental inclusion of copyright material.

6. User Content

6.1 An Account is required if you wish to submit User Content to Our Site.  For terms and conditions pertaining to Accounts, please refer to Clause 4.

6.2 If you wish to submit User Content to Our Site, you agree that you will be solely responsible for that User Content. Specifically, you agree, represent and warrant that you have the right to submit the User Content and that it will not contravene any aspect of Our Acceptable Usage Policy, detailed in Clause 8.

6.3 You agree that you will be liable to Us and will, to the fullest extent permissible by law, indemnify Us for any breach of the warranties given by you under sub-Clause 6.2. You will be responsible for any loss or damage suffered by Us as a result of such breach.

6.4 You (or your licensors, as appropriate) retain ownership of your User Content and all intellectual property rights subsisting therein. By submitting User Content, you grant Us an unconditional, non-exclusive, fully transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide licence to use, store, archive, syndicate, publish, transmit, adapt, edit, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works from, display, perform and sub-licence your User Content for the purposes of operating and promoting Our Site.

6.5 If you wish to remove User Content, you may do so by emailing Us [email protected]. We will use reasonable efforts to remove the User Content in question from Our Site. You acknowledge, however, that caching or references to your User Content may not be made immediately unavailable (or may not be made unavailable at all where they are outside of Our reasonable control).

6.6 We may reject, reclassify, or remove any User Content submitted to Our Site where that User Content, in Our sole opinion, violates Our Acceptable Usage Policy, or if We receive a complaint from a third party and determine that the User Content in question should be removed as a result.

7. Intellectual Property Rights and User Content

7.1 User Content included on Our Site and the copyright and other intellectual property rights subsisting in that User Content, unless specifically labelled otherwise, belongs to or has been licensed by the User identified along with that User Content. All User Content is protected by applicable United Kingdom and international intellectual property laws and treaties.

7.2 Subject to the rights to use Our Site set out in sub-Clause 5.2, Users may determine the usage rights granted to other Users over their User Content. Details of usage permissions and/or restrictions are displayed clearly with related User Content. Users must abide by such permissions and/or restrictions and must obtain the relevant User’s express written permission to use the User Content in any way that goes beyond the permissions granted and displayed on Our Site.

7.3 Unless a particular User expressly states otherwise, the identity and ownership status of Users and User Content must always be acknowledged.

7.4 We may derive general, anonymous, or other transformed data from individual or groups of User Data. Such derived or otherwise transformed data is not included in the definition of User Data and is subject to clause 5 above.

7.5 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions limits or excludes the fair dealing provisions of Chapter III of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 ‘Acts Permitted in Relation to Copyright Works’, covering in particular the making of temporary copies; the making of personal copies for private use; research and private study; the making of copies for text and data analysis for non-commercial research; criticism, review, quotation and news reporting; caricature, parody or pastiche; and the incidental inclusion of copyright material.

8. Acceptable Usage Policy

8.1 You may only use Our Site (including, but not limited to the submission of User Content) in a manner that is lawful and that complies with the provisions of this Clause 8. Specifically:

8.1.1 you must ensure that you comply fully with any and all applicable local, national and international laws and/or regulations;

8.1.2 you must not use Our Site in any way, or for any purpose, that is unlawful or fraudulent;

8.1.3 you must not use Our Site to knowingly send, upload, or in any other way transmit data that contains any form of virus or other malware, or any other code designed to adversely affect computer hardware, software, or data of any kind; and

8.1.4 you must not use Our Site in any way, or for any purpose, that is intended to harm any person or persons in any way.

8.2 When submitting User Content (or communicating in any other way using Our Site), you must not submit, communicate or otherwise do anything that:

8.2.1 is sexually explicit;

8.2.2 is obscene, deliberately offensive, hateful, or otherwise inflammatory;

8.2.3 promotes violence;

8.2.4 promotes or assists in any form of unlawful activity;

8.2.5 discriminates against, or is in any way defamatory of, any person, group or class of persons, race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;

8.2.6 is intended or otherwise likely to threaten, harass, annoy, alarm, inconvenience, upset, or embarrass another person;

8.2.7 is calculated or otherwise likely to deceive;

8.2.8 has manipulated metrics or artificially generated value, such as fake views, engagement or audience;

8.2.9 is misleading in that it represents the production of content that is not present;

8.2.10 is intended or otherwise likely to infringe (or threaten to infringe) another person’s right to privacy;

8.2.11 misleadingly impersonates any person or otherwise misrepresents your identity or affiliation in a way that is calculated to deceive (obvious parodies are not included within this definition provided that they do not fall within any of the other provisions of this sub-Clause 8.2);

8.2.12 implies any form of affiliation with Us where none exists;

8.2.13 infringes, or assists in the infringement of, the intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, copyright, patents, trade marks and database rights) of any other party;

8.2.14 is in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party including, but not limited to, contractual duties and duties of confidence ;

8.2.15 is largely or primarily about game, content, or other asset giveaways, lotteries, or other means for gaining access to games other than by the means intended by the owner, publisher, or developer of the game; or

8.2.16 is produced by any other party;

8.2.17 relates to, or is part of a video channel, which primarily or largely breaches or appears to breach any of the policies above.

8.3 We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your Account and/or your access to Our Site if you materially breach the provisions of this Clause 8 or any of the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions.  Specifically, We may take one or more of the following actions:

8.3.1 suspend, whether temporarily or permanently, your Account and/or your right to access Our Site;

8.3.2 remove any of your User Content which violates this Acceptable Usage Policy;

8.3.3 issue you with a written warning;

8.3.4 take legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of any and all relevant costs on an indemnity basis resulting from your breach;

8.3.5 take further legal action against you as appropriate;

8.3.6 disclose such information to law enforcement authorities as required or as We deem reasonably necessary; and/or

8.3.7 any other actions which We deem reasonably appropriate (and lawful)

8.4 We hereby exclude any and all liability arising out of any actions (including, but not limited to those set out above) that We may take in response to breaches of these Terms and Conditions.

9. Links to Our Site

9.1 You may link to Our Site provided that:

9.1.1 you do so in a fair and legal manner;

9.1.2 you do not do so in a manner that suggests any form of association, endorsement or approval on Our part where none exists;

9.1.3 you do not use any logos or trade marks displayed on Our Site without Our express written permission; and

9.1.4 you do not do so in a way that is calculated to damage Our reputation or to take unfair advantage of it.

9.2 You  may not link to any page other than the homepage of Our Site, http://www.game.press. Deep-linking to other pages requires Our express written permission.

9.3 Framing or embedding of Our Site on other websites is not permitted without Our express written permission. Please contact Us at [email protected] for further information.

9.4 You may not link to Our Site from any other site the content of which contains material that:

9.4.1 is sexually explicit;

9.4.2 is obscene, deliberately offensive, hateful or otherwise inflammatory;

9.4.3 promotes violence;

9.4.4 promotes or assists in any form of unlawful activity;

9.4.5 discriminates against, or is in any way defamatory of, any person, group or class of persons, race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;

9.4.6 is intended or is otherwise likely to threaten, harass, annoy, alarm, inconvenience, upset, or embarrass another person;

9.4.7 is calculated or is otherwise likely to deceive;

9.4.8 is intended or is otherwise likely to infringe (or to threaten to infringe) another person’s privacy;

9.4.9 misleadingly impersonates any person or otherwise misrepresents the identity or affiliation of a particular person in a way that is calculated to deceive (obvious parodies are not included in this definition provided that they do not fall within any of the other provisions of this sub-Clause 9.4);

9.4.10 implies any form of affiliation with Us where none exists;

9.4.11 infringes, or assists in the infringement of, the intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, copyright, patents, trade marks and database rights) of any other party; or

9.4.12 is made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party including, but not limited to, contractual duties and duties of confidence.

9.5 Please note that the content criteria described under sub-Clause 9. 5  apply only to content over which the owner and/or operator of the site in question has direct control.  You will not, therefore, be in breach of these Terms and Conditions if, for example, other users of a site on which you establish a link to Our Site post content such as comments that violate the above criteria.

10. Links to Other Sites

10.1 Links to other sites may be included on Our Site. Unless expressly stated, these sites are not under Our control. We neither assume nor accept responsibility or liability for the content of third party sites.  The inclusion of a link to another site on Our Site is for information only and does not imply any endorsement of the sites themselves or of those in control of them.

11. Advertising

11.1 We may feature advertising on Our Site and We reserve the right to display advertising on the same page as any User Content.

11.2 You agree that you will not attempt to remove or hide any advertising using HTML/CSS or by any other method.

11.3 We are not responsible for the content of any advertising on Our Site. Each advertiser is responsible for the content of their own advertising material.  We will not be responsible for any advertising on Our Site including, but not limited to, any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions.

12. Disclaimers

12.1 Nothing on Our Site constitutes advice on which you should rely. Our Site is provided for general information purposes only. Professional or specialist advice should always be sought before taking any action relating to regulated activity including legal, medical, or investment, whether or not the action relies on information from Our Site .

12.2 Insofar as is permitted by law, We make no representation, warranty, or guarantee that Our Site will meet your requirements, that it will be fit for a particular purpose, that it will not infringe the rights of third parties, that it will be compatible with all software and hardware, or that it will be secure.

12.3 We make reasonable efforts to ensure that Our content on Our Site is complete, accurate, and up-to-date. We do not, however, make any representations, warranties or guarantees (whether express or implied) that such content is complete, accurate, or up-to-date. If, as a result of Our failure to exercise reasonable care and skill, any digital content from Our Site created by Us (that is not User Content) damages your device or other digital content belonging to you, you may be entitled to certain legal remedies. For more details concerning your rights and remedies as a consumer, please contact your local Citizens Advice Bureau or Trading Standards Office.

12.4 We are not responsible for the content or accuracy, or for any opinions, views, or values expressed in any User Content submitted to Our Site. Any such opinions, views, or values are those of the relevant User, and do not reflect Our opinions, views, or values in any way.

13. Our Liability

13.1 To the fullest extent permissible by law, We accept no liability to any User for any loss or damage, whether foreseeable or otherwise, in contract, tort (including negligence), for breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with the use of (or inability to use) Our Site or the use of or reliance upon any content (whether that content is provided by Us or whether it is User Content) included on Our Site.

13.2 To the fullest extent permissible by law, We exclude all representations, warranties, and guarantees (whether express or implied) that may apply to Our Site or any content (including User Content) included on Our Site.

13.3 Our Site is intended for non-commercial  use only.  If you are a commercial user, We accept no liability for loss of profits, sales, business or revenue; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; loss of anticipated savings; business interruption; or for any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

13.4 We exercise all reasonable skill and care to ensure that Our Site is free from viruses and other malware. Subject to sub-Clause 12.3, We accept no liability for any loss or damage resulting from a virus or other malware, a distributed denial of service attack, or other harmful material or event that may adversely affect your hardware, software, data or other material that occurs as a result of your use of Our Site (including the downloading of any content (including User Content) from it) or any other site referred to on Our Site.

13.5 We neither assume nor accept responsibility or liability arising out of any disruption or non-availability of Our Site resulting from external causes including, but not limited to, ISP equipment failure, host equipment failure, communications network failure, natural events, acts of war, or legal restrictions and censorship.

13.6 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions excludes or restricts Our liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury resulting from negligence, or for any other forms of liability which cannot be excluded or restricted by law. For full details of consumers’ legal rights, including those relating to digital content, please contact your local Citizens’ Advice Bureau or Trading Standards Office.

14. Viruses, Malware and Security

14.1 We exercise all reasonable skill and care to ensure that Our Site is secure and free from viruses and other malware. We do not, however, guarantee that Our Site is secure or free from viruses or other malware and accept no liability in respect of the same, as detailed in sub-Clause 13.4.

14.2 You are responsible for protecting your hardware, software, data and other material from viruses, malware, and other internet security risks.

14.3 You must not deliberately introduce viruses or other malware, or any other material which is malicious or technologically harmful either to or via Our Site.

14.4 You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of Our Site, the server on which Our Site is stored, or any other server, computer, or database connected to Our Site.

14.5 You must not attack Our Site by means of a denial of service attack, a distributed denial of service attack, or by any other means.

14.6 By breaching the provisions of sub-Clauses 14.3 to 14.5 you may be committing a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Any and all such breaches will be reported to the relevant law enforcement authorities and We will cooperate fully with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. Your right to use Our Site will cease immediately in the event of such a breach and, where applicable, your Account will be suspended and/or deleted.

14.7 Whilst the purpose of the Influencer Dashboard area of Our Site is to distribute executable software, We are not responsible for that Software, whether content, suitability, compliance, or absence of malware. We require Publishers of Software to ensure their Software is suitable for distribution to Influencers, but cannot verify such suitability. By using Our Website, you acknowledge Keymailer Ltd is not responsible for any damage you may suffer as a result of using or receiving products provided by 3rd parties.

15. Privacy and Cookies

15.1 Use of Our Site is also governed by Our Cookie and Privacy Policies, available from https://www.game.press/privacy-policy-game-press/ .  These policies are incorporated into these Terms and Conditions by this reference.

16. Partners and Other Third Parties

16.1 We may use partners and third parties to provide offers and services, whether directly (e.g. payment services) or indirectly (e.g. our staff payroll services), explicitly (e.g. Steam catalog data) or implicitly (e.g. currency exchange rates) when processing actions or data.

16.2 For partners and third parties to whom none of your data is sent, we do not undertake to itemise every such party, but will at all times act responsibly.

16.3 For partners and third parties to whom none of your data is or may be sent, whether personally identifiable (e.g. storing view counts on Amazon Simple Storage Services for your coverage on third party video platforms), or not (aggregate count of channels with video  accounts),  we undertake to itemise each party, even if there is no personal data regulation, in order to act responsibly towards our users. Such parties include:

a) Amazon Web Services

b) Heroku

c) Cloudflare

16.4 For partners and third parties requiring per-user accounts to be created (e.g. affiliate partners), even if anonymous, we will list each party, and You agree that we can create such accounts on your behalf. Such parties include:

a) Xsolla Inc

16.5 By using our site you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the partners or third parties listed below, including:

a)YouTube: terms and conditions here: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

17. Communications from Us

17.1 If you have an Account, We may from time to time send you important notices by email. Such notices may relate to matters including, but not limited to, service changes, changes to these Terms and Conditions, and changes to your Account.

17.2 We will never send you marketing emails of any kind without your consent. If you do give such consent, you may opt out at any time.  Any and all marketing emails sent by Us include an unsubscribe link. If you opt out of receiving emails from us at any time, it may take up to 7  business days for Us to comply with your request. During that time, you may continue to receive emails from Us.

17.3 For questions or complaints about email communications from Us (including, but not limited to marketing emails), please contact Us at [email protected] .

18. Changes to these Terms and Conditions

18.1 We may alter these Terms and Conditions at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you upon your first use of Our Site after the changes have been implemented.  You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.

18.2 In the event of any conflict between the current version of these Terms and Conditions and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.

19. Contacting Us

19.1 To contact Us, please email Us at [email protected] .

20. Law and Jurisdiction

20.1 These Terms and Conditions, and the relationship between you and Us (whether contractual or otherwise) shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.

20.2 If you are a consumer, any disputes concerning these Terms and Conditions, the relationship between you and Us, or any matters arising therefrom or associated therewith (whether contractual or otherwise) shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England, Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland, as determined by your residency.

20.3 If you are a business, any disputes concerning these Terms and Conditions, the relationship between you and Us, or any matters arising therefrom or associated therewith (whether contractual or otherwise) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.