1. Acceptable Use and Platform Security
You agree to use our website and mobile application only for lawful, informational, and community purposes. You are strictly prohibited from engaging in any activity that compromises the security, integrity, or availability of our services.
2. Prohibited Activities
To protect our platform and users, you must not attempt, encourage, or facilitate any of the following actions:
- Hacking: Gaining unauthorized access to our servers, databases, source code, user accounts, or connected networks.
- Deconstruction: Reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or attempting to derive the source code of our app or website.
- Defacing: Altering, damaging, modifying, injecting malicious code, or injecting unauthorized content into any part of our user interface.
- Misuse: Deploying automated systems, including spiders, robots, scrapers, or offline readers, to access or systematically harvest content without explicit written permission. [1]
- Disruption: Launching denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, overloading our infrastructure, or transmitting viruses, malware, or Trojan horses.
3. User-Generated Content (Comments and Submissions)
Our platform may allow you to post comments, share opinions, or submit user-generated content. By posting content on our website or app, you agree to the following rules: [
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- Responsibility: You are solely responsible for the content you post. Your contributions must not be defamatory, unlawful, abusive, harassing, threatening, hateful, or racially offensive. [1]
- Moderation & Removal: News Focus Namibia reserves the absolute right, but does not assume the obligation, to monitor, edit, screen, or delete any user-generated content at any time and for any reason without prior notice.
- License Grant: By submitting content, you grant News Focus Namibia a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, publish, and distribute your comments or submissions across our media channels.
4. Privacy and Data Tracking
We value your privacy and transparency regarding data collection. [
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- Cookie Management: Our platform utilizes a cookie consent tool powered by Complianz to manage your preferences regarding cookies, data tracking, and privacy choices. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
- Consent: By interacting with our consent banner, you control which non-essential cookies are deployed during your session. Please refer to our dedicated Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy page generated via our consent management plugin for full transparency on data handling. [1, 2, 3]
5. Intellectual Property Rights
All software, designs, layouts, graphics, trademarks, logos, and news content published on this platform are owned by or licensed to News Focus Namibia.
- You may not copy, distribute, modify, or create derivative works from our intellectual property without prior written consent.
- Unauthorized use of our brand assets to create confusingly similar products or services is strictly prohibited. [1]
6. Violation and Termination
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion and without prior notice, to terminate or suspend your access to our website and application immediately if you violate any provision of these terms.
We further reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including reporting malicious cyber activities to relevant law enforcement authorities in Namibia.
7. Limitation of Liability
News Focus Namibia provides its website and application on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis. We do not guarantee that our platform will be entirely secure or free from bugs or vulnerabilities. You are responsible for configuring your own information technology, computer programs, and platforms to access our services safely.
Should you wish to send enquiries regarding this platform, please kindly send an email to: jaylee.venter@gmail.com
