Throughout this document, the terms “we”, “us”, “our” and “ours” refer to THE NEWS GATEWAY WEBSITE www.thenewsgateway.com, which is a unit of Paramount Digital News Network (PDNN). The terms “you”, “your” and “yours” refer to YOU (the individual whose personal data we are referring to).
We welcome you to www.thenewsgateway.com. Below are our Terms and Conditions for use of the site, which you may access in several ways, including the World Wide Web, PDA, Mobile Phones, Digital Television, and RSS feeds. These Terms and Conditions apply whenever you access the site, on whatever devices.
By using the site as a reader or registered user or in any other manner or capacity whatsoever, you are deemed to have accepted these Terms and Conditions as well as the Privacy Policy (Mentioned on Website Separately). So, apart from the Terms and Conditions, please read carefully our Privacy Policy as well.
Any changes we make to the Terms and Conditions will be reflected on this page.
Access to and use of this site www.thenewsgateway.com is provided by us subject to the following Terms and Conditions:
- By using www.thenewsgateway.com you agree to be legally bound by these Terms and Conditions, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of www.thenewsgateway.com. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use www.thenewsgateway.com.
- We reserve the right to modify or update these Terms and Conditions at our sole discretion, without prior notice. We may amend these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting changes online. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of www.thenewsgateway.com after changes to these Terms and Conditions means you agree to be legally bound by these Terms and Conditions as updated and/or amended. Please ensure that you review these Terms and Conditions periodically to remain informed of any changes.
- You shall not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use www.thenewsgateway.com content in any way except for your own personal and purely non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any www.thenewsgateway.com content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of www.thenewsgateway.com content requires our prior written permission.
- The website www.thenewsgateway.com and the contents thereof (including but not limited to text, photographs, images, illustrations, designs, audio clips, video clips “look and feel”, metadata, data or compilation) are protected by copyright and owned and controlled by us and are intended strictly for personal and non-commercial use only. In this regard, non-commercial use shall not include the use of the website www.thenewsgateway.com and the contents thereof without our prior written consent in connection with (a.) the development of any software program, including but not limited to, training a machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) systems or (b.) providing archived or cached data sets containing the content(s) to other personal or entity.
- You agree to use www.thenewsgateway.com only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of www.thenewsgateway.com. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within www.thenewsgateway.com.
PROHIBITED USES
You may not access or use, or attempt to access or use, the website to take any action that could harm us or a third party. You shall not use the website in violation of applicable laws, including export controls and sanctions, or in violation of our or any third party’s intellectual property or other proprietary or legal rights. You further agree that you will not attempt (or encourage or support anyone else’s attempt) to circumvent, reverse engineer, decrypt, or otherwise alter or interfere with the website, or any content thereof, or make any unauthorized use of the Services. Without our prior written consent, you shall not use robots, spiders, scripts, service, software or any manual or automatic device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape the Content, data or information from the website, or otherwise use, access, or collect the content, data or information from the website using automated means.
Engaging in a prohibited use of the website may result in civil, criminal, and/or administrative penalties, fines, or sanctions against the user and those assisting the user.
It is further clarified that except where specifically authorised, any access to the website and/ or its content by artificial intelligence bots or crawlers shall constitute breach of these Terms and Conditions, except strictly for the purpose of search engine indexing and searches, and failure of us to prevent such access by artificial intelligence bots or crawlers or failure to exercise any right, power or remedy provided under the applicable laws or otherwise available in respect hereof in equity, or to insist upon compliance of these Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a waiver by The News Gateway of its right to exercise any such or other right, power or remedy or to demand such compliance later.
DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY
We do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the material. You must not rely on any statement we have published on www.thenewsgateway.com without first taking specialist professional advice. Nothing in the material is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person.
The views expressed by the Contributors and Opinion/Article Writers are their personal. The facts and opinions appearing in the articles/pieces etc do not reflect the views of www.thenewsgateway.com. The website does not take any responsibility or liability for the same.
We give no warranties of any kind and without any representations for material—information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons—found in www.thenewsgateway.com. You can access other sites via links from www.thenewsgateway.com. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.
We are not liable for any of the following losses or damages (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise):
- loss of data;
- loss of revenue or anticipated profits;
- loss of business;
- loss of opportunity;
- loss of goodwill or injury to reputation;
- losses suffered by third parties; or
- any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of www.thenewsgateway.com regardless of the form of action.
You must take your own precaution in this respect, as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus, by other contamination or by anything that has destructive properties.
IF YOU’RE UNDER 18:
- Please get permission from a parent or guardian before taking part in any www.thenewsgateway.com discussion.
- Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, telephone number, home address or email address).
THIRD PARTY MATERIAL ON www.thenewsgateway.com
You will see advertising material submitted by third parties on www.thenewsgateway.com. Advertisers are solely responsible for the content of advertising material, which they submit to us, including ensuring that it complies with relevant legislation. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.
ADVERTISEMENTS ON www.thenewsgateway.com
The News Gateway does not endorse or take responsibility for the accuracy, quality, or reliability of any products, services, or claims made in advertisements displayed on its website. All advertisements are independent of our editorial content, and any transactions or engagements with advertisers are solely between the user and the advertiser.
TEXT SUBMISSION TO www.thenewsgateway.com
Users of our site may submit material for publication in various areas of the site, including our blog service. We accept no liability with respect to any material submitted by users and published by us and we are not responsible for its content and accuracy.
If you want to submit material to us for publication on www.thenewsgateway.com, you may do so on the following Terms and Conditions:
- Publication of any material you submit to us will be at your sole discretion. We reserve the right to make additions or deletions to the text or graphics prior to publication, or to refuse publication.
- You grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish any material you submit to us in any format, including, without limitation, print and electronic format.
- You declare to us that any material you submit to us is your own original work and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights.
- You warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal.
- You agree not to post material including spamming which is deliberately intended to upset other users.
- You acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause us damage or loss and you agree to indemnify us in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing material you submit to us, including consequential losses.
- We reserve the right to remove your access to individual services if we believe you are abusing the services in any way.
GRAPHIC MATERIAL SUBMISSION TO www.thenewsgateway.com
When you send a photograph or other graphical material to us you do so in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. This means that you hereby agree that you have taken the photograph(s) you have sent to us or you have permission from or are authorised by the owner of the photograph(s) to send it (them) to us, and you are granting us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish or otherwise use the photograph(s) in any way and at any time we want on www.thenewsgateway.com. The photograph(s) must not be defamatory and shall not break any laws.
Selected photographs and graphical material will be published at the discretion of the editor and you will not be paid, even if your photograph(s) is (are) published.
We may cut, edit, crop or arrange your photograph(s) or graphic as we think fit to appear on www.thenewsgateway.com and we may remove your photograph(s) or graphics at any time.
Your name will be published alongside your photograph(s) or graphic, but we may edit or delete any comments, which you submit along with your photograph(s) or graphic.
ADVERTISING POLICY – TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- FIXED-TERM COMMITMENT
The advertisement is booked for a specified duration. The advertiser is bound to maintain the advertisement for the entire term.
- NO EARLY TERMINATION
The advertiser shall not cancel or withdraw the advertisement before the agreed end date.
- PREMATURE WITHDRAWAL (IF PERMITTED)
In exceptional cases where withdrawal is considered, a 30-day written notice is mandatory and subject to approval by www.thenewsgateway.com.
- NON-REFUNDABLE PAYMENTS
All payments made toward the advertisement are final and non-refundable, regardless of any premature withdrawal.
- WITHDRAWAL PENALTY
If premature withdrawal is approved, all fees paid by the advertiser shall be forfeited, and the advertiser shall incur an additional penalty of 25% of the total advertisement charges.
- ADVERTISEMENT DURATION, MODIFICATIONS, SUBSTITUTIONS AND CONFIDENTIALITY
- Duration: Advertisement display duration shall be as specified in writing or as stated on the invoice.
- Modifications: Advertisers may request changes to advertisement design by providing a minimum of one week’s prior notice.
- Editorial Approval and Charges: All design modifications are subject to editorial approval and will incur additional charges.
- Confidentiality: All advertising agreements, terms and associated charges shall remain strictly confidential.
- INDEMNITY CLAUSE
The advertiser agrees to indemnify and hold harmless www.thenewsgateway.com from any financial or reputational loss resulting from premature withdrawal.
- FORCE MAJEURE
Premature withdrawal is permitted only in cases of:
- Legal bans or government orders.
- Natural disasters or injunctions.
- Platform-wide technical failure exceeding 72 hours.
Even in such cases, payment obligations remain enforceable.
- REASONS FOR THE POLICY
This policy ensures uninterrupted advertising schedules and financial stability for the platform.
- ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
By submitting payment (full or partial), signing the agreement, or initiating the advertisement placement, the advertiser acknowledges and accepts all Terms and Conditions mentioned in this Advertising Policy. Such acceptance shall be deemed binding, irrevocable, and enforceable.
- DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Ludhiana City.
- MODIFICATIONS TO THIS ADVERTISING POLICY
We reserve the right to modify or update these Advertising Terms and Conditions at our sole discretion, without prior notice. All changes take effect immediately upon posting. By continuing to submit, manage or engage with advertisements on our platform after such changes are posted, advertisers acknowledge and agree to be legally bound by the revised Advertising Terms and Conditions.
SAFETY
We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, home address or email address) except in line with the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy expressly provided. Please do not include postal addresses of any kind.
OWNERSHIP & OPERATIONS
The News Gateway (www.thenewsgateway.com) is wholly owned and operated by Paramount Digital News Network (PDNN), a sole proprietorship firm, registered in India.
GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL – REACH OUT TO US
For any grievance to our services or the content of the website, the complainant can submit the grievance to the designated Grievance Officer as per the details mentioned below:
Grievance Officer: Umesh Dewan
Designation: Editor, The News Gateway
Office: Opposite Preet Palace Cinema
Link Road, Ludhiana – 141 002, Punjab
Cell: + 91 9872742129
WhatsApp: +91 7589386921
E-Mail:
editor@thenewsgateway.com
umeshdewan@gmail.com
THE NEWS GATEWAY WEBSITE (www.thenewsgateway.com) shall not be responsible for any communication, if addressed, to any non-designated person in this regard.
We request you to please provide the following information in your complaint:-
- Your name, complete address, telephone number and email address.
- The complaint should be duly signed.
GENERAL
Although we will do our best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to www.thenewsgateway.com, we do not guarantee this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.
GOVERNING LAW & JURISDICTION
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of India. All relevant rules, regulations, directions, orders and notifications will also apply. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Ludhiana City.
By choosing to browse this site, you agree to the site’s Terms and Conditions & Privacy Policy.
MODIFICATIONS TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
We reserve the right to modify or update these Terms and Conditions at our sole discretion, without prior notice. We may make amendments in these Terms and Conditions from time to time by posting revisions on this web page. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of our Services, including browsing, submitting content or engaging in advertising, after such revisions will constitute your legal acceptance of the revised Terms and Conditions. Please ensure that you review these Terms and Conditions periodically to remain informed of any changes.
[YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF SERVICES SHALL MEAN THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. BY ACCESSING OR USING SERVICES YOU ALSO REPRESENT THAT YOU HAVE THE LEGAL AUTHORITY AS PER APPLICABLE LAW TO ACCEPT THE TERMS ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF AND/OR ANY OTHER PERSON YOU REPRESENT IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES.]
