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Terms and Conditions for Content Submission
1.1 These terms apply when you submit content related to fashion, restaurant, food & drink, culture, arts, education, real estate, interior design, technology and any other to Coconut Grove Magazine. Content may include text, images, photos, videos, plans, drawings, renderings, virtual tours, sketches, or any other content you provide.
1.2 By submitting content, you agree to these terms and the licensing of your content (as described in section 1.3) will be established between you and us.
1.3 In accordance with section 1.2, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, sub-licensable, paid-up, and royalty-free license to use, publish, reproduce, display, or otherwise exploit the content you submit to us, in whole or in part, for any purpose we determine necessary (including on our websites, mobile and tablet applications, social media pages, advertising, marketing, promotional works, and publications, as well as allowing third parties to publish the content in association with us).
1.4 You acknowledge and agree that we will not pay you a fee for the content you submit. In exchange for providing the content, it may be featured on our websites and in publications, or used, published, reproduced, displayed, or otherwise exploited for any other purpose as explained in section 1.3.
1.5 You acknowledge and agree that we have the right to:
- Edit, adapt, and make changes to the content you submit without prior approval (for example, correcting errors, ensuring text conforms to our style, shortening videos or movies, or cropping images).
- Decide not to use, publish, reproduce, display, or otherwise exploit the content you submit.
- Remove any content at any time from our websites, mobile and tablet applications, social media pages, advertising, marketing, promotional works, or publications.
1.6 By submitting content, you legally promise (warrant) that:
- The content does not infringe on any third party rights (including copyright and trademarks) and does not violate any laws.
- You have the right and authority to license all existing and future intellectual property rights in the content.
- You have informed us, if applicable, of any necessary credits to be used in conjunction with the content.
- The content is not abusive, obscene, illegal, defamatory, libelous, factually inaccurate, unlawfully threatening, unlawfully harassing, pornographic, racist, or likely to incite racial hatred or acts of terrorism.
- The content is free from viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, cancel bots, or other harmful computer programming routines.
1.7 You agree to promptly notify us in writing by email at coconutgrovemagazine@gmail.com if a third party threatens or makes a claim that the content infringes their rights or any other claim related to the rights granted in section 1.3. You agree to provide us with any assistance we may reasonably require concerning such claims.
1.8 You agree to indemnify us against any liabilities, costs, claims, damages, losses, and expenses arising from a breach of the warranties in section 1.6 (including but not limited to any claim or action against us regarding infringement of third party rights) and from not notifying us in accordance with section 1.7.
1.9 You hereby waive all moral rights under the Copyright Act of 1976 (and similar rights in other jurisdictions) that you have or will have in the content you have submitted to us.
1.10 We will collect and process information and personal data relating to you in accordance with our privacy notice, which can be accessed at coconutgrovemagazine.com/privacy-notice/.
1.11 We update these terms regularly. Once the terms are established between us (as stated in paragraph 1.2), please review them before submitting content to ensure you understand the current terms. The most recent update to these terms was on December 31, 2023.
1.12 You agree to promptly complete and submit any necessary documents and actions to fully comply with these terms, or make reasonable efforts to ensure a third party does so.
1.13 If any part of these terms becomes invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, it will be modified or deleted to the extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable. Any modifications or deletions under this provision will not affect the validity of the remaining terms.
1.14 These terms, including any disputes or claims related to them, are governed by the laws of Florida.
1.15 Any disputes or claims related to these terms will be settled in the courts of Florida.
Coconut Grove Magazine does NOT accept:
- Political Opinions.
- Public Policy Commentary unless in an unbiased manner.
- Do Not accept any release that is solely for the purpose of airing grievances or slandering an individual or company’s reputation.
- Explicit Content that contain any sexually explicit or mature content.
- Redistributed articles.
- Copyrighted content obtained without permission.
- Stock sales or purchases, stock tips, advice and alerts.
- Malicious or threatening content, violent in any form, violent acts of any kind.
- All content must be free of bigotry, racism and hatred.
- Unethical SEO practices.
