Terms of Use

Last Updated: August 2023

These terms tell you the rules for using our website IranWire.com (the “Website”).

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE.

Who we are and how to contact us

IranWire.com is a Website operated by Off-Centre Productions Limited ("we", “us” or “our”). We are a company registered in England and Wales under company number 07355966 and have our registered office at 83 Cambridge Street, London, SW1V 4PS, United Kingdom.

To contact us, please use our contact form. Alternatively, you can write to us by email at [email protected], or by post at: Off-Centre Productions Ltd, 83 Cambridge Street, London SW1V 4PS, United Kingdom.

By using our Website you accept these terms

Before joining our Website, read these terms of use completely and only use our Website or become a member of our Website if you are ready to accept such a commitment.

To become a member of our Website, you must be over 18 years old and be aware of your legal responsibilities. We are not responsible for the membership and consequences of the membership of teenagers who declare their age older.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Website:

Our Privacy Policy. See further under How we may use your personal information.

Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our Website.

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Website, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. For your convenience, the date of the last update is included in the upper left corner of these terms of use. Where these changes are significant, we will endeavour to inform you about the updated version.

We may make changes to our Website

We may update and change our Website from time to time to reflect changes to our business or changes to the law.

We may suspend or withdraw our Website

Our Website is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our Website, 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 Website for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

We may transfer this agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under these terms of use.

You must keep your account details safe

To join our Website, you need a valid username and email address. We send newsletters and announcements to you through this email address.

To protect your user information, you must choose a user ID and password. We make every effort to protect your password and you are obligated to protect this password. You must treat such user ID, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures as confidential.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at [email protected].

How you may use material on our Website

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Website, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Website for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our Website.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our Website must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

You must not use any part of the content on our Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy, download, share or repost any part of our Website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

No text or data mining, or web scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our Website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our Website.

Do not rely on information on this Website

The content on our Website is 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 Website.

We make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Website is accurate, complete or up to date.

Links to and from our Website

Where our Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only and do not indicate our approval or support. We are not responsible for the content of the pages to which users are referred through the links.

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

User-generated content is not approved by us

This Website may include opinions and information which are submitted by other users. These materials have not been verified or approved by us and we are not responsible for the personal opinions expressed by users, authors and editors.

Uploading content to our Website

Whenever you upload content to our Website, or make contact with other users of our Website, you must comply with the Content Standards as set out below.

By using the Website, you warrant that you will comply with the Content Standards and undertake to indemnify us, our members, our affiliated companies, our parent company and any related persons from any liability that may arise as a result of third party complaints due to or as a result of your use of the Website or violation of these terms of use.

Any content you upload to our Website 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 and other users of our Website a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in Rights you are giving us to use material you upload below.

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 Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or of their right to privacy.

Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you upload or post content to our Website, you grant us the following rights to use that content:

a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the Website and across different media including to promote the Website or the service to expire when the user deletes the content from the Website; and
a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for other users, partners or advertisers to use the content for their purposes to expire when the user deletes the content from the Website.

Acceptable Use of the Website

You may not use our Website:

In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards set out below.
To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
In any way that involves child sexual exploitation or abuse.
To upload terrorist content.

Content Standards

Our Website is a place to share knowledge and learn new things. We encourage you to be tolerant of what you don't like or find against your taste.

Within the framework of these rules, you are free to express your opinion and learn from other opinions, views and tastes. Respect your rights by respecting the rights of others.

As a small virtual civil society, we are committed to tolerance, rule of law, free thinking and respecting the rights of others and expects the same from its users. By becoming a member of our Website, you commit to the following:

We welcome discussion, exchange and conflict of opinions, but do not tolerate personal attacks on other users, writers and editors of our Website or third parties.
We welcome criticism and even criticism of the articles and writings that are published on the Website, but we do not allow the distortion of the opinions expressed and attacking and misrepresenting them.
Content should be followed within the framework of the discussion topic.
We understand that sometimes there may be serious discussions between users and between users and the writers and editors of the Website, but content should not contain insults or disrespectful comments.
There is always a possibility that your point of view will be misinterpreted or misrepresented. To avoid that, your sentences should be clear and without hesitation and boldness to others.
Racism, ethnic discrimination, sexual and gender discrimination, homophobia or other forms of verbal violence have no place on our Website, and writings and comments that contain such thoughts will be deleted at our discretion.
We attach great importance to the privacy of individuals, and reserve the right to remove content that violates the privacy of individuals.
You must not post any illegal content or content containing commercial or personal advertisements.
Users cannot use the contents of the Website for commercial purposes and purposes other than informing, educating and helping the development of civil society.
Quotation of the material published on and by the writers and editors of the Website is allowed provided you mention the source.

Breach of the Acceptable Use or Content Standards

Our approach is tolerance and respect for the opinions of others, but when we consider that a breach of the terms relating to the acceptable use or content standards of the Website has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate, such as:

Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your contribution or your right to use our Website.
Issue of a warning to you.
Commence legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
Take further legal action against you.
Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.

We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of these terms.

How to complain about or report content

If you wish to complain about any content, or if you think that the rights and intellectual property of an article published on the Website belong to you, please contact us immediately at [email protected], stating the date and place of publication of the content or the article and your reason for reporting it along with your full details and your electronic signature us to contact you.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

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 Website 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:

use of, or inability to use, our Website; or
use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Website.

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 Website for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our Website 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.
If defective digital content that we have supplied, damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Website. You should use your own virus protection software.

Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have jurisdiction, unless we agree that another jurisdiction is better suited to resolving the dispute.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales, unless we agree that another jurisdiction is better suited to resolving the dispute.

By using our Website, you undertake that in case of any legal problem, the matter will be pursued only in the jurisdiction accepted by us. We reserve the right to pursue legal cases in the area we have the best access to.