Terms and Conditions

Welcome to SW News!

Thank you for visiting SW News. This website operated by Shalom Media USA, Inc. (“Shalom Media USA, Inc.”), located at 211 E Wisconsin Rd, Edinburg, TX.78539. SW News is the official website for Shalom Media USA, Inc. a not for profit organization. (SW News and Shalom Media USA will be collectively referred to as we, us, our in the following parts of this TERMS and CONDITIONS)

Using our Website Services

We have taken maximum effort to design our websites to be useful and informative in content and design. By accessing and using this website, services, its contents and without limitation any of its features (our Services) you agree to abide by the following Terms and Conditions. Naturally, if you don’t agree with our terms, please do not use our Services. We reserve the right to make any modifications to these Terms that we deem necessary at any time. Please continue to check these Terms and Conditions to see what those changes may be. Your use of the SW News, Shalom World and Shalom Media USA Websites means that you accept those changes. SW News is diverse in its content and Services and hence, sometimes additional terms may apply. Additional terms will be available with the relevant Services, and those additional terms will become part of your agreement with us if you use those Services. In availing the use of these other Services, therefore you are admitting your acceptance of the Terms associated with those Services.

By visiting the website you agree not to interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that are provided by us.

You may use our Services only as permitted by law, including applicable intellectual property laws; and to not inhibit any person’s use and enjoyment of our Services and to not infringe or restrict the rights of any person. We may suspend or stop providing our Services to you if you do not comply with our terms or policies or in a scenario where we are investigating suspected misconduct.

Using our Services does not give you ownership of any property rights in our Services or the content you access. All information, text, data, images, photographs, videos, audio, feeds, weblogs, widgets, interactive features, graphics, designs, branding, and any other content or services or materials or any part thereof, which can be accessed through SW News are protected by law under applicable copyright laws, trademarks, and any other intellectual property rights and associated rights, and are either owned by us or licensed to us or otherwise permitted under applicable law. The provisions of this Terms and Conditions, or your use of our services does not and will not confer in any way any right or license or permission to you to use any part or content of our Services other than as expressly permitted under our Terms and Conditions. You may not use content from our Services unless you have obtained all necessary permissions as required under all applicable laws. You agree to not remove, obscure, or alter any legal notices displayed in or along with our Services. In connection with your use of the Services, we may send you service announcements, administrative messages, and other information. You may opt out of some of those communications.

We may make some of our Services available only to users who have registered with us. In such scenario, if you are provided with unique user identification codes, passwords or any other information for the purpose of security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and you must not disclose it to any third party. Any personal information that you would provide as a part of this will be collected, stores and used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. We retain the right to disable any user identification codes or passwords which may either be chosen by yourself or provided from our end, at any times, if we find any non-compliance with the provisions of these Terms provided.

You agree to abide by the respective laws, rules and regulations within your jurisdiction while accessing our content, including but not limited to any restrictions with regard to the appropriate age for accessing, interacting, transmitting or uploading any content onto our Services and the provision of your personal information including your telephone number, home address, email address etc while using our Services to us or to any users of our Services.

Some of our Services are available on mobile devices through apps on both Android and Mac platforms. You agree to not use such Services in a way that physically, mentally, or socially harm you in any way. Also do not use such services, to distract you and prevent you from obeying traffic or safety laws of the state.

We do not represent that all or any of the content on our Services are appropriate or available for use in your country. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of our Services will be in compliance with any and all applicable laws and regulations within your country or jurisdiction.

Restrictions

All materials contained in the Shalom Media USA and SW News websites (“Online Material”) are the copyrighted property of Shalom Media USA and SW News. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are proprietary to Shalom Media USA and SW News. No Online Materials including videos, music, from our websites may be downloaded, copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, except that you may download one copy of the materials on any single device or computer for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided that you 1) retain all notices of copyright, trademark and propriety, 2) you make no modifications to the materials, 3) you do not use the materials in a manner that suggests an unauthorized association with any of our products, services, events or brands, and 4) you do not download quantities of materials to a database, server, or personal computer for reuse for commercial purposes. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute our Online Material in any way or for any other purpose unless you have obtained express written permissions to do so. You may not you add, delete, distort, or misrepresent any content on the Shalom Media USA and SW News sites. Any attempts to modify any online materials, or to defeat or circumvent our security features are prohibited.

Submitting online materials

All remarks, ideas, comments, graphics, suggestions, testimonies, or other information that you send to SW News and Shalom Media USA through our websites (other than information we promise to protect under our privacy policy) becomes and will remain our property, even if this agreement is later terminated. Such submissions are not treated as confidential. If we use them, or one similar in nature, we are not obligated to compensate you or anyone else for them. We will have the exclusive ownership of all present and future rights to the submissions of any kind we receive through our websites. We may or may not use your name when using this for any purposes including, but not limited to promotions. We can use them for any purpose we deem appropriate to SW News and Shalom Media USA, without compensating you or anyone else. We will have the exclusive ownership of all present and future rights to submissions of any kind. When making a submission, you acknowledge that you are responsible for any submissions that you make. This means that you (and not we) have full responsibility for the content, message, or presentation including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright.

Limitations of Liability

Shalom Media USA, Inc. and SW News will not be liable for any damages or injury that accompany or result from your use of any of its sites. These include (but are not limited to) damages or injury caused by any:

Use of or Inability to use the sites
Use of or inability to use any site hyperlinked from our sites
Failure of our sites to perform in the manner you expected or desired
Errors or omissions on our sites
Interruption or availability of our sites
Defect or delay in operation or transmission of our sites
Virus or line failure
We are also not liable for any damages caused by the use of our website, even in cases of any negligence from our end.

Links

We sometimes provide referrals to and links to other World Wide Websites from our sites. Such a link should not be seen as an endorsement, approval or agreement with any information or resources offered at sites you can access through our sites. If in doubt, always check the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address provided in your WWW browser to see if you are still in a SW News and Shalom Media USA-operated site or have moved to another site. SW News and Shalom Media USA will not be responsible for the content or practices of third party sites that may be linked to our sites. When SW News and Shalom Media USA provides links or references to other Websites, no inference or assumption should be made and no representation should be inferred that SW News and Shalom Media USA is connected with, operates or controls these Websites. Any approved link must not represent in any way, either explicitly or by implication, that you have received the endorsement, sponsorship or support of any SW News and Shalom Media USA site or endorsement, sponsorship or support of the ministry of Shalom World and Shalom Media USA, including its respective employees, agents or directors.

Jurisdiction

Unless otherwise specified, the Online Materials on our sites are presented to provide information about the resources of SW News and Shalom Media USA. SW News and Shalom Media USA was organized under the laws of Texas, in the United States of America. If you use our sites from locations outside of the United States, you are responsible for compliance with any applicable laws. These Terms of Use, and the agreement they create, shall be governed by and interpreted according to the laws of the State of Texas (without applying the state’s conflict-of-law principles.) If any provision of this agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, it will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. SW News and Shalom Media USA may modify these Terms of Use, and the agreement they create, at any time, simply by updating this posting and without notice to you. This is the ENTIRE agreement regarding all the matters that have been listed.