By completing and submitting forms on this site you will be providing THE LOCAL with certain data. THE LOCAL collects and uses two types of data about users of its sites: (1) Personal Data – (names and addresses etc) via which it is possible to identify an individual from that information; and (2) Aggregated Data – being all other information that relates purely to generic statistics such as traffic flow and demographics.
transferring your Personal Data to THE LOCAL’s site franchise partner if this site is one which THE LOCAL publishes and manages for a third party franchise partner (e.g. a club or organisation), and to that franchise partner contacting you with other relevant material.
transferring your Personal Data to any country in which a THE LOCAL server is located for the purpose of providing you the sites and services within THE LOCAL’s network and for conducting the above activities.
THE LOCAL uses “cookies” to speed up access to the site (it bypasses checking the registered user database) or to determine whether a user is signed in or not. A cookie is a small piece of information sent from THE LOCAL to your computer to help us to identify you quickly. It is possible for you to disable these cookies by changing your browser settings, but this may slow down or prohibit access to parts of the site.
You understand and agree that THE LOCAL may review and delete any material or content, including but not limited to text, comment, message, photo or profile that in the sole judgment of THE LOCAL does not comply with this Agreement, applicable law or regulation, or which might be offensive, illegal or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of other users. THE LOCAL will regularly monitor the Services for inappropriate and illegal contents posted by the users. The number of users and amount of contents in the Services are very large, and therefore it is not possible for THE LOCAL to monitor all and every material posted on the Services. If illegal or inappropriate material or content escapes THE LOCAL’s notice when monitoring, this is not to be seen as THE LOCAL approving of such material or content and THE LOCAL has no responsibility or liability for such material or content. THE LOCAL assumes no responsibility or liability for the conduct of users, including you, submitting any such material or content. It is very important that you report any illegal or inappropriate Contents that you become aware of to THE LOCAL or by clicking on [“Report Inappropriate Contents”].
By displaying or publishing any material or content such as texts, files, messages, photos, video, images, sounds, profiles, works of authorship or any other materials (“Contents”) on or through the services provided by THE LOCAL, you grant to THE LOCAL a fully-paid, non-exclusive, and royalty-free), worldwide license to use, modify copy, translate, adapt, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, reproduce, store and distribute such Contents on and through the Services or in media that are partners to THE LOCAL. . This license will come to an end at the time you remove such Contents from the Services and upon your notification to THE LOCAL. Regardless of this, a residual or back-up copy of the Contents posted may remain on the servers after you have removed the Contents from the Services, and THE LOCAL maintains the rights to those copies. You warrant and represent that you own the Contents posted by you or otherwise have the right to grant the above described license. Furthermore, you warrant and represent that the posting of your Contents on or through the Services does not violate the copyrights, publicity rights, contract rights, privacy rights or any other rights of any person or company. You agree to pay for all fees, royalties and any other duty owed to any person or company by reason of any Contents posted by you to or through the Services.
In order to make a purchase from THE LOCAL, you have to be eighteen (18) years old. If not, you should get your guardian’s consent or place the order through that person.
THE LOCAL’s failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the User Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless acknowledged and agreed to by THE LOCAL in writing.