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Conditions for use of the Global Property Guide

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  • By using globalpropertyguide.com you agree to be legally bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of globalpropertyguide.com. If you do not agree to be legally bound by all the following terms please do not access and/or use globalpropertyguide.com.
  • The Global Property Guide may change these terms at any time by posting changes online. Please review these terms regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes made by the Global Property Guide. Your continued use of globalpropertyguide.com after changes are posted means you agree to be legally bound by these terms as updated and/or amended.

Restrictions

  • You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use globalpropertyguide.com content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use (but see below). You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any globalpropertyguide.com content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of globalpropertyguide.com content requires the prior written permission of the Global Property Guide.

Exceptions to the restrictions:

TABLES may be reproduced in full. Each use of a table must be accompanied by an active (“live”) link to globalpropertyguide.com or to the location of the article (without “no follow” tags). However, not more than 10 tables may be reproduced on any site, without specific permission.

ARTICLES may only be published in full by specific written permission. If you run a web site which makes its living republishing content, and you wish to publish our articles on your site, please contact us. We can arrange with you a license either for the specific article, or come to a more general arrangement.

Similarly, each article must be accompanied by an active, live link to globalpropertyguide.com or to the location of the article (without “no follow” tags).

FAIR USE Small parts of articles may be used without permission in reviews, or quoted, following the usual ‘fair use’ rules. See Wikipedia:

“Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test. The term "fair use" originated in the United States, but has been added to Israeli law as well; a similar principle, fair dealing, exists in some other common law jurisdictions. Civil law jurisdictions have other limitations and exceptions to copyright. “ For further information see Wikipedia: Fair use.

PRESS RELEASES may be used and incorporated, with reduced concern about copyright issues, i.e., while direct copying is strongly discouraged, the substance of the press release can be incorporated so long as a few changes are made. Tables in press releases may be freely used by newspapers, magazines, TV reports, other media, other sites, etc (each use of a table must be accompanied by a link to globalpropertyguide.com or to the location of the article).

All references to the Global Property Guide content should be sourced to globalpropertyguide.com or other pages within the site.

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      1. is your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to the Global Property Guide for all the purposes specified above;
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      3. does not infringe any law; and
    • indemnify the Global Property Guide against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the Global Property Guide as a result of your breach of the above warranty; and
    • waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on globalpropertyguide.com and the purposes specified above.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

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Intellectual Property

  • The names, images and logos identifying the Global Property Guide or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of the GPG and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of the Global Property Guide or any other third party.

Contributions to globalpropertyguide.com

  • Where you are invited to submit any contribution to globalpropertyguide.com (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree, by submitting your contribution, to grant the Global Property Guide a royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenceable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in the Global Property Guide's Privacy Policy.

However, this license is not perpetual. You may withdraw from it, at your own choosing, by writing to us and telling us that you wish to withdraw your permission for republication.

Difficulties may arise if the Global Property Guide has included your material in mailshots or other subsidiary publications. The right to withdraw your license in such cases is limited by practicality.

The Global Property Guide will take all reasonable steps to withdraw publication, but it is a term of your agreement to our use of your material, that you agree that the Global Property Guide will not be liable for any damage resulting from its failure to act on your notice that you wish to withdraw your license.

Comment rules

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General

  1. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on globalpropertyguide.com (including local house rules) then the latter shall prevail.
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  3. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Republic of the Philippines.

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