Politician Scandal Terms & Conditions

By reading, responding, and relating on PoliticianScandal.com (the "Website") you are agreeing to abide by these Terms and Conditions. You are welcome to browse the Website without providing any personal information.

PoliticianScandal.com ("Politician Scandal") encourages you to comment on articles, but does not condone personal attacks on writers or other posters. You may not use the Website to send or post messages or material that are unlawful, harassing, libelous, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, profane, sexually-oriented, threatening, racially offensive, inaccurate, or otherwise objectionable or that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation.

Use of information found on the Website, either personal or otherwise, for any commercial purpose or to obtain direct financial gain is prohibited, including but not limited to chain letters, junk mail, spamming, solicitations (commercial or non-commercial) or bulk communications of any kind including but not limited to distribution lists to any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such a list.

In the event that Politician Scandal determines that you have breached any portion of these Terms and Conditions, or have otherwise demonstrated conduct inappropriate for the Politician Scandal community, Politician Scandal reserves the right to: (i) delete any or all content provided by you or your agent to Politician Scandal; (ii) take any other action which Politician Scandal deems necessary and appropriate.

Copyright

Politician Scandal respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your copyrighted work appears on this site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may notify us by emailing Politician Scandal at info@PoliticianScandal.com with the following information, which is consistent with the form suggested by the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):

·      a description of the copyrighted work and a description of the infringing activity

·      the location of the copyrighted work (the original or an authorized copy) (include specific identifiers such as its URL or ISBN)

·      the PoliticianScandal.com URL where suspect material is located

·      the signature (electronic or physical) of the owner of the copyright or the person authorized to act on the owner's behalf

·      your name, address, telephone number, and email address

·      a statement by you declaring the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law

·      a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that all of the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf

All paid correspondents are responsible for maintaining their postings on Politician Scandal. Upon receipt of information regarding changes to a correspondent's work, the correspondent must complete the changes within thirty calendar days. In the event the correspondent does not enact the changes to any or all postings within thirty calendar days, said postings may be removed from the website at the sole discretion of Politician Scandal, resulting in the loss of the correspondent’s residuals for said postings.

All correspondents are responsible for applicable copyright laws. Correspondents will not and cannot hold Politician Scandal liable for copyright infringement or any laws that are broken due to the negligence of the correspondent.

All paid correspondent will be paid US $0.10 per 1000 page views for their article. Unpaid page view totals will carry over to the next month until enough page views have been accrued to issue the correspondent a payment. Payments will be made to the correspondent via PayPal on the last calendar day of the month that the correspondent’s account accrues enough page views to translate to US $10.00 (example: correspondent has accrued enough page views to receive a payment on the 12^th of October. A payment to the correspondent would be made on October 31^st for the entire balance of the account).

Page view totals will be reset to zero upon issuing a payment to the correspondent. If a correspondent requires payment via paper check rather than PayPal, the correspondent must request a paper check in writing. The request may be submitted via email or mailed to our office. In the event of an accounting or payment error, please contact Politician Scandal. Politician Scandal will work quickly to resolve any errors.

If Politician Scandal suspects at any time that the correspondent has fraudulently accumulated page views through human or computerized means, the correspondent forfeits their claim to any residuals and payments accrued. Politician Scandal will remove all postings by the correspondent, and the correspondent will be banned from using Politician Scandal for life.

The correspondent retains the copyright on all work derived from or written by the correspondent. All works will legally remain the property of the correspondent. Upon posting to Politician Scandal, the correspondent authorizes Politician Scandal to display, market, and use any and all works submitted in any way Politician Scandal deems fit, at the sole discretion of Politician Scandal. Upon written request, all postings from the correspondent will be removed from the website.

In the event a third party is interested in purchasing content from the author, Politician Scandal may or may not act as a broker for the purchase. If the author or correspondent is contacted by Politician Scandal regarding a third party purchasing the work, the author or correspondent has no obligation to sell their work. However, if the author or correspondent agrees to sell a work, the author or correspondent agrees to pay Politician Scandal a brokerage fee, which will be determined on a case by case basis.