1. Legal Notice & Introduction
This website is the corporate website of Sanyu FM (2000) LTD (“Sanyu FM (2000) LTD“, “we”, “us” or “our”). Sanyu FM (2000) LTD is a registered company. References to “you”, “your” and “yours” are references to you, the person(s) accessing this Site.
The content contained on our Site is only for information purposes.
2. Accessing Means You Agree
By accessing and/or registering on this Site, you agree to comply with these terms of use, our Website User Guidelines, our Privacy Policy, our Competitions – General Terms and our Competitions – Specific Rules whether or not you register on the Site.
If you do not agree to our Legal Terms, do not access, view or otherwise use this Site or register as a user.
3. Access Issues
3.1 You are responsible for your internet connection to access our Site. You are also responsible for ensuring that any person who accesses it through your internet connection is aware of our Legal Terms and complies with them.
3.2 You may only use our Site or the software and services available through it (for example, Content and User-Generated Content as defined below) (collectively, the “Site Services”) for lawful purposes. You must not use our Site or the Site Services:
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- in any way which is unlawful, abusive, libelous, obscene or threatening or is otherwise prohibited by our Legal Terms;
- to harm or attempt to harm minors in any way;
- to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which is in breach of Part 6; or
- transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (“Spam”).
3.3 While we will endeavor to ensure that the Site is available twenty-four (24) hours a day, access to the Sites may be suspended temporarily and without notice due to a system failure, maintenance, and repair or for reasons beyond our control. You agree that we will not be liable to you if the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period for any reason.
3.4 Access to the Site is permitted on a temporary basis. We reserve all rights to deny or restrict access to the Site, whether temporarily or permanently, by any person or organization, or to block access from a particular internet address to the Site at any time, without giving any reason and without any liability whatsoever.
3.5 The Site may contain the option for you to receive push notifications, which is how information, news, alerts, sounds and icon badges may be delivered. When you are logged into the Site, you will receive a message asking if you wish to allow push notifications and if you accept, these push notifications will be delivered whether you are logged into and/or using the Site or not. You can control the push notification in your device’s or the Site’s settings.
4. Your Use of Content and Site Links
4.1 All content and materiel on the Sites other than User-Generated Content (“Our Content”) belongs either to us or our licensors and is protected by world-wide copyright laws.
4.2 Unless expressly stated otherwise, you may:
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- only use Our Content for your personal, non-commercial use;
- not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute any of Our Content; and
- not, without our prior written consent:
- redistribute any of Our Content (for example, by using it as part of any library, archive or similar service);
- remove any copyright or trademark notice from our Content; or
- create any database by downloading and storing any of our Content.
4.3 You may not create any link from or to any Site without our prior written consent.
4.4 You must not duplicate, distribute, publish, transfer, transmit, copy, alter, sell, use to create any derivative work or otherwise misuse any content of a third party provider which may be available on or through this Site.
4.5 You must comply with all terms disclosed to you as required from time to time by any third party supplier of data or services to the Site, including but not limited to, where necessary, entering into a direct agreement with that third party in respect of your use of its data.
4.6 You agree that, although this Site may contain or make reference to trademarks or other proprietary intellectual property rights of our partners or other third parties, you are not granted or have conferred upon you any license to, or right in, any of these trademarks or other proprietary intellectual property rights by reason of such reference.
4.7 You agree that any rights not expressly granted in our Legal Terms are reserved by us.
4.8 If you breach any of the provisions in our Legal Terms, your consent to use the Sites and your license to use Our Content automatically terminates and you must immediately delete or destroy any downloaded or printed extracts of Our Content you obtained from the Site.
5. Registration
5.1 You may access material on the Sites without registering with us first. However, we may restrict access to certain areas (for example, any Forums, defined below) and you may need to register to access them.
5.2 Your registration information must be accurate and complete and you must notify us of any change to that information, in particular to your e-mail address.
5.3 You warrant that you will not impersonate anyone else when registering for, or using, the Site or the Site Services.
5.4 You must not allow anyone else to access this Site by using your user name and password (“ID”).
5.5 You are liable to us for all Site access made by you or anyone else using your ID and we will not be liable to you or anyone else for unauthorized use of your ID.
5.6 You must not use this Site to send chain emails or Spam or to send, use or re-use any material which:
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- is unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous or indecent;
- infringes copyright or any other legal right; or
- Contains any other form of illegal content.
6. Community Forums and Posting Content on the Sites
6.1 The Site may include chat rooms, bulletin boards, discussion groups and other public areas that allow you to interact with other users and any of our journalists, who will be clearly identified as such, (“Forums”) and to post/transmit/upload (“Post”) your content to the Site (“User-Generated Content”) such as reviews, blogs and gallery.
6.2 Where we do provide a Forum, we will provide clear information to you about the nature of the service being offered and we reserve the right in our absolute discretion to cease providing it without notice and liability to you.
6.3 Our journalists may contribute material to any Forum in order to stimulate discussion and ensure their smooth running. Forums may also contain User-Generated Content from special guests selected by us. The opinions of our journalists and special guests are their own and are not necessarily endorsed by us. You must not consider them to be professional advisers and must not rely on any comments they make.
6.4 You must be registered as a user (unless otherwise stated) in order to Post your User- Generated Content, the content of which is your sole responsibility.
6.5 By Posting User-Generated Content you warrant that:
- you are 18 years of age or older or are aged 14 – 18 and have received consent from your parent or guardian to use the Forums;
- you are a resident of, and are accessing the Site in, Uganda;
- you will comply with any additional rules posted by us on a Forum;
- you own or are the licensee of the User-Generated Content you Post and have the right, power and authority to grant the rights set out in our Legal Terms to us;
- we are entitled to use your User-Generated Content in accordance with our Legal Terms; in particular, that we may lawfully permit other users to view your User-Generated Content, without any payment (including any royalty payment to you or anyone else);
- you have obtained consents from all people who are identifiable in your User-Generated Content;
- if a fact is stated, it is accurate or, if an opinion is stated, it is genuinely held;
- it is not confidential, does not infringe the intellectual property, privacy or any other legal right of anyone else and does not contain anything which is unlawful, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, harassing or threatening;
- you own its copyright or have the necessary permissions and rights to use it;
- it is not discriminatory and does not promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
- it does not solicit personal information from any users under 18 years of age;
- it does not include telephone numbers, physical addresses, email addresses or last names or other personally identifiable information;
- it does not violate any applicable law;
- it does not offend God, Islamic beliefs or those of other religions;
- it does not endanger, or potentially endanger Uganda’s national security;
- it does not endanger, or potentially endanger Uganda’s economic system;
- it does not endanger, or potentially endanger, national unity or social cohesion and does not offend any sect or tribe;
- it is not disrespectful of Uganda’s religious, cultural and social values;
- it is not disrespectful of Uganda’s system of government or any of its symbols or political institutions;
- it is not disrespectful of Uganda’s internal or external politics;
- it is not misleading news or rumor;
- it is not disrespectful of Uganda’s desire to promote its national identity;
- it does not, nor is it likely to, harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy anyone else;
- it does not, to the best of your knowledge, contain a virus or other harmful component or computer programming routine, software, file or code designed to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;
- it does not interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of this Site or any computer software or equipment;
- it does not disguise the origin of any User-Generated Content or impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent any affiliation with any person or entity or collect or store other users’ personal data; and
- it does not give the impression that it emanates from anyone else (including us) if that is not the case.
6.6 You warrant that you will not:
- post, link to or otherwise publish commercial material or material that promotes any commercial activity or contains recommendations to buy or refrain from buying a particular item (in particular, shares) or which contains another party’s confidential information or which otherwise would have the purpose of affecting the price or value of any item (in particular, shares); or
- post or otherwise publish any User-Generated Content which is unrelated to a Forum or the Forum’s topic.
6.7 By Posting your User-Generated Content you hereby grant a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, exclusive license to us to use, reproduce, modify, translate, make available, distribute and publish it and to distribute and/or broadcast some or all of it in all media and in all formats (including transmission by way of analog transmission, digital audio broadcasting, internet, satellite, television, film, cable or telephony) and to sub-license any other persons to do so, in each case for such purposes as we may in our reasonable discretion determine (which can be terminated by your removal of your User-Generated Content from the Site and your email to us at our ‘Contact’ page giving full details of your User-Generated Content that you wish to be removed, and we will endeavor to remove it from a Site within 28 days), you waive all moral rights you may have in it and you warrant that you have obtained a waiver of all others’ applicable moral rights.
6.8 By submitting your User-Generated Content to a Site, you indemnify us from all claims, costs, liabilities and expenses (including legal expenses) suffered by us because any of your Posted User-Generated Content is in breach of our Legal Terms.
6.9 You agree that we may disclose your identity to any third party who claims that the User-Generated Content you have posted to a Site violates its intellectual property or any other legal right.
6.10 You acknowledge that:
- Forums contain User-Generated Content submitted by users over whom we have no control;
- it is not possible for us to fully and effectively moderate, oversee or monitor the Forums; in particular, to monitor whether any User-Generated Content infringes the copyright or any other legal right of a third party;
- we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any Forum and cannot therefore guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of any particular User-Generated Content;
- we do not endorse any User-Generated Content which is not reflective of our views;
- some users may breach our Legal Terms and post User-Generated Content which is misleading, untrue or offensive;
- you accept all risk associated with your use of the Forums and do not rely on User-Generated Content in making (or refraining from making) any decision; and
- we are not liable to you in respect of any User-Generated Content you view on this Site.
6.11 We do not control or monitor all User-Generated Content posted to Forums by users but we reserve the right to do this (whether by human moderation or technical methods) or to delete, move or edit any of your User-Generated Content without notice to you.
6.12 We may contact you by email with regard to your use of the Forums.
7. Reporting Offensive or Illegal Content
7.1 While we do not control all the User-Generated Content posted to Forums by users, we do not wish to see harmful, offensive or illegal content on our Site. If you have any concerns about any Content or User-Generated Content that appears on this Site or you believe that such Content or User-Generated Content is harmful, offensive or infringes your rights (such as your intellectual property rights), please contact us via programming@sanyufm.com with the following information in sufficient detail:
- the location of the harmful/infringing/offensive content on the Site;
- a brief description of why you consider the content to be harmful, offensive or infringing and a statement confirming that you have a reasonable and honestly held belief that use of the content is not authorized;
- a brief description of, and information related to, the copyrighted work which you believe is infringed (if applicable); and
- Your contact details.
7.2 We will remove any of Our Content and User-Generated Content if we reasonably believe it to be in breach of our Legal Terms without prior notice to you.
8. Suspension and Termination of Registration/Access to Forums
8.1 We will determine in our discretion whether there has been a breach of our Legal Terms through your use of this Site and may take such action as we deem appropriate.
8.2 Failure to comply with our Legal Terms may result in our taking any or all of the following actions:
- immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Site (including our Forums);
- immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any of your User-Generated Content Posted to our Site;
- issue of a warning to you;
- 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;
- further legal action against you;
- disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably believe to be necessary; or
- any other action we reasonably consider to be appropriate.
9. Viruses, Hacking and Other Offences
9.1 You must not:
- misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful;
- attempt to gain unauthorized access to this Site, the server on which this Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to this Site; or
- Attack this Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
9.2 Any breach of Part 9.1 immediately ends your right to access our Site and is a criminal offence which we will report to the relevant law enforcement authorities and co-operate with them by disclosing your identity.
9.3 We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, virus or other technologically harmful materiel that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary materiel due to your access to this Site or to your downloading of any material which is Posted on any of them, or on any website linked to them.
10. Third Party Sites
10.1 The Site may contain links to other websites provided by independent third parties (“Third Party Sites”), either directly or through frames. Where possible, we will make clear such links are being made, although Third Party Sites may be co-branded with us and so include our trademarks. We are not responsible for the availability or content of Third Party Sites and will not be a party to, or in any way responsible for, any transaction concerning goods or services available from such Third-Party Sites. In particular, if you use links from the Site to an authorized connected site which is not operated by us to download software or any other material, file, image or data from the Third Party Site, you acknowledge and agree that we have no responsibility or liability in connection with it.
10.2 We are not responsible for the accuracy, timeliness, continued availability or existence of content, hyperlinks, or third party websites or pages linked to this Site. If any hyperlink to a downloadable software site is included on this Site, these are for your convenience only and we are not responsible or liable for any difficulties or consequences associated with your downloading the software. Use of any downloaded software is governed by the terms of the license agreement, if any, which accompanies or is provided with that software.
10.3 We make no representation or warranty regarding the accuracy, functionality or performance of any third party software which may be used in connection with this Site.
11. Advertising and Sponsorship
Part of this Site may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on it complies with applicable laws. We are not responsible to you for any error or inaccuracy in their advertising material.
12. No Offer
We may make changes to this Site or our Legal Terms from time to time. You should review our Legal Terms regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes we make. By continuing to use this Site, you are agreeing now to be bound by future changes.
14. DISCLAIMER
14.1 THE CONTENT OF THE SITE IS DISTRIBUTED TO YOU WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WE AND ANY PROVIDER OF THIRD PARTY CONTENT OR THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SITES AND OUR CONTENT.
14.2 INFORMATION ON THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS”, “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW WE AND ANY PROVIDER OF THIRD PARTY CONTENT OR THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS DO NOT GIVE OR MAKE ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED IN RESPECT OF SUCH INFORMATION WHETHER IN RESPECT OF THE SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICE AND THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF OUR CONTENT IS ASSUMED SOLELY BY YOU.
14.3 WE AND ANY PROVIDER OF THIRD PARTY CONTENT OR THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS:
- MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITION, WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION OR UNDERTAKING AS TO THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY OR TIMELINESS OF OUR CONTENT AND THE INFORMATION, MATERIAL, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OR THE ERROR-FREE USE OF THE SITE. OUR CONTENT AND THE INFORMATION, MATERIAL, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OUTLINED IN THE SITE MAY BE OUT-OF-DATE, AND WE MAKE NO COMMITMENT TO UPDATE SUCH CONTENT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ANY RELIANCE UPON SUCH CONTENT WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK; AND
- DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT ANY SITE WILL BE AVAILABLE OR THAT IT WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THAT ACCESS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, THAT THERE WILL BE NO DELAYS, FAILURES, ERRORS OR OMISSIONS OR LOSS OF TRANSMITTED INFORMATION, THAT NO VIRUSES OR OTHER CONTAMINATING OR DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES WILL BE TRANSMITTED OR THAT NO DAMAGE WILL OCCUR TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM. YOU HAVE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADEQUATE PROTECTION AND BACK-UP OF DATA AND/OR EQUIPMENT AND FOR UNDERTAKING REASONABLE AND APPROPRIATE PRECAUTIONS TO SCAN FOR COMPUTER VIRUSES OR OTHER DESTRUCTIVE PROPERTIES.
15. Limitation of Liability
15.1 Our Content and any User-Generated Content is for your general information and use only and is not intended to address your particular requirements. While we aim to update the Site regularly, any of Our Content or User-Generated Content may be out of date and we assume no responsibility for updating it. In particular, Our Content and any User-Generated Content does not constitute any form of advice, recommendation or arrangement to you by us and is not intended to be relied upon by you in making (or not making) any particular decision.
15.2 We have no liability to you because of:
- any reliance you placed on Our Content or User-Generated Content; and
- any arrangement made between you and any third party named on this Site, which was made at your sole risk and responsibility.
15.3 Because of the number of sources from which we obtain Our Content and User-Generated Content and the nature of electronic distribution via the internet, we do not give any warranties in respect of this Site or the Site Services. In particular, the Site Services are provided on an “as is” basis. We disclaim all warranties, conditions or duties of every nature whatsoever, (except any duties of good faith), including without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, any express or statutory warranties, and any warranties or duties regarding accuracy or timeliness. In addition, we do not warrant that the Site Services are free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive properties.
15.4 To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, you agree that we will not be liable to you and/or any third party for any consequential or incidental damages, including loss of business, income or revenue, lost profits or contracts, loss of data, privacy or goodwill, failure to meet any duty including but not limited to any duty of good faith or any indirect, special, or punitive damages whatsoever that arise out of or in connection with the use of this Site or the Site Services or any breach of our Legal Terms by us, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
15.5 Notwithstanding the provisions of this Part, our liabilities will not be limited to any that cannot be excluded or limited by law.
15.6 You agree to fully indemnify, defend and hold us and our affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, owners, agents, information providers and copyright owners from and against any and all claims, losses, costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by any such party in connection with any claim arising from your use of, or connection to, this Site, or from any breach by you of our Legal Terms.
16. Third Party Copyright
Some of the content used on our Site (such as, but not limited to, images and/or audio-visual material) may be the copyrighted works of third party suppliers, which reserve all their rights in such content. These third parties will be entitled to the benefit of our Legal Terms in respect of their content as if they were “we” and will be bound accordingly.
17. News by E-Mail
We may give you the option to subscribe to any e-mail news service so that your use of any information received in this manner will be subject to our Legal Terms.
18. Privacy Policy
18.1 The personal information that you provide to us will only be used by us in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which does not apply to Third Party Sites.
18.2 Our Privacy Policy is hereby incorporated into our Legal Terms as if it was fully set out here. Your agreement to our Legal Terms is also your consent to the way we handle your personal information under our Privacy Policy.
19. General
You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any of the rights under our Legal Terms. If any term is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions, which will remain in full force and effect. Failure by either us or you to exercise any right or remedy under our Legal Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy. Headings in our Legal Terms are for convenience only and have no legal effect.
20. Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
Our Legal Terms are governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the Republic of Uganda applicable in Uganda and you irrevocably agree that the courts of Uganda have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute between us which we are unable to resolve ourselves.
21. Entire Agreement
21.1 Our Legal Terms represent the entire understanding and agreement between you and us concerning your use of the Site and Our Content. Any and all previous courses of dealing, written or oral understandings, discussions, representations, correspondence and communications between you and us relating to the matters covered by our Legal Terms are hereby superseded. You agree that you have not relied upon, and will have no remedy in respect of, any warranty, statement, representation or understanding made by us or any other party unless it is expressly set out in our Legal Terms.
21.2 If any provision of our Legal Terms is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the validity of all other provisions will not be affected.
22. Contact Us
Any queries or comments about this Site or our Legal Terms should be directed via email to programming@sanyufm.com
