1. General Terms of Use
1.1. Materials published on the BBSPORTNEWS.COM portal (articles and images) are protected by Copyright Law, which means that their republication and use without written consent from BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration is prohibited. BBSPORTNEWS.COM digital media usage rights are explained in these terms. At the same time, we draw attention to the fact that BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration reserves the right to change the general terms of use at any time in accordance with legislation.
1.2. These apply to BBSPORTNEWS.COM service users and portal visitors.
1.3. BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration has the right to change the general terms of use, guided by industry content and technical development, as well as changes in regulations.
1.4. Changes to the general terms of use take effect at the moment when BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration has published them on its portal.
2. Availability of Digital Services and Content
2.1. The BBSPORTNEWS.COM portal strives to provide its visitors with continuous and quality access to our content, while not being responsible for its continuous availability, and does not exclude the presence of technical disruptions at certain stages that could interfere with the portal’s operation.
2.2. BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration has legal rights to suspend access to content placed on the portal at any time due to technical or other objective reasons, without prior notice to portal visitors. By this, it should be understood that BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration is not responsible for inconveniences caused by such disruptions.
2.3. BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration is not responsible for any type of technical problems or portal operation disruptions that may arise when using our digital media. It also definitely bears no responsibility for various types of viruses or malicious software entering user devices.
3. Citation of Materials Available on BBSPORTNEWS.COM Portal Elsewhere
3.1. If material is cited, its publication place and author must be indicated. If quotes are republished on a website, it is necessary to add a link to the source.
3.2. Copyright also applies to materials published by BBSPORTNEWS.COM on other social network platforms (“Twitter”, “Facebook”, “Instagram”).
3.3. Free and without special consent from BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration, it is permitted to republish only headlines (including modified ones that do not correspond one-to-one) and text in the volume of three to five sentences. This rule is valid under such conditions if there is no other written agreement at the given time. For texts cited on websites, it is mandatory to add a reference to the specific publication.
3.4. Under material cited in the internet environment, a precise reference to the BBSPORTNEWS.COM original publication must be indicated, specifically stating the following text: “Please read the full material on the BBSPORTNEWS.COM portal,” clicking on which makes it possible to reach our site and our original material.
3.5. If more extensive BBSPORTNEWS.COM original content materials are used without prior agreement, or if they are protected by copyright, then BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration has the right to demand financial compensation for violation of the aforementioned rules. For the first violation, this is 100 euros, for repeated (second or more) violations – 200 for each.
4. General Commenting Rules and Norms
BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration is interested in listening to every portal visitor’s opinion, while this must occur in a non-offensive and respectful manner. Since commenting in the internet environment is not considered a type of professional journalism, but rather visitors’ subjective opinion, the comment author themselves is responsible for its consequences (if such may arise).
4.1. Comment authors must take into account that:
- Comments that do not contain norms of politeness will be deleted immediately;
- Comments that contain uncensored vocabulary, incite hatred, incite hostility between races and nationalities, encourage the use of narcotics and weapons are deleted from the portal. Also, if they contain threats directed at specific persons, or spread false and defamatory information;
- Upon request of a court or other law enforcement institution, all information stored on servers that does not comply with the previously cited behavioral norms must be disclosed;
- Several techniques for restricting inadequate comments may be used, such as censoring or filtering them; in case of repeated violation, the portal has the right to block the user’s IP address, as well as report to law enforcement institutions.
4.2. Portal BBSPORTNEWS.COM users must also be aware that:
- By expressing their opinion, its author at that moment transfers the rights to its publication;
- BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration protects and guarantees the anonymity of its potential information sources, observing good journalism practices, as well as regulations;
- BBSPORTNEWS.COM administration guarantees the confidentiality of public opinion expressers or comment authors, including contact addresses, except in situations where the transfer of personal data to third parties is BBSPORTNEWS.COM’s legal responsibility and duty (this refers to situations with law enforcement institutions).
5. BBSPORTNEWS.COM Cookie Usage Terms
Cookies are small text files that a website saves on your devices when you visit the respective site. Each subsequent time you visit, cookies are sent back to the originating site or a third-party site that recognizes the respective cookie.
When using the BBSPORTNEWS.COM portal, the user must consent to the use of cookies on their device. Without consent, this will not be possible. We remind you – cookies are not used to personally identify you. This is necessary for technical purposes.
5.1. They are divided into two types:
- Temporary or session cookies – they help coordinate user actions during one browser session, namely, they exist from the moment of opening the web browser until its closure or up to four hours from the last entry into a website;
- Persistent cookies – are saved on the user’s device for the time specified in the cookie and are activated each time the user visits the portal from which it was sent.
5.2. Cookies are divided based on their ownership:
- First-party cookies – from the visited web page. With the help of these cookies, web pages can save the necessary amount of information that is used each time during portal visits. From the perspective of personal data processing, the first-party cookie placer is the responsible processor (or any authorized person) who deals with the management of visited pages;
- Third-party cookies – are created, for example, from advertisements on other web pages that are located on the web pages visited by the user. From the perspective of personal data processing, the third-party cookie placer is the responsible processor, who is not the same as the visited page administrator.
5.3. Cookies are also divided based on their sending purpose:
- Strictly necessary – are necessary to be able to navigate the website, use its offered capabilities and provide user-selected services. Without the placement of these cookies, the website cannot offer user-selected services;
- Functional cookies – these cookies allow our website to remember choices made (for example, text size, other changeable properties of the website) and features (user name, language used or country of location) and provide improved, more personalized capabilities;
- Analytical cookies – accumulate information about how visitors use the portal, for example, to determine which pages are most frequently visited, as well as to find out whether visitors receive error messages. The collected information is combined and made anonymous. The task of these cookies is to improve website performance;
- Advertising cookies – these cookies allow showing the most appropriate advertisements to a specific user, conducting market research and analysis using information collected from websites visited by the user and their interests. The obtained information can be distributed in advertising networks and to advertising service providers.
5.4. Consent
Strictly necessary cookies can be used by BBSPORTNEWS.COM without user permission, as without them access to the portal is not possible. However, if the user does not consent, then they allow the use of functional cookies according to their choice.
5.5. How to Control Cookies
If you wish, you can control or delete cookies. Most web browsers can be set to block cookie storage on the device. Please note that you will then need to adjust individual settings each time you visit the site, and additionally, some services and functions on the site may not work.