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Nature of the service

BlindBlog aggregates publicly available news headlines and publishes original commentary and analysis, much of it produced by automated systems. The service is provided on an as is and as available basis, with no warranty of accuracy, completeness, timeliness or fitness for any purpose. See our investment disclaimer, which forms part of these terms.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• scrape, crawl or systematically harvest the site beyond what our robots.txt permits;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the site or its infrastructure;
• use the site to distribute malware, spam, or unlawful material;
• impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation in comments;
• use the site or its content for any unlawful purpose, or in a way that could damage or impair it.

User-submitted content

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Intellectual property

Original articles, design and code published by BlindBlog belong to BlindBlog. Headlines, excerpts and thumbnails from third-party publishers remain the property of those publishers and appear here under fair use for news reporting and commentary, with attribution and a link to the source.

If you are a rights holder and believe your material has been used improperly, contact hello@example.com and we will respond promptly.

Third-party links

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Availability

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Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, BlindBlog and its operators shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising from your use of — or inability to use — the site.

Changes

We may revise these terms at any time. Continued use of the site after a revision constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.