Terms of Service
Agreement to these terms
These terms govern your use of iaqaba.com and everything published on it. By reading the site you accept them. If you do not accept them, the remedy is simple: stop using the site. We have written the terms in plain language because a contract nobody can read protects nobody. Where a heading and the text beneath it seem to disagree, the text wins.
Who we are
IAQABA is an independent general-news publication owned and operated by its operator, as described on the ownership and funding page. The site is edited by a small team and publishes for an international, English-reading audience. Governing law and any registered details are confirmed in writing on request to support@iaqaba.com.
What you may do
You may read the site, link to any page on it, quote short passages for comment, criticism, teaching or news reporting with attribution to IAQABA and a link to the original, and share our links on any platform. You may print or save a copy of an article for your own personal, non-commercial reference. Nothing in these terms restricts any right you have under the copyright law that applies to you.
What you may not do
You may not republish whole articles or substantial parts of them, on any site, feed, app or print product, without written permission. You may not scrape, crawl or bulk-download the site’s content except as our robots file permits, and you may not use the content to build a competing publication, a dataset or a derived product. You may not remove or alter credits, captions or notices. You may not use the site to attack, probe or overload our systems, or to interfere with advertising delivery.
You may not present our reporting as your own, present a modified version of it as ours, or use our name to suggest an endorsement we have not given. Requests for permission and licensing go to support@iaqaba.com with LEGAL in the subject line; the DMCA and copyright policy explains what we are usually willing to allow.
Our content and its ownership
The text, headlines, images we have created or licensed, graphics, design and code of the site are owned by IAQABA or its licensors and are protected by copyright and related rights wherever they apply. Trademarks, logos and product names belonging to others appear on the site for identification and remain the property of their owners. Material we quote or embed under licence or fair use remains the property of its original owner.
Accuracy and the limits of what we promise
We work hard to publish accurate, current information, and the fact-checking and corrections policies describe how. Even so, news is written under deadline about events that are still moving, and the site is provided as it is, without any warranty that it is complete, error-free or current at the moment you read it. Nothing on the site is financial, legal, medical, tax, travel-safety or purchasing advice; the disclaimer sets out that boundary in detail.
Third-party content and links
Stories link to and sometimes embed material hosted elsewhere: documents, videos, social posts, official pages. We link to it because it is relevant, not because we endorse it, and we do not control it. A linked site has its own terms and privacy practices, and content at the far end of a link can change or disappear after we publish. Advertising on the site is served by a third-party network and is not written, reviewed or endorsed by our editors.
Comments and material you send us
The site does not host reader comments. If you send us material by email, such as a tip, a photograph, a document or a correction, you keep ownership of it, but you give us permission to use it in our reporting, to quote it, and to keep it for our records. You confirm that you have the right to send it and that doing so does not break a confidentiality obligation you owe to someone else, unless you tell us otherwise so we can handle it under the rules on the contact page.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law where you live allows, IAQABA and its operator are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of the site or your reliance on anything published on it, including loss of profit, loss of data, or any indirect or consequential loss. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, such as liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
Where liability cannot be excluded but can be limited, it is limited to the amount you have paid us to use the site, which is nothing. If that limitation is not enforceable where you live, the lowest limit the law allows applies instead.
Indemnity
If you use the site in a way these terms forbid, and that use causes a claim against us, you agree to compensate us for any loss, cost or damage that results, including reasonable legal costs. This applies in particular to unauthorised republication of our content and to any material you send us that turns out to infringe someone else’s rights.
Availability and changes to the site
We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the site at any time without notice, including by removing or amending articles under the corrections policy. We aim to keep the site available continuously but cannot promise it, and we are not liable for periods when it is offline. We may block access from any source that breaches these terms or threatens the site’s operation.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms when the site or the law changes. The date at the top of the page shows the version in force, and material changes are flagged in a short note beneath it. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the new terms. If a change is one you cannot accept, stop using the site.
General provisions
If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. Our failure to enforce a term on one occasion does not waive it. These terms are the whole agreement between you and IAQABA about the use of the site. Questions about them go to support@iaqaba.com with LEGAL in the subject line.
