BY USING OR ACCESSING OUR PLATFORMS OR SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY OUR TERMS.
These terms and conditions together with our Privacy Policy and our User Rules, collectively the Terms, create a written contract between you and Amber News Media Limited, referred to as REVO, we, us, and our, and they govern our relationship and your use of our Platforms and or Services. When we say Platforms we mean all of our websites, mobile sites, mobile applications, emails, social media platforms, or any other technology or mechanism that you may use to interact with us. Services means any products, goods, services, or functionality that are offered, owned, or operated by REVO through our Platforms.
You may be an anonymous visitor, a registered user, a subscriber, or a nominated subscriber on our Platforms; your status may differ depending, in certain instances, on the nature of your subscription and on the specific Platform you use. A registered user is a user who has registered on our Platforms and may obtain access to free content and free features. A subscriber is a user who has subscribed and paid a subscription fee and will receive access to all content and paid features except for AI, which may require an additional paid subscription, refer to the AI Service Agreement. An anonymous user of our Platforms is neither a registered user nor a subscriber. In these Terms the word users refers to anonymous users, registered users, and subscribers.
A subscriber may be a natural person or a legal entity. A subscriber that is not a natural person, called a legal entity subscriber, may subscribe for one or more group packages as stated in the group subscription order, and such a package subscription will entitle the following people or entities, as the case may be, to use our Platforms and or Services, subject to these Terms:
- full time employees of the legal entity subscriber
- any other person approved by us, in our sole discretion
In each instance, such people must be nominated in writing by the relevant legal entity subscriber, and the persons so nominated are hereafter called nominated subscribers.
To gain access, nominated subscribers must start their subscription online and must cancel any existing subscriptions.
Nominated subscribers are subject to the Terms.
The legal entity subscriber who has nominated a nominated subscriber acknowledges that the use of the Platform and or the Service by that nominated subscriber will be subject to the Terms and that, if the nominated subscriber breaches the Terms, we are entitled to suspend or terminate that nominated subscriber's use immediately, without the legal entity subscriber having any right of recourse.
By accessing the Platform, a nominated subscriber accepts and agrees to be subject to and bound by the Terms.
A legal entity subscriber may not obtain a commercial benefit from the subscription for group packages, whether directly or indirectly, and whether through resale, grant of use, or any other method.
The general use of our Services, our Platforms, and any content on our Platforms is governed by our Terms. Content refers to any information, data, files, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, images, video, messages, live news, comments, hyperlinks or tags, and other material that appears on our Platforms or Services, together with all applicable copyrights, trademarks, patents, logos, or other intellectual property rights displayed on our Platforms or Services.
We may amend the Terms from time to time. Any new version of the Terms will be published on our Platforms and will take effect on the date that we first publish it. It is your obligation to visit our Platforms on a regular basis to determine whether any amendments have been made. By continuing to use our Platforms and or Services after we publish changes to the Terms, you agree to be bound by the changed Terms.
CONTENT ON OUR PLATFORMS OR SERVICES AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT
Our Content
Some of our Platforms and or Services may contain additional rules or terms from time to time that may be relevant to specific Services you use or subscribe to. By using those Services, you agree to be bound by those additional rules and or terms.
REVO owns or is entitled to use all Content made available on our Platforms or through our Services.
- reproduce, publish, perform, broadcast, adapt, sell, lease, offer, expose, transfer, or otherwise use for commercial purposes any Content
- decompile or reverse engineer the Content, or convert the Content to any format other than the format in which it was delivered
- incorporate the Content into any other content for any purpose
- remove any legal notices, including copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices, in or on the Content
- frame any portion of a web page that forms part of our Platforms or Services
You may not, unless you have our express consent:
You may retrieve, store, cite or refer to, or print Content from any of our Platforms or Services for educational, research, non commercial, private, or personal use only, as provided for under Jamaican copyright law.
- does not copy or provide the whole article as it appears on our Platforms or Services, but provides only a short summary of the contents of the article
- acknowledges us as the source of the Content and acknowledges writers, journalists, photographers, and third party agencies as they are acknowledged on our Platform
- provides a correct and working hyperlink to the source of the Content or the article on our Platform
- includes the date on which the Content was sourced from our Platforms in the summary of the Content
Use of Content in electronic clipping services or personalised news services is allowed only if such an electronic clipping service or personalised news service:
- provide only the thumbnail and the headline as they appear on our Platforms or Services
- provide a correct and working hyperlink to the source of the Content or the article on our Platform
- acknowledge us as the source of the Content and acknowledge writers, journalists, photographers, and third party agencies as they are acknowledged on our Platform
Use of Content by news aggregators is allowed only if such news aggregators:
- the purpose of caching is to make onward transmission of the Content from our Platform more efficient
- the cached Content is not modified in any manner
- the cached Content is updated at least every twelve hours
- the cached Content is removed or updated when we so require
Caching of our Platforms is allowed only with our written permission and if:
You may quote small and reasonable amounts of Content available from our Platforms only if such a quote is placed in inverted commas, the author is acknowledged, and a hyperlink to the quoted Content is provided as a footnote to that quote.
Your Content
All licenses and permissions granted in terms of this clause are provided on a non exclusive and non transferable basis and may be terminated or cancelled by us at any time without reasons being given.
You will retain ownership of any original Content that you upload, transmit, or store when using our Platforms or Services.
REVO will own all compilations, collective works, or derivative works created by us that may incorporate your Content.
You grant us an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, and royalty free right and license to use, publicly display, publish, publicly perform, reproduce, distribute, broadcast, adapt, modify, and promote on any medium your Content that you upload or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas on our Platforms or through our Services.
Any content that you transmit or post to publicly accessible areas on our Platforms or Services will be considered non confidential and non proprietary. We will have no obligations with respect to such Content.
You agree to adhere to our User Rules, insert hyperlink, when posting or transmitting any Content or material to our Platforms or Services.
All information that you upload or share with us must be true, accurate, relevant to current times, and complete.
You warrant that you are authorised to supply such information to us.
Third Party Content
To protect the integrity of our archives, we do not allow you to remove content that you provided after it has been published on any of our Platforms or publications.
Our Platforms or Services may include, from time to time, Content or advertisements from third parties and or external links to other websites that possess their own content, called Third Party Content.
- is beyond the control of REVO and that any reliance on any representation, statement, or information contained in Third Party Content is at your risk
- cannot be verified by REVO, and that REVO cannot be expected to determine its accuracy or its reasonableness
- may contain representations, statements, or information that do not represent the views, opinions, or beliefs of REVO, its associates, directors, or employees
Publication Schedules
You acknowledge that Third Party Content:
Listen to Articles: Text to Speech
Publications are published according to varying schedules. They may be weekly, fortnightly, monthly, or quarterly. Sometimes publications are skipped for a few weeks or months, or cancelled entirely. We will do our utmost to show current publication schedules. Since the publication schedules are managed by the publishers and not by us, delivery times may vary from those indicated on the publication schedule.
You may need an active subscription to listen to articles. Articles contain a media player below the headline that you can play to have the news read to you. If you do not have an active subscription, you will still see the audio player, but you may be prompted to subscribe when you click on it.
AI Offerings
You are not permitted to make any audio and/or video recordings of the narration of any articles.
- read and summarise news articles
- redirect users to any page on the Revo website upon request
- engage in topic discussions with basic reasoning capabilities
- answer questions even if the information is not in our database by retrieving results from a third party source and presenting them to the user
Our AI system can:
Session Limitation
the terms related to AI offerings will be outlined in the AI Service Agreement , Session Limitation
Locked Articles
Only two concurrent sessions will be allowed. This means users can have only two open sessions on various devices.
COMMUNICATIONS
There are articles across our Platforms that only subscribers can access, read in full, and use the features inside those articles.
You agree that REVO or its affiliates may from time to time send you communications, including editorial newsletters, information about new services or products launched, or special offers or discounts that REVO may negotiate for and offer to its users. All communications will comply with our Privacy Policy , and with applicable law. You will always be entitled to notify us in writing that you do not wish to receive or continue to receive such communications.
ARBITRATION
We will also from time to time send you service communications. These communications are required in order to manage your Services. You will not be able to opt out of receiving these communications for as long as you use the Service.
You may approach any other relevant authority or dispute resolution body, or you may refer the matter to arbitration as set out below, for resolution of the dispute.
You agree that any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, including its existence, validity, interpretation, performance, breach, or termination, will be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration seated in Jamaica, in accordance with the Arbitration Act of Jamaica and the rules of the chosen arbitral institution in effect at the time of the arbitration, which rules are deemed incorporated by reference into this clause.
The provisions set out above do not prevent either party from approaching any court of competent jurisdiction to obtain interim or other relief in cases of urgency.
You must send any notice or legal process relating to the Terms to the following address: 5th Floor, 13 Haining Rd., Kingston 5, Jamaica, W.I
THIRD PARTY GOOD, SOFTWARE AND SERVICES
We may offer services or products of third parties, or we may provide our Services together with those of third parties.
We provide such services or products subject to the terms, conditions, and limitations imposed by those third parties.
If those third parties change, suspend, or stop providing such services or products, we may likewise change, suspend, or stop providing them to you. We may nevertheless endeavour to provide such a service in another way or by using another supplier or service provider.
When you acquire services or products from a third party through any of our Platforms or Services, you understand and agree that:
- we are not a party to the contract between you and the third party
- we are under no obligation to monitor the third party service used by you
- the third party will be responsible for all obligations under the contract, including warranties or guarantees
- you will evaluate the product or service and the applicable terms and conditions before acquiring the product or service
USER IDS
Any username, password, or other log in allocated to you or created by you when subscribing to or using our Platforms or Services, called a User ID, will entitle you to access the Platforms or Services, subject to your compliance with the Terms.
Your User ID is personal to you. You:
- should keep your User ID confidential and should not disclose it to any third party
- should inform us promptly if a third party gains access to your User ID
- are responsible for all payments, use of, or activity on our Platforms or Services under your User ID
- will not perform multiple logins by logging in more than once at any one time using the same User ID
- will not circumvent our User ID authentication procedures or systems
- are liable for any damage, loss, or costs sustained by you, by us, or by any third party, however arising, as a result of any actions by you or by any third party using your User ID
While a User ID is personal to you, we own it. You therefore may not sell or otherwise transfer any entitlements to a User ID.
You will not retain any entitlements to your User ID once this agreement ends.
AVAILABILITY
While we endeavour to ensure that our Platforms and our Services are normally available twenty four hours a day, we shall not be liable if, for any reason, our Platforms or our Services are unavailable at any time or for any period.
Access to our Platforms or our Services may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance, or repair, or for reasons beyond our control. Some of our Platforms and or Services may contain additional rules or terms from time to time that may be relevant to specific Services you use or subscribe to. By using those Services, you agree to be bound by such additional rules and or terms.
We reserve the right to amend, suspend, or discontinue any Service or Platform, or any aspect of them, including but not limited to available content, times of availability, or equipment needed for access or use.
SECURITY AND PRIVACY
We will be entitled to take whatever action we deem necessary and reasonable to preserve the security and reliability of our Platforms and or Services.
You may not use our Platforms or our Services in any manner that may compromise the security of our network or of any other network connected to our network.
We take reasonable steps to secure your payment information. We use a payment system that, in our reasonable opinion, is sufficiently secure with reference to accepted technological standards and to the type of transaction concerned.
Some of our processing activities are hosted outside Jamaica in accordance with the Data Protection Act, two thousand twenty, as amended.
We are always working to improve the experience of our users. This includes the cookie preference capability. You can delete or disable cookies manually; however, this may adversely affect the operation and functionality of our Platforms and or our Services. Information on managing cookies is available in our Cookie Policy.
We are not domiciled outside Jamaica. Although our Platforms and or our Services are accessible worldwide, we do not specifically target users outside Jamaica.
We have a non personalised advertisement setting in place within Google for anyone who accesses our Platforms and or our Services from the European Union and the United Kingdom. This applies to both direct campaigns and open exchange advertisements and prohibits all targeting and retargeting of audiences based on personal information.
We handle your personal information in accordance with the provisions of the REVO Privacy Policy , which embeds the REVO Cookie Policy.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICING
We reserve the right to adjust the subscription fee, and we will always inform you of such adjustments before we implement them. Should this happen, you will be notified at your subscribed email address. If you do not accept the adjusted subscription fee, you can terminate your subscription to the Service by following the online cancellation flow. Your subscription to the Service will end at the close of the period for which you have paid the subscription fee.
The digital publisher may adjust the subscription packages to add or to remove features and or content in line with the business model.
The digital publisher reserves the right to add or to remove titles in the subscription packages.
PROMOTIONAL OFFERS
General promotional or free trial offers are available only to new subscribers on the web and on mobile applications.
Subscribers will pay a discounted amount for a limited period; thereafter, the normal subscription fee will be deducted automatically if the subscription is not cancelled.
Subscribers will be able to redeem a specific promotional code only once.
Retention or loyalty promotional offers may be extended to current subscribers who are on a specific promotional offer, to extend their promotional period at a new price, or to standard price subscribers to offer them a discounted rate. These offers are extended directly to a specific group of subscribers and are redeemable only by that specific group. The offer is not transferable and applies only for a specific period. The offer can be taken up only while a subscription is still active and will auto renew in the next month, and not after a subscription has been cancelled. There are limitations and restrictions that relate to payment methods.
PAYMENTS
Payments may be made by credit card or debit card, by debit order, through the Amber Pay Gateway, or through the Apple App Store and the Google App Store. The list of available payment methods may be adjusted at the discretion of the digital publisher. All other payment methods will be communicated to you as they become available.
Subscribers will not be allowed to switch from one payment method to another while the subscription is active.
In some cases, your payment date may change, for example if your payment method has not settled successfully or if your paid subscription began on a day that does not match your selected billing day.
In the event of nonpayment where a user has not cancelled during the cancellation window, the digital publisher reserves the right to recover an amount that is owed at the same time as the due payment.
If a payment fails on the billing date, further attempts to collect will be made during at least one billing cycle. If all attempts fail, the account will be placed under suspension.
You remain responsible for any uncollected amounts. If a payment is not successfully settled due to expiration, insufficient funds, or any other reason, and you do not terminate your account, we may suspend your access to the Service until we have successfully charged a valid payment method. For some payment methods, the issuer may charge you certain fees, such as foreign transaction fees or other fees related to the processing of your payment method. Local tax charges may vary depending on the payment method used. Check with your payment method service provider for details.
Subscription fees will be charged automatically each month to your chosen payment method on the specific billing date provided upon subscription. Please ensure that sufficient funds are available on your chosen payment method.
TERMINATION OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
You may terminate your subscription to a Service at any time by logging in to your profile and terminating the Service.
We may terminate your subscription to the Service:
- at any time by providing you with notice
- if you violate the Terms
If your subscription is suspended or terminated for any reason, you will not have further access to subscription content or features.
You must pay all money and costs that you have incurred up to the termination date.
DISCLAIMER AND LIMITED LIABILITY
You use our Platforms and our Services at your own risk.
While we endeavour to ensure that the information on our Platforms or our Services is correct, we do not warrant the accuracy or the completeness of Content on our Platforms or our Services or that the Content and the technology available from our Platforms or our Services are free from errors or omissions.
We may make changes to the Content on our Platforms or our Services at any time without notice. The Content on our Platforms or our Services may be out of date, and we make no commitment to update such Content.
To the extent allowed by law, we shall not be liable for any damage, loss, or liability of whatsoever nature arising from the use of or inability to use our Platforms or our Services or Content provided from or through our Platforms or our Services.
Our Platforms and our Services are supplied on an as is basis and have not been compiled or supplied to meet any user's individual requirements. It is your sole responsibility to satisfy yourself, prior to entering into this agreement with us, that the Services available on or through our Platforms will meet your individual requirements and will be compatible with your hardware and or software.
Information, ideas, and opinions expressed on our Platforms or our Services should not be regarded as professional advice or as our official opinion, and you are encouraged to consult professional advice before taking any course of action related to information, ideas, or opinions expressed on our Platforms or our Services.
Submissions of Content, such as contributions to blogs and comments on articles, postings of any kind to our Platforms or our Services, and emails sent to our Platforms or our Services are not editorially controlled by us, and therefore we cannot be held liable for illegal or unconstitutional content, including but not limited to defamatory or harmful content.
GENERAL TERMS
These Terms are the sole record of the agreement between you and us, and neither party is bound by any express, tacit, or implied representation or warranty not recorded in these Terms.
No agreement will be concluded, and no amendment to these Terms will be effected, merely by you sending a data message to our Platforms or by you using our Services. REVO may transfer its rights and obligations under the Terms to a third party without your consent.
You may not transfer your rights and obligations under the Terms to a third party without the consent of REVO.
If any provision of the Terms is or becomes unenforceable for any reason, that provision will be treated as though it had not been included in the Terms to the extent that it remains unenforceable and will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of the Terms.
The Terms are governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Jamaica without giving effect to any principles of conflict of law, and you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Jamaica.
You agree that we may intercept or monitor all communications sent or posted by you to our Platforms, our Services, or our employees. You agree that the consent provided by you herein satisfies any writing requirement prescribed in law.