Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

This website address is: https://llmnews.com

Last updated: April 16, 2019

Hello there. Please read these Terms of Use (“Terms”, “Terms of Use”) carefully before using the website https://llmnews.com (the ” Website “, the “Site”) operated by LLM News (“I”, “us”, “we”, “our”, or “its”).

Your access to and use of the Website is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Website. By accessing or using the Website you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the Terms, then you may not access the Website.

Permissions Policy

LLM News is owned and created by Tamara McFarlane (the “Owner”), who owns all of the content on the Website. LLM News does not own guest posts written by others.

Accordingly, you must have the Owner’s express written consent if you want to:

  • Make commercial use of this content including, but not limited to, selling or licensing printed or digital versions of the Owner’s content
  • Add to, alter, or transform the Owner’s content
  • Have re-posting or translation rights

You may, without the Owner’s express written consent, do the following:

  • Link to the Website or a specific post on the Website
  • Extract less than two hundred words from a post and re-post the extracted text on another non-offensive website, as long as you link back to the Owner’s original post and agree that LLM News can require that the re-posted text and link back be removed if, in its sole discretion, LLM News finds the other website to be offensive
  • Print the Owner’s blog posts and photocopy as many as 50 copies for internal distribution within your own company or organization

The above-listed permissions do not apply to guest authors. Guest authors retain the copyright to their posts. You must contact the guest author directly if you want to publish or re-post their content. LLM News does not act as their broker, agent, or point of contact.

Links To Other Web Sites

The Website may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by LLM News.

LLM News has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that LLM News shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.

You are strongly encouraged to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party web sites or services that you visit.

User Submissions

For all reviews, comments, feedback, posts, suggestions, ideas, and other submissions disclosed, submitted or offered to LLM News, you grant LLM News a royalty-free, irrevocable, transferable right and license to use the User Submissions however LLM News desires, including but not limited to, copying, modifying, deleting in its entirety, adapting, publishing, translating, creating derivative works from, and/or selling and/or distributing such User Submissions and/or incorporate such User Submissions into any form, medium, or technology throughout the world.

LLM News will be entitled to use, reproduce, disclose, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, publish, display, and distribute any User Submissions you submit for any purpose whatsoever, without restriction and without compensating you. LLM News is and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any User Submissions in confidence; (2) to pay to user any compensation for any User Submissions; or (3) to respond to any User Submissions. You agree that any User Submissions submitted by you to LLM News will not violate the terms of any rights of any third party, including but not limited to, copyright, trademark, privacy, or other personal or proprietary right(s), and will not cause injury to any person or entity. You further agree that no User Submissions submitted by you to LLM News will be libelous or contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, threatening, abusive, or obscene material, or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of spam.

You agree that your use of  the Website constitutes your consent to the above Terms regarding User Submissions.

Electronic Communications

When you visit or send emails to the Website, you are communicating with LLM News electronically and consent to receive communications from LLM News electronically. LLM News will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on the Website. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that LLM News provides to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Termination

LLM News may terminate or suspend access to the Website immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms.

All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

LLM News is provided by the Owner on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis and makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, regarding the Website’s operation or the information, content, materials, or products included on the Website. You expressly agree that your use of LLM News is at your sole risk. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, LLM News disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. LLM News does not warrant that the Website, its servers, or any e-mail sent from LLM News are free of viruses or other harmful components. Neither LLM News nor the Owner will be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of the Website, including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, and consequential damages. Some state laws do not allow limitations on implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. If such laws are applicable to you, some or all of the above disclaimers, exclusions, or limitations may not apply to you, and you might have additional rights.

Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Virginia, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our Website and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have between us regarding the Website.

Changes

LLM News reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, LLM News will try to provide at least 15 days notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at the sole discretion of LLM News.

By continuing to access or use the Site after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using the Website.

Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact LLM News.

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy of https://llmnews.com

Effective date: April 16, 2019

LLM News (“I”, “us”, “we”, “our”, or “its”) operates the https://llmnews.com website (the “Website”).

This page informs you of the policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use the Website and the choices you have associated with that data.

Your data is used to provide and improve the Website. By using the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://llmnews.com

Information Collection And Use

LLM News may collect several different types of information, for various purposes, to provide and improve the Website to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using the Website, you may be asked to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
  • Cookies and Usage Data

Usage Data

The Website may also collect information how the Website is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of the Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data

LLM News may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on the Website and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze the Website.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of the Website.

Examples of Cookies used:

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

If you edit or publish an article, a cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Use of Data

LLM News uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain the Service
  • To notify you about changes to our Service
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer care and support
  • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
  • To monitor the usage of the Service
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

LLM News will take the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure Of Data

Legal Requirements

LLM News may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of LLM News
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to LLM News, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While LLM News strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, LLM News cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Service Providers

LLM News may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Website (“Service Providers”), to provide the Website on our behalf, to perform Website-related services or to assist in analyzing how the Website is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on behalf of LLM News and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

LLM News may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of the Website.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on the Site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These other websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

When visitors leave comments on LLM News the data shown in the comments form is collected, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the Website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Website can download and extract any location data from images on the Site.

Links To Other Sites

The Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by LLM News. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. You are strongly encouraged to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

LLM News has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

How Long Your Data Is Retained

By leaving a comment, you agree that the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This permits the Website to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically, instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Any visitor comment may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Children’s Privacy

The Website does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”, “Child”).

LLM News does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has/Children have provided the Website with Personal Data, please contact LLM News. If LLM News becomes aware that the Website has collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, LLM News will take steps to remove that information from its servers.

If you are under the age of 18, do not provide any personally identifiable information on the Website without the knowledge and permission of your parent or guardian.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

LLM News may update the Privacy Policy from time to time and will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

LLM News will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on the Website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact LLM News:

  • By email: email@llmnews.com