Terms and Conditions

Welcome to blua.blue!

These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of blua.blue's Website, located at https://blua.blue.

By accessing this website we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use blua.blue if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and all Agreements: "Client", "User", "You" and "Your" refers to you, the person log on this website and compliant to the Company’s terms and conditions. "The Company", "Ourselves", "We", "Our", "blua.blue and "Us", refers to our Company. "Party", "Parties", or "Us", refers to both the Client and ourselves. "Content", "Post", "Article" and "Comment" refers to user-generated content in contrast to content from or by us. All terms refer to the offer, acceptance and consideration of payment necessary to undertake the process of our assistance to the Client in the most appropriate manner for the express purpose of meeting the Client’s needs in respect of provision of the Company’s stated services, in accordance with and subject to, prevailing law of Netherlands. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalization and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.

Cookies

We employ the use of cookies. By accessing blua.blue, you agreed to use cookies in agreement with the blua.blue's Privacy Policy.

Most interactive websites use cookies to let us retrieve the user’s details for each visit. Cookies are used by our website to enable the functionality of certain areas to make it easier for people visiting our website. Some of our affiliate/advertising partners may also use cookies.

Accounts

When creating an account you confirm that

  • You are at least 13 years of age or of the age legally required to participate in public communication in your country/region
  • Your content (articles, posts and comments) does not violate any national (USA) law

Fair Usage Agreement

Our services include a free API and no hosting fees for your content apply. In the event of strong traffic the following limitations of free usage might come to effect.

  • API-calls limited to 90 requests/hour, 1000 requests/day and 20000 requests/month
  • Storage of max. 1200 articles or 250 MB of total data
  • 10 MB of stored binary data (mostly images)

We may change the conditions of our service at any time and/or offer paid extensions to these limits.

License

Unless otherwise stated, blua.blue and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on blua.blue. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from blua.blue for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

  • Republish material from blua.blue
  • Sell, rent or sub-license material from blua.blue
  • Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from blua.blue
  • Redistribute content from blua.blue

This Agreement shall begin on the date hereof.

Parts of this website offer an opportunity for users to post and exchange opinions and information in certain areas of the website. blua.blue does not filter, edit, publish or review content prior to their presence on the website. User generated content does not reflect the views and opinions of blua.blue,its agents and/or affiliates. Such contents reflect the views and opinions of the person who post their views and opinions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, blua.blue shall not be liable for the content or for any liability, damages or expenses caused and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the content on this website.

blua.blue reserves the right to monitor all content and to remove any content which can be considered inappropriate, offensive or causes breach of these Terms and Conditions.

However, our stance against censorship shall reduce such actions to a necessary minimum.

You warrant and represent that:

  • You are entitled to post content on our website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;
  • The content does not invade any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark of any third party;
  • The content does not contain any unlawful material or invade the privacy of others.
  • The content will not be used to solicit or promote unlawful activity.

You hereby grant blua.blue a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your contents in any and all forms, formats or media. Intellectual property is not affected by this license.

Hyperlinking to our Content

The following organizations may link to our Website without prior written approval:

  • Government agencies;
  • Search engines;
  • Social Media Sites & Apps;
  • Private Websites, blogs etc;
  • Any entity (private or public) with an active blua.blue user-account;
  • News organizations;
  • Online directory distributors may link to our Website in the same manner as they hyperlink to the Websites of other listed businesses; and
  • System wide Accredited Businesses except soliciting non-profit organizations, charity shopping malls, and charity fundraising groups which may not hyperlink to our Web site.

These organizations may link to our home page, to publications or to other Website information so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products and/or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.

We may consider and approve other link requests from the following types of organizations:

  • commonly-known consumer and/or business information sources;
  • dot.com community sites;
  • associations or other groups representing charities;
  • online directory distributors;
  • internet portals;
  • accounting, law and consulting firms; and
  • educational institutions and trade associations.

We will approve link requests from these organizations if we decide that: (a) the link would not make us look unfavorably to ourselves or to our accredited businesses; (b) the organization does not have any negative records with us; (c) the benefit to us from the visibility of the hyperlink compensates the absence of blua.blue; and (d) the link is in the context of general resource information.

These organizations may link to our home page so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.

If you are one of the organizations listed in paragraph 2 above and are interested in linking to our website, you must inform us by sending an e-mail to blua.blue. Please include your name, your organization name, contact information as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our Website, and a list of the URLs on our site to which you would like to link. Wait 2-3 weeks for a response.

Approved organizations may hyperlink to our Website as follows:

  • By use of our corporate name; or
  • By use of the uniform resource locator being linked to; or
  • By use of any other description of our Website being linked to that makes sense within the context and format of content on the linking party’s site.

No use of blua.blue's logo or other artwork will be allowed for linking absent a trademark license agreement.

iFrames, Bots & Scraping

Without prior approval and written permission, you may not create frames around our Webpages that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of our Website.

Without prior approval and written permission, you may not automate access to read/parse our Webpages.

Content Liability

We shall not be held responsible for any content that appears on your Website. You agree to protect and defend us against all claims concerning content-based liability. No link(s) should appear on any Website that may be interpreted as libelous, obscene or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third party rights.

Your Privacy

Please read our Privacy Policy

Reservation of Rights

We reserve the right to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our Website. You approve to immediately remove all links to our Website upon request. We also reserve the right to amen these terms and conditions and it’s linking policy at any time. By continuously linking to our Website, you agree to be bound to and follow these linking terms and conditions.

Removal of links from our website

If you find any link on our Website that is offensive for any reason, you are free to contact and inform us any moment. We will consider requests to remove links but we are not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly.

We do not ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we promise to ensure that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.

Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website. Nothing in this disclaimer will:

  • limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury;
  • limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  • limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
  • exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort and for breach of statutory duty.

As long as the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.