These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern your use of the Florida Jewish News website, newsletters, social media pages, and any related services (together, the "Site"). Florida Jewish News ("we," "us," or "our") is operated by Florida Jewish News. These Terms are effective as of October 11, 2026.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Site's interactive features, including commenting, submitting tips, and subscribing to newsletters. If you are under 18, you may use those features only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian. You may not use the Site if you are barred from doing so under applicable law.

3. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will post the revised Terms on the Site and update the effective date above, and we may notify newsletter subscribers or account holders by email. Your continued use of the Site after changes take effect means you accept the revised Terms.

4. Intellectual Property and Permitted Use

All content on the Site, including articles, photographs, graphics, videos, audio, logos, the name "Florida Jewish News," and the Site's design and code (together, "Our Content"), is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, and other laws. Except as stated here, no rights in Our Content are granted to you.

You may:

• Read and view Our Content for your personal, non-commercial use.
• Share links to our articles, and share short excerpts with attribution and a link back to the original article, for non-commercial purposes and consistent with fair use.
• Share articles using the sharing tools we provide on the Site.

You may not copy, republish, redistribute, sell, license, or create derivative works from Our Content without our prior written permission. To request permission to republish or syndicate our work, contact us at fljewishnews@gmail.com.

Some photographs, graphics, and quotations on the Site are owned by third parties and used with permission or under license. You may not reuse them without permission from their owners.

5. Prohibited Uses

You agree not to:

• Use any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means to access, copy, or collect Our Content or data from the Site, except for standard search engine indexing that follows our robots.txt instructions.
• Use Our Content to train, fine-tune, or test any artificial intelligence or machine learning model, or to build a dataset, without our prior written permission.
• Bypass, disable, or interfere with any security feature, access control, or subscription or registration requirement on the Site.
• Introduce viruses, malware, or other harmful code, or overload, disrupt, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, our servers, or other users' accounts.
• Impersonate any person or organization, or misrepresent your affiliation with anyone.
• Use the Site for any unlawful purpose or in violation of any applicable law.
• Remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or attribution notices on Our Content.

6. Comments and User Content

The Site may let you post comments, messages, photos, or other material ("User Content"). You keep ownership of your User Content. By posting it, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to use, reproduce, display, edit, excerpt, and distribute it in connection with operating and promoting the Site, in any format or media.

You are solely responsible for your User Content. You represent that you own it or have the right to post it, and that it does not violate anyone's rights or any law. Your User Content must not:

• Be defamatory, harassing, threatening, or abusive, or promote violence.
• Attack or demean people on the basis of religion, race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or other protected characteristics.
• Contain spam, advertising, or solicitations.
• Infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights of others.
• Include private information about others, such as home addresses or phone numbers, without their consent.

We may review, edit, remove, or refuse to publish any User Content at any time, for any reason, and may suspend or ban users who violate these Terms. We do not endorse User Content and are not responsible for what users post. To the fullest extent permitted by law, including Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, we are not liable for User Content posted by third parties.

7. Tips and Story Submissions

We welcome news tips, story ideas, photographs, and documents. By sending us a submission, you confirm that you have the right to share it and grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use it, in whole or in part, in our reporting and on the Site.

Submitting a tip does not create an obligation for us to publish, investigate, or respond. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, we do not promise confidentiality for submissions, and email is not a secure channel. If you are sharing sensitive information and want to discuss confidentiality or a source-protection arrangement, contact us at fljewishnews@gmail.com before sending the material. We will make reasonable efforts to protect our sources consistent with applicable law, but we cannot guarantee protection against legal process.

8. Newsletters and Accounts

If you subscribe to our newsletter or create an account, you agree to give accurate information and to keep any login credentials secure. You are responsible for activity under your account. You can unsubscribe from our emails at any time using the link in each message or by emailing fljewishnews@gmail.com. We may suspend or close accounts that violate these Terms.

9. Advertising, Sponsored Content, and Third-Party Links

The Site may carry advertisements, sponsored content, and promotional listings. We label sponsored and paid content so readers can tell it apart from our editorial reporting. Dealings with advertisers or sponsors, including payment for and delivery of goods and services, are solely between you and them. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, or practices of advertisers.

The Site may link to websites or resources operated by others. Those links are provided for convenience only. A link is not an endorsement, and we are not responsible for third-party sites or their terms and privacy practices.

10. Editorial Independence and Corrections

Our editorial decisions are made independently of advertisers, sponsors, and donors. Opinion pieces, letters, and guest columns reflect the views of their authors, not necessarily those of Florida Jewish News.

We aim to report accurately and fairly. If you believe we have published an error, email fljewishnews@gmail.com with the article's title or link and a description of the error. When we confirm a factual error, we will correct it and note the correction on the article.

11. Copyright Complaints (DMCA)

We respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent at fljewishnews@gmail.com that includes:

• Your name, address, telephone number, and email, and your physical or electronic signature.
• A description of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed.
• The location (URL) of the material you claim is infringing.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

We may remove allegedly infringing material and may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. If you believe material was removed by mistake, you may send us a counter-notice, and we will handle it as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires.

12. Disclaimers

The Site and Our Content are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not guarantee that the Site will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that Our Content is complete, current, or free of errors.

Our Content is for general news and information only. It is not legal, medical, financial, tax, or other professional advice, and you should not rely on it as such. Event listings, announcements, and community notices are often supplied by third parties, so confirm details with the organizer before you attend or act on them.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Florida Jewish News and its owners, editors, contributors, employees, and volunteers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising out of or related to your use of the Site or inability to use it, even if we have been told such damages are possible. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Site will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

14. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Florida Jewish News and its owners, editors, contributors, employees, and volunteers from any claims, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of your User Content, your use of the Site, or your violation of these Terms or any law or third-party right.

15. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Site or any part of it at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms or are harming the Site or others. Sections that by their nature should survive termination, including those on intellectual property, User Content licenses, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and governing law, will survive.

16. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Before filing a claim, you agree to contact us at fljewishnews@gmail.com and try to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days. Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Broward County, Florida, and you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts.

17. General Provisions

These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Site. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them freely. Headings are for convenience only.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms, permission requests, corrections, copyright notices, and news tips can be sent to Florida Jewish News at fljewishnews@gmail.com.