Effective date
This Terms of Service was effective from May 1st, 2024.
The Goodlife Country Terms of Service (TOS) may be revised from time to time. Your continuous use of The Goodlife Country website (the ‘Website’) indicates your agreement to the terms of the most recent TOS.
Goodlife Country Publishing (the ‘Company’), publishers of The Goodlife Country, provides this Website to you subject to the following TOS. By registering with or by using this Website, you agree to be bound by these TOS.
The Company reserves the right to refuse access to this Website or to any other service or product provided by the Company, without notice, at any time, and for any reason. If you do not agree with these TOS, you are advised to stop using this Website immediately.
Goodlife Country takes the privacy and security of personal information and other information seriously. Thus, we have provided these TOS to supply you with information about how your data is collected, used, shared, transferred, and protected as a result of your interaction with this Website.
You must be at least 13 years old to use this Website. Any registration, use of, or access to this Website by anyone under 13 years is unauthorised, unlicensed, and in violation of these TOS.
Proprietary information
Except for the content, materials, and comments (the ‘Content’) that the user of this Website supplies, all content and components of this Website, including without limitation, the software, text, photo, video and audio content, graphics, and features, and all trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein, are owned by or licensed to the Company, subject to any copyrights or other intellectual property rights held by others pursuant to law.
The Content accessible from this Website, and any website owned or operated by Goodlife Country Publishing, is the proprietary information of Goodlife Country Publishing or the party that provided the Content to Goodlife Country Publishing, and Goodlife Country Publishing or the party that provided the Content to Goodlife Country Publishing retains all rights, titles, and interest in the Content.
The Content may not be copied, distributed, republished, uploaded, posted, or transmitted in any way without the prior written consent of Goodlife Country Publishing, except that you may print out a copy of the Content solely for your personal use. In doing so, you cannot remove or alter any copyright or other materials appearing on any of the Content.
Modification or use of the Content except as expressly provided in these TOS violates Goodlife Country’s intellectual property rights. By accessing or using any Content of Goodlife Country, neither title nor intellectual property rights are transferred to you.
Legal basis of data processing:
Goodlife Country processes your information under the following legal bases:
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- With your valid consent;
- To fulfil a contract with you; and/or;
- As necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by Goodlife Country or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your privacy, interests, or fundamental rights and freedom.
Conditions on use of this Website
The Company grants you permission to access and use this Website in line with these TOS, and in exchange, you agree as follows:
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- You will access and use this Website solely for your personal use;
- You will not alter or modify any Content or component of this Website, other than Content you have submitted to or posted on this Website;
- You will not use this Website in any illegal manner or any other manner that could damage or impair any security feature or any other feature of this Website;
- You will not harass or intimidate any other user of this Website.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that are sent to and stored in your computer by the websites you visit. To learn more about these technologies and how they work, please visit www. allaboutcookies.org.
We use cookies to collect and process non-personal information. You can review the options available to manage cookies in your browser. One option is to disable or turn off all cookies. If you turn cookies off, you may not be able to browse some websites. If you disable certain kinds of cookies, some aspects of this Website may not function properly.
Your conduct and use of this Website
By accessing or using this Website, you acknowledge that you are solely responsible for the profile page (including your name, image or likeness, and other biographical information), text, comments, and other Content that you post, publish, upload, or display on this Website, or transmit to or share with others as well as the consequences of posting, publishing, uploading, displaying, or sharing any of these.
The Content you submit or post on this Website will generally be made public. You consent to the public dissemination of all Content you submit or post using this Website. You will not use this Website to post, transmit, or share child pornography, or any Content that is threatening, defamatory, or invasive of the privacy of another person. You agree that you will not use this Website to promote any product, service, or agenda on behalf of any person or entity that sells, provides, or offers the product or service.
Rights to and use of the content on this Website
By submitting or posting Content to this Website, you grant the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully-paid, and worldwide license to:
- Use, copy, publicly perform, display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part), and distribute in or through any medium now known or hereafter invented, for any purpose;
- Prepare derivative works using the Content, or incorporate it into other works, for any purpose; and
- Grant and authorise sublicenses of any or all of the foregoing rights.
You may remove your Content from this Website at any time. If you choose to remove your Content, the Content will no longer appear on this Website. However, you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your Content and will retain the rights to the Content granted by these TOS.
When you post Content on this Website, you also authorise and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem necessary to facilitate the posting, maintenance, and storage of the Content on this Website.
Content on this Website is for educational and informational purposes only
The content, information, resources, and downloadable materials contained on this Website are only for educational and informational purposes. Hence, they are not intended or should be regarded as legal, financial, medical, health, lifestyle, relationship, travel, or any other professional advice.
Furthermore, your access and use of this Website and its Content or resources does not create a professional-client relationship between you and the Company. The Company would only regard you as a client when it is satisfied that conditions for such a relationship are met and all requirements resolved.
Endorsements and affiliate links
The Company will, from time to time, refer to other goods, products, projects, services, resources, guests, consultants, and other experts. Any such reference is not intended as an endorsement or statement that the information provided by the other party is accurate. The Company only provides this information as a reference for users.
Also, the Company participates in affiliate marketing and may allow affiliate links to be included on some of our pages. This means that we may earn a commission if/when you click on or make purchases via affiliate links.
As a policy, the Company will only affiliate with products, goods, projects, services, resources, guests, consultants, and other experts that we believe will provide value to our customers and followers. In this regard, the Company will inform you when one of the links constitutes an affiliate link.
In light of this, it remains your responsibility to determine if any affiliate link or offer will benefit you and your business. You will not rely solely on any recommendation, publication, content, reference, resources, or information provided by the Company or on this Website but will rather conduct your own investigation and will rely upon your investigation to decide whether to purchase the affiliate product or service.
Comments, feedback, and testimonials
You may find comments, feedback, and testimonials from readers, clients, and customers of the content, products, services, resources, and other offerings offered by the Company on this Website. The comments, feedback, and testimonials are actual statements, real and truthfully conveyed, on this Website.
However, while these comments, feedback, and testimonials are truthful statements about results obtained by readers, clients, and customers, the results obtained by these clients and/or customers are not necessarily typical. Therefore, you recognise and agree that the comments, feedback, and testimonials are not a guarantee of results that you or anyone else will obtain by using any products or services offered by the Company or on this Website.
Copyright
All material or Content herein is the property of the author/creator and may not be copied or reproduced without explicit permission. You may download material from the Website for your personal and non-commercial use only.
Material or Content posted on this Website is believed to be published according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the ‘DMCA’).
Links to websites other than those owned by the Company or The Goodlife Country are only offered as a service to readers. The Company’s staff or the editorial staff of Goodlife Country are not involved in their production and are not responsible for their content.
If you are a copyright owner or an agent of a copyright owner and you believe that any Content on this Website infringes upon your copyright, you may submit a notice by following the directions on our Copyright Policy page.
Provide evidence, and we will remove the Content immediately.
Objectionable or inappropriate content
This Website may include offensive, mislabelled, deceptive, harmful, inaccurate, or objectionable material or Content. Please, use caution and exercise proper judgment when using this Website. The Company does not endorse, represent, or guarantee the truthfulness or reliability of any Content, nor does it endorse any opinion expressed by others on this Website.
The Company will not routinely review or revise Content submitted to or posted on this Website by others. However, the Company may read any such Content and reserves the right to refuse to distribute any such Content, to remove any Content from this Website, or to edit any Content, in its sole discretion.
If you find any content appearing on this Website that you believe is offensive or objectionable, you may inform the Company by contacting us through the contact information at the end of this page.
The Company will review your message and the Content to which you object. We may remove the Content from our Website if we deem it inappropriate. Please, note that the Company is not legally responsible for Content that it does not originate. Also, the Company is not legally responsible for keeping Content that it deems inappropriate off this Website.
Information Sharing
We may share personal information with the following entities and/or for the following reasons:
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- We may partner with other companies/organisations/persons to provide our users with additional benefits. If we enter into such a partnership, we may share your personal information with those partners. If we share personal information, we will require that such partners use the personal information for the specific or limited purpose for which we provide it, maintain reasonable security measures for the protection of such information, and comply with the provisions as outlined in these TOS and or our Privacy Policy.
- Law enforcement. Occasionally, we may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide personal information. We will disclose personal information upon receipt of a court order, subpoena, warrant, or other legal process to the extent necessary to meet legal, national security, public interest, or law enforcement obligations. We fully cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our Website for illegal activities. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful.
- In the event we agree to be purchased by another company or to merge with another company, we may share personal information with that company. We will require that such purchaser(s) continue to comply with the provisions as outlined in these TOS and our Privacy Policy.
- We may also share non-personal information with selected third parties, such as our advertisers, to serve you with customised promotions. If you would like to learn more about the sharing of non-personal information for purposes of providing customised advertisements or promotions, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/consumers/.
Hyperlinks and links to third-party websites
This Website may be hyperlinked to other websites which are not maintained by, or related to the Company or The Goodlife Country. Hyperlinks to such sites are provided as a service to users and are not sponsored by or affiliated with this Website or the Company. Goodlife Country has not reviewed any or all of such websites and is not responsible for the content of those websites.
Therefore, hyperlinks are to be accessed at the user’s risk. Goodlife Country makes no representations or warranties about the content, completeness, accuracy, or otherwise of the hyperlinks.
Furthermore, any hyperlink to a third-party website does not necessarily imply endorsement of such third party by the Company or this Website.
Please consult each linked website’s privacy policy for a description of how this website collects, uses, and shares your information.
Use of free downloadable content
The Company provides resources on this Website which users may access by providing an e-mail address. The Company grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use our resources provided in exchange for an email address for your own personal or internal business use. Except as otherwise provided, you acknowledge and agree that you have no right to modify, edit, copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, reverse engineer, alter, enhance, or in any way exploit any of the Content in any manner.
By accessing or downloading the Content, you agree that it may only be used by you for your personal or business use and may not be sold or redistributed without the express written consent of the Company.
Guests
The Company often provides content, information, and resources from third parties. Such content may include interviews, columns, guest blog posts, or other forms of articles or mediums. The Company does not control such third-party content, articles, and resources, and cannot guarantee the veracity of any statements made by such guests, and is not responsible for investigating the truth of any information provided by such guests.
Individuals who agree to provide content, information, and resources to the Company or Website, agree to transfer all intellectual property rights they may have in such content to the Company.
Sponsors, advertisers, and third parties
This Website may contain links to sponsors, advertisers, or other third-party websites that are not owned or controlled by the Company. Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting the use or installation of any third-party website, applications, software, content, or advertising does not imply approval or endorsement by the Company. The Company has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, terms of service, or practices of any third-party website.
Your correspondence or dealings with third parties on or through this Website, either by engaging their promotions, services, products, projects, sponsorship, or advertisements are solely between you and such third parties. You agree that the Company shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred due to any of such dealings or as the result of the presence of such sponsors, third parties, or advertisers on this Website.
Disclaimer of Warranties
You understand and agree that:
Your use of this Website is at your own risk. The Company disclaims all warranties of any kind, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
The Company makes no warranty that this Website will meet your requirements or will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, error-free, and free of viruses and other harmful components. Also, the Company makes no warranty that the quality of any products, projects, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you through this Website will meet your expectations.
No advice or information, oral or written, obtained by you from the Company or this Website shall create any warranty not expressly stated in these TOS.
Limitation of liability
You understand and agree that the Company shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or exemplary damages, including but not limited to damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses resulting from the use of or the inability to use this Website.
The Company will have no liability for damages arising from:
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- Accessing any Content or component of this Website, even if it results in the inadvertent transfer of harmful computer code, such as, but not limited to viruses, malware, or spyware;
- Communications or conducts of any third party on this Website; or
- As otherwise provided in these TOS.
International users
Goodlife Country Publishing and the services and products it provides are operated and administered within Nigeria. If you access our products and services from a location outside Nigeria, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. By accessing this Website, you agree that you will not use its Content in any country or manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions, or regulations.
Exclusions and limitations
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages. Accordingly, some of the above limitations on liability and damages may not apply to you.
Indemnification
You will indemnify the Company and its agents, officers, contractors, and staff (the Indemnified Parties) from and against any third-party claim arising from or in any way related to your use of this Website, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, losses, damages, suits, judgments, litigation costs, and attorneys’ fees of every kind and nature.
Security
We understand the importance of information security and will take reasonable measures to protect the security and confidentiality of your information. Please, understand that no measures can guarantee 100 per cent security.
Any passwords used for this Website are for individual use only. You will be responsible for the security of your password. You are prohibited from using any services or facilities provided in connection with this Website to compromise security or tamper with system resources and/or accounts.
If you become involved in any violation of system security, the Company or Goodlife Country reserves the right to release your details to system administrators at other sites to assist them in resolving security incidents. The Company or Goodlife Country reserves the right to investigate suspected violations of these TOS.
The Company or Goodlife Country also reserves the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Goodlife Country to disclose the identity of anyone posting any email messages or publishing and making available any Content that is believed to violate these TOS.
Severability
If any part of the TOS is found to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity or enforceability of the other parts.
The TOS and the Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement among the parties relating to this matter and the use of this Website.
Moreover, you may be subjected to other terms and conditions that may apply when you order or purchase some products or services, including third-party products and services.
Termination
You may terminate your use of this Website at any time. Promptly after your termination, we will remove your profile page. However, comments or other Content you have submitted to or posted on this Website may remain there. In addition, the rights granted to the Company concerning Content or other information you have submitted to the Company or posted on this Website will survive the termination of your use of this Website.
The Company may, in its sole discretion, terminate your account, delete your profile and any Content or information that you have posted on this Website, and/or prohibit you from using or accessing this Website, at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including the violation of these TOS.
How to contact us about these Terms of Service
The Goodlife Country
Attention: Terms of Service
6C Adenuga Street, New Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Or
Email us via: contact@thegoodlifecountry.com. The subject of your email should be ‘Terms of Service’.