Terms and Conditions
Welcome to Paperton!
By creating an account at Paperton or otherwise using any of Paperton's services, you agree to the following conditions and enter also into an agreement with Paperton. Before you start using the service, you should carefully read these Terms of Service.
1. General Service
1.1 Paperton and Paperton.com is a trademark of iRead New Media AB. Paperton is a service that conveys the purchase and reading of digital single copies and subscriptions to periodicals.
1.2 The conditions provided are for the use of the services available under the domain and subdomains of www.paperton.com. The website includes all web page components and materials made available within www.paperton.com or where services from Paperton provided by partners. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, you may not use or access our services.
1.3 As a registered user, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the following conditions. Next, you are entitled to use Paperton to order subscriptions, single copies and other services on the web page presented. A customer may be personal member or corporate member.
1.4 Paperton may only be used within the statutory limits and in the manner set by these terms. Paperton retains the right to terminate any account at any time, refuse service or cancel orders if unauthorized activity is detected.
1.5 We encourage our clients to continuously go in and read these terms in the event of changes occuring. If amendments are such that the use of Paperton change in a significant way, this will be published on the website at least one (1) week before the changes will take effect.
2. Legal rules and regulations
2.1 Paperton applies primarily to the conditions applicable under the Distance and Doorstep Sales Act and the Consumer Sales Act.
2.2 By registering an account with Paperton accept you under the Data Protection Act that information and data for further may be stored, retrieved and processed in our computer records and presented to the parties (eg publishers) who need the information to fulfill their commitment to you as a client. Paperton also stores the customer's IP address and other valuable information about the customer's ISP to potentially trace any abuse of the service to the origin. We report to the police and investigate all types of abuse of our services.
2.3 It is for our clients to stay informed of the above laws and regulations.
3. Use of our collected services/products
The rights to all content and Web page elements such as text, graphics, icons, software and composition of the site belongs to Paperton, or our suppliers, and fall under Swedish and international copyright laws. You may not modify, copy, reverse engineer, publish, sell or otherwise attempt to create commercial proceeds through the material or pieces of material from Paperton's Web, Paperton's reader or through the website's published material. Each publisher owns the rights to their published materials. This includes, but is not limited to, the publications or otherwise conveyed and / or digitally published within Paperton. By these conditions, you agree that you will not receive any ownership of copyrighted materials by downloading or otherwise obtaining through Paperton's website.
4. Rights
4.1 The customer has no right to use Paperton's services or products for their own commercial purpose, ex. sale, survey, or endorsement of any product / company or service. At such a violation, Paperton can press for damages. Persons under 18 or otherwise legally incompetent can not access or interact with Paperton without parental, guardian or other guardian's consent.
4.2 Paperton reserve the right to send information about Paperton, partners and commercial messages to users via email, SMS, MMS and other electronic means of communication. You, the customer, have the right to decline mailings from Paperton through the facility under "Notification Settings". Any market research from third parties will always be done through us. Paperton have the right to sell these results of this market research statistically decomposed. The statistics are not tied to individuals and is not related to the name, e-mail addresses, URLs or other identifying information.
4.3 Paperton have a right, but not the obligation, to monitor the activity on the website in order to ensure that the terms of this agreement are complied with and to support the current laws and regulations that apply.
4.4 We reserve the right to modify or disconnect our service, temporarily or permanently, with or without advance notice to the users.
5. Codes and Passwords
You as a customer receiving codes and personal passwords, are not to distributed or make available these codes and personal passwords to unauthorized persons. Is there a risk of personal codes or passwords becoming comprimised, the customer is obligated to immediately replace the password itself. This is done on the website under "My Account".
6. Control of Paperton's responsibility
6.1 Paperton shall endeavor to provide services with minimal disruption. However, Paperton cannot guarantee that services will always function without disruptions, delays or other problems.
6.2 Paperton strive for the highest quality of the products offered via the website and therefore have a strong interest in taking part of you as a customer's experience regarding this. Each publisher has the ultimate responsibility for the quality of their products. If customers have complaints about individual products, you should first raise this with the individual publisher.
6.3 Paperton is an intermediary, not a publisher, and therefore has no influence over the content published in each channel. Any opinions, advice, services, offers or other related items that are published by them is therefore something that the responsible publisher is accountable for. Paperton may provide links from either the website or a digital magazine. In cases where these links go to third parties, Paperton does not accept any responsibility for what is on the third-party domains. The links made possible by Paperton's merchandise is only available for the customer's convenience.
6.4 As a customer, it is your responsibility to ensure that hardware and Internet connection has sufficient capacity to carry Paperton's services optimally. Paperton have no responsibility with regards to interference which may arise from third-party ISP or geographical disruptions. In no case is Paperton or any of our suppliers charge of the customer's hardware or data lost due to the client having downloaded the material from our web site or from pages linked to Paperton's website.
7. User Information
Paperton cares about it's customer's privacy. We always give priority and take appropriate measures to ensure protection of all information our clients entrust us with, which complies with the laws and rules of the Data Protection Act. The data required from you as a customer to enable you to use services on the website and its features on a regular basis.7.1
In direct marketing sent via email, SMS, MMS or other electronic means of communication, the customer is solely responsible for providing the correct information to represent themselves. Paperton never intends to make communications to persons under the age of 16 years. This data may be transferred as decomposed statistical information to third parties within and outside the EU / EEA for Marketing Research. This data can never be traced back to you as a client.
7.2 You as a customer have the right to inspect, examine and modify your personal data. This occurs after logging on the website. Paperton keeps all of the customer reported data.
7.3 Paperton reserves the right to transfer personal information about customers to Paperton's partners in order to enable them to provide offers and payment options.
8. Pricing, Payment, Cancelling of a purchase and Subscriptions
Basic services and the opening articles on Paperton are free, i.e. no invoice or payment by other means will be required. For those services that are subject to requiring payment, the following rules apply:
8.1 Payment: The Customer shall pay Paperton the fees and prices listed on the site in connection with the purchase of any product. Applicable taxes and prices are stated on the website.
8.2 Price changes: Paperton reserves the right to change prices at any time on the website by providing ten (10) day notice of such modification or by stating the new prices in connection with your purchase of a product. You, the customer approves such price by continuing to use services on the website since the change has occurred. We have the right to temporarily change our fees in connection with advertising.
8.3 Mischarging: If a customer thinks they have been wrongly charged, the customer must contact Paperton's customer service within 90 days after the charge. Paperton reserves the right not to make any refund or adjustment for any charges that occurred over 90 days ago.
9. Deregistering
9.1 Both Paperton and you, the customer can at any time elect to terminate this Agreement. As a customer you do this, via the website.
9.2 If a customer does not comply with the terms of this agreement, becomes insolvent or bankrupt, Paperton owns the right to immediately terminate this Agreement without the right for the customer to recover any part of the deposit or any premium paid for the contract period.
10 Transfer
10.1 Paperton reserves the right to transfer this User Agreement between us and the customer, including but not limited to all or part of the related rights and / or obligations to third parties. In the event of a transfer, we will notify anyone who has taken over the user agreement, rights and / or obligations after the transfer through notice on the website. If Paperton transfers the User Agreement to a third party, the customer has the right to provide the same or similar services on another website.
10.2 You, the customer, can not transfer the Terms or related rights and / or obligations to third parties.
11 Force Majeure
11.1 You, the customer agrees and understands that Paperton's services are unavailable and that Paperton has not violated any of its obligations to you under these terms of service in the event of force majeure. Force majeure means an event beyond Paperton's control including but not limited to acts of God, insurrection or civil disorder, war or military operations, national or local emergency, serious and prolonged power failure or significant interruption in Internet service, flood, subsidence or extremely severe weather conditions.
11.2 In the event that Paperton is affected by force majeure, we will promptly notify our customers of the estimated extent and duration of our inability to provide our services or delay in performing our duties in the best possible way. Paperton takes no responsibility for the consequences of a force majeure.
12. Disputes etc.
12.1 Interpretation and application of this Agreement shall be governed by Swedish law.
12.2 Disputes regarding the validity, interpretation, application or applications of these terms and conditions shall be settled by court with Swedish as a language and with Karlstad District Court of first instance.
