Welcome to Randolph County Black Newspapers, your gateway to uncovering the rich history and heritage of Randolph County’s Black community. Our platform offers a comprehensive range of tools and services designed to empower your historical and genealogical research, facilitating the exploration of family connections and the building of family trees. Our Services provide you with a seamless experience, whether accessed via mobile devices, computers, or other methods.

The term “Services” encompasses the entirety of Randolph County Black Newspapers’ network, fostering collaboration and information sharing to enhance your research journey. As you delve deeper into our offerings, you’ll discover a wealth of resources and features aimed at providing a holistic and integrated experience.

We encourage you to review our Terms of Service (“Agreement”), as it serves as a binding agreement between you and Randolph County Black Newspapers (randolphcountyblacknewpapers.com). By clicking “I Accept” or a similar indication, you signify your intent to enter into this Agreement with us, effective immediately.

While specific details regarding pricing, payment terms, and other related matters may be outlined in an Order Form, it’s important to note that such provisions do not supersede the terms of this Agreement unless expressly specified and mutually agreed upon by both parties. Your engagement with our Services is governed by these terms, ensuring clarity and transparency throughout your journey with us. Randolph County Black Newspapers complies with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation effective in Europe and has adopted the terms of the Data Processing Agreement located at https://randolphcountyblacknewspapers.com/dpa/, incorporated by reference as if set forth in full herein.

By entering into this Agreement with us, you also agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy available at https://randolphcountyblacknewspapers.com/privacy-terms/ and the terms and conditions of any community rules or other document that we may require you to approve when you sign up for new Services.

If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, you may use the Services with your parent’s or guardian’s permission. Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use any Services. We do not knowingly seek or collect any personal information directly from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected any personal data directly from a child under the age of 13, we will take commercially reasonable efforts to delete such data from our system.

2. Software, Fees, Chargebacks, Refunds, and Term The Services are made available to you on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis through one or more web portals or mobile applications. The Services may be modified by us in our sole discretion, with or without notice, at any time. If we have modified the Services in a manner that materially reduces the value you obtain from the Services (e.g., by removing specific functionality without replacing it with substantially similar or improved functionality) then you, as your sole remedy, may terminate this Agreement. Your continued receipt and use of the Services following the modification to the Services shall conclusively demonstrate your acceptance of such modification.

You agree to pay any fees set forth in an Order Form (“Fee”) upon the terms described in the Order Form. Prices may be changed by Company at any time, and each renewal of your subscription will be at the price currently offered by Company. Company shall provide you with reasonable notice of any change in prices prior to the effective date of the new pricing by email or other reasonable means such as a notice on the pertinent Services or in usual subscriber communications.

When you sign up using a credit card or other payment method, you authorize us to make the charges disclosed to you at the time you sign up or renew, including recurring payments, where applicable.

If you initiate a chargeback or otherwise reverse a payment made with your Payment Method, we will terminate your membership immediately. If we successfully dispute the reversal, and the reversed funds are returned to us, you are not entitled to a refund or to have your membership reinstated.

Daily, Weekly, or Monthly subscriptions are never eligible for a refund. For quarterly, semi-annual or annual subscriptions, you may cancel within the first 30 days of a new subscription or within seven days of your renewal date and receive a full refund if you do not view any newspaper, clipping, genealogy record or obituary image during that period. Viewing any of our content voids your eligibility to receive a refund. If you cancel your subscription and are not eligible for a refund you will retain access to the Services until your subscription expires. All refunds will be given to the original credit card on which the purchase was made. Please allow a reasonable time for the refund to be credited to your account by your credit card company.

The term of this Agreement shall be the period set forth in the Order Form, or if no term is set forth in the Order form, a period of one year. You may opt out of renewing the term by logging into the website to which you subscribed any time before the renewal date, clicking Account Settings and following the cancellation instructions there.

If we believe, in our sole discretion, that you are in breach of this Agreement or are acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of this Agreement, we may limit, suspend or terminate your access to the Services. In such a case, no portion of your Fee will be refunded.

3. License and Acceptable Use Randolph County Black Newspapers hereby grants you, subject to your compliance with this Agreement, a limited non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable license to use the Services. You may not download any portion of the Services or use any Services other than for the purposes described in this Agreement or an Order Form. You may not use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering tools or otherwise exploit your access to the Services for any commercial purpose, except as you provide professional genealogical services to third parties on an individual basis. You may not use any of the trademarks, logos, or other proprietary graphics without express written permission, which may be denied in Randolph County Black Newspapers’ absolute discretion. Randolph County Black Newspapers’ logos and product and service names are trademarks of Randolph County Black Newspapers. All other trademarks appearing on the website or in connection with the Services are trademarks of their respective owners, and our reference to them does not imply or indicate any approval or endorsement by their owners unless such approval or endorsement is expressly made.

In addition to any other things that might constitute a misuse of the Services, you must not, and must not attempt to do any of the following things:

• Modify, alter, tamper with, repair, or otherwise create derivative works of any of the Services.
• Reverse engineer, disassemble, or decompile the software used to provide or access the Services, or attempt to discover or recreate the source code used to provide or access the Services, except and only to the extent that the applicable law expressly permits doing so.
• Use the Services for research or benchmarking or any related endeavor or take any other action with the intent of creating a competing or similar product.
• Use the Services in any manner or for any purpose other than as expressly permitted by this Agreement, our privacy policy, or any other policy, instruction, or terms applicable to the Services.
• Use any technical means to scrape or crawl any of the Services for the purpose of retrieving, saving, downloading, benchmarking, or indexing any of the information, data, or images made available from the Services, including without limitation Our Content (defined below).
• Sell, lend, rent, resell, lease, sublicense, or otherwise transfer any of the rights granted to you with respect to the Services to any third party.
• Remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notice pertaining to the Services.
• Access or use the Services in a way intended to improperly avoid incurring fees or exceeding usage limits or quotas.
• Use the Services to: (i) engage in any unlawful or fraudulent activity or perpetrate a hoax or engage in phishing schemes or forgery or other similar falsification or manipulation of data; (ii) send unsolicited or unauthorized junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of duplicative or unsolicited messages, whether commercial or otherwise; (iii) advertise or promote a commercial product or service that is not available through Randolph County Black Newspapers; (iv) store or transmit inappropriate content, such as content: (1) containing unlawful, defamatory, threatening, pornographic, abusive, libelous, or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature, (2) containing any material that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, or (3) that violates the intellectual property rights or rights to the publicity or privacy of others; (v) store or transmit any content that contains or is used to initiate a denial of service attack, software viruses, or other harmful or deleterious computer code, files, or programs such as Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or spyware; or (vi) abuse, harass, stalk, or otherwise violate the legal rights of a third party.
• Interfere with or disrupt servers or networks used by Randolph County Black Newspapers to provide the Services or used by other users to access the Services, or violate any third-party regulations, policies, or procedures of such servers or networks or harass or interfere with another user’s full use and enjoyment of any of the Services.
• Access or attempt to access Randolph County Black Newspapers’ other accounts, computer systems, or networks not covered by this Agreement, through password mining or any other means.
• Cause, in Randolph County Black Newspapers’ sole discretion, inordinate burden on the Services or Randolph County Black Newspapers’ system resources or capacity.
• Share passwords or other access information or devices or otherwise authorize any third party to access or use the Services.