Last Updated: July 8, 2025
Welcome to USAHotTopics.com. These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of our website, content, and services (collectively, the “Site”). Please read these Terms carefully before using the Site.
By accessing or using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any part of the terms, then you may not access the Site.
1. Agreement to Terms
This document constitutes a legally binding agreement between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you”), and USAHotTopics.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”), concerning your access to and use of the Site. You agree that by accessing the Site, you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of these Terms and Conditions.
2. Intellectual Property Rights
Unless otherwise indicated, the Site is our proprietary property. All source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics on the Site (collectively, the “Content”) and the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein, including our “Seal of Verification” mark (the “Marks”), are owned or controlled by us or licensed to us. They are protected by copyright and trademark laws and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws of the United States, foreign jurisdictions, and international conventions.
The Content and the Marks are provided on the Site “AS IS” for your information and personal use only. Except as expressly provided in these Terms, no part of the Site and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever without our express prior written permission.
3. User Representations
By using the Site, you represent and warrant that:
- You have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Terms.
- You will not access the Site through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise.
- You will not use the Site for any illegal or unauthorized purpose.
- Your use of the Site will not violate any applicable law or regulation.
4. Prohibited Activities
You may not access or use the Site for any purpose other than that for which we make the Site available. As a user of the Site, you agree not to:
- Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
- Use the Site to advertise or offer to sell goods and services without our express permission.
- Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Site.
- Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site.
- Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the Site to you.
- Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Site.
- Use any information obtained from the Site in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
- Use the Site as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the Site and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.
5. User-Generated Content
The Site may allow you to post comments, participate in forums, and contribute other content (“User-Generated Content” or “UGC”). You are solely responsible for your UGC. By posting UGC, you grant us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right and license to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, publish, broadcast, and distribute such content for any purpose.
You agree that your UGC will not:
- Be false, inaccurate, or misleading.
- Contain any obscene, lewd, violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable material.
- Violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.
- Constitute unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, or spam.
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to edit or remove any UGC at any time and for any reason, without notice.
6. Site Management
We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to:
- Monitor the Site for violations of these Terms.
- Take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Terms.
- In our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable any of your contributions or any portion thereof.
- Otherwise manage the Site in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Site.
7. Term and Termination
These Terms and Conditions shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Site. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THESE TERMS, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SITE TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON.
8. Governing Law
These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
9. Dispute Resolution
To expedite resolution and control the cost of any dispute, you agree to first attempt to negotiate any dispute informally with us for at least thirty (30) days before initiating arbitration. Such informal negotiations commence upon written notice. If informal negotiations are unsuccessful, the dispute will be resolved by binding arbitration. YOU AGREE THAT ANY ARBITRATION WILL BE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT AS A CLASS ACTION.
10. Disclaimer
The Site is provided on an as-is and as-available basis. You agree that your use of the Site and our services will be at your sole risk. For more detailed information, please review our full Disclaimer Page, which is incorporated herein by reference.
11. Limitation of Liability
In no event will we or our directors, employees, or agents be liable to you or any third party for any direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages arising from your use of the site.
12. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries, affiliates, and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Site or breach of these Terms.
13. Contact Us
To resolve a complaint regarding the Site or to receive further information regarding use of the Site, please contact us.