4. Eligibility and access

• copy, republish, scrape, harvest, mirror or systematically extract Content, in whole or in substantial part, without our written permission;
• use automated means (bots, crawlers, scrapers) to access the Site other than search engines observing our robots directives, or use Content to train machine-learning models without our written permission;
• remove, obscure or alter any copyright, byline, attribution or proprietary notice;
• frame, white-label or present the Content as your own or as endorsed by you;
• use the Site to transmit malware, attempt to gain unauthorized access, or interfere with its operation or security;
• use the Site or Content for any unlawful purpose, or in a way that infringes the rights of others or brings CAB into disrepute;
• misrepresent your affiliation with CAB or impersonate CAB, its editors or contributors.

Reasonable quotation of our Content for the purposes of news reporting, comment, criticism or review is permitted where you attribute CAB clearly and link to the original.

6. Nature of our content

• it is provided for general information and does not account for your particular circumstances, objectives or risk tolerance;
• the Digital Assets sector moves quickly, and Content that was accurate when published may become outdated; we are under no obligation to update it;
• Content may include analysis, interpretation and opinion with which others reasonably disagree, and forward-looking statements that may not come to pass;
• where Content concerns law or regulation, it is our reading of the instrument and not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional retained by you.

7. No advice and no reliance

• Your warranties. You warrant that the work is your own, original and unpublished elsewhere unless disclosed; that it does not infringe any third party’s rights or defame anyone; that it is accurate to the best of your knowledge; and that you have disclosed any interest, payment or relationship relevant to what you have written.
• License to us. You grant CAB a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to edit, publish, reproduce, adapt, archive and distribute your contribution across our platforms and formats, and to sub-license these rights for syndication. You retain authorship and, where we agree, may republish your own piece elsewhere after it appears on CAB, with attribution.
• Editorial control. We edit to our standards. We may decline, amend, withhold or remove any contribution, and publication is never guaranteed. We do not pay for unsolicited contributions unless expressly agreed in writing.
• Disclosure. Contributors are named, and any interest relevant to the subject must be disclosed to us and will be disclosed in the published piece.
• Tips and confidential sources. Where you provide information as a confidential source, we will handle it in accordance with our editorial standards. Do not send us anything you are not lawfully entitled to disclose.

10. Partners and commercial content

• Placement, not coverage. Commercial spend buys placement and clearly labelled content only. It does not buy favorable editorial treatment, advance sight of stories, or the removal or alteration of published Content. Our editorial independence is absolute and is set out in our Ethical Policy.
• Labelling. All commercial content is visibly marked as partner or sponsored content, carries rel="sponsored" on outbound links, and is excluded from our news feeds.
• Partner warranties. A Partner warrants that its creative and claims are accurate, lawful, not misleading, and compliant with the advertising, consumer-protection and financial-promotion rules applicable to it, and that it holds all necessary rights and licenses. The Partner indemnifies CAB against claims arising from its creative or claims.
• Right of refusal. We may decline any booking and withdraw any live creative that conflicts with our Ethical Policy or these Terms, including the categories we do not carry (token sales, yield claims, anonymous projects, unlicensed operators, and the others listed in our rate card), with fees refunded pro rata for withdrawn creative.
• No endorsement. CAB’s acceptance of a Partner is not an endorsement of that Partner or its products, and must not be represented as one.

11. Comments and user content

• Entire agreement. These Terms, with the Privacy Notice, Ethical Policy and any signed agreement, are the entire agreement between you and CAB on their subject matter.
• Severance. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remain in force and the provision is modified to the minimum extent necessary.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign your rights under these Terms; we may assign ours to a successor of the publication.
• No partnership. Nothing here creates a partnership, agency or employment relationship between you and CAB.
• Third parties. A person who is not a party to these Terms has no right to enforce them, except that 123 Ideas Ltd’s personnel may enforce the disclaimer, liability and indemnity provisions.