Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) govern your use of The Regional Dispatch website at theregionaldispatch.com (the “website”) and The Regional Dispatch app for iOS and Android (the “app,” and together with the website, the “Services”). The Services are published by Legendre Media Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Legendre Media,” “we,” “us”). By using the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use them.

1. The Regional Dispatch is satire

The Regional Dispatch is a satirical newspaper. Its stories, quotations, bylines and staff are works of fiction and humor, written in the style of a news report. Names and events are fictional except where public figures are satirized. Any other resemblance to real people, living or dead, or to real businesses, is coincidental. Nothing in the Services is a factual news report, and nothing in them is financial, legal, medical or any other professional advice. Please don’t present our stories as real news, quote our fictional staff as real people, or rely on anything you read here to make decisions. If you are unsure whether something happened, it almost certainly did not happen the way we said.

2. Who can use the Services

The Services are intended for a general audience and are not directed to children under 13. You may use them only in compliance with these Terms and applicable law.

3. Our content

The stories, headlines, text, staff portraits, illustrations, logos, page designs and the app (the “Content”) are owned by Legendre Media or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. “The Regional Dispatch,” “From Our Region to Yours,” and our logos are our trademarks.

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to read the Content and use the app for your own non-commercial purposes. You may share links to our stories, and you may quote brief excerpts with credit and a link to the original, as fair use allows. Anything else, such as republishing whole stories, selling the Content, or removing credits or copyright notices, requires our written permission.

Photographs. Many photos in our stories come from Wikimedia Commons and similar sources and are used under their own licenses (such as Creative Commons licenses) or are in the public domain. Each photo carries a credit line naming its author and, where applicable, its license and source. Those photos belong to their authors, not to us, and their own licenses govern your reuse of them, not these Terms. Some images are used with permission or under other licenses; credits accompany them.

4. Acceptable use

When you use the Services, you agree not to:

• copy, scrape, crawl or harvest the Content in bulk, including to republish it, build a competing service, or train machine-learning or artificial-intelligence models (search engines and feed readers may still index our stories and show headlines, excerpts and links in the ordinary way);
• present our satire as genuine news, alter it to deceive, or attribute our fictional quotes to real people;
• interfere with, overload, probe or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services or the servers and networks that run them;
• reverse engineer, decompile or modify the app, except where the law expressly permits it;
• click on, tamper with or generate fake impressions or clicks on ads, or otherwise defraud our advertising partners; or
• use the Services in any way that breaks the law or infringes anyone’s rights.

We may block access to the Services for anyone who violates these Terms.

5. Advertising and third parties

The Services show ads from Google and its partners and link to other websites and services, including social networks. Advertisers are responsible for their own ads, and we don’t endorse the products advertised. Third-party websites and services, and anything you buy from them, are governed by their own terms and privacy policies, and we are not responsible for them. Our Privacy Policy explains what information advertising and notification partners collect.

6. The app

Notifications. The app can send notifications when new stories run. They are optional, and you can turn them off at any time in the app or in your phone’s settings.

Purchases. If the app offers an in-app purchase, such as one to remove ads, the purchase is made through Apple’s App Store or Google Play and is subject to their payment and refund terms. Refund requests go to Apple or Google under their policies.

App stores. If you downloaded the app from Apple’s App Store, you and we agree that these Terms are between you and Legendre Media only, not Apple; that Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app; that, to the maximum extent the law allows, Apple has no warranty obligation for the app (if the app fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund any purchase price you paid for it); that Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to conform to legal or regulatory requirements, consumer protection or privacy claims, or claims that the app or your use of it infringes someone’s intellectual property; that you represent you are not located in a country subject to a US government embargo and are not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties; and that Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you. Your use of the app must also comply with the App Store’s or Google Play’s usage rules.

7. Changes and availability

We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the Services at any time, including individual stories, features or the app, without notice.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICES AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND ACCURACY. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT ANY CONTENT IS TRUE. IT IS SATIRE.

9. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LEGENDRE MEDIA AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRIBUTORS AND LICENSORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICES IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICES IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE OR US $50.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty disclaimers or limitations of liability, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits any rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived under the law where you live.

10. Indemnity

To the extent the law allows, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Legendre Media from any claims, losses and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from your violation of these Terms or your misuse of the Services or the Content.

11. Copyright concerns

If you believe something in the Services infringes your copyright, including a photo credited to you, email desk@theregionaldispatch.com with the work, where it appears on our site or in the app, your contact information, and a statement that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner. We review every notice and remove or correct material that we are not entitled to use.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction, except that this does not take away any right you have as a consumer to bring a claim in the courts where you live.

13. General

These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Services. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. If we don’t enforce a provision right away, that doesn’t waive it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms; we may transfer ours in connection with a merger, sale or reorganization.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top shows when they last changed. If you keep using the Services after a change takes effect, the updated Terms apply.

15. Contact

Legendre Media Inc.
8 The Green #22878
Dover, DE 19901
United States

Email: desk@theregionaldispatch.com