Terms of Service

These terms cover reading Cover365 and anything you send us. They are the dull counterpart to our editorial standards, written in the same voice, which mostly means saying what a clause is for and not only what it says. Last updated: August 2026.

Using the site means accepting them. If you cannot accept something here, the remedy is to stop reading.

Who can use the site

Anyone can read Cover365. There is no registration wall in front of an article and no paywall to qualify for, which is deliberate and explained on our about page.

Accounts are different. To register for comments or take the newsletter you must be at least 13, or older where local law sets a higher age for agreeing to an online service yourself. Below that, a parent or guardian does it. Using the site for an employer means you may accept these terms for them.

What we own, and what you may do with it

The reporting, photographs, artwork, page furniture and code here belong to Cover365 or to the contributors and agencies we license from. Nothing on this page hands any of it over. You get a personal, revocable licence to read the site, print a piece for your own use, and quote from it with attribution and a link.

Share the link with anyone. Post an extract with our name in the sentence and a link back. That has never been the problem. The licence does not cover republishing a piece in full in any medium, framing our pages in a reader view that strips the byline, altering a story and leaving our name on it, or charging for access to our work. Reprint requests go through our copyright and DMCA page.

Scraping, and training a model on our reporting

This is the clause we care about most, so the reasoning comes first. A collections figure with a name attached to it exists because somebody rang three exhibitors and a distributor and got told to go away twice. A tribunal explainer exists because somebody read ninety pages of an order on a Sunday. A crawler takes both in forty milliseconds.

So, plainly: automated bulk access is prohibited without our written permission. That covers crawling beyond the rate or scale of ordinary reading, extracting our text or images to build a dataset, using our content to train, fine-tune, ground or evaluate a generative model, and running a retrieval service that reproduces our reporting for people who never arrive here. Our robots file and the machine-readable signals beside it say the same thing, and those are terms rather than requests.

Two honest qualifications, because a rule that pretends the last three years did not happen is a rule nobody keeps. A reader pasting an article into a chatbot to ask what a paragraph of an order means is not who this is aimed at. And permission is real: much of this is licensable and we have said yes before. Ask us.

Other things you may not do here

The rest is what any publisher would write down, and none of it is theoretical. Each has been tried here.

Where one is done at scale we block the traffic first and ask questions later, because the alternative is a site that falls over on a Friday evening. An unfair block can be appealed to the address below.

• Probing or testing the site’s security, or flooding it with requests to overwhelm the server.
• Uploading anything malicious, or using the comment threads to distribute it.
• Impersonating our staff, a contributor, or another reader.
• Harvesting other readers’ details out of comments.
• Using our name or logo to suggest we approved something we did not.

Comments and anything else you send us

Comments are moderated by the desk rather than by an automatic filter. We remove abuse, threats, communal incitement, defamatory allegations stated as fact, doxxing, spam and advertising, and we close threads that have stopped being about the story. Disagreeing sharply with a piece is not grounds for removal. Neither is telling us we got something wrong, which is what our corrections policy is for.

Moderation is a right and not a duty. We do not read every comment before it appears, and nothing here makes us the author of what a reader posts. What you post stays yours, and by posting it you give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to display, store, quote and syndicate it alongside that story.

Links out, and things embedded from elsewhere

We link out constantly, to court orders, official filings, another outlet that broke a story, and the original upload behind a clip going around. That is how a reader checks us. A link is a citation and nothing more.

Embedded posts, videos and players load from someone else’s servers and can set their own cookies, which is covered by category in our cookie policy. If an embed vanishes or is edited by whoever posted it, that happened outside this building.

What we do not promise, and what we are liable for

The site and everything on it are provided as they are. We correct what we get wrong, which is not a warranty that every sentence is complete, current or fit for a purpose you have in mind. Our disclaimer takes that apart properly. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, and we do not promise uninterrupted availability.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, nor for lost profits or a decision you took on the strength of something you read here. Where liability cannot be excluded it is limited to what you have paid us to read the site, which is nothing, and nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. If something you posted brings a claim against us, you agree to cover our reasonable costs. That clause is aimed at the operation that bulk-copies the site, not at a reader.

Losing access

We can suspend or end access, remove a comment account, or block an address or a range of them, where these terms have been broken. A first comment offence usually means the comment goes and you are told why. Scraping or security probing means a block, with no warning owed first.

If you think a block was wrong, write and say so, with the approximate time and what you were doing. A shared office or campus address catching a block meant for someone else is a real thing and we will unpick it. Clauses that ought to survive the end of your access do survive it, including the licence for a comment we still display.

Which law applies, changes, and where to write

These terms are governed by the laws applicable at the publisher’s place of business, and any dispute goes to the courts having jurisdiction there. You keep whatever rights your local consumer law gives you. Before anything formal, write and describe the problem. Almost every complaint we get about a page is factual, and a factual complaint is fixed faster through the corrections route than through a lawyer’s letter.

We update these terms when the site changes or the law does. The date at the top moves with the text, and a material change is flagged before it takes effect. Carrying on reading after that is acceptance, and if a court strikes out one clause the rest stands. Questions go to support@cover365.in with TERMS at the front of the subject line, and our contact page covers the rest of what that inbox handles. If you want to license something, say what you want and where it is going, and you will get a yes, a no, or a price.