Prothom Alo
Terms and Conditions
The Daily Prothom Alo welcomes you to Prothom-Alo.com, our digital information network. These terms and conditions apply whenever you access the network, on whatever device. In these terms and conditions, when we say Prothom-Alo.com, we mean this network, regardless of how you access it.

By using the network, you are deemed to have accepted these conditions.

Some areas of Prothom-Alo.com require registration. By completing the initial registration form and by entering your email address and password, you will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. Also, by subscribing to any of our email services, you are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. If you register with Prothom-Alo.com, you should read our privacy policy_ without prejuidice to our rights under the Bangladesh laws.

If you have registered with us and subsequently change your details, you should immediately notify us of any changes by emailing the user support team at support@prothom-alo.com.

Prothom Alo in its absolute discretion reserves the right to alter the terms and conditions and in the event alterations made, those will be reflected on this page.

1. Registration, Passwords and Responsibilities
Certain areas of the Site are only open for the registered user. You are solely responsible for the confidentiality and use of and access to Prothom-Alo.com Content and the Site using your user name, sign-on password, and/or I.D. You agree to immediately notify Prothom-Alo.com if you become aware of any loss or theft of any sign-on password or I.D. or any unauthorized use of a sign-on password, I.D., user name, or of Prothom-Alo.com Content or the Site. You will provide Prothom-Alo.com with accurate, complete registration information (including in particular your e-mail address) and inform Prothom-Alo.com of any changes to such information. For the purpose of confirming your compliance with these Terms, Prothom-Alo.com reserves the right to monitor and record activity on the Site, including access to Prothom-Alo.com Content.

When you register, you are registering as a personal user of Prothom-Alo.com. Access to registration areas is via your email address and password.


We allow you access to the registration areas of the site on the basis that:
  1. Your email address and password are personal to you and may not be used by anyone else to access Prothom-Alo.com
     
  2. You will not do anything which would assist anyone who is not a registered user to gain access to any registration area of Prothom-Alo.com
     
  3. You do not maliciously create additional registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor do you seek to pass yourself off as another user.
     
  4. Each registration is for a single user only. You may not share your user name and password with any other person. Prothom-Alo.com does not permit access through a single name and password being made available to multiple users on a network.
     
  5. You comply with these terms and conditions.

If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may, at our discretion, cancel your access to the registration areas of Prothom-Alo.com immediately and without giving you any advance notice.

2. Charges
Purchasing a subscription to Prothom-Alo.com gives you the access to the additional content and features of the site. This additional feature is exclusively for subscribers only. See Annex-1 to view the additional features currently available.

To purchase a subscription to Prothom-Alo.com, choose an option below:
Annual : $30.00 (US dollar Thirty)
Monthly : $05.00 (US dollar Five)



3. Termination of registration
Prothom Alo in its absolute discretion reserves the right to bring this the agreement to an end, by emailing you at the address you have registered stating that the agreement has been terminated. The agreement will terminate and your email address and password will become invalid on Prothom-Alo.com immediately. Upon termination you would be entitled to outstanding subscription deposits after adjustment of any claim by Prothom Alo.

PROTHOM ALO has the right to terminate any user account at any time if the terms and conditions of subscription are violated by the subscriber or by any other person using the password. In this case subscription charges would not be refunded.

In the event the subscriber wishes to terminate the subscription service , such close his/her account may be done with prior notice of at least 15 days in case of monthly subscription and 30 days in case of annual subscription.

In any event outstanding subscription deposits, in any, is not be refundable.

The rights of termination are in addition to all other rights or remedies of Prothom-Alo.com provided in these Terms or by law.


4. Use of material appearing on Prothom-Alo.com
For the purposes of this agreement, "material" means material including, without limitation, text, different articles, graphics and news, published on the Prothom-Alo.com information network, whether copyright of The Daily Prothom Alo or a third party.

You may download and print extracts from the material and make copies of these for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You are not allowed to download or print the material, or extracts from it, in a systematic or regular manner or otherwise so as to create a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the material appearing on Prothom-Alo.com for commercial uses.

You must not reproduce any part of Prothom-Alo.com or the material or transmit it to or store it in any other website or disseminate any part of the material in any other form, unless we have indicated that you may do so.

We may be prepared to allow you to distribute or reproduce other parts of Prothom-Alo.com or the material in certain circumstances. Please email the user support team at userhelp@prothom-alo.com if you wish to apply for permission to do so.

5. Disclaimer of Liability
To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the material. You must not rely on any statement we have published on Prothom-Alo.com without first taking specialist professional advice. Nothing in the material is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person.

For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading the material or any part of it.

You can access other sites via links from Prothom-Alo.com. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.

We give no warranties of any kind concerning Prothom-Alo.com or the material. In particular, we do not warrant that Prothom-Alo.com or any of its contents is virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect, as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything, which has destructive properties.

6. Changes to The Site
Prothom-Alo.com reserves the right, in its discretion, to suspend, change, modify, add or remove portions of the Prothom-Alo.com Content available on the Site at any time and to restrict the use and accessibility of the Site.


7. Third party material on Prothom-Alo.com
You will see advertising material submitted by third parties on Prothom-Alo.com. Individual advertisers are solely responsible for the content of advertising material that they submit to us, including ensuring that it complies with relevant legislation. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.

Prothom Alo does not accept any responsibility for any statement or material provided by any third party on Prothom-Alo.com

If you want to advertise on Prothom-Alo.com, please email our advertisement section at advertisement@prothom-alo.com.


8. Data Protection
If you have indicated on the registration form that you wish to receive direct marketing material, your personal details will be included in a database compiled for direct marketing purposes. From time to time, you may receive direct marketing information from us or from third parties.

If you have indicated that you wish to receive email updates only from Prothom-Alo.com, your personal details will be included on a database compiled for this specific purpose.

If you have indicated that you wish to receive direct marketing material or email updates from Prothom-Alo.com but subsequently change your mind, you should notify the user support team at registration@prothom-alo.com. As soon after this as is reasonably practicable, we will remove your name details from the relevant database.

9. Variations
Changes to these Terms. Prothom-Alo.com may, in its discretion, change these Terms (including those relating to your use of Site and/or Prothom-Alo.com Content). When Terms are changed, Prothom-Alo.com will notify you by email or by publishing details of those changes by including them in these Terms. If you use the Site after Prothom-Alo.com has published or notified you of the changes, you are agreeing now to be bound by those changes. If you do not agree to be bound by those changes, you should not use the Site any further after they are published. Access to certain Prothom-Alo.com Content may be subject to additional terms and conditions.

10. Force Majeure
Prothom-Alo.com, its affiliates and its information providers will not be liable or deemed to be in default for any delay or failure in performance or interruption of the delivery of Prothom-Alo.com Content resulting directly or indirectly from any cause or circumstance beyond its or their reasonable control, including but not limited to failure of electronic or mechanical equipment or communication lines, telephone or other interconnect problems, computer viruses, unauthorized access, theft, operator errors, severe weather, earthquakes or natural disasters, strikes or other labor problems, wars, or governmental restrictions.

11. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, Bangladeshi law. The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of Bangladesh shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these Terms or the legal relationship established by them, and for those purposes irrevocably submit all disputes to the jurisdiction of the Bangladesh courts.

Annex - 1
The additional features includes:

  • Access to the Noon and the Evening versions (usually available by 0700GMT and 1200GMT time everyday)
  • Access to all feature pages.
  • Newsletter with the latest headlines link everyday.
  • Search facilities in Bangla

N.B. Prothom Alo in its absolute discretion reserves the right to make any additions, changes, alterations or modifications.