Terms of Use

These Terms of Use apply to the Los Angeles Herald website and all of its parts (the "Service"). By using the Service, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Service.

1. The provider

The Service is provided by Los Angeles Herald ("we" or "us"). Los Angeles Herald is an independent independent, local-first daily covering Los Angeles, California, the nation and the world. You can reach us through our contact form or by email at contact@herald.la.

2. Using the Service

Browsing the content is free and does not require registration. You agree to use the Service in accordance with the law and these terms. You may not:

• interfere with the operation of the Service or attempt to bypass its technical limits or security;
• overload the Service with automated requests, scrape content at scale, or collect data in a way that places an unreasonable burden on our servers;
• use the Service for any unlawful, harmful, or rights-infringing activity.

3. Your account

Some features, such as commenting and saving articles, require signing in. You are responsible for the use of your account and for keeping your login credentials confidential. You agree to provide accurate information and to notify us if you suspect your account has been compromised.

We may suspend or delete an account if these terms are violated. You can delete your own account at any time from My Account. How we handle personal data is described in our privacy policy.

4. Comments and user content

When you leave a comment or other content on the Service, you are responsible for its content and legality. You may not post content that is unlawful, abusive, threatening, hateful, invasive of privacy, misleading, or that infringes the rights of others, including copyrights.

We reserve the right to decline to publish, edit, or remove user content, and to block any user who repeatedly or seriously violates these terms. We are not obligated to pre-screen all user content, but we will remove unlawful content once we are made aware of it.

By submitting user content, you grant us a royalty-free right to publish and store it on the Service. You may request the removal of your own content.

5. Copyright

Our articles, from headline to text, are the original work of our newsroom and are protected by copyright. Images are mostly freely licensed (for example, Wikimedia Commons), and each image's author, license, and source are noted alongside the article. Images are governed by their own license terms, not these terms.

6. Linking and quoting

We allow linking to and brief quoting of our articles on other websites, on social media, and in news roundups, subject to the following conditions:

• Quote only a short excerpt — for example, the headline and lead — not the whole article.
• Every quotation must include a clear, working link to the original article at herald.la.
• Credit Los Angeles Herald as the source.
• Do not alter the article's content or present it in a misleading way, and do not imply that Los Angeles Herald endorses your site or product.
• These conditions do not apply to images: they have their own licenses, which must be checked separately with each image's author.
• Automated, large-scale, or commercial republication (including the training of AI models and content scraping) requires separate permission — contact us through our contact form.

We reserve the right to revoke this permission for any party that fails to comply with these conditions.

7. Advertising

The Service may contain advertising served through Google's advertising network (Google Ads). Ads are kept separate from editorial content. Advertisers and the ad network are responsible for their own content; we are not responsible for the content of third-party ads or for the products and services behind them. The cookies and data processing used in advertising are described in our cookie policy and privacy policy.

8. Limitation of liability

The Service and its content are provided "as is" without any express or implied warranties. We strive to keep information accurate and current, but we do not guarantee that the content is error-free or complete, or that the Service will be available without interruption.

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from the use of, or inability to use, the Service. The Service may contain links to third-party sites, and we are not responsible for their content or privacy practices.

9. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the Service or the law develops. The current terms and their effective date are always available on this page. We will make reasonable efforts to announce significant changes on the Service. By continuing to use the Service after changes take effect, you accept the updated terms.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. We will try to resolve any disputes first through good-faith negotiation.