Legal Notice & Disclaimer

SaaS Platform Disclaimer

Clarification of MyOnlinePaper's role as a publishing technology provider, editorial boundaries, and third-party content disclaimer.

Draft for Review — Requires Owner & Legal Approval

This disclaimer is an operational and architectural draft detailing the legal boundaries between My Online Paper (as a SaaS software host) and autonomous publisher newsrooms. This document is subject to formal legal review and ownership approval and does not waive mandatory statutory obligations under applicable law.

1. Role as a Software & Infrastructure Provider

My Online Paper is a multi-tenant cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology provider. We develop, operate, and maintain publishing software, electronic paper (e-paper) readers, content management systems, and hosting infrastructure.

My Online Paper is not a news agency, newspaper publisher, editorial desk, or media outlet. We do not author, commission, curate, or alter the journalistic content published by independent newsrooms on our platform.

2. Editorial Independence & Publisher Responsibility

All news articles, investigative reports, editorials, opinion columns, photographs, mastheads, letters to the editor, and print edition PDFs hosted across /pub/[publicationSlug] or publisher custom domains are created and managed autonomously by the respective publishing organization:

  • Autonomous Editorial Control: Each publisher exercises sole and exclusive editorial discretion over their publication.
  • Legal Responsibility: The publishing tenant is solely accountable for the legality, accuracy, and truthfulness of their reporting, including compliance with defamation standards, press regulations, election laws, and professional journalistic ethics.
  • No Platform Endorsement: Views, perspectives, and opinions expressed in hosted articles do not reflect the opinions or endorsements of My Online Paper or its operators.

3. Accuracy & Factual Verification

While My Online Paper provides publishing tools, we do not independently verify, fact-check, or validate the claims, quotes, or assertions made in client publications. Readers consume hosted content at their own discretion and are advised to evaluate source attribution and consult primary documents where appropriate.

4. Publisher-Operated Monetization & Reader Transactions

Where an individual publication implements its own reader subscriptions, issue sales, paywalls, print circulation memberships, or reader donations, all financial transactions and contractual relationships exist solely between the reader and that independent publication. My Online Paper is not a party to reader-publisher agreements, does not process reader subscription funds, and assumes no liability for publisher refund obligations to readers.

5. Copyright & Intellectual Property Complaints

Publishers must possess all necessary rights, copyright permissions, and photograph licenses for any material uploaded to their workspaces:

  • Notice of Infringement: If you believe content hosted on a MyOnlinePaper publication infringes your copyright or trademark, you may notify the publication directly through its editorial contact page or transmit a formal takedown notice to our designated compliance desk.
  • Compliance Desk: Notices may be directed to support@myonlinepaper.com with complete identification of the copyrighted work, URL location, and authorized signature.

6. External Links & AI Editorial Assistant

  • External Hyperlinks: Publications may embed links to external web destinations. My Online Paper does not govern or endorse third-party web content or external privacy practices.
  • AI Editorial Assistant: The platform offers optional AI editorial drafting assistance to authenticated newsrooms. Publishers are strictly required to conduct human editorial review of all AI-suggested headlines, summaries, and text before publication.

7. Service Availability & Technical Limitations

Software and cloud hosting services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. While our engineering team implements automated diagnostics, database backups, and edge routing redundancy, we do not warrant that service operations will be uninterrupted, error-free, or exempt from scheduled maintenance interruptions.

8. Reader Inquiries & Editorial Complaints

If you have a comment, correction request, letter to the editor, or complaint regarding a specific article, please locate the newspaper in our Public Publications Directory and contact that newspaper's editorial desk directly.

9. Limitations of Responsibility Subject to Applicable Law

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, My Online Paper and its operators disclaim liability for indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages resulting from third-party publication content, reader reliance on hosted articles, or temporary service interruptions. Nothing in this disclaimer excludes liability where exclusion is prohibited by governing law.

10. Questions & Legal Desk Contact

For inquiries regarding platform technical boundaries, takedown notices, or operational terms, contact:

My Online Paper Platform Governance & Legal Desk
Finalized platform terms and formal registered entity designations will be posted upon completion of ownership and legal review.