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Our terms and conditions

• These Terms and Conditions govern the submission of material by you through the attached form to The Irish Times, for publication in the printed edition of The Irish Times, on the irishtimes.com website and other digital products and services offered by The Irish Times DAC (hereafter referred to as “The Irish Times”, “us” or “we”) such other products and services including but not being limited to mobile applications and RSS feeds, in accordance with our privacy policy.
• By submitting material to us, you implicitly acknowledge and agree that the material may be published in the printed edition of The Irish Times, on the irishtimes.com website and on other digital products and services offered by us from time to time including but not limited to mobile applications and in any other publication of our choosing, at our sole discretion.
• Submission of material does not guarantee publication and the decision to publish material is at the sole discretion of The Irish Times. The Irish Times reserves the right to contact you in order to obtain further information in relation to the material submitted. In addition, we may publish, check, edit or remove all or part of any material which you submit to us, at our sole discretion but we are under no obligation to take any of the above steps.
• All material submitted for publication must be true, complete and accurate information. If you provide any information that is untrue, incomplete or inaccurate; or if we have reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, incomplete or inaccurate, The Irish Times reserves the right to not publish the material submitted and to amend or remove the material submitted as we see fit.
• No material which could, in The Irish Times’ view, be considered to be offensive, unlawful, defamatory, plagiarized or otherwise objectionable will be published by us and The Irish Times’ decision in this regard will be final.
• By submitting the material, you agree to assign all intellectual property rights in that material to The Irish Times and to the extent permitted by law, you waive your moral rights. You acknowledge that we own all intellectual property rights in any material published by us in any publication of our choosing, including but not limited to The Irish Times printed edition, on www.irishtimes.com, and on any other digital products offered by us from time to time.
• You agree to indemnify and keep indemnified The Irish Times and its officers, directors, employees and data providers from any and all claims, liabilities, costs and expenses, including legal costs, in relation to any action or complaint taken by a third party against The Irish Times in relation to the publication of any material submitted by you or arising out of a breach by you these Terms and Conditions.
• If you are under the age of 18, we will require the explicit consent of your parent or legal guardian before we can consider any material for publication. We reserve the right to verify this consent by making contact with your parent or guardian.
• If any part or provision of these Terms and Conditions is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, this shall not affect the validity of any other part or provision of these Terms and Conditions.
• These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of Ireland and subject to the jurisdiction of the Irish Courts.