Terms of Use

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of Madison Ave Magazine, including https://madisonavemag.com, our articles, newsletters, accounts, memberships, comments, reader submissions, advertising pages, forms, digital products, event coverage, social media features, and any other online services that link to these Terms.

Madison Ave Magazine is operated by Derek Madison LLC. In these Terms, “Madison Ave Magazine,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Madison Ave Magazine, Derek Madison LLC, and our related publication, editorial, business, membership, advertising, and digital operations.

By accessing or using Madison Ave Magazine, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the site.

Please also review our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which explain how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information.

For questions about these Terms, please use our Contact page: https://madisonavemag.com/contact/

1. About Madison Ave Magazine

Madison Ave Magazine is an independent digital publication covering culture, fashion, entertainment, technology, politics, lifestyle, social issues, and related editorial topics. The site may include original reporting, commentary, opinion, essays, photography, interviews, reviews, event coverage, newsletters, sponsored content, advertising, affiliate links, memberships, reader submissions, and third-party embeds.

The site is provided for informational, editorial, cultural, entertainment, and general audience purposes.

2. Eligibility

You may use the site only if you can legally agree to these Terms.

The site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. Some content may discuss mature themes, entertainment, sexuality, lifestyle, politics, social issues, finance, technology, health-adjacent topics, or other subjects that may not be appropriate for all readers.

If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the site only with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian.

3. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will post the updated Terms on this page and update the “Last updated” date.

Your continued use of the site after updated Terms are posted means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the site.

4. Privacy and Cookies

Your use of the site is also governed by our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. Those policies explain how information may be collected, used, disclosed, stored, and protected when you use the site.

By using the site, you acknowledge that you have reviewed those policies.

5. Site Content

The site may include articles, headlines, summaries, photographs, images, graphics, videos, audio, interviews, reviews, opinions, comments, newsletters, databases, directories, designs, logos, marks, layouts, code, and other materials.

Unless otherwise stated, all content on the site is owned by Madison Ave Magazine, Derek Madison LLC, our contributors, licensors, partners, photographers, or other rights holders.

Site content is protected by copyright, trademark, trade dress, unfair competition, and other intellectual property laws.

6. Limited License to Use the Site

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the site for your own personal, non-commercial reading and lawful use.

This license does not give you ownership of any site content.

You may not use the site or site content in a way that violates these Terms, infringes rights, harms the site, interferes with other users, or exceeds the access we provide.

7. Prohibited Uses

You agree not to:

• Violate any law, regulation, or third-party right
• Copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, sell, license, or distribute site content except as permitted by these Terms
• Use site content for commercial purposes without written permission
• Remove, obscure, or alter copyright, trademark, attribution, byline, watermark, caption, or rights notices
• Use the site to harass, threaten, defame, abuse, stalk, impersonate, or harm another person
• Submit false, misleading, unlawful, infringing, defamatory, obscene, hateful, or abusive content
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, servers, databases, or networks
• Interfere with the security or operation of the site
• Introduce malware, malicious code, bots, scripts, or harmful files
• Scrape, crawl, harvest, or extract content or data except as expressly permitted by us or by applicable law
• Use automated tools to overload, probe, scan, or attack the site
• Circumvent paywalls, membership controls, access controls, rate limits, robots.txt, security controls, or technical restrictions
• Use the site to build, train, improve, benchmark, validate, or populate artificial intelligence systems, machine learning models, search indexes, datasets, or content databases without permission, except where permitted by applicable law
• Create a competing product, database, archive, publication, or service using site content without permission
• Misrepresent your affiliation with Madison Ave Magazine
• Use our name, logo, branding, or content in a way that suggests endorsement without permission
• Engage in conduct that we determine, in our discretion, harms Madison Ave Magazine, our readers, contributors, partners, advertisers, sources, or systems

8. Editorial Content, Opinions, and Corrections

Madison Ave Magazine publishes a mix of reporting, commentary, opinion, analysis, interviews, criticism, reviews, sponsored material, reader submissions, and other editorial formats.

Views expressed by contributors, interview subjects, guests, advertisers, sponsors, or commenters are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Madison Ave Magazine.

We may update, edit, correct, remove, archive, or revise content at any time. We may publish corrections, clarifications, editor’s notes, updates, or removals where appropriate.

We are not obligated to update every article after publication. Some articles may become outdated as events, products, public statements, release dates, pricing, laws, markets, or facts change.

9. No Professional Advice

The site is provided for general informational, editorial, cultural, and entertainment purposes only.

Content on the site does not constitute legal, financial, investment, tax, medical, mental health, safety, professional, or other regulated advice. You should not rely on site content as a substitute for advice from a qualified professional.

Articles about technology, finance, cryptocurrency, business, health-adjacent topics, lifestyle, relationships, or similar subjects are provided for general information and commentary unless expressly stated otherwise.

You are responsible for your own decisions and actions.

10. Accounts

If the site offers accounts, you may be required to create login credentials and provide accurate information.

You are responsible for:

• Maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials
• All activity under your account
• Keeping your account information accurate
• Promptly notifying us through the Contact page if you believe your account has been compromised

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts if we believe there has been a violation of these Terms, misuse of the site, fraud, abuse, security risk, unlawful activity, or harm to the site or other users.

11. Memberships, Subscriptions, and Paid Features

Madison Ave Magazine may offer paid memberships, subscriptions, premium content, account features, events, merchandise, digital products, or other paid offerings.

Specific pricing, benefits, billing terms, renewal terms, cancellation options, refund rules, and access details may be provided at checkout, on the membership page, or in related notices.

By purchasing a paid offering, you agree to the terms presented at the time of purchase.

If a subscription renews automatically, you authorize the applicable payment processor to charge the payment method on file until you cancel according to the applicable cancellation instructions.

We may change pricing, benefits, features, content availability, membership tiers, or subscription offerings at any time. Changes will apply as described at the time they are made and as permitted by law.

Unless required by law or expressly stated at the time of purchase, payments are non-refundable.

Access to paid content may be revoked if payment fails, a charge is reversed, fraud is suspected, or these Terms are violated.

12. Payments

Payments may be processed by third-party payment processors. We do not control all aspects of third-party payment processing.

You agree to provide accurate payment information and authorize charges for purchases you make.

Payment processors may have their own terms and privacy policies. You should review those terms before completing a transaction.

We are not responsible for payment processor outages, errors, declined transactions, chargebacks, currency conversion charges, bank fees, or third-party payment issues except where required by law.

13. Comments and Community Features

If the site allows comments or other community features, you are responsible for what you post.

You agree not to submit content that:

• Is unlawful, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harassing, hateful, obscene, or invasive of privacy
• Attacks people based on protected characteristics
• Contains spam, advertising, scams, malware, or misleading links
• Infringes copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights
• Reveals private information about another person without permission
• Impersonates another person or misrepresents your identity
• Disrupts discussion or harms the experience of other readers

We may moderate, edit, remove, reject, or disable comments or community features at any time. We are not obligated to monitor every comment, but we may do so.

Public comments may be visible to other users, search engines, and third-party archives. Do not post information that you want to keep private.

14. Reader Submissions, Tips, Pitches, and Contributor Materials

The site may allow readers, writers, photographers, creators, publicists, brands, agencies, or other individuals to submit materials, including tips, pitches, essays, articles, photographs, videos, captions, credits, bios, press releases, event information, product information, comments, or other content.

By submitting materials, you represent and warrant that:

• You own the materials or have the rights necessary to submit them
• The materials do not infringe or violate the rights of any person or entity
• The materials are accurate to the best of your knowledge
• The materials do not contain unlawful, defamatory, misleading, or harmful content
• You have obtained any permissions, releases, consents, or approvals needed for people, images, locations, brands, artwork, music, trademarks, or other protected materials included in your submission

Submission does not guarantee publication, payment, credit, response, confidentiality, or return of materials unless we separately agree in writing.

We may accept, reject, edit, fact check, archive, delete, or publish submissions at our discretion.

15. License You Grant for Submissions

Unless we agree otherwise in writing, by submitting content to Madison Ave Magazine, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to use, reproduce, publish, edit, excerpt, distribute, display, perform, adapt, format, archive, promote, and otherwise exploit the submitted content in connection with Madison Ave Magazine and our related editorial, promotional, social, newsletter, archival, advertising, and business operations.

This license includes the right to:

• Publish submitted content on the site
• Edit for length, clarity, grammar, style, formatting, legal concerns, or editorial standards
• Use submitted images, captions, names, handles, credits, and bios
• Promote published content on social media, newsletters, and marketing channels
• Archive published content
• Syndicate or excerpt content where appropriate
• Preserve records related to editorial review, rights, disputes, or legal obligations

You retain any ownership rights you have in your submitted content, subject to the license you grant us.

If you submit content on behalf of another person, brand, agency, publication, photographer, creator, or rights holder, you represent that you have authority to grant this license.

16. Confidentiality of Submissions

Do not send confidential, proprietary, privileged, embargoed, or sensitive information unless we have agreed in writing to receive it under specific conditions.

Unless we expressly agree otherwise, submissions are not confidential. We may already be developing, considering, or publishing similar ideas, stories, topics, concepts, or content.

17. Copyright and Intellectual Property Complaints

We respect intellectual property rights and expect users to do the same.

If you believe content on the site infringes your copyright or other rights, please contact us through the Contact page and provide enough information for us to review your claim.

Your notice should include:

• Identification of the work you claim has been infringed
• Identification of the material you believe is infringing
• The URL or location of the material on the site
• Your contact information
• A statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorized
• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate
• A statement that you are the rights holder or authorized to act on behalf of the rights holder
• Your physical or electronic signature

We may remove or disable access to content where appropriate, request additional information, forward notices to affected parties, or take other action consistent with applicable law.

18. Trademarks

Madison Ave Magazine, Madison Ave Magazine logos, branding, trade dress, page designs, slogans, and related marks are owned by us or our licensors.

You may not use our names, logos, marks, or branding without permission, except where permitted by law.

All third-party names, logos, trademarks, and brands appearing on the site are the property of their respective owners. Their appearance does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation unless expressly stated.

19. Linking to the Site

You may link to publicly available Madison Ave Magazine pages as long as the link is lawful, fair, and does not suggest false endorsement or affiliation.

You may not:

• Frame the site without permission
• Present our content as your own
• Use our headlines, images, or summaries in a misleading way
• Link from unlawful, deceptive, defamatory, infringing, or harmful content
• Use links in a way that damages our reputation or misleads readers

We may request removal of links that violate these Terms or harm our rights, reputation, site, readers, contributors, or partners.

20. RSS, Search, Crawling, and AI Use

We may provide RSS feeds, sitemaps, metadata, structured data, social previews, or similar discovery tools.

Unless expressly permitted, these tools are provided for ordinary reader discovery, search indexing, feed reading, and limited excerpting. They do not grant permission to copy, republish, scrape, archive, sell, train on, or commercially exploit our content.

Automated access must comply with our robots.txt file, rate limits, technical restrictions, and these Terms.

You may not use our content to train, fine tune, develop, evaluate, benchmark, populate, or operate artificial intelligence systems, machine learning models, generative AI tools, search products, datasets, or content databases without our permission, except where permitted by applicable law.

21. Advertising, Sponsored Content, and Affiliate Links

The site may include advertising, sponsored content, promoted stories, paid partnerships, affiliate links, commerce links, brand integrations, or other commercial material.

We may receive compensation when you click links, view ads, purchase products, engage with sponsors, or interact with certain commercial placements.

Sponsored or affiliate relationships do not necessarily mean that we endorse every product, claim, company, or service mentioned.

Advertisers, sponsors, merchants, and affiliate partners are responsible for their own products, services, claims, offers, prices, availability, warranties, policies, and customer support.

22. Events, Photography, and Publicity

Madison Ave Magazine may cover public, press, fashion, entertainment, cultural, business, social, and other events.

If you attend an event where Madison Ave Magazine or its contributors are present, you may appear in photographs, video, audio, interviews, captions, or coverage, especially if the event is public, press-facing, promotional, or media-oriented.

By participating in interviews, posing for photographs, submitting images, providing quotes, attending media events, or engaging with our coverage, you may be granting permission for editorial use, subject to applicable law and any written agreements.

Event organizers, venues, sponsors, publicists, photographers, and platforms may have their own terms, releases, and privacy practices.

23. Third-Party Links and Services

The site may link to third-party websites, platforms, merchants, advertisers, sponsors, payment processors, social media platforms, video platforms, event platforms, forms, newsletters, tools, or embedded content.

We do not control third-party services and are not responsible for their content, security, privacy practices, terms, products, claims, or actions.

Your use of third-party services is at your own risk and may be governed by their own terms and policies.

24. Availability and Changes to the Site

We may change, suspend, discontinue, restrict, or remove any part of the site at any time.

We do not guarantee that:

• The site will always be available
• Content will remain available
• The site will be error-free
• Defects will be corrected
• The site will be secure or uninterrupted
• Features will remain unchanged
• Archived content will always be accessible

We may update or remove content, accounts, features, comments, membership benefits, ads, forms, categories, newsletters, or other services at any time.

25. Disclaimer of Warranties

The site and all content, services, features, and materials are provided “as is” and “as available.”

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Madison Ave Magazine and Derek Madison LLC disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the site will meet your expectations, that content will be accurate or current, that errors will be corrected, or that the site will be free of viruses, malware, or harmful components.

26. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Madison Ave Magazine, Derek Madison LLC, and our owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, contributors, licensors, service providers, partners, advertisers, and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, or similar damages arising out of or related to your use of the site.

This includes damages for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, business interruption, reputational harm, loss of goodwill, device damage, unauthorized access, content errors, third-party conduct, or reliance on site content.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising out of or related to the site or these Terms will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us for the specific service giving rise to the claim during the three months before the claim arose or one hundred dollars.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some limitations may not apply to you.

27. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Madison Ave Magazine, Derek Madison LLC, and our owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, contributors, licensors, service providers, partners, advertisers, and affiliates from and against claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or related to:

• Your use of the site
• Your violation of these Terms
• Your violation of law
• Your violation of another person’s rights
• Your submissions or user content
• Your misuse of site content
• Your fraud, abuse, negligence, or misconduct

We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, and you agree to cooperate with our defense.

28. Termination

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the site, accounts, comments, memberships, subscriptions, newsletters, or features at any time if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk or legal exposure, misused the site, engaged in fraud or abuse, or harmed Madison Ave Magazine, our readers, contributors, partners, advertisers, systems, or rights.

You may stop using the site at any time.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including sections about intellectual property, submissions, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, and governing law.

29. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to conflict of law principles, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

30. Dispute Resolution

Before filing a legal claim, you agree to contact us through the Contact page and attempt to resolve the dispute informally.

If a dispute cannot be resolved informally, you agree that any claim arising out of or related to these Terms or the site will be brought in the state or federal courts located in New Jersey, except where applicable law requires another forum.

You consent to the jurisdiction and venue of those courts.

Nothing in these Terms limits either party’s right to seek injunctive or equitable relief for misuse of intellectual property, unauthorized access, security threats, or other urgent harm.

31. Geographic Restrictions

The site is operated from the United States. We do not guarantee that the site or content is appropriate or available in every location.

If you access the site from outside the United States, you are responsible for complying with local laws.

32. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted, and the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

33. No Waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms does not waive our right to enforce that provision later.

34. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent.

We may assign or transfer these Terms, in whole or in part, in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, transfer of business, operation of law, or similar transaction.

35. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and any additional terms presented for specific features, purchases, memberships, submissions, contests, or services, make up the entire agreement between you and us regarding your use of the site.

36. Contact

For questions about these Terms, account issues, copyright complaints, content concerns, privacy requests, or other site-related inquiries, please use our Contact page:https://madisonavemag.com/contact/

Please include enough information for us to understand and respond to your request.