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These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of Michiana Scanner Chatter and michiana.news. By accessing or using this website, you agree to these Terms.

1. About Michiana Scanner Chatter Michiana Scanner Chatter provides news, public-safety information, community information, and other reporting for the Michiana area.

Information published by Michiana Scanner Chatter may come from scanner traffic, official agencies, publicly available information, submitted information, and additional reporting.

When appropriate, Michiana Scanner Chatter distinguishes scanner-based information from information released or confirmed by an official source.

2. Information May Change Public-safety incidents and breaking news can develop quickly.

Information available at the time something is published may later be updated, corrected, clarified, or replaced as additional information becomes available.

Michiana Scanner Chatter does not guarantee that information on the website will always be complete, current, or error-free.

3. Not an Emergency Service Michiana Scanner Chatter is an information and news service. It is not an emergency dispatch service, law-enforcement agency, fire department, emergency medical service, emergency management agency, or other government agency.

The website should not be relied upon for emergency notifications, emergency instructions, or immediate public-safety assistance.

4. Scanner and Preliminary Information Some information published by Michiana Scanner Chatter may originate from radio traffic or other preliminary sources.

Scanner traffic can be incomplete, misunderstood, corrected, canceled, or changed as an incident develops. Information heard during an initial dispatch does not necessarily represent the final determination of an agency or investigating authority.

Information identified as scanner traffic should therefore be understood as preliminary unless subsequently confirmed.

5. Official Information Content identified as originating from an official agency is based on information released by that agency.

Michiana Scanner Chatter may summarize, reorganize, or present official information for its audience while identifying the information as official when appropriate.

6. Editorial Decisions Michiana Scanner Chatter determines what information is published, updated, corrected, withheld, removed, or archived.

Not every incident heard, reported, submitted, or otherwise brought to the attention of Michiana Scanner Chatter will be published.

Publication decisions may consider accuracy, public interest, privacy, safety, operational concerns, and the availability of reliable information.

7. Locations and Personal Information Michiana Scanner Chatter does not publish exact private residential addresses as part of its normal reporting.

Block-level locations may be used when appropriate.

Exact addresses may be used for publicly known locations or businesses when the location is already publicly listed and identifying it is appropriate to the report.

8. User-Submitted Information If you submit news tips, photographs, video, documents, information, corrections, or other material to Michiana Scanner Chatter, you represent that you have the right to provide that material.

Submitting information does not guarantee that it will be published.

By submitting material for possible publication, you give Michiana Scanner Chatter permission to review, verify, edit, reproduce, publish, display, and distribute that material in connection with its reporting and services.

Michiana Scanner Chatter may decline to use submitted material or may remove previously published material at its discretion.

9. Accuracy and Corrections Michiana Scanner Chatter attempts to provide accurate information but cannot guarantee the accuracy of every piece of information received from scanners, agencies, public records, submitted tips, or other sources.

Information may be corrected or updated when additional reliable information becomes available.

10. Website Availability Michiana Scanner Chatter does not guarantee that michiana.news or any feature of the website will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or free from technical problems.

Features may be changed, suspended, replaced, or discontinued.

11. Permitted Use You may access Michiana Scanner Chatter content for personal and lawful purposes.

You may share links to Michiana Scanner Chatter stories and pages.

You may not falsely represent Michiana Scanner Chatter content as your own reporting or remove Michiana Scanner Chatter branding from content in a way that misrepresents its source.

12. Intellectual Property Original Michiana Scanner Chatter articles, graphics, branding, designs, photographs, videos, and other original material remain the property of Michiana Scanner Chatter unless otherwise indicated.

Material originating from another source remains subject to the rights of that source.

Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of Michiana Scanner Chatter content, branding, or other intellectual property to a website visitor.

13. Third-Party Content and Links Michiana Scanner Chatter may reference information, websites, agencies, organizations, social-media platforms, or other third-party sources.

Michiana Scanner Chatter does not control third-party websites or services and is not responsible for their content, availability, policies, or practices.

14. Free Access Michiana Scanner Chatter’s core reporting is intended to remain freely available.

Optional features or conveniences may be offered separately without making access to core reporting dependent upon payment.

15. No Sponsorship of Reporting Michiana Scanner Chatter operates as an independent information source and does not use sponsor-funded incident coverage.

The presence or absence of coverage should not be interpreted as an endorsement of any person, agency, organization, business, or other entity.

16. Limitation of Liability Use of michiana.news and reliance on information published by Michiana Scanner Chatter is at your own risk.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Michiana Scanner Chatter is not responsible for losses, damages, injuries, decisions, actions, or consequences resulting from reliance on information published on the website, delayed information, unavailable information, inaccurate preliminary information, website interruptions, or third-party content.

17. Changes to These Terms These Terms may be revised as Michiana Scanner Chatter, michiana.news, or the services offered through the website change.

Continued use of the website after revised Terms are published constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

18. Content Use and Republication Policy

Unless otherwise stated, original articles, photographs, graphics, videos, audio, and other original content published by Michiana Scanner Chatter on michiana.news are protected by copyright.

Content from michiana.news may not be reproduced, republished, syndicated, scraped, distributed, summarized for republication, or incorporated into another publication, application, platform, database, or content feed without prior written permission from Michiana Scanner Chatter.

The availability of content through a publicly accessible webpage or RSS feed does not constitute permission to republish or syndicate that content.

Links to michiana.news are permitted. Brief quotations may be used where otherwise permitted by law, with clear attribution to Michiana Scanner Chatter and a link to the original article.

Michiana Scanner Chatter reserves all rights in its original content.

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