Effective Date: 2026
Welcome to Texas News Express (“Website,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By accessing, viewing, browsing, reading, using, or interacting with this Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with these Terms of Use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue use of this Website immediately.
1. Acceptance of Terms
By using this Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms of Use. These Terms apply to all visitors, readers, users, advertisers, contributors, and any other persons or entities who access or use this Website.
We may update, modify, or revise these Terms of Use at any time without prior notice. Your continued use of this Website after any changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.
2. News, Commentary, and Informational Content
The content published on this Website may include news reporting, public-interest information, commentary, analysis, editorials, opinion pieces, photographs, graphics, video, audio, links, and other media.
While we strive to provide accurate and timely information, we do not guarantee that all content is complete, current, error-free, or suitable for any specific purpose. News and public information may change rapidly, and articles may become outdated or superseded by later developments.
The content on this Website is provided for general informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as legal, financial, medical, political, professional, or other specialized advice.
3. Sole and Exclusive Remedy
If you believe that you have been injured, harmed, offended, misled, damaged, or otherwise negatively affected by any content, article, statement, image, opinion, technical issue, omission, error, delay, or other aspect of this Website, your sole and exclusive remedy is to stop using this Website.
By continuing to use this Website, you agree that discontinuing use of the Website is your only remedy for dissatisfaction, disagreement, alleged injury, or alleged harm connected to this Website, its content, its operation, or its availability.
4. Intellectual Property Rights
All content on this Website, including but not limited to articles, headlines, photographs, graphics, logos, layout, design, code, databases, text, videos, audio, software, and other materials, is owned by or licensed to this Website unless otherwise stated.
You may not copy, steal, scrape, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, distribute, modify, sell, license, exploit, or otherwise use our content, code, articles, news materials, or proprietary information without our prior written permission.
Limited personal use, such as reading articles or sharing lawful links to publicly available pages, is permitted. However, copying entire articles, republishing our content, automated scraping, unauthorized syndication, plagiarism, or using our work to create competing content is strictly prohibited.
5. Prohibited Conduct
By using this Website, you agree that you will not:
- Steal, copy, scrape, reproduce, or republish articles, photographs, code, databases, or other Website materials without authorization.
- Use bots, crawlers, spiders, scrapers, automated tools, or data-mining methods to extract content or data from this Website without written permission.
- Attempt to hack, damage, overload, disable, disrupt, impair, or interfere with the operation, security, servers, networks, or functionality of this Website.
- Upload, transmit, or introduce viruses, malware, ransomware, spyware, malicious code, or harmful files.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any restricted area, account, server, database, administrative panel, source code, or system connected to this Website.
- Misrepresent your identity or falsely claim affiliation with this Website.
- Use this Website for unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, harassing, threatening, defamatory, or malicious purposes.
- Violate any applicable local, state, federal, or international law.
- Use our content in a misleading way, out of context, or in a manner that falsely suggests endorsement by this Website.
- Interfere with another person’s lawful use and enjoyment of this Website.
6. User Submissions and Communications
If you submit comments, tips, messages, emails, news leads, photographs, documents, corrections, or other materials to us, you represent that you have the legal right to provide those materials.
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, any submission you send to us may be reviewed, edited, published, declined, or used for news-gathering, editorial, administrative, or operational purposes. Submission of information does not create a confidential, fiduciary, professional, or special relationship between you and this Website.
You agree not to submit false, defamatory, infringing, unlawful, threatening, harassing, obscene, malicious, or intentionally misleading material.
7. Third-Party Links and Sources
This Website may contain links to third-party websites, public records, government sources, advertisers, social media pages, embedded content, or external resources.
We do not control third-party websites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, privacy policies, security, advertising, or practices. Accessing third-party links is done at your own risk.
8. No Guarantee of Availability
We do not guarantee that this Website will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free. We may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the Website at any time without notice.
We are not responsible for technical failures, outages, cyberattacks, data loss, browser incompatibility, hosting issues, service interruptions, or other events that may affect access to this Website.
9. Disclaimer of Warranties
This Website and all content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of accuracy, reliability, completeness, timeliness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, security, and uninterrupted access.
You use this Website at your own risk.
10. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, this Website, its owners, operators, editors, writers, contributors, employees, contractors, affiliates, advertisers, and representatives shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, reputational, economic, emotional, or other damages arising out of or related to your use of, inability to use, reliance on, or interaction with this Website or its content.
This limitation applies whether the alleged liability is based on contract, tort, negligence, defamation, privacy, intellectual property, statute, strict liability, or any other legal theory.
11. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless this Website, its owners, operators, employees, contractors, writers, editors, contributors, affiliates, advertisers, and representatives from and against any claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including attorney’s fees, arising from your use of this Website, your violation of these Terms, your violation of any law, or your infringement of any rights belonging to another person or entity.
12. Copyright Complaints
If you believe content on this Website infringes your copyright, you may contact us with sufficient information to identify the allegedly infringing material, proof of ownership, your contact information, and a statement explaining the basis of your complaint.
We reserve the right to remove, modify, or decline to remove content at our discretion and in accordance with applicable law.
13. Corrections and Editorial Decisions
We may correct, update, revise, remove, or clarify published content at our discretion. We are not obligated to publish corrections, retractions, responses, or reader-submitted materials unless required by law.
Editorial decisions are made solely by this Website.
14. Governing Law
These Terms of Use shall be governed by and interpreted according to the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
Any dispute arising from or related to this Website shall be handled in a court of competent jurisdiction in Texas, unless otherwise required by applicable law.
15. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
16. Contact Information
Questions about these Terms of Use may be directed to:
Texas News Express
Email: [Insert Email Address]
Website: [Insert Website URL]
17. Final Agreement
By using this Website, you agree that you are responsible for your own conduct, that you will comply with all applicable laws, that you will not misuse or attack this Website, and that you will not steal, copy, scrape, or unlawfully exploit our code, articles, news content, or intellectual property.
If you disagree with these Terms, object to our content, or believe you have been injured in any way by this Website, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue use of this Website.