Effective Date and Introduction
These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of RobertNikic.com, including its articles, photographs, videos, media references, press materials, and other content (collectively, the “Site”). By accessing the Site or submitting information through it, you agree to these Terms.
1. Personal Website
The Site is Robert Nikic’s personal website. It presents biographical, editorial, media, and public-interest content concerning Robert’s background, experiences, perspectives, appearances, and recognition.
The Site does not sell products or services, process payments, or provide subscriptions or user accounts.
2. Eligibility
The Site is intended for persons who are at least 18 years old. By accessing or using the Site, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age and that you have the legal capacity to enter into and be bound by these Terms.
If you do not meet this eligibility requirement, you may not access or use the Site.
3. Ownership of Site Content
Except for third-party material identified on the Site, Robert owns or controls the Site and its original content, including its text, articles, photographs, graphics, design, arrangement, logos, and other materials.
You may access and display the Site for personal, informational, and lawful purposes. No other right or license is granted except as expressly stated in these Terms.
4. Prohibited Uses
You may not:
- Copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, license, or exploit Site content without written permission.
- Remove or alter copyright, trademark, attribution, or proprietary notices.
- Misrepresent the source, authorship, meaning, or context of Site content.
- Use Site content to suggest Robert’s endorsement, sponsorship, approval, or affiliation without written permission.
- Interfere with the Site’s operation, security, or availability.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any account, system, database, or administrative area.
- Introduce malware, harmful code, automated requests, or excessive traffic.
- Scrape, crawl, data mine, harvest, index, collect, or extract Site content through automated means without written permission.
- Use Site content, data, or materials to develop, train, test, evaluate, or improve an artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model without written permission.
- Use the Site in violation of applicable law or another person’s rights.
5. Press Photographs and Logos
Photographs and Robert Nikic logos specifically identified on the Site as downloadable press assets may be used solely for accurate editorial reporting about Robert.
Any permitted use must:
- Preserve the required credit.
- Present the asset accurately and in context.
- Preserve the asset without alteration, recoloring, distortion, animation, added effects, or cropping. Proportional resizing is permitted.
- Comply with any instructions displayed with the asset.
Press assets may not be used in advertising, endorsements, merchandise, resale, sublicensing, or any manner suggesting Robert’s approval of another person, product, activity, or viewpoint. Robert may revoke this permission for any use that violates these Terms or creates a misleading association.
6. Media Coverage and Third-Party References
The Site may identify publications, programs, podcasts, events, organizations, awards, rankings, platforms, public figures, and other third parties in connection with Robert’s biography, appearances, recognition, or media coverage.
These references are descriptive and archival. They do not indicate sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, partnership, or approval unless the Site expressly states otherwise.
Media entries may use neutral, site-created titles or descriptions. Those descriptions are intended to identify the subject of the linked material and may differ from the publisher’s original headline.
All third-party names, marks, logos, images, articles, videos, and other materials remain the property of their respective owners. Their appearance on the Site does not transfer ownership to Robert or authorize visitors to reuse them.
7. External Articles and Linked Content
Links to external articles and websites are provided as references to materials published by third parties. Robert does not control those materials and does not adopt or guarantee their accuracy, completeness, characterization, continued availability, or suitability.
External materials may be revised, corrected, moved, restricted, or removed after the Site links to them. The Site’s description of linked material reflects the information available when the entry was prepared or most recently reviewed.
Robert may contact a publisher, investigate, clarify, annotate, restrict, correct, or remove a media entry if its title, description, attribution, rights status, or linked content becomes inaccurate, disputed, misleading, or unavailable.
8. Embedded Content
The Site may display videos, maps, or other material through features provided by third-party platforms. Embedded material remains hosted or controlled by the applicable platform or content provider and is subject to that party’s terms and practices. The applicable platform may change, restrict, or remove embedded material at any time without notice to Robert or to visitors of the Site.
You may not download, extract, reproduce, or redistribute embedded material through the Site unless the applicable rights holder expressly permits it.
9. Guest Contributions
If you submit an article or other material for possible publication through the Site’s contributor form, you retain any copyright you own in the submission.
By submitting material, you grant Robert a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual license to reproduce, edit, adapt, format, publish, display, distribute, archive, promote, and remove the submission, in whole or in part, in any media associated with the Site.
You represent and warrant that:
- You created the submission or have all rights required to submit and license it.
- The submission is accurate to the best of your knowledge.
- The submission does not infringe any copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, contractual, or other right.
- The submission does not contain unlawful, defamatory, deceptive, or malicious material.
- Any quotation, photograph, statistic, claim, or third-party material is properly authorized and attributed.
- You have disclosed any material connection relevant to the submission.
Submission does not guarantee publication. Robert may edit, decline, remove, archive, or stop displaying a contribution at any time. A contributor has no automatic right to require removal, although Robert may consider a written request.
10. Rights and Accuracy Complaints
If you believe Site material infringes your rights, misattributes your work, inaccurately describes linked material, or creates a misleading association, contact site@robertnikic.com.
Your notice should identify:
- The material at issue and its location on the Site.
- The right, statement, attribution, or association you dispute.
- The basis for your claim.
- Supporting information reasonably sufficient to evaluate the matter.
- Your name and contact information.
Robert may acknowledge the notice, investigate the matter, contact relevant publishers or rights holders, and temporarily restrict or remove disputed material while reviewing it. Submission of a notice does not guarantee any particular action or outcome.
11. Privacy, Site Availability, and Accuracy
Use of the Site is also subject to the Privacy Policy. By submitting information through the Site, you acknowledge that the information will be handled as described in that policy.
The Site is provided on an “as available” basis. Robert does not warrant that the Site will always be available, secure, error-free, or current.
Historical information, media descriptions, links, rankings, statistics, and third-party references may become outdated or may reflect information supplied by external sources. Robert may revise the Site at any time.
12. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Robert harmless from third-party claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, losses, and reasonable costs arising from:
- Material you submit through the Site.
- Your infringement or violation of another person’s rights.
- Your unlawful use of the Site.
- Your material violation of these Terms.
This section does not require indemnification for matters caused by Robert’s own unlawful conduct.
13. Arbitration Agreement
Informal Resolution. Before initiating arbitration, you and Robert must give the other party written notice describing the nature of the dispute and the requested resolution. Notices to Robert must be sent to site@robertnikic.com. The parties will have 30 days after receipt to attempt to resolve the dispute informally.
Individual Arbitration. Any dispute arising from or relating to the Site or these Terms that is not resolved informally will be resolved through binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under the rules AAA determines applicable. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this arbitration agreement. Florida law governs other questions concerning these Terms, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Pasco County, Florida is the legal seat of arbitration. Hearings may be conducted remotely or through another format permitted by the applicable AAA rules. If an in-person proceeding is required, it will occur in Pasco County, Florida, unless the parties agree otherwise.
Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim within the jurisdiction of small claims court or seek temporary or preliminary court relief concerning infringement, unauthorized access, misuse of intellectual property, or a threat to security while arbitration is pending. Any permitted court proceeding must be brought in a state or federal court with jurisdiction in Pasco County, Florida.
Class-Action Waiver. Disputes must be brought only in an individual capacity. Neither party may participate as a plaintiff, claimant, or class member in a class, collective, consolidated, mass, or representative proceeding.
Jury-Trial Waiver. To the extent a dispute is permitted to proceed in court, each party waives trial by jury to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Arbitration Opt-Out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing site@robertnikic.com within 30 days after you first affirmatively accept these Terms. The email must include your name, the email address used for the applicable submission, and a clear statement that you are opting out of arbitration. Opting out affects only this arbitration agreement and does not affect the remaining Terms.
Severability. If the class-action waiver is held unenforceable for a particular claim, that claim must proceed in court rather than in class arbitration. If another portion of this arbitration agreement is unenforceable, it will be severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will continue to apply.
14. Acceptance Through Forms, Changes, General Terms, and Contact
15. Acceptance Through Forms
The contact and contributor forms may require affirmative acceptance of these Terms. The acceptance notice and Terms link form part of the submission process. You may not submit a form if you do not agree to these Terms.
16. Changes to These Terms
Robert may update these Terms by posting a revised version on the Site and changing the effective date. Changes apply prospectively from the stated effective date.
17. General Terms
These Terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the complete terms governing use of the Site. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain effective. A failure to enforce a provision does not waive the right to enforce it later.
18. Contact
Questions, rights complaints, and legal notices concerning the Site may be sent to: site@robertnikic.com