Terms of service

Welcome to HFN, formerly known as Hydrogen Fuel News. These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of HydrogenFuelNews.com & hydrogen.ngo, including our articles, newsletters, videos, press release services, sponsored content, advertising services, comments, forms, digital products, and any related website features or services.

For the purposes of these Terms, “HFN,” “Hydrogen Fuel News,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the operator of HydrogenFuelNews.com. “You” and “your” refer to any visitor, reader, subscriber, advertiser, contributor, press release customer, or other user of the website.

By accessing or using HydrogenFuelNews.com, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, you should not use the website or submit content, payments, personal information, or materials to HFN.

These Terms should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Editorial Standards & Feedback Policy, and any additional terms displayed on specific service, advertising, subscription, or press release pages.

1. About HFN

HFN is a hydrogen economy news, insight, and media platform serving professionals, companies, policymakers, investors, researchers, technology providers, and readers interested in hydrogen, clean energy, infrastructure, mobility, industrial decarbonization, policy, finance, and related sectors.

Our content may include news, analysis, interviews, explainers, market commentary, contributed articles, press releases, sponsored content, videos, newsletters, advertising, and third-party resources.

2. Use of the Website

You may use the website for lawful, personal, professional, informational, and non-commercial purposes, subject to these Terms.

You agree not to:

• Use the website for unlawful, fraudulent, misleading, abusive, or harmful purposes
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, accounts, databases, servers, or networks
• Interfere with the security, performance, or normal operation of the website
• Upload or transmit malware, viruses, spam, or harmful code
• Scrape, copy, harvest, crawl, data mine, or extract website content without written permission
• Use HFN content to train artificial intelligence models, large language models, datasets, or automated systems without written permission
• Republish, sell, syndicate, distribute, or commercially exploit HFN content without written permission
• Impersonate another person, company, publication, or organization
• Submit false, defamatory, infringing, misleading, or unlawful content
• Use the website to promote scams, deceptive investment schemes, unlawful products, or misleading claims

We reserve the right to suspend, restrict, block, or terminate access to the website if we believe a user has violated these Terms or applicable law.

3. Informational Content Only

HFN content is provided for general informational and editorial purposes only.

Nothing on the website should be considered financial, investment, legal, tax, engineering, technical, safety, regulatory, medical, or other professional advice. Hydrogen projects, clean energy investments, infrastructure decisions, industrial applications, and policy matters can involve significant technical, financial, legal, environmental, and safety considerations.

You should not rely solely on HFN content when making business, investment, regulatory, engineering, procurement, or operational decisions. Always consult qualified professionals, technical experts, legal advisers, financial advisers, or relevant authorities before making decisions based on information published on the website.

4. Accuracy of Content

We aim to provide accurate, timely, and useful information. However, the hydrogen economy is complex and fast-moving. Information may become outdated, incomplete, superseded, or subject to change.

We do not guarantee that any article, analysis, press release, sponsored content, advertisement, chart, figure, quote, forecast, project description, company statement, policy summary, or third-party material is complete, current, accurate, or suitable for your specific needs.

We may update, correct, edit, remove, archive, or revise content at any time without prior notice.

For correction requests, please contact:

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5. Editorial Independence

HFN may publish editorial content, contributed articles, press releases, sponsored content, advertisements, partner content, and other forms of paid or promotional material.

We aim to distinguish editorial content from paid, sponsored, promotional, or partner content where appropriate. Payment for advertising, sponsored content, or press release services does not guarantee favorable editorial coverage, independent news coverage, future coverage, rankings, traffic, leads, conversions, investment interest, regulatory outcomes, or business results.

HFN retains editorial discretion over what we publish, how content is presented, and whether submitted content is accepted, edited, rejected, labeled, removed, or updated.

6. Sponsored Content, Native Advertising, and Advertising

HFN may display advertisements, sponsored articles, paid placements, native advertising, affiliate links, promotional messages, partner content, newsletter sponsorships, and other commercial content.

Sponsored or paid content may be labeled using terms such as “Sponsored,” “Advertisement,” “Partner Content,” “Press Release,” “Promoted,” or similar language.

Advertisers, sponsors, agencies, contributors, and press release customers are responsible for ensuring that their claims, materials, links, media, testimonials, endorsements, and offers are truthful, substantiated, lawful, non-infringing, and not misleading.

HFN may reject, edit, remove, relabel, or decline to publish advertising or sponsored content at our discretion.

7. Press Releases and Paid Promotional Services

HFN may offer paid press release publication, sponsored article, promotional, advertising, newsletter, social media, video, SEO, or related media services.

When you submit a press release, sponsored article, advertisement, or promotional request, you represent and warrant that:

• You have the authority to submit the content on behalf of the named person, company, or organization
• The content is accurate, lawful, and not misleading
• The content does not infringe any copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, contractual, or other rights
• Any claims about products, services, technology, financing, partnerships, emissions, safety, certifications, investment opportunities, or performance are properly supported
• Any images, logos, videos, quotes, charts, or other assets you provide may lawfully be used by HFN
• Any testimonials or endorsements are honest, accurate, authorized, and properly disclosed where required
• The content does not contain malware, hidden tracking tools, unlawful promotions, defamatory statements, or prohibited material

HFN reserves the right to review, edit, format, optimize, reject, label, delay, remove, or decline any submitted content for editorial, legal, quality, technical, reputational, commercial, or policy reasons.

Submission or payment does not guarantee publication unless expressly stated in writing by HFN.

8. Publication Timing, Promotion, and Visibility

Any publication timelines, promotional features, homepage placement, newsletter inclusion, social media sharing, image creation, video creation, SEO services, or Google News-related services are subject to package terms, operational availability, editorial review, technical limitations, platform rules, and third-party systems.

HFN may make reasonable efforts to provide the services described on the relevant service page at the time of purchase. However, we do not guarantee:

• Search engine ranking
• Google News acceptance, indexing, placement, or visibility
• Social media reach or engagement
• Newsletter open rates or click-through rates
• Website traffic volume
• Lead generation
• Sales, investment, partnership, or media outcomes
• Permanent search visibility
• Continued third-party platform availability
• Specific business results

If a service page refers to “permanent article placement,” that means HFN does not intend to remove the article after a short promotional period. However, HFN may still remove, update, redirect, archive, or unpublish content for legal, editorial, technical, security, reputational, policy, or business reasons.

9. Payments, Pricing, and Refunds

Prices, packages, features, promotional offers, and availability may change at any time. The applicable price and service details are those displayed or agreed at the time of purchase, unless otherwise stated in writing.

You agree to provide accurate billing, payment, and contact information. You authorize HFN or its payment service providers to process payment for the services you purchase.

Unless otherwise stated on a specific service page or written agreement, all sales are final once work has begun, content has been reviewed, or publication has occurred.

Where HFN offers a satisfaction guarantee or refund policy for a specific service, that guarantee applies only according to the terms stated on the relevant service page at the time of purchase. HFN may require you to contact us within the stated guarantee period and may process refunds through the original payment method where possible.

HFN may refuse or cancel orders that appear fraudulent, unlawful, abusive, misleading, technically unsuitable, or inconsistent with our editorial or advertising standards.

10. User Submissions and License to HFN

If you submit articles, comments, press releases, sponsored content, images, logos, videos, documents, feedback, story tips, corrections, testimonials, or other materials to HFN, you retain any ownership rights you have in your submitted material.

However, by submitting material to HFN, you grant HFN a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, edit, publish, display, distribute, promote, archive, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works from, and otherwise use the material in connection with HFN’s website, newsletters, social media channels, video channels, promotional materials, advertising products, archives, and related services.

This license allows HFN to publish, format, optimize, promote, distribute, and preserve submitted content.

You are solely responsible for the materials you submit. HFN is not responsible for verifying ownership rights in user-submitted materials.

11. Comments and Community Features

HFN may allow comments or other user-generated content. We may moderate, edit, remove, approve, reject, disable, or close comments at our discretion.

You agree not to post comments or submissions that are:

• Abusive, threatening, harassing, hateful, discriminatory, or defamatory
• False, misleading, deceptive, or impersonating someone else
• Spam, advertising, link farming, or unrelated promotion
• Infringing of copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights
• Confidential, private, or sensitive information you are not authorized to share
• Malware, phishing, scams, or harmful code
• Otherwise unlawful or inappropriate

We are not obligated to monitor all comments, but we may do so. We are not responsible for user comments or third-party submissions.

12. Intellectual Property Rights

All HFN content, design, branding, logos, graphics, article text, layouts, photographs, illustrations, videos, audio, databases, software, newsletters, and other materials are owned by HFN or licensed to HFN, unless otherwise stated.

You may read, share links to, and quote short excerpts from HFN content for lawful commentary, research, or reference purposes, provided that you give appropriate credit and do not misrepresent the source.

You may not, without prior written permission:

• Copy full articles
• Republish HFN content on another website or platform
• Sell, license, or commercially exploit HFN content
• Remove copyright notices or attribution
• Use HFN branding in a misleading way
• Create competing databases, archives, newsletters, or AI training datasets using HFN content
• Use automated tools to scrape or extract content at scale

All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

For licensing, syndication, or republication requests, click here to contact us

13. Copyright Complaints and DMCA Notices

If you believe content on HFN infringes your copyright, you may submit a written notice to us.

Your notice should include:

• Your name and contact information
• Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed
• Identification of the material you claim is infringing, including the URL
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner
• Your physical or electronic signature

Copyright notices should be sent to:

webservice@hydrogenfuelnews.com

[Insert DMCA agent name and mailing address, if available]

HFN may remove or disable access to allegedly infringing material and may terminate repeat infringers where appropriate.

Before publishing this section, HFN should confirm whether it has registered a designated DMCA agent with the U.S. Copyright Office and should include the same agent information publicly on the website.

14. Trademarks

“HFN,” “Hydrogen Fuel News,” HydrogenFuelNews.com, and related names, logos, slogans, designs, and brand elements may be trademarks or service marks of HFN or its owners.

You may not use HFN trademarks, logos, or branding in a way that suggests sponsorship, endorsement, partnership, or affiliation without written permission.

All third-party trademarks, logos, company names, and product names appearing on the website belong to their respective owners. Their appearance on HFN does not imply endorsement by HFN unless expressly stated.

15. Third-Party Websites, Links, and Embedded Content

HFN may link to third-party websites, reports, videos, social media posts, company pages, government sources, academic publications, advertisers, sponsors, and other external resources.

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

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

16. Newsletters and Email Communications

If you subscribe to HFN newsletters or email updates, you agree to receive email communications from us.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the email or by click here to contact us

We may still send non-marketing messages related to transactions, service requests, press release submissions, legal notices, or administrative matters.

17. Privacy and Cookies

Your use of the website is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information.

HFN may use cookies, analytics tools, advertising technologies, email tools, payment processors, and other third-party services to operate and improve the website.

By using the website, you acknowledge that your information may be processed as described in our Privacy Policy.

18. Disclaimers

The website and all content, services, features, advertisements, and third-party materials are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, HFN disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, availability, security, and uninterrupted operation.

HFN does not warrant that:

• The website will always be available or error-free
• Content will always be accurate, current, or complete
• Defects will be corrected
• The website will be free of viruses or harmful components
• Advertising, sponsored content, or third-party links will be reliable or accurate
• Press release, SEO, newsletter, social, video, or promotional services will produce any specific outcome

Your use of the website is at your own risk.

19. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, HFN and its owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, contributors, editors, writers, advertisers, affiliates, service providers, and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, or similar damages arising from or related to your use of the website or services.

This includes, without limitation, damages for lost profits, lost revenue, loss of business opportunity, loss of data, reputational harm, investment losses, project delays, procurement decisions, reliance on content, technical failures, advertising outcomes, or third-party actions.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, HFN’s total liability for any claim related to the website or services will not exceed the amount you paid to HFN for the specific service giving rise to the claim, or USD $100, whichever is greater.

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

20. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless HFN and its owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, contributors, editors, writers, advertisers, affiliates, service providers, and licensors from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from or related to:

• Your use of the website
• Your violation of these Terms
• Your submitted content
• Your press release, sponsored content, advertisement, or promotional materials
• Your violation of any law or regulation
• Your infringement of intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights
• Claims made by third parties regarding materials you submitted or requested HFN to publish

21. Suspension, Removal, and Termination

HFN may suspend, restrict, block, remove, or terminate access to the website or any service at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms, applicable law, our editorial standards, or the rights of HFN or others.

We may also remove, update, redirect, archive, or unpublish content for legal, editorial, technical, security, business, or reputational reasons.

Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination will continue to apply, including intellectual property, user submissions, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, and governing law.

22. Changes to the Website or Services

HFN may modify, suspend, discontinue, replace, or remove any part of the website or services at any time without notice.

We may also change article formats, advertising products, newsletter offerings, press release packages, prices, promotional features, website functionality, or content categories.

We are not liable for any modification, suspension, discontinuation, or removal of website features or services.

23. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.

Your continued use of the website after updated Terms are posted means you accept the revised Terms.

If changes are material, we may provide additional notice where appropriate, but we are not required to do so unless required by law.

24. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of [Insert State / Jurisdiction], without regard to conflict of law principles.

Before publishing, HFN should replace this placeholder with the correct legal jurisdiction based on the company’s legal entity, operating location, and legal advice. “United States” alone is usually not specific enough because U.S. contract law is generally state-based.

25. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

Please review this section carefully. It may affect your legal rights.

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the website, HFN content, paid services, advertising services, press release services, or your relationship with HFN will first be addressed through good-faith informal resolution.

Before filing a claim, you agree to click here to contact us

Your notice should include your name, contact information, a description of the dispute, the relief requested, and any relevant supporting information. HFN will attempt to resolve the dispute informally.

If the dispute cannot be resolved informally, the dispute will be resolved by binding arbitration rather than in court, except where applicable law allows you to bring a claim in small claims court or where arbitration is prohibited by law.

The arbitration will be conducted in [Insert County, State, or remote/online arbitration option] under the rules of [Insert arbitration provider, such as AAA or JAMS, after legal review].

You and HFN agree that disputes will be handled individually. You agree not to bring or participate in a class action, class arbitration, collective action, private attorney general action, or representative action against HFN, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Nothing in this section prevents HFN from seeking injunctive or equitable relief in court to protect its intellectual property, confidential information, website security, business operations, or rights.

This arbitration section should be reviewed by legal counsel before publication, especially because arbitration, class action waivers, consumer rights, and notice requirements vary by jurisdiction.

26. International Users

HFN is operated from the United States Of America (USA). If you access the website from outside that location, you are responsible for complying with local laws.

We make no representation that the website, content, advertising, or services are appropriate or available in every country or jurisdiction.

27. Force Majeure

HFN will not be liable for delays, failures, or interruptions caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including natural disasters, power outages, internet failures, cyberattacks, labor disputes, platform outages, payment processor issues, hosting failures, government actions, war, terrorism, pandemics, supply chain disruptions, or other events outside our control.

28. No Waiver

If HFN does not enforce a provision of these Terms, that does not mean we waive our right to enforce that provision later.

29. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

30. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, Editorial Standards & Feedback Policy, and any additional written terms for specific services, form the entire agreement between you and HFN regarding your use of the website and services.

31. Contact Us

For questions about these Terms, contact:

HFN / Hydrogen Fuel News

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Website: HydrogenFuelNews.com. hydrogen.ngo

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Last updated: 19 Jun 2026