OnlyGoodNews is a community newspaper for good news, personal moments, kindness and uplifting comics. These terms explain how you may use the service and what happens when you contribute.
1. About these terms
OnlyGoodNews, available at onlygoodnews.online, is operated by Halyard LLC. In these terms, “we” and “us” mean that operator.
By using the service or submitting content, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not submit content or use account features. Mandatory rights under applicable law are not limited by these terms.
2. Accounts and eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old to submit content or use AI writing assistance. Do not submit content on behalf of a child as a way to bypass this requirement.
You may submit as a guest or sign in with the supported account providers. Keep your account secure and provide information you are entitled to use. Publishing under “Anonymous” hides your public author name; it does not prevent us from associating a submission with its account or guest identifier.
Guest access depends on the browser session. Clearing browser data or losing access to your sign-in provider may prevent you from managing earlier submissions.
3. What you may submit
Submit content you created or have permission to publish, including permission for photographs, artwork, quotations and identifiable people where needed. You are responsible for your content and for any permissions it requires. Credit other creators accurately.
Do not submit sexual or exploitative content, graphic violence, hate, harassment, threats, unlawful material, spam, deceptive promotions, impersonation, or someone else’s sensitive or confidential information. Do not misrepresent invented or AI-generated material as a verified real event.
Respect the service’s technical limits and do not bypass moderation, submission budgets, security controls or queue rules.
4. Ownership and permission to publish
You retain your rights in the content you submit. You grant Halyard LLC a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to store, reproduce, resize, format, moderate and display that content, with your submitted credit or anonymous byline, as needed to operate OnlyGoodNews, its newspaper and public archive. You also allow us to provide links and previews so readers can share a published story.
Publishing to OnlyGoodNews’s own Facebook or Instagram accounts requires the social-sharing permission offered with that submission. The choice is on by default in the story editor and can be switched off before submitting. You can decline that choice without losing the ability to submit to the newspaper. A social-sharing permission covers the submitted content and credit, including reasonable formatting and caption changes.
When content is removed, we stop displaying it publicly through our service. Limited backup, security and legal records may remain as explained in the Privacy Policy. Copies made by readers or third-party platforms may remain outside our control.
5. AI checks, publication and queues
Submitted text and images are processed by automated AI moderation. We may send uncertain cases to a human editor, ask for changes, reject a submission or remove content. AI can make mistakes, and approval is not a guarantee of accuracy, ownership, safety or suitability.
Optional writing assistance provides suggestions you must review before accepting. You remain responsible for the wording you submit.
Publication is not guaranteed. Approved submissions enter the relevant position queues; comics use their own three positions. Display times and wait estimates are approximate. The usual six-hour minimum is a scheduling rule, not a promise of indefinite placement or a restriction on removing harmful content.
6. Reading, sharing and advertising
User submissions express their authors’ experiences and opinions. The service does not provide professional advice, and you should not rely on a story or an AI suggestion as medical, legal, financial or safety advice.
Reader sharing sends the selected content or link to the chosen platform under that platform’s terms. Advertising, when enabled, is labeled and separate from editorial content. An advertisement is not an endorsement by Halyard LLC.
7. Availability, changes and responsibility
The service is provided as available. We may change features, suspend abusive accounts, remove content or interrupt service for maintenance or security. We do not promise uninterrupted access or error-free content.
To the extent allowed by applicable law, we disclaim warranties that are not expressly stated here and are not responsible for losses caused by third-party content or services. Nothing in these terms excludes liability or consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.
We may update these terms and will revise the date on this page. Material changes that require notice or a new permission will be handled accordingly; a new social-sharing permission does not automatically apply to earlier submissions.
8. Questions, rights and complaints
Contact Halyard LLC at contact@halyard-tech.com.
For a content, copyright or privacy complaint, include the story link, the concern and enough information to identify your interest in the content. For account or personal-data deletion, follow the Data Deletion page. We may request reasonable information to verify ownership or authority. Do not send passwords, API tokens or identity documents in your initial message.
