These Terms of Service govern your use of featuringdesk.com, published by 24World Media. By accessing or using the site you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy, Corrections policy and Code of Ethics as they apply to readers. If you do not agree, do not use the site. The effective date of these terms is 10 October 2026. We may revise the terms; the version published on this page at the time of your use applies, and continued use after a revision takes effect constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.
The service
Featuring Desk provides digital news, features, explainers and video pages across World, Politics, Business, Technology, Sports, Entertainment, Health, Science and Video. Standard reading is offered free of charge. We may add, remove, suspend or change sections, formats or facilities, and we may maintain the site in a way that temporarily interrupts access. Publication of a story does not promise its permanent availability; stories may be corrected, updated, clarified or, exceptionally, withdrawn with notice in accordance with our Corrections policy.
Author archives, category fronts and search are provided to help readers find published material. Desk bylines identify the responsible newsroom desk. The existence of an archive does not create a right to demand coverage, removal of accurate reporting or favourable treatment.
Intellectual property and permitted use
Unless otherwise stated, article text, headlines, page design and site branding on Featuring Desk are protected by copyright and other rights held by 24World Media or its licensors. You may read, share links to and quote brief excerpts from stories for personal, educational or review purposes with clear attribution to Featuring Desk and a link to the original address, provided the quotation does not substitute for reading the original and is not presented as your own reporting. Systematic copying, scraping, bulk republication, commercial syndication and removal of attribution require prior written permission.
Featured images are individually licensed, principally under Creative Commons and public-domain terms recorded in each attachment description. Your rights in an image are those granted by its stated licence, not by these terms, and you must honour attribution and share-alike conditions where they apply. Trademarks, logos and network names may not be used to imply endorsement. If you believe material on the site infringes your rights, notify us through the Contact page with precise identification so that we can review and act.
Reader conduct and submissions
You agree not to use the site unlawfully, to harass or impersonate any person, to submit false corrections or fraudulent rights claims, to attempt to gain unauthorised access, to interfere with security or caching, to introduce malicious code, or to harvest addresses or content for bulk messaging. Contact-form messages, tips and comments facilities, where enabled, must be relevant and lawful. By submitting a tip, correction or enquiry you confirm that you are entitled to share it and you grant us permission to use it for editorial assessment and response; you retain ownership of original material you own, but we are not obliged to publish submissions or to pay for them.
We may moderate, decline or remove submissions that breach these terms, without creating an obligation to monitor all correspondence in advance. Abusive or automated submissions may be filtered. Accounts, where any registration facility exists, must not be created to evade these rules; public registration is currently disabled on this site.
Accuracy, advice and external material
Featuring Desk works to verify reporting as described in our editorial standards, but news develops and no story can guarantee future events, market movements, health outcomes or research replication. Business and market coverage is information, not investment advice. Health and science coverage is information, not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and readers should consult qualified professionals about personal decisions. Stories describe study findings as researchers report them, with limits noted; inclusion of a study is not endorsement of its conclusions.
The site links to and embeds third-party material, including YouTube videos served under that service’s terms. We are not responsible for third-party content, availability or practices. An embed or link does not transfer copyright, and downloading or re-uploading embedded videos is prohibited by the host’s terms and, where applicable, by law.
Advertising and commercial separation
Advertising and any sponsored material are labelled and separated from editorial as described on the Advertise page. The presence of an advertisement is not an endorsement by Featuring Desk of the advertiser’s products, and advertisers acquire no right to influence reporting. Prices, offers and claims in advertisements are the advertiser’s responsibility. Featuring Desk may refuse or remove advertising that is unlawful, indecent, misleading or incompatible with reader trust.
Nothing in reader use of the free site creates a client, advisory or fiduciary relationship. Separate written terms govern syndication, advertising bookings and any paid services.
Liability, governing law and contact
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the site is provided as available, without warranties that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or that every statement in developing coverage will remain complete as events unfold. Our liability for losses arising from use of the free news service is limited as permitted by applicable law; nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence or for fraud. You are responsible for how you act on information you read, including verifying material decisions against primary sources and professional advice.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules that would require another state’s law, and disputes will be subject to the competent courts serving the publisher’s location, unless applicable consumer law gives you a different mandatory forum. If any provision is held invalid, the remaining provisions continue in effect. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.
Featuring Desk is published by 24World Media, 1411 N Sterling Ave, Palatine, IL 60067. Questions about these terms should be sent through the Contact page, selecting the relevant subject, or to [email protected] for general enquiries. These terms were effective on 10 October 2026.
Availability, linking and framing
You may link to any public page on Featuring Desk. Framing our pages inside another site in a way that hides their origin, strips advertising or attribution, or suggests that our reporting is the framing site’s own work is prohibited without written permission. Search engines and social platforms may index and preview public pages in accordance with their normal operation and our robots and sharing settings; that permission does not extend to bulk downloading of the archive for republication or model training, which requires a licence. If you train, fine-tune or evaluate automated systems, do not use Featuring Desk content beyond what applicable law and any licence you hold clearly permit, and respect attribution and image licences in any output that reproduces our material.
We may suspend or restrict access for addresses or networks engaged in attacks, excessive automated harvesting or repeated breaches of these terms, without notice where immediate action is needed to protect the service. Such technical measures are directed at abuse, not at readers who merely criticise our reporting; criticism, linking and fair quotation remain welcome however robustly expressed.
Severability, entire agreement and notices
These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any written booking or licence terms that apply to a specific commercial relationship, form the entire agreement for the relevant use. Oral assurances by individual reporters about republication, removal or commercial terms do not bind Featuring Desk; editorial and commercial permissions must be confirmed in writing by the responsible editor or representative to be effective. Notices to Featuring Desk under these terms should be sent through the Contact page with a clear subject so that they are routed as legal or rights notices where appropriate, and are not complete until received by the responsible desk.
Headings in these terms are for convenience only. References to sections, desks and providers describe how the site operated at the effective date and may be updated as the service evolves; a change in provider or internal desk name does not by itself change your rights. Readers who require the terms as they stood at a particular date for a dispute should save a copy at the time of the relevant use, as only the current version is maintained at this address.
