1. Who We Are
The Hillbilly Media is an independent, for-profit news, public safety, community commentary, livestream, and media platform operated by TVOTT Hillbilly News LLC.
Our content may include reporting, scanner alerts, livestreams, public safety updates, community submissions, interviews, commentary, opinion, analysis, sponsor placements, ads, classifieds, and AI-assisted tools.
2. Acceptance of These Terms
By accessing or using this platform, you agree to follow these Terms, our Privacy Policy, AI Use Policy, Editorial Standards, comment rules, submission rules, and any additional platform guidelines we publish.
If you do not agree, do not use the website or related services.
3. Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old to use this platform. If you are under 18, you may use the platform only with permission from a parent or legal guardian.
4. Accounts and Security
- You are responsible for activity under your account.
- You agree not to share login credentials.
- You agree not to access another user’s account without permission.
- You agree not to attack, scrape, overload, hack, or abuse the platform.
- We may suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts at our discretion.
5. User Content and Submissions
You are responsible for anything you submit, upload, post, message, email, comment, send, or provide to The Hillbilly Media.
User content may include:
- Comments
- Tips
- Photos
- Videos
- Documents
- Scanner information
- Classified listings
- Messages
- Correction requests
- Right-of-reply statements
- Advertising or sponsorship material
6. License to Use Submitted Content
By submitting content to The Hillbilly Media, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, publish, edit, display, distribute, archive, quote, summarize, promote, livestream, broadcast, and share that content across our website, social media, livestreams, articles, videos, OBS overlays, newsletters, and related media channels.
We may edit submitted content for clarity, length, formatting, safety, legal risk, privacy, or editorial standards.
7. Community Rules
Public debate is allowed. Disagreement is allowed. Criticism of public officials is allowed. But there are lines.
You agree not to post or submit:
- Threats or calls for violence
- Doxxing or private personal information
- False accusations presented as fact
- Unverified names from scanner traffic
- Harassment, stalking, or targeted abuse
- Impersonation
- Spam, scams, malware, or phishing
- Content that interferes with active investigations or emergency responders
- Graphic or sensitive material without public-interest reason
8. Scanner Alerts, Live Maps, and OBS Systems
The Hillbilly Media may operate scanner alerts, live incident maps, OBS overlays, livestream feeds, automatic alert systems, and public awareness tools.
Scanner traffic is preliminary unless confirmed by officials. Scanner alerts may be incomplete, delayed, updated, corrected, or removed as more information becomes available.
9. News, Commentary, Opinion, and Public Statements
The platform may include factual reporting, developing information, public submissions, interviews, commentary, opinion, satire, analysis, and livestream discussion.
Statements made by guests, callers, commenters, sources, public officials, interviewees, advertisers, or third parties are their own and do not automatically represent the views of The Hillbilly Media.
The Hillbilly Media does not determine guilt or innocence. Anyone accused of a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
10. Editorial Control
We reserve full editorial discretion over what we publish, update, correct, remove, blur, crop, withhold, moderate, or decline.
We may edit or remove content for accuracy, safety, clarity, privacy, legal risk, community standards, or platform integrity.
11. Corrections and Right of Reply
If you believe something is factually wrong, contact us with the article link, the exact statement being challenged, and documentation supporting the correction.
If you are named or directly affected by coverage, you may request a fair response or right of reply. We may include that response in an update, follow-up, article note, or separate post depending on the situation.
12. AI and Automation
We may use AI and automation tools to help with article structure, spelling, grammar, summaries, scanner alert formatting, live map syncing, OBS overlays, moderation, SEO, social captions, and newsroom workflow.
AI does not replace human responsibility. The Hillbilly Media remains responsible for publishing decisions and editorial judgment.
For more details, review our AI Use Policy.
13. SMS, Email, Telnyx, and Alerts
If enabled, we may send email or SMS alerts using services such as Telnyx, email providers, webhook tools, or other communication systems.
By providing your phone number or email, you agree that we may contact you for the purpose you provided it, including alerts, tip follow-ups, account notices, advertising inquiries, or platform updates.
Standard message and data rates may apply. You may request removal from non-essential communications.
14. Advertising, Sponsors, and Classifieds
The platform may include ads, paid sponsor placements, classifieds, OBS scroller ads, article ads, livestream sponsorships, and promotional content.
Paid placements do not buy editorial control. Sponsored content or paid placements may be labeled where appropriate.
Advertisers are responsible for the accuracy and legality of their own ads, offers, claims, links, and business information.
15. Copyright and Intellectual Property
Original articles, branding, logos, graphics, videos, layouts, code, and platform materials belong to The Hillbilly Media unless otherwise stated.
You may share links and short excerpts with credit. You may not copy, scrape, republish, resell, or commercially reuse our content without permission.
16. Third-Party Links and Services
Our platform may include third-party links, embeds, maps, videos, payment tools, analytics, ads, SMS providers, social media widgets, livestream services, or external websites.
We are not responsible for third-party content, policies, outages, accuracy, security, or business practices.
17. No Professional Advice
Content on this platform is for informational, editorial, commentary, and public awareness purposes only.
Nothing here should be treated as legal, medical, financial, law enforcement, emergency, or professional advice.
18. Safety and Emergency Disclaimer
The Hillbilly Media is not an emergency service. Do not rely on our website, live map, scanner alerts, social media, livestreams, or SMS/email alerts as your only source of emergency information.
In an emergency, call 911 or the proper emergency authority.
19. Disclaimers
The platform is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE.” We do not guarantee that all content will be accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.
Developing stories, scanner alerts, user submissions, livestream comments, and third-party statements may change as new information becomes available.
20. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, The Hillbilly Media, The Hillbilly Media LLC, its owners, operators, contributors, contractors, and affiliates are not liable for damages arising from use of the platform, reliance on content, user submissions, scanner alerts, third-party services, ads, comments, livestreams, or technical failures.
21. Termination
We may suspend, restrict, remove, block, or terminate access to the platform at any time for abuse, legal risk, threats, spam, harassment, security issues, fraud, or violation of these Terms.
22. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms at any time. Continued use of the platform after updates means you accept the revised Terms.
23. Contact
For questions about these Terms, contact: [email protected]
You may also use our contact form.