content providermeans a user that has provided information that is, or that has been, stored and disseminated to the public by a hosting service provider;
dissemination to the publicmeans the making available of information, at the request of a content provider, to a potentially unlimited number of persons;
hosting service providermeans a provider of services as defined in point (b) of Article 1 of Directive (EU) 2015/1535 of the European Parliament and of the Council, consisting of the storage of information provided by and at the request of a content provider;
main establishmentmeans the head office or registered office of the hosting service provider within which the principal financial functions and operational control are exercised.
offering services in the Unionmeans enabling natural or legal persons in one or more Member States to use the services of a hosting service provider which has a substantial connection to that Member State or those Member States;
substantial connectionmeans the connection of a hosting service provider with one or more Member States resulting either from its establishment in the Union or from specific factual criteria, such as:
terms and conditionsmeans all terms, conditions and clauses, irrespective of their name or form, which govern the contractual relationship between a hosting service provider and its users;
terrorist contentmeans one or more of the following types of material, namely material that:
terrorist offencesmeans offences as defined in Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2017/541;