MUSIC
MERCENARIES TERMS OF USE
1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Music Mercenaries provides
a collection of online resources, including classified ads and forums
(referred to hereafter as "the Service") subject to the following
Terms of Use ("TOU"). By using the Service in any way, you
are agreeing to comply with the TOU. In addition, when using particular
Music Mercenaries services, you agree to abide by any applicable posted
guidelines for all Music Mercenaries services, which may change at any
time. Should you object to any term or condition of the TOU, any guidelines,
or any subsequent
modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with Music Mercenaries
in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of
Music Mercenaries. Music Mercenaries has the right, but is not obligated,
to strictly enforce the TOU through self-help, community moderation,
active investigation, litigation and prosecution.
2. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS
AGREEMENT
We reserve the right, at
our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter these terms
and conditions at any time. Such modifications shall become effective
immediately upon the posting thereof. You must review this agreement
on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised of any changes.
3. CONTENT
You understand that all
postings, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, or other
materials ("Content") posted on, transmitted through, or linked
from the Service, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom
such Content originated. More specifically, you are entirely responsible
for each individual item ("Item") of Content that you post,
email or otherwise make available via the Service. You understand that
Music Mercenaries does not control, and is not responsible for Content
made available through this Service, and that by using the Service,
you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate,
misleading, or otherwise objectionable. Furthermore, this Music Mercenaries
site and Content available through the Service may contain links to
other websites, which are completely independent of Music Mercenaries.
Music Mercenaries makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy,
completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any such
site. Your linking to any other webites is at your own risk. You agree
that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use
of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and that under
no circumstances will Music Mercenaries be liable in any way for any
Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of
the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available via
the Service. You acknowledge that Music Mercenaries
does not pre-screen or approve Content, but that Music Mercenaries shall
have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse,
delete or move any Content that is available via the Service, for violating
the letter or spirit of the TOU or for any other reason.
4. THIRD PARTY CONTENT,
SITES, AND SERVICES
The Music Mercenaries site
and Content available through the Service may contain features and functionalities
that may link you or provide you with access to third party content
which is completely independent of Music Mercenaries, including web
sites, directories, servers, networks, systems, information and databases,
applications, software, programs, products or services, and the Internet
as a whole.
Your interactions with
organizations and/or individuals found on or through the Service, including
payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions,
warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely
between you and such organizations and/or individuals. You should make
whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding
with any online or offline transaction with any of these third parties.
You agree that Music Mercenaries
shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort
incurred as the result of any such dealings. If there is a dispute between
participants on this site, or between users and any third party, you
understand and agree that Music Mercenaries is under no obligation to
become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more
other users, you hereby release Music Mercenaries, its officers, employees,
agents and successors in rights from claims, demands and damages (actual
and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected
and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any
way related to such disputes and / or our service.
5. CONDUCT
You agree not to post,
email, or otherwise make available Content:
a) that is unlawful, harmful,
threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive of another's
privacy, or is harmful to minors in any way;
b) that is pornographic
or depicts a human being engaged in actual sexual conduct including
but not limited to sexual intercourse, including
genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between
persons of the same or opposite sex, or bestiality, or masturbation,
or sadistic or masochistic abuse, or lascivious exhibition of the genitals
or pubic area of any person;
c) that harasses, degrades,
intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals
on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity,
age, or disability;
d) that violates federal,
state, or local equal employment opportunity laws, including but not
limited to, stating in any advertisement for employment a preference
or requirement based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin,
age, or disability.
e) with respect to employers
that employ four or more employees, that violates the anti-discrimination
provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act, including requiring
U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency (green card status) as
a condition for employment, unless otherwise required in order to comply
with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government
contract.
f) that impersonates any
person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Music Mercenaries
employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation
with a person or entity (this provision does not apply to Content that
constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody of public figures.);
g) that includes personal
or identifying information about another person without that person's
explicit consent;
h) that is false, deceptive,
misleading, deceitful, misinformative, or constitutes "bait and
switch";
i) that infringes any patent,
trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any
party, or Content that you do not have a right to make available under
any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
j) that constitutes or
contains "affiliate marketing," "link referral code,"
"junk mail," "spam," "chain letters,"
"pyramid schemes," or unsolicited commercial advertisement;
k) that constitutes or
contains any form of advertising or solicitation if: posted in areas
of the Music Mercenaries sites which are not designated for such purposes;
or emailed to Music Mercenaries users who have not indicated in writing
that it is ok to contact them about other services, products or commercial
interests.
l) that includes links
to commercial services or web sites, except as allowed in "services";
m) that advertises any
illegal service or the sale of any items the sale of which is prohibited
or restricted by any applicable law, including without limitation items
the sale of which is prohibited or regulated by California law.
n) that contains software
viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt,
destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware
or telecommunications equipment;
o) that disrupts the normal
flow of dialogue with an excessive amount of Content (flooding attack)
to the Service, or that otherwise negatively affects other users' ability
to use the Service; or
p) that employs misleading
email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers
in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Service.
Additionally, you agree
not to:
q) contact anyone who has
asked not to be contacted, or make unsolicited contact with anyone for
any commercial purpose;
r) "stalk" or
otherwise harass anyone;
s) collect personal data
about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes;
t) use automated means,
including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like
to download data from the Service unless expressly permitted by Music
Mercenaries;
u) post non-local or otherwise
irrelevant Content, repeatedly post the same or similar Content or otherwise
impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
v) post the same item or
service in more than one classified category or forum;
w) attempt to gain unauthorized
access to Music Mercenaries computer systems or engage in any activity
that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance
of, or impairs the functionality of, the Service or the Music Mercenaries
website; or
x) use any form of automated
device or computer program that enables the submission of postings on
Music Mercenaries without each posting being manually entered by the
author thereof (an "automated posting device"), including
without limitation, the use of any such automated posting device to
submit postings in bulk, or for automatic submission of postings at
regular intervals.
y) use any form of automated
device or computer program ("flagging tool"); (an "automated
flagging device"), or use the flagging tool to remove posts of
competitors, or to remove posts without a good faith belief that the
post being flagged violates these TOU;
6. PRIVACY AND INFORMATION
DISCLOSURE
Music Mercenaries has established
a Privacy Policy to explain to users how their information is collected
and used.
Your use of the Music Mercenaries
website or the Service signifies acknowledgement of and agreement to
our Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge and agree that Music Mercenaries
may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose your Content, as well
as your information, such as email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps,
and other user information, if required to do so by law or in the good
faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary
to: comply with legal process; enforce the TOU; respond to claims that
any Content violates the rights of third-parties; respond to claims
that contact information (e.g. phone number, street address) of a third-party
has been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of
harassment; protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Music
Mercenaries, its users or the general public. Music Mercenaries will
not sell users information to other entities.
7. NO SPAM POLICY
You understand and agree
that sending unsolicited email advertisements to Music Mercenaries email
addresses or through Music Mercenaries computer systems, which is expressly
prohibited by these Terms. Any unauthorized use of Music Mercenaries
computer systems is a violation of these Terms and certain federal and
state laws, including without limitation the Computer Fraud and Abuse
Act
(18 U.S.C. § 1030 et seq.) Such violations may subject the
sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties
8. PAID
POSTINGS
We may charge a fee to
post Content in some areas of the Service. The fee is an access fee
permitting Content to be posted in a designated area. Each party posting
Content to the Service is responsible for said Content and compliance
with the TOU. All fees paid will be non-refundable in the event that
Content is removed from the Service for violating the TOU.
9. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE
You acknowledge that Music
Mercenaries may establish limits concerning use of the Service, including
the maximum number of days that Content will be retained by the Service,
the maximum number and size of postings, email messages, or other Content
that may be transmitted or stored by the Service, and the frequency
with which you may access the Service. You agree that Music Mercenaries
has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store
any Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge
that
Music Mercenaries reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue
the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that Music
Mercenaries shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any
modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.
10. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE
Music Mercenaries grants
you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access the Service
for your own personal use. This license does not include: (a) access
to the Service by Posting Agents; or (b) any collection, aggregation,
copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Service nor any
use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction
tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted by Music Mercenaries.
A limited exception to (b) is provided to general purpose internet search
engines and non-commercial
public archives that use such tools to gather information for the sole
purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the Service, provided they each
do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses using an easily
identifiable agent and comply with our robots.txt file. "General
purpose internet search engine" does not include a website or search
engine or other service that specializes in classified listings or in
any subset of classifieds listings such as jobs, housing, for sale,
services, or personals, or which is in the business of providing classified
ad listing services.
Music Mercenaries permits
you to display on your website, or create a hyperlink on your website
to, individual postings on the Service so long as such use is for noncommercial
and/or news reporting purposes only (e.g., for use in personal web blogs
or personal online media). If the total number of such postings displayed
or linked to on your website exceeds one hundred (100) postings, your
use will be presumed to be in violation of the TOU, absent express permission
granted by Music Mercenaries to do so. You may also create a hyperlink
to the
home page of Music Mercenaries sites so long as the link does not portray
Music Mercenaries, its employees, or its affiliates in a false, misleading,
derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter.
Use of the Service beyond
the scope of authorized access granted to you by Music Mercenaries immediately
terminates said permission or license. In order to collect, aggregate,
copy, duplicate, display or make derivative use of the the Service or
any Content made available via the Service for other purposes (including
commercial purposes) not stated herein, you must first obtain a license
from Music Mercenaries.
11. TERMINATION OF SERVICE
You agree that Music Mercenaries,
in its sole discretion, has the right (but not the obligation) to delete
or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise
terminate your access to or use of the Service (or any part thereof),
immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any Content within
the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, if Music
Mercenaries believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter
or spirit of the TOU. Further, you agree that Music Mercenaries shall
not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your
access to the Service. Further, you agree not to attempt to use the
Service after said termination.
12. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
The Service is protected
to the maximum extent permitted by copyright laws and international
treaties. Content displayed on or through the Service is protected by
copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights
laws, and international conventions. Any reproduction, modification,
creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the site or the
collective work, and/or copying or reproducing the sites or any portion
thereof to any other server or location for further reproduction or
redistribution is prohibited without the express written consent of
Music Mercenaries. You further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or
copy Content from the Service without the express written consent of
Music Mercenaries, and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices
displayed on the Service. You may not decompile or disassemble, reverse
engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained
in the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce,
duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes,
any aspect of the Service.
Although Music Mercenaries
does not claim ownership of content that its users post, by posting
Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant,
and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Music
Mercenaries an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide
license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content
and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works,
said Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses (through multiple
tiers) of the foregoing. Furthermore, by posting Content to any public
area of the Service, you automatically grant Music Mercenaries all rights
necessary to prohibit any
subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction,
or exploitation of the Content on the Service by any party for any purpose.
13. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE
MUSIC MERCENARIES SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
THE MUSIC MERCENARIES SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS
IS" OR "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF
ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION,
THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
LAW. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MUSIC MERCENARIES DISCLAIMS
ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY,
AND PERFORMANCE OF THE MUSIC MERCENARIES SITE AND THE SERVICE. TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MUSIC MERCENARIES DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES
FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE MUSIC
MERCENARIES SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS
ON THE MUSIC MERCENARIES SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW,
MUSIC MERCENARIES DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR
VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE MUSIC MERCENARIES
SITE OR THE SERVICE. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer
of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing
disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to implied warranties.
14. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES
SHALL MUSIC MERCENARIES BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF MUSIC MERCENARIES
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM
ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE MUSIC MERCENARIES SITE OR THE SERVICE,
WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE MUSIC MERCENARIES
SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE MUSIC MERCENARIES SITE
OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION,
OR TERMINATION OF THE MUSIC MERCENARIES SITE OR THE SERVICE. SUCH LIMITATION
SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER
SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH
THE MUSIC MERCENARIES SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE MUSIC
MERCENARIES SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE
RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE MUSIC MERCENARIES
SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE MUSIC MERCENARIES SITE. THESE
LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. In some
jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted. In such jurisdictions,
some of the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.
15. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify
and hold Music Mercenaries its officers, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors,
assigns, directors, officers, agents, service providers, suppliers and
employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney
fees and court costs, made by any third party due to or arising out
of Content you submit, post or make available through the Service, your
use of the Service, your violation of the TOU, your breach of any of
the representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any
rights of another.
16. GENERAL INFORMATION
The TOU constitute the
entire agreement between you and Music Mercenaries and govern your use
of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and Music
Mercenaries. The TOU and the relationship between you and Music Mercenaries
shall be governed by the laws of the State of Missouri without regard
to its conflict of law provisions. You and Music Mercenaries agree to
submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located
within the county of St. Charles, Missouri. The failure of Music Mercenaries
to
exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TOU shall not constitute
a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOU is
found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties
nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to
the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other
provisions of the TOU remain in full force and effect. You agree that
regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause
of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the TOU
must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action
arose or be forever barred.
17. VIOLATION OF TERMS
AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES
Our failure to act with
respect to a breach by you or others does not waive our
right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
You understand and agree
that, because damages are often difficult to quantify, if it becomes
necessary for Music Mercenaries to pursue legal action to enforce these
Terms, you will be liable to pay Music Mercenaries the following amounts
as liquidated damages, which you accept as reasonable estimates of Music
Mercenaries' damages for the specified breaches of these Terms:
a. If you post a message
that (1) impersonates any person or entity; (2) falsely states or otherwise
misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity; or (3) that
includes personal or identifying information about another person without
that person's explicit consent, you agree to pay Music Mercenaries one
thousand dollars ($1,000) for each such message. This provision does
not apply to Content that constitutes lawful non-deceptive parody of
public figures.
b. If Music Mercenaries
establishes limits on the frequency with which you may access the Service,
or terminates your access to or use of the Service, you agree to pay
Music Mercenaries one hundred dollars ($100) for each message posted
in excess of such limits or for each day on which you access Music Mercenaries
in excess of such limits, whichever is higher.
c. If you send unsolicited
email advertisements to Music Mercenaries email addresses or through
Music Mercenaries computer systems, you agree to pay Music Mercenaries
twenty five dollars ($25) for each such email.
d. If you post Content
in violation of the TOU, other than as described above, you agree to
pay Music Mercenaries one hundred dollars ($100) for each Item of Content
posted. In its sole discretion, Music Mercenaries may elect to issue
a warning before assessing damages.
e. If you aggregate, display,
copy, duplicate, reproduce, or otherwise exploit for any purpose any
Content (except for your own Content) in violation of these Terms without
Music Mercenaries express written permission, you agree to pay Music
Mercenaries three thousand dollars ($3,000) for each day on which you
engage in such conduct.
Otherwise, you agree to
pay Music Mercenaries' actual damages, to the extent such actual damages
can be reasonably calculated. Notwithstanding any other provision of
these Terms, Music Mercenaries retains the right to seek the remedy
of specific performance of any term contained in these Terms, or a preliminary
or permanent injunction against the breach of any such term or in aid
of the exercise of any power granted in these Terms, or any combination
thereof.
18. FEEDBACK
We welcome your questions
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