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Music Cleveland

User Agreement

 Updated 01/01/08

 Welcome to Music Cleveland!  A site dedicated to the interest of Artist and Musicians in the Music Entertainment Industry.  We look forward to having you as part of our family and hope you enjoy the services offered.  We look forward to your involvement with Music Cleveland.  Before you begin, please take a moment to review this Member User Agreement.  By joining our community, you are agreeing to comply with the following terms of service.  Please review the following terms carefully as outlined below.  It is important that you understand the benefits Music Cleveland can provide, as well as our limitations.  The terms “Music Cleveland”, “us” or “our” refers to Music Cleveland.com, the legal name of this web site.  The term “you”, “your”, “user”, or “member”, refers to you, the viewer or user of this website, Music Cleveland.com.   The agreement is an agreement between you and Music Cleveland.com, and furthermore applies to all websites owned or operated by Music Cleveland or Music Cleveland.com

1. Acceptance of Agreement

Any interaction between you and this site signifies your acceptance of the “Terms and Conditions” of this user agreement.  When you complete the membership process you are a member and agree to comply with the “Terms and Conditions” as outlined in this “User Agreement”.  This agreement may be updated from time to time without any specific notice to you and supersedes any previous or prior agreement which was provided at our site.  You are urged to review this agreement periodically as it will always be available for viewing at our site.  Continued use of our site from you would indicate acceptance to any changes made to our “User Agreement”.

2. Third Party Content/Sites

Third party provider content may be accessible through our site, either as a link to or, material may appear on our site, and may be available for use by the user.  The use of any third party provider services is subject to the terms given or posted by these third party providers.  Music Cleveland is not responsible for any content, changes to, mistakes or accessible links of any third party content and assumes no liability as we have no control over third party content.  Links are provided only as a courtesy to our customers and/or members of Music Cleveland.  Third party site content represents their opinions and thoughts and is neither endorsed by or does it reflect our belief.  You are aware that we do not operate or have control over any third party services or products and imply no warranties of such use.   Any accepted third party offer that you opt for will by subject to the terms, rules or regulations of the third party site(s) and will signify an agreement between you and the respective third party(s).  Any interaction with any third party site(s) is at your sole discretion, and at your own risk.

3. Age Restriction

Music Cleveland was not developed for, or intended to be used by children or persons under 13 years of age.  Music Cleveland does not knowingly collect information from persons under 13 years of age.  Music Cleveland requires minors between the ages of 13 and 17 to obtain specific permission from a parent or legal guardian before subscribing to any or our services or making any purchases.   Any question about Music Cleveland services, products or its content should be emailed to info@musiccleveland.com.

4. Service Interruption

We are dedicated to providing you with uninterrupted access to our site.  Even with the best of intent, we cannot always foresee or anticipate technical problems or other problems that may contribute to unforeseen difficulties.  These problems, if they arise, may present problems such as loss of data, problems with personal settings, or other operating service interruptions out of our control.  Music Cleveland does not assume any responsibility for loss of user data, personalization settings or any other problems which could arise out of, and including any communication problems on our site(s) or any third party provider sites.  For this reason, any interaction or service provided is provided “As Is”.

5. User Discontinuance

Music Cleveland reserves the right to terminate, change, discontinue or suspend, temporarily or permanently, your ability to access or interact with our web site(s) at anytime, and without any notice.   Furthermore, you agree that Music Cleveland will not be held for any liable regarding any interruption or discontinuance of any third party provider site(s) or service(s).

6. Monitoring

We strive to provide a safe and enjoyable online experience for our members and users.  At our discretion we may monitor activity on our website(s) including but not limited to, story boards, message boards, profiles, personal messages or comments conducted on our website(s) to comply with laws, regulations and this user agreement to which you have agreed.  We also ask that you report or bring to our attention anyone who is not following established guidelines or suggest any actions deemed inappropriate or unethical.  We do not imply any warranties to content on our site(s) or any third party provider site(s) and you agree that we can not be held liable for any such content. 

7. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy states in full our policy regarding how we handle information that we automatically collect about you or that you choose to submit to us.  Your use of this site or its services signifies your acceptance of and consent to the information practices outlined in our Privacy Policy.

8. User Guidelines

To comply with applicable laws and regulations, Music Cleveland has some basic guidelines that apply to all users and members which must be adhered and agreed to.  We hope you find these guidelines acceptable as we aim to make this site an enjoyable experience for all users and members of Music Cleveland.   However, if we feel any of the following guidelines have been violated or have reasonable just cause to assume, Music Cleveland at its discretion, may deny access, suspend or terminate your account or membership at any time deemed necessary.  For this reason, please read and follow the guidelines carefully.

  1. Users/Members shall not knowingly provide any information that is false, misleading or inaccurate.
  2. If you are under the age of 13 you are strictly prohibited from using, registering, submitting information or becoming a member of this site.  Music Cleveland will not knowingly collect any information from persons under 13 years of age.  Any information submitted by such users may be not knowingly be used, submitted or posted by Music Cleveland.
  3. Users/Members shall not use any information obtained from Music Cleveland for unlawful purposes.  Users/Members furthermore must comply with all applicable local, domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances or regulations that apply.
  4. This website is intended for your personal use.  Others, to whom you have granted use or have provided access to, become your responsibility.  To imitate, pretend, or impersonate to be someone other than you is strictly prohibited when using this site.
  5. You agree not to use this site or any of its services for any illegal purposes, or for transmitting material that is deemed unlawful, harassing, harmful, threatening, abusive, obscene, sexually explicit, vulgar, libelous, defamatory, hateful, racially motivated, or unethical, or otherwise objectionable, including  invading another’s privacy , or that which infringes the copyrights (the legal owner of written material), or the intellectual property rights of others.
  6. Users/Members are not to provide or post on or through our site any text, graphics, photographs, images, video, audio or any other material which constitutes junk mail, spam, advertisements or any form of commercial solicitation.
  7. Users/Member agree not to modify, translate, edit, adapt, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or interfere with any of the programs or software used by this site or any third party provider sites or interfere with another persons use of this site.
  8. Users/Members shall not claim to be sponsored by, backed by, endorsed by, or otherwise affiliated with Music Cleveland if such claims do not legally exist. 

9.  User Content

You agree and acknowledge that Music Cleveland, affiliate(s) or site(s) do not endorse the content of any its user(s), and will not be held accountable, responsible or liable for any content, harmful or otherwise damaging, or services used for any illegal purposes, or for transmitting material that is deemed unlawful, harassing, harmful, threatening, abusive, obscene, sexually explicit, vulgar, libelous, defamatory, hateful, racially motivated, or unethical, or otherwise objectionable, including invading another’s privacy , or that which infringes the copyrights (the legal owner of written material), or the intellectual property rights of others.  Furthermore, you are aware and acknowledge that Music Cleveland can at anytime without notice and at their discretion, edit, remove, delete, or otherwise move any content or material from its site(s) or affiliated site(s) without being held accountable or liable for such actions.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties

You acknowledge that you are using this website at your own risk.  This website is provided “As Is” and “As Available” basis.  Music Cleveland, or any of its affiliates, hereby expressly disclaim any and all warranties, expressed or implied, including but not limited to, any warranties of reliability, accuracy, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement, or any other warranty, condition, guarantee or representation, whether oral, in writing, or in electronic form, including but limited to, the accuracy or completeness of any information contained therein or provided by our site.  Music Cleveland makes no warranty that services or products will meet your requirements or that the products, services or content obtained from or through Music Cleveland or its third party providers will meet your expectations.   Music Cleveland does not warrant any lost emails, communication difficulties, software problems of any kind, nor recognizes any warrantable liability for service interruption, failures, errors, omissions or loss of transmitted data including, but not limited to, any virus transmission.  Any material obtained or otherwise downloaded from our site is done so at your own risk, and you will be solely responsible for any potential personal data loss, or damages that could occur to your computer system.

11. Limitation of Liability

You agree that we or any of its affiliated parties will not be held liable to you for any incidental, consequential, direct, or indirect harm or damages, including but not limited to, any damage caused by loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of data, software loss, or program loss or any other intangible losses resulting from the use of any of our services, products, content, or any other information obtained through the use or our site(s) or any of its affiliates, even if Music Cleveland has been advised that possibilities for such damages possibly exist.  If any liability is found against us or its affiliates, if not withstanding with other provisions of this agreement, in connection with any claim against or relating to this site or its affiliates, with regards to any services, products, content, or any other information obtained from or through our site(s) herein or hereby shall not exceed one U.S. dollar ($1.00) in damages and that amount will be in lieu of any other or all other remedies which you may have against us or any of its affiliates.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, protect and compensate in full, Music Cleveland, its sites, and any of its affiliates, employees, partners, agents, representatives, owners or third party providers and to hold each of them harmless from any and all claims of liability, or damages, including any attorney fees related to any violation or breach of this User Agreement by you or by means of an infringement of your account, or from any unauthorized use, or any such acts through your use of this website.  

13. Jurisdiction

You agree that this agreement, and all matters pertaining to this agreement, shall be governed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio and not withstanding to your actual place of residence.  Furthermore, you agree that any lawsuit, or alleged breach of agreement, shall be brought and held exclusively in Federal or State courts in Ohio, and in Summit County.  You agree to hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of such courts for such purpose.  In the event that any provision of this agreement is found to be in conflict with the law, such provision shall be reinstated to reflect the original intent, and all other terms and conditions shall remain in force and effect.

14. Copyrights

Music Cleveland respects the intellectual property rights of others and ask that our users and/or members to do the same as outlined by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998.  You acknowledge and agree that all content and material available on or through our site is protected under applicable copyrights, trademarks, patents or other proprietary rights or laws including but not limited to intellectual property rights.  You agree not to copy, redistribute, reproduce, or use site content and/or materials unless specific authorization has been granted on our site or permitted elsewhere in this agreement.  Furthermore, any copy or download made by a user(s) or its member(s) is intended for personal use only.   Users or members posting content, information or materials on our site(s) does not constitute a waiver of any rights for any such content, information or materials.  Content on our site(s) may also contain copyrighted content, information or materials of third parties protected by aforementioned laws and/or intellectual property rights.  Music Cleveland may, at any time, at its discretion, terminate any user or member who posts infringement content, information or materials on its site(s) or terminate any user or member, at its discretion, who violates the intellectual property rights of another.  If you believe your work has been copied in any way which would constitute copyright infringement, or believe your intellectual property rights have been violated, please contact Music Cleveland.com to file a Complaint of Infringement by providing the following information as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. Sec. 12. 

a. A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive copyright or other intellectual property that is of interest;

b. A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;

c. The whereabouts of the material located on our site that you are claiming has been infringed;

d. A valid name, address, telephone number, and email address where the person authorized above may be contacted;

e. A statement by you and in good faith belief that the disputed material has not been authorized by the copyright owner, the intellectual property right owner, its agent or the law; and,

f. A statement made by you, that the information presented in your complaint is true and accurate, made under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or person authorized to act on behalf of the owner for the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed.

15. Site Submissions

Music Cleveland allows, through specific areas of our site(s) the ability for you to post, upload or submit content which may be viewed by others or view content submitted by others.  Submitted content can include, but is not limited to, letters, stories, emails, data, reviews, testimonials, editorials, pictures and graphics.  By submitting content, you agree and grant Music Cleveland or any of its affiliates the nonexclusive right to license and use, display, distribute, reproduce, modify, market, promote, and advertise such material as Music Cleveland deems appropriate.  You agree that by submitting your original or copyrighted content to Music Cleveland, that you have specifically granted Music Cleveland the license to publish said content.  You agree by submitting content that you are the owner of such content or that the owner of such content has agreed that content may be used without any fees or payment, that content has no expiration and any content used may be continuous or temporary in its use.  You agree not to submit any content that has been copyrighted, trademarked or is the intellectual property of anyone other than yourself.

16. dvertising and Sponsors

Music Cleveland counts on advertisers and sponsors for their support and contributions so that we may offer our users and members outstanding services and programs.  You agree that Music Cleveland may post advertisements or promotions on any of our sites or with any of our services offered.   You also agree that Music Cleveland cannot be held liable in any way for any posted advertisement that has errors, illegible, inaccurate or any problems which may exist with the owner’s advertisement.  Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for their own material in that it is accurate and complies with all applicable laws.

17. Registration/Account Information

Registration is required to become a “Member” and registration will allow you access to various opportunities and services that Non-Members don’t normally have access to.  If you are interested in becoming a “Member” please complete the “Membership Discount Application Form” located elsewhere on this site.  When registering you agree to provide accurate, true and up-to-date information and agree that the information provided is your information.  You cannot misrepresent yourself, impersonate or pretend to be someone else when providing any registration information.  If we believe you have misrepresented yourself, we may at our discretion, conduct a full investigation and enlist the assistance of various law enforcement agencies.  Any unauthorized access is a breach of agreement and in violation of the law.  You are solely responsible for keeping your information current (i.e. changes in billing address, credit card expiration information) and responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and responsible for the use of any passwords.  We do not permit registration sharing or allow your account to be used by another person other than yourself or allow anyone access other than yourself using your name.  Access is for a single registered user.  You are fully responsible for any activities occurring within your account and / or use of passwords and it is your responsibility to prevent any such unauthorized use.  Music Cleveland reserves the right to discontinue or deny any registration, membership or otherwise, prevent access to the site when Terms of Use have been violated.

18. Termination/Cancellations

You acknowledge and agree that Music Cleveland can terminate your account or membership subscription at anytime, at its discretion, and without notice, for any reason including but not limited to, any violation of this User Agreement.  You may also cancel or terminate your account or membership subscription at any time, becoming effective on your current expiration date.  Music Cleveland may also, at its discretion, reserves the right to discontinue providing this service, or any part thereof, with or without notice, and may block any access to our site(s).

19. Suspension/Modifications

Music Cleveland reserves the right to modify, change, suspend or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the site(s) or services of Music Cleveland, or any part thereof, with or without prior notice or your consent.  You agree that Music Cleveland shall not be held liable to you or to any third party for any such action taken. You acknowledge and agree Music Cleveland reserves the right to make changes, otherwise substantially similar in nature, for products, services, or memberships, charged to you and offered through our site(s).  Music Cleveland reserves the right to change, amend or institute new fees or billing methods at anytime, effective upon providing prior notice to you via online posting, email or print material.  If any changes made are unacceptable to you, you may terminate your account or membership at anytime by contacting Music Cleveland.  Your continued use of Music Cleveland sites or services, following any changes made, constitutes your acceptance and agreement to these changes.

20. Payments/Fees/Credit Cards

Music Cleveland or its affiliates may charge fees associated with products, services or memberships offered through our site(s).  You are responsible for these fees.  Payments may be made with a major credit card, check, or money order, in U.S. Dollars Only, and made payable to Music Cleveland.  If paying for any fees with a major credit card, you agree and authorize Music Cleveland or third party service provider to charge your credit card for any purchases including any other charges incurred with the use of our site(s).  You must be at least 18 years of age or have explicit permission from the credit card holder to purchase any products, services or memberships offered through our site(s).  Payments for Music Cleveland’s Membership Discount Program are not automatically renewable.  It is your responsibility to renew payment for your membership which had begun on the anniversary date your application was processed.  The expiration date will be noted on your Membership Discount Program Personal Identification Card.  Please note that all sales, fees and charges are final and non-refundable once charged to your credit card with exception to cases of fraud.  If payment charged to your credit card, is returned, insufficient or not received from the issuer of the credit card or its agent, you agree to pay the amount or balanced owed to Music Cleveland.  You acknowledge and agree Music Cleveland will not be held accountable for paying any charges billed to your credit card by a third party, which were not specifically authorized by you.  You acknowledge and agree Music Cleveland reserves the right to suspend or terminate your account and/or membership if your payment obligation has not been met.  You acknowledge and agree Music Cleveland reserves the right to make changes, otherwise substantially similar in nature, for products, services, or memberships, charged to you and offered through our site(s).  Music Cleveland reserves the right to change, amend or institute new fees or billing methods at anytime, effective upon providing prior notice to you via online posting, email or print material.  If any changes made are unacceptable to you, you may terminate your account or membership at anytime by contacting Music Cleveland.  Your continued use of Music Cleveland sites or services, following any changes made, constitutes your acceptance and agreement to these changes.

21. Purchases

Music Cleveland provides an opportunity for members and users the ability to purchase certain products or services through its site(s).  Music Cleveland expresses no warranties, implied or otherwise, with respect to the products or services offered through Music Cleveland or its site(s).  You agree that Music Cleveland cannot be held liable for any service or product sold or distributed on or through our site(s).  Any warranty or liability issue involving a transaction for any service or product purchased shall be between the user and the third party seller, distributor or manufacturer.

22. User Agreement Provision

If any provision of the Terms found in this User Agreement shall be deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these User Agreement Terms and shall not effect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions found in this User Agreement.

23. FAQ  (Frequently Asked Questions)

For questions and answers regarding Music Cleveland and its Membership Discount Program, please visit our FAQ Page.  If you do not see an answer for your questions there, please contact us at info@musiccleveland.com.  So that we may respond, do not forget to include any relevant personal contact information including your email address.  We read all suggestions, comments and questions sent to us and will respond to all legitimate and valid emails in a timely manner.  Technical question regarding your software, configuration, or computer connection should be directed to your Internet Access Provider.  Music Cleveland can only answer specific questions regarding the products and services which we provide.

*** IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OUTLINED IN THIS USER AGREEMENT, PLEASE DISCONTINUE USE AND EXIT IMMEDIATELY. ***

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