Terms of Use
WWW.MYHITPLACE.COM (the “Site”) is owned by Ariel Queupumil Rodriguez (“Company”). This is an agreement between you and Company. Please read it carefully as it is binding on you. If you do not agree with all of the terms set forth in these Terms, please exit the Site now.
Acceptance of Terms
Company provides a collection of online resources where composers, listeners, companies, and/or fan clubs interact. (referred to hereafter as the “Service”), subject to the following Terms of Use (“Terms”) which may be updated by Company from time to time. Your use of this Site and the Service signify your complete acceptance of these Terms. Company will provide notice of changes to the terms by posting new Terms on the Site. All such changes in the Terms shall be effective from the Effective Date set when it is posted on the Site. Should you object to any term or condition of these Terms, any guidelines or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with Company in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of www.MyHitPlace.com and its Services.
Company Content
You understand that all material transmitted through, or linked from the Service are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such material originated. Furthermore, the Company site and material available through the Service may contain links to other websites, which are completely independent of Company. Those links do not imply any endorsement by Company and Company 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 websites is at your own risk.
Proprietary Rights
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of their Service. Company retains full copyright ownership, rights, and protection in all material contained on the Site (including all software, HTML code and other code). None of the material contained in the Site may be reverse engineered, disassembled, decompiled, transcribed, resold or redistributed without specific prior written consent in each instance. The use of material, including, without limitation, logos, text, graphics and other copyrightable materials on the Site are limited to one copy for personal, non-commercial viewing and use only. Some material are copyrighted by third parties and users may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display or otherwise provide any content without the prior written consent of Company. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you agree that any text, photo, graphic, audio, and/or video on the Site shall not be broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any media nor stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use. All content is the Site is owned by Company. All rights reserved.
www.MyHitPlace.com and Company logo are trademarks of Company and are protected by state and federal laws. Other logos, and trademarks and service marks depicted on this Site are the property of their respective owners. Your unauthorized use of the trademarks appearing on the Site may constitute a violation of law, which could subject you to substantial civil penalties.
User Content
By posting content or communicating with other registered users, that information is visible to other users of the Site. Be aware that if you actively comment, blog, or post content or participate in chat rooms or similar community forums which may become available on the Site, then any personal information you provide will be accessible to all registered users. You should also be aware that any information that is made public on the Site may be searchable by other search engines. In addition, even if that content is later removed from the Site, it may still be stored in other computers of people who visited Site, and removal of that information from this Site will not remove it from those other computers. Therefore, exercise caution when posting personal information to the Site. We encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity to interact with our users of the Site by posting and reading User Content and participating in online forums. You acknowledge that by using the Site, you may be exposed to content that you find objectionable, indecent or offensive or which is inaccurate, misleading or incomplete. We are not responsible for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any User Content, nor do we endorse such User Content. We do not verify the identity of people using our Site. You use the Site and User Content at your own risk.
Posting of User Content Requirements
All content that you post to the Site must comply with these Terms and the Unacceptable Materials requirements. You take sole responsibility for all content that you post on the Site and the consequences of posting that content. You are responsible for obtaining all necessary rights to upload, post and distribute the content, including obtaining permission from any person who assisted you in the creation of that content or any person shown in a photo or video that you upload or identified in any writing that you post. You represent, warrant and agree that you will not upload, email, store, process, post, distribute, transmit, or otherwise publish through the Site any material which:
- Is threatening, defamatory, abusive, obscene, or any material that would give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable law;
- Contains any materials that could infringe any copyright, trademark, publicity or privacy right or any other intellectual property right of any person or entity unless you have first received permission from the owner of those rights to use the materials;
- Contains any materials containing slurs, hate speech or which attack an individual or group on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sexual preferences;
- Contains any materials that constitute spam (sending the same message multiple times or to multiple people will be treated as spam);
- Is a solicitation or advertisement for any commercial product or activity;
- Encourages behavior that does not support a safe and comfortable environment for all users, including but not limited to posting or transmitting any materials that are threatening, harmful, harassing, abusive, vulgar, hateful, defamatory, sexually explicit, inflammatory, profane, racially or ethnically objectionable, religious or political, or any materials that encourage inappropriate or unlawful conduct;
- Restricts or inhibits any other user from using the Site or contains a virus or other harmful component;
- Violates any local, state, federal or international laws or gives rise to civil liability;
- Violates or infringes any rights of third parties (including but not limited to copyright, trademark, rights of privacy or publicity, defamation or any other proprietary right);
- Imposes and unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site or otherwise interferes with the Site;
- Is a chain letter or constitutes junk mail;
- “spoofs” (using of any means to disguise your online identity or alter original attribute information when sending e-mails or posting messages to the Site);
- Uses or possesses programs to “crack” passwords or other Internet security tools.
We may, at our sole discretion, immediately terminate your access to the Site should your conduct fail to conform with these Terms.
License of Rights
A. By submitting content to the Site, you grant to Company, and its successors in business and assigns, a worldwide, non-exclusive license to reproduce, distribute, display, market and promote the content, for any promotional or commercial purposes, and in any medium not existing or hereinafter developed, and to use your name, likeness, voice, performance and any personal information you submit or contained within the content, without your prior approval and without notice. You also grant each user of the Site a non-exclusive license to access your content as permitted through the functionality of the Site and under these Terms.
B. By registering on the Site as a Composer you guarantee that you are the lawful owner of all musical compositions uploaded to the Site and that you have registered said musical compositions with the proper copyright society (i.e. SGAE, BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, etc...)
C. Company shall have the non-exclusive right, but not the obligation, to represent your interests as a Composer with respect to all the legal rights stemming from the exploitation of the musical composition.
D. If Company secures a placement for the musical composition you upload to Site (the “Placement”), you agree to enter into a song split agreement with Company with regard to the particular musical composition. Upon Placement, You and Company will negotiate in good faith, and you shall grant Company a negotiable percentage share of royalties and/or flat fees generated from the exploitation of the musical work as per a letter of direction, from you to the Placement party.
User Responsibility
You understand that you are personally responsible for your behavior while on the Site and agree to indemnify and hold Company, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, directors, agents, service providers, suppliers, business partners, and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents, harmless from and against any loss, damage, liability, cost, or expense of any kind (including attorney’s fees) that any of them incur in connection with a third party claim, or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with the materials you submit, post or make available through the Service, your use of the Service or Site, your violation of these Terms, your breach of any of the representations and warranties contained herein, or your violation of any rights of another person or entity. We have the right to view and monitor any content posted to this Site and we reserve the right, but not the obligation, to monitor, edit, or remove any content at any time and without notice if we believe that the content violates these Terms, removal is necessary to protect the rights, property or personal safety of Company, its users and the public, if required to do so by law, or if we believe in our sole discretion that doing so will improve our Site and the experience of our users.
Inappropriate Content
If you believe that any posting on the Site violates these Terms, please let us know by clicking on the “Contact” link on the left hand side of any page on the Site, and then sending us an email. We try to review all reported violations and, if we agree with you, we’ll take appropriate action. However, in all cases, we are the final judge on whether these Terms have been violated and we will determine what, if any, action should be taken.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Notice
Company has registered an agent with the United States Copyright Office in accordance with the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “Act”) and avails itself of the protections under the Act. We reserve the right to remove any User Content on the Site which allegedly infringes another person’s copyright. We are under no obligation to, and do not, scan content posted for any violation of third party rights, however, we respect the copyright interests of others and it is our policy not to permit materials known by us to infringe another party’s copyright to remain in the Site or the Service. If you believe any materials on the Site or the Service infringes a copyright, you should provide us with written notice that at a minimum contains:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted
- A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
All DMCA notices should be sent to our designated agent as follows:
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Disclaimer of Warranties
YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE WWW.MYHITPLACE.COM SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE WWW.MYHITPLACE.COM SITE AND SERVICE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. IN STATES THAT DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, THE FOREGOING WILL NOT APPLY TO YOU. THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS AND YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, COMPANY (1) DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPANY SITE AND THE SERVICE. (2) DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICE OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE COMMPANY SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ACCESSED THOURGH ANY LINKS ON THE COMPANY SITE, AND (3) DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COMPNAY OR THE SERVICE.
Limitations on Liability
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE COMPANY SITE OR THE SERVICE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, RELIANCE BY ANY USER ON ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED THEREFROM; OR FROM MISTAKES, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS OR DELETION OF FILES OR EMAIL, ERRORS, DEFECTS, VIRUSES, DELAYS IN OPERATIONS OR TRANSMISSION, OR ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, COMMUNICATIONS, THEFT, DESTRUCTION, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO RECORDS, PROGRAMS OR SERVICES WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE COMPANY SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM THE INABILITY TO USE THE COMPANY SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE COMPANY 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 COMPANY SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE COMPANY SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMPANY SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE COMPANY SITE. IN STATES THAT DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. IN ALL EVENTS, ANY LIABILITY OF COMPANY AND ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DISTRIBUTING THE SITE, IF ANY, SHALL BE LIMITED TO REPLACEMENT OF MONIES PAID TO COMPANY. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold Company, its officers, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, service providers, suppliers and employees harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney fees and courts costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of materials you submit, post or make available through the Service, your use of the Service, your violation of the Terms, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of another person or entity.
Governing Law
This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of Florida without application of conflict of laws rules. Exclusive jurisdiction and venue in connection with any dispute between you and Company (the “Dispute”) shall lie in the state or federal courts located in the Dade County, Florida. You hereby waive any right you might have to resolve any Dispute on a class action basis or on bases involving claims brought in a purported representative capacity on behalf of the general public or other persons similarly situated. Any cause of action you may have with respect to Company, the Services, the content or the Site must be commenced within one year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action shall be barred.
General Information
The Terms and www.MyHitPlace.com’s Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and Company and govern your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and Company. Headings in the Terms are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation or construction of this agreement
Privacy
This Site is governed by the terms and conditions set out in our Privacy Policy.
Termination
You agree that we may terminate, modify, discontinue or abandon the Site with or without notice to you and that we will not be liable to you or any third party as a result of such termination, modification, discontinuance or abandonment. If this agreement is terminated for any reason, the provisions titled Proprietary Rights, License of Rights, User Liability, Indemnity, General Information and Privacy shall survive any such termination
Effective Date: June 4, 2010
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