Terms of Use
Meanings and definitions used in these Terms:
Discussion Forum(s) means the chat areas, comment sections or forum facilities provided on the Site
MelodicaWorld.com means the MelodicaWorld.com website (Site), owned and operated by Daren Banarsë; and Terms means these terms of use for users of the Site.
1. INTRODUCTION TO TERMS
1.1. This Site is owned and operated by Daren Banarsë
1.2. These Terms govern the use of the Site, including participation in the Discussion Forums.
1.3. The Site is designed to provide a forum, enjoyable for all, for the exchange of opinions, comments and information and, therefore, MelodicaWorld.com requires its users to abide by these Terms. Your use of the Site will constitute your agreement to comply with these Terms.
1.4. If you do not agree with these Terms, you should not use the Site.
1.5. MelodicaWorld.com may modify these Terms from time to time. Continued use of the Sites by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Terms, so it is wise to check this page regularly.
1.6. We may terminate your access to the Site, without notice, if you fail to follow these Terms.
2. USE OF THE SITE BY YOU
2.1. MelodicaWorld.com or its licensors own all material on the Site. You may retrieve and display content from this Site on a computer screen, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on disk (but not on any server or other storage device connected to a network) for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not in any way make commercial or other unauthorised use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution, performance, caching or otherwise, of material obtained through the Site.
2.3. You may not authorise others to use the Site, and you are responsible for all of your own use of the Sites. You agree not to use any obscene, indecent or offensive language, or to place on the Site any material that is false, defamatory, abusive, harassing or hateful. Further, you may not place on the Site any material that is encrypted, constitutes junk mail or unauthorised advertising, invades anyone’s privacy, encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence or give rise to civil liability, or that otherwise violates any local, state, national or international law or regulation. You agree to use the Site only for lawful purposes and you acknowledge that your failure to do so may subject you to civil and criminal liability.
2.4. You are responsible for all activities under your password or account, and you must keep your password confidential. You must immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of your password or account or any other breach of security. You must not disrupt the functioning of the Site, solicit or use another user’s password or otherwise act in a way that interferes with other users’ use of the Site.
2.6. You are responsible for ensuring that any material you provide to the Site or post in a Discussion Forum, including but not limited to text, photographs and sound, does not violate the copyright, trade mark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party.
2.8. You acknowledge that MelodicaWorld.com has not reviewed and does not endorse the content of all sites linked to from the Site and is not responsible for the content or actions of any other sites linked to from the Site. Linking to any other service or site from this Site is at your sole risk.
3. AGE LIMIT
By using the Sites or posting content on any Discussion Forums you confirm that you are 18 years old or more or, if you are under 18 years old, that you have received your parent’s or guardian’s consent to enter into these Terms.
4. USE OF THE DISCUSSION FORUMS BY YOU
4.1. These Terms have been put in place to help ensure that the Discussion Forum is a welcoming and useful resource for all users. These Terms outline what is deemed unacceptable behaviour and it is important to read them carefully.
4.2. Users of the Discussion Forums warrant and undertake that they will not:
post libellous or defamatory comments;
post anything relating to any ongoing or pending trial;
post content which you have copied from someone else (i.e. you do not own the copyright);
use profanities;
post a personal insult about another user;
advertise or solicit, unless in the ‘Trade and Swap’ forum;
impersonate another user; or
post material that is deliberately intended to upset other users.
4.3. We cannot and do not review every post before it appears on the Site. MelodicaWorld.com operates a ‘notice and take-down’ policy which means if MelodicaWorld.com notices or is made aware of a post that contravenes these Terms, MelodicaWorld.com reserves the right to amend or remove the post.
4.4. MelodicaWorld.com encourages you to contact us if you feel a post violates these Terms. Please use the contact function on the Site to let us know.
4.5. You are responsible for the content of your posts and MelodicaWorld.com does not accept any liability for the content or accuracy of your messages.
4.6. Users of the Site may submit material for publication in the Discussion Forums. MelodicaWorld.com accepts no liability in respect of any material submitted by users and published by MelodicaWorld.com and MelodicaWorld.com is not responsible for its content or accuracy.
4.7. If you want to submit material to the Discussion Forums you may do so on these Terms.
4.8. You warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, harassing, defamatory or otherwise illegal.
4.9. You acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause MelodicaWorld.com damage or loss and agree to indemnify and hold harmless MelodicaWorld.com in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage incurred by MelodicaWorld.com as a result of publishing any material you submit to us, including consequential loss.
4.10. Should MelodicaWorld.com become aware of any activity that would be contrary to the Terms or determine in their sole discretion to be unacceptable, then MelodicaWorld.com reserves the right to take action including temporary or permanent removal of content, filtering of internet transmissions and/or to exclude the user with immediate effect and, where necessary, to forward any incriminating material in its possession to the UK police or other relevant authorities.
4.11. You accept that MelodicaWorld.com may keep a record of your IP and/or host address for reference purposes only (in order to keep a track on the amount of visitors per day). In the event of any breach of these Terms, MelodicaWorld.com may view and add your IP and/or host address to an ‘excluded database’ to prevent you gaining further access to the Site. These addresses are not distributed or given out to any third party services.
5. USE OF MATERIAL POSTED BY YOU
We acknowledge that, as between you and us, copyright and ownership of any uploaded image, forum posting, or other copyrightable content in connection with the Site remains yours. With respect to comments or other text-based content you submit or make available for inclusion, you grant MelodicaWorld.com a perpetual royalty free non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, modify, translate, transmit, distribute and sub-licence any information or material you supply or communicate to the Sites via such postings, in any medium now in existence or hereafter developed, for any purpose. MelodicaWorld.com will not return it if submitted, and accepts no liability whatsoever for safe custody thereof.
6. COPYRIGHT AND COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS
6.1. All copyright, trademarks, design rights and all other intellectual property rights (registered or unregistered) where relevant in and on the Site and all content located on the Site shall at all times remain vested in MelodicaWorld.com.
6.2. MelodicaWorld.com grants you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable licence to use the Site content solely for personal use relating to your use of the Site. Except as expressly set out herein, neither you nor anyone acting on your behalf acquires any intellectual property rights relating to any Site content. Any rights not expressly granted within these Terms are reserved.
6.3. By sharing any contribution(s) with us (including but not limited to data, text, photo, message, posting, image, logo, attachment, hyperlink and all other content (collectively “Contribution(s)”) to the Site, you agree and grant MelodicaWorld.com and its sub-licensees, free of charge permission, to use the Contribution(s) at MelodicaWorld.com sole discretion (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) in connection with the operation of the Site and our business. The licence extends to copying, distributing, broadcasting or otherwise transmitting, adapting or editing the Contribution(s).
6.4. You agree and confirm that any Contribution(s) you provide or upload is original to you and does not infringe UK laws, copyright or other rights of any other person, or that you have the consents necessary to provide the Contribution(s) to MelodicaWorld.com.
6.5. You acknowledge that MelodicaWorld.com does not endorse the accuracy, integrity, copyright, compliance, legality, quality or decency of any Contribution(s). Users may respond to or comment upon Contribution(s), such comments do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of MelodicaWorld.com.
6.6. MelodicaWorld.com respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. MelodicaWorld.com may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, terminate the access of users, subscribers, and account holders who infringe the copyright rights of MelodicaWorld.com and of others.
6.7. If you believe that your work has been copied and is accessible on any MelodicaWorld.com Site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that the Site contains links or other references to another online location that contains material or activity that infringes your copyright, please contact MelodicaWorld.com immediately using the contact function on the Site.
7. COMMENTS BY USERS
MelodicaWorld.com does not necessarily endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted by users in Discussion Forums or elsewhere on the Sites. Any information or material placed online by users, including advice and opinions, is the view and responsibility of those users and does not necessarily represent the view of MelodicaWorld.com.
8. MATERIALS PROVIDED BY OTHERS
You agree that MelodicaWorld.com is not responsible, and shall have no liability to you, with respect to any information or materials posted by others, including defamatory, offensive or illicit material.
9. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify MelodicaWorld.com and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, advertisers, partners, agents and representatives, and to hold them harmless from any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including legal fees) that may arise from: (i) your submissions, Contribution(s) or provision of content; (ii) your use or misuse of the Site; (iii) your unauthorised use of material obtained through the Sites; (iv) your breach of these Terms; (v) any such acts arising through your use of the Sites; or (vi) any other violation of the rights of another person or party.
10. EDITING AND DELETIONS
MelodicaWorld.com reserves the right, but undertakes no duty, to review, edit, move or delete any material posted by users in the Discussion Forums or elsewhere on the Site, in its sole discretion and without notice.
11. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
11.1. You understand and agree that you are using the site at your own risk. The sites are provided “as is,” and to the extent permitted by applicable law, MelodicaWorld.com and its affiliates expressly disclaim any and all warranties, express and implied, including but not limited to any warranties of accuracy, reliability, title, merchantability, non-infringement, fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, condition, guarantee or representation, whether oral, in writing or in electronic form, including but not limited to the accuracy or completeness of any information contained therein or provided by the sites.
11.2. MelodicaWorld.com and its affiliates make no warranty, implied or explicit, that any part of the sites will be uninterrupted, error-free, virus-free, timely, secure, accurate, reliable of any quality, nor that the content is safe in any manner for download. You understand and agree that neither MelodicaWorld.com nor its affiliates nor any participant in the sites provides professional advice of any kind and that use of such advice or any other information is solely at your own risk and without our liability of any kind.
11.3. Save for the provisions of the following clause MelodicaWorld.com and its affiliates shall not be liable to you or any third parties for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or punitive damages allegedly sustained arising out of your access to or inability to access the sites, including for viruses alleged to have been obtained from the sites, your use of or reliance on the sites or any of the information or materials available on the sites, regardless of the type of claim or the nature of the cause of action, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
11.4. MelodicaWorld.com’s liability will not be limited in the case of death or personal injury directly caused by MelodicaWorld.com’s negligence.
12. TERMINATION
MelodicaWorld.com has the right to terminate your ability to access the sites, for any reason, without notice.
13. SAFETY
Please remember that posting your name, contact information or any other personal information on the Site places such information in the public domain. Always use caution when giving out information. We advise that you do not reveal any information about yourself or anyone else (for example: full name, telephone number, postal address, email address, home address or any other details that allow you to be personally identified) on the Site.
14. INFORMATION AND AVAILABILITY
While MelodicaWorld.com takes every care to ensure that the information on this Site is accurate and complete, some of it is supplied to MelodicaWorld.com by third parties and MelodicaWorld.com is unable to check its accuracy or completeness. You are advised to verify the accuracy of any information before relying on it. Further, due to the inherent nature of the Internet, errors interruptions and delays may occur in the service at any time. Accordingly, the MelodicaWorld.com Site is provided “as is” without any warranties of any kind and MelodicaWorld.com does not accept any liability arising from any inaccuracy or omission in the information or interruption in availability.
15. LINKS
15.1. Any third party web site that links to this Site must not:
(i) create a frame or any other browser or border environment around the content of this Site; (ii) imply that MelodicaWorld.com is endorsing it or its products or services;
(iii) use any MelodicaWorld.com trade mark displayed on any MelodicaWorld.com;
(iv) infringe any intellectual property or other right of any person;
(v) be a website that contains content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive or controversial.
15.2. MelodicaWorld.com expressly reserves the right to request that any link in breach of these Terms be removed and to take whatever other action it deems appropriate.
15.3. On this Site you may be offered automatic links to other sites. Whilst MelodicaWorld.com hopes you will be interested in those other sites, you acknowledge that their owners may be independent from MelodicaWorld.com and MelodicaWorld.com does not endorse or accept any responsibility for their content.
15.4. Pages of the Site may contain some contextual affiliate marketing links created by third parties. Purchases made on these third party sites are the sole responsibility of that site. Purchases made through these links may result in a commission being earned by MelodicaWorld.com.
16. GENERAL
16.1. These Terms together with any additional terms which are drawn to your attention constitute the complete and entire agreement between the parties and supersede any prior agreement, whether written or oral.
16.2. If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms, which shall remain in full force and effect.
16.3. These Terms are not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party and the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 shall not apply to these Terms.
16.4. Failure of either party to exercise any right or remedy under these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy.
16.5. Unless otherwise specified on the Site, the content of this Site is directed solely at those who access the Sites from the United Kingdom. MelodicaWorld.com makes no representation that any of the content of the Site is appropriate for use elsewhere, or available in any other locations. Those who choose to access the Sites from any other location are solely responsible for compliance with local laws and regulations if and to the extent that they are applicable.
16.6. You agree that these Terms, for all purposes, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. You also agree, subject to the following clause, to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts as regards any claim or matter arising under these Terms.
16.7. For the exclusive benefit of MelodicaWorld.com, MelodicaWorld.com shall retain the right to bring proceedings as to the substance of the matter in the courts of the country of your residence.
Please leave the Site now if you do not agree to these Terms