DJ Union, Inc. (“DJ Union” or “we”)
operates DJUnion.net, which is a social networking service that allows
Members to create unique personal profiles online in order to find and
communicate with other artists, promoters and fans. The services
offered by DJ Union include any DJ Union-branded URL (the "DJ Union
Website"), the DJ Union application developer service and other
features (for example, music and video embedded players), DJ Union mobile
services, and any other features, content, or applications offered from
time to time by DJ Union in connection with DJ Union’s business (collectively,
the "DJ Union Services"). The DJ Union Services are
hosted in the United States.
This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement")
sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the DJ Union Services.
By using the DJ Union Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement,
whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse
the DJ Union Website, including through a mobile device, or otherwise
use the DJ Union Services without being registered) or you are a "Member"
(which means that you have registered with DJ Union). The term
"User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized
to use the DJ Union Services (regardless of whether your access or use
is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and the terms
of this Agreement. Please read this Agreement and save it. If
you do not agree to be bound by this Agreement and to follow all applicable
laws, you should leave the DJ Union Website and discontinue use of the
DJ Union Services immediately. If you wish to become a Member,
communicate with other Members and/or make use of the DJ Union Services,
you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the
registration process.
This Agreement includes DJ Union's
policy for acceptable use of the DJ Union Services and posted on or
through the DJ Union Services and your rights, obligations and restrictions
regarding your use of the DJ Union Services and Content posted on or
through the DJ Union Services. Unless otherwise provided by the
additional terms and conditions applicable to the DJ Union Services
in which you choose to participate, those additional terms are hereby
incorporated into this Agreement. You may receive a copy of this
Agreement by emailing us at: privacy@DJUnion.net, Subject: Terms of
Use Agreement.
DJ Union may modify this Agreement
from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting
by DJ Union on the DJ Union Website. Your continued use of the
DJ Union Services after DJ Union posts a revised Agreement signifies
your acceptance of the revised Agreement. It is therefore important
that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are updated as
to any changes.
Please choose carefully the information
you post on or through the DJ Union Services and that you provide to
other Users. Your DJ Union profile may not include any form of
Prohibited Content, as outlined in Section 8 below. Despite this
prohibition, information, materials, products or services provided by
other DJ Union Members (for instance, in their profile) may, in whole
or in part, be unauthorized, impermissible or otherwise violate this
Agreement, and DJ Union assumes no responsibility or liability for this
material.
DJ Union reserves the right, in its
sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including
private messages) by you, or to deny, restrict, suspend, or terminate
your access to all or any part of the DJ Union Services at any time,
for any or no reason, with or without prior notice or explanation, and
without liability. DJ Union expressly reserves the right to remove
your profile and/or deny, restrict, suspend, or terminate your access
to all or any part of the DJ Union Services if DJ Union determines,
in its sole discretion, that you have violated this Agreement or pose
a threat to DJ Union and/or its Users.
- Eligibility. Use of the
DJ Union Services and registration to be a Member for the DJ Union Services
(“Membership”) is void where prohibited. By using the DJ Union
Services, you represent and warrant that (a) all registration information
you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy
of such information; (c) you are 13 years of age or older; and (d) your
use of the DJ Union Services does not violate any applicable law or
regulation. Your profile may be deleted and your Membership may
be terminated without warning, if we believe that you are under 13 years
of age, if we believe that you are under 18 years of age and you represent
yourself as 18 or older, or if we believe you are over 18 and represent
yourself as under 18.
- Term. This Agreement, and
any posted revision to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and
effect while you use the DJ Union Services or are a Member. You
may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by following
the instructions on the Member's Account Settings page. DJ Union
may terminate your Membership at any time, for any or no reason, with
or without prior notice or explanation, and without liability.
Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect,
including Sections 5-17.
- Fees. You acknowledge that
DJ Union reserves the right to charge for any portion of the DJ Union
Services and to change its fees (if any) from time to time in its discretion.
If DJ Union terminates your Membership because you have breached the
Agreement, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion
of fees or payments (if any).
- Password. When you sign
up to become a Member, you will also be asked to choose a password.
You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of
your password. You agree not to use the account, username, or
password of another Member at any time or to disclose your password
to any third party. You agree to notify DJ Union immediately if
you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password.
You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account.
- Use by Members. The DJ Union
Services are for the personal use of Members and may be used for promotional
purposes as well, but direct commercial endeavors may only be used if
they are specifically endorsed or authorized by DJ Union. DJ Union
reserves the right to remove commercial content in its sole discretion.
Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the DJ Union Services, including
collecting usernames, user id numbers, and/or email addresses of Members
by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited
email or unauthorized framing of or linking to the DJ Union Website,
or employing third party promotional sites or software to promote profiles
for money, is prohibited. Commercial advertisements, affiliate
links, and other forms of unauthorized solicitation may be removed from
Member profiles without notice or explanation and may result in termination
of Membership privileges. DJ Union reserves the right to take
appropriate legal action for any illegal or unauthorized use of the
DJ Union Services.
- Proprietary Rights in Content
on DJ Union.
- DJ Union does not claim
any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds,
musical works, works of authorship, applications, or any other materials
(collectively, "Content") that you post on or through the
DJ Union Services. After posting your Content to the DJ Union
Services, you continue to retain any such rights that you may have in
your Content, subject to the limited license herein. By displaying
or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the DJ
Union Services, you hereby grant to DJ Union a limited license to use,
modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce,
and distribute such Content solely on or through the DJ Union Services,
including without limitation distributing part or all of the DJ Union
Website in any media formats and through any media channels, except
Content marked “private” will not be distributed outside the DJ
Union Website. This limited license does not grant DJ Union the
right to sell or otherwise distribute your Content outside of the DJ
Union Services. After you remove your Content from the DJ Union
Website we will cease distribution as soon as practicable, and at such
time when distribution ceases, the license will terminate. If
after we have distributed your Content outside the DJ Union Website
you change the Content’s privacy setting to “private,” we will
cease distribution of such “private” Content outside the DJ Union
Website as soon as practicable after you make the change.
- The license you grant to
DJ Union is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your Content
to anyone else in addition to DJ Union), fully-paid and royalty-free
(meaning that DJ Union is not required to pay you for the use on the
DJ Union Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that
DJ Union is able to use its affiliates, subcontractors and other partners
such as Internet content delivery networks and wireless carriers to
provide the DJ Union Services), and worldwide (because the Internet
and the DJ Union Services are global in reach).
- You represent and warrant
that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the DJ Union
Services or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth
in this Section 6, and (ii) the posting of your Content on or through
the DJ Union Services does not violate the privacy rights, publicity
rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person
or entity. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other
monies owing any person or entity by reason of any Content posted by
you on or through the DJ Union Services.
- The DJ Union Services contain
Content of DJ Union ("DJ Union Content"). DJ Union Content
is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other
laws, and DJ Union owns and retains all rights in the DJ Union Content
and the DJ Union Services. DJ Union hereby grants you a limited,
revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the DJ
Union Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal
use in connection with viewing the DJ Union Website and using the DJ
Union Services.
- The DJ Union Services contain
Content of Users and other DJ Union licensors. Except as provided
within this Agreement, you may not copy, modify, translate, publish,
broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any Content
appearing on or through the DJ Union Services.
- DJ Union performs technical
functions necessary to offer the DJ Union Services, including but not
limited to transcoding and/or reformatting Content to allow its use
throughout the DJ Union Services.
- Content Posted.
- DJ Union may reject, refuse
to post or delete any Content for any or no reason, including Content
that in the sole judgment of DJ Union violates this Agreement or which
may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights of any person or entity,
or harm or threaten the safety of any person or entity. DJ Union assumes
no responsibility for monitoring the DJ Union Services for inappropriate
Content or conduct. If at any time DJ Union chooses, in its sole
discretion, to monitor the DJ Union Services, DJ Union nonetheless assumes
no responsibility for the Content, no obligation to modify or remove
any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of
the User submitting any such Content.
- You are solely responsible
for the Content that you post on or through any of the DJ Union Services,
and any material or information that you transmit to other Members and
for your interactions with other Users.
- Content/Activity Prohibited.
The following are examples of the kind of Content that is illegal or
prohibited to post on or through the DJ Union Services. DJ Union
reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action
against anyone who, in DJ Union's sole discretion, violates this provision,
including without limitation, removing the offending Content from the
DJ Union Services and terminating the Membership of such violators.
Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, Content that, in
the sole discretion of DJ Union:
- is patently offensive and
promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against
any group or individual;
- harasses or advocates harassment
of another person;
- exploits people in a sexual
or violent manner;
- contains nudity, excessive
violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult
website;
- solicits personal information
from anyone under 18;
- publicly posts information
that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person;
- constitutes or promotes
information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal
activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory
or libelous;
- constitutes or promotes
an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work,
such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing
information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices,
or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
- involves the transmission
of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited
mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
- contains restricted or
password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked
to or from another accessible page);
- furthers or promotes any
criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information
about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying
illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating
computer viruses;
- solicits passwords or personal
identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other
Users;
- involves commercial activities
and/or sales without prior written consent from DJ Union such as contests,
sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
- includes a photograph or
video of another person that you have posted without that person's consent;
- for band, comedy, filmmaker
and other profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other unfair,
misleading or deceptive Content intended to draw traffic to the profile;
or
- violates the privacy rights,
publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights, contract rights or any
other rights of any person.
The following are examples of the kind
of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the DJ Union Website and
through your use of the DJ Union Services. DJ Union reserves the
right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone
who, in DJ Union's sole discretion, violates this provision, including
without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities.
Prohibited activity includes, but is not limited to:
- criminal or tortious activity,
including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material,
drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending
of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement,
or theft of trade secrets;
- advertising to, or solicitation
of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services through the unauthorized
or impermissible use of the DJ Union Services. You may not transmit
any chain letters or junk email to other Members. In order to
protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, DJ Union
reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a Member may
send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which DJ Union
deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement
and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unauthorized
commercial communications of any kind through the DJ Union Services,
you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to DJ Union,
but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain.
As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay DJ Union $50
for each such unsolicited email or other unauthorized commercial communication
you send through the DJ Union Services;
- circumventing or modifying,
attempting to circumvent or modify, or encouraging or assisting any
other person in circumventing or modifying any security technology or
software that is part of the DJ Union Services;
- activity that involves
the use of viruses, bots, worms, or any other computer code, files or
programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer
software or hardware, or otherwise permit the unauthorized use of or
access to a computer or a computer network;
- covering or obscuring the
banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any DJ Union
page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
- any automated use of the
system, such as, but not limited to, using
- scripts to add friends or
send comments or messages;
- interfering with, disrupting,
or creating an undue burden on the DJ Union Services or the networks
or services connected to the DJ Union Services;
- impersonating or attempting
to impersonate another Member, person or entity;
- for band, comedy, filmmaker
and other profiles containing a DJ Union player, copying the code for
your DJ Union Player and embedding it (or directing others to embed
it) anywhere other than your band profile on DJ Union;
- using the account, username,
or password of another Member at any time or disclosing your password
to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;
- selling or otherwise transferring
your profile;
- using any information obtained
from the DJ Union Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another
person or entity, or attempting to do the same;
- displaying an unauthorized
commercial advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything
of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial
activity through the unauthorized or impermissible use of the DJ Union
Services on behalf of that person, such as placing commercial content
on your profile, posting blogs or bulletins with a commercial purpose,
selecting a profile with a commercial purpose as one of your "Top
8" friends, or sending private messages with a commercial purpose;
or
- using the DJ Union Services
in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
- Protecting Copyrights and
Other Intellectual Property. DJ Union respects the intellectual property
of others, and requires that our users do the same. You may not
upload, embed, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any
material that infringes any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret
or other proprietary rights of any person or entity. DJ Union
has the right to terminate the Membership of infringers.
If you believe your work has been copied
and posted on or through the DJ Union Services in a way that constitutes
copyright infringement, please send DJ Union's Copyright Agent a notification
of claimed infringement with all of the following information: (a) 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; (b) identification of the claimed infringing material
and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material
on the DJ Union Services (providing the URL(s) of the claimed infringing
material satisfies this requirement); (c) information reasonably sufficient
to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and,
if available, an email address; (d) a statement by you that you have
a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright
owner, its agent, or the law; (e) a statement by you, made under penalty
of perjury, that the above information in your notification is accurate
and that you are the copyright owner or a uthorized to act on the copyright
owner's behalf; and (f) your physical or electronic signature.
DJ Union's Copyright Agent for notification of claimed infringement
can be reached as follows: Copyright Agent, DJ Union, Inc., 8391 Beverly
Blvd., #349, Los Angeles, CA 90048; Facsimile: (310) 388-0892; Phone:
(310) 969-2887; Attn: Copyright Agent. DJ Union's Copyright Agent
for notification of claimed infringement can also be reached electronically
by clicking here. DJ Union provides certain tools and technologies
to help facilitate copyright owners’ control over their copyrighted
works.
10. Member Disputes. You are solely
responsible for your interactions with other DJ Union Members.
DJ Union reserves the right, but has no obligation, to become involved
in any way with disputes between you and other Members.
11. Privacy. Use of the DJ Union Services
is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this
Agreement by this reference.
12. Disclaimers. DJ Union is not responsible
for and makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the User Content
or the accuracy and reliability of the User Content posted on or through
the DJ Union Services, whether caused by Users of the DJ Union Services
or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized
in the DJ Union Services and such User Content does not necessarily
reflect the opinions or policies of DJ Union. Profiles and third
party applications created and posted by Members on the DJ Union Website
may contain links to other websites. DJ Union is not responsible
for the content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites, and
such websites are not necessarily investigated, monitored or checked
for accuracy or completeness by DJ Union. Inclusion of any linked
website on the DJ Union Services does not imply approval or endorsement
of the linked website by DJ Union. When you access these third
party sites, you do so at your own risk. DJ Union takes no responsibility
for third party advertisements or third party applications that are
posted on or through the DJ Union Services, nor does it take any responsibility
for the goods or services provided by its advertisers. DJ Union is not
responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User
of the DJ Union Services. DJ Union assumes no responsibility for
any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation
or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or
unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any User or Member communication.
DJ Union is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction
of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers
or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or
players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet
or on any of the DJ Union Services or combination thereof, including
any injury or damage to Users or to any person's computer related to
or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection
with the DJ Union Services. Under no circumstances shall DJ Union
be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or
death, resulting from use of the DJ Union Services, attendance at a
DJ Union event, from any User Content posted on or through the DJ Union
Services, or from the conduct of any Users of the DJ Union Services,
whether online or offline. The DJ Union Services are provided
"AS-IS" and as available and DJ Union expressly disclaims
any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.
DJ Union cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results
from use of the DJ Union Services.
13. Limitation on Liability. IN NO
EVENT SHALL DJ UNION BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT,
CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING
LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE DJ UNION SERVICES,
EVEN IF DJ UNION HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, DJ UNION'S
LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM
OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY,
BY YOU TO DJ UNION FOR THE DJ UNION SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
14. U.S. Export Controls. Software
available in connection with the DJ Union Services (the "Software")
is further subject to United States export controls. No Software may
be downloaded from the DJ Union Services or otherwise exported or re-exported
in violation of U.S. export laws. Downloading or using the Software
is at your sole risk.
15. Disputes. The Agreement shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State
of New York, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
You and DJ Union agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the
courts located within the State of New York to resolve any dispute arising
out of the Agreement or the DJ Union Services. EACH OF THE PARTIES
HEREBY KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND INTENTIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT
MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION (INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY CLAIMS, COUNTERCLAIMS, CROSS-CLAIMS, OR THIRD
PARTY CLAIMS) ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT.
FURTHER, EACH PARTY HERETO CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE OR AGENT
OF EITHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH PARTY
WOULD NOT IN THE EVENT OF SUCH LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THIS WAIVER
OF RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL PROVISION. EACH OF THE PARTIES ACKNOWLEDGES
THAT THIS SECTION IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT FOR THE OTHER PARTY ENTERING
INTO THIS AGREEMENT.
16. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify
and hold DJ Union, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective
officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability,
claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any
third party due to or arising out of your use of the DJ Union Services
in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this
Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set
forth in this Agreement and/or if any Content that you post on or through
the DJ Union Services causes DJ Union to be liable to another.
17. Other. This Agreement is accepted
upon your use of the DJ Union Website or any of the DJ Union Services
and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement
constitutes the entire agreement between you and DJ Union regarding
the use of the DJ Union Services. The failure of DJ Union to exercise
or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate
as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in
this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual
effect. DJ Union is a trademark of DJ Union, Inc. This Agreement
operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any provision
of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision
is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity
and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Please contact us at: Contact DJ Union
with any questions regarding this Agreement.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE
TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.