This Agreement specifies the terms and conditions that govern your use of the Noisy
Planet website, in whole or in part occupying the domain NoisyPlanet.net, as well
as any affiliated domains owned by Noisy Planet, Inc. including but not limited
to mynoisyplanet.com, noisyplanetblog.com, noisyplanetcommunity.com, noisyplanetentertainment.com,
noisyplanetlive.com, noisyplanetmusic.com, and noisyplanetmp3.com. When we refer
to "use" of Noisy Planet websites, we mean any actual or attempted access or use
of the websites, including, without limitation, any transmission, exchange of information
or communication associated with the websites.
Noisy Planet is a service that allows members to listen to music, purchase and download
music and podcasts, post comments, creates blogs, upload pictures/audio/video and
to be part of a music community. The service is operated by Noisy Planet, Inc.,
("Noisy Planet") a Nevada Corporation. By using the Noisy Planet Website (the "Website")
you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (this "Agreement"), whether or not you
register as a member ("Member"). If you wish to become a Member, communicate with
other Members and make use of the Noisy Planet above mentioned services (the "Service"),
please read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance by following the instructions
in the Registration process. This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms for
your use of the Website and your Membership in the Service. Noisy Planet may modify
this Agreement from time to time and shall notify you if such changes are made.
Upon notification of any changes you will be bound by the new changes unless you
notify Noisy Planet that you no longer wish to abide by the Terms of Use as presented.
This Agreement includes Noisy Planet's policy for acceptable use and content posted
on the Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of
the Website and the Service and Noisy Planet's Privacy Policy. A copy of the current
Terms of Use agreement shall be available at all times on the Noisy Planet site.
Please choose carefully the information you post on Noisy Planet and that you provide
to other Members. Any postings to Noisy Planet may not include the following items:
any photographs or video content posted by you may not contain nudity or obscene,
lewd, excessively violent, harassing, hateful, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable
subject matter. Information provided by other Noisy Planet Members may contain inaccurate,
inappropriate or offensive material, products or services and Noisy Planet assumes
no responsibility or liability for such material. A Member must notify Noisy Planet
immediately upon viewing any objectionable material such that Noisy Planet may remove
the same from the Noisy Planet site. Noisy Planet reserves the right, in its sole
discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting by you, or to restrict,
suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website and/or Services
at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.
By participating in any non-virtual or live events produced, presented or sponsored
by Noisy Planet, you agree to release and hold Noisy Planet harmless from any and
all losses, damages, rights, claims, and actions of any kind including, without
limitation, personal injuries, death, and property damage, either directly or indirectly
related to or arising from your participation in any such Noisy Planet event. The
following set out the basic rules and regulations for the Website:
- Eligibility. Membership in the Service is void where prohibited by law.
By using the Website and the Service, you represent and warrant that all registration
information you submit is truthful and accurate and that you agree to maintain the
accuracy of such information. You further represent and warrant that you are 13
years of age or older and that your use of Noisy Planet shall not violate any applicable
law or regulation. Your Membership is solely for your personal use, and you shall
not authorize others to use your account. You are solely responsible for all Content
published or displayed through your account and for your interactions with other
members.
- Term. This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use
the Website, the Service, and/or are a Member. You may terminate your membership
at any time, for any reason by following the instructions on the member account
page. Noisy Planet may terminate your membership for any reason, effective upon
sending notice to you at the email address you provide in your Membership application
or such other email address as you may subsequently provide to Noisy Planet.
- Non Commercial Use by Members. The Website is for the personal use of Members
only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those
that are specifically endorsed or approved by the management of Noisy Planet. Illegal
and/or unauthorized use of the Website, including collecting usernames 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 Website will be investigated.
Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may
be removed from member comments, blogs or other postings without notice and may
result in termination of membership privileges. Appropriate legal action may be
taken by Noisy Planet for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.
- Proprietary Rights in Content on Noisy Planet. Noisy Planet owns and retains
all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The Website contains copyrighted
material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of Noisy Planet and its
licensors. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which
you have been given written permission, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit,
distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.
- Content Posted on the Site. a. You understand and agree that Noisy Planet
may review and delete any content, messages, text, files, images, Noisy Planet Messenger
messages, photos, videos, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials
(collectively, "Content") that in the sole judgment of Noisy Planet violate this
Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten
the safety of any Member. b. You are solely responsible for the Content that you
publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service or any material or information
that you transmit to other Members. c. By posting any Content to the public areas
of the Website, you hereby grant to Noisy Planet the non-exclusive, worldwide license
to use, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, and translate such Content on
the Website. This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from
the Website. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you
on the Website or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this
section, and (ii) your Content does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights,
copyright rights, intellectual property rights, or any other rights of any person,
and (iii) the posting of your Content on the Website does not result in a breach
of any contract between you and a third party. You agree to pay for all royalties,
fees and any other monies owing any person by reason of any Content you post on
the Website. d. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal
or prohibited on the Website. Noisy Planet reserves the right to investigate and
take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates
this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication
from the Service and terminating the membership of such violators. Prohibited Content
includes Content that: i. is obscene, patently offensive, or promotes racism, bigotry,
hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual; ii. harasses
or advocates harassment of another person; iii. involves the transmission of "junk
mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming"; iv. promotes
information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities
or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous; v. 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
manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links
to pirated music files; vi. contains restricted or password only access pages or
hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page); vii.
provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent
manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18; viii. provides instructional
information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating
someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses; ix. solicits passwords
or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other
users; or x. involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written
consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
(xi) for artist, band or musician profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or
any other unfair, misleading or deceptive content intended to draw traffic to the
profile. e. You must use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable
laws and regulations. f. You may not include in your Member profile any telephone
numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses. g. You may not engage
in advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or
services through the Service. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email
to other Members. Although Noisy Planet cannot monitor the conduct of its Members
off the Website, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained
from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order
to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit
consent. h. You may not cover or obscure the banner advertisements on your personal
profile page, or any Noisy Planet page via HTML/CSS or any other means. i. Any automated
use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends, is prohibited. j. You may
not attempt to impersonate another user or person who is not a member of Noisy Planet.
k. You may not use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time
nor may you disclose your password to any third party or permit any third party
to access your account.
- Copyright Policy. You may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way
any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining
the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy
of Noisy Planet to terminate membership privileges of any member who repeatedly
infringes copyright upon prompt notification to Noisy Planet by the copyright owner
or the copyright owner's legal agent. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe
that your work has been copied and posted on the Service in a way that constitutes
copyright infringement, please submit an inquiry in writing to
legal@noisyplanet.net or Noisy Planet, Inc., 507 Casazza Street, Suite A,
Reno, NV, 89509 United States with the following information: an electronic or physical
signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright
interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the
Website; your address, telephone number, and email address; a written 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; a statement by you, made under penalty
of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are
the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
- Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your interactions with
other Noisy Planet Members. Noisy Planet, Inc. reserves the right, but has no obligation,
to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
- Downloading Music. You agree that You will abide by the license provided
herein in regard to the downloading of music from this website. Any download purchase
of a digital musical file, whether for no charge or for a fee, from this Website
shall entitle You to personal use of such digital music file throughout the world
for the life of the copyright in the sound recording and the musical work embodied
in the sound recording. Your use of any purchased or free digital musical file shall
allow you to transfer the file you your own computer, portable music device or to
burn the same on a CD-r or other digital music storage media, but shall not entitle
You to transfer such digital music file to any third party or to place such digital
music file on a peer-to-peer network or to transfer such digital music file to any
media that is not solely owned and controlled by You. You acknowledge and agree
that to violate the terms as set out above shall constitute a copyright infringement
under Federal Copyright Law in the United States .
- Privacy. Use of the Website and/or the Service is also governed by our
Privacy Policy: Information Collection and Use by Noisy Planet: Noisy Planet collects
user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to authenticate
users and to send notifications to those users relating to the Noisy Planet service.
Noisy Planet also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal
interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding
and communicating with each other. Noisy Planet also logs non-personally-identifiable
information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and
browser type, from users and visitors to the site This data is used to manage the
website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable
information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and
advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring
purposes. User Profile information including members' pictures and first names are
displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the Noisy Planet
music community. User's email address is not shared or displayed to people within
a user's personal network. Users within a Noisy Planet network communicate on Noisy
Planet with each other internally through the Noisy Planet service, without disclosing
their email addresses. Users' full names are never directly revealed to other members.
To facilitate searching on the Website, Noisy Planet allows users to search for
other members using first and last name, band or artist name or company name. We
may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding
the Service. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their
"notification" setting to "Do not send me notification emails" in the user "Account
Settings". From time to time, Noisy Planet or a partner, may sponsor a promotion
or contest on Noisy Planet. Users may be asked to provide personal information including
name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate.
We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly
requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection
who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
Links: Noisy Planet contains links to sites. Noisy Planet is not responsible for
the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site
a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only
governs information collected on Noisy Planet. Chat Rooms, Journals and WebLogs,
Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums: Please be aware that whenever you
voluntarily post public information to Journals, WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds
or any other Public Forums that that information can be accessed by the public and
can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications. Correcting/Updating
or Removing Information: Noisy Planet users may modify or remove any of their personal
information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such
as Edit Profile and Account Info. Security: Noisy Planet member accounts are secured
by member-created passwords Noisy Planet takes precautions to ensure that member
account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member
information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member
information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such
as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot
guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use,
hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member
information at any time Sharing and Disclosure of Information Noisy Planet Collects:
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, Noisy Planet will not disclose
personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary:
(1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant
or other legal process received by Noisy Planet, whether or not a response is required
by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Noisy Planet Terms of Use Agreement or to
protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users
of the service. Noisy Planet reserves the right to transfer personal information
to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result
of the sale of Noisy Planet or substantially all of its assets to that successor
in interest.
- Disclaimers. Noisy Planet is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate
Content posted on the Website or in connection with the Service provided, whether
caused by users of the Website, Members or by any of the equipment or programming
associated with or utilized in the Service. Noisy Planet is not responsible for
the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website or Member of
the Service. Noisy Planet 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. Noisy Planet 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 at any Website or combination thereof,
including any injury or damage to users and/or Members or to any person's computer
related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection
with the Website and/or in connection with the Service. Under no circumstances shall
Noisy Planet be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or
death, resulting from use of the Website or the Service or from any Content posted
on the Website or transmitted to Members, or any interactions between users of the
Website, whether online or offline. The Website and the Service are provided "AS-IS"
and Noisy Planet expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose
or non-infringement. Noisy Planet cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific
results from use of the Website and/or the Service.
- Limitation on Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL NOISY PLANET 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
WEB SITE OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF NOISY PLANET HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, NOISY
PLANET’S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF
THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO NOISY
PLANET FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
- Disputes.If there is any dispute about or involving the Website and/or
the Service, by using the Website, you agree that any dispute shall be governed
by the laws of the State of Nevada without regard to conflict of law provisions
and you agree to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the courts of the City of
Reno, NV, United States.
- Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold Noisy Planet, its subsidiaries,
affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees, harmless from any
loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable legal fees, made by any
third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service 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 above. Other. This Agreement is accepted
upon your use of the Website and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member of
the Service. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Noisy
Planet regarding the use of the Website and/or the Service. The failure of Noisy
Planet 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. Please contact
us with any questions regarding this Agreement. Noisy Planet is a trademark of Noisy
Planet, Inc.