Terms and Conditions

Introduction

1.1 These Terms and Conditions govern your use of our website, pledgemusic.com.

1.2 By using our website, you accept these Terms and Conditions in full; if you disagree with any part of these Terms and Conditions, you must not use our website.

1.3 If you register with our website, submit any material to our website, or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these Terms and Conditions.

1.4 You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

1.5 Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our Privacy and Cookies Policy.

Copyright Notice

2.1 Copyright (c) 2024 pledgemusic.com.

2.2 Subject to the express provisions of these Terms and Conditions:

  • (a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website.
  • (b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

Definitions and Key Terms

For these Terms and Conditions:

  • Cookie: A small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your browser, used to identify your browser, provide analytics, remember information about you such as your language preference or login information.
  • Company: When these Terms and Conditions mention “company,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” it refers to pledgemusic.com.
  • Country: Where pledgemusic.com or the owners/founders of pledgemusic.com are based.
  • Customer: Refers to the company, organization, or person that signs up to use the pledgemusic.com service.
  • Device: Any internet-connected device such as a phone, tablet, computer, or any other device that can be used to visit pledgemusic.com and use the services.
  • IP Address: Every device connected to the Internet is assigned a number known as an Internet Protocol (IP) address.
  • Personnel: Refers to those individuals who are employed by pledgemusic.com or are under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties.
  • Personal Data: Any information that, directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information, including a personal identification number, allows for the identification of a natural person.
  • Service: Refers to the service provided by pledgemusic.com as described in these Terms and Conditions.
  • Third-party Service: Refers to advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you.
  • Website: pledgemusic.com’s site, which can be accessed via this URL: pledgemusic.com.
  • User: A person or entity that is registered with pledgemusic.com to use the services.

License to Use Website

pledgemusic.com grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to use our service strictly in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

Permission to Use Website

5.1 You may:

  • (a) view pages from our website in a web browser;
  • (b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
  • (c) print pages from our website;
  • (d) stream audio and video files from our website;
  • (e) use our website services by means of a web browser, subject to the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions.

5.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 5.1 or the other provisions of these Terms and Conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

5.3 You may only use our website for your own personal use, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.

5.4 Except as expressly permitted by these Terms and Conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

5.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

  • (a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);
  • (b) sell, rent, or sub-license material from our website;
  • (c) show any material from our website in public;
  • (d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose;
  • (e) redistribute material from our website.

5.6 Notwithstanding Section 5.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.

5.7 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass any access restriction measures on our website.

Misuse of Website

6.1 You must not:

  • (a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, or accessibility of the website;
  • (b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful purpose or activity;
  • (c) hack or otherwise tamper with our website;
  • (d) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our website without permission;
  • (e) circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;
  • (f) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish, or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit, or other malicious computer software;
  • (g) impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity, and processing capacity);
  • (h) decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;
  • (i) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction, and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;
  • (j) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider, or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
  • (k) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;
  • (l) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including, without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing, and direct mailing);
  • (m) do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.

6.2 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website or in relation to our website is true, accurate, current, complete, and non-misleading.

Restrictions

You agree not to, and you will not permit others to:

  • 7.1 License, sell, rent, lease, assign, distribute, transmit, host, outsource, disclose, or otherwise commercially exploit the service or make the platform available to any third party.
  • 7.2 Modify, make derivative works of, disassemble, decrypt, reverse compile, or reverse engineer any part of the service.
  • 7.3 Remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notice (including any notice of copyright or trademark) of pledgemusic.com or its affiliates, partners, suppliers, or the licensors of the service.