Terms of Use
Please review these terms and conditions of use carefully before using our websites, including,
without
limitation, the following websites:
mp3juice
This document states the terms and conditions („Terms”) upon which mp3juice („we” or „us”) will
provide service to you on its websites, including, without limitation, the above listed websites
(collectively, the „Website”). These Terms constitute a contractual agreement between you and us. By
visiting, accessing, using, and/or joining (collectively „using”) the Website, you express your
understanding and acceptance of these Terms. As used in this document, the terms „you” or „your”
refers
to you, any entity you represent, your or its representatives, successors, assigns and affiliates,
and
any of your or their devices. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, navigate away from the
Website and cease using it.
1. Eligibility
- You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to use the Website, unless the age of majority
in
your jurisdiction is greater than eighteen (18) years of age, in which case you must be at least
the
age of majority in your jurisdiction. Use of the Website is not permitted where prohibited by
law.
- The consideration for your acceptance of these Terms is that we are providing you the Grant of
Use
to use the Website pursuant to Section 2 hereof. You acknowledge and agree that this
consideration
is adequate and that you have received the consideration.
2. Grant of Use
- We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable and limited right to access, non-publicly
display,
and use the Website, including all content available therein (the „Content”) (subject to the
restrictions of the Website) on your computer or mobile device consistent with these Terms. You
may
only access and use the Website for your personal and noncommercial use.
- This grant is terminable by us at will for any reason and at our sole discretion, with or
without
prior notice. Upon termination, we may, but shall not be obligated to: (i) delete or deactivate
your
account, (ii) block your e-mail and/or IP addresses or otherwise terminate your use of and
ability
to use the Website, and/or (iii) remove and/or delete any of your User Submissions (defined
below).
You agree not to use or attempt to use the Website after said termination. Upon termination, the
grant of your right to use the Website shall terminate, but all other portions of these Terms
shall
survive. You acknowledge that we are not responsible to you or any third party for the
termination
of your grant of use.
3. Intellectual Property
- The Content on the Website, excluding User Submissions and Third Party Content (defined below),
but
including other text, graphical images, photographs, music, video, software, scripts and
trademarks,
service marks and logos contained therein (collectively „Proprietary Materials”), are owned by
and/or licensed to us. All Proprietary Materials are subject to copyright, trademark and/or
other
rights under the laws of applicable jurisdictions, including domestic laws, foreign laws, and
international conventions. We reserve all our rights over our Proprietary Materials.
- Except as otherwise explicitly permitted, you agree not to copy, modify, publish, transmit,
distribute, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works of, or in any other
way
exploit, in whole or in part, any Content.
4. User Submissions
- You are entirely responsible for any and all materials you upload, submit, transmit, create,
modify
or otherwise make available via the Website, including any sound files that you create, modify,
transmit or download through the Website (collectively, „User Submissions”). User Submissions
cannot
always be withdrawn. You acknowledge that any disclosure of personal information in User
Submissions
may make you personally identifiable and that we do not guarantee any confidentiality with
respect
to User Submissions.
- You shall be solely responsible for any and all of your own User Submissions and any and all
consequences of uploading, submitting, modifying, transmitting, creating or otherwise making
available the User Submissions. For any and all of your User Submissions, you affirm, represent
and
warrant that:
- You own or have the necessary licenses, permissions, rights or consents to use and
authorize
us to use all trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets or other proprietary rights in and
to
User Submissions for any and all uses contemplated by the Website and these Terms;
- You will not post, or allow anyone else to post, any material that depicts any sexually
explicit acts; and
- You have written consent, release, and/or permission from each and every identifiable
individual in the User Submission to use the name and/or likeness of each and every such
identifiable individual to enable use of the User Submission for any and all uses
contemplated by the Websites and these Terms.
- You further agree that you shall not upload, submit, create, transmit, modify or otherwise make
available material that:
- Is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or trademark laws, or otherwise subject to
third
party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the
owner
of such rights or have explicit permission from the rightful owner to submit the
material
and to grant us all of the license rights granted herein;
- Is obscene, vulgar, illegal, unlawful, defamatory, fraudulent, libelous, harmful,
harassing,
abusive, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, racially or
ethnically offensive, inflammatory, or otherwise inappropriate as decided by us in our
sole
discretion;
- Depicts illegal activities, promotes or depicts physical harm or injury against any
group or
individual, or promotes or depicts any act of cruelty to animals;
- Impersonates any person or entity or otherwise misrepresents you in any way, including
creating a false identity;
- Would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, a violation
of
the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local,
state, national or international law; or
- Is unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotion, „spam” or any other form of
solicitation.
- We claim no ownership or control over User Submissions or Third Party Content. You or a
third-party
licensor, as appropriate, retain all copyrights to User Submissions and you are responsible for
protecting those rights as appropriate. You irrevocably grant us a world-wide, non-exclusive,
royalty-free, perpetual, non-cancelable, sub-licenseable license to reproduce, publicly perform,
publicly display, distribute, adapt, modify, publish, translate, create derivative works of and
otherwise exploit User Submissions for any purpose, including without limitation any purpose
contemplated by the Website and these Terms. You also irrevocably waive and cause to be waived
against us and any of our users any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with
respect to User Submissions.
- You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant
the
rights granted herein to User Submissions. Specifically, you represent and warrant that you own
the
title to the User Submissions, that you have the right to upload, modify, access, transmit,
create
or otherwise make available the User Submissions on the Website, and that uploading the User
Submissions will not infringe upon any other party's rights or your contractual obligations to
other
parties.
- You acknowledge that we may at our sole discretion refuse to publish, remove, or block access to
any
User Submission for any reason, or for no reason at all, with or without notice.
- Without limiting the other indemnification provisions herein, you agree to defend us against any
claim, demand, suit or proceeding made or brought against us by a third-party alleging that your
User Submissions or your use of the Website in violation of these Terms infringes or
misappropriates
the intellectual property rights of any third-party or violates applicable law and you shall
indemnify us for any and all damages against us and for reasonable attorney's fees and other
costs
incurred by us in connection with any such claim, demand, suit or proceeding.
5. Content on the Website
- You understand and acknowledge that, when using the Website, you will be exposed to content from
a
variety of sources including content made available on the Website by other users, services,
parties
and through automated or other means (collectively, „Third Party Content”) and that we do not
control and are not responsible for any Third Party Content. You understand and acknowledge that
you
may be exposed to content that is inaccurate, offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable or
may
cause harm to your computer systems and, without limiting the other limitation of liability
provisions herein, you agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or
remedies you may have against us with respect thereto.
- We claim no ownership or control over Third Party Content. Third parties retain all rights to
Third
Party Content and they are responsible for protecting their rights as appropriate.
- You understand and acknowledge that we assume no responsibility whatsoever for monitoring the
Website for inappropriate content or conduct. If at any time we choose, in our sole discretion,
to
monitor such content, we assume no responsibility for such content, have no obligation to modify
or
remove any such content (including User Submissions and Third Party Content), and assume no
responsibility for the conduct of others submitting any such content (including User Submissions
and
Third Party Content).
- Without limiting the provisions below on limitations of liability and disclaimers of warranties,
all
Content (including User Submissions and Third Party Content) on the Website is provided to you
„AS-IS” for your information and personal use only and you shall not use, copy, reproduce,
distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license or otherwise exploit for any other
purpose
whatsoever the Content without the prior written consent of the respective owners/licensors of
the
Content.
- You acknowledge that we may at our sole discretion refuse to publish, remove, or block access to
any
Content for any reason, or for no reason at all, with or without notice.
6. User Conduct
- You represent and warrant that all the information and content provided by you to us is accurate
and
current and that you have all necessary rights, power and authority to (i) agree to these Terms,
(ii) provide the User Submissions to us, and (iii) perform the acts required of you under these
Terms.
- You hereby expressly authorize us to monitor, record and log any of your activities on the
Website.
- As a condition of your use of the Website:
- You agree not to use the Website for any unlawful purpose or in any way that is
prohibited
by these Terms;
- You agree to abide by all applicable local, state, national and international laws and
regulations;
- You agree not to use the Website in any way that exposes us to criminal or civil
liability;
- You agree that you are solely responsible for all acts and omissions that occur as a
result
of your use of the Website;
- You agree that all your User Submissions belong to you and that you have the right and
authority to provide them to us and make use of them on or through the Website;
- You agree not to use any automated means, including robots, crawlers or data mining
tools,
to download, monitor or use data or Content from the Website;
- You agree not to take any action that imposes, or may impose, in our sole discretion, an
unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our technology infrastructure or
otherwise
make excessive demands on it;
- You agree not to „stalk” or otherwise harass anyone on or through the Website;
- You agree not to forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise
the
origin of any information you transmit;
- You agree not to disable, circumvent, or otherwise interfere with security related
features
of the Website or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or
which
enforce limitations on the use of the Website or the content therein;
- You agree not to post, link to, or otherwise make available on the Website any material
that
contains software viruses or any computer code, file or program designed to interrupt,
destroy, limit or monitor the functionality of any computer software or hardware or any
telecommunications equipment;
- You agree not to license, sublicense, sell, resell, transfer, assign, distribute or
otherwise in any way commercially exploit or make available the Website or any Content
to
any third party;
- You agree not to „frame” or „mirror” the Website; and
- You agree not to reverse engineer any portion of the Website.
- We reserve the right to take appropriate action against any user for any unauthorized use of the
Website, including civil, criminal and injunctive redress and the termination of any user's use
of
the Website. Any use of the Website and our computer systems not authorized by these Terms is a
violation of these Terms and certain international, foreign and domestic criminal and civil
laws.
- In addition to termination of the grant of use of the Website, any violation of this Agreement,
including the provisions of this Section 6, shall subject you to liquidated damages of ten
thousand
dollars ($10,000) for each violation. In the event that your violation results in legal action
(whether against you or against us by any party) or physical or emotional harm to any party, you
shall be subject to liquidated damages of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000) for
each
violation. We may, in our discretion, assign any such damage claim or portion thereof to a third
party that has been wronged by your conduct. These liquidated damages provisions are not a
penalty,
but instead an attempt by the Parties to reasonably ascertain the amount of actual damage that
could
occur from such a violation. You acknowledge and agree that the amount of these liquidated
damages
is a minimum and that if actual damages are greater you shall be liable for the greater amount.
If a
court of competent jurisdiction finds that these liquidated damages are unenforceable to any
extent,
then the liquidated damages shall be lowered only by the extent necessary for them to be
enforceable.
7. Services on the Website
- You acknowledge that the Website is a general-purpose search engine and tool. Specifically, but
without limitation, the Website allows you to search multiple websites for music. Moreover, the
Website is a general-purpose tool that allows you to download audio files from videos and audio
from
elsewhere on the Internet. The Website may only be used in accordance with law. We do not
encourage,
condone, induce or allow any use of the Website that may be in violation of any law.
- We do not store any User Submissions for anything longer than a transitory period of time to
give
users chance to download their content.
8. Fees
- You acknowledge that we reserve the right to charge for any or all of our services and to change
our
fees from time to time in our sole discretion. If at any time we terminate your rights to use
the
Website because of a breach of these Terms, you shall not be entitled to a refund of any portion
of
your fees. In all other respects, such fees shall be governed by additional rules, terms,
conditions
or agreements posted on the Website and/or imposed by any sales agent or payment processing
company,
as may be amended from time to time.
9. Privacy Policy
- We retain a separate Privacy Policy and your
assent to these Terms also signifies your assent to the Privacy
Policy. We reserve the right to
amend the Privacy Policy at any time by
posting such amendments to the Website. No other notification may be made to you about any
amendments. Your continued use of the Website following such amendments will constitute your
acceptance of such amendments, regardless of whether you have actually read them.
10. Copyright Claims
11. Modification of These Terms
- We reserve the right to amend these Terms at any time by posting such amended Terms to the
Website.
No other notification may be made to you about any amendments. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR
CONTINUED
USE OF THE WEBSITE FOLLOWING SUCH AMENDMENTS WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF SUCH AMENDMENTS,
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU HAVE ACTUALLY READ THEM.
12. Indemnification and Release
- You hereby agree to indemnify us and hold us harmless from any and all damages and third-party
claims and expenses, including attorney's fees, arising from your use of the Website and/or from
your breach of these Terms.
- In the event that you have a dispute with one of more other users or any third parties, you
hereby
release us, our officers, employees, agents and successors-in-right from claims, demands and
damages
(actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known and unknown, suspected and
unsuspected,
disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and/or the
Website.
13. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitations of Liabilities
- READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY AS IT LIMITS OUR LIABILITY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER
APPLICABLE LAW (BUT NO FURTHER).
- >The Website may contain links to third-party websites which are independent of us. We assume
no
responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of and make no representation or
warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of information contained in any third
party websites. We have no right or ability to edit the content of any third party websites. You
acknowledge that we shall not be liable for any and all liability arising from your use of any
third
party websites.
- The Website is provided „AS-IS” and without any warranty or condition, express, implied or
statutory. We specifically disclaim to the fullest extent any implied warranties of
merchantability,
fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, information accuracy, integration,
interoperability or quiet enjoyment. We disclaim any warranties for viruses or other harmful
components in connection with the Websites. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of
implied warranties, therefore in such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing disclaimers may not
apply
to you or be limited insofar as they relate to such implied warranties.
- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR
EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) RESULTING
FROM
ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, WHETHER, WITHOUT LIMITATION, SUCH DAMAGES ARISE FROM (i)
YOUR
USE, MISUSE OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE, (ii) YOUR RELIANCE ON ANY CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE,
(iii)
THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION OR COMPLETE DISCONTINUANCE OF THE WEBSITE
OR
(iv) THE TERMINATION OF SERVICE BY US. THESE LIMITATIONS ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES
INCURRED
BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEBSITE.
SOME
JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW SOME LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY, THEREFORE, IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, SOME
OF
THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU OR BE LIMITED.
- WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT (i) THE WEBSITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR EXPECTATIONS, (ii) THE
WEBSITE
WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED
FROM
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS,
SERVICES,
INFORMATION, CONTENT OR OTHER MATERIAL OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS
OR
EXPECTATIONS, OR (v) ANY ERRORS IN CONTENT WILL BE CORRECTED.
- ANY CONTENT OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE WEBSITE IS OBTAINED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK.
YOU
ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA
THAT
RESULTS FROM SUCH CONTENT.
- YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE RIGHT AND REMEDY IN CASE OF DISSATISFACTION WITH THE WEBSITE OR ANY
OTHER
GRIEVANCE SHALL BE THE TERMINATION OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING,
IN NO
CASE SHALL THE MAXIMUM LIABILITY OF US ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITES
EXCEED
$100.
14. Legal Disputes
- To the maximum extent permitted by law, these Terms as well as any claim, cause of action, or
dispute that may arise between you and us, are governed by the laws of Anguilla without regard
to
conflict of law provisions. FOR ANY CLAIM BROUGHT BY YOU AGAINST US, YOU AGREE TO SUBMIT AND
CONSENT
TO THE PERSONAL AND EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION IN, AND THE EXCLUSIVE VENUE OF THE COURTS IN
ANGUILLA.
FOR ANY CLAIM BROUGHT BY US AGAINST YOU, YOU AGREE TO SUBMIT AND CONSENT TO PERSONAL
JURISDICTION IN
AND THE VENUE OF THE COURTS IN ANGUILLA AND ANYWHERE ELSE YOU CAN BE FOUND. You hereby waive any
right to seek another venue because of improper or inconvenient forum.
- YOU AGREE THAT YOU MAY BRING CLAIMS ONLY IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR
CLASS
MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION.
- You hereby agree that as part of the consideration for these terms, you are hereby
waiving
any right you may have to a trial by jury for any dispute between the us arising from or
relating to
these terms or the Website. This provision shall be enforceable even in the case that any
arbitration provisions or any other provisions of this section are waived.
15. General Terms
- These Terms, as amended from time to time, constitute the entire agreement between you and us
and
supersede all prior agreements between you and us and may not be modified without our written
consent.
- Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms will not be construed as a waiver of any
provision or right.
- If any part of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable
law,
then the invalid and unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable
provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of
the
agreement shall continue in effect.
- Nothing herein is intended, nor will be deemed, to confer rights or remedies upon any third
party.
- These Terms are not assignable, transferable or sub-licensable by you except with our prior
written
consent, but may be assigned or transferred by us without restriction.
- You agree that we may provide you with notices by e-mail, regular mail, or postings to the
Website.
- The section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual
effect.
- As used in these Terms, the term „including” is illustrative and not limitative.
- If this agreement is translated and executed in any language other than English and there is any
conflict as between the translation and the English version, the English version shall control.