Terms of Service
Please read these terms and conditions carefully as they apply to your access to and use of the services described in this part of our Website. We ask you to pay particular attention to our privacy policy below which sets out how we treat information about visitors to our Website. To protect your own interests, please read these terms and conditions carefully before agreeing to them. When first registering to upload music to the site you will be asked to check a box indicating that you have read these terms and conditions and wish to proceed. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions then we cannot let you use our Website to upload music.
You can save these terms and conditions for your future reference by clicking on "save" and print a copy of them by clicking on "print". These terms and conditions form the entire agreement between you and us with respect to the use of our Website to upload music and the services we provide through it and replace all previous communications and agreements between us, whether electronic, oral or written, regarding the subject matter contained in our Website. A printed version of these terms and conditions and of any notice given in electronic form can be used in court or administrative proceedings in the same way as other business documents and records originally created and kept in printed form.
This Website may include hyperlinks to Websites operated by other parties and content posted by visitors to our Website. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating them and their inclusion does not imply our endorsement of their content. We are not responsible for the content of external Internet sites that link to this Website or which are linked from it. Nor are we responsible for any content posted to this Website by visitors.
We may change these terms and conditions at any time by posting changes online and you should refer to and comply with these terms on accessing the Website. Your continued use of this Website after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions as modified. Click here to find important information about The Amazing Group Limited.
Copyright and other Intellectual Property Rights' Notice
The contents of this site are protected by copyright under international law. The name “The Amazing Media Group Limited” and the “Amazing Tunes” logo are trade marks.
We acknowledge that copyright in any music composed and posted onto this site belongs to the composer of such music. Copyright in all other information and materials on this site belong exclusively to The Amazing Group Limited. All copyright, trade marks and other intellectual property rights in this Website (including the design, arrangement and look and feel) and all material or content supplied as part of the Website, other than the uploads themselves, shall remain at all times the property of The Amazing Group Limited or The Amazing Group Limited’s licensors.
Users are allowed to read the contents of this site and access the music which is available on the site. All other use and any copying of the contents of this site including music samples posted onto the site by other users is forbidden except that you may print and copy these terms and conditions for your reference. Copying from Websites of third parties is subject to any requirements applicable to those sites.
Do not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trade marks, or other proprietary information belonging to others without first getting the written permission of the owner of such proprietary rights. We will terminate Membership privileges of any person who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others. If you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide us with the following information: (i) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (ii) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website; (iii) your address, telephone number, and e-mail address; (iv) a written statement by you that you honestly believe that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (v) a statement by you that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Any information you give to us will be stored and used in accordance with our privacy policy set out below.
Security
Access to your user account with us and the material available on our Website will be gained by using the username and the password selected by you during the registration procedure. You are responsible for all activities on your account and you should keep your password and account details secret. In order to assist us with our security policy, you should restrict access to your computer and should not leave it unattended while you are logged on to our Website and should ensure that it is switched off each time you have finished.
You must tell us immediately if you believe that an unauthorised person knows your username or password or has access to your account.
We will refuse service or terminate your account if we suspect an unauthorised person is attempting to access it or if we are notified of an allegation that the music you have posted on this site infringes the copyright of any third party. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee that any data transmission over the internet is secure and you should bear this in mind when submitting any information to this site. In particular you should note that in creating and storing music on this site, access to such music will be available free of charge to any third party over the internet and The Amazing Group Limited has no control over how such music will be used by third parties. In this regard, your attention is drawn to the limitation of liability provisions below.
Prohibited Material
You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material:- which infringes the copyright of another person (that is it was copied from another work without the permission of the copyright owner); or that may be defamatory, threatening, indecent, obscene, offensive, pornographic, abusive, discriminatory, in breach of confidence or privacy or which may cause annoyance to any third party; or which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, gives rights to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or which is technically harmful to the site or other users (which includes, but is not limited to, computer viruses, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).
Limitation of Liability
Your attention is drawn specifically to this paragraph
This Website or any part of it may not be compatible with your browser or computer configuration and we make no claim that it is. We make no claim that our services via this Website will be available at any particular time or that your access to our Website will be uninterrupted, timely or error free and we will not be responsible if we are unable to provide the Website or its services for any reason. You agree that by composing and posting any music to this site, such music shall be made available to all third parties who may access this site and as such, we cannot be liable for any loss or damage you suffer as a result of such third party access which is beyond our reasonable control. If you are accessing our Website and services in the course of a business, all implied warranties and conditions are excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law.
We shall not be liable for any losses you suffer as a result of unauthorised access to your account until such time as you have informed us of any unauthorised or possible unauthorised use of your username and password or of a breach of security.
We shall not be liable for (a) any loss of profit, data loss, loss of production, depletion of goodwill and (b) any indirect loss, costs or expenses whatsoever in each case arising out of your use of our Website, your use of our services on our Website or our failure to deliver services contained on our Website. Our total liability for losses arising out of your use of this Website, your use of the services available through it or our failure to deliver any such services shall be limited to the total cost of the purchase under which the claim arises for any one event or series of connected events or, if no service has been purchased, to £500.
You agree that the exclusions and limitations of our liability included on this site are reasonable.
You agree not to use this Website or any other services accessible through your user account with us for any unlawful purposes or in a way that is prohibited by these terms and conditions (including, but not limited to, posting material onto this website contrary to the provisions of the paragraph entitled “Prohibited Material”). We may immediately terminate your account and your ability to access this Website if you breach any such terms and conditions or if we believe that we or our other customers may incur liability from your actions.
Your Liability to Us
In accessing our Website, you agree to indemnify us and to keep us indemnified from all or any liability or damages we incur in contract, tort or otherwise towards a third party as a result of your use of this Website or any of the services accessible through your user account.
In particular, where you have created or posted music onto this site, you agree to indemnify us and keep us indemnified from all or any liability or damage we incur in the event that such music infringes the copyright or other intellectual property rights of a third party. That means that if we are ordered to pay damages or we incur costs as a result of a claim that music posted by you infringes copyright then we can recover these damages and costs from you.
Our Customer Complaints Policy
We are committed to meeting the highest quality standards in the delivery of the service we provide to our customers. We aim to provide efficient and effective service and take any problems that do arise very seriously indeed. We aim to ensure that any complaints our customers may have are identified quickly and dealt with in accordance with our complaints handling procedure. In the event that you have any cause for complaint with regard to any of our services please click on the Contact Us link.
A copy of our written complaints procedure will be provided to you upon request.
General
If any provision contained in these terms and conditions is determined to be invalid or unenforceable the remainder of the terms and conditions shall not be affected.
Our Website is operated and controlled from the United Kingdom and these terms and conditions and your use of this Website are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Unless you are using our Website and services as a consumer, by agreeing to these terms and conditions you consent to all disputes arising out of or relating to your use of this Website being decided only by the courts of England and Wales. If you are accessing this Website from another country it is your responsibility to ensure compliance with the laws that apply to that country.
You are not allowed to transfer your rights under these terms and conditions to any other person.
Artist Additions
In posting music onto this site, you promise us that it is your own original work and that you own the copyright the music and that you have not used music owned by someone else in the production of your own music. We will remove any music postings from this site without notice if we become aware that such posting infringes the intellectual property rights of any third party. If anyone suggests that a track infringes their rights then we may remove that track while we investigate.
Uploading
You promise that all your recordings, reviews, comments, and all other material uploaded onto this website is original to you and does not infringe the copyright of any other person. That means that it was written and recorded by you or others who have given you permission to upload it and that in writing and recording the track no use was made of music written or recorded by anybody else. You must obtain any permission necessary for you to provide the uploaded materials to The Amazing Media Group Limited.
You agree that we may make the uploaded material available on the Website and any other media, whether now known or invented in the future, which may include other internet sites, mobile, television or radio. You now allow us to use, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format and sub license the uploaded material for such purposes.
We will only use, copy and make available any recordings you upload for promotional purposes, to promote the Website or your recording, or for any other purposes which are made clear to you, such as competitions. We will not use your recording in any other way without your permission. You allow us to publicise the recording and any service or programme which may include it, and you allow us to use and reproduce your name and photograph and recordings or copies of your recording in any such publicity.
You allow us to set the price of each track you upload onto this website. When we sell copies of your track we will deduct the transaction cost from this price and we will pay 70% of the remainder into your Amazing Tunes account. Thirty days after the end of each month The Amazing Media Group Ltd. will send you a cheque (provided the amount you are due is greater than £20 and The Amazing Group Ltd. has been able to collect payment).
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