WEBSITE
GENERAL TERMS OF USE:
GENERAL:
The information,
artwork, text, video, audio, pictures, software and other
intellectual property (collectively, "Materials") contained
on the Website are protected by copyright and international laws. You
may only access and use the Materials for personal use. You may not
otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display,
modify or create derivative works of the Materials (or authorise
others to) for commercial gain, unless authorised by the appropriate
copyright owner(s).
Framing of the Website is permitted only
with Universal's express agreement, and any stipulation on how the
framing will be displayed or made available on any third party site
shall be at Universal's sole discretion. Universal reserves the right
to withhold consent for any reason and any failure to monitor or
control each instance of framing shall not be considered a waiver of
any of Universal's rights. Any framing by a third party shall not
imply the endorsement or sponsorship of Universal.
You
expressly agree that use of the Website and related services is at
your sole risk. The Website, Materials and related services are
provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
Universal makes no representations or warranties with regard to the
Website or any Materials therein, whether express or implied, arising
by law or otherwise, including, without limitation, any implied
warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or
non-infringement or any implied warranty arising out of course of
performance, course of dealing or usage of trade.
By using
the Website, Materials or related services, you agree that Universal
will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever
and howsoever arising out of or in connection with the viewing, use
or performance of the Website, Materials or related services whether
due to inaccuracy, error, omission or any other cause.
Universal
reserves the right to change any content on this Website, including
but limited to revising and/or deleting or adding features or
information without prior notice to users, if, however, you have any
queries or comments about this Website and/or its content please let
us know by sending us an email on info@umusic.com.
By using this Website you agree to the Terms of Use. Universal
reserves the right to prevent access to any user who is found to be
in breach of these Terms of Use.
If any provision of these
Terms of Use is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision
shall be struck out and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.
Universal's failure to act with respect to a breach by you or
others does not waive its right to act with respect to subsequent or
similar breaches. Changes may be made to these Terms of Use from time
to time. These terms of use are governed in all aspects by the Laws
of England and Wales. Legal proceedings related to the matters set
out in the terms of use shall be brought and adjudicated solely in
the courts of England and Wales
LINKS
This Website
may contain links to other Websites. Universal is not responsible for
or liable for the content or Terms of Use and practises of other
Websites. All external Websites are accessed at the users own risk.
COOKIES
Universal sometimes uses cookies. A cookie is
a small text file that can be stored on your computer's hard drive.
It may be stored and updated at various times as you access the
website. Each time you visit the website, the server may deliver
certain customised information to your computer based on the data
stored in your cookie. This allows Universal to tailor the service to
your preferences. You are not obliged to accept a cookie and you may
modify your browser so that it will not accept cookies. If you wish
to purchase any items on the Website you need to ensure that cookies
are enabled. If, however, you do not want to accept cookies please
use the help tools provided with your internet browser to find out
how to achieve this. We never use cookies to retrieve information
from your computer which was not originally contained in the cookie.
We use cookies and IP addresses for system administration and to
monitor aggregate non-personalised information (such as anonymous
statistics related to the take up or use of services, or to patterns
of browsing). Certain non-personal information about users is
recorded by the standard operation of Universal's internet servers.
Examples of this type of information include the type of browsers
being used, its operating system and the domain names (not e-mail
addresses, where possible) of users. Universal is part of a worldwide
group of companies, it may be necessary from time to time for
information to be transferred from the point of collection to a
server located in another jurisdiction. Information will only be so
transferred in circumstances where it is necessary to achieve the
purposes set out in this Privacy
Policy
or the purposes made known to users at the time information is
collected.
PURCHASING CONTENT, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ON THE
WEBSITE
If you wish to purchase any content, products or
services offered on this Website you will be asked to supply certain
information. You will be asked to provide your name and email address
and depending on the method of payment you will be asked to provide
details of either your credit card or your mobile phone. Access to
certain content or products may be age restricted. Where any such
restriction applies you will be asked to confirm that you are old
enough to purchase the items or purchase and view the content as
appropriate.
MESSAGE BOARDS/WEBCHAT
We may monitor
any message board and/or webchat area which exists on this Website
though we are not under any obligation to do so. We advise you to use
care and discretion when disclosing personal information on any
message board or on any chat area on this Website as other users may
collect and use this information and this may result in users
receiving unsolicited messages from other people. Please refer to the
Safe Surfing Guide on this
Website
for some guidance.
Users must not upload, post, publish or
transmit any unlawful, fraudulent, libellous, defamatory, obscene,
threatening abuse or otherwise objectionable information of any kind,
in any area of the Website including on message boards and in webchat
areas. Universal considers as constituting objectionable information
any information which constitutes or encourages the breach of any
intellectual property right including copyright whether such right is
owned by Universal or any third party.
Universal reserves the
right to remove or edit (without notice) any item of information
which it considers to be in breach of these Terms of Use and to
disclose any information as necessary or appropriate to satisfy any
law, regulation or other governmental request. Universal also
reserves the right to bar any user from the message board and webchat
areas of the Website if he or she uploads, posts, publishes or
transmits objectionable information in these areas.
Any user
of this Website should contact us immediately by email if he or she
feels that any message posted on any message board or the content of
any webchat is objectionable in any way. We will then endeavour to
remove the objectionable messages if we consider it to be necessary.
USE BY CHILDREN
If you are under the age of 16 you
should obtain the consent of your parents or legal guardians for
submitting any personal information to this Website.
By
submitting your audio-visual entry to us via the Beauty and the Beast
Website and participating with the #beourguest you confirm that you
are 13 or older and have obtained all necessary consent from your
parent and/or legal guardian for you to participate in this social
media activity via the Beauty and the Beast website. We reserve the
right to request proof of age as well as proof of parent and/or
guardians consent for entrants aged 16 and under. You and your
parents or legal guardians should also read the Safe
Surfing Guide
on the Website. Parents or legal guardians may review or change the
personal information of their children or refuse further collection
of any such information by sending an email to us at info@umusic.com.
We reserve the right to reject and refuse entrants if proof is not
accepted by us. We shall moderate all entries submitted by entrants
to the Beauty and the Beast website. We will moderate entries and do
not endorse content to be uploaded by entrants under the age of 13,
we do not accept any liability in respect thereof, but we will use
our reasonable endeavours to verify entries and consents.
RESEARCH
We are always looking to improve our user experience on the
website and to find out more about our users' tastes in music. We
conduct research with Universal Music by sending out questionnaires
from time to time by email. If you receive one you do not need to
complete it if you do not want to. If at any time you wish to stop
receiving research questionnaires you can reply to the email address
at the bottom of the email you receive. Alternatively email us at
info@umusic.com
and tell us you do not want to receive any more questionnaires.
FORWARDING WEB PAGES
If we provide you with the
opportunity to email a web page to another person, we will need to
collect your email address and the email address of those to whom you
send the page. We will use the email addresses collected this way for
no other purpose expect to send the web page, and the addresses will
be deleted once the page has been sent unless you have opted in to
receive information and promotions from us as set out above using the
same email address, in which case we will retain your email address
for this purpose unless and until you notify us that you wish to stop
receiving information.
FINANCIAL
If we make a sale to
you on this site we may use your financial information (including
credit card transactions) to check your qualifications and Bill you
for and otherwise facilitate your purchase of products and services.
When you make a purchase on the Site, we will provide your financial
information (including credit card transactions) to our service
providers and to such third parties as we determine is necessary to
process your transactions. These third parties may include the credit
card companies and banking institutions used to process the
transaction. Also, depending on the circumstances of our
arrangements, we may share your financial information (including
credit card transactions) with applicable Event Partners, primarily
but not exclusively for facilitating "will call" ticket
pick up and dispute resolution and customer service at the event
venue on the date of the event. When you purchase products or
services of third parties (such as magazine subscriptions) offered on
eh Site, we will provide your financial information (including credit
card transactions) to those third parties. Any of these various third
parties are authorised to use your financial information in
accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties
and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have
no control.
HOW WE USE AND WHEN WE SHARE BROAD DEMOGRAPHIC
INFORMATION
We may use, and may transfer to others to use,
broad demographic information that may include data from your
activity at the Site, but not personal information. For example, we
use broad demographic information to tailor the site to the interests
of our visitors, and we may share it with advertisers and other third
parties so that they can tailor their advertisements and
communications to the appropriate audience. We reserve the right to
use such broad demographic information, and to allow others to make
use of it, without limitation or restriction, and without further
notice to you, in our sole and absolute discretion and is the sole
and absolute discretion of those with whom we share such information.
THIRD PARTIES
When we include links to other internet
sites, on this site and in our newsletters and other communications,
we do so solely as a convenience to our visitors. Operators of such
linked sites may acquire personal information about you through
registration procedures or other means and may use that information
in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no
control. Your access and use of linked sites is solely at your own
risk.
SECURITY
Whenever we obtain your personal
information we take reasonable precautions to protect it from
unauthorised access or disclosure, but we cannot act as insurers of
the security of your personal information transmitted over the
internet. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any disclosure of
data due to errors in transmission, unauthorised third party access
or other acts of third parties, or acts or missions beyond our
reasonable control.
DISCLOSURE
If you are a member of
the artist community you should note that when you complete your
member profile this information may be viewed by other members.
Accordingly you should not provide any information in your member
profile that you do not wish to share with third parties and you
should have no privacy expectations with respect to the information
contained within it. You should be aware that if you voluntarily
disclose information online in a public accessible area, such as in
your member profile, a message board or chat room, that information
may be collected an used by others. We do not control the actions of
our visitors. If you disclose personal information in your member
profile message board or any other public accessible place on the
internet you do so at your own risk and should understand that your
submitted information may be collected and used by others to send you
unsolicited messages, advertisements, or for other purposes. Please
remember the protection of your privacy begins with you. You are
solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any password you
use to register, and you should always be careful and responsible
whenever disclosing information online.
AND FINALLY
Universal may make changes to this terms and conditions and
privacy policy from time to time but will not change the way we use
your information provided previously without your express consent. If
any provision of this privacy policy is held to be invalid or
unenforceable, such provision shall be struck out and the remaining
provisions shall be enforced. Universal's failure to act with respect
to a breach by you or others does not waive its right to act with
respect to subsequent or similar breaches. The privacy policy is
governed in all respects by the laws of England and Wales. Legal
proceedings related to the matters set out in the Privacy Policy
shall be brought in and adjudicated solely in the courts of England
and Wales
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