Terms and Conditions of use of musicteachersnetwork.com

YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS AGREEMENT: This is an agreement between you (“You” or “Your“) and Sifi Music LLC, dba Music Teachers Network,(referred to herein as “MTN”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our”;) that governs your use of MUSICTEACHERSNETWORK.COM Web site (“Site” or “Web site“) and service offering (“Service”). When you access or use the Site or our Service in any way you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions (“Terms“). If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use the Site.

CHANGES: We may periodically change the Terms and the Site without notice, and you are responsible for checking these Terms periodically for revisions. All amended Terms become effective upon our posting to the Site, and any use of the site after such revisions have been posted signifies your consent to the changes.

ACCOUNT REGISTRATION AND BACKGROUND CHECK: Use of the Services as a Music Instructor or a performer is dependent on a background check, applicant review, and applicant approval. We use a third-party, Accurate Background, LLC, to perform background checks. In order to process Your background check personally identifiable information, including your date of birth and social security number, will be sent to Accurate Background, LLC. Further, we will collect payment information from you in order to complete the background check and charge your subscription. None of the personally identifiable information collected as part of the background check will be stored on our systems and all information will be encrypted before transmission.

HOW YOU MAY USE THE MATERIALS ON OUR SITE: We use a diverse range of information, text, software, code, photographs, designs, graphics, images, sound and video recordings, animation and other materials and effects on the Site. In addition, third parties provide and upload their own information, text, photographs, designs, graphics, images, sound and video recordings, animation and other materials and effects on the Site. You may obtain direct access via the Site to certain confidential information of us and our affiliates, including without limitation technical, contractual, product, program, pricing, marketing and other valuable information that should reasonably be understood as confidential.

We provide the foregoing information, content or advertisements (which we collectively call the “Materials“) on the Site FOR YOUR PERSONAL, NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY.

Accordingly, you may view, use, copy, and distribute the Materials found on the Site for internal, noncommercial, informational purposes only. You are prohibited from data mining, scraping, crawling, or using any process or processes that send automated queries to the Site. You may not republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute materials from the Site in any way without our prior written permission. You may not use the Site to compile a collection of listings, including a competing listing product or service. You may not use the Site or any Materials for any unsolicited commercial e-mail. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right in the Materials or the products, services, processes or technology described therein. All such rights are retained by us, our subsidiaries, parent companies, and/or any thirdparty owner of such rights.

YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD AND FOR ANY AND ALL ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING PURCHASES) THAT ARE CONDUCTED THROUGH YOUR ACCOUNT.

HOW YOU MAY USE OUR MARKS: MUSIC TEACHERS NETWORK, MUSICTEACHERSNET.COM and MUSICTEACHERSNETWORK.COM company names and logos and all related products and service names, design marks and slogans are trademarks and service marks owned by and used under license from the Music Teachers Network, or its wholly-owned subsidiaries (collectively “Marks’). All other trademarks and service marks herein are the property of their respective owners. All copies that you make of the Materials or the Site must bear any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice located on the site that pertains to the material being copied. You are not authorized to use any of the Marks or related names or marks in any advertising, publicity or in any other commercial manner without our prior written consent. Requests for authorization should be made to [email protected].

HOW WE MAY USE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US: Do not send us any confidential or proprietary information. Except for any personally identifiable information that we agree to keep confidential as provided in our Privacy Policy, any material, including, but not limited to any feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or the like, which you send to us will be treated as being non-confidential and nonproprietary. We assume no obligation to protect confidential or proprietary information from disclosure and will be free to reproduce, use, and distribute the information to others without restriction. We will also be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in information that you send us for any purpose whatsoever including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products and services incorporating such information.

PRIVACY POLICY:Use of our Site is also subject to the Terms and Conditions of our Privacy Policy. Our Site is intended for use primarily by persons 18 years of age or older.

NO ENDORSEMENTS MADE BY THE MUSIC TEACHERS NETWORK: We do not investigate, represent or endorse the accuracy, legality, legitimacy, validity or reliability of any products, services, deals, coupons or other promotions (“Promotions“) or Materials, including, but not limited to, advice, ratings, and recommendations contained on, distributed through, or linked, downloaded or accessed from the Site.

References that we make to any names, marks, products or services of third parties or hypertext links to third party sites or information do not constitute or imply our endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation of the third party, of the quality of any product or service, advice, information or other materials displayed, purchased, or obtained by you as a result of an advertisement or any other information or offer in or in connection with the Site (the “Products“).

CONTENT DISCLAIMER: The Site communicates information provided and created by advertisers, content partners, software developers, publishers, marketing agents, employees, users, resellers and other third parties. We have no control over the accuracy of such information on our pages, and material on the Web site may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. We make no guarantees, nor can we be responsible for any such information, including its currency, content, quality, copyright compliance or legality, or any resulting loss or damage.

All of the data on Products and Promotions including but not limited to, the prices and the availability of any product or service or any feature thereof, is subject to change without notice by the party providing the Product or Promotion.

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion and without any obligation, to make improvements to, or correct any error or omissions in, any portion of the Site. Where appropriate, we will endeavor to update information listed on the Site on a timely basis, but shall not be liable for any inaccuracies.

Links to external Internet sites are provided within the content on the Site as a convenience to users. The listing of an external site does not imply endorsement of the site by us or our affiliates. We do not make any representations regarding the availability and performance of the Site or any of the web sites to which we provide links. When you click on advertiser banners, sponsor links, or other external links from the Site, your browser automatically may direct you to a new browser window that is not hosted or controlled by us. We and our affiliates are not responsible for the content, functionality, or technological safety of these external sites.

We reserve the right to disable links to or from third-party sites to our Site, although we are under no obligation to do so. This right to disable links includes links to or from advertisers, sponsors, and content partners that may use our Marks as part of a co-branding relationship.

Some external links may produce information that some people find objectionable, inappropriate, or offensive. We are not responsible for the accuracy, relevancy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of material contained in any externally linked web sites. We do not fully screen or investigate business listing web sites before or after including them in directory listings that become part of the Materials on our Site, and we make no representation and assume no responsibility concerning the content that third parties submit to become listed in any of these directories.

WARRANTY DISCLAIMER: Any use of the Site, reliance upon any Materials, and any use of the Internet generally shall be at your sole risk. We disclaim any and all responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, or operability or availability of information or material displayed on the Site.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE IS THE MUSIC TEACHERS NETWORK, OUR PARTNERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR SPECIAL DAMAGES OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH PROVIDING OR FAILING TO PROVIDE SERVICE OR ANY CHANGE IN THE FUNCTIONALITY OF THE SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS OR LOSS OF BUSINESS. THIS SECTION SHALL ALSO SURVIVE THE TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.

THE SITE (INCLUDING MATERIALS AND INFORMATION THEREIN) ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE MUSIC TEACHERS NETWORK DISCLAIMS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER LAW, ANY WARRANTIES REGARDING THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE AND MATERIALS. THE MUSIC TEACHERS NETWORK DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ANY DEFECTS OR ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THE CONTENT IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

WE DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES FOR ANY INFORMATION, GOODS, OR SERVICES, OBTAINED THROUGH, ADVERTISED OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED BY OR THROUGH THE SITE.

SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE AND JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE TO ANY USER ON ACCOUNT OF SUCH USER’S USE, MISUSE OR RELIANCE ON THE SITE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING DIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES OR DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, USE, OR DATA WHETHER BROUGHT IN WARRANTY, CONTRACT, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF WE ARE AWARE OF OR HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THE USE (OR INABILITY TO USE) OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, THE MATERIALS OR THE INTERNET GENERALLY, OR THE USE (OR INABILITY TO USE), RELIANCE UPON OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY MATERIAL CONTAINED IN OR ACCESSED FROM ANY SITE. WE DO NOT ASSUME ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION, APPARATUS, PRODUCT OR PROCESS DISCLOSED ON THE SITE OR OTHER MATERIAL ACCESSIBLE FROM THE SITE.

THE USER OF THIS SITE ASSUMES ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR THE USE OF THIS SITE AND THE INTERNET GENERALLY.

THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF THE ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO ALL USERS; IN SUCH STATES LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO US FOR THE SITE DURING THE CURRENT TERM OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP.

NO GUARANTY OF SUCCESS: We make NO guaranty of success for your participation, registration, membership, or purchase of Service through, in or on the Site. Your purchase of Service and use of our Site is made at your own risk. We make no representations, warranties, covenants or agreements as to the success of such purchase.

THIRD PARTY SITES: Your correspondence or business dealing with or participation in the sales promotions of advertisers or service providers found on or through the Site, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, and warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertisers or service providers. You assume all risks arising out of or resulting from your transaction of business over the Internet, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any loss or result of the presence of information about or links to such advertisers or service providers on the Site. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible or liable for the availability, accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, decency or any other aspect of the content, advertising, products, services, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You acknowledge and agree that your use of these linked sites is subject to different terms of use than these Terms, and may be subject to different privacy practices than those set forth in the Privacy Policy governing the Site. We do not assume any responsibility for review or enforcement of any local licensing requirements that may be applicable to businesses listed on the Site.

MONITORING OF MATERIALS TRANSMITTED BY YOU: Changes may be periodically incorporated into the Site. We may make improvements and/or changes in the products, services and/or programs described in the Site and the Materials at any time without notice.

We are under no obligation to monitor the material residing on or transmitted to the Site. However, anyone using this Site agrees that we may monitor the Site contents periodically to (1) comply with any necessary laws, regulations or other governmental requests; (2) to operate the Site properly or to protect ourselves and our users. We reserve the right to modify, reject or eliminate any material residing on or transmitted to the Site that we, in our sole discretion, believe is unacceptable or in violation of the law or these Terms.

You are solely responsible for the content that you publish or display on our Site. You will not post on the Site, or transmit to other users, any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, offensive, sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, racially offensive, or illegal material, or any material that infringes or violates another party’s rights (including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, and rights of privacy and publicity). You will not post on the Site, or transmit to other users, any personally identifiable information about persons under 13 years of age. You will not provide inaccurate, misleading or false information to the Site, us or another user. By posting content on the Site, you automatically grant and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant to us, our affiliates, licensees and successors, an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, reproduce, adapt, modify and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. You further represent and warrant that public posting and use of your content by us will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

DELETIONS FROM SERVICE: We reserve the right to delete (or to refuse to post to public forums) any materials it deems detrimental to the system, the site as a whole, or is, or in our opinion, may be, defamatory, infringing or violate of applicable law. We reserve the right to exclude Material from the Site.

INTERACTION WITH OTHER MEMBERS: You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Site. We make no representations or warranties as to the conduct of users or their interactions. In no event shall we be liable for any damages whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, general special, compensatory, consequential, and/or incidental, arising out of or relating to the conduct of you or anyone else in connection with the use of the Site, including without limitation, bodily injury, emotional distress, and/or other damages resulting from communications with other registered users of the Site or persons you meet through the Site.

INDEMNIFICATION: You agree to indemnify and hold us and (as applicable) our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms, your violation of any law, or your violation of the rights of a third party, including the infringement by you of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity. These obligations will survive any termination of the Terms.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPLAINTS: It is not our responsibility to monitor the use of trademarks, copyrights or other rights of third parties. We may, however, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, remove, suspend, terminate access, or take other appropriate action against users, members or other third parties who infringe the copyright rights of others. Therefore, if you reasonably believe that any Materials or user generated content on this Site contains unauthorized reproductions of your copyrighted work or trademarks, or links to sites containing unauthorized reproductions of your copyrighted work or trademarks, and you want us to take any action, then you must provide the following information to us (as required under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. sec. 512)):

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number and e-mail address;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Please e-mail this information to [email protected].

MISCELLANEOUS:These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Washington, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions or your actual state or country of residence, and you agree to submit to personal jurisdiction in King County, Washington. You agree to exclude, in its entirety, the application to these Terms of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. You are responsible for compliance with applicable laws.

If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision or portion of the Terms to be unenforceable, the remainder of the Terms will continue in full force and effect.

MANDATORY ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES

ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE OF ANY KIND BETWEEN YOU AND THE MUSIC TEACHERS NETWORK AND/OR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AFFILIATES OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES, WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT, STATUTE OR TORT, INCLUDING FRAUD, MISREPRESENTATION, FRAUDULENT INDUCEMENT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY AND REGARDLESS OF THE DATE OF ACCRUAL OF SUCH CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE SHALL BE RESOLVED BY FINAL AND BINDING ARBITRATION AS PRESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION. THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT, NOT STATE LAW, GOVERNS THE QUESTION OF WHETHER A CLAIM IS SUBJECT TO ARBITRATION. HOWEVER, NOTHING CONTAINED IN THIS ARBITRATION PROVISION SHALL PRECLUDE THE CUSTOMER FROM RESOLVING ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT HE OR SHE WOULD OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO PURSUE.

A single arbitrator engaged in the practice of law will conduct the arbitration. The arbitrator will be selected in accordance to the rules of the American Arbitration Association or may be selected by agreement of the parties, who shall cooperate in good faith to select the arbitrator. The arbitration will be conducted by, and under the then applicable rules of the American arbitration Association. Any required hearing fees and costs shall be paid by the parties as required by applicable rules or as required by applicable law, but the arbitrator shall have the power to apportion such costs as the arbitrator deems appropriate.

THE ARBITRATOR’S DECISION AND AWARD WILL BE FINAL AND BINDING, AND JUDGMENT ON THE AWARD RENDERED BY THE ARBITRATOR MAY BE ENTERED IN ANY COURT WITH JURISDICTION.

If any party files a judicial or administrative action asserting a claim that is subject to arbitration and another party successfully stays such action or compels arbitration, the party filing that action must pay the other party’s costs and expenses incurred in seeking such stay or compelling arbitration, including attorney fees.

Any express waiver or failure to exercise promptly any right under the Terms will not create a continuing waiver or any expectation of non-enforcement. If any provision of the Terms is held invalid by any law or regulation of any government, or by any court or arbitrator, the parties agree that such provision will be replaced with a new provision that accomplishes the original business purpose, and the other provisions of the Terms will remain in full force and effect.

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between us and supersedes and replaces all prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements, written or oral, regarding the subject matter of these Terms.

Any waiver of any provision of the Terms will be effective only if in writing and signed by you and us. We reserve the right to investigate complaints or reported violations of these Terms and to take any action we deem necessary and appropriate. Such action may include reporting any suspected unlawful activity to law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties. In addition, we may take action to disclose any information necessary or appropriate to such persons or entities relating to user profiles, e-mail addresses, usage history, posted materials, IP addresses and traffic information. We reserve the right to seek remedies for violations of these Terms.

Payment for Services provided by the Site shall be governed by the Membership Agreement and the Instructor Agreement.

Effective July 07, 2019