TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE OF THE
www.openworldfashion.net
WEBSITE
1. In these Terms, Conditions and privacy policy “we, our, us, refers to openworldfashion.net, Open World Fashion Network, 'OWFN', 'the Website, 'the Site' and or 'Site'. References to “our Website” or “the Website” are to www.openworldfashion.net
2. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS By accessing the content of www.openworldfashion.net (“the Website”) you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out herein and you accept our privacy policy available at www.openworldfashion.net /policy.aspx If you object to any of the terms and conditions set out in this agreement you should not use any of the products or services on the Website and leave immediately. You agree that you shall not use the Website for illegal purposes, and will respect all applicable laws and regulations. You agree not to use the website in a way that may impair the performance, corrupt the content or otherwise reduce the overall functionality of the Website. You also agree not to compromise the security of the Website or attempt to gain access to secured areas or sensitive information. You agree to be fully responsible for any claim, expense, liability, losses, costs including legal fees incurred by us arising from any infringement of the terms and conditions set out in this agreement. Pornographic material is expressly prohibited in any section on openworldfashion.net and will be removed without notice. Any other materials deemed inappropriate to openworldfashion.net will be removed without notice. All advertisements deemed to be a solicitation to any illegal activity will be removed and membership may be terminated and banned for the use of openworldfashion.net. ‘Adult Nature’ on openworldfashion.net means any materials in any form, not necessarily sexually explicit, however, is illegal expose to a child by law.
3. MODIFICATION Openworldfashion.net reserve the right to change any part of this agreement without notice and your use of the Website will be deemed as acceptance of this agreement. We advise users to regularly check the Terms and Conditions of this agreement. Openworldfashion.net has complete discretion to modify, remove, suspension, or discontinuance of the Site or any part without warning or liability arising from such action. Refund of any payement made for the use of the Site is at the sole discretion of openworldfashion.net.
4. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY Openworldfashion.net will under no circumstance be liable for indirect, special, or consequential damages including any loss of business, revenue, profits, or data in relation to your use of the Website. Nothing within this Agreement will operate to exclude any liability for or personal injury arising as result of the negligence of Openworldfashion.net its employees or agents.
5. COPYRIGHT AND OWNERSHIP POLICY All intellectual property of Openworldfashion.net such as trademarks, trade names, patents, registered designs and any other automatic intellectual property rights derived from the aesthetics or functionality of the Website remain the property of Openworldfashion.net By using the Website you agree to respect the intellectual property rights of Openworldfashion.net and will refrain from copying, downloading, transmitting, reproducing, printing, or exploiting for commercial purpose any material contained within the Website. All users who upload User Materials to the Site will retain the ownership of their copyright contained in such User Materials and in any reproductions of such Materials on the Site. However, by uploading User Materials to the Site, you hereby grant openworldfashion.net ‘the Site’ a world-wide, non-exclusive and assignable right and license during the time the work is hosted by the Site on the Site to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, edit, translate, create derivative works from, transmit, distribute, and publicly display such User Materials for the purpose of displaying and promoting the User Materials on any website operated by, and in any related marketing materials produced by the Site and its affiliates. You must own the copyright for the music/video or have the authority or permission from the owner(s) before you upload to our site. The copyright owner(s) retains full ownership of the music and all its rights Openworldfashion.net do not take any rights to the photos/portfolio. If you don not hold the copyrights then, you must find out who the copyright owners are, and pay the relevant royalties before you upload. Equally, you must not send photos without prior authorisation of the copyright owner(s) Except as expressly provided herein by these Terms, neither the Site, its affiliates, nor any third party has conferred upon you by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any licence or right under any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights to use the Site. We will terminate the privileges of any User who uses this Site to unlawfully transmit copyrighted material without a licence, express consent, valid defence or fair use exemption to do so. In particular, Users who submit User Materials to this Site, whether articles, images, stories, software or other copyrightable material must ensure that the User Materials they upload do not infringe the copyrights or other rights of third parties (such as privacy or publicity rights). If you are not the owner of the material you intend to upload you must not upload the track to the Site. After proper notification by the copyright holder or its agent to us, and confirmation through court order or admission by the User that they have used this Site as an instrument of unlawful infringement, we will terminate the infringing User's rights to use and / or access this Site and reserve the right to block, disable, or otherwise remove any content or materials uploaded to the Site. We may, also in our sole discretion, decide to terminate a User's rights to use or access the Site prior to that time if we believe the alleged infringement has occurred. Displaying, performing, storing, copying, distributing, or otherwise making available or using any content from the Site is prohibited, unless specifically authorised by the Site. Accordingly no such content may be used on any other web site without express written permission from openworldmusic.net.
6. USE OF DISCUSSION FORUM While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or Webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the Webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised. This forum system uses cookies to store information on your local computer. These cookies do not contain any of the information you have entered above; they serve only to improve your viewing pleasure. The e-mail address is used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one).
7. ADVERTISEMENT POLICY To run your advertisements on openworldfashion.net you must adhere to our Policies. These policies may apply to all the text, photographic material and any external link of your advertisements. Application of our policies will always involve an element of discretion and we reserve the right to reject or approve any advertisements. You must not advertise sexually explicit materials on this site. You hereby agree that you represent and warrant that your advertisement or any website it lead to complies with all applicable laws. Your advertisements may contain any logo, text, or other identifiers placed on our site with the intention to promote or market an artist, service, facility or product offered by you honestly. Your Advertisements may include messages containing qualitative or comparative language, price information or other indications to a product or service. Your advertisements must not contain sexually explicit materials or link to such material.
8. DISCLAIMERS The information is provided on the understanding that the website is not engaged in rendering advice and should not be wholly relied upon when making any related decision. The information contained with the Website is provided on an “as is” basis with no warranties expressed or otherwise implied relating to the accuracy, fitness for purpose, compatibility or security of any components of the Website. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability of the www.openworldmusic.net Website and cannot provide any representation that using the Website will be error free.
9. THIRD PARTIES The Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by other parties. We do not control such websites and we take no responsibility for, and will not incur any liability in respect of, their content. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of views, statements or information contained in such websites.
10. SEVERANCE If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck out and the remaining provisions shall remain in force.
11. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION This Agreement will be governed by the laws of England and any user of the Website hereby agrees to be bound exclusively by the jurisdiction of English courts without reference to rules governing choice of laws.
12. PRIVACY POLICY What information we collect and how The information we collect via the Website may include. Any personal details you knowingly provide us with through forms and our email, such as name, address, telephone number etc. In order to effectively process credit or debit card transactions it may be necessary for the bank or card-processing agency to verify your personal details for authorisation outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Such information will not be transferred out of the EEA for any other purpose. Your preferences and use of email updates, recorded by emails we send you (if you select to receive email updates on products and offers). Your IP Address, this is a string of numbers unique to your computer that is recorded by our web server when you request any page or component on the Website. This information is used to monitor your usage of the Website. Data recorded by the Website, which allows us to recognise you and your preferred settings, this saves you from re-entering information on return visits to the site. Such data is recorded locally on you computer through the use of cookies. Most browsers can be programmed to reject, or warn you before downloading cookies, information regarding this may be found in your browsers ‘help’ facility.
13. What we do with your information Any personal information we collect from this website will be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and other applicable laws. The details we collect will be used: To process your order, to provide after sales service (we may pass your details to another organisation to supply/deliver products or services you have purchased and/or to provide after-sales service. In certain cases we may use your email address to send you information on our other products and services. In such a case you will be offered the option to opt in/out before completing your purchase. We may need to pass the information we collect to other companies for administrative purposes. We may use third parties to carry out certain activities, such as processing and sorting data, monitoring how customers use the Website and issuing our e-mails for us. Third parties will not be allowed to use your personal information for their own purposes.
14. Your Rights You have the right to request a copy of any information that we currently hold about you. In order to receive such information please send your contact details including address and payment of £10 to cover administration expenses to the following address: Post Box 80 Hounslow West London TW3 9DY
15. Other Websites This privacy policy only covers this website. Any other websites which may be linked to by our website are subject to their own policy, which may differ from ours.