Last modified on 11/06/2024
Terms of Service
1. Introduction; Your Agreement to these Terms of Service
2. Finder’s Fee Agreement
3. Platform Fee Agreement
4. Privacy Notice
5. Account
6. Use of Devices and Services
7. Modification of these Terms of Service
8. License
9. User Content
10. Prohibited Conduct
11. Respecting Copyright
12. Trademarks
13. Third-Party Content
14. Idea Submission
15. Termination
16. Disputes
17. Miscellaneous
1. Introduction; Your Agreement to these Terms of Service
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE CAREFULLY. THIS IS A BINDING CONTRACT. Welcome to the services operated by PartyBands.com (collectively with its affiliates, “PartyBands.com” or “We”) consisting of the website available at https://www.partybands.com, and its network of websites, software applications, or any other products or services offered by PartyBands.com (the “PartyBands.com Services”). Other services offered by PartyBands.com may be subject to separate terms.
When using the PartyBands.com Services, you will be subject to PartyBands.com’s Community Guidelines and additional guidelines or rules that are posted on the PartyBands.com Services, made available to you, or disclosed to you in connection with specific services and features. PartyBands.com may also offer certain paid services, which are subject to the PartyBands.com Terms of Sale as well as any additional terms or conditions that are disclosed to you in connection with such services. All such terms and guidelines (the “Guidelines”) are incorporated into these Terms of Service by reference.
The Terms of Service apply whether you are a user that registers an account with the PartyBands.com Services or an unregistered user. You agree that by clicking “Sign Up” or otherwise registering, downloading, accessing, or using the PartyBands.com Services, you are entering into a legally binding agreement between you and PartyBands.com regarding your use of the PartyBands.com Services. You acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these Terms of Service, do not access or otherwise use any of the PartyBands.com Services.
When using PartyBands.com or opening an account with PartyBands.com on behalf of a company, entity, or organization (collectively, “Subscribing Organization”), you represent and warrant that you: (i) are an authorized representative of that Subscribing Organization with the authority to bind that organization to these Terms of Service and grant the licenses set forth herein; and (ii) agree to these Terms of Service on behalf of such Subscribing Organization.
2. Finder’s Fee Agreement
By using Partybands.com as a musician or band, you acknowledge and agree to the following terms related to the Finder’s Fee for bookings made through the platform:
- Finder’s Fee Structure: Partybands.com charges a 4% fee (the “Finder’s Fee”) on the total booking amount for each successful referral made through the platform. The Finder’s Fee will be deducted from the payment due to the musician or band for the performance.
- Payment Responsibility: The Finder’s Fee is due regardless of whether the payment for the booking is made in full or in installments. The musician or band agrees that the Finder’s Fee will be paid to PartyBands.com within 48 hours of contract signage between the Band and the Client.
- Timing of Payment: The musician or band agrees that the Finder’s Fee will be paid to PartyBands.com within 48 hours of contract signage between the Band and the Client. If payment is not made or a booking is canceled, the Finder’s Fee will not be applicable. The Band agrees to make the payment through PayPal, using the email address payments@PartyBands.com
- Non-Refundable: The Finder’s Fee is non-refundable, even in the case of cancellations or disputes regarding the booking, unless explicitly agreed otherwise by Partybands.com.
- Agreement to Terms: By accepting a booking through Partybands.com, the musician or band agrees to the Finder’s Fee and the terms outlined in this Agreement. Failure to comply with these terms may result in removal from the platform or other actions at the discretion of Partybands.com.
- Modifications to Fees: Partybands.com reserves the right to adjust the Finder’s Fee at any time, with any changes becoming effective upon posting an updated version of these Terms of Service on the platform. Musicians and bands will be notified of any significant changes to the Finder’s Fee structure.
By using the Partybands.com platform and accepting bookings, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to this Finder’s Fee Agreement.
3. The Platform Fee Agreement
By using PartyBands.com as an Organizer (defined as any individual, company, or entity seeking to book live performers), you agree to the following terms regarding platform fees:
3.1 Platform Fee Structure
PartyBands.com charges a 2% fee (the “Platform Fee”) on the total booking amount for each successful referral made through the platform. The Platform Fee will be deducted from the payment due to the musician or band for the performance.
3.2 Non-Refundable Nature
The Platform Fee is non-refundable, except as required by applicable law. This includes cancellations initiated by either the Organizer or the Performer unless otherwise explicitly agreed upon in writing by PartyBands.com.
3.3 Payment Authorization
By submitting payment for a booking, you authorize PartyBands.com to collect the Platform Fee as part of the total payment. PartyBands.com may use third-party payment processors to facilitate secure transactions, and you agree to comply with their terms of service where applicable.
3.4 Fee Adjustments
PartyBands.com reserves the right to adjust the Platform Fee at any time. Any changes to the fee structure will be communicated to you before confirming your booking.
3.5 Taxes and Other Costs
The Platform Fee does not include taxes, currency exchange fees, or other costs that may be incurred as part of your booking. As the Organizer, you are responsible for any additional charges outside the Platform Fee.
3.6 Compliance with Booking Policies
To ensure fair use of the platform, the Organizer agrees to abide by PartyBands.com’s booking policies. Failure to comply may result in additional fees, cancellation of bookings, or suspension from the platform.
3.7 Disputes
In the event of a dispute related to the Platform Fee, the Organizer must notify PartyBands.com in writing within 30 days of the transaction. PartyBands.com will make reasonable efforts to resolve disputes but retains full discretion in all final decisions.
The PartyBands.com Services are also not available to any users previously removed from the PartyBands.com Services by PartyBands.com or to any persons barred from receiving them under the laws of the United States (such as its export and re-export restrictions and regulations) or applicable laws in any other jurisdiction.
BY DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING, OR OTHERWISE USING THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES, YOU REPRESENT THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 13 YEARS OF AGE, THAT YOUR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE IF YOU ARE BETWEEN 13 AND THE AGE OF LEGAL MAJORITY IN YOUR JURISDICTION OF RESIDENCE, AND THAT YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PREVIOUSLY REMOVED FROM AND ARE NOT PROHIBITED FROM RECEIVING THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES.
4. Privacy Notice
Your privacy is important to PartyBands.com. Please see our Privacy Notice for information relating to how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information.
5. Account
a. Account and Password
In order to open an account, you will be asked to provide us with certain information such as an account name and password.
You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account, your password and for restricting access to your computer. If you permit others to use your account credentials, you agree to these Terms of Service on behalf of all other persons who use the Services under your account or password, and you are responsible for all activities that occur under your account or password. Please make sure the information you provide to PartyBands.com upon registration and at all other times is true, accurate, current, and complete to the best of your knowledge.
Unless expressly permitted in writing by PartyBands.com, you may not sell, rent, lease, share, or provide access to your account to anyone else, including without limitation, charging anyone for access to administrative rights on your account. PartyBands.com reserves all available legal rights and remedies to prevent unauthorized use of the PartyBands.com Services, including, but not limited to, technological barriers, IP mapping, and, in serious cases, directly contacting your Internet Service Provider (ISP) regarding such unauthorized use.
b. Third-Party Accounts
PartyBands.com may permit you to register for and log on to the PartyBands.com Services via certain third-party services. The third party’s collection, use, and disclosure of your information will be subject to that third-party service’s privacy notice. Further information about how PartyBands.com collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you link your PartyBands.com account with your account on any third-party service can be found in our Privacy Notice.
6. Use of Devices and Services
Access to the PartyBands.com Services may require the use of your personal computer or mobile device, as well as communications with or use of space on such devices. You are responsible for any Internet connection or mobile fees and charges that you incur when accessing the PartyBands.com Services.
7. Modification of these Terms of Service
PartyBands.com may amend any of the terms of these Terms of Service by posting the amended terms. Your continued use of the PartyBands.com Services after the effective date of the revised Terms of Service constitutes your acceptance of the terms.
For residents of the Republic of Korea, PartyBands.com will provide reasonable prior notice regarding any material amendments to its Terms of Service. All amendments shall become effective no sooner than 30 calendar days after posting; provided that any amendment regarding newly available features of the Service, features of the Service that are beneficial to the user, or changes made for legal reasons may become effective immediately.
8. License
The PartyBands.com Services are owned and operated by PartyBands.com. Unless otherwise indicated, all content, information, and other materials on the PartyBands.com Services (excluding User Content, set out in Section 8 below), including, without limitation, PartyBands.com’s trademarks and logos, the visual interfaces, graphics, design, compilation, information, software, computer code (including source code or object code), services, text, pictures, information, data, sound files, other files, and the selection and arrangement thereof (collectively, the “Materials”) are protected by relevant intellectual property and proprietary rights and laws. All Materials are the property of PartyBands.com or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies and/or third-party licensors. Unless otherwise expressly stated in writing by PartyBands.com, by agreeing to these Terms of Service you are granted a limited, non-sublicensable license (i.e., a personal and limited right) to access and use the PartyBands.com Services for your personal use or internal business use only.
PartyBands.com reserves all rights not expressly granted in these Terms of Service. This license is subject to these Terms of Service and does not permit you to engage in any of the following: (a) resale or commercial use of the PartyBands.com Services or the Materials; (b) distribution, public performance or public display of any Materials; (c) modifying or otherwise making any derivative uses of the PartyBands.com Services or the Materials, or any portion of them; (d) use of any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering or extraction methods; (e) downloading (except page caching) of any portion of the PartyBands.com Services, the Materials, or any information contained in them, except as expressly permitted on the PartyBands.com Services; or (f) any use of the PartyBands.com Services or the Materials except for their intended purposes. Any use of the PartyBands.com Services or the Materials except as specifically authorized in these Terms of Service, without the prior written permission of PartyBands.com, is strictly prohibited and may violate intellectual property rights or other laws. Unless explicitly stated in these Terms of Service, nothing in them shall be interpreted as conferring any license to intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication, or other legal principles. PartyBands.com can terminate this license as set out in Section 14.
9. User Content
PartyBands.com allows you to distribute streaming live and pre-recorded audio-visual works; to use services, such as chat, bulletin boards, forum postings, wiki contributions, and voice interactive services; and to participate in other activities in which you may create, post, transmit, perform, or store content, messages, text, sound, images, applications, code, or other data or materials on the PartyBands.com Services (“User Content”).
a. License to PartyBands.com
(i) Unless otherwise agreed to in a written agreement between you and PartyBands.com that was signed by an authorized representative of PartyBands.com, if you submit, transmit, display, perform, post, or store User Content using the PartyBands.com Services, you grant PartyBands.com and its sub-licensees, to the furthest extent and for the maximum duration permitted by applicable law (including in perpetuity if permitted under applicable law), an unrestricted, worldwide, irrevocable, fully sub-licenseable, nonexclusive, and royalty-free right to: (a) use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such User Content (including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the PartyBands.com Services (and derivative works thereof) in any form, format, media, or media channels now known or later developed or discovered; and (b) use the name, identity, likeness, and voice (or other biographical information) that you submit in connection with such User Content. Should such User Content contain the name, identity, likeness, and voice (or other biographical information) of third parties, you represent and warrant that you have obtained the appropriate consents and/or licenses for your use of such features and that PartyBands.com and its sub-licensees are allowed to use them to the extent indicated in these Terms of Service.
(ii) With respect to User Content known as “add-ons”, “maps”, “mods”, or other types of projects submitted through CurseForge.com or related sites (the “Submitted Projects”), the rights granted by you hereunder terminate once you remove or delete such Submitted Projects from the PartyBands.com Services. You also acknowledge that PartyBands.com may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of Submitted Projects that have been removed or deleted.
(iii) With respect to streaming live and pre-recorded audio-visual works, the rights granted by you hereunder terminate once you delete such User Content from the PartyBands.com Services, or generally by closing your account, except:(a) to the extent you shared it with others as part of the PartyBands.com Services and others copied or stored portions of the User Content (e.g., made a Clip); (b) PartyBands.com used it for promotional purposes; and (c) for the reasonable time it takes to remove from backup and other systems.
b. User Content Representations and Warranties
You are solely responsible for your User Content and the consequences of posting or publishing it. You represent and warrant that: (1) you are the creator or own or control all right in and to the User Content or otherwise have sufficient rights and authority to grant the rights granted herein; (2) your User Content does not and will not: (a) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right, or (b) defame any other person; (3) your User Content does not contain any viruses, adware, spyware, worms, or other harmful or malicious code; and (4) unless you have received prior written authorization, your User Content specifically does not contain any pre-release or non-public beta software or game content or any confidential information of PartyBands.com or third parties. PartyBands.com reserves all rights and remedies against any users who breach these representations and warranties.
c. Content is Uploaded at Your Own Risk
PartyBands.com uses reasonable security measures in order to attempt to protect User Content against unauthorized copying and distribution. However, PartyBands.com does not guarantee that any unauthorized copying, use, or distribution of User Content by third parties will not take place. To the furthest extent permitted by applicable law, you hereby agree that PartyBands.com shall not be liable for any unauthorized copying, use, or distribution of User Content by third parties and release and forever waive any claims you may have against PartyBands.com for any such unauthorized copying or usage of the User Content, under any theory. THE SECURITY MEASURES TO PROTECT USER CONTENT USED BY PARTYBANDS.COM HEREIN ARE PROVIDED AND USED “AS-IS” AND WITH NO WARRANTIES, GUARANTEES, CONDITIONS, ASSURANCES, OR OTHER TERMS THAT SUCH SECURITY MEASURES WILL WITHSTAND ATTEMPTS TO EVADE SECURITY MECHANISMS OR THAT THERE WILL BE NO CRACKS, DISABLEMENTS, OR OTHER CIRCUMVENTION OF SUCH SECURITY MEASURES.
d. Promotions
Users may promote, administer, or conduct a promotion (e.g., a contest or sweepstakes) on, through, or utilizing the PartyBands.com Services (a “Promotion”). If you choose to promote, administer, or conduct a Promotion, you must adhere to the following rules: (1) You may carry out Promotions to the extent permitted by applicable law and you are solely responsible for ensuring that any Promotions comply with any and all applicable laws, obligations, and restrictions; (2) You will be classified as the promoter of your Promotion in the applicable jurisdiction(s) and you will be solely responsible for all aspects of and expenses related to your Promotion, including without limitation the execution, administration, and operation of the Promotion; drafting and posting any official rules; selecting winners; issuing prizes; and obtaining all necessary third-party permissions and approvals, including without limitation filing any and all necessary registrations and bonds. PartyBands.com has the right to remove your Promotion from the PartyBands.com Services if PartyBands.com reasonably believes that your Promotion does not comply with the Terms of Service or applicable law; (3) PartyBands.com is not responsible for and does not endorse or support any such Promotions. You may not indicate that PartyBands.com is a sponsor or co-sponsor of the Promotion; and (4) You will display or read out the following disclaimer when promoting, administering, or conducting a Promotion: “This is a promotion by [Your Name]. PartyBands.com does not sponsor or endorse this promotion and is not responsible for it.”.
e. Endorsements/Testimonials
You agree that your User Content will comply with the FTC’s Guidelines Concerning the Use of Testimonials and Endorsements in Advertising, the FTC’s Disclosures Guide, the FTC’s Native Advertising Guidelines, and any other guidelines issued by the FTC from time to time (the “FTC Guidelines”), as well as any other advertising guidelines required under applicable law. For example, if you have been paid or provided with free products in exchange for discussing or promoting a product or service through the PartyBands.com Services, or if you are an employee of a company and you decide to discuss or promote that company’s products or services through the PartyBands.com Services, you agree to comply with the FTC Guidelines’ requirements for disclosing such relationships. You, and not PartyBands.com, are solely responsible for any endorsements or testimonials you make regarding any product or service through the PartyBands.com Services.
f. Political Activity
Subject to these Terms of Service and the Community Guidelines, you may share political opinions; participate in political activity; provide links to a political committee’s official website, including the contribution page of a political committee; and solicit viewers to make contributions directly to a political committee. You agree, however, that these activities are entirely your own. Moreover, by engaging in these activities, you represent and warrant that you are eligible to engage in them under applicable law, and that you will abide by all relevant laws and regulations while doing so.
You agree not to solicit the use of or use any PartyBands.com monetization tool (e.g., Bits or subscriptions) for the purpose of making or delivering a contribution to a candidate, candidate’s committee, political action committee, ballot committee, or any other campaign committee, or otherwise for the purpose of influencing any election. Candidates for political office are not eligible to use any PartyBands.com monetization tool.
10. Prohibited Conduct
YOU AGREE NOT TO violate any law, contract, intellectual property, or other third-party right; not to commit a tort, and that you are solely responsible for your conduct while on the PartyBands.com Services.
You agree that you will comply with these Terms of Service and PartyBands.com’s Community Guidelines and will not:
i. create, upload, transmit, distribute, or store any content that is inaccurate, unlawful, infringing, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, harassing, threatening, abusive, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable;
ii. impersonate any person or entity; falsely claim an affiliation with any person or entity; access the PartyBands.com Services accounts of others without permission; forge another person’s digital signature; misrepresent the source, identity, or content of information transmitted via the PartyBands.com Services; or perform any other similar fraudulent activity;
iii. send junk mail or spam to users of the PartyBands.com Services, including without limitation unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or other solicitation material; bulk mailing of commercial advertising, chain mail, informational announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, or any of the preceding things related to promotional giveaways (such as raffles and contests); and other similar activities;
iv. harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of other users from the PartyBands.com Services;
v. defame, harass, abuse, threaten, or defraud users of the PartyBands.com Services, or collect or attempt to collect, personal information about users or third parties without their consent;
vi. delete, remove, circumvent, disable, damage, or otherwise interfere with (a) security-related features of the PartyBands.com Services or User Content, (b) features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content accessible through the PartyBands.com Services, (c) features that enforce limitations on the use of the PartyBands.com Services or User Content, or (d) the copyright or other proprietary rights notices on the PartyBands.com Services or User Content;
vii. reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the PartyBands.com Services or any part thereof, except and only to the extent that this activity is expressly permitted by the law of your jurisdiction of residence;
viii. modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works based upon the PartyBands.com Services or any part thereof, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation;
ix. interfere with or damage the operation of the PartyBands.com Services or any user’s enjoyment of them, by any means, including uploading or otherwise disseminating viruses, adware, spyware, worms, or other malicious code;
x. relay email from a third party’s mail servers without the permission of that third party;
xi. access any website, server, software application, or other computer resource owned, used, and/or licensed by PartyBands.com, including but not limited to the PartyBands.com Services, by means of any robot, spider, scraper, crawler, or other automated means for any purpose, or bypass any measures PartyBands.com may use to prevent or restrict access to any website, server, software application, or other computer resource owned, used, and/or licensed by PartyBands.com, including but not limited to the PartyBands.com Services;
xii. manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any User Content transmitted through the PartyBands.com Services;
xiii. interfere with or disrupt the PartyBands.com Services or servers or networks connected to the PartyBands.com Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies, or regulations of networks connected to the PartyBands.com Services; use the PartyBands.com Services in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect, or inhibit other users from fully enjoying the PartyBands.com Services, or that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the functioning of the PartyBands.com Services in any manner;
xiv. use or attempt to use another user’s account without authorization from that user and PartyBands.com;
xv. attempt to circumvent any content filtering techniques we employ, or attempt to access any service or area of the PartyBands.com Services that you are not authorized to access;
xvi. attempt to indicate in any manner, without our prior written permission, that you have a relationship with us or that we have endorsed you or any products or services for any purpose; and
xvii. use the PartyBands.com Services for any illegal purpose, or in violation of any local, state, national, or international law or regulation, including without limitation laws governing intellectual property and other proprietary rights, data protection, and privacy.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, PartyBands.com takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any User Content or for any loss or damage resulting therefrom, nor is PartyBands.com liable for any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography, or profanity you may encounter when using the PartyBands.com Services. Your use of the PartyBands.com Services is at your own risk. In addition, these rules do not create any private right of action on the part of any third party or any reasonable expectation that the PartyBands.com Services will not contain any content that is prohibited by such rules.
PartyBands.com is not liable for any statements or representations included in User Content. PartyBands.com does not endorse any User Content, opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and PartyBands.com expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with User Content. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, PartyBands.com reserves the right to remove, screen, or edit any User Content posted or stored on the PartyBands.com Services at any time and without notice, including where such User Content violates these Terms of Service or applicable law, and you are solely responsible for creating backup copies of and replacing any User Content you post or store on the PartyBands.com Services at your sole cost and expense. Any use of the PartyBands.com Services in violation of the foregoing violates these Terms of Service and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the PartyBands.com Services.
For Residents of the Republic of Korea, except in the case where PartyBands.com reasonably considers that giving notice is legally prohibited (for instance, when providing notice would either (i) violate applicable laws, regulations, or orders from regulatory authorities or (ii) compromise an ongoing investigation conducted by a regulatory authority) or that any notice may cause harm to you, third parties, PartyBands.com, and/or its affiliates (for instance, when providing notice harms the security of the PartyBands.com Services), PartyBands.com will without delay notify you of the reason for taking the relevant step.
11. Respecting Copyright
PartyBands.com respects the intellectual property of others and follows the requirements set forth in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) and other applicable laws. If you are the copyright owner or agent thereof and believe that content posted on the PartyBands.com Services infringes upon your copyright, please submit a notice following our DMCA Guidelines, which include further information about our policies, what to include in your notice, and where to submit your notice.
12. Trademarks
PARTYBANDS.COM, the PartyBands.com logos, and any other product or service name, logo, or slogan used by PartyBands.com, and the look and feel of the PartyBands.com Services, including all page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts, are trademarks or trade dress of PartyBands.com, and may not be used in whole or in part in connection with any product or service that is not PartyBands.com’s, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits PartyBands.com, without our prior written permission. Any use of these trademarks must be in accordance with the PartyBands.com Trademark Guidelines.
All other trademarks referenced in the PartyBands.com Services are the property of their respective owners. Reference on the PartyBands.com Services to any products, services, processes, or other information by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation thereof by us or any other affiliation.
13. Third-Party Content
In addition to the User Content, PartyBands.com may provide other third-party content on the PartyBands.com Services (collectively, the “Third-Party Content”). PartyBands.com does not control or endorse any Third-Party Content and makes no representation or warranties of any kind regarding the Third-Party Content, including without limitation regarding its accuracy or completeness. Please be aware that we do not create Third-Party Content, update, or monitor it. Therefore we are not responsible for any Third-Party Content on the PartyBands.com Services.
You are responsible for deciding if you want to access or use third-party websites or applications that link from the PartyBands.com Services (the “Reference Sites”). PartyBands.com does not control or endorse any such Reference Sites or the information, materials, products, or services contained on or accessible through Reference Sites, and makes no representations or warranties of any kind regarding the Reference Sites. In addition, your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the PartyBands.com Services are solely between you and such advertiser. Access and use of Reference Sites, including the information, materials, products, and services on or available through Reference Sites is solely at your own risk.
14. Idea Submission
By submitting ideas, suggestions, documents, and/or proposals (the “Submissions”) to PartyBands.com or its employees, you acknowledge and agree that PartyBands.com shall be entitled to use or disclose such Submissions for any purpose in any way without providing compensation or credit to you.
15. Termination
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, PartyBands.com reserves the right, without notice and in our sole discretion, to terminate your license to use the PartyBands.com Services (including to post User Content) and to block or prevent your future access to and use of the PartyBands.com Services, including where we reasonably consider that: (a) your use of the PartyBands.com Services violates these Terms of Service or applicable law; (b) you fraudulently use or misuse the PartyBands.com Services; or (c) we are unable to continue providing the PartyBands.com Services to you due to technical or legitimate business reasons. Our right to terminate your license includes the ability to terminate or to suspend your access to any purchased products or services, including any subscriptions, Prime Gaming, or Turbo accounts. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, your only remedy with respect to any dissatisfaction with: (i) the PartyBands.com Services, (ii) any term of these Terms of Service, (iii) any policy or practice of PartyBands.com in operating the PartyBands.com Services, or (iv) any content or information transmitted through the PartyBands.com Services, is to terminate your account and to discontinue use of any and all parts of the PartyBands.com Services.
For residents of the Republic of Korea, except in the case where PartyBands.com reasonably considers that giving notice is legally prohibited (for instance, when providing notice would either (i) violate applicable laws, regulations, or orders from regulatory authorities or (ii) compromise an ongoing investigation conducted by a regulatory authority) or that any notice may cause harm to you, third parties, PartyBands.com, and/or its affiliates (for instance, when providing notice harms the security of the PartyBands.com Services), PartyBands.com will without delay notify you of the reason for taking the relevant step.
16. Disputes
a. Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless PartyBands.com, its affiliated companies, and each of our respective contractors, employees, officers, directors, agents, third-party suppliers, licensors, and partners (individually and collectively, the “PartyBands.com Parties”) from any claims, losses, damages, demands, expenses, costs, and liabilities, including legal fees and expenses, arising out of or related to your access, use, or misuse of the PartyBands.com Services, any User Content you post, store, or otherwise transmit in or through the PartyBands.com Services, your violation of the rights of any third party, any violation by you of these Terms of Service, or any breach of the representations, warranties, and covenants made by you herein. You agree to promptly notify the PartyBands.com Parties of any third-party claim, and PartyBands.com reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify PartyBands.com, and you agree to cooperate with PartyBands.com’s defense of these claims. PartyBands.com will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action, or proceeding upon becoming aware of it.
b. Disclaimers; No Warranties
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW: (A) THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES AND THE CONTENT AND MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED TO THE CONTRARY IN WRITING BY PARTYBANDS.COM; (B) THE PARTYBANDS.COM PARTIES DISCLAIM ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, STATUTORY, EXPRESS, OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT AS TO THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY INFORMATION, CONTENT, OR MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN; (C) PARTYBANDS.COM DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE CONTENT OR MATERIALS ON THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, CURRENT, OR ERROR-FREE; (D) PARTYBANDS.COM IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS OR OMISSIONS RELATING TO TEXT OR PHOTOGRAPHY; AND (E) WHILE PARTYBANDS.COM ATTEMPTS TO MAKE YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES SAFE, PARTYBANDS.COM CANNOT AND DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES OR OUR SERVER(S) ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, AND THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD USE INDUSTRY-RECOGNIZED SOFTWARE TO DETECT AND DISINFECT VIRUSES FROM ANY DOWNLOAD. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM PARTYBANDS.COM OR THROUGH THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED HEREIN.
c. Limitation of Liability and Damages
i. Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW: (A) IN NO EVENT SHALL PARTYBANDS.COM OR THE PARTYBANDS.COM PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS, OR LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE), OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES, THE CONTENT OR THE MATERIALS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY OR RESULTING FROM RELIANCE ON ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM PARTYBANDS.COM, OR THAT RESULT FROM MISTAKES, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, DELETION OF FILES OR EMAIL, ERRORS, DEFECTS, VIRUSES, DELAYS IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, OR ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, WHETHER OR NOT RESULTING FROM ACTS OF GOD, COMMUNICATIONS FAILURE, THEFT, DESTRUCTION, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO PARTYBANDS.COM’S RECORDS, PROGRAMS, OR SERVICES; AND (B) IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF PARTYBANDS.COM, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, WHETHER ACTIVE, PASSIVE, OR IMPUTED), PRODUCT LIABILITY, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHER THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR ACCESSING THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE OF THE CLAIM OR ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, WHICHEVER IS GREATER. TO THE EXTENT THAT APPLICABLE LAW PROHIBITS LIMITATION OF SUCH LIABILITY, PARTYBANDS.COM SHALL LIMIT ITS LIABILITY TO THE FULL EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
ii. Reference Sites
THESE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY YOU BY REASON OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES SOLD OR PROVIDED ON ANY REFERENCE SITES OR OTHERWISE BY THIRD PARTIES OTHER THAN PARTYBANDS.COM AND RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY REFERENCE SITES.
iii. Basis of the Bargain
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT PARTYBANDS.COM HAS OFFERED THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES, USER CONTENT, MATERIALS, AND OTHER CONTENT AND INFORMATION, SET ITS PRICES, AND ENTERED INTO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE IN RELIANCE UPON THE WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SET FORTH HEREIN, THAT THE WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SET FORTH HEREIN REFLECT A REASONABLE AND FAIR ALLOCATION OF RISK BETWEEN YOU AND PARTYBANDS.COM, AND THAT THE WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SET FORTH HEREIN FORM AN ESSENTIAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND PARTYBANDS.COM. PARTYBANDS.COM WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES TO YOU ON AN ECONOMICALLY REASONABLE BASIS WITHOUT THESE LIMITATIONS.
d. Applicable Law and Venue
(i) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you and PartyBands.com agree that if you are a Subscribing Organization or a consumer resident of a jurisdiction other than those in (ii) below, the following governing law and arbitration provision applies:
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT REQUIRES YOU TO ARBITRATE DISPUTES WITH PARTYBANDS.COM AND LIMITS THE MANNER IN WHICH YOU CAN SEEK RELIEF FROM PARTYBANDS.COM.
You and PartyBands.com agree to arbitrate any dispute arising from these Terms of Service or your use of the PartyBands.com Services, except that you and PartyBands.com are not required to arbitrate any dispute in which either party seeks equitable and other relief for the alleged unlawful use of copyrights, trademarks, trade names, logos, trade secrets, or patents. ARBITRATION PREVENTS YOU FROM SUING IN COURT OR FROM HAVING A JURY TRIAL. You and PartyBands.com agree that you will notify each other in writing of any dispute within thirty (30) days of when it arises. Notice to PartyBands.com shall be sent to: PartyBands.com, Attn: Legal, 11 Virginia Street, Marshfield, MA 02050. You and PartyBands.com further agree: to attempt informal resolution prior to any demand for arbitration; that any arbitration will occur in Plymouth County, Massachusetts; that arbitration will be conducted confidentially by a single arbitrator in accordance with the rules of JAMS; and that the state or federal courts in Plymouth County, Massachusetts have exclusive jurisdiction over any appeals of an arbitration award and over any suit between the parties not subject to arbitration. Other than class procedures and remedies discussed below, the arbitrator has the authority to grant any remedy that would otherwise be available in court. Any dispute between the parties will be governed by this Agreement and the laws of the State of Massachusetts and applicable United States law, without giving effect to any conflict of laws principles that may provide for the application of the law of another jurisdiction. Whether the dispute is heard in arbitration or in court, you and PartyBands.com will not commence against the other a class action, class arbitration, or other representative action or proceeding.
(ii) If you are a resident in any jurisdiction in which the provision in the section above is found to be unenforceable, then any disputes, claims, or causes of action arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Service will be governed by and construed under the laws of your jurisdiction of residence, and shall be resolved by competent civil courts within your jurisdiction of residence.
e. Claims
YOU AND PARTYBANDS.COM AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE PARTYBANDS.COM SERVICES MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES. OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
17. Miscellaneous
a. Waiver
If we fail to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Service, it will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Any waiver of any provision of these Terms of Service will be effective only if in writing and signed by the relevant party.
b. Severability
If any provision of these Terms of Service is held to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be limited or eliminated from these Terms of Service to the minimum extent necessary and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
c. Assignment
These Terms of Service, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by PartyBands.com without restriction. Any assignment attempted to be made in violation of this Terms of Service shall be void.
d. Survival
Upon termination of these Terms of Service, any provision which, by its nature or express terms should survive, will survive such termination or expiration, including, but not limited to, Sections 7, 8, 11, 12, and 15-17.
e. Entire Agreement
The Terms of Service, which incorporate the Terms of Sale and the Community Guidelines, is the entire agreement between you and PartyBands.com relating to the subject matter herein and will not be modified except by a writing signed by authorized representatives of both parties, or by a change to these Terms of Service made by PartyBands.com as set forth in Section 6 above.