Welcome to the Chorale Bel Canto website (www.choralebelcanto.org). The following are the rules or "Terms" that govern use of the Chorale Bel Canto Web site ("Site"). By using or visiting the Site, you expressly agree to be bound by these Terms and to follow these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations governing the Site. Chorale Bel Canto reserves the right to change these Terms at any time, effective immediately upon posting on the Site. Please check this page of the Site periodically. We will note when there are updates to the Terms of Use on this page. If you violate these Terms, Chorale Bel Canto may terminate your use of the Site, bar you from future use of the Site, and/or take appropriate legal action against you.
No Deep Linking
You agree that you are only authorized to visit, view and to retain a copy of pages of this Site for your own personal use, and that you shall not duplicate, download, publish, modify or otherwise distribute the material on this Site for any purpose other than to review event and promotional information, for personal use, or to purchase merchandise for your personal use, unless otherwise specifically authorized by Chorale Bel Canto to do so. You also agree not to deep-link to the site for any purpose, unless specifically authorized by Chorale Bel Canto to do so. The content and software on this Site is the property of Chorale Bel Canto and/or its suppliers and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. We post a legal notice and various credits on pages of the Site, which may not be removed. Please do not remove this notice or these credits, or any additional information contained along with the notices and credits.
User Contributions to the Site
There may be opportunities for you to contribute to the Site. These may include, among others, uploading your user profile, participating in chats, using our discussion forum, etc. which collectively, we call "Content". Chorale Bel Canto is not liable or responsible for any Content provided by its users or other third parties to the Site ("User Content"). The contributions of third parties do not necessarily represent the view or opinions of Chorale Bel Canto. Chorale Bel Canto cannot preview User Content before it appears. Users can be held liable for any illegal or prohibited User Content they provide to the Site, including among other things, infringing, defamatory or offensive materials. If you discover this kind of material on the Site, please notify the webmaster. We will investigate your claim and may then take the actions deemed appropriate.
Links and Search Results
The Site may automatically produce search results that reference or link to third party sites throughout the World Wide Web. Chorale Bel Canto have no control over these sites or the content within them. Chorale Bel Canto cannot guarantee, represent or warrant that the content contained in the sites is accurate, legal and/or inoffensive. Chorale Bel Canto does not endorse the content of any third party site, nor do we warrant that they will not contain viruses or otherwise impact your computer. By using the Site to search for or link to another site, you agree and understand that you may not make any claim against the Chorale Bel Canto for any damages or losses, whatsoever, resulting from your use of the Site to obtain search results or to link to another site. If you have a problem with a link from the Site, please notify the webmaster, and we will investigate your claim and take any actions we deem appropriate in our sole discretion.
Prohibited Content
The following is a partial list of the kind of Content which is illegal or prohibited on the Site. It includes Content that:
Offline Conduct
Although Chorale Bel Canto cannot monitor the conduct of its Users off the Site, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from this Site in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit or sell to any User without their prior explicit consent.
No Commercial Use
The discussion forum, chat and other areas of this Site may not be used by our visitors for any commercial purposes such as to conduct sales of tickets, merchandise or services of any kind, with the exception of those areas specified for such transactions. You must obtain our prior written consent to make commercial offers of any kind, whether by advertising, solicitations, links, or any other form of communication. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not resell or link to other sites for the purpose of selling tickets of any kind. We will investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Site and barring such violators from use of the Site.
Access and Interference
You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained thereon or for any other unauthorized purpose without our prior expressed written permission. You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of Chorale Bel Canto web site. You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content (except for your own person, non-commercial use) from our website without the prior expressed written permission of Chorale Bel Canto.
Unauthorized Use of the Site
Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Site, including, but not limited to, unauthorized ticket sales, unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site, or unauthorized use of any robot, spider or other automated devise on the site, will be investigated and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation civil, criminal and injunctive redress.
Violation of the Terms
You understand and agree that, in Chorale Bel Canto's sole discretion, and without prior notice, Chorale Bel Canto may terminate your access to the Site or exercise any other remedy available and remove any unauthorized User Content, if Chorale Bel Canto believes that the User Content you provided has violated or is inconsistent with these Terms of Use or violated the rights of Chorale Bel Canto, another User or the law. You agree that monetary damages may not provide a sufficient remedy to Chorale Bel Canto for violations of these terms and conditions and you consent to injunctive or other equitable relief for such violations. Chorale Bel Canto may release user information about you if required by law or subpoena, or if the information is necessary or appropriate to release to address an unlawful or harmful activity. Chorale Bel Canto is not required to provide any refund to you if you are terminated as a User because you have violated these Terms of Use.
Privacy
We believe that your privacy and the privacy of all our users is important. Please review our Privacy Policy. By posting Content to the Site, you authorize us to use or allow others to distribute, reproduce or otherwise use the Content. Chorale Bel Canto is not liable for any lost data resulting from the operation of our Site and/or the enforcement of the Terms. We urge all users to maintain their own back up versions of any content they submit to the Site. Other than in registration forms, or when entering a contest on the Site that is sponsored by us, you should not post information about yourself on the Site that can be used to identify you, your home or work address, phone numbers, pagers, email address or other such personal information. Chorale Bel Canto cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that violates these rules, the law, or your personal privacy and safety. By posting such information on the Site, you violate these Terms of Use, and you assume the risks and sole liability for the results of such posting.
Copyright Policy
We will terminate the privileges of any user who uses this Site to unlawfully transmit copyrighted material without a license express consent, valid defense or fair use exemption to do so. In particular, users who submit Content to this Site, whether articles, images, stories, software or other copyrightable material must ensure that the Content they upload does not infringe the copyrights or other rights of third parties (such as privacy or publicity rights). After proper notification by the copyright holder or it 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 users' rights to use and/or access to this Site. We may, also in our sole discretion, decide to terminate a user's rights to use or access to the Site prior to that time if we believe that the alleged infringement has occurred.
Disclaimers
Chorale Bel Canto does not promise that the Site will be error-free, uninterrupted, nor that it will provide specific results from use of the Site or any Content, search or link on it. The Site and its Content are delivered on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis. Chorale Bel Canto cannot ensure that files you download from the Site will be free of viruses or contamination or destructive features. Chorale Bel Canto disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including also any implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Chorale Bel Canto will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this Site, including without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, and punitive and consequential damages. Chorale Bel Canto makes no guarantee of any specific result from use of this Site. Chorale Bel Canto disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third party users, Chorale Bel Canto users, advertisers and/or sponsors on the Site, in connection with Chorale Bel Canto services or otherwise related to your use of the Site and/or Chorale Bel Canto services. Chorale Bel Canto is not responsible for the products, services, actions or failure to act of any venue, performer, promoter or other third party in connection with or referenced on the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, you may report the misconduct of users and/or third party advertisers, service and/or product providers referenced on or included in the Site to Chorale Bel Canto by emailing the responsible party. Chorale Bel Canto may investigate the claim and take appropriate action, in its sole discretion.
Limitation on Liability
Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no event will Chorale Bel Canto be liable to you for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including also lost profits, even if Chorale Bel Canto has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Disputes
If there is any dispute about or involving the Site, by using the Site, you agree that the dispute will be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the state and federal courts of the State of California, Los Angeles County, City of Whittier.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold Chorale Bel Canto, its affiliates, officers, agents and other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Site, including also your use of the Site to provide a link to another site or to upload content or other information to the Site.