GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONSINTRODUCTION These are the general terms and conditions ("Terms") governing your access and use of the content and website offered to you on this internet site ("Site") (whether accessed by you on the web). This website is operated by us (hereinafter referred to as "we", "us", "our"). Any reference to "you" and "yours" refers to you, the user of the website. READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY (We suggest that you print out and keep a copy of these Terms for your records). The website is based in the UK, aimed at the world wide web. By accessing our website you accept that you are bound by the current Terms on the website at the time of your access.
YOUR MEMBERSHIP WITH US All members must be 16 years and older. If you are under 18 years of age you must have a parent or gardian who will accept any cash prizes on your behalf. Your membership with us shall begin upon completing our registration process and confirming that you have read and accepted these Terms & Conditions. Uploading, downloading, viewing, accessing or using any part of the website offered by us requires registration before entering the site. We reserve the right to change any rules, money prizes, at anytime on the website should we see fit.
RULES It is FREE to enter your video. The song must be your own original material and not be subject to anyone else's copyright. If an outside claim is made challenging your stated copyright themillionpoundsong.com will not hold itself responsible and any legal proceedings that result will be the responsiblity of the song's entrant and the copyright challenger only. Your video footage must be you're own original footage, or copyright free, or bought and payed for according to that footage's original copyright. You must upload a video of your song being performed - the better the quality, the better your chances of receiving votes! You should complete your profile page as other members like to know about the people and the song they’re voting for. DOWNLOADING SONGS Your song will be available for members to download FREE once they have voted. All entries have a chance to win the following: While you are climbing the charts with votes, there are milestone prizes along the way towards ONE MILLION POUNDS:
* *If your song successfully receives one million votes you will receive £615,800. This is equal to £1,000,000 minus the preceding milestones prizes which you will have won along the way (to the sum of £384,200) - bringing your total winnings to £1000,000. Once you have up-loaded your video you will not be able to remove it from the website.
VOTING FOR A SONG Here’s how: Only members may vote. You pay Just £1 to vote for a song (plus PayPal transaction fee). Voting gives you a chance to win too because EVERY 250th VOTER WILL WIN £25.00 Create an account and you will be able to buy bulk credits which will save you money by not having to pay for multiple PayPal transaction fees. However there are NO refunds made on the credits (e.g. if you buy £10 of credits but only spend £6, the remaining credits will be held for you until such time as you choose to spend them on the website). There's no age limit to join the forum, enter a blog or view the entries or download the songs.But you must be 18 years or older to participate for the cash prizes.
PRIZES Any member who successfully receives the required amount of votes will win the prize advertised on the website. The winner will automatically be notified by phone or email. If your song has successfully received one million votes you will receive £826,000. This is equal to £1,000,000 minus the milestones prizes you have won along the way to the sum of £174,000 - bringing your total winnings to £1000,000. If there is any suspicion that the prize has been won under false pretences then it will be held by us while there is an investigation. Any member caught falsifying votes will be investigated and if necessary all information will be handed over to the relevant authorities. After satisfactory membership verification the winner can expect to receive a cheque within 2 weeks.
CONTACT US! If you have any enquiries or problems concerning the website, please email: admin@themillionpoundsong.com
REMOVAL OF MEMBERS VIDEO Monitoring the website will take place on a daily basis ensuring quality control and detecting any unauthorized entries. If we feel that any entries are obscene, threatening, menacing, racist, offensive or derogatory we will remove it from the website without notification. Any votes that, that song has acquired will be forfeited.
PRICE & PAYMENT It is FREE to enter your song. It is £1.00 per vote (plus paypal transaction). Please vote carefully as there will be NO refunds on voting.
USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information in all fields indicated as compulsory when registering for the website. Following registration, you will be asked to provide a password to access the website and any pages for which registration is required. You are responsible for all actions that take place as a result of access to the website via your password. It is your responsibility to ensure the security of your password and the device that you use to access the website. A breach of these Terms by anyone to whom you disclose your password will be treated as a breach by you. In the event that your password becomes known to any unauthorised user you will immediately notify us of such failure or error. You will be allocated a new password. - the user name you choose must not be obscene, threatening, menacing, racist, offensive, derogatory, defamatory or in violation of any intellectual property or proprietary rights of any third party; and - if we consider in our sole and absolute discretion that the user name selected by you is inappropriate, we reserve the right to reject and prevent your use of such user name at any time with or without notice to you.
YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE All copyright, trade marks, patents and other intellectual property rights in any material or content (including without limitation software, data, applications, information, text, photographs, music, sound, videos, graphics, logos, symbols, artwork and other material or moving images) contained in or accessible via the web site ("Content") is either owned by us or has been licensed to us by the rights owner(s) for use as part of the website. You are only allowed to use the website as set out in these Terms. If you wish to do anything else with any of the Content, you must first obtain the written permission of the owner of the rights in that material. All rights are expressly reserved. We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to view and use the website and the Content via your PC, for private, non-commercial purposes only and subject to your strict compliance with these Terms. You may copy the Content in an unchanged form for private use on your own PC, or other access device if and to the extent that such copying is required for the proper use of the website or the Content and such copying is permitted by the copyright owner. You shall not be entitled in respect of any Content (wholly or partly): - to pass it on to third parties or to allow third parties to access it unless and to the extent expressly permitted; or - to change, edit, modify, reformat or adapt it in any other way.
PROHIBITED USE OF THE WEBSITE AND/OR THE CONTENT You, and any persons you allow to use the website or the Content through your access to the website, are not allowed to: - copy, disclose, modify, reformat, display, distribute, licence, transmit, sell, perform, publish, transfer, link to, reverse engineer or decompile (except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law) or otherwise make available the Content and/or the Service or any part thereof except as set out in these Terms; - include or create links (including deep-links) to or from the Content and/or the Service; - replicate the website or create a separate border around any part of the website or Content (also known as "framing"); - use the website or the Content for any commercial purpose; - use the website and anything available from the website for illegal purposes or in breach of any applicable laws, statutes and regulations or codes of practice; - use the website to post, upload or otherwise transmit messages, information or pictures that are obscene or pornographic, threatening, menacing, racist, offensive, indecent, tasteless, defamatory, in breach of confidence or otherwise unlawful; - harass, stalk, threaten, impersonate or otherwise violate the rights of others including rights of privacy; - hack into, make excessive traffic demands, probe or port scan other computers, deliver viruses, mail bombs, chain letters or pyramid schemes or otherwise engage in any other behaviour intended to inhibit other users from using and enjoying the website or any other website; - collect and process others' personal data except in accordance with applicable data protection law; - advertise or offer to sell goods or services; - infringe any other person's intellectual property rights, including copyright; - use the website to harvest or collect information about users of the website or to post or otherwise distribute unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, junk or bulk email (also known as "spam"); - use the website or the Content in any way that we in our sole and absolute discretion consider objectionable, inappropriate, likely to injure our brand and reputation or otherwise unacceptable. You are responsible for any misuse of the website or the Content even if it is by another person using your access to the website. We reserve the right to remove, edit or refuse to post any material that you or other third parties place or attempt to place on the website, to block or suspend your access to the website and to take such other action as we in our sole and absolute discretion consider necessary to prevent or remedy any breach of these Terms. If you wish to notify us of any Content or third party material or activity on the website that you reasonably believe is in breach of these Terms then you can do so. We are not responsible for any failure to remove, or delay in removing, any Content or third party material from the website or for any good faith but wrongful removal of third party material.
DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY The website is supplied to you on an a "as is" basis and we make no guarantees that you will reach the total amount of one million votes. If you are dissatisfied with any part of the website or with any of these Terms, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using this website. No refund will be paid for your dissatisfaction.
THE INTERNET AND THIRD PARTY WEBSITES - DISCLAIMER You acknowledge that we are unable to exercise control over the security or subject matter of third party content accessible via the website. The Internet is not a secure environment. Unwanted programs or material may be downloaded without your knowledge, which may give unauthorised persons access to information stored on your PC. These programs may perform actions that you have not authorised, possibly without your knowledge. We accept no liability resulting from your use of the Internet and/or third party websites or content accessed via the website.
INDEMNITY BY YOU You irrevocably agree to indemnify us and our Providers fully against and to hold us and our Providers harmless on demand from all costs, proceedings, damages, expenses (including reasonable legal costs and expenses) or liabilities howsoever incurred by us or our Providers as a result of any claim by a third party resulting from your use of the website (or use of the website by anyone who accesses the website via your password) in breach or non-observance of these Terms.
SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION OF SERVICE We may suspend the operation of the website: - for repair or maintenance work; or - in order to update or upgrade the contents or functionality of the website from time to time; - in the event that we believe that you are or may be in breach of these Terms. We may terminate your access to and use of all or any part of the website: - in the event that we believe that you are or may be in breach of these Terms; or - in the event that you do anything that we think may damage or affect our commercial interests or business. If we terminate your access to the website, we may delete all information, emails and data that you have stored on the website. Therefore, we recommend that you save copies of all information that you wish to keep on another storage device apart from the website.
GENERAL - We may delay enforcing our rights under these Terms without losing them. - We will not be liable to you for any breach of these Terms, which arises because of any circumstances that we cannot reasonably be expected to control. - We reserve the right at all times to disclose any information as we deem necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. - These Terms shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with English Law and you and we both consent to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. 01/08/2007 |