Griots Arts Services, non-profit cooperative Griots Productions, and Griots.net Web Site
Necessary Terms and Conditions of Use and Restrictions in this imperfect world.

ATTENTION: Please read these terms carefully before using Griots.net web site. By using Griots.net web site, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions, do not use Griots.net web site. If you have any questions you can contact us at +44 (0)870 4460047 or email us at info@griots.net.

Rules
Use of Griots.net Web Site
Use of Products
Web Site Visitor Submissions
Chat Rooms and Other User Forums
Links to Third-Party Websites
Linking to Griots.net web site
Guidelines for Linking to Griots.net Web Site
Trademarks
Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement
General Information
Disclaimers
Limitation of Liability

Rules

Whereas we (founders of Griots Arts Services, non-profit cooperative Griots Productions, and Griots.net web site) believe in the principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community, Griots Productions work and all content included in Griots.net programming abides by the principles embraced by community broadcasters and independent media/cultural workers around the globe. We are members of UK-based Community Media Association, Commedia (http://www.commedia.org.uk) which stated mission is "to enable people to establish and develop community based communications media for community development and empowerment, cultural expression, information and entertainment." We support racial, gender, sexual-orientation, age and ethnic diversity among artists, audience, and others involved in or featured on Griots.net web site.  The reality of the world in which we live require that we publish these Terms and Conditions for the protection of the Artists and Visitors who use Griots.net web site as much as for ourselves.

Use of Griots.net Web Site

Griots Arts Services authorizes you to view and download the materials at Griots.net web site only for your personal, non-commercial use. You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the materials on any copies of the materials. You may not modify the materials at Griots.net web site in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose. The materials at Griots.net web site are copyrighted and any unauthorized use of any materials may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. If you breach any of these Terms, your authorization to use Griots.net web site automatically ends and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials.

Use of Products

Any content or software that is made available to download from Griots.net web site is the copyrighted work of Griots Productions and/or its partners or suppliers. REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION OF GRIOTS.NET WEB SITE CONTENT OR SOFTWARE IS PROHIBITED EXCEPT AS STATED BY Griots Productions. To access any content or products at Griots.net for syndicated use, please contact Griots Productions at admin@griots.net.

Web Site Visitor Submissions

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from Griots.net web site any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, racist, homophobic, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law.

Chat Rooms and Other User Forums

Griots Arts Services may, but is not obliged to, monitor or review any areas on Griots.net web site where users transmit or post communications or communicate with each other, including but not limited to chat rooms, bulletin boards or other user forums, and the content of any such communications. Griots Arts Services and Griots Productions will have no liability related to the content of any such communications, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise. Griots Arts Services retains the right to remove messages that include any material Griots Arts Services deems abusive, defamatory, obscene or otherwise unacceptable.

Links to Third-Party Websites

Links on Griots.net web site to third-party websites are provided solely as a convenience to you. Griots Arts Services, Griots Productions and Griots.net web site do not control and is not responsible for any of these sites or their content. Thus, Griots Arts Services and Griots.net web site do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them.

If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to Griots.net web site, you do this entirely at your own risk.

Linking to Griots.net web site

You may create links to Griots.net web site from other sites, but only in accordance with the terms of the Guidelines for Linking to Griots.net's Websites and in compliance with all applicable laws.

Guidelines for Linking to Griots.net's Website

Note: Anyone linking to Griots.net's website must comply with the Guidelines for Linking to Griots.net's Websites and all applicable laws.

A site that links to Griots.net's website:

  • May link to but not replicate Griots.net content
  • Should not create a browser or border environment around Griots.net content
  • Should not imply that Griots.net is endorsing it or its products
  • Should not misrepresent its relationship with Griots.net
  • Should not present false information about Griots Productions or Griots.net products or services
  • Should not use the Griots.net logo without permission from Griots Arts Services and Griots Productions
  • Should not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive, racist, homophobic, sexist, or abusive

Trademarks

Product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners.

Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

In case of any copyright infringment, please contact us at admin@griots.net

General Information

Griots Arts Services administers Griots.net web site from its offices within the borders of Powys and Herefordshire, United Kingdom. Griots Arts Services makes no representation that materials or services at Griots.net web site are appropriate or available for use outside the United Kingdom, and access to them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. You may not use or export or re-export the materials or services at Griots.net web site or any copy or adaptation in violation of any applicable laws or regulations including without limitation United Kingdom and U.S. export laws and regulations. If you choose to access Griots.net web site from outside the United Kingdom, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. These Terms will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and by using Griots.net web site you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

Griots.net may revise these Terms at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current Terms because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these Terms may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at Griots.net web site.

Disclaimers

  • The materials (including all content or software) and services at Griots.net web site are provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. All representations, warranties, conditions and other terms which may be implied into these terms by law (including without limitation those of satisfactory quality) are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

    Griots Arts Services' obligations with respect to its products and services are governed solely by the agreements under which they are provided and nothing on Griots.net web site should be construed to alter such agreements.

    Griots.net further does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the materials, software or services at Griots.net web site.

    Griots.net may make changes to the materials and services at Griots.net web site, or to the products and prices described in them, at any time without notice.The materials and services at Griots.net web site may be out of date, and Griots.net makes no commitment to update the materials and services at Griots.net web site.

    Information published at Griots.net web site may refer to products, programs or services that are not available in your country. Consult your local businesses for information regarding the products, programs and services that may be available to you. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so this exclusion may not apply to you.

    Limitation of Liability

    Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit Griots Arts Services’ liability for (i) death or personal injury arising as a result of its negligence, (ii) fraud, or (iii) any other liability which by applicable law may not be excluded or limited.

    In no event will Griots Arts Services or any of its Associated Companies, their suppliers, or other third parties mentioned at Griots.net web site be under any Liability for any loss or damages whatsoever, including without limitation loss of actual or anticipated profits, loss of goodwill, loss of revenue or the use of money, loss of contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data or business interruption, damages relating to the procurement of substitute goods and services, any special, indirect or consequential loss (whether or not such loss or damage is foreseeable, known, foreseen or otherwise), arising out of: any use of, or inability to use, (i) Griots.net web site and/or (ii) the results of any use of Griots.net web site, (iii) any websites linked to Griots.net web site, or (iv) the materials or information or services contained at Griots.net web site and any or all other such sites.

    Griots Arts Services does not exclude (but for the avoidance of doubt does limit) Liability for any fundamental misrepresentation, including any misrepresentation as to a matter fundamental to its ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement, on the part of Griots Arts Services.

    In these terms “Liability” means liability in or for breach of contract, Breach of Duty (including negligence), misrepresentation, restitution or any other cause of action whatsoever relating to or arising under or in connection with the entering into, performance, non-performance or wrongful performance of this Agreement, including liability expressly provided for under this Agreement or arising by reason of the invalidity or unenforceability of any term of this Agreement (and for the purposes of this definition, all references to “this Agreement” shall be deemed to include any collateral contract). In these terms “Breach of Duty” means the breach of any (i) obligation arising from the express or implied terms of a contract to take reasonable care or exercise reasonable skill in the performance of the contract or (ii) common law duty to take reasonable care or exercise reasonable skill (but not any stricter duty).

    In these terms “Associated Company” means in relation to Griots Arts Services, a company which is a subsidiary, holding company or ultimate holding company of it, or any company which is a subsidiary of any such holding company or ultimate holding company.


 
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