Terms & Conditions

 

Andante Ltd (“we” / “us”) is a limited liability company registered in the jurisdiction of England and Wales and established under the company number 13755533. These terms and conditions shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

We hereby provide access to the Andante website, currently located at www.andantemusic.com and all associated websites and subpages, (the “Site”), together with all our enabled features, functionality, dashboard and services (collectively, “Services”) on the basis of these terms and conditions (the “Terms”). By accessing or using the Site and/or Services in any way, you represent and warrant that you have read, understood, and accept and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, you may not access or use the Site or Services. 

Your use of our distribution and/or label management and/or music publishing administration services, as applicable, shall be separately governed by the relevant Distribution Agreement, Label Management Agreement or Music Publishing Administration Agreement (and any attachments or addendum thereto), as we may separately enter into with you from time to time. 


Terms of Access and Use
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable personal licence to access and use the Site and Services. By accessing the Site and using the Services, you represent and warrant that you are over eighteen (18) years of age or the applicable age of majority in your jurisdiction, and that you are either an individual acting on your own behalf, or the authorized agent of another individual or business. Your use of the Site and the Services as an authorized agent shall not relieve you of personal responsibility for your use of the Site and the Services. The rights granted to you by these Terms may be revoked by us at any time, in our sole discretion. 


Registration and Accounts
In order to use certain features of the Site or Services, you may be required to register for an account (“Account”) with us and provide certain information about yourself as prompted by the Account registration form. You represent and warrant that all required registration information you submit is truthful and accurate, and that you will maintain the accuracy of such information. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account login information and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your Account. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use, or suspected unauthorized use of your Account or any other breach of security. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from unauthorized access to your Account or your failure to comply with the above requirements. 


Privacy
For information regarding our collection and use of information you provide to us, please refer to the Site's privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), located here which shall supplement and be incorporated into these Terms by reference. By entering into these Terms, you agree to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. 


User Content and Activity
The features and functionality of the Site and/or Services may allow users to submit, upload, store and/or share reviews, comments, questions, messages, audio, images, artwork, photographs, text and other content, information or materials ( “User Content ”) directly through the Site and/or Services, and users shall be able to share such User Content using the features made available by the Site and/or Services from time to time. The functionality of the Site and/or Services may allow registered users to make certain User Content publicly available for other users (registered or unregistered) to view, listen to and share. Other features of the Site and/or Services may enable users to privately submit and share messages between users or to upload files to store and share for private use. The foregoing activities described in this paragraph are sometimes collectively referred to herein as “User Activity.”


You are solely responsible for the User Content you submit through the Services as well as your User Activity generally. You agree that, through our Services and at your direction, we are only acting as a passive conduit for your online distribution, storage, publication and/or other exploitation of your User Content. Between you and us, we do not claim any ownership rights with respect to your User Content. By uploading, publishing, modifying, displaying or otherwise submitting User Content to any part of the Site and/or Services , you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to us, as well as to other users of the Services, a non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, communicate to the public, stream, listen to, make available, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part), transmit, re-post and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site and Services. 


Accordingly you represent, warrant and agree that: (a) you have the right to agree to these Terms; (b) all of your User Content is original to you, in the public domain throughout the world or used by you with the express consents, permissions or licenses necessary from the original owner(s) of such materials for use by you and us pursuant to these Terms; (c) your User Content does not and will not violate third-party rights of any kind, including without limitation any Intellectual Property Rights (as defined below) or rights of publicity and privacy; (d) we shall not be responsible for payments or any other liability to any third party in connection with the use of your User Content on the Site, Services or otherwise in connection with these Terms; and (e) none of your User Content contains material which is unlawful, harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, defamatory, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, harassing, humiliating to other people (publicly or otherwise), libellous, threatening, profane, otherwise objectionable or content that may be deemed to constitute “hate speech”.

We reserve the right to reject and/or remove any User Content or other content that we believe, in our sole discretion, violates these provisions. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any User Content that you or any other users or third parties post, use, store or share through the Site and/or Services. You understand and agree that any loss or damage of any kind that occurs as a result of the use of any User Content that you send, upload, download, stream, post, transmit, display, or otherwise make available or access through your use of the Services, is solely your responsibility. We are not responsible for any public display or misuse of your User Content. 

For the purposes of these Terms, “Intellectual Property Rights” means all patent rights, copyright, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications thereof and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdiction.


Restrictions
You agree not to submit User Content, or otherwise take part in User Activity that:

  • may create a risk of harm, loss, physical or mental injury, emotional distress, death, disability, disfigurement, or physical or mental illness to you, to any other person, or other third party;

  • may create a risk of any other loss or damage to any person or property;

  • seeks to harm or exploit children by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable details or otherwise;

  • may constitute or contribute to a crime or tort;

  • contains any information or content that we deem to be unlawful, harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, harassing, humiliating to other people (publicly or otherwise), libelous, threatening, profane, otherwise objectionable or content that may be deemed to constitute “hate speech”

  • contains any information or content that is illegal (including, without limitation, the disclosure of insider information under securities law or of another party's trade secrets);

  • contains any information or content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; or

  • contains any information or content that you know is not correct and current.

In addition to the restrictions listed above, you may not:

  • rent, transfer, assign, resell or sublicense access to the Site and/or Services to any third-party;

  • combine or integrate the Site and/or the Services with hardware, software or other technology or materials not provided by us;

  • modify or create any derivative product based on the Site and/or the Services;

  • decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to obtain or perceive the source code from which any component of the Site and/or the Services is compiled or interpreted, and nothing in these Terms should be interpreted as granting you any right to obtain or use source code;

  • use the Site and/or the Services to: (a) violate any local, state, national or international law; (b) stalk, harass or harm another individual; (c) collect or store personal data about other users; (d) impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; or (e) interfere with or disrupt the Site, Services or servers or networks connected to the Site and/or Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Site and/or Services;

  • use any high volume, automated, or electronic means to access the Site and/or Services (including, without limitation, robots, spiders or scripts); or

  • frame the Site and/or Services, place pop-up windows over its pages, or otherwise affect the display of its pages, without our prior written consent.


Except as expressly stated herein, no part of the Site or Services may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means. Any future release, update, or other addition to functionality of the Site or Services shall be subject to these Terms.


Ownership
As between you and us, we retain all right, title and interest in and to the Site and the Services, and all related intellectual property rights. All rights in and to the Site and the Services not expressly granted herein are reserved. You may not copy, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform (in the case of sound recordings), or create derivative works from any copyrighted work made available or accessible via the Site or the Services. All trademarks, logos and service marks (“Marks”) displayed on the Site or Services are either our property, or the property of third parties. You are not permitted to use these Marks without our prior written consent, or the consent of such third-party owner of the Mark(s) if not owned by us. 


Using Our Servers
We may allow you to share User Content with third parties by uploading your chosen User Content to our servers which will then make a download link to enable distribution of your User Content ( “Download Link ”). Uploaded User Content will be stored on our servers during the term of our Agreement with you, after which the available download will expire, and the corresponding User Content will be permanently deleted from our servers. 

Copyright Claims
We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any content on our Site and/or Services infringes upon your copyright or the copyright of someone you represent, please send an e-mail or other written notice to claims@andantemusic.com (“Notice”). 

All Notices should include the following information:


(a) an electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
(b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
(c) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site and/or Services, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
(d) your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
(e) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(f) a statement by you, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. 


We have a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and in our sole discretion, access to the Site and the Services for users who are copyright infringers. You may be held liable for damages if you make material misrepresentations in a Notice. Thus, if you are not sure that material located on or linked to by the Site and/or Services infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting a suitably qualified lawyer.


Links to Third-Party Websites or Services
You may be able to access websites, content, products or services provided by third parties through links that are made available on the Site (“Third Party Services”). For example, we may include links to various digital music service providers. If you elect to use such Third Party Services, you understand that your use of them will be subject to any terms and conditions required by the applicable third parties. You understand that we are not the provider of, and are not responsible for, any such Third Party Services or any transactions or use thereof. Where the Site includes any links to Third Party Services, this does not imply any endorsement by us of the goods, services or materials available on such Third Party Services. 


Hold Harmless and Limited Liability
You agree to use the Site and/or Services at your own sole risk, and agree to hold us, our licensees and/or our successors and assigns harmless from any and all liability, harm, damages, costs (including attorney's fees and legal and court costs), expenses, allegations, claims and legal action of any kind at any time or of any sort that may arise from your use of the Site or Service, any violation of these Terms or of applicable law, or any third party claim of infringement of any Intellectual Property Rights, or any other right, arising from the hosting, making available or any other use of your User Content on the Site and/or Services. Your agreement to these Terms shall permanently and wholly bar you from any legal action of any sort towards us for the use of the Site and/or Services or any resultant effects of any sort, shape, kind or type, including any statutory and/or tort actions, specifically inclusive of any legal, action of any type, kind, or sort. 


ALL INFORMATION, CONTENT AND MATERIALS PROVIDED VIA THE SITE AND/OR SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS.” WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE, OR ANY OTHER WARRANTY, CONDITION, GUARANTY, OR REPRESENTATION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ACCURACY, TIMELINESS OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIALS PROVIDED VIA THE SITE OR SERVICE. WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SITE AND SERVICES WILL BE CONTINUOUS, UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR SECURE. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW. NEITHER DISTROKID NOR ANY OF OUR SHAREHOLDERS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AFFILIATES, REPRESENTATIVES, AGENTS, PREDECESSORS, SUCCESSORS, LICENSORS OR ASSIGNS SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES OR LOSSES INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE OR SERVICES OR ANY OF THE INFORMATION OR MATERIALS PROVIDED ON THE SITE OR SERVICES, OR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS, INTERRUPTIONS, ERRORS, DEFECTS, OR DELAYS IN PERFORMANCE, REGARDLESS OF THE CLAIM AS TO THE NATURE OF THE CAUSE OF ACTION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE OR LOSS. OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY, AND THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF OUR LICENSORS, TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTIES IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE IS LIMITED TO UK £100. THE FOREGOING IS APPLICABLE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. 


Modifications
We may change these Terms from time to time, and we expect to do so as we evolve and expand the Services. Any such changes will become effective immediately upon your assent thereto. Continuing use of the Site and the Services after changes to the Terms have been posted shall be deemed assent to the changes. If you object to any such changes, your sole recourse will be to cease using the Site and the Services. Continued use of the Site or the Services following posting of any such changes will indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and your agreement to be bound by the revised Terms, inclusive of such changes. 


Miscellaneous
These Terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and us with respect to your access to and use of the Site and Services. We reserve the right to terminate these Terms, your Account, and your access to the Site and the Services at any time without notice. You may delete your Account at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Site. Your rights under these Terms will automatically and immediately terminate if you fail to comply with your promises and obligations stated in these Terms. If any provisions hereof are deemed invalid or unenforceable, they will be severed or construed to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intentions of the parties, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any provision by us shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such provision or any other provision, and our failure to assert any right or provision under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.