Acceptable Use Policy
Community Terms
The Ivors Academy (“we”, or “us”) community is home to a unique network of songwriters & composers with distinct experiences and talent, united in the pursuit of creating and maintain a career in a very challenging industry.
The community forum (“Forum“) is a controlled and safe space for our members to post queries, find guidance relevant to their career, share career experiences, and ultimately empower each other in building sustainable careers.
Please ensure you read the full contents of these terms (“Community Terms“) before entering the Forum. By entering and using the Forum, you are agreeing to these Community Terms. We amend these Community Terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use the Forum, please check these Community Terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
You must be at least 18 years old to use the Forum.
These Community Terms apply only to use of the Forum. The Ivors Academy may offer other products and services, under different terms.
Code of Conduct
If you place comments, posts or share material on the community forum, or otherwise make material available on the Forum (any such material, “Content“), you are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. This is the case regardless of the format of the Content that you post.
Be Respectful: Treat all members with kindness and consideration. Any form of discrimination, harassment, disrespectful or inappropriate language will not be tolerated.
Stay On-Topic: Keep conversations relevant to the Forum’s purpose.
Protect Privacy: Do not share personal information that could compromise your security or that of others.
Content Ownership & Copyright: Only share Content you own or have permission to post.
No Spam or Self-Promotion: Avoid posting unrelated content, spam, or promotional material in categories not made for that purpose.
Constructive Engagement: Share advice thoughtfully and with good intentions. Disagreements should be handled respectfully.
No Misinformation: Verify facts before sharing industry-related news or legal advice.
Report Breaches: Notify moderators if you come across inappropriate Content – Reach out to membership@ivorsacademy.com
Acceptable Use
- You must not: Use the Forum for any illegal purposes.
- Access the account of any other user.
- Buy, sell, or otherwise trade in usernames or other unique identifiers on the Forum.
- Send advertisements, chain letters, or other solicitations through the Forum, or use the Forum to gather addresses or other personal data for commercial mailing lists or databases.
- Automate access to the Forum, or monitor the Forum, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the Forum to index it for a publicly available search engine, if you run one.
- Use the Forum to send e-mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or group mail aliases.
- Falsely imply or represent that you’re affiliated with or endorsed by The Ivors Academy.
- Hyperlink to images or other non-hypertext content on the Forum on other webpages.
- Remove any marks showing proprietary ownership from materials you download from the Forum.
- Show or share any part of the Forum on other websites or social platforms.
- Disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the Forum.
- Strain infrastructure of the Forum with an unreasonable volume of requests, or requests designed to impose an unreasonable load on information systems underlying the Forum.
- Impersonate others through the Forum.
- Encourage or help anyone to breach these Community Terms.
Content Standards
You must not:
- Submit Content to the Forum that is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes Content that is harassing, inappropriate, abusive, or hateful conduct.
- Submit Content to the Forum that breaks the law, infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.
- Submit Content to the Forum containing malicious computer code, such as computer viruses or spyware.
- Submit Content to the Forum as a mere placeholder, to hold a particular address, username, or other unique identifier.
- Use the forum to disclose information that you don’t have the right to disclose, like others’ confidential or personal information.
Rights of The Ivors Academy
The Ivors Academy reserves the right to change, redact, and delete Content on the Forum for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted Content to the Forum in breach of these Community Terms, contact us immediately on membership@ivorsacademy.com.
Your Account
You must create and log into an account to use some features of the Forum.
To create an account, you must provide some information about yourself. If you create an account, you agree to provide, at a minimum, a valid e-mail address, and to keep that address up-to-date. You may close your account at any time by emailing membership@ivorsacademy.com.
You agree to be responsible for all actions taken using your account, whether authorised by you or not, until you either close your account or notify The Ivors Academy that your account has been compromised. You agree to notify The Ivors Academy immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised. You agree to select a secure password for your account, and keep it secret.
The Ivors Academy may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the Forum according to its policy for handling copyright-related takedown requests, or if The Ivors Academy reasonably believes that you’ve breached any provision of these Community Terms.
Your Content
Nothing in these Community Terms gives The Ivors Academy any ownership rights in intellectual property that you share with the Forum, such as your account information, posts, or other Content you submit to the Forum. Nothing in these Community Terms gives you any ownership rights in The Ivors Academy’s intellectual property either.
Between you and The Ivors Academy, you remain solely responsible for Content you submit to the Forum.
You licence The Ivors Academy to provide Content that you submit to the Forum to other users of the Forum. That special licence allows The Ivors Academy to copy, publish, and analyse Content you submit to the Forum.
When Content you submit is removed from the Forum, whether by you or by The Ivors Academy, The Ivors Academy’s special license ends when the last copy disappears from The Ivors Academy’s backups, caches, and other systems. Other licenses you apply to Content you submit, such as Creative Commons licenses, may continue after your Content is removed. Those licenses may give others, or The Ivors Academy itself, the right to share your Content through the Forum again.
Others who receive Content you submit to the Forum may breach the terms on which you license your Content. You agree that The Ivors Academy will not be liable to you for those breaches or their consequences.
Your Responsibility to Us
You shall compensate The Ivors Academy, its employees and agents, for all claims, liability, losses, damages and expenses including, without limitation, legal fees and costs arising out of or incurred as a result of any claims made, or litigation brought, against The Ivors Academy, its employees and agents, as a result of your use of the Forum in any way which is not permitted by these Community Terms.
Disclaimers
You accept all risk of using the Forum and content on the Forum. As far as the law allows, The Ivors Academy provides the Forum as is, without any warranty whatsoever.
The Forum may hyperlink to and integrate Forums and services run by others. The Ivors Academy does not make any warranty about services run by others, or content they may provide. Use of services run by others may be governed by other terms between you and the one running service.
The Ivor Academy’s Responsibility to You
The Ivors Academy does not exclude or limit its liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
The Ivors Academy will not be liable for any unforeseeable losses that result from the access or use of the Forum.
Feedback
The Ivors Academy welcomes your feedback and suggestions for the Forum. See the Contact section below for ways to get in touch with us.
You agree that The Ivors Academy will be free to act on feedback and suggestions you provide, and that The Ivors Academy won’t have to notify you that your feedback was used, get your permission to use it, or pay you. You agree not to submit feedback or suggestions that you believe might be confidential or proprietary, to you or others.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Community Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales and the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes (whether contractual or non-contractual) arising out of these Community Terms.
Entire Agreement
These Community Terms constitute all the terms of agreement between you and The Ivors Academy about use of the Forum. These Community Terms entirely replace any other agreements about your use of the Forum, written or not.
Contact
If you need to get in touch with us, please contact us at membership@ivorsacademy.com.
The Ivors Academy may provide notice to you under these Community Terms using the e-mail address you provide for your account on the Forum, or by posting a message to the homepage of the Forum or your account page.
