General Terms and Conditions

Bandwars.org ("BandWars or "we"), which is a social networking platform that allows Musicians("Members" or "Users") to create their unique profiles online in order to find and communicate with their fans. BandWars is free to use for everyone under the following terms

I. General Provisions

• BandWars provides its users with an infrastructure which enables the Members to save multimedia materials on BandWars servers. After the saving process the respective user receives gets their own unique webpage which is accessible by any internet user
• The service offered by BandWars is free of charge.

II. Upload Regulations

• Users can only upload multimedia files which ownerships belongs to the user
• Users must not upload any files which against the current laws of United Kingdom
  Not conclusive list of strictly prohibited materials:
  • child pornography content
  • works the download of which violates third party copyrights
  • racist or violence-glorifying works
  • instructions to criminal offences against public peace
• Uploaded contents are accessible but not downloadable by Members
• BandWars will block access to any illegal contents immediately after obtaining knowledge thereof and will delete them after an examination phase of 14 days. Furthermore, it will delete files which are identical to previously deleted files.
• With regard to users who violate these upload regulations, BandWars is entitled to terminate the contractual relationship without notice , to block the access of the respective users to its services and/or to delete accounts of such users including all contents.

III. Free Use

• BandWars provides its free users with line and memory capacity at its sole discretion.

IV. Availability and Data Security

• BandWars will provide the functions stated under section I. (1), in principle, 24 hours a day and seven days a week, however, only with a guaranteed availability rate of 99.5% as a monthly average. Excluded hereof are time periods in which the servers are not accessible via the Internet due to technical or other problems which are not within BandWars's control (third party fault, force majeure, etc.).
• BandWars strives to organise maintenance work as quickly as possible. BandWars will limit the access to its service temporarily only in the event that the security or the functional capability of the network operations requires it imperatively. Should such limitations become necessary (for instance in order to defend against hacker attacks), BandWars will immediately inform its users about the background of this limitation. Should it be foreseeable that downtimes for maintenance or software updates take longer than three hours, BandWars will inform its users of this at least three days before executing the respective work.
• BandWars respects its Members privacy and never give out member data to any 3rd party

V. Miscellaneous

• BandWars will inform Members via email about amendments to the General Terms and Conditions before they come into effect.
• Should a term of the contract or a provision of the General Terms and Conditions be or become entirely or partially ineffective, this shall not affect the validity of the rest of the contract or the General Terms and Conditions. In lieu of the invalid condition such valid provision shall be incorporated as shall best approximate the actual purpose of the stipulated condition. The same shall also apply should any omission in the agreement become apparent.

At violation of our Conditions of use, we are authorized to block your access and delete your files. If you write programs aiming to violate our Conditions of Use, you will be prosecuted and made liable for any losses occurred.