Site Terms

Terms and Conditions

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Access to and use of this website (located at the URLs www.theMusic.com.au, www.purplesneakers.tv and www.countrytown.com) is provided by The Music Press Pty Ltd trading as the music (“The Music”, also “we”, “us” and “our”) on the following conditions and any other directions or rules of use on this website (“Terms”).

If you access this website (other than to read these Terms for the first time), you agree to these Terms. We reserve the right to change the Terms at any time by posting changes on-line. You are responsible for informing yourself of any changes by regularly reviewing these pages. If you access the website after any changes are posted, you agree to all of those changes.

The Terms may also govern goods and services advertised by any company or business affiliated with The Music Press Pty Ltd (an “Affiliate”). If these Terms govern goods and services advertised by an Affiliate, then the identity of that Affiliate will be apparent from the pages of the website upon which those goods and services are advertised.

Disclaimers, liability limitation and indemnity

General disclaimers

Use of this website is at your risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law, none of SGC Media Investments Pty Ltd, its Affiliates or any of their respective employees, agents, third party content providers or licensors makes any express or implied representation or warranty about, or will be liable, in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, for any direct, indirect, special or consequential loss, damages or reliance in connection with, this website, its use, its content or any products or services (including our products or services) referred to on this website.

This includes (but is not restricted to) loss or damage you might suffer as a result of any of the following:

(a) your reliance on the completeness, accuracy, suitability or currency of the website or its content;

(b) failure or delay of performance or in operation or transmission, computer virus or other harmful component, loss of data, communication line failure, unlawful third party conduct, or theft, destruction, alteration or unauthorised access to records;

(c) accessing any websites or servers maintained by other organisations through links on this website. Links are provided for the convenience of our website users only and without responsibility for the content or operation of those websites. Unless otherwise stated, linked websites and their products and services are not endorsed by us and you link to any such website at your own risk; and

(d) defamatory, threatening, offensive or unlawful conduct of third parties.

No advice given

If you require specific advice for your individual circumstances, consult an appropriate expert directly. Do not rely on the general material on this website.

Exclusion of implied warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions and warranties that otherwise would be implied in any transactions for the supply by us of information, products or services offered on this website (including warranties of satisfactory quality, merchantability and fitness for purpose).

Limitation of our liability (if any) to you.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability to you (if any) for loss, damage or reliance shall be limited, at our election, to:

(a) in the case of information or services supplied or offered by us — the re-supply of the information or services or payment of the cost of doing this; or

(b) in the case of goods supplied or offered by us — repair or replacement of the goods, supply of equivalent goods, or payment of the cost of doing this.

Indemnity

You indemnify us, our Affiliates and our respective employees, agents, third party content providers and licensors from and against all actions, suits, claims, demands, liabilities, costs, expenses, loss and damage (including legal fees on a full indemnity basis) incurred or suffered by us as a direct or indirect consequence of you (or, where applicable, any other person using your username and password) using this website.

Rights we cannot exclude, limit or disclaim

The disclaimers, liability limitations and indemnities herein do not exclude any of your rights which by law may not be excluded; nor do they limit any of your rights which by law may not be so limited.

Copyright and intellectual property notices

International copyright protection

The material on this website is protected by copyright under the laws of Australia and, through international treaties, other countries.

Trade Marks Notice

No trade mark of ours (whether registered or otherwise) may be used without our prior, specific, written permission. Other product names and images on this website may be trade marks or registered trade marks of ours, our Affiliates or third parties (including advertisers, sponsors, and stakeholders). The use or misuse of these trade marks, except as expressly authorised, is prohibited.

Ownership of copyright

Unless otherwise indicated, The Music Press Pty Ltd owns the copyright in the content on this website, including the copyright works, text, software, images, graphics, advertisements, databases, sound recordings, streaming audio, cinematograph films (videos), animation, e-cards, downloads and streaming video) (collectively referred to as “content” in these Terms). Some of the copyright in the content on this website may be owned by someone else and is included on our website under licence or other agreements.

Using content subject to copyright on this website

You must not modify, make available, adapt, copy, reproduce, decompile, communicate, transmit, broadcast, perform, store, republish, print, commercialise, frame, upload or otherwise distribute the content in any way except as expressly permitted by us in writing.

You must not: 

1. use, or authorise to be used, automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or similar, to download or scrape data or content from our website (or from other platforms via which we given you access to our data and content) for any purpose; 

2. submit, or authorise to be submitted, any data or content from our website (or data or content we otherwise give you access to) to any large language models or other machine learning or artificial intelligence platforms, tools, programs, software, operation, and/or similar (AI Programs); and/or

3. use, or authorise to be used, any data or content from our website (or data or content we otherwise give you access to) for any purpose in relation to any AI Programs, including to create, develop, train, and/or otherwise improve any AI Programs and/or for the purposes of generating replicated or derivative content from such AI Programs.

Privacy

Your use of the Website is subject to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference into these Terms. Please review our Privacy Policy to understand our practices.

Termination

We may terminate or suspend your access to the Website immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms. All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.

Changes to Terms

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, we will try to provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Brisbane Australia, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at info@sgcmedia.com.

By using the Website, you agree to abide by these Terms of Service. Thank you for your cooperation.