Future Fans Terms and Conditions of Use Agreement
1. Introduction
This Agreement is between you (User and you) and Future Music Pty Ltd (Future Fans).
Future Fans operates www.FutureFans.com.au The services offered by Future Fans include any Future Fans-branded URL (Future Fans Website) and any other features, Content (as defined in section 21), software, code or applications offered from time to time by Future Fans via or in connection with the Future Fans Website (collectively, the Future Fans Services). The Future Fans Services are hosted in the United States and/or any other location determined by Future Fans at its sole discretion.
These terms and conditions of this Agreement (Terms) govern your access to and use of the Future Fans Website and the Future Fans Services.
Capitalised terms used in these Terms have the meaning given to them in these Terms. Please refer in particular to the definitions in section 21 below.
2. Your acceptance of these Terms
- By using the Future Fans Services you:
- 1. signify your agreement to and acceptance of these Terms and the Future Fans Policies;
- 2. have the right and authority to enter into this Agreement, and the performance your obligations hereunder does not infringe the rights of any third party; and
- 3. agree to abide by all Applicable Laws.
- 2. Future Fans reserves the right to vary these Terms and the Future Fans Policies at any time. Each such variation will be effective immediately upon posting on the Future Fans Website. Your continued use of the Future Fans Services following any such variation constitutes your acceptance and agreement to be bound by the Terms and Future Fans Policies as varied. It is therefore important that you review the Terms and Future Fans Policies regularly.
3. Eligibility
- You may not register as a User, use the Future Fans Services or accept these Terms if:
- 1. you are under 18 years of age and have not taken the steps outlined in section 3.2(b) below; or
- 2. Future Fans has suspended or cancelled your use of the Future Fans Services; or
- 3. you are a person barred from receiving the Future Fans Services under the laws of any country, including the country in which you are resident or from which you use the Future Fans Services.
- By using the Future Fans Services, you represent and warrant that:
- 1. you are 18 years of age or older; or
- 2. if you are not 18 years of age or older, your parent or guardian has reviewed these Terms and has given you consent to register as a User.
- 3. If Future Fans believes that you are under 18 years of age and you represent yourself as 18 years of age or older, your profile may be deleted and access to your account may be cancelled without warning.
- 4. If you are a business entity registering as a User, you represent and warrant that any employee, officer, representative or agent who registers your business as a User or subsequently uses the Future Fans Services is duly authorised to act on behalf of your business.
- 5. User registration is void where prohibited under these Terms or any Applicable Law.
4. Provision of the Future Fans Services by Future Fans
- By using the Future Fans Services you acknowledge and agree that:
- 1. the form and nature of the Future Fans Services may change from time to time without prior notice to you;
- 2. Future Fans may, by giving 30 days notice to you, change the format and mechanism by which Ads or Content are provided or delivered at any time.
- 3. Future Fans may, either permanently or temporarily, stop providing the Future Fans Services or any features within the Future Fans Services to you or to Users generally at Future Fans's sole discretion, without prior notice or liability to you;
- 4. if Future Fans disables access to your account, you may be prevented from accessing the Future Fans Services, your account details, or any files or other content which is contained in your account; and
- 5. whilst Future Fans may not currently have set a fixed upper limit on the extent to which you use the Future Fans Services, including the number of Ads you use, transmissions you may send or receive via the Future Fans Services or on the amount of storage space used for the provision of any Future Fans Services, such fixed upper limits may be set by Future Fans at any time, at Future Fans's discretion, without prior notice to you.
5. Use of the Future Fans Services by you
- In using the Future Fans Service you agree:
- 1. to use the Future Fans Services only for purposes that are permitted by these Terms and any Applicable Law;
- 2. not to post any Prohibited Content on the Future Fans Website or through the Future Fans Services;
- 3. not to engage in any Prohibited Activity when using the Future Fans Services;
- 4. not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Future Fans Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Future Fans, unless you are specifically allowed to do so under the terms of a separate agreement with Future Fans;
- 5. not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Future Fans Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers), unless you are specifically allowed to do so under the terms of a separate agreement with Future Fans;
- 6. to comply with the instructions set out on the Future Fans Website or directions received from Future Fans regarding the use of the Future Fans Services;
- 7. that you are solely responsible for (and that Future Fans has no responsibility to you or to any third party for):
- 1. any breach of your obligations or any representation or warranty you provide under these Terms and for the consequences of any such breach (including any loss or damage howsoever caused which Future Fans or any third party may suffer); and
- 2. your interactions with other Users.
- 8. that Future Fans gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the Future Fans Services. This license is for the sole purpose of promoting and facilitating the purchase of Products by Buyers and such other purposes permitted by these Terms.
- 9. not to assign (or grant a sub-license of) your rights to use the Future Fans Services, grant a security interest in or over your rights to use the Future Fans Services, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use the Future Fans Services, unless you are specifically allowed to do so under the terms of a separate agreement with Future Fans;.
- 10. not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell any part of the Future Fans Services for any purpose, unless you are specifically allowed to do so under the terms of a separate agreement with Future Fans;
- 11. not (and will not permit anyone else) to copy, modify, adapt, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Future Fans Services or any part thereof, unless you are specifically allowed to do so under the terms of a separate agreement with Future Fans;
- 12. that the Future Fans Services may provide a means to automatically download and install updates from Future Fans from time to time. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the Future Fans Services and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software modules and completely new versions. You agree to receive such updates (and permit Future Fans to deliver these to you), as part of your use of the Future Fans Services.
- 13. Future Fans reserves the right, but has no obligation, to become involved in any way with disputes between you and other Users of the Future Fans Services, including Retailers.
6. Registration
- 1. You may become a registered User by registering on the Future Fans Website. Your registration may be cancelled if:
- 1. Future Fans, at its sole discretion, determines that multiple accounts are held by the same individual or entity;
- 2. Future Fans, at its sole discretion, determines that you are in breach of these Terms; or
- 3. these Terms otherwise give Future Fans the right to cancel your registration.
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- 2. You may not register as a User if you were previously a User and Future Fans cancelled your registration as a result of you being in breach of these Terms (as they applied at the relevant time).
- 3. In order to register as a User and to access and use certain Future Fans Services, you may be required to provide information about yourself (such as identification, contact details and account details for payments), as part of the registration process for the Future Fans Services, or as part of your continued use of the Future Fans Services. By registering as a User and using the Future Fans Services, you represent and warrant that:
- 1. all registration information you submit (including any representation or warranty you provide in the course of registering) is truthful and accurate; and
- 2. you will maintain the accuracy of such information at all times whilst you continue to be registered as a User and use the Future Fans Services.
7. Your passwords and account security
- 1. When you register to become a User, you may be asked to authorise the registration via a third party web service (e.g Facebook) and/or choose a password for your Future Fans Services account. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any account you use, including passwords for any third party web service, to access the Future Fans Services. You agree not to use the account, username, email address or password of another User at any time or to disclose your password to any third party.
- 2. You will be solely responsible for the use of your password and any and all activities that occur on your account, whether or not those activities are authorised by you.
- 3. If you become aware of any unauthorised use of your password or account, you shall notify Future Fans immediately at support@Future Fans.com.
8. Privacy and your personal information
- 1. You warrant that you have read Future Fans's privacy policy on the Future Fans Website. This policy explains how Future Fans treats your personal information, and protects your privacy, when you use the Future Fans Services.
- 2. You agree to the use of your personal information in accordance with Future Fans's privacy policy.
9. Ads
- As a User, you may be entitled to select an Ad from the Ad inventory on the Future Fans Website and display the Ad on:
- 1. the Future Fans Website;
- 2. your website;
- 3. any social networking website of which you are a member, but only to the extent and in the manner permitted by the terms and conditions applicable to your use of that website; and
- 4. any third party website or other place on the Internet where you are authorised to upload or display Content and, where applicable, in the manner permitted by the terms and conditions applicable to your use of that third party website or other place on the Internet.
- If you display an Ad:
- 1. you must comply with any specifications and directions of Future Fans in relation to the display, tracking, removal and data reporting of Ads; and
- 2. you must not (whether directly or indirectly), modify or attempt to modify any Ad.
- You must not display an Ad:
- 1. on a website that contains Content which, if it were published on the Future Fans Website, would constitute Prohibited Content;
- 2. in a manner which is false or misleading, including in a manner which, for example, incorrectly suggests that a recording artist referred to in the Ad is endorsing a particular product or commercial brand; or
- 3. that is being sold by a Retailer who you are a direct competitor of.
- 4. You must not directly communicate with any Retailer in relation to any Ad, except through means provided by Future Fans. All such communications should be directed to Future Fans at support@Future Fans.com.
10. Commissions
- 1. If you display an Ad, a Commission may be payable to you as a direct result of the sale of that Product to a Buyer (Commission). For the avoidance of doubt, you will not be entitled to a Commission in the event a Buyer purchases a Product at another time and does not purchase the Product via your Ad.
- 2. The Commission payable to you will be:
- 1. the Commission applicable to the relevant Product as published on the Future Fans Website at the time the Product is purchased by the Buyer on the Retailer Website;
- 2. calculated based on the information contained in Future Fans's systems and records. Future Fans will accept no other measurements or statistics, nor will they have any effect under these Terms.
- 3. Future Fans may vary any Commission published on the Future Fans Website at any time without notice to you.
- 4. Commissions earned by you as the result of the sale of a Product to a Buyer will accrue to an account held by Future Fans in your name. You acknowledge that Future Fans is not a bank or a financial institution and that the funds held by Future Fans or its service providers are not deposit obligations and such funds are not insured by any governmental agency.
- 5. You will only be entitled to payment of a Commission once your account balance reaches a threshold amount as determined by Future Fans from time to time at its sole discretion (Threshold Amount). The current Threshold Amount is $5.00. You may request payment at any time so long as the minimum request for payment is the same or greater than the Threshold Amount. You may view your current account Commission balance at support@Future Fans.com.
- 6. You acknowledge that Future Fans only offers payment of Commissions via PayPal and other payment methods it nominates from time to time at its sole discretion (Payment Account). When you register as a User, you must provide Future Fans with details of your Payment Account. You must notify Future Fans promptly of any changes to your Payment Account details and acknowledge that Future Fans has no liability to you for your failure to notify Future Fans of any such changes.
- 7. Future Fans will make payment to your nominated Payment Account on a weekly basis or at such other intervals as Future Fans determines in its sole discretion from time to time.
- 8. If you cancel your registration as a User, Future Fans will pay any unpaid Commission payable to you within 90 ninety days after the end of the calendar month in which you cancel your registration.
- 9. Any Commission payable to you by Future Fans may be set off against any amount you owe Future Fans.
- 10. You must notify Future Fans of any dispute concerning payment of a Commission within 30 days of that payment being made by sending an email to support@Future Fans.com. If you do not notify Future Fans within that period you may be deemed to have waived your claim related to that disputed payment.
11. Unpaid Commissions
- 1. If Future Fans is unable to pay to you any Commission otherwise payable to you then those funds may be declared unclaimed property (Unpaid Commission), including because:
- 1. your account is deemed to be inactive because you have not logged into your account and claimed the unpaid Commission for a period or 24 months or more; or
- 2. Future Fans has not been successful in its attempts to pay you or to receive alternate payment instructions by contacting you at the contact address you have provided to Future Fans,
- 2. Future Fans may, without further notice to you:
- 1. pay any Unpaid Commission to a charitable organisation selected by Future Fans at its sole discretion; and
- 2. deduct from any Unpaid Commission any reasonable holding fee or administrative charge that is permissible by law in relation to such funds and the costs incurred in holding the funds as well as trying to locate and inform you.
12. Tax requirements - Australian residents
- 1. It is your sole responsibility to understand and abide by any federal, state, local or foreign tax laws that may apply to your Commission payments from Future Fans. If you are an Australian resident you understand that you may be required to provide a tax invoice to Future Fans or complete certain tax information reporting forms prior to your receipt of any Commission. You further understand that Future Fans may be required to provide information regarding your earnings to the Australian Taxation Office or any other foreign government agency that requests such information concerning its citizens.
- 2. By registering as a User, you represent and warrant that either:
- 1. the earning of any Commission by you is made in the course or furtherance of an activity done as a private recreational pursuit or hobby, or is wholly of a private or domestic nature; or
- 2. the earning of any Commission by you does not fall within section 12.2(a) and you are registered for GST purposes.
- 3. If the earning of any Commission by you does not fall within section 12.2(a) and you are registered for GST purposes or do not provide Future Fans with an Australian Business Number, Future Fans will deduct from any Commission paid to you an amount equal to any tax that it is required by law to withhold from that payment as a no ABN withholding. The amount that Future Fans is currently required to withhold is 46.5% of the total amount of the Commission payable to you.
- 4. If you are a User registered for GST purposes, you must:
- 1. advise Future Fans of your GST registration at the time of registering as a User and provide Future Fans with your Australian Business Number by sending an email to accounts@Future Fans.com; and
- 2. provide Future Fans with a tax invoice in a form stipulated by the Australian Taxation Office before any Commission payment can be made to you. To satisfy this requirement, you and Future Fans:
- 1. agree that Future Fans will generate a recipient created tax invoice (RCTI) on your behalf in accordance with section 12.5;
- 2. agree that you will not issue a tax invoice to Future Fans for Commissions earned by you; and
- 3. acknowledge that there are mutual efficiencies for you and Future Fans in conducting business on this basis.
- 3. If you cease to be registered for GST purposes, you must notify Future Fans at the earliest opportunity.
- 5. Future Fans will provide you with a RCTI within 28 days of the Commission being paid. The RCTI will:
13. Retailers and Retailer Websites
- 1. The purchase of a Product is effected through a Retailer Website and Future Fans has no obligation in respect of the fulfilment of any order resulting from the purchase of a Product or collection of any monies payable to a Retailer in respect said purchase.
- 2. The Future Fans Services (including Ads), may include hyperlinks to Retailer Websites that are not owned or controlled by Future Fans. You acknowledge and agree that:
- 1. Future Fans assumes no responsibility for the Content, policies, or practices of any Retailer Website. Accordingly, Future Fans encourages you to be aware when you leave the Future Fans Website and to read the terms and conditions and policies of any Retailer Website that you visit as a result of using the Future Fans Services; and
- 2. Future Fans is not responsible for:
- 1. the availability of any Retailer Website;
- 2. the availability for purchase of any Product referred to in an Ad at any time;
- 3. the completeness, accuracy or existence of the Content published on any Retailer Website;
- 4. any loss or damage which may be incurred by you, a Buyer or any other third party as a result of any reliance placed by you, the Buyer or the third party on the completeness, accuracy or existence of the Content published on any Retailer Website.
- 3. The Retailer is solely responsible for:
- 1. the terms and conditions which govern the sale of any Product advertised in an Ad. You may access the Retailer's conditions of sale by clicking through the relevant Ad;
- 2. dealing with any breaches of the Retailer's conditions of sale;
- 3. the sale and delivery to a Buyer of any Product advertised in an Ad;
- 4. the collection of any monies payable to the Retailer by a Buyer in respect of the sale of that Product;
- 5. providing any customer support in respect of any Product purchased by a Buyer; and
- 6. resolving any complaint or dispute regarding any Product purchased by a Buyer.
- 4. You must not:
- 1. resell or offer for resale (including via online auction websites), any Product on terms other than those specified by the Retailer, including at a price that includes a premium; or
- 2. in connection with your promotion of any Product (including the display of any Ad), provide or offer to provide to any Buyer any incentive or other inducement in order to encourage a Buyer to purchase a Product other that an incentive or inducement offered by the Retailer on the Retailer Website, without Future Fans's prior written consent.
- 5. You acknowledge that Future Fans will be entitled to payment of a commission by the Retailer from each sale of a Product to a Buyer. The Retailer will pay that commission to Future Fans under a separate legal agreement between Future Fans and the Retailer.
14. Communications from third parties and competitions
- 1. The Future Fans Services may include functionality that enables third parties to promote or sell Products through the Future Fans Services to:
- 1. communicate directly with Users regarding those Products; and
- 2. conduct competitions and provide other forms of incentives to Users to encourage Users to promote and facilitate the sale of those Products to Buyers.
- 2. By registering as a User you consent to:
- 1. Future Fans providing those third parties with:
- 1. your Future Fans Website user name for the purpose of enabling those third parties to communicate with you regarding those Products; and
- 2. access to reporting systems that will enable those third parties to view your level of activity in relation to the promotion and sale of those Products through your use of the Future Fans Services; and
- 2. receiving communications from those third parties regarding those Products.
- 3. If you participate in any competition conducted by or seek to receive any incentive being provided by those third parties as contemplated in section 14.1(b), you do so on the basis that those third parties will be solely responsible for administering the competition or incentive, including (without limitation):
- 1. determining the terms and conditions applicable to any such competition or incentive;
- 2. corresponding with you in relation to the competition or incentive;
- 3. selecting the winner of the competition; and
- 4. determining the eligibility for receipt of the incentive and delivering any prizes or incentives.
15. Content and proprietary rights
- 1. Content presented to or otherwise available for use by you as part of the Future Fans Services, including but not limited to Ads and other sponsored Content within the Future Fans Services, may be protected by intellectual property rights which are owned by Future Fans or the third party who provided that Content to Future Fans. You may only use that Content for the purposes and in the manner permitted by these Terms and may not modify, adapt, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on that Content (either in whole or in part), unless you are specifically allowed to do so under the terms of a separate agreement with Future Fans or the third party who provided that Content to Future Fans.
- 2. All Third Party Content which you may have access to as part of, or through your use of, the Future Fans Services is the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated and Future Fans does not represent or warrant and is not responsible for ensuring the completeness and accuracy of that Third Party Content.
- 3. By using the Future Fans Services you may be exposed to Content that you may find offensive, indecent or objectionable and that, in this respect, you use the Future Fans Services at your own risk.
- 4. You are solely responsible for (and acknowledge that to the extent permitted by law, Future Fans has no responsibility to you or to any third party for), any Content that you create, transmit or display while using the Future Fans Services and for the consequences of your actions (including any loss or damage which Future Fans or any third party may suffer) by doing so.
- 5. Future Fans assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Future Fans Services for any Prohibited Content or Prohibited Activity. If at any time Future Fans chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the Future Fans Services, Future Fans nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no responsibility for the conduct of the user submitting any such Content.
- 6. You acknowledge and agree that Future Fans (or Future Fans's licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Future Fans Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the Future Fans Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). You further acknowledge that the Future Fans Services may contain information which is confidential information of Future Fans and that you must not disclose such information to any third party without Future Fans's prior written consent, except to the extent that such disclosure is required by law.
- 7. Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with Future Fans, nothing in these Terms gives you a right to use any of Future Fans's trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features unless they are incorporated in the Content and used without modification or adaptation as part of that Content.
- 8. You agree that in using the Future Fans Services, you will not use any trade mark, service mark, trade name or logo of any third party in a way that is likely or intended to cause confusion about the owner or authorised user of such marks, names or logos, unless you have been expressly authorised to do so in writing by said third party.
- 9. Other than the limited license provided herein, you acknowledge and agree that you obtain no right, title or interest from Future Fans (or its licensors) under these Terms in or to any Content presented to or otherwise available for use by you as part of the Future Fans Service, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in that Content (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist).
16. Prohibited Content and Prohibited Activities
- 1. The following are examples of the kind of Content that you may not post on the Future Fans Website or through your use of the Future Fans Services (Prohibited Content). Future Fans reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against you if you breach this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending Content from the Future Fans Services, cancelling your registration as a User and terminating your access to the Future Fans Services. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, Content that, in the sole discretion of Future Fans:
- 1. constitutes or promotes information or other material that is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
- 2. constitutes or promotes an illegal or unauthorised copy of another person's copyrighted work including, but not limited to, providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
- 3. is patently offensive or promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- 4. harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
- 5. exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
- 6. contains nudity, sexually suggestive imagery, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
- 7. furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
- 8. contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images;
- 9. solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
- 10. involves commercial activities or sales without prior written consent from Future Fans including, but not limited to, contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
- 11. includes a photograph or video of another person that you have posted without that person's consent;
- 12. solicits personal information from anyone under the age of 18;
- 13. publicly posts information that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person;
- 14. violates the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights, contract rights or any other rights of any person; or
- 15. promotes propaganda or symbols of organisations which are illegal in your country or in any country in which Future Fans operates.
- 2. The following are examples of the kind of activity that is illegal or prohibited on the Future Fans Website and through your use of the Future Fans Services (Prohibited Activity). Future Fans reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against you if you breach this provision, including without limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities, cancelling your registration as a User and terminating your access to the Future Fans Services. Prohibited Activity includes, but is not limited to:
- 1. other than when displaying Ads as a User, advertising to, or soliciting any User of the Future Fans Services to buy or sell any other products or services through the Future Fans Services;
- 2. sending any “chain letters”, unsolicited bulk email or “spam”, or any other unauthorised commercial communications of any kind through, or in relation to, the Future Fans Services;
- 3. circumventing or modifying, attempting to circumvent or modify, or encouraging or assisting any other person in circumventing or modifying any security technology or code that is part of the Future Fans Services;
- 4. activity that involves the use of viruses, bots, worms, or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or otherwise permit the unauthorised use of or access to a computer or a computer network;
- 5. covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on any Future Fans Website page or in relation to any Future Fans Services used in any place in any media via HTML/CSS or any other means;
- 6. any automated use of the system, including but not limited to, using scripts to send comments or messages;
- 7. interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Future Fans Services or the networks or servers connected to the Future Fans Services;
- 8. impersonating or attempting to impersonate or encouraging or assisting any other person to impersonate another user, person or entity;
- 9. using the account, username, or password of another User at any time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;
- 10. uploading, embedding, posting, emailing, transmitting or otherwise making available any material that infringes any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights of any person or entity;
- 11. selling or otherwise transferring the whole or any part of your profile;
- 12. using or attempting to use or encouraging or assisting any other person in using any information obtained from the Future Fans Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person or entity;
- 13. displaying an unauthorised commercial advertisement on or associated with the Content in any place, or accepting payment or anything of value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial activity through the unauthorised or impermissible use of the Future Fans Services on behalf of that person; or
- 14. using the Future Fans Services in a manner inconsistent with or otherwise in breach of any Applicable Laws.
- 3. The following provisions will apply where Future Fans, in its sole discretion, determines that you have engaged in any Prohibited Activity that may constitute a breach of applicable unsolicited or bulk communication laws:
- 1. on the first occasion that Future Fans determines that you have engaged in any such Prohibited Activity, you will be issued with a warning from Future Fans;
- 2. on the second occasion that Future Fans determines that you have engaged in any such Prohibited Activity, Future Fans will have the right to suspend your account for a period of 7 days ; and
- 3. on the third occasion that Future Fans determines that you have engaged in any such Prohibited Activity, Future Fans will have the right to terminate your access to the Future Fans Services.
- 4. If you become aware of any user of the Future Fans Services posting any Prohibited Content or engaging in any Prohibited Activity, you may report the incident to Future Fans by filling out an incident report at support@Future Fans.com.
17. Ending your relationship with Future Fans
- 1. These Terms will continue to apply until either you cease using or Future Fans cancels your access to the Future Fans Services.
- 2. If you want to cease using the Future Fans Services, you may do so:
- 1. without notifying Future Fans; or
- 2. closing your account by notice to Future Fans. Your notice should be sent to accounts@Future Fans.com.
- 3. Future Fans may at any time, cancel your access to the Future Fans Services if:
- 1. you have breached any provision of these Terms or have acted in a manner which clearly shows that you do not intend to, or are unable to comply with the provisions of these Terms;
- 2. Future Fans is unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to Future Fans;
- 3. Future Fans is required to do so by law (for example, where the provision of the Future Fans Services to you is, or becomes, unlawful);
- 4. the partner with whom Future Fans offered the Future Fans Services to you has terminated its relationship with Future Fans or ceased to offer the Future Fans Services to you;
- 5. Future Fans is transitioning to no longer provide the Future Fans Services to Users in the country in which you are resident or from which you use the Future Fans Services; or
- 6. the provision of the Future Fans Services to you by Future Fans is, in Future Fans's opinion, no longer commercially viable.
- 4. Nothing in this section 17 will affect Future Fans's rights regarding the provision of Future Fans Services under section 4 of these Terms.
- 5. When you cease using or Future Fans cancels your access to the Future Fans Services, all of the legal rights, obligations and liabilities that you and Future Fans have benefited from, been subject to, which have accrued over time whilst you have been using the Future Fans Services or which are expressed to continue indefinitely, will be unaffected by this cessation or cancellation.
18. Exclusion of Warranties
- 1. Nothing in these Terms will exclude or limit Future Fans's warranties or liability for losses which may not be lawfully excluded or limited by applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or conditions or the limitation or exclusion of liability for loss or damage caused by negligence, breach of contract or breach of implied terms, or incidental or consequential damages. Accordingly, only the limitations which are lawful in your jurisdiction will apply to you and Future Fans's liability will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.
- 2. You acknowledge and agree that:
- 1. your use of the Future Fans Services is at your own risk and that the Future Fans Services are provided 'as is' and 'as available';
- 2. Future Fans, its subsidiaries, affiliates and licensors do not represent or warrant to you that:
- 1. your use of the Future Fans Services will meet your requirements;
- 2. your use of the Future Fans Services will be uninterrupted or free from error;
- 3. any information obtained by you as a result of your use of the Future Fans Services will be complete, accurate or reliable; or
- 4. defects in the operation or functionality of any part of the Future Fans Services will be corrected;
- 3. any Content downloaded or otherwise obtained by you through your use of the Future Fans Services is done at your own discretion and risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or other device or loss of data that results from the download of any such material; and
- 4. to the extent permitted by law, no advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from Future Fans or through the Future Fans Services will create any warranty or representation not expressly stated in these Terms.
- 3. Subject to section 18.1, Future Fans further expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
19. Limitation of liability and indemnity
- 1. Subject to section 18.1, Future Fans, its subsidiaries, and their directors, officers, employees, contractors, agents and licensors will not be liable to you:
- 1. in tort, contract or otherwise, howsoever caused, even if such loss or damage was reasonably foreseeable, for any:
- 1. loss of profits, opportunity, revenue, data, goodwill, business or anticipated savings, pure economic loss or expectation loss; or
- 2. any indirect, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary loss or damage; or
- 2. any loss or damage which may be incurred by you, including but not limited to loss or damage arising out of:
- 1. any reliance placed by you upon the completeness, accuracy or existence of any Content, or as a result of any relationship or transaction between the you and Future Fans or any User;
- 2. any changes that Future Fans makes to the Future Fans Services;
- 3. Future Fans ceasing, either permanently or temporarily, to provide the Future Fans Services or any features within the Future Fans Services;
- 4. the deletion or corruption of, or failure to store any Content or other data maintained or transmitted by or through your use of the Future Fans Services;
- 5. your failure to provide Future Fans with accurate account information; or
- 6. your failure to keep your password or account details secure and confidential.
- 2. If Future Fans is liable to you in relation to the Future Fans Service or these Terms, its liability is limited to a sum equal to the total amount of Commissions paid and payable to you.
- 3. You will indemnify and hold Future Fans, its subsidiaries and their directors, officers, employees, contractors, agents and licensors harmless from any loss, damage, proceeding and cost (including all reasonable legal costs), arising out of claim by a third party as a result of your breach of these Terms or your violation of any Applicable Law or the rights of any third party.
- 4. This section 19 shall survive the expiry or termination of this Agreement.
20. General legal terms
- 1. These Terms constitute the whole legal agreement between you and Future Fans regarding your use of the Future Fans Services and completely replace any prior agreements between you and Future Fans in relation to your use of the Future Fans Services.
- 2. Future Fans may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to these Terms, by email, regular mail, or postings on the Future Fans Website.
- 3. If Future Fans does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in these Terms (or which Future Fans has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a formal waiver of Future Fans's rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to Future Fans.
- 4. If a part of these Terms is held to be void, voidable or unenforceable or an invalid part severed, the remainder of these Terms is not affected.
- 5. You agree that you are not a partner or agent of Future Fans and that you and Future Fans are independent contractors. You must not represent yourself as a partner or agent of Future Fans.
- 6. Future Fans may at any time assign the whole or any part of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a related body corporate or a third party without your consent.
- 7. The laws of New South Wales govern these Terms and you and Future Fans irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales. Notwithstanding this, Future Fans will still be allowed to apply for an injunctive remedy or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief in any jurisdiction.
21. Definitions
- Ad means an advertisement comprising Content for Products published on and available for download via the Future Fans Services;
- Affiliate means an individual or other legal entity that is registered to refer individuals to become Users of the Future Fans Services;
- Applicable Laws means all applicable laws, rules and regulations (including any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the United States or other relevant countries);
- Buyer means a person who buys a Product as a result of clicking through an Ad displayed by you in accordance with these Terms.
- Commercial User means a Fan subject to additional and separate agreement terms to these Terms to use the Future Fans Services;
- Content means material and information (such as data files, hyperlinks, unique URL links, written text, computer software, music, audio files or other sounds, photographs, videos or other images) and includes any Ad;
- Fan means a person or other entity that registers to become a user of the Future Fans Services for the purpose of promoting and facilitating the sale of Products to Buyers;
- GST means any goods and services tax, value added tax or sales tax imposed on the sale or supply of goods, services and rights including but not limited to a tax imposed by the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth) and the related imposition Acts of the Commonwealth of Australia;
- Future Fans Policies means Future Fans's privacy policy (found on the Future Fans Website and any other Future Fans policies published from time to time on the Future Fans Website);
- Product means any event, music, merchandise or other product, whether physical or digital, available for purchase through a Retailer Website via the Future Fans Services;
- Prohibited Activity has the meaning given in section 16.2;
- Prohibited Content has the meaning given in section 16.1;
- Retailer means a seller of Products;
- Retailer Website means a website operated by or on behalf of a Retailer;
- Third Party Content means Content published on the Future Fans Website that is owned by a third party and licensed to Future Fans for the purpose of being published on the Future Fans Website and used in the manner contemplated by these Terms;
User means a user of the Future Fans Services including a Buyer, Commercial User, Fan, Retailer, Wholesaler, and Affiliate;