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TERMS OF USE AND CONDITIONS If you are seeking to upload material to dance-tech.net or to engage in any activities and view site content, you must register and become a site member. By using this site you are bound by these Terms of Use. Visitors to dance-tech.net site making any use of this site (which includes but is not limited to simply viewing the site's content) constitutes your acknowledgment and acceptance of these Terms of Use, which takes effect the moment you first use the site. dance-tech.net reserves the right at any time to change the terms, conditions and notices under which its services are offered, including but not limited to these Terms of Use, by posting such changes online. It is your responsibility to refer to and comply with these updated terms and conditions upon accessing the site. Your continued use of this site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions as modified. If these Terms of Use are not accepted in full, you do not have permission to access the contents of this site or to upload content to this site and you should cease using this site immediately. When you upload or post content to dance-tech.net, that content becomes public content and will be search able by and available to anyone who visits the dance-tech.net site. dance-tech.net does not claim ownership of the materials you post, upload, input or submit to the dance-tech.net site. However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your content to dance-tech.net, you are granting dance-tech.net and its affiliated partners, a worldwide, revocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, transfer, transmit, distribute and publish that content for the purposes of displaying that content on dance-tech.net and on other Web sites, devices and/or platforms. Content that you upload to dance-tech.net will generally be available to the public in RSS feeds designed to allow for the automatic syndication of content throughout the Web — dance-tech.net is an open platform and designed for the free exchange of content and ideas. dance-tech.net respects the fact that your content is yours, and will not sell advertising on your content or sell your content to any third party: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License When you upload content to dance-tech.net you grant a Creative Commons license that will govern how third parties may use your content. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. You can designate any other license from Creative Commons License (see http://www.creativecommons.org) or an "All Rights Reserved" license , you also have the option of declaring it "public domain," in which case you are disclaiming all copyright to the work for the benefit of the public at large. If you don't indicate your license all your uploaded material will be have the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License You may remove content you have posted on dance-tech.net at any time. We cannot guarantee that content deleted from dance-tech.net will be deleted from the Web sites or systems of third parties. If you would like your content removed and/or permanently deleted from any Web sites other than dance-tech.net, you will be required to contact such Web sites directly, and we cannot guarantee any outcome, action or result with respect to any such request by you. COPYRIGHT AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY The content on the dance-tech.net site, including without limitation, the text, software, graphics, photos, and videos, is owned by or licensed to dance-tech.net, subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights under United States Copyright Act and trademark laws, foreign laws, and international conventions. Other than as expressly permitted, you may not engage in the unauthorized use, copying, or distribution of any of said content. You shall be solely responsible for your own content and the consequences of posting or publishing said content. In connection with all content that you upload to dance-tech.net, you affirm, represent and/or warrant that: (i) you own, or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize dance-tech.net to use, all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to said content, including without limitation any musical recordings contained therein; and (ii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in any uploaded video to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person in the manner contemplated by the website and these Terms of Use. In addition to posting your own content on dance-tech.net, you can also enjoy the many videos uploaded by others in the dance-tech.net community. The dance-tech.net site includes a combination of content that we license from third party partners and content that is created and posted by our users. All of the content on the dance-tech.net site is protected by the copyright of one or more of the following: dance-tech.net, our partners or our users. Materials uploaded to dance-tech.net may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials. As a creator of content uploaded to dance-tech.net or as a passive user of the dance-tech.net site, you may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or in any way exploit any of the content on the dance-tech.net site in whole or in part outside of the specific usage rights granted to you by each license. If you download or print a copy of any dance-tech.net content for personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein. You may not otherwise use, reproduce, display, publicly perform, or distribute such content in any way for any public or commercial purpose unless such use is expressly granted by a particular license. PRIVACY dance-tech.net respects the privacy of its users. dance-tech.net will not share personally identifiable information about you with any third-party except as required by law, or as is necessary to fulfill its obligations under these Terms (i.e. to facilitate advertising revenue share payment). PROHIBITED CONTENT Our goal is to promote the free-flowing exchange of expression relating to members interests, activities and hobbies while maintaining high standards of respect and decency. In order to attain this goal, and in addition to the other content and/or action restrictions set forth in these Terms of Use and elsewhere on the dance-tech.net website, the following content is prohibited on dance-tech.net: * Content involving nudity, including but not limited to, nudity or partial nudity of children of any age. * Content that exploits children or minors or that discloses any personally identifying information beyond a first name about persons under the age of 18. * Content that disseminates personal information about another individual for malevolent purposes, including libel, slander, defamation or harassment. * Content that has as its sole or primary purpose to advertise a particular product or service that, in the sole judgment of dance-tech.net, does not otherwise have redeeming value to the community. dance-tech.net may allow the uploading of some such content for a fee, at its sole discretion. Such advertising content may be treated differently than other content (i.e. through indications that it is an advertisement, or exclusion from some indices or searches). * Content that is or may be deemed to be grossly offensive to the online community, including but not limited to, blatant expressions of bigotry, prejudice, racism, hatred and profanity. * Content promoting or providing instructional information about illegal activities. * Content depicting cruelty to animals. * Copyrighted content or material that is used without the express permission of the owner. * Content intended to abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others (such as the rights of privacy and publicity). * Content that contains software or other material protected by intellectual property laws unless you own or control the rights thereto or have secured all necessary consents and/or licenses. * Content or other material that contains viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of dance-tech.net servers or another users computer. * Content that violates any applicable laws or regulations not specifically referenced herein. As a condition of your use of the dance-tech.net site, you warrant that you will not use the services offered on the site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the dance-tech.net site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the dance-tech.net site or interfere with any other parties use and enjoyment of the dance-tech.net site. dance-tech.net has no obligation to monitor the content which has been uploaded to the Web site for compliance with the foregoing. However, dance-tech.net reserves the right to review materials uploaded to dance-tech.net and to remove any materials in its sole discretion for any reason or no reason, at any time, with or without notice to you. dance-tech.net reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the services offered by dance-tech.net at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever. dance-tech.net does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any user-generated content or uploaded material and, therefore, dance-tech.net specifically disclaims any liability with regard to such user-generated content or uploaded material and any actions resulting from such user-generated content or uploaded material. You agree to use the services provided by dance-tech.net only for their intended, lawful purposes and in accordance with all applicable laws. You agree not to use dance-tech.net in any manner that interferes with its normal operation or with any other users use and enjoyment thereof. You also agree that you will not access dance-tech.net from any territory where its contents are illegal. dance-tech.net does not endorse any user-generated content or any opinion, recommendation or advice expressed therein, and dance-tech.net expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with user-generated content. If notified by a user or a third party of uploaded material that allegedly does not conform to these Terms of Use, dance-tech.net may investigate the allegation and determine in good faith and in its sole discretion whether to remove the user-generated content. THIRD PARTY SITES/LINKS TO dance-tech.net dance-tech.net may contain links to other websites (Linked Sites). The Linked Sites are not under the control of dance-tech.net and dance-tech.net is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation, any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. dance-tech.net is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site. dance-tech.net is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by dance-tech.net or any association with its operators. If you decide to visit any Linked Site, you do so at your own risk and it is your responsibility to take all protective measures to guard against viruses or other destructive elements. dance-tech.net does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, services or information on, or available from, third party websites or material. dance-tech.net is not responsible for any damage, loss or offense caused by, or in connection with, any content, advertising, products, services or information available on such websites or material. Any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings are solely between you and the relevant provider of the service. dance-tech.net does not claim any legal authorization to use any trademark, trade name, logo or copyright symbol displayed in or accessible through a linked Site. dance-tech.net disclaims all liability for any legal or other consequences (including claims for infringement of third party rights) of links made to this site on websites not affiliated with dance-tech.net.

The following Terms of Service apply to your use of this Network. You are solely responsible for your conduct and your content on the Network and compliance with these terms. By registering with us or using or browsing this Network, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms. This Network is not intended for children younger than 18 and is offered only to users 18 years of age or older. If you are under 16 years old, please do not use this network unless you have received a written permission (consent) from a parent or legal guardian.

You may use this Network provided that you have the power to enter a binding contract with us and are not barred from doing so under any applicable law of your country.

You agree that you will not post, email or make available any content or use this Network:

In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
in a manner that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
to engage in spamming, "chain letters," "pyramid schemes", advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violate these Terms of Service, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines;
in a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
in a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another's privacy;
in a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
in a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or age or is otherwise objectionable;
to impersonate any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or to obtain access to this Network without authorization;
to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Network or prevent others from using this Network, or in a manner that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to this Network, or that otherwise negatively affects other persons' ability to use this Network;
to use any manual or automated means, including agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access or manage any user's account or to monitor or copy this Network or the content contained therein;
to facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
in a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
in a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of content transmitted through this Network or to users; and
in a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.

Additionally, you agree not to:

"Stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
Collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other users without their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any member of this Network or to proxy authentication credentials for any member of this Network for the purposes of automating logins to this Network;
Post any content containing child pornography to this Network;
Post any content that depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality, incest, or other similar content;
Post any content that constitutes pornography, contains nudity, or is adult in nature.
Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from this Network - except for Internet search engines (e.g. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file, or "well-behaved" web services/RSS/Atom clients. We reserve the right to define what we mean by "well-behaved";
Post irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Network's infrastructure;
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, this Network;
Use this Network as a generic file hosting service;
Take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of this Network or for using it for purposes unrelated to this Network); and
Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of this Network.

To provide notice of alleged copyright infringement on this Network, please see the DMCA Notification Guidelines.

You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use this Network to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree that these Network Terms of Service inure to the benefit of our service providers (including our Network platform provider) and that they may take action (including the removal of your content and disabling of your account) in order to maintain compliance with these Network Terms of Service. Technology and hosting for aspects of this Network are provided by this Network's online service provider. However, the Network Creator of this Network controls the content, membership and policy of this Network, including those pages served by such service provider on behalf of this Network.