Terms & Conditions

  • Interpretation

    1. The definitions and rules of interpretation in this clause apply in this Agreement.
      1. “Customer”, “You” or “Your”: you, who we agree to provide the Services for from time to time.
      2. Fees: means the Fees payable by You to Pressology Ltd. for the Services and the software.
      3. Pressology Ltd., Our, Us or We: means Pressology Ltd., a company registered in England.
      4. Services: means the Distribution, Mix & Mastering and/or Web Services (all more particularly described at the Site) that are provided by Pressology Ltd. to You under this Agreement together with other services as may be agreed from time to time.
      5. Site: means www.pressology.net (or such other website as we may notify to you).
      6. Software: means the Label Management System software provided by Pressology Ltd. as part of the Services.
      7. Your Data means the data inputted by You, or Pressology Ltd. on Your behalf for the purpose of using the Services or facilitating Your use of the Services.
    2. Clause headings shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.
    3. Words in the singular shall include the plural and vice versa
    4. A reference to a statute or statutory provision is a reference to it as it is in force for the time being.
    5. For all intents and purposes, Pressology Ltd. shall be considered a “processor” acting on behalf of You who shall be considered a “controller” pursuant to the terms of the European Unions General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”).

 

  • Terms & Conditions
  1. Use
    1. Use of the Site, the Software, and the Services are provided to You subject always to these terms, conditions and any guidelines, rules, or operating policies that Pressology Ltd. may establish and post on the Site from time to time (“the Agreement”) to the exclusion of any other term or condition. We may update this Agreement or discontinue or revise any or all other aspects of the Services at Our sole discretion and such changes shall become effective upon posting a revised Agreement on the Site.
  2. Services
    1. Subject to (i) You purchasing the Services; (ii) clause 5.1; (iii) the restrictions set out in this clause 4; and (iv) the other terms and conditions of this Agreement, Pressology Ltd. hereby grants to You a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access the Software and use the Services solely for the purposes of Distribution, Mix & Mastering, Website management and managing Your Data.
    2. You shall not access, store, distribute or transmit any Viruses, or any material during the course of its use of the Services that (i) is unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, infringing, harassing or racially or ethnically offensive; (ii) facilitates illegal activity; (iii) depicts sexually explicit images; (iv) promotes unlawful violence; (v) is discriminatory based on race, gender, color, religious belief, sexual orientation, disability, or any other illegal activity; or (vi) causes damage or injury to any person or property and Pressology Ltd. reserves the right, without liability to You, to disable Your access to any Service that breaches the provisions of this clause.
    3. You shall not –
      1. except as may be allowed by any applicable law which is incapable of exclusion by agreement between the parties:
        (a) and except to the extent expressly permitted under this Agreement, attempt to copy, modify, duplicate, create derivative works from, frame, mirror, republish, download, display, transmit, or distribute all or any portion of the Software and/ (as applicable) in any form or media or by any means; or
        (b) attempt to reverse compile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form all or any part of the Software / Pressology Ltd. system; or
      2. access all or any part of the Services in order to build a product or service which competes with the Software or the Services; or
      3. use the Services to provide services to third parties; or
      4. subject to clause 17.1, license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose, or otherwise commercially exploit, or otherwise make the Services or Software available to any third parties except as authorized by Us.
  3. Charges and payment
    1. You shall pay the Fees to Pressology Ltd. for the Tools, Systems, or Services you order.
    2. All amounts and Fees stated or referred to in this Agreement are payable in EURO (EUR) and:
      1. Are non-cancellable and non-refundable unless Your account is terminated by Pressology Ltd. for a reason other than a breach of this Agreement or breach of any other contract you have with us or violation of any policy maintained by Us;
      2. Are exclusive of value-added tax, which shall be added to Pressology Ltd.’s invoice(s) at the appropriate rate unless You validly claim that they are not liable to pay UK VAT; and
      3. Are subject to change at any time and you are responsible for reviewing our Site where the Fees are listed and remaining aware of the Fees charged by Pressology Ltd.
  4. Privacy and Security
    1. You will at all times provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about Yourself and your business/company as required.
    2. You are responsible for maintaining the security of Your account, passwords, and files, and for all users of your account and of the Services in your name. Pressology Ltd. reserves the right to refuse registration of, or cancel, accounts it deems inappropriate.
    3. In using the varied features of the Services, you may provide information (such as name, contact information, or other registration information) to Pressology Ltd.                      Pressology Ltd. may use this information and any technical information about your use of the Services to tailor its presentations to You, facilitate your movement through the Service, or communicate separately with You.
  5. Pressology Ltd.’s Obligations
    1. Pressology Ltd. undertakes that the Services will be performed substantially with reasonable skill and care other than to the extent of any non-conformance which is caused by use of the Services contrary to Pressology Ltd.’s instructions, or modification or alteration of the Services by any party other than Pressology Ltd. or Pressology Ltd.’s duly authorized contractors or agents. If the Services do not conform with the foregoing undertaking, Pressology Ltd. will, at its expense, use reasonable commercial endeavors to correct any such non-conformance promptly or provide You with an alternative means of accomplishing the desired performance. Such correction or substitution constitutes Your sole and exclusive remedy for any breach of the undertaking set out in clause 7.1. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Pressology Ltd.:
      1. does not warrant that Your use of the Services or Tools will be uninterrupted or error-free or that the Services and/or the information obtained by You through the Services will meet Your requirements; and
      2. is not responsible for any delays, delivery failures, or any other loss or damage resulting from the transfer of data over communications networks and facilities, including the internet, and You acknowledge that the Services may be subject to limitations, delays, and other problems inherent in the use of such communications facilities.
  6. Customer’s Obligations
    1. You shall:
      1. comply with all applicable laws and regulations with respect to the Services;
      2. obtain and shall maintain all necessary licenses, consents, and permissions necessary for Pressology Ltd., Your contractors, and agents to perform their obligations under this Agreement or any other Pressology Ltd. contract, including without limitation the Services and Tools;
      3. ensure that Your network and systems comply with the relevant specifications provided by Pressology Ltd. from time to time; and
      4. be solely responsible for procuring and maintaining Your network connections and telecommunications links from Your systems to Pressology Ltd.’s data centers, and we shall not be liable for any problems, conditions, delays, delivery failures and all other loss or damage arising from or relating to Your network connections or telecommunications links or caused by the internet.
  7. Restrictions and Responsibilities
    1. Subject to any of your rights as may exist under any legislation implementing the E.C. Council Directive on the Legal Protection of Computer Programs the You will not, directly or indirectly;
      1. reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, object code, or underlying structure, ideas, or algorithms of, or found at or through the Services or any Software, documentation, or data related to the Services;
      2. remove any proprietary notices or labels from the Services or any Software, modify, translate, or create derivative works based on the Services or any Software; or copy, distribute, pledge, assign, or otherwise transfer or encumber rights to the Services or any Software.
    2. You represent, covenant, and warrant that you will use the Services and Tools only in compliance with this Agreement, with any other signed Pressology Ltd. contract and all applicable laws (including but not limited to policies and laws related to copyright, spamming, privacy, obscenity, or defamation).
    3. You agree You will not:
      1. access or otherwise use third party mailing lists in connection with preparing or distributing unsolicited e-mail to any third party; or
      2. upload, send, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material (audio, image or other files, text, trademarks, or other proprietary information) belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of Pressology Ltd. to terminate the accounts of Customers who infringe the copyright rights (mechanical or otherwise) of others upon receipt of prompt notification to Pressology Ltd. by the copyright owner or the copyright owner’s legal agent.
      3. The seller imposes fair use policies and reserves the right to remove the use of any products or services if it feels a user has abused such policies. Clarification of the fair use policy can be obtained at any time by contacting info @pressology.net and all users or all services should fully understand the fair use policies before using any of the services or tools.
    4. Pressology Ltd. may monitor the content provided by You or Your use of the Services and may remove any such content or prohibit any use of the Services or Tools if it believes it may be (or is alleged to be) in violation of the foregoing.
    5. You may not remove or export from the UK or allow the export or re-export of the Services, or any direct product thereof, including technical data, in violation of any restrictions, laws, or regulations of the UK or any other applicable country.
  8. Data
    1. You shall own all rights, title, and interest in and to all of Your Data and shall have sole responsibility for the legality, reliability, integrity, accuracy, and quality of Your Data.
    2. In the event of any loss or damage to Your Data, Your sole and exclusive remedy shall be for Pressology Ltd. to use reasonable commercial endeavors to restore the lost or damaged Your Data from the latest back-up of such Your Data maintained by Pressology Ltd. Pressology Ltd. shall not be responsible for any loss, destruction, alteration or disclosure of Your Data caused by any third party.
    3. If Pressology Ltd. processes any personal data on Your behalf when performing its obligations under this Agreement, the parties record their intention that You shall be the data controller and Pressology Ltd. shall be a data processor and in any such case:
      1. You acknowledges and agrees that the personal data may be transferred or stored outside the EEA or the country where You and the Authorised Users are located in order to carry out the Services and Pressology Ltd.’s other obligations under this Agreement;
      2. You shall ensure that You are entitled to transfer the relevant personal data to Pressology Ltd. so that Pressology Ltd. may lawfully use, process, and transfer the personal data in accordance with this Agreement on Your behalf;
      3. You shall ensure that the relevant third parties have been informed of, and have given their consent to, such use, processing, and transfer as required by all applicable data protection legislation;
      4. Pressology Ltd. shall process the personal data only in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and any lawful instructions reasonably given by You from time to time; and
      5. each party shall take appropriate technical and organizational measures against unauthorized or unlawful processing of the personal data or its accidental loss, destruction, or damage.
  9. Email and Permission Practices
    1. You must follow the rules of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 & federal CAN-SPAM act (US) and any of Our applicable policies on Spam when sending e-mail through the Service to ensure that You do not carry out any act that damages Our reputation or status in any way.
    2. Every email message sent in connection with the Services will contain the “unsubscribe” link or other mechanisms that allows subscribers to remove themselves from your mailing list. You acknowledge and agree that you will not remove, disable or attempt to remove or disable either link.
    3. You agree to import, access, or otherwise use only permission-based email lists. The use of bought or gathered mailing lists, distribution lists, newsgroups, or spam email addresses is prohibited. The seller provides a promotional mailer system as a VIP Promotional Tool and not as a mass mailer system.
    4. Emails that you send through the Service may generate abuse complaints from Recipients. We cannot share with you the email addresses of those who complain about your Campaign. You are responsible for ensuring that your campaigns do not generate a number of abuse complaints in excess of industry norms. Pressology Ltd., in its sole discretion, shall determine whether your level of abuse complaints is within industry norms, and its determination shall be final binding, and conclusive for all purposes under this Agreement. If any of Your Campaigns are flagged as SPAM by any of Your Recipients, Pressology Ltd. reserves the right to cancel Your account without notice.
    5. In order to comply with Pressology Ltd.’s anti-spam policy, it is Your responsibility to make sure You have permission to send emails to Recipients. Pressology Ltd., at its own discretion, may immediately disable your access without refund to the Services if Pressology Ltd. believes in its sole discretion that you have violated any of the email and permission practices listed above.
    6. You represent and warrant to us that You are, and will remain at all relevant times, compliant with all terms of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”).
    7. You consent to our communication with you via email in connection with the Services.
  10. Third-Party Providers
    1. If You access the website content of, correspond with or purchase products or services from a third-party via a third-party website that has been accessed from any site maintained by Pressology Ltd., You do so solely at its own risk and Pressology Ltd. makes no representation or commitment and shall have no liability or obligation whatsoever in relation to the content or use of, or correspondence with, any such third-party website, or any transactions completed, and any contract entered into by You, with any such third party.
  11. Proprietary Rights
    1. You acknowledge and agree that Pressology Ltd. and/or its licensors own all intellectual property rights in the Services. Except as expressly stated herein, this Agreement does not grant You any rights to, or in, patents, copyrights, database rights, trade secrets, trade names, trademarks (whether registered or unregistered), or any other rights or licenses in respect of the Services or the Documentation.
    2. You acknowledge and agree that the Services and the Pressology Ltd. company names and logos and all related product and service names, design marks and slogans, are the property of Pressology Ltd. or its affiliates or suppliers (collectively, the “Marks”). You are not authorized to use any of the Marks in any advertising, publicity, or any other commercial manner without the prior written consent of Pressology Ltd. Your use of the Services confers no title or ownership in the Service, the Software, or the Marks and is not a sale of any rights in the Service, the Software, or the Marks. All ownership rights remain in Pressology Ltd. or its third-party suppliers, as the case may be.
  12. Indemnity
    1. You shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless Pressology Ltd. against claims, actions, proceedings, losses, damages, expenses and costs (including without limitation court costs and reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with Your use of the Services.
  13. Limitation of Liability
    1. Subject to the provisions of clause 14, this clause 15 sets out the entire financial liability of Pressology Ltd. (including any liability for the acts or omissions of its employees, agents, and sub-contractors) to You in respect of:
      1. any breach of this Agreement;
      2. any use made by You of the Services or any part of them; and
      3. any representation, statement, or tortious act or omission (including negligence) arising under or in connection with this Agreement.
    2. Except as expressly and specifically provided in this Agreement:
      1. You assume sole responsibility for results obtained from the use of the Services by You and for conclusions drawn from such use. Pressology Ltd. shall have no liability for any damage caused by errors or omissions in any information, instructions or scripts provided to Pressology Ltd. by You in connection with the Services, or any actions taken by Pressology Ltd. at Your direction;
      2. all warranties, representations, conditions, and all other terms of any kind whatsoever implied by statute or common law are, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, excluded from this Agreement; and
      3. the Services are provided to You on an “as is” basis.
    3. Pressology Ltd. shall have no liability to You under this Agreement if it is prevented from or delayed in performing its obligations under this Agreement, or from carrying on its business, by acts, events, omissions, or accidents beyond its reasonable control provided that You are notified of such an event and its expected duration.
    4. In no event shall Pressology Ltd., its employees, agents, and sub-contractors be liable to You for any alleged infringement of intellectual property rights, and you shall forever indemnify Us against any such infringement, to the extent that it is based on:
      1. a modification of the Services by anyone other than Pressology Ltd.; or
      2. Your use of the Services in a manner contrary to the instructions given to You by Pressology Ltd.; or
      3. Your use of the Services after notice of the alleged or actual infringement from Pressology Ltd. or any appropriate authority.
    5. The foregoing states Your sole and exclusive rights and remedies, and Pressology Ltd.’s (including Pressology Ltd.’s employees’, agents’ and sub-contractors) entire obligations and liability, for infringement of any patent, copyright, trademark, database right, or right of confidentiality.
    6. Nothing in this Agreement excludes the liability of Pressology Ltd.:
      1. for death or personal injury caused by Pressology Ltd.’s negligence; or
      2. for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
    7. Subject to clause 15.2 and clause 15.6:
      1. Pressology Ltd. shall not be liable whether, in tort (including for negligence or breach of statutory duty), contract, misrepresentation, restitution, or otherwise for any loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill, and/or similar losses or loss or corruption of data or information, or pure economic loss, or for any special, indirect or consequential loss, costs, damages, charges or expenses however arising under this Agreement; and
      2. Pressology Ltd.’s total aggregate liability in contract, tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty), misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise, arising in connection with the performance or contemplated performance of this Agreement shall be limited to the total Fees paid by You during the month immediately preceding the date on which the claim arose.
  14. Termination
    1. Termination of the Distribution service and Web Services is as per the signed contracts for these Services / Tools unless Label has been dormant and not releases any new releases for a period of 6 months or more and is underperforming, Pressology Ltd. reserves the right to determine what classifies as underperforming and reserves the right to terminate the Distribution account giving notification via the LMS. All royalties not claimed and credits not spent will be forfeited.
    2. Pressology Ltd. may terminate this Agreement or the Services at any time with or without cause, and with or without notice. Pressology Ltd. shall have no liability to you or any third party because of such termination. If Pressology Ltd. terminates this Agreement because you violated the Anti-Spam policy, fair usage policy, or copyright infringement policy, no refund or royalty payments will be issued.
    3. On termination of this Agreement for any reason:
      1. all licenses granted under this Agreement shall immediately terminate;
      2. Pressology Ltd. may destroy or otherwise dispose of any of Your Data in its possession unless Pressology Ltd. receives, no later than ten days after the effective date of the termination of this Agreement, a written request for the delivery to You of the then most recent back-up of Your Data. Pressology Ltd. shall use reasonable commercial endeavors to deliver the back-up to You within 30 days of its receipt of such a written request, provided that You have, at that time, paid all fees and charges outstanding at and resulting from termination (whether or not due at the date of termination). You shall pay all reasonable expenses incurred by Pressology Ltd. in returning or disposing of Your Data, and
      3. the accrued rights of the parties as at termination, or the continuation after termination of any provision expressly stated to survive or implicitly surviving termination, shall not be affected or prejudiced.
  15. General
    1. This Agreement constitutes the whole agreement between us and supersedes any previous arrangement, understanding or agreement between us relating to the subject matter it covers. By signing up or otherwise using or accessing the Services or the Site, you are indicating your agreement with these Terms and Conditions and with our Privacy Policy which includes our terms regarding the use of cookies.
    2. You acknowledge and agree that in entering into this Agreement You have not relied on any undertaking, promise, assurance, statement, representation, warranty, or understanding (whether in writing or not) given by Pressology Ltd. relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, other than as expressly set out in this Agreement.
    3. If any provision (or part of a provision) of this Agreement is found by any court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unenforceable, or illegal, the other provisions shall remain in force and If any invalid, unenforceable or illegal provision would be valid, enforceable or legal if some part of it were deleted, the provision shall apply with whatever modification is necessary to give effect to the commercial intention of the parties.
    4. A waiver of any right under this Agreement is only effective if it is in writing and it applies only to the party to whom the waiver is addressed and to the circumstances for which it is given.
    5. Unless specifically provided otherwise, rights arising under this Agreement are cumulative and do not exclude rights provided by law.
    6. You shall not, without the prior written consent of Pressology Ltd., assign, transfer, charge, sub-contract, or deal in any other manner with all or any of Your rights or obligations under this Agreement however Pressology Ltd. may at any time assign, transfer, charge, sub-contract or deal in any other manner with all or any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement.
    7. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to or shall operate to create a partnership between the parties.
    8. This Agreement does not confer any rights on any person or party (other than the parties to this Agreement and, where applicable, their successors and permitted assigns) pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
    9. Any notice required to be given under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sent by first class post to the registered address of the party or in the case of a notice served by Pressology Ltd., to Your email address as notified to us from time to time.
    10. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law, and the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Service Agreement.
  16. Contact Us
    1. If you have any questions concerning the Services, the Terms, and Conditions or the Privacy Policy, please contact us via the normal channels on our contact page.

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