Indie Music Channel, owned by Metro Media Group, Inc., is a website geared to the promotion of independent singers and bands from around the world. All of those who sign up as Members, hereafter called "Users", to be listed on this site will be held to all of the following rules and terms of use as described here. Only one User (meaning single artist or single band) per profile page. User may only upload their own music and/or videos to their profile page. As a result of User placing any music, videos and/or other information on to this site confirms that that material is an original creation of the User, or the User has permission and/or legal right from the owner of such to place the information and/or creation on this site. Also, through placing anything on the Indie Music Channel site and/or its parent company, Metro Media Group, Inc. site, the User immediately expresses their desire to post their works on those sites in an effort to promote their works and to advertise themselves for potential hire and, thus, User immediately grants permission for their information, creation, music, videos, works, etc., to be placed on the Indie Music Channel site, and any other website and/or broadcast airways of its sponsors, affiliates, radio stations, TV stations and any other partner of Metro Media Group, Inc. for public consumption and review, without any prior notice to the User and without any form of compensation of any kind expected by the User in return from Indie Music Channel,  Metro Media Group, Inc. and/or their sponsors, affiliates, radio stations, TV stations and any other partner of Metro Media Group, Inc.  User also understands and agrees that any music, music videos, photos and any other information that User may place on the Indie Music Channel, may be submitted for, and placed in, airplay rotation with any terrestrial and/or internet broadcast radio station and/or television station, as well as promoted in other way, by any sponsors, affiliates, partners and any other broadcast entity associated with Indie Music Channel and Metro Media Group, Inc.   The Indie Music Channel, Metro Media Group, Inc. and any of its sponsors, affiliates, radio/TV stations and/or partners make themselves available to help independent artists get their music heard. As a result of User placing any of their music on the Indie Music Channel and/or Metro Media Group, Inc. site(s), and thus, making it available to be placed on the site(s) of any sponsors, affiliates, radio stations and/or partners of Indie Music Channel and/or Metro Media Group, Inc. through the use of music and video placed in the pop-out or share feature of the supplied music and/or video player on their Indie Music Channel page, User waives their desire and/or request for collection of any monies and/or royalties that possibly would have been collected on their behalf by any Performance Rights Organization that the User may be a member of as a result of their works being featured on any of the above mentioned parties sites, or sponsor, affiliates, radio station or partners sites. All music featured on any of the sites described above is done so at the request of the artist in an effort for them to gain more exposure for their music. Indie Music Channel, and its parent company, Metro Media Group, Inc., reserve the right to refuse any User for any reason, including, but not limited to, any postings that are defaming, biased, racist, harassing and/or discriminatory in any way. We also reserve the right to remove and/or refuse any postings that we feel are a direct advertisement for services that we feel are in conflict with the mission of the Indie Music Channel, and/or are in conflict with any productions, services and/or properties of Indie Music Channel and/or Metro Media Group, Inc. Indie Music Channel and/or Metro Media Group, Inc. is not responsible for any of your information and/or creations that you place here on this site. By participating on this site, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Indie Music Channel, Metro Media Group, Inc., and all of their administrators, directors, employees, agents and/or sponsors on all matters related to your interaction with others using this Network and your participation with this Network. For security reasons, you should save and back up all of your creations and/or information on your own computer. Any of your information and/or creations on this site is subject for removal and/or destruction at any time and will NOT be able to be retrieved.  It is also understood that any User and/or Member of the Indie Music Channel who pays to become a Member of the Indie Music Channel, will in no way be entitled to any form of ownership, equity, interest and/or share of the Indie Music Channel and/or Metro Media Group, Inc.  Also, membership fees are not refundable for any reason.

For those who joined Indie Music Channel during its "Lifetime Membership" offer, will receive perpetually active membership access provided the artist (aka advertising member) has paid the one-time membership fee at the time of the offer. Terms of lifetime membership are subject to additional conditions as outlined here. Lifetime membership holders are offered to enjoy unlimited access to the Indie Music Channel website platform to create their own Artist Page, as well as to enjoy “members only” discounts available only to members of the Indie Music Channel, without having to pay a monthly or annual membership fee; as a lifetime member of the Indie Music Channel, your membership will be considered “paid in full” for the entire length of existence of the Indie Music Channel website, with the exception of any unforeseen internet signal interruptions, outages, etc. which is of course typical at times with any website and/or internet platform around the world. Further, in the event that Indie Music Channel discontinues its service or ceases to do business, or in the event of an acquisition, change of control or ownership, a significant merger, or other legal reorganization of Indie Music Channel, Indie Music Channel may terminate the lifetime membership access and any continuation of lifetime membership access will be at the sole discretion of the new owner.   Indie Music Channel, and its parent company Metro Media Group, will not refund any portion of your lifetime membership fee.  While those with standard or lifetime membership status to the Indie Music Channel will be able to enjoy offers and discounts that are only available to members, as opposed to non-members, lifetime members of the Indie Music Channel will also be presented to time to time with even greater discounts only available to lifetime members, as opposed to those only with standard membership status, however Indie Music Channel may also introduce services, opportunities, offers, etc. from time to time which may be considered outside of any existing membership plan, standard or lifetime,  and only available to members of any status level at an additional charge.  You can cancel your lifetime membership at any time by deleting your Indie Music Channel artist page, however, cancellation of any membership plan will not result in a refund.

 

It is understood by the User that any violations of these rules by the User constitutes grounds for Metro Media Group, Inc. and/or Indie Music Channel to delete the User’s profile page without any prior notice, and that Metro Media Group, Inc. and/or Indie Music Channel will exercise that right, if it feels necessary.  It is also understood that the Indie Music Channel website my cease to exist at any time for any reason, and if Indie Music Channel and its website ceases to exist for whatever reason, no membership fees paid by any User will be repaid or reimbursed to any User for any reason at any time. 

User also understands that the terms of this agreement are subject to change without notice and that it is the responsibility of the User to check this Terms of Service page for any changes. 

The Terms of Service contained on this Network may change and/or be modified without notice at any time and it is the responsibility of the User to consistently review the terms contained here. If you are not in agreement with any portion of this agreement, please do not register for this service, or if you already have service, you are advised to discontinue your service immediately.

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 directed to anyone younger than 16 and is offered only to users 16 years of age or older. Any person who provides their personal information through this Network represents that they are 16 years of age or older.

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. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, by participating on this Network you agree to indemnify and hold harmless such service provider on all matters related to your interaction with others using this Network and participation with this Network.