Terms Of Use

(Effective 17thNovember, 2000; last modified July 4th, 2006)

If you do not agree to these terms of use, please do not use this Web Site.

Welcome to BrucePayne.co.uk (the "Site"), owned and operated by BrucePayne.co.uk ("we," "us," or  “BrucePayne.co.uk” or " BP.CO.UK. "), the OFFICIAL site of Bruce Payne (the "Artist"). The following terms of use ("Terms") govern your use of the Site. BY CLICKING ON ANY PAGE OF THIS WEBSITE OR BY USING OR VISITING THE BRUCEPAYNE.CO.UK WEB SITE, YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND TO FOLLOW THESE TERMS AND ALL APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS IN YOUR USE OF THE SITE. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THESE TERMS AT ANY TIME, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON POSTING ON THE SITE. PLEASE CHECK THIS PAGE OF THE SITE PERIODICALLY FOR SUCH CHANGES.
By using this Web Site, you signify your assent to these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please do not use this Web Site. This is the Official SITE of BP.CO.UK. ("BrucePayne.co.uk and BP.CO.UK. and bp.co.uk and illuminatimedia.co.uk.") may at any time make modifications, improvements and/or changes to these TERMS AND CONDITIONS, the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons described in this publication or the products and services referred to within, with or without notice. Your continued use of this Web Site following the posting of any changes to these TERMS AND CONDITIONS will mean you accept such changes.

BP.CO.UK contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information including text, software, photos, video, graphics, music and sound. Brucepayne.co.uk owns copyrights in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such content, as well as in the content original to it. Each third party content provider owns the copyright in content original to it. All Artwork, logos, graphics, written work, information, trademarks, service marks, and trade names are proprietary to BP.CO.UK or its affiliates and/or third-party licensors. Unless expressly authorized by us, you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, steal, cut & paste, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from materials or content available on this site, or in any way exploit the content of bp.co.uk or any portion of it. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, you may not copy, redistribute, publish, display or commercially exploit any material from bp.co.uk without the express permission of bp.co.uk and it’s subsidiaries  and the copyright owner. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material.
 This Web Site may include publications with technical inaccuracies or typographical errors that will be corrected as they are discovered, at BP.CO.UK’s sole discretion. Also, changes are periodically added to the information contained herein. These corrections and changes may be incorporated into this Web Site at a later date.
BP.CO.UK provides its services internationally, and, therefore, this Web Site may contain references or cross references to BP.CO.UK information, products and services that are not (readily) available in your country. Such reference does not imply that BP.CO.UK intends to market such information, products or services in your country.
 BP.CO.UK contains links to other web sites, resources and advertisers. BP.CO.UK is not responsible for the availability of these external web sites nor does it endorse or is it responsible for the contents, advertising, products or other materials made available on or through such web sites. Under no circumstances shall BP.CO.UK be held responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any loss or damage caused or alleged to have been caused to a user in connection with such web sites. You hereby grant to BP.CO.UK your worldwide and throughout the Universe, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any message posted on this Web Site and/or any e-mail sent by you to BP.CO.UK (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed in the future throughout the Universe. BP.CO.UK collects no personally identifiable information about you except when specifically and knowingly provided by you. A user's personally identifiable information will not be transferred to any third party unless otherwise stated at the time of collection. BP.CO.UK places a cookie in the browser file of your computer to aid the function of this Web Site. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifiable information.
Like most e-websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and/or the web page from which you came. We use this information to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site. We use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.
 BP.CO.UK and the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to information, products and services is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind, whether expressed or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. In no event shall BP.CO.UK, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, contractors or their respective employees or agents, be liable for any damages whatsoever, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other cause of action or theory of recovery whatsoever, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this Web Site, including without limitation, special, indirect or consequential damages resulting from loss of use, data or profits or otherwise.

 These TERMS AND CONDITIONS shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States of America, and more particularly, the laws of the State of California. Disputes arising here from shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the State Courts located in Sacramento, California. and/or the Federal Courts of United States of America.

Conduct :

User Content  We allow you (as defined below) to make contributions to the Site ("User Content") through chat rooms, bulletin board services, member profiles, and other means. By submitting any User Content to the Site, you hereby grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free right and license to use, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, distribute, have distributed and promote such content in any form, in all media now known or hereinafter created and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed in the future and for any purpose, anywhere in the world and throughout the Universe. Furthermore, you thereby waive any so-called moral rights or other similar rights in your User Content. You agree not to submit or post any User Content that: (i) infringes the rights of a third party, including, without limitation, copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, rights of privacy and publicity, (ii) is libelous, defamatory or slanderous, (iii) condones, promotes, contains or links to warez, cracks, hacks or similar utilities or programs, (iv) is pornographic or sexually explicit, (v) does or may denigrate or offend any ethnic, racial, gender, religious or other protected group, through use of language, images, stereotypical depiction or otherwise, (vi) is designed to or does harass, threaten, defame or abuse others, (vii) is used to impersonate or claim the identity, characteristics or qualifications of any other person or entity; or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (viii) exploits minors in a sexual or violent manner, (ix) promotes, condones or encourages illegal activity or ix) is generally offensive or in bad taste. You agree that all of your User Content, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is your sole responsibility. User Content does not necessarily reflect our views or opinions. We shall not be liable to you or any third party in any way for any User Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any User Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any User Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Site. We generally do not pre-screen, pre-edit or otherwise control User Content and we do not assume responsibility to monitor the Site for inappropriate User Content. We do not warrant, expressly or impliedly, the accuracy, reliability or quality of User Content. By using the Site, you assume this risk. However, we reserve the right, but have no obligation (i) to monitor interactions between you and other users of the Site; (ii) to prevent you from submitting User Content that is inconsistent with our standards, stated above; (iii) to edit, restrict or remove User Content for any reason at any time; and (iv) to take any other action in good faith to restrict access to or the availability of any User Content that we, or another user, may consider to be inconsistent with the standards described above. If you discover this kind of User Content on the Site, please notify us at legal@brucepayne.co.uk Should we monitor User Content, we still will assume no responsibility for any inappropriate User Content, or for the conduct of any user who submits it, and or to remove inappropriate User Content form the Site. If we prevent your User Content fro being submitted, or edit, restrict, or remove it from the Site, you may not hold us accountable under any circumstances.
Please note that we must cooperate fully should a situation arise where we are required by law or legal process to provide information we may have on-file.

Prohibited Activities

You agree to respect the rights of others and exercise good judgment. Without limitation, you agree not to: (i) engage in unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or any other form of solicitation, including, without limitation, "pyramid schemes" or the distribution of promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," or "chain letters," (ii) impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, (iii) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any User Content transmitted through the Site, (iv) make available, introduce into or direct to the Site any material 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, (v) interfere with or disrupt the Site or servers or networks connected to the Site, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Site, (vi) violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, rules or regulations, including, without limitation, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, (vii) "stalk" or otherwise harass another person, (viii) "deep link" to any portion of the Site, (ix) collect or store personal data about other users, (x) use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained thereon or for any other unauthorized purpose without our prior express written permission, (xi) take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure, (xii) display any of the Site in a frame (or any of our content via in-line links); (xiii) attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the Site including without limitation, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Site, through hacking, password mining or any other means; (xiv) attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available through the Site; (xv) engage in any activity that interferes with any third party's ability to use or enjoy the Site, (xvi) assist any third party in engaging in any activity prohibited by these Terms, or (xvii) solicit personal information from, harm or attempt to harm minors, in any way.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Proprietary Rights This Site is owned and operated by BP.CO.UK. Being International, worldwide and throughout the Universe the contents of this Site are protected by United States copyright and trademark law, international conventions and other applicable laws and English Law will also govern Governing Law and the Site and these terms and conditions. Both the English courts and the United States courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising in relation thereto. If any part of these terms and condition is found void and unenforceable, it will not affect the validity of the balance of these terms and conditions, which shall remain valid and enforceable and All materials contained in the Site are the copyrighted property of BP.CO.UK.  or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies and/or third-party licensors (unless in the public domain). All Artwork, logos, graphics, written work, information, trademarks, service marks, and trade names are proprietary to BP.CO.UK.  or its affiliates and/or third-party licensors. Unless expressly authorized by us, you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, steal, cut & paste, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from materials or content available on the Site.