A space for all children and young people to be inspired and get into music and the creative industries

terms and conditions

About us

www.themidimusiccompany.co.uk is a site operated by The Midi Music Company ("We", “us” or “our”).  We are registered in England and Wales under company number 2989656 and have our registered office at 77 Watson’s Street, Deptford, SE8 4AU.
We are a registered charity under charity number 1045693.
We are a private company limited by guarantee with no share capital.

Terms and conditions

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.themidimusiccompany.co.uk (our site), and themusicroom.ning.com whether as a guest or a registered user. The Music Room is a Network created on the Ning Platform created and operated by The Midi Music Company, please read these terms of use, and those relating to the Ning Network carefully before you start to use the site.

  1. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
  2. We may change these terms from time to time so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of our site will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to these terms you can stop using the site at any time.
  3. You agree to use themidimusiccompany.co.uk only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of our site. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within themidimusiccompany.co.uk.

Accessing our site

  1. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
  2. If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

Intellectual property

  1. We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. These works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world and all such rights are reserved.
  2. You may print and download material from our site for your own personal, non-commercial use. Such material must always be credited to us and any identified contributors.
  3. You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

The Music Room

  1.  themusicroom.ning.com is a network built on the Ning Platform. Please read their terms of service before using this part of the site.
  2. In order to participate in and contribute to themusicroom.ning.com you will be required to register with Ning. Any personal information supplied as part of this registration process will be collected, stored and used in accordance with the Ning Privacy Policy and our own.
  1. You agree to use themusicroom.ning.com in accordance with the following Network Rules.

(i) About your posts:

* Contributions must be civil and tasteful.

* No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.

* No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.

* No advertising or promoting.

* For inclusivity please use english as the main language. As it is more difficult for us to moderate content in other languages we may remove extensive posts or content in other languages.

* No impersonation.

* No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.

(ii) Your Account:

*If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting a community or annoying other users you may have action taken against all of your accounts.

*All accounts must be registered with a valid personal email address that you access regularly so that moderation emails can be sent to you. *Accounts registered with someone else's email address, or with temporary email addresses may be closed without notice. We may require users to re-validate their account if we believe they have been using an invalid email address.

(iii) Safety:

We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, postal address or home address or any other details that would allow you to be personally identified) in themusicroom.ning.com

(iv) Legal requirements:

* You may not submit or share any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in themusicroom.ning.com This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.

* Contributing material to themusicroom.ning.com with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.

* You agree to submit to or share with themusicroom.ning.com only contributions which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of The Midi Music Company or third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.

(v) If you're under 16:

* Please get a parent's or guardian's permission before taking part in the themusicroom.ning.com.

* The Ning Platform is not directed to children under 13, if you are under 13 years old, please do not use themusicroom.ning.com.

* Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, school, telephone number, your full name, home address or email address).

(vi) If you breach these Community Rules:

If you fail to abide by these Community Rules you will be sent an email which informs you why your contribution has been refused or edited. This email will also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts.

This action may include any content posted by you being checked before allowed to go on the site or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in themusicroom.ning.com.

If you submit or share offensive or inappropriate content or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on our site, and the The Midi Music Company considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, The Midi Music Company may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the infringement(s).

We reserve the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any Music Room account, at any time, for any reason.

  1. Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.  We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
  2. The majority of content in themusicroom.ning.com is created by members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of The Midi Music Company. The Midi Music Company in not responsible for any of the content posted by members of the public on themusicroom.ning.com
  3. Our website content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to The Midi Music Company, its products and services, is provided "AS IS" and on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis. To the extent permitted by law, The Midi Music Company excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. We don not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided by the The Midi Music Company is correct at the time of publication, no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of The Midi Music Company for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.
  4. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes The Midi Music Company’s liability for death or personal injury caused by its proven negligence. Subject to the previous sentence, The Midi Music Company shall not be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of our site regardless of the form of action.
  5. The Midi Music Company does not warrant that functions available on our website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.

Information about you and your visits to our site

  1. We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

    Transactions concluded through our site

  1. Contracts for the supply of goods or services formed through our site or as a result of visits made by you are governed by our terms and conditions of supply and our booking terms for the provision of services.

Linking to our site

  1. You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
  2. You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
  3. Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.
  4. If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please theteam [at] themidimusiccompany [dot] co [dot] uk (email us)

Links from our site

  1. Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.  We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Jurisdiction and applicable law.

  1. The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.  These terms of use are governed by English law.

Trade marks

NCVO and the accompanying logo are trade marks of ours.

Your concerns

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please theteam [at] themidimusiccompany [dot] co [dot] uk (email us)  

Thank you for visiting our site.

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