Acceptable Usage Policy.

Please read this policy carefully before using the site or any of our services

1. What's in these terms?

This acceptable use policy sets out the rules that apply when you interact with our site or any of our services in any way.
It should be read alongside our website terms of use Terms of use (ear-academy.com) (Site Terms of Use) and, if you or someone on your behalf has purchased any services from us, the terms and conditions applicable to that purchase (Services Terms and Conditions). .

2. Prohibited uses

You may not use our site or any of our services:
[If you are under [12].]

In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.
In any way that breaches our participation standards (see below)
To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with this policy, our Site Terms of Use or any Services Terms and Conditions.
To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
In any way that involves child sexual exploitation or abuse.
To upload terrorist content.

You also agree:

Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
any part of our site;
any software used in connection with our site or services;
Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our Site Terms of Use or any Services Terms and Conditions;

If you or someone on your behalf has purchased any of our services then you also agree to only use any of the site content or materials we make available to you as part of that service as follows:

to view it for the purposes of receiving and enjoying those services;
if we expressly tell you that any material (be that a video clip, some music, a document of any other material) may be downloaded then you may download that material, store it on your own devices and make copies, provided in each case that this is only to the extent reasonably necessary for your own personal use. You must not use it for any commercial purpose and must not share it with any other person;
where our services include any online workshops, then you may view and participate in those online workshops, [but must not record them unless the tutor has given you permission];
if we share any materials with you in hard copy or by email or an electronic messaging service then you may use those materials, store it on their own devices and make copies, provided in each case that this is only to the extent reasonably necessary for your own personal use. You must not use it for any commercial purpose and must not share it with any other person.

4. Participation standards

These standards apply to: (i) any and all material which you upload to our site; (ii) any and all material which you submit to us in connection with any of the services that we provide to you; and (iii) any participation by you in any online workshops or interaction you have with any tutor other member of our staff; (each a Contribution).
These standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well as to its whole.
A contribution:

Must be accurate (where it states facts).
Only contain opinions that are genuinely held.
Must comply with the law applicable in any country from which it is posted, to which our site is targeted and from where our services may be provided to you.

A contribution must not:

Be defamatory of any person.
Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
Bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate.
Encourage, promote or provide instructions for deliberate self-harm or suicide.
Encourage, promote or provide instructions for an eating disorder or behaviours associated with an eating disorder.
Include or promote sexually explicit material or any child sexual abuse material.
Incite violence or hatred against particular groups.
Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
Contain or promote any illegal content or that would be considered a criminal offence or contain, promote, incite or assist any illegal, unlawful or criminal activity.
Infringe any copyright, trade mark or any other rights of any other person and must not promote or incite any unlawful or criminal acts such as copyright infringement or computer misuse.
Include material that might impair the physical, mental or moral development of persons under the age of 18.
Be likely to deceive any person.
Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
Be in contempt of court.
Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
Contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites.

5. Breach of policy

Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of our website terms and may also be a material breach of any terms and conditions applicable to any purchases of our services made by you, or someone on your behalf. When we consider that a breach of this acceptable use policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any material uploaded by you to our site.
Issue of a warning to you
Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
Further legal action against you.
Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.

We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.