Disclaimer

Welcome to Challenge Records! Challenge Records International B.V. ("Challenge Records") maintain this site (the "Site") for your personal entertainment, information, education, and communication. Please feel free to browse the Site. You may download material displayed on the Site for non-commercial, personal use only provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. You may not, however, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re--post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video without Challenge Records's written permission. Your access to and use of the Site is also subject to the following terms and conditions ("Terms and Conditions") and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, please do not use the Site.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
You should assume that everything you see or read on the Site is copyrighted unless otherwise noted, and may not be used except as provided in these Terms and Conditions without the written permission of Challenge Records. Challenge Records neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on the Site will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with Challenge Records.
While Challenge Records uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up to date information in the Site, Challenge Records makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. Challenge Records assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Site.
Your use of and browsing in the Site are at your risk. Neither Challenge Records nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site is provided to you "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties. Challenge Records also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.
While we are always happy to hear from you, it is Challenge Records's policy not to accept or consider creative materials, ideas, or suggestions other than those we specifically request. This is to avoid any misunderstandings if your ideas are similar to those we have developed independently. Therefore we must request that you do not send to us any original creative materials such as screenplays, stories, original artwork, etc. Any communication or material you do transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Anything you transmit or post may be used by Challenge Records or its affiliates for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, Challenge Records is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.
Images of people or places displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by, Challenge Records. The use of these images by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms and Conditions or specific permission provided elsewhere on the Site. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.
The trademarks, logos, and service marks (collectively the "Trademarks") displayed on the Site are registered and unregistered Trademarks of Challenge Records and others. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppels, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the Site without the written permission of Challenge Records or such third party that may own the Trademarks displayed on the Site. Your misuse of the Trademarks displayed on the Site, or any other content on the Site, except as provided in these Terms and Conditions, is strictly prohibited. You are also advised that Challenge Records will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including the seeking of criminal prosecution.
Challenge Records has not reviewed all of the sites linked to the Site and is not responsible for the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Site. Your linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.
Although Challenge Records may from time to time monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards, and the like on the Site, Challenge Records is under no obligation to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on the Site. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. Challenge Records will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing Challenge Records to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Challenge Records and its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, owners, agents, information providers and licensors (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") harmless from and against any and all claims, liability, losses, costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by any Indemnified Party in connection with any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions. Challenge Records reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and in such case, you agree to cooperate with Challenge Records's defense of such claim.
Challenge Records may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound.
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PRIVACY POLICY
Challenge Records and its related web sites are committed to protecting your privacy and honouring the integrity of your personal information. We are also dedicated to creating the very best experience we can for you on our web sites. In order to achieve this we need to collect some information. This information is used to understand you better and to provide a more personalized experience on our site. We do not sell, license or trade to a third party any personal information given by an individual. All information is stored in our secure databases, which are located in a secure facility.
INFORMATION USES
The information we gather may be used for the following purposes:
- Email addresses are to be used for our own newsletter. This will inform you of upcoming events, promotions, etc. If you do not wish to be on this mailing list, please reply to the newsletter and place "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
- Information about your computer speed and modem connection enables us to enhance our web site to maximum potential vis-a-vis our visitors.
- Demographics and other reports may be culled from the information as a whole (including from cookies) and may also be matched with other data. Such information will not be sold or traded. This aggregated information helps us, our advertisers, prospective partners and other parties to better understand our visitors. We do not give out any personal or personally identifiable information, unless requested to do so by law.
- Music preferences, roots and influences help us to create web sites for participating artists/bands, to be able to position these artists so that fans may find their music, and to direct you to other music you may enjoy.
NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION AND COOKIES
Certain non-personal information of visitors is recorded by the standard operation of our servers, including the URL that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you're using, and your IP address. Such information is not identifiable to any one person and is used only to improve our web site or is aggregated as discussed above.
Cookies are little bits of data that we have sent through your browser to your hard drive for record keeping purposes. Cookies are not programs and cannot be used to read any data or files on your computer. Cookies make using our web site easier by saving your personal preferences and your password (so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site) and by delivering content specific to your interests. We also use cookies to record how many times a user has visited our site and what pages the user has accessed. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, although you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. If you choose to disable your cookie settings or refuse to accept a cookie, some parts of our web site will not function properly or may be considerably slower. For example, without cookies, you will not be able to set personalized preferences or you may have difficulty completing shopping transactions, entering contests or playing games.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (commonly referred to as COPPA), under no circumstances do we require children under the age of 13 to provide us with any personal information. Children under the age of 13 should not submit or post any personal information without the written consent of their parents or legal guardians. If you are a child under the age of 13 and want to submit your personal information to us, you should ask your parents or guardians to send an e-mail to webmaster@challenge.nl specifically allowing us to collect your personal information through this web site. By doing so, you allow us to alert your parent or guardian about our site's privacy policy. We do not intend to sell, license or trade any such information collected to third parties. Parents may review or change the personal information of their children provided to us or further refuse our collection of such information by sending an e-mail to webmaster@challenge.nl.
CHAT AREAS/BULLETIN BOARDS
If you voluntarily disclose personal information on the bulletin boards or in the chat areas on this web site, that information can also be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people.
LINKS
Our site contains links to other sites that are not maintained by Challenge Records. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information on those sites. Please review their privacy policy statement before submitting any personal information to such sites.
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or any matter pertaining to the use of your personal information on this site, or if you would like to review or change the personal information that you provided to us, please send an e-mail to webmaster@challenge.nl.
CONSENT
By your use of our web sites, you consent to the use of your personal information as expressed in this privacy policy. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time, with any such change in the policy effective immediately on the posting of the revised policy on this site.