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(Effective May 1st 2005; last modified June 4th, 2005)

Welcome to richardhingley.com (the "Site"), owned and operated by Richard Hingley.

BY CLICKING ON THE "I AGREE" ICON OR BY USING OR VISITING THE 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

Privacy

We will have the right to collect, share and use your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference in these Terms.

Member ConductUser Content

We allow Members (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, anywhere in the world, and for any purpose. 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@richardhingley.com. 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.

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.

Commercial Use

You agree not to use the Site for any commercial purpose, such as conducting sales of tickets, merchandise or services of any kind. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not resell or link to other sites for the purpose of selling tickets of any kind

Community Membership Eligibility and Approval

WE, IN OUR SOLE ABSOLUTE DISCRETION, WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TO ALLOW YOU TO BECOME A MEMBER. WITHOUT LIMITATION OF THE FOREGOING, WE WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHECK YOUR CREDIT PRIOR TO OPENING YOUR ACCOUNT, AND REFUSE TO ALLOW YOU TO BECOME A MEMBER IF WE DETERMINE THAT YOU ARE NOT CREDIT-WORTHY. YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE TO BECOME A MEMBER. WE DO NOT ALLOW CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13 TO BECOME MEMBERS AT ALL. IF YOU ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 13 AND 18, YOU MAY BECOME A MEMBER WITH THE CONSENT OF YOUR PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN. BY BECOMING A MEMBER, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT: (i) THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE OR (ii) THAT, AS PARENT OR GUARDIAN, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND AUTHORIZE YOUR CHILD WHO IS BETWEEN THE AGE OF 13 AND 18 TO USE THIS SITE, SUBJECT TO YOUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR CONDUCT.

Registration Obligations

If you wish to become a member of the Club (a "Member") or are already a Member and wish to use the "Community" Section of the Site, you must create a Member Account on the Site through our online registration process. In doing so, you agree to: (i) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Site's registration process (such information being the "Registration Data") and (ii) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.

Password and Security

Community Members will receive a password and an account upon completing the Site's registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and your account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree not to share your user name and password with anyone else; each user should have his or her own personal account and password. Unauthorized access through improper password use may result in termination of the password owner's account and perhaps legal action as well. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security . Also, please ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with these Terms of Use.

User Names

Community Members will also receive one or more User Names upon completing the Site's registration process. User Names are issued based upon availability, and we reserve the right to cancel any User Name in our sole discretion, if it is offensive or violates any rule applicable to the Site. All User Names are our property. Upon termination, you shall surrender such User Name(s) and we may reserve or reissue any User Name in our sole discretion.

General Practices & Limits

You also acknowledge that sting.com may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Site, including without limitation, limiting the maximum number of days that email messages, message board postings or other uploaded content will be retained by the Site, the maximum number of email messages that may be sent from or received by an account on the Site, the maximum size of any email message that may be sent from or received by an account on the Site, the maximum disk space that will be allotted on sting.com servers on your behalf, the maximum length of time that an IP address will be assigned for your use, the maximum throughput of traffic from the Internet or associated service (e.g., Usenet, email, web hosting), and the maximum number of times (and the maximum duration for which) you may access the Site in a given period of time. You agree that sting.com has no responsibility or liability for the deletion, for failure to store or to deliver any messages and other communications, for the modification or malformation of data communications over the Site, or for other content maintained or transmitted by the Site. You acknowledge that sting.com reserves the right to log off accounts that are, or disconnect a session that is, inactive for an extended period of time.

IP Address Ownership

We shall maintain and control ownership of all IP numbers and addresses that may be assigned to you by us and we reserve, in our sole discretion, the right to change or remove any and all such IP numbers and addresses.

CPU Usage

You agree that you shall not use excessive amounts of CPU processing on any of our servers. Any violation of this policy may result in corrective action by us, in our sole discretion, including assessment of additional charges, disconnection or discontinuance of your membership, or termination of this Agreement. In the event that we elect to take any corrective action, you shall not be entitled to a refund of any fees paid in advance prior to such corrective action.

Intellectual Property Proprietary Rights

This Site is owned and operated by Richard Hingley. All materials contained in the Site are the copyrighted property of richardhingley.com or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies and/or third-party licensors (unless in the public domain). All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are proprietary to richardhingley.com or its affiliates and/or third-party licensors. Unless expressly authorized by us, you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from materials or content available on the Site. Notwithstanding the above, you may use the content and materials on the Site in the course of your normal, personal, non-commercial use of the Site.

Intellectual Property Rights Policy

We respect the intellectual property rights of others, and we ask our users to do the same. Without limiting any of its other rights and remedies under the Terms of Use, our policy is to terminate access to the Site by repeat infringers of copyright. If you believe that your copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights have been infringed, please provide us with a written notification that includes the following: 1. A physical or electronic signature of person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right that is allegedly infringed; 2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works or rights are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works or rights; 3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate that material; 4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address; 5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the rights owner, its agent, or the law; and 6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner, of the work that is allegedly infringed.

MODIFICATION, SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

We reserve the right at any time to suspend, modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any portion of the Site or the Club with or without prior notice. You will not be entitled to a refund during service outages that are caused by our maintenance on the servers or the technology that underlies Site. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for any suspension, modification or discontinuance.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

You hereby represent and warrant to us that: (i) you have the full power and authority to enter into and perform under these Terms, (ii) your use of the Site will not infringe the copyright, trademark, right of publicity or any other legal right of any third party, and (iii) you will comply with all applicable laws and regulations in using the Site and in engaging in all other activities arising from, relating to or connected with these Terms.

INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Richardhingley.com and the Artist and the as well as their subsidiaries, affiliates, owners, associates, licensees, licensors, officers, agents and other partners and employees (the "Indemnified Parties") from any claim, demand, action, damage, loss, cost or expense, including without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees, incurred in connection with any suit or proceeding brought against any of the Indemnified Parties arising out of your use of the Site or alleging facts or circumstances that could constitute a breach of any provision of these Terms by you. If you are obligated to indemnify any of the Indemnified Parties, such party will have the right, in its sole and exclusive discretion, to control any action or proceeding and determine whether they wish to settle it, and if so, on what terms.

DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS Disclaimers

YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. THE CLUB EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE CLUB MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SITE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, OR THAT (v) ANY ERRORS IN ANY DATA OR SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.

Links and Third-Party Services

ANY THIRD-PARTY LINKS, SERVICES, RESOURCES OR INFORMATION PROVIDED ON OR MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE ARE NOT CONTROLLED BY US. ACCORDINGLY, WE DO NOT ENDORSE ANY SUCH LINKED SITES OR THE INFORMATION, MATERIAL, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES CONTAINED ON OTHER LINKED SITES, OR ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THEM. FURTHER, WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES REGARDING SUCH THIRD-PARTY LINKS, SERVICES, RESOURCES OR INFORMATION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY OR NON-INFRINGEMENT AND WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR YOUR USE OF OR RELIANCE ON SUCH THIRD-PARTY SERVICES, RESOURCES OR INFORMATION. ACCESS AND USE OF LINKED SITES, INCLUDING INFORMATION, MATERIAL, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ON LINKED SITES OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THEM, IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Exclusion of Damages

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SITE; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE SITE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SITE; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SITE.

Force Majeure

We will not be liable to you or any third party for failure or delay in performing our obligations hereunder if such failure or delay is due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of any governmental body, war, insurrection, sabotage, computer viruses, terrorism, embargo, fire, flood, strike or other labor disturbance, interruption of or delay in transportation, unavailability of interruption or delay in telecommunications or third party services (including DNS propagation), failure of third party software or hardware or inability to obtain raw materials, supplies, or power used in or equipment needed for provision of the Site.

ARBITRATION

You agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the Site will be submitted exclusively to confidential binding arbitration in New York, NY. Arbitration under these Terms will be conducted under the prevailing rules of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator's award will be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under these Terms will be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to these Terms, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate the intellectual property rights of the Club, richardhingley.com, these persons or entities may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the state of New York, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.

TRANSLATIONS

As a convenience to our members, we have occasionally and in our sole discretion provided versions of these Terms in languages other than English (each, a "Translation"). We have attempted to make the Translations accurate, but we cannot be responsible in the event of any errors, inaccuracies or discrepancies in the Translations. Accordingly, if there is any conflict in meaning between a Translation and these Terms, these Terms in the English language shall govern and be given precedence. Furthermore, we do not provide any customer service in any language other than English, and cannot take responsibility for any problems or issues that may arise as a result of this fact.

Miscellaneous

The Site is based in and operated from the United Kingdom. Information which you send to us by email or which we gather from you when you visit our website is held and processed in the United Kingdom. These Terms shall be binding upon and inure to our benefit, and the our successors, and assigns. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. These Terms contain the entire understanding of the parties regarding their subject matter, and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings between the parties regarding their subject matter. The Terms and the relationship between you and us shall be governed by the laws of the land. No failure or delay by a party in exercising any right, power or privilege under these Terms shall operate as a waiver thereof. The invalidity or unenforceability of any of these Terms shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other of these Terms, all of which shall remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Site or the Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section titles in the Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.

Breach

If you become aware of any activity that may constitute a breach of these Terms, please notify us at legal@richardhingley.com. We will investigate your claim and may then take any action that we, in our sole and exclusive discretion, deem appropriate.

Trademarks

richardhingley.com is the trademark of Richard Hingley. All rights reserved All other trademarks on the Site are the property of their respective owners.

Last updated June 4th 2007

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