Terms & Conditions
These terms and conditions (as amended from time to time) govern your use of all services. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, please do not book a performance with Stephen Donoghue Music or use these services.
If you wish to make a formal complaint about any of the services please email: hello@stephendonoghuemusic.com
1. Introduction
1.1 This Service is owned and operated by Stephen Donoghue Music.
1.2 Where we use the term "Service" we mean any website, mobile site, app, application and/or other service, regardless of how it's distributed, transmitted, published, or broadcasted and any related pages and Content, under our control.
1.3 Where we refer to "Content" we mean all content, information and material, including software, technology, text, links, posts, messages, emails, music, sound, graphics, pictures, videos and all audio visual or other material available on or through the Service, whether posted, uploaded, transmitted, sent or otherwise made available by us, our licensors, vendors, and/or service providers, or by you, and/or other users or third parties.
1.4 Where we refer to "Stephen Donoghue Music", "we", "us" and "our" we mean Stephen Donoghue Music website, social media and it’s blog,
1.5 Where we refer to "you" and "your" this means or relates to you the user and client.
1.6 You understand and agree that we may add to or change these terms and conditions at any time. New terms and conditions are effective immediately upon posting to the Service. Your continued use of the Service shall constitute on-going acceptance of these terms and conditions, as updated from time-to-time. We therefore recommend that you check this page regularly.
2. Age Limit
2.1 You must be at least 16 years of age in order to use the Service.
2.2 We strongly recommend that if you are 16 years of age or older but not yet 18, you ask your parents for permission before sending any information about yourself to anyone over the internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet use practices.
3. Third party links, service providers and linking to the Service
3.1 The Service may include links to services supplied by or operated by third parties and other content providers. We do not control such linked services, and are not responsible for their content, functionality or legality. Those third parties may collect data or solicit personal information from you; we are not responsible for the collection, use or disclosure of any information those services may collect. Linking to any other service or website from this Service is at your own risk.
3.2 The Service may also include certain features, functionality, and/or content that may be hosted, administered, supplied by or operated by third party service providers, such as social, community and public discussion areas, photo and video galleries, blogs and payment processing. These service providers may require that you agree to their additional terms, conditions, contracts, agreements and/or rules. Your compliance with any such additional terms, conditions, contracts, agreements and/or rules is solely your responsibility and will have no effect on your continuing obligation to comply with these terms and conditions.
Stephen Donoghue Music specifically disclaims any and all liability in connection with the acts or omissions of such third party service providers.
3.3 Any service that links to or otherwise interacts with this Service must not
3.3.1 create a frame or any other browser or border environment around our Content, unless previously agreed with us;
3.3.2 harvest or scrape Content either from our pages, databases or our feeds and reuse for its own or public use, unless previously agreed with us;
3.3.3 imply that Stephen Donoghue Music is endorsing it or its products or services;
3.3.4 use any Stephen Donoghue Music Trade Mark (as defined in clause 8.2 below) without permission from us;
3.3.5 infringe any intellectual property or other right of any person; including posting of images.
3.3.6 contain content that could be construed as illegal, distasteful, offensive, controversial or otherwise detrimental to Stephen Donoghue Music's reputation or commercial interests.
3.4 Stephen Donoghue Music expressly reserves the right to require that any link or activity, which is in breach of these terms and conditions, be removed and/or ceased, and to take whatever other action we deem appropriate.
4. Content by You or other users
4.1 "UGC" means any Content that you or other users upload, submit or make available to the Service.
4.2 You understand that your communications on the Service are not private or confidential and may be viewed by others accessing the Service.
4.3 Our Privacy Policy also applies to UGC.
4.4 We reserve the right to, but undertake no duty to, review, edit, move or delete any UGC in our sole discretion and without notice.
4.5 We do not endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted as UGC. Any information or material placed online by other users of the Service, including advice and opinions, is the view and responsibility of those users and does not represent the view of the Stephen Donoghue Music. You agree that, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we have no responsibility or liability to you for UGC including for any failure to or delay in removing UGC. If you have a complaint about any UGC, see the Complaints section below.
4.6 You are solely responsible for your UGC and may be held liable for UGC that you post. In this regard, you agree that you will comply with the following Acceptable Content Policy and not submit UGC that:
4.6.1 Is hateful, abusive, racist, discriminatory, sexually offensive, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, threatening to another user, promotes violence, is infringing of third party rights (such as copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary rights, or confidentiality), invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, disruptive to the flow of chat or in our reasonable view, otherwise objectionable.
4.6.2 impersonates another person (including celebrities), indicates falsely that you are an employee or a representative of Stephen Donoghue Music or its organisations or business partners.
4.6.3 you do not own or have the rights to submit material that is illegal.
4.6.4 promotes any form of illegal activity including (by way of example) hacking, drug taking, terrorism, cracking or distribution of counterfeit software.
4.6.5 contains advertising, promotions or commercial solicitations of any kind or could constitute junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or other commercial activities.
4.6.6 imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Service's infrastructure, or otherwise adversely affects, restricts or inhibits any other user from using and enjoying the Service;
4.6.7 contains any virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, cancelbot or other similar harmful programming routine.
4.7 When you submit UGC, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual (i.e. lasting forever), worldwide, irrevocable licence to exploit it in any manner or form and in any medium or forum, whether now known or hereafter devised, without notice, payment or attribution of any kind to you or any third party and you waive, and agree not to assert any moral or similar rights you may have in your UGC.
5. Deposit payments for performance are none refundable, unless the reason for cancelation is the performers fault/issue, e.g equipment fault, car breakdown, acute illness.
6. Any payment (or outstanding balance if a deposit has been paid previously) for a performance must be fully paid 2 weeks before the performance date. If the payment hasn’t been made in advance of the date the performer reserves the right not to honour the agreement. If the payment is made in full and the performer doesn’t attend the event for any reason the payment will be refunded in full to the client.
7. Performance slots/times and durations will be agreed upon by both the performer and the client/s in advance and quoted accordingly. If an extension is required at short notice or on the day of performance a new price must be agreed to and fully paid to include the additional time required. If a performance is required to be cut short on the day the previously agreed upon price for the full performance time must still be paid, as it has been prepared and practiced for in spite of not being required.
8. If a client requires the performer to perform outdoors at a venue the client must inform them with plenty of notice, at least one month. This may require different equipment than an indoor performance. If an outdoor performance is agreed to but the weather on the day makes that impossible, the performer reserves the right to choose to play indoors instead, to avoid equipment damage and/or risk to public health.
9. If a performance requires the performer to travel more than 50 miles the performer reserves the right to charge an additional £50 on to any quote given to clients to cover any fuel and/or food costs during the day.
10. If the client knows of any specific parking arrangements, restrictions and/or permits at the venue they book the performer to play at they must inform the performer in advance, and if possible, they must provide the performer with contact details of personnel at the venue for the performer to discuss these requirements with.
11. The performer reserves the right to dress appropriately in accordance with their established branding, but also ensure they are dressed appropriately for the occasion/event.
12. The performer has access to multiple instruments and variations on those instruments. Clients may request a particular model of instrument, however if circumstances dictate otherwise the performer reserves the right to make the final decision to ensure quality deliverance.
13. If the client/s have specific music/song choices in mind they would like the performer to play they must ensure they book with the performer in advance so suitable sheet music and backing tracks can be procured and the music then learnt to an appropriate performing standard: minimum 1 month in advance.
14. If potential students request lesson be given at their own home instead of the teachers home, the teacher reserves the right to charge additional fees to cover travel costs and any other expenses that may be incurred.
15. If a client requires the performer to record on a track the following criteria must be met depending on the nature of the job: If the performer is required to play a prewritten part written by the client, the client must provide this music in advance to allow the performer to analyse and learn to an appropriate standard: minimum 2 weeks.
16. If the client requires the performer to compose/write their own material to contribute to a recording the performer must be informed of this requirement in advance: minimum 1 month before the recording date. The client must also provide details on the sound/genre/style envisioned, and if possible/available any audio resources that can assist the creative process e.g prerecorded material, live performance video/audio of the track that is to be recorded.
If you wish to make a formal complaint about any of the services please email: hello@stephendonoghuemusic.com
1. Introduction
1.1 This Service is owned and operated by Stephen Donoghue Music.
1.2 Where we use the term "Service" we mean any website, mobile site, app, application and/or other service, regardless of how it's distributed, transmitted, published, or broadcasted and any related pages and Content, under our control.
1.3 Where we refer to "Content" we mean all content, information and material, including software, technology, text, links, posts, messages, emails, music, sound, graphics, pictures, videos and all audio visual or other material available on or through the Service, whether posted, uploaded, transmitted, sent or otherwise made available by us, our licensors, vendors, and/or service providers, or by you, and/or other users or third parties.
1.4 Where we refer to "Stephen Donoghue Music", "we", "us" and "our" we mean Stephen Donoghue Music website, social media and it’s blog,
1.5 Where we refer to "you" and "your" this means or relates to you the user and client.
1.6 You understand and agree that we may add to or change these terms and conditions at any time. New terms and conditions are effective immediately upon posting to the Service. Your continued use of the Service shall constitute on-going acceptance of these terms and conditions, as updated from time-to-time. We therefore recommend that you check this page regularly.
2. Age Limit
2.1 You must be at least 16 years of age in order to use the Service.
2.2 We strongly recommend that if you are 16 years of age or older but not yet 18, you ask your parents for permission before sending any information about yourself to anyone over the internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet use practices.
3. Third party links, service providers and linking to the Service
3.1 The Service may include links to services supplied by or operated by third parties and other content providers. We do not control such linked services, and are not responsible for their content, functionality or legality. Those third parties may collect data or solicit personal information from you; we are not responsible for the collection, use or disclosure of any information those services may collect. Linking to any other service or website from this Service is at your own risk.
3.2 The Service may also include certain features, functionality, and/or content that may be hosted, administered, supplied by or operated by third party service providers, such as social, community and public discussion areas, photo and video galleries, blogs and payment processing. These service providers may require that you agree to their additional terms, conditions, contracts, agreements and/or rules. Your compliance with any such additional terms, conditions, contracts, agreements and/or rules is solely your responsibility and will have no effect on your continuing obligation to comply with these terms and conditions.
Stephen Donoghue Music specifically disclaims any and all liability in connection with the acts or omissions of such third party service providers.
3.3 Any service that links to or otherwise interacts with this Service must not
3.3.1 create a frame or any other browser or border environment around our Content, unless previously agreed with us;
3.3.2 harvest or scrape Content either from our pages, databases or our feeds and reuse for its own or public use, unless previously agreed with us;
3.3.3 imply that Stephen Donoghue Music is endorsing it or its products or services;
3.3.4 use any Stephen Donoghue Music Trade Mark (as defined in clause 8.2 below) without permission from us;
3.3.5 infringe any intellectual property or other right of any person; including posting of images.
3.3.6 contain content that could be construed as illegal, distasteful, offensive, controversial or otherwise detrimental to Stephen Donoghue Music's reputation or commercial interests.
3.4 Stephen Donoghue Music expressly reserves the right to require that any link or activity, which is in breach of these terms and conditions, be removed and/or ceased, and to take whatever other action we deem appropriate.
4. Content by You or other users
4.1 "UGC" means any Content that you or other users upload, submit or make available to the Service.
4.2 You understand that your communications on the Service are not private or confidential and may be viewed by others accessing the Service.
4.3 Our Privacy Policy also applies to UGC.
4.4 We reserve the right to, but undertake no duty to, review, edit, move or delete any UGC in our sole discretion and without notice.
4.5 We do not endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the comments, opinions or statements posted as UGC. Any information or material placed online by other users of the Service, including advice and opinions, is the view and responsibility of those users and does not represent the view of the Stephen Donoghue Music. You agree that, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we have no responsibility or liability to you for UGC including for any failure to or delay in removing UGC. If you have a complaint about any UGC, see the Complaints section below.
4.6 You are solely responsible for your UGC and may be held liable for UGC that you post. In this regard, you agree that you will comply with the following Acceptable Content Policy and not submit UGC that:
4.6.1 Is hateful, abusive, racist, discriminatory, sexually offensive, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, threatening to another user, promotes violence, is infringing of third party rights (such as copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary rights, or confidentiality), invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, disruptive to the flow of chat or in our reasonable view, otherwise objectionable.
4.6.2 impersonates another person (including celebrities), indicates falsely that you are an employee or a representative of Stephen Donoghue Music or its organisations or business partners.
4.6.3 you do not own or have the rights to submit material that is illegal.
4.6.4 promotes any form of illegal activity including (by way of example) hacking, drug taking, terrorism, cracking or distribution of counterfeit software.
4.6.5 contains advertising, promotions or commercial solicitations of any kind or could constitute junk mail, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or other commercial activities.
4.6.6 imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Service's infrastructure, or otherwise adversely affects, restricts or inhibits any other user from using and enjoying the Service;
4.6.7 contains any virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, cancelbot or other similar harmful programming routine.
4.7 When you submit UGC, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual (i.e. lasting forever), worldwide, irrevocable licence to exploit it in any manner or form and in any medium or forum, whether now known or hereafter devised, without notice, payment or attribution of any kind to you or any third party and you waive, and agree not to assert any moral or similar rights you may have in your UGC.
5. Deposit payments for performance are none refundable, unless the reason for cancelation is the performers fault/issue, e.g equipment fault, car breakdown, acute illness.
6. Any payment (or outstanding balance if a deposit has been paid previously) for a performance must be fully paid 2 weeks before the performance date. If the payment hasn’t been made in advance of the date the performer reserves the right not to honour the agreement. If the payment is made in full and the performer doesn’t attend the event for any reason the payment will be refunded in full to the client.
7. Performance slots/times and durations will be agreed upon by both the performer and the client/s in advance and quoted accordingly. If an extension is required at short notice or on the day of performance a new price must be agreed to and fully paid to include the additional time required. If a performance is required to be cut short on the day the previously agreed upon price for the full performance time must still be paid, as it has been prepared and practiced for in spite of not being required.
8. If a client requires the performer to perform outdoors at a venue the client must inform them with plenty of notice, at least one month. This may require different equipment than an indoor performance. If an outdoor performance is agreed to but the weather on the day makes that impossible, the performer reserves the right to choose to play indoors instead, to avoid equipment damage and/or risk to public health.
9. If a performance requires the performer to travel more than 50 miles the performer reserves the right to charge an additional £50 on to any quote given to clients to cover any fuel and/or food costs during the day.
10. If the client knows of any specific parking arrangements, restrictions and/or permits at the venue they book the performer to play at they must inform the performer in advance, and if possible, they must provide the performer with contact details of personnel at the venue for the performer to discuss these requirements with.
11. The performer reserves the right to dress appropriately in accordance with their established branding, but also ensure they are dressed appropriately for the occasion/event.
12. The performer has access to multiple instruments and variations on those instruments. Clients may request a particular model of instrument, however if circumstances dictate otherwise the performer reserves the right to make the final decision to ensure quality deliverance.
13. If the client/s have specific music/song choices in mind they would like the performer to play they must ensure they book with the performer in advance so suitable sheet music and backing tracks can be procured and the music then learnt to an appropriate performing standard: minimum 1 month in advance.
14. If potential students request lesson be given at their own home instead of the teachers home, the teacher reserves the right to charge additional fees to cover travel costs and any other expenses that may be incurred.
15. If a client requires the performer to record on a track the following criteria must be met depending on the nature of the job: If the performer is required to play a prewritten part written by the client, the client must provide this music in advance to allow the performer to analyse and learn to an appropriate standard: minimum 2 weeks.
16. If the client requires the performer to compose/write their own material to contribute to a recording the performer must be informed of this requirement in advance: minimum 1 month before the recording date. The client must also provide details on the sound/genre/style envisioned, and if possible/available any audio resources that can assist the creative process e.g prerecorded material, live performance video/audio of the track that is to be recorded.