Lawful Use

1. You may not broadcast, copy, download, frame, reproduce, republish, post, transmit, merge, edit, adapt, resell, re-use, produce summaries or otherwise use Northern Sound and/or its content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial, non- business use. Any other use of Northern Sound or its content requires the prior written permission of Northern Sound.

2. You agree to use Northern Sound only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit the use or enjoyment of this website by any third party. Prohibited behaviour includes but is not limited to infringement of third party intellectual property and other rights, defamation, harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, soliciting minors, transmitting obscene or offensive content or anything which may affect the operability or security of Northern Sound.

Disclaimers/Limitation of Liability

3. Northern Sound and its content is provided on an "AS IS" and on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis without any representations or any kind of warranty whether express, implied or statutory of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

4. Northern Sound will not be liable for any loss or damages, including direct, indirect or consequential loss or damages including without limitation interruption of business, loss of data or profits, whether in contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising from or in connection with the use of or the inability to use Northern Sound.

5. Northern Sound does not warrant that functions contained in Northern Sound and its content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that Northern Sound or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

Intellectual Property

6. You acknowledge that Northern Sound and its content including but not limited to text, images and logos identifying Northern Sound, Northern Sound or third parties and/or their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trademarks and/or other intellectual property rights owned by Northern Sound and/or third parties. You are not permitted to use any trademark, patent, design right, database right, copyright or any other intellectual property right of Northern Sound and/or any other third party without the prior written consent of Northern Sound or the third party.

7. You agree to fully and effectively indemnify and hold harmless Northern Sound in respect of all damages, claims, demands, liabilities (including liability to third parties), losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and costs) arising out of, in connection with or as a result of a breach of the warranty in paragraph above.

8. Where Content is provided by you way of comments that are posted to any part of Northern Sound, Northern Sound branded platforms, accounts or pages, you agree that you will not seek to impersonate a third party or post comments which are falsely attributed to any third party. You acknowledge that you are responsible for any comments posted by you and that you are solely responsible for your conduct in posting such Content to any part of Northern Sound, Northern Sound branded platforms, accounts or pages. You must not include any links to any websites or webpages.

9. By posting Content on Northern Sound you confirm that you have the right to give Northern Sound permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that you have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in your Content or the consent of their parent/guardian if they are under-18. Northern Sound will show your display name with your Content. Northern Sound may need to contact you for administrative or verification purposes in relation to your Content.
10. Northern Sound reserves the absolute right to edit, move, cease to publish, moderate and delete user Content in its absolute discretion. Northern Sound cannot publish comments which are not accompanied by a display name and email address.

Third Party Sites/Links

11. Northern Sound is not responsible for the availability or content of any third-party websites or material accessed through the Northern Sound website. Northern Sound does not exercise any control or supervision of content of these linked websites.

12. Northern Sound does not endorse, and shall not be held responsible for any content, advertising, products, services or information on or available from third party websites. Third party websites linked through Northern Sound are not covered by these terms and conditions and Northern Sound accepts no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

General

13. If any provisions of these terms and conditions are found to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect.

14. These terms and all disputes and matters arising out of or in connection with them shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Ireland and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish Courts

Cookies – our policy

This website uses “cookie” technology. We may update our Cookie Policy to reflect any changes in technology or legislation which may affect the way in which cookies are used by us and how you as a user, can manage them.

The information generated by the cookie relates to information about your use of our website. It will record the number of user sessions on the site and track the number of users who return to the site. By using northernsound.ie, you consent to our use of cookies. You are always free to decline our cookies (if your browser permits), or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion.

When you visit a page with content embedded from a third party, for example, Youtube, Facebook or other social media widgets, these service providers may use their own cookies.

We do not control the use of these cookies and cannot access them as they can only be accessed by the party who originally sent them. You should check the third party websites for more information about these cookies.

Please note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your ease of use of this website.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics which is an analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The information stored in the cookie is transmitted and stored by Google on their servers and then used to evaluate visitors’ use of our website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for us. You can find out more information about Google Analytics here https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Information Collection

Northern Sound is the sole owner of any information collected on this site. We will not sell, share or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Northern Sound may collect information from our users at several different points on our website.