Last updated: August 5, 2024
Introduction
Welcome to GuitarPlayground.com (“Website”), owned and operated by Evotom Media LLC (“Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”). This Website is offered to you conditioned upon your acceptance without modification of all the terms, conditions, and notices set forth below (collectively, the “Agreement”). By accessing or using this Website in any manner, you agree to be bound by the Agreement. Please read the Agreement carefully. If you do not accept all of these terms and conditions, please do not use this Website.
We reserve the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of the Agreement at any time. Please check this page periodically for any modifications. Your continued use of this Website following the posting of any changes will signify your acceptance of the revised Agreement.
Who We Are
GuitarPlayground.com is owned and operated by Evotom Media LLC, registered at 7901 4th St N STE 300, St. Petersburg, PINELLAS COUNTY, FL 33702 USA.
Intellectual Property Rights, Material, and Use
This Website, as well as all trademarks, copyrights, software, files, and graphics found on the Website (“Material”), is the property of Evotom Media LLC. The Material also includes original works created by instructors associated with GuitarPlayground.com, new arrangements by said instructors of original works from the “public domain,” or interpretations of works used in accordance with U.S. law (Title 17, Section 107), referencing small portions of a copyrighted work for the education of our students. To further comply with the wishes of copyright holders, our lessons are written in accordance with the Music Publishers’ Association guidelines as follows:
For academic purposes other than performance, multiple copies of excerpts of works may be made, provided that the excerpts do not comprise a part of the whole which would constitute a performable unit such as a section, movement, or aria but in no case more than 10% of the whole work. The number of copies shall not exceed one copy per pupil.
GuitarPlayground.com is not affiliated with guitarists/bands/composers mentioned on the Website. These guitarists/bands/composers do not endorse the Website or the services provided by GuitarPlayground.com.
Our visitors may only use the Material for their personal and non-commercial use via online streaming. Any other use of the Material on the Website, such as copying, reproducing, downloading, recording, modification, distribution, transmission, broadcasting, licensing, transfer, or sale of it, is expressly prohibited. Evotom Media LLC and its licensors retain full and complete title to the Material as well as to any and all of the associated intellectual property rights.
The Material on this Website is only licensed for our visitors’ use on the terms provided for in these Terms of Service, and Evotom Media LLC reserves the right to revoke such license at any time for parts of or all the Material.
Except for the license granted in accordance with these Terms of Service, our visitors agree that they have no right, title, or interest in or to the Website or any content on it.
Information We Collect
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the Website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the Website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Website can download and extract any location data from images on the Website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our Website, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on this Website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use third-party services such as Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to collect information about how our Website is used. These services use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and time spent on the Website. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the Website, and track users’ movements around the Website.
Payments
We use Stripe to process payments on our Website. Stripe collects personal information such as your name, address, and payment details in order to process transactions. Stripe’s privacy policy is available at: https://stripe.com/privacy.
Internally Stored Data
We store the following data internally:
- Subscribed users: First and last name, IP address, email
- Commenters: IP address, email
- Uploaded videos: The video itself
- Standard WordPress cookies
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain the Website and its services
- To notify you about changes to the Website or its services
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of the Website
- To provide customer support
- To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Website
- To monitor the usage of the Website
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our Website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Rights
If you have an account on this Website or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Third-Party Services
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We also use third-party services such as Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, and Stripe as described above.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liability
The services and Material on this Website are provided as found on the Website. GuitarPlayground.com’s sound aim is that all services be carried out and delivered with reasonable skill and care. However, GuitarPlayground.com does not warrant that the services or Material provided are correct, accurate, or reliable, or that our visitors’ use will be uninterrupted or error-free.
Under no circumstances shall GuitarPlayground.com be liable for damages, including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, harm, or injury, including physical harm or injury to our visitors or others, that relate to or result from use of, or inability to use, any of the Material on the Website, or are caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in transmission, computer virus, or line failure.
To the fullest extent permissible by applicable laws, GuitarPlayground.com disclaims liability for negligence and disclaims all representations and warranties, express or implied.
Our visitors agree to indemnify and hold GuitarPlayground.com harmless from and against any and all claims, costs, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses, including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees and costs, resulting from or in connection with our visitors’ use of GuitarPlayground.com’s services or this Website, or breach of this Agreement.
Customer Support
If our visitors have any questions concerning GuitarPlayground.com, the services provided, the Material, these Terms of Service, or the Privacy Policy, please contact us at [contact information].
Billing and Payment Policy
GuitarPlayground.com provides free-of-use and fee-obligated services. The fee-obligated services entail all subscription-based guitar lessons (hereafter: “Guitar Lessons”) found in the ‘guitar lessons’ section of GuitarPlayground.com. Access to said fee-obligated Guitar Lessons is made available via PayPal or Stripe recurring subscription.
GuitarPlayground.com offers several subscription-based membership packages to meet the needs of its visitors (hereafter: “Subscription”). All Subscriptions are paid exclusively through PayPal or Stripe, the safest ways to handle online transactions. Though very unlikely, GuitarPlayground.com shall not be held liable for any damages incurred from the use of PayPal or Stripe.
Subscriptions offered by GuitarPlayground.com are automatically renewed at the end of the given subscription term, with funds being automatically deducted by PayPal or Stripe. Visitors paying to access the Guitar Lessons (hereafter: “Users”) may view the Guitar Lessons offered by GuitarPlayground.com as long as their Subscription is in good order. Subscriptions may be canceled at any time on the Users’ PayPal or Stripe account, or through their personal profile at GuitarPlayground.com. After cancellation of a Subscription, the User will retain access rights to view the Guitar Lessons for the term already paid for.
Refund Policy
Refunds are granted at the sole discretion of the operators of GuitarPlayground.com for 30 days after the first payment made by a new paying customer.
Automatically renewed Subscription payments deducted from the Users’ account by PayPal or Stripe shall not be refunded, with the exception of payments due to technical malfunction.
Affiliate Disclosure
The owners of GuitarPlayground.com may, in some cases, be compensated to provide opinions on products, services, websites, and various other topics. We always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on said topics or products, since honesty cannot be substituted by any form of compensation. You can rest assured that all the products we express our opinion on and recommend will be of the highest quality and effectiveness.
The views and opinions expressed on GuitarPlayground.com are purely the owners’ own opinions. Any product claim, statistic, quote, or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question. GuitarPlayground.com does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date specified at the top of the page and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
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