1. General Information

Lemonrock Gig Guide is produced by, and is a trading name of Hi-Tech Communications Ltd. All rights reserved. With the explicit exception of the exclusions below, no portion of this website may be reproduced in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from Lemonrock. In this document, the terms "Lemonrock" and "website" refer to any material published on the following domains owned by Lemonrock: lemonrock.com, lemonrock.co.uk and any other future branded domains.

2. Terms

The following rules and regulations ("Terms") apply to all visitors to or Members of this website (collectively, "Users"). By accessing this website, the User acknowledges acceptance of these Terms. Lemonrock reserves the right to change these Terms from time to time at its sole discretion. In the case of any violation of these rules and regulations, Lemonrock reserves the right to seek all remedies available by law and in equity for such violations. These Terms apply to all visits to the Lemonrock website, both now and in the future. The term "User" refers to the person responsible for viewing the content, or initiating its transmission from any of the above named domains.

3. Privacy

Please see our separate Privacy Policy here. Our Privacy Policy forms part of our Terms and Conditions.

4. Your email address

When you join Lemonrock you use an email address to identify yourself. We reserve the right to disallow any email address that we perceive to be misleading or that is being used to "pass off" your identity as being affiliated to, or connected with, Lemonrock. We also reserve the right to change our policy at any time, and delete your Lemonrock account without notice to you if we believe that your email address falls into this category.

5. Sending You email

If you have a Band or Venue membership, we will send you email confirmations of all gigs that you add to Lemonrock, the day after you add them to the site. We will also send you email alerts for any gigs added for your band/artist by a venue, or for any gigs added for your venue by a band/artist. You can turn off these confirmations and alerts in your "my settings" section, or by following the links in our emails.

We may send you email newsletters (usually once a month) to keep you up-to-date with new features on Lemonrock. You may opt-out of these newsletters at any time.

We may also email you a list of gigs in your area every week, if there are any. You may also opt-out of these gig listings.

When you join Lemonrock, we may create up to 20 local bands and venues for you to follow. These are added to your "my favourites" section. We may email you daily alerts of newly posted gigs from your "my favourites" section, if there are any. You may opt-out of these gig alerts, delete favourites, and add new favourites by going to your "my favourites" section.

To control your opt-in/opt-out settings, you must either:

• login and edit your "my details" section (or "my favourites" section), or
• respond to our email messages by clicking the "unsubscribe" button or link

In order for us to send you newsletters or area-based gig listings, you must either confirm your email address to us, or log in to Lemonrock. You can do either of these by following the links in our initial welcome email.

6. Mailshot email from Members

Lemonrock has a mailshot enquiry system, designed to save bands and venues from writing several emails in order to get gigs. If you would like to opt-out of this system, you should set 'Receive enquiries?' to 'No' in the edit page for your band or venue. This will prevent email enquiries being sent to you using our mailshot system.

7. Content Created By Members

The views expressed in directly posted information from Members of the Lemonrock site are those of the individual Member and not those of Lemonrock or its ISPs.

(i) Members are asked not to contribute information which is abusive, racist, obscene, defamatory or the content of which is otherwise undesirable, illegal or in breach of any person's rights. Lemonrock reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to remove any such information at any time and without notice to any Member. Bona fide requests to remove defamatory content will be honoured, although we can give no guarantee to the time scale.

(ii) As this is a family-orientated site, Lemonrock will, at its sole discretion, remove any bad language or explicit adult-orientated words or pictures in posted material, and may terminate your account without notice to you. This also applies to MP3 song titles containing explicit words, and MP3 tracks posted that contain explicit lyrics that have not been marked as such.

(iii) Members may not post material that has been designed to distort search engine page rankings. In particular, Members may not employ word repetition techniques, or excessive use of superlatives (such as "A1", "AAA", "1st", "best", etc). Such material may be removed by Lemonrock without notice to the Member. In such cases, membership may be cancelled without notice to any Member, at the sole discretion of Lemonrock.

(iv) Members may not post material that distorts any page, including, but not limited to: width of the page, width of column sections, width of table columns. Such material may be removed by Lemonrock without notice to the Member. In such cases, membership may be cancelled without notice to any Member, at the sole discretion of Lemonrock.

(v) Members may not post any gig that is not confirmed, either in writing, by email or verbally, with the other party (band/artist or venue). If the Lemonrock Editors find any evidence of false postings, the Member's membership will be terminated without notice.

(vi) MP3s posted on this site may be subject to copyright restrictions. If you do not own the copyright to songs posted on this site (e.g. "cover" versions or "covers" of existing songs), you MUST select the correct "Licensing category" for the track when you post it onto this site. Failure to correctly identify such tracks, at any time, means that we cannot correctly identify licensed material to the relevant collecting body (such as PRS for Music). In such cases of deliberate mis-categorisation, your MP3s may be removed from this site, and your membership may be terminated by us without notice to you.

(vii) Pictures and photos posted on this site may be subject to copyright restrictions. If you do not own the copyright, or have written permission from the copyright holder to such pictures and photos, you must not post them onto this site. If you do post copyrighted pictures or photos without the copyright holder's permission, we will remove them from this site without notice, and your membership may be terminated by us without notice to you.

(viii) Pages created by Members on Lemonrock provide information to the public. If Lemonrock determines that any page should be deleted, amended, or re-assigned to a different Member, it may do so without notice to any Member. In cases of contention, where two or more parties claim "responsibility" for the same page, Lemonrock may attempt to resolve ownership by emailing the parties concerned. If no agreement can be reached, or if no response can be obtained from one or more parties, Lemonrock reserves the right to delete, amend or re-assign pages as it sees fit, and without notice to any Members involved. However, Lemonrock gives no guarantee to any Member that they will be consulted before pages are deleted, amended or re-assigned.

(ix) Members are responsible for adding and maintaining correct gig information, including, but not limited to: venue details, band details, gig date, gig time, and entrance fee. If any Member persistently posts inaccurate gig information, or a Member's membership expires, leaving inaccurate information on the site, Lemonrock reserves the right to edit or remove these gigs, and/or to terminate the Member's membership without notice.

(x) Members must have official representation from bands and venues for the pages they create. While it is acceptable to add publicly available general information to any editable page, it is not acceptable to add a Member's own contact details or promotional details to any page that does not belong to them (i.e. band pages created by Venue Members or venue pages created by Band Members). In cases of non-compliance, your membership may be terminated by us without notice to you.

8. Special Conditions for Promoters and Agents

Lemonrock is designed for bands and venues to post their own gigs. It is not designed for promoters/agents, whose operations are often a blurry mix of dealing with both bands and venues.

If you run live music festivals, or promote gigs at a specific venue, and want to add gigs for several different bands, you should join Lemonrock as a Venue member. Otherwise, promoters/agents may join Lemonrock as Band/Artist members, on the condition that they add their gigs to Lemonrock using the Support Band feature to list the actual bands playing. When adding gigs as a promoter/agent:

1. You will endeavour to add accurate information, including specific band names, gig descriptions and gig times, to all gigs that you post on Lemonrock.

2. You will not add your contact details (name, address, email, or telephone number) to any band page.

Failure to comply with these conditions may result in your gigs being removed from our site, your access to this site blocked, and your membership being terminated by us without notice to you. We will contact any member by email where we consider that there is insufficient information about the actual bands/artists who are playing at any posted gig. There may be exceptions to this, for example if a gig is an Open Mic Night or Jam.

9. Membership Expiry

When a Member's membership expires, some of the Member's pages and content can no longer be edited by the Member. The Member's pages may be re-assigned by Lemonrock to another Member, or may be placed in the 'free pool' to make the pages available to a new Member.

A grace period is normally applied after a membership expires, during which the Member's pages and content may be protected from deletion or re-assignment. This grace period is currently 180 days due to COVID-19, but may be changed, or removed, without notice, at any time by Lemonrock. Lemonrock reserves the right to withdraw the grace period for any Member, for any reason, without notice and without explanation. Following the grace period for bands, any YouTube videos and Facebook links will be automatically removed. Following the grace period for venues, any Facebook links will be automatically removed.

** CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: HOLDING PERIOD INCREASED FROM 2 MONTHS TO 12 MONTHS **

In addition to a grace period, Lemonrock operates a holding period of 12 months, during which expired band/artist and venue pages will not have any further information removed by Lemonrock (although pages may still be adopted by other Members and details edited or removed by them). The holding period may be changed, or removed, without notice, at any time by Lemonrock.

Following the holding period for bands/artists, the following information will be automatically edited by Lemonrock:

• the band/artist email address and contact name will be deleted
• the band/artist gallery photos will be deleted
• the band/artist MP3s will be deleted
• the band/artist diaries will be deleted
• the band/artist blog photos will be deleted

The band/artist page itself will be removed from the Member's account and placed back into the 'free pool', or may be deleted at that point in time, or at any time in the future if not claimed by anyone else.

Following the holding period for venues, the following information will be automatically edited:

• the venue email address and contact name will be deleted
• the venue gallery photos will be deleted
• the venue diaries will be deleted
• the venue blog photos will be deleted

The venue page itself will be removed from the Member's account and placed back into the 'free pool', or may be deleted at that point in time, or at any time in the future if not claimed by anyone else.

10. Automatic clean-up system

Lemonrock will, on a regular basis, automatically delete unadopted band/artist pages and venue pages that hold little recent gig information. Unadopted pages are removed when:

• they have no current gigs listed, and:
• they have no gigs listed within the last 12 months

This means that unadopted pages, disowned pages and pages that a Member has chosen to lapse, will no longer exist on the site.

Membership clean-up (existing members): Lemonrock will regularly delete Venue, Band/Artist and Music Lover accounts where a member has not confirmed their email address for over 12 months. We will send you two reminders before we delete your account: the first reminder is sent 14 days before deletion, and the second reminder is sent 2 days before deletion. To keep your account, you must respond to the email reminder. Once you have re-confirmed your email address, your account will not be automatically deleted.

Membership clean-up (new members): New Band/Artist and Venue members must log in within 7 days of joining Lemonrock. We will send regular reminder emails to new Band/Artist and Venue members who have not yet logged in. If a new Band/Artist or Venue member does not login within 7 days of joining, we will automatically delete their account.

Gig clean-up: any gig that can no longer be edited by either party (the two parties being the band/artist and the venue) will be marked with a warning. This is to alert the public that gig details may be potentially incorrect, or that the gig may no longer be going ahead. Gigs will remain in our listings unless one of the two parties asks us to remove the gig, which we will do as quickly as possible.

Gig photo clean-up: any gig that is older than one year will be updated to show the default gig photo (i.e. the standard band or venue photo), and the individually specified gig photo, if any, will be deleted from the server.

11. Access to Password Protected/Secure Areas

Access to and use of password protected and/or secure areas of the website is restricted to authorised Members only. Unauthorised individuals attempting to access these areas of the website may be subject to prosecution.

12. Exceptions

Material posted by the Lemonrock Editors and by the registered Members of the Lemonrock site - specifically: sales information, blogs, testimonials and gig reviews - may be quoted and used for non-commercial personal purposes only, without the express permission from Lemonrock, providing that such use is at the sole risk of the person copying and/or distributing such information.

Gig information is available as listings via our gig feed software, and via the share icons on gig pages that connect to Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. Except for these mechanisms, please do not copy gig information from Lemonrock to other sites or publications without Lemonrock's express permission.

All permitted data sourced from Lemonrock must be attributed to "Lemonrock Gig Guide", with a hyperlink or printed reference to our main page at https://www.lemonrock.com.

The Lemonrock logos shown on the website may be used freely.

13. Membership Cancellation

You may cancel your Lemonrock membership at any time, by going to the Cancel Membership page.

Any subscription fees paid are non-refundable.

14. General Disclaimer

Although Lemonrock has attempted to provide accurate information on this website, Lemonrock assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of the information. Lemonrock may change the content, and remove any content, at any time, without notice. Mention of, and links to, non-Lemonrock websites or services is for information purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation. Lemonrock is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any information, data, opinions, advice or statements made on these other sites.

All opinions stated are those of the individual authors and are not the responsibility of Lemonrock. Lemonrock shall not be liable for any indirect, special, consequential, or incidental damages including, without limitation, lost profits or revenues, costs of replacement goods, loss or damage to data arising out of the use or inability to use this site.

To avoid disappointment, we always advise you to check with the venue before setting out to any gig.

15. Contact Details

Lemonrock's contact email address is editor@lemonrock.com. Lemonrock's Editor and MD is Mac MacLaren.

Lemonrock is a trading name of Hi-Tech Communications Ltd, company no. 2809489, registered in England and Wales.

16. Changes to these details

Lemonrock has the discretion to update these terms and conditions at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage users of this site to frequently check this page for any changes, so that they may stay informed about how we operate. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review these terms and conditions periodically and become aware of modifications.

17. Applicable Law

These Terms shall be governed by, and construed exclusively in accordance with, English law. Any dispute arising under these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts and, by using this website, you hereby submit to and waive any objections to the jurisdiction of such courts.

Information on this page last updated 8 April 2021