This policy governs all pages hosted at www.bandquest.org and www.composersforum.org and registration for these sites. It does not apply to pages hosted by other organizations to which we may link and whose privacy policies may differ. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.

Personally Identifiable Information
American Composers Forum collects the following information regarding visitors: IP addresses; what pages are accessed and information volunteered by you, such as email address.

Use of Information
American Composers Forum uses the information we collect about you to help us with understanding more about how our site is used and to be able to send you communications such as periodic e-mail announcements.

Collection of Information
When you are on www.bandquest.org and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with American Composers Forum alone unless stated otherwise.

Sharing Information
American Composers Forum will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information, except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

American Composers Forum may share individual information available to affiliated third parties and our agents for marketing purposes. American Composers Forum may also use such information to contact people for marketing purposes.

Protecting Personal Information
American Composers Forum is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect the individual identifying information that you provide to us.

Information Security
When you give American Composers Forum personal information we take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, American Composers Forum cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

Links
The links on this Web site are provided only for the convenience of American Composers Forum site visitors. American Composers Forum has no interest in, responsibility for, or control over the linked site. American Composers Forum makes no promises or warranties of any kind, express or implied, including those of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, as to the content of the linked site. In no event shall American Composers Forum be liable for any damages resulting from use of these links even if American Composers Forum has been informed of the possibility of such liability.

Terms and Conditions
Use of this site is provided by American Composers Forum subject to the following Terms and Conditions.
1. Your use constitutes acceptance of these Terms and Conditions as at the date of your first use of the site.
2. American Composers Forum reserves the rights to change these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting changes online. Your continued use of this site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of this agreement as modified.
3. You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner which does not infringe the rights, or restrict, or inhibit the use and enjoyment of the site by any third party.
4. This site and the information, names, images, pictures, logos regarding or relating to American Composers Forum are provided "as is" without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied. In no event will American Composers Forum be liable for any damages including, without limitation, indirect or consequential damages, or any damages whatsoever arising from the use or in connection with such use or loss of use of the site, whether in contract or in negligence.
5. American Composers Forum does not warrant that the functions and materials contained in this site will be: uninterrupted or error free; that defects will be corrected; that this site, or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs; or represents the full functionality, accuracy and reliability of the materials.
6. Copyright restrictions:
- Commercial use or publication of all or any item displayed is strictly prohibited without prior authorization from American Composers Forum. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring any license by American Composers Forum to use any item displayed.
- Documents may be copied for personal use only on the condition that copyright and source indications are also copied, no modifications are made and the document is copied entirely. However, some documents and photos have been published on this site with the permission of the relevant copyright owners (who are not American Composers Forum). All rights are reserved on these documents and permission to copy them must be requested from the copyright owners (the sources are indicated within these documents/photographs).
7. American Composers Forum takes no responsibility for the content of external Internet Sites.
8. Any communication or material that you transmit to, or post on, any public area of the site including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like, is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary information.
9. If there is any conflict between these Terms and Conditions and rules and/or specific terms of use appearing on this site relating to specific material then the latter shall prevail.
10. These terms and conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States of America.
11. If these Terms and Conditions are not accepted in full, the use of this site must be terminated immediately.

September 2003