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Welcome to The Dallas International Guitar Festival (Greater Southwest Guitar Shows, Inc. or “GSWGS, Inc.”). The following are the Terms of Use (these "Terms") that govern use of the guitarshow.com (the "Site"). When we say the "Site" we are also referring to the Store sections of the Site where you can buy tickets and/or merchandise. By using or visiting the Site, you expressly agree to be bound by these Terms and to follow these Terms and all applicable laws and regulations governing the Site. GSWGS, Inc. reserves the right to change these Terms at any time, effective immediately upon posting on the Site. Please check this page of the Site periodically. If you violate these Terms, GSWGS, Inc. may terminate your use of the Site, bar you from future use of the Site, cancel tickets and/or merchandise you receive through the site, cancel your ticket and/or merchandise order, and/or take appropriate legal action against you.
Permitted Use You agree that you are only authorized to visit, view and to retain a copy of pages of this Site for your own personal use, and that you shall not duplicate, download, publish, modify or otherwise distribute the material on this Site for any purpose other than to review event and promotional information, for personal use, or to purchase tickets and/or merchandise, unless otherwise specifically authorized by GSWGS, Inc. to do so. You also agree not to deep-link to the site for any purpose, unless specifically authorized by GSWGS, Inc. to do so. The content on this Site is the property of GSWGS, Inc. and/or its suppliers and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. We post a legal notice and various credits on pages of the Site, which may not be removed. Please do not remove this notice or these credits, or any additional information contained along with the notices and credits.
Ticket Purchase Policy Please review the Purchase Policy, which will govern your order or purchase of any tickets through the Site.
Merchandise Purchase Policy Please review the Purchase Policy, which will govern your order or purchase of any tickets through the Site.
User Contributions to the Site From time to time, the Site may provide you with opportunities to contribute to the Site, which may include, but not be limited to, uploading your user profile, participating in chats and using bulletin boards. Anything that is contributed to the Site by you or other Site users will be referred to in these Terms as "User Content". GSWGS, Inc. is not liable or responsible for any User Content. The contributions of third parties do not necessarily represent the view or opinions of GSWGS, Inc. GSWGS, Inc. cannot preview User Content before it appears. Users can be held liable for any illegal or prohibited User Content they provide to the Site, including among other things, infringing, defamatory or offensive materials. If you discover this kind of material on the Site, please notify us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if the material is on guitarshow.com. We will investigate your claim and may then take the actions deemed appropriate.
Links and Search Results The Site may automatically produce search results that reference or link to third party sites throughout the World Wide Web. GSWGS, Inc. has no control over these sites or the content within them. GSWGS, Inc. cannot guarantee, represent or warrant that the content contained in the sites is accurate, legal and/or inoffensive. GSWGS, Inc. does not endorse the content of any third party site, nor do we warrant that they will not contain viruses or otherwise impact your computer. By using the Site to search for or link to another site, you agree and understand that you may not make any claim against GSWGS, Inc. for any damages or losses, whatsoever, resulting from your use of the Site to obtain search results or to link to another site. If you have a problem with a link from the Site, please notify us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if the link is on guitarshow.com and we will investigate your claim and take any actions we deem appropriate in our sole discretion.
Prohibited Content The following is a partial list of the kind of User Content which is illegal or prohibited on the Site. It includes User Content that:
Offline Conduct Although GSWGS, Inc. cannot monitor the conduct of users off the Site, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from this Site in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit or sell to any Site user without their prior explicit consent.
Commercial Use No bulletin board, chat or other areas of this Site may be used by our visitors for any commercial purposes such as to conduct sales of tickets, merchandise or services of any kind. You must obtain our prior written consent to make commercial offers of any kind, whether by advertising, solicitations, links, or any other form of communication. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use the Site to resell or link to other sites for the purpose of reselling tickets and/or merchandise of any kind. We will investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Site and barring such violators from use of the Site. We reserve the right to block access to this Site or GSWGS, Inc. other services, or cancel a ticket and/or merchandise order with respect to any person believed to be, or believed to be acting in concert with any person who is believed to be, violating the law or these Terms or GSWGS, Inc. rights, or utilizing automated means to process or place ticket orders. Violating any limitations or terms on the Site will be deemed to be a violation of these Terms.
Access and Interference You agree that you will not use any robot, spider or other automatic device, process or means to access the Site. Nor shall you use any manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained thereon or for any other unauthorized purpose without our prior expressed written permission. You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Site nor shall you attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site. You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You agree that you will not access, reload or "refresh" transactional event or ticketing pages, or make any other request to transactional servers, more than once during any three second interval. You agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works, or publicly display any content (except for your own personal, non-commercial use) from the Site without the prior expressed written permission of GSWGS, Inc.
Unauthorized Use of the Site Any Illegal or unauthorized use of the Site shall constitute a violation of these Terms of Use. You do not have permission to access the Site in any way that violates, directly or indirectly, these Terms of Use. Illegal or unauthorized use of the Site includes, but is not limited to, using the site to facilitate illegal ticket sales and/or merchandise, unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site, or unauthorized use of any robot, spider or other automated process on the Site. It shall also be a violation of these Terms of Use: (a) for any individual (or group of individuals acting in concert) to request, more than 1000 pages of the Site in any twenty-four hour period (hereafter referred to as "Abusive Use"); or (b) to use any passcode or password, regardless of whether or not such password or passcode is unique, to participate in a pre-sale or other offer on the Site if you are not the original recipient of such passcode or password (i.e., if you did not receive the passcode or password from GSWGS, Inc. or any other organization with whom GSWGS, Inc. is working to enable such pre-sale or offer) or if your participation in such pre-sale or other offer is inconsistent with such pre-sale's or offer's terms.
Suspected Violation of these Terms of Use or Law; Injunctive, Equitable Relief, and Liquidated Damages Violations of these Terms of Use, including Unauthorized Use of the Site, may be investigated and appropriate legal action may be taken, including without limitation civil, criminal and injunctive redress. You understand and agree that in GSWGS, Inc. sole discretion, and without prior notice, GSWGS, Inc. may terminate your access to the Site, cancel your ticket order or tickets acquired through your ticket order, cancel your ticket postings, cancel your merchandise order, remove any unauthorized User Content or exercise any other remedy available, if GSWGS, Inc. believes that your conduct or the conduct of any person with whom GSWGS, Inc. believes you act in concert, or the User Content you provide, or any resale of such tickets purchased through GSWGS, Inc., violates or is inconsistent with these Terms or the law, or violates the rights of GSWGS, Inc., a client of GSWGS, Inc. or another user of the Site. You agree that monetary damages may not provide a sufficient remedy to GSWGS, Inc. for violations of these Terms and you consent to injunctive or other equitable relief for such violations. You agree that Abusive Use of the Site, as defined above, causes damage and harm to GSWGS, Inc. in the form of, among other things, impaired goodwill, lost sales, and increased expenses associated with responding to Abusive Use of the Site. You further agree that monetary damages for Abusive Use of the Site are difficult to ascertain and that proof of monetary damages for Abusive Use would be costly and inconvenient to calculate. Accordingly you agree that liquidated damages are warranted for Abusive Use. Therefore, you agree that if you, or others acting in concert with you, alone or collectively request more than 1000 pages of the Site in any twenty-four hour period, you, and those acting in concert with you, will be jointly and severally liable for liquidated damages in the amount of ten dollars ($10.00) per page request each time that a page request is made after that first 1000 during that twenty-four hour period. You also agree that this will be the measure of damages for any Abusive Use that occurred prior to this provision of these Terms of Use being in effect.
GSWGS, Inc. is not required to provide any refund to you if it exercises any of its rights or remedies because you have violated these Terms or any of GSWGS, Inc. rights. For more information about how we handle copyright infringements on the Site, please see our Copyright Policy. Additionally, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, suspend or discontinue any part of this Site at any time, with or without notice to you. We also reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to impose limits on certain features and services and to restrict access to any part or to all of the Site without notice to you. We shall not be liable to you or any third party for any claim or cause of action arising out of our exercise of the foregoing rights.
Privacy We believe that your privacy and the privacy of all our users is important. These Terms are subject to the Privacy Policy, which is hereby incorporated by reference. GSWGS, Inc. will not be responsible or otherwise liable for any use or disclosure of your contact information, or financial information, by a third party to whom GSWGS, Inc is allowed to disclose your contact information under the Privacy Policy. If you post any User Content to the Site, by electronic mail or otherwise, we will treat it as non-confidential and non-proprietary to you. When we say in these Terms "post" we mean the provision of information (including, but not limited to, "User Content") to the Site through features of the Site that are used to make information available to other members of the public (e.g., user reviews, bulletin boards, chat rooms, etc.). Information that is posted to the Site shall not be subject to the Privacy Policy and may be publicly displayed and disclosed and otherwise used by GSWGS, Inc. or any third party in any way. By posting User Content to the Site, you authorize us to use or allow others to distribute, reproduce or otherwise use such User Content. You should not post information about yourself on the Site that can be used to identify or contact you, including, but not limited to, your name, home or work address, phone numbers, pagers, email address or other such information. If you post such information, GSWGS, Inc. cannot prevent it from being used in a manner that violates these Terms, the law, or your personal privacy and safety. By posting such information on the Site, you violate these Terms, and you assume the risks and sole liability for the results of such posting.
GSWGS, Inc is not liable for any lost data resulting from the operation of the Site or the enforcement of the Terms. We urge all users to maintain their own back up versions of any User Content or other information they submit to the Site.
U.S. Export Controls This Site and software derived from this Site is further subject to United States export controls. No software from this site may be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported: (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other Country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders. By downloading or using the Site or any software derived there from, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list.
Copyright Policy We will terminate the privileges of any user who uses this Site to unlawfully transmit copyrighted material without a license express consent, valid defense or fair use exemption to do so. In particular, users who submit User Content to this Site, whether articles, images, stories, software or other copyrightable material must ensure that the User Content they upload does not infringe the copyrights or other rights of third parties (including, but not limited, to trademark, trade secret, privacy or publicity rights). After proper notification by the copyright holder or it agent |