Terms of Service

These terms and conditions (“Terms of Service”) apply to this Website, www.newenglandfilm.com (the “Website”), and to all text, images, audio or audiovisual works, information, and other materials (“Content”) appearing on the Website at any time. The Website is comprised by Content created both by NewEnglandFilm.com and by our site “Users,” who have accounts on the Website to post jobs, directory listings, festival films, and other Content.

By visiting or using the Website, via a computer, mobile phone, application or any other device, you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service whether or not you have an account on the Website.

If you do not accept these Terms of Service, NewEnglandFilm.com does not authorize your use of the Website.

Intellectual Property Rights

The Content contained on this Website is the property of NewEnglandFilm.com or its licensors, and is protected from unauthorized copying and dissemination by U.S. copyright law, trademark law, international conventions, and other intellectual property laws. You may not reproduce, transmit, or download and save any part of such Content, and nothing on this Website should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use this Website or any Content displayed on this Website, through the use of framing or otherwise, without the prior written permission of NewEnglandFilm.com.

Subject to your full compliance with these Terms of Service, NewEnglandFilm.com authorizes you to view the Content, make a single copy of it, and print that copy, but only for your own lawful, personal, noncommercial use, provided that you maintain all copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property notices in such Content, and provided that the Content, or any part thereof, is not modified.

Restrictions on Use

By accessing the Website, you agree to use the Content for lawful purposes only. In addition, you agree:

  • Not to post anything on the Website that is unlawful or discriminatory.
  • Not to copy material from the Website for your own publication and/or commercial or personal gain.
  • Not to use, copy or scrape the Website’s Content to derive new clients or customers for your own commercial gain.
  • Not to use a bot or web crawler for the purpose of scraping Content from the Website for your commercial or personal gain.
  • Not to scrape Content from the Website by hand for your own commercial or personal gain.
  • Not to use Content from the Website to contact any Website User with SPAM, advertising, promotional materials, or other schemes.
  • Not to use Content from the Website to contact any Website User for the purpose of adding them as a client on your own competitor website.
  • Not to use any part of the Website for your own commercial gain or to undertake commercial activity directed at the Users of the Website without NewEnglandFilm.com’s written and signed consent.
  • Not to solicit or collect personal data including email addresses, names, addresses, or any other information about Website Users.
  • Not to use Content from the Website to contact Website Users with the intent of having them post duplicative content on your own website or directory.

Third Party Sites

The contents, accuracy, availability or omission of information, opinions expressed, and other links provided at sites that link to or from this Website (“Third Parties”) are not investigated, verified, monitored or endorsed by NewEnglandFilm.com. Therefore, we disclaim any responsibility for any of the above mentioned, and the use of hyperlinks to other or resources are at one’s own risk.

Please be aware that any information one may forward or be requested to provide to any third party are not warranted by us, and one irrevocably waives any claims against us in case there is loss or damage resulted from any access to or interaction with any other sites via this Website. As a general rule, one should make all investigations or inquiries before proceeding with any online or offline access or transaction with any of the third party sites.

User Submissions

By submitting materials (text, media, audio, etc.) to any public area of the Website, including message boards, classifieds, directory listings, and other Content, you represent and warrant that:

  1. You own, or have secured from the owner, all necessary rights (including moral rights) and permissions to enable you to post the material on the Website; and
  2. NewEnglandFilm.com and its affiliates have the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, communicate to the public, perform and display the Content (in whole or in part) worldwide, create derivative works therefrom, and/or to incorporate the Content in other works in any form, media, or technology.

Users are responsible for their own communications and the consequences of their postings. The followings are not allowed:

  1. posting material that is in violation of any applicable law or regulation;
  2. posting material that is copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner or have the permission of the copyright owner to post it;
  3. posting material that reveals trade secrets, unless you own them or have the permission of the owner to reveal them;
  4. posting material that infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others;
  5. posting material that is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to another User or any other person or entity;
  6. posting chain letters or pyramid schemes; or
  7. posting material that impersonates another person or company.

NewEnglandFilm.com has no liability or responsibility to Users or visitors to the Website for performance or non-performance of the Website, and has no obligation to screen or monitor materials posted by Users. NewEnglandFilm.com reserves the right to remove Content that does not conform to the rules or to any part of these Terms of Service, and also the right to expel and terminate the account of the User who posted such Content and to prevent his/her further access to the Website.

NewEnglandFilm.com does not endorse any opinions expressed by Users, and the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of Content posted by Users are neither represented nor guaranteed by us. Any reliance on Content posted by other Users will be at your own risk.

User Information

Users are responsible for all uses of their login name and password. Users are also responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their information, including login name and password, and should inform NewEnglandFilm.com of any unauthorized use of their login name or password.

Users who post their contact information publicly through a customized User profile or Content submissions such as directory listings, classifieds, etc. give NewEnglandFilm.com permission to display this information publicly. Please see our complete Privacy Policy for more information.

Website Security Rules

Violating, or attempting to violate, the security of the Website is strongly prohibited. You may not do any of the following things:

  1. access data that are not intended for you, or log onto a server or account that you have no authorization to access;
  2. attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network, or to breach security or authentication procedures without proper authorization;
  3. attempt to interfere with service to any User, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Website, overloading, “flooding”, “spamming”, “mailbombing” or “crashing”; or
  4. forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or newsgroup posting.
    Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability.

NewEnglandFilm.com will investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting Users or Website visitors who are involved in such violations.

Limitations of our Liability

NewEnglandFilm.com is not affiliated with any of the companies, products or services mentioned on this Website. All opinions expressed herein do not reflect those of any of the companies, products, or services.

NewEnglandFilm.com, to the fullest extent permitted by law, disclaims all warranties, including the warranty of merchantability, fitness for particular purpose and non-infringement. Please note that the Website and all Content provided on or via the Website are provided on an “as is” basis, without any warranties of any kind, and may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. NewEnglandFilm.com bears no warranties regarding the accuracy, reliability, completeness, or timeliness of all materials, services, software, texts, graphics and links presented on the Website.

NewEnglandFilm.com does not guarantee that the Website will operate in an error-free manner, nor that the Website or its server are free of viruses or other harmful mechanisms. NewEnglandFilm.com is not responsible for the costs of servicing or replacing equipment or data that may be damaged or lost as a result of any detrimental materials on the Website.

Acceptance

Use of this Website, and our mobile services provided via your mobile and wireless devices, will constitute your acceptance of and agreement to the terms and conditions set forth above. NewEnglandFilm.com reserves the right to revise these Terms of Service, and your continued use of this Website constitutes your consent to such amendments. If you have any dissatisfaction with any part of this Website, or with any part of these Terms of Service, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Website and/or our mobile services.

For questions or concerns, please contact editor@newenglandfilm.com or write to:
NewEnglandFilm.com
PO Box 2792
Providence, RI 02906