Terms of Service
Effective Date: September 16, 2025
Welcome to Open Book Chronicle ("we", "our", or "us"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of our websites, including openbookchronicle.com and our Music Open Book Chronicle platform (collectively, the "Service"), operated by Open Book Chronicle.
By accessing or using our Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of these terms, then you may not access the Service.
1. Acceptance of Terms
By creating an account, accessing, or using our Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. These Terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access or use the Service.
2. Description of Service
Open Book Chronicle provides:
- News and Articles: Access to news articles and editorial content
- Music Platform: Music-related articles, artist information, games, and tutorials
- User Accounts: Ability to create accounts, comment, and interact with content
- Gaming Features: Music-related games, scoring systems, and leaderboards
- Community Features: Comments, user profiles, and social interactions
3. User Accounts
3.1 Account Creation
To access certain features of our Service, you must create an account. You may create an account by:
- Providing a valid email address and password
- Signing in through third-party services (Google, Discord)
3.2 Account Responsibilities
You are responsible for:
- Maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials
- All activities that occur under your account
- Notifying us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account
- Providing accurate and complete information
3.3 Account Termination
You may delete your account at any time. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or for any other reason at our sole discretion.
4. User Content and Conduct
4.1 User-Generated Content
You may submit, upload, or post content including comments, posts, and other materials ("User Content"). By submitting User Content, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, display, and distribute such content in connection with the Service.
4.2 Content Standards
User Content must not:
- Violate any applicable laws or regulations
- Infringe on intellectual property rights
- Contain hate speech, harassment, or discriminatory content
- Include spam, malware, or malicious code
- Impersonate others or provide false information
- Contain explicit or inappropriate material
4.3 Content Moderation
We reserve the right to review, modify, or remove User Content that violates these Terms. However, we are not obligated to monitor all User Content.
5. Gaming and Interactive Features
5.1 Gaming Rules
Our Music Open Book Chronicle platform includes games and interactive features. When participating in games:
- Play fairly and do not use cheats, bots, or exploits
- Respect other players and maintain good sportsmanship
- Do not attempt to manipulate scores or leaderboards
- Follow all community guidelines
5.2 Scores and Achievements
Game scores, achievements, and progress are tied to your account. We reserve the right to reset or modify scores in case of suspected cheating or technical issues.
6. Intellectual Property Rights
6.1 Our Content
The Service and its original content, features, and functionality are owned by Open Book Chronicle and are protected by international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property laws.
6.2 Third-Party Content
Our Service may contain content from third parties, including music information from LastFM. Such content remains the property of their respective owners.
6.3 User Content Rights
You retain ownership of your User Content but grant us the necessary rights to operate the Service as described in Section 4.1.
7. Privacy and Data Protection
Your privacy is important to us. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs your use of the Service, to understand our practices regarding the collection and use of your personal information.
8. Prohibited Uses
You may not use our Service:
- For any unlawful purpose or to solicit others to perform unlawful acts
- To violate any international, federal, provincial, or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances
- To infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others
- To harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate
- To submit false or misleading information
- To upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code
- To spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape
- For any obscene or immoral purpose
- To interfere with or circumvent the security features of the Service
9. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
9.1 Service Availability
We strive to provide continuous service availability but cannot guarantee uninterrupted access. The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind.
9.2 Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Open Book Chronicle shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly.
10. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Open Book Chronicle from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service, violation of these Terms, or infringement of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.
11. Termination
We may terminate or suspend your account and bar access to the Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, under our sole discretion, for any reason whatsoever and without limitation, including but not limited to a breach of the Terms.
If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontinue using the Service or contact us to request account deletion.
12. Governing Law
These Terms shall be interpreted and governed by the laws of the European Union and the country where Open Book Chronicle is established, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
13. Changes to Terms
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, we will provide at least 30 days notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.
By continuing to access or use our Service after any revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms.
14. Contact Information
If you have any questions about these Terms of Service, please contact us at our Contact Page.
15. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.
16. Waiver
Except as provided herein, the failure to exercise a right or to require performance of an obligation under these Terms shall not effect a party's ability to exercise such right or require such performance at any time thereafter nor shall the waiver of a breach constitute waiver of any subsequent breach.