Terms & Conditions

Terms and Conditions of Use:

When you visit or contribute content to BLAREzine.com (“the site”) by any and all means, the terms and conditions documented below apply at all times unless stated otherwise. This is a contract. By visiting or contributing content to BLAREzine.com, you accept all terms, conditions and responsibilities of this user agreement.

By visiting or contributing content to BLAREzine.com in any manner you are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions. We reserve the right to make and enforce changes to these terms and conditions at any time, and these changes will be reflected on this page.

Intellectual Property Rights
“Content” refers to all written, graphical and multimedia materials published on BLAREzine.com, whether copyright of BLAREzine.com or a third party. All content contained on this site and the design of the site are copyright BLAREzine.com. If you wish to use any content or design elements found on BLAREzine.com you must obtain our prior written consent which we may withhold for any reason. You must not copy, use or modify our content or design elements in any manner. You acknowledge that we own the trademarks whether registered or unregistered in the name BLARE and any associated variations thereof together with any design or artwork (“the Trademarks”).

Written Content
Any views or opinions represented on this site belong solely to the site owner and contributors, and do not represent those of people, institutions or organizations that the owner and contributors may or may not be associated with in a professional or personal capacity, unless explicitly stated. Any views or opinions expressed on this site are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, or individual.

All content provided on this site is for informational purposes only. The owner of this site makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site. The owner will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information nor for the availability of this information. The owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information.

The owner is not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this site on other web sites or media without permission.

Visual Content
This site claims no credit for any images and videos posted on this site unless otherwise noted. All visual content featured on this site is copyrighted to its respective owners and we make every effort to credit an image or video to its original owner whenever possible. If there is an image or video that appears on this site that belongs to you and you do not wish for it to appear on this site, please email editor@BLAREzine.com with a link to the image or video in question and it will be promptly removed.

Contributing Content
Users or colleagues of BLAREzine.com may submit content for publication on the site, including feature articles and essays, album reviews, new music reviews, interviews, and playlists. We accept no liability with respect to any content submitted by contributors and published by BLAREzine.com and we are not responsible for its accuracy.

If you wish to submit content for publication on BLAREzine.com, you must adhere to the following terms and conditions:

The publication of any content you submit to BLAREzine.com will be at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to make edits, additions, deletions to the text or graphics you submit prior to publication, or to refuse publication altogether.

All content you submit to BLAREzine.com becomes the sole and exclusive property of BLAREzine.com once published on the site.

BLAREzine.com may reproduce, distribute, display, exhibit and otherwise promote that content in all markets and media known now or hereafter in perpetuity without payment of any compensation or other consideration to you. You hereby waive all rights you may have in and to that content. BLAREzine.com does not consider any content you submit to the site to be confidential or proprietary.

You grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license to republish any content you submit to us in any format, including without limitation print and electronic formats, as well as social media platforms including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google+.

You may reproduce the content you submit to BLAREzine.com on your personal site or blog, or third party entities in select cases, only with our written permission and only after 72 hours have elapsed since the date and time that the content in question was originally published on BLAREzine.com. If you reproduce the content in question according to these terms, you must include the following disclaimer, prominently displayed at the beginning of your reproduction: “The following article was originally published on BLAREzine.com here.” “Here” must contain a hyperlinked URL to the original content in question published on BLAREzine.com. Additionally, if you promote/share the content in question via your personal or site/blog’s social profiles (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.), you must include a disclaimer that reads “originally published via BLARE” with the text of “BLARE” linked to BLARE’s Twitter handle (@BLAREzine), Instagram handle (@BLAREzine) or Threads handle (@BLAREzine), respectively. If we discover that your reproduction of the content in question violates these terms, BLAREzine.com reserves the right to terminate this Agreement against any further use of any person or entity who violates these terms of reproduction.

You may, and are encouraged to, share the content that BLARE publishes via your personal social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other properties.

You warrant to BLAREzine.com that any content you submit to us is your own original work and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights.

You warrant that the content you submit is not obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal.

You acknowledge that any breach of these warranties may cause BLAREzine.com damage or loss and you agree to indemnify BLAREzine.com in full and permanently against any third party liabilities, claims, costs, loss or damage we incur as a result of publishing content you submit to us, including consequential losses.

BLAREzine.com reserves the right to delete, move or edit any content and refuse access to anyone who BLAREzine.com believes in its sole and absolute discretion has violated these terms or any other term of this Agreement. You hereby waive any and all rights you may have with respect to the alteration, modification or removal of any such content. BLAREzine.com additionally reserves the right to terminate this Agreement against any further use of any person or entity who violates any term of this Agreement.

If BLAREzine.com receives a request to disclose the identities of contributors who submit content to the site and if BLAREzine.com discloses the identify of a contributor pursuant to the Terms And Conditions of Use or BLAREzine.com’s Privacy Policy, you understand and agree that we may do so and you waive all rights in connection therewith.

Comments
Reader comments are welcome on this site. However, the site owner reserves the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to this site without notice that:

Are deemed to be spam or questionable spam

Include profanity or obscenity

Contain language or concepts that could be deemed offensive

Contain hate speech, credible threats, or direct attacks on an individual or group

The site owner is not responsible for the content in comments.

Affiliate Programs
As a participating partner of the ShareASale affiliate marketing program, the owner of this site earns a small percentage of revenue from qualifying purchases completed using customized, BLARE-coded affiliate links incorporated within the site’s content.

Privacy Policy
BLARE’s privacy policy can be found here.