Acceptable Use Policy

Acceptable Use Policy

PLOY Platform Acceptable Use Policy

1.1 Prohibited uses

You may use the PLOY Platform only for lawful purposes and may not use the PLOY Platform:

  • In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.

  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.

  • For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.

  • To bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate any person.

  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our Content standards below.

  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).

  • To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:

  • any part of the PLOY Platform;

  • any equipment or network on which our site is stored;

  • any software used in the provision of the PLOY Platform; or

  • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

1.2 Content standards

These content standards apply to any Content you upload onto the PLOY Platform.

The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Content as well as to its whole.

We will determine, in our discretion, whether any Content breaches these Content Standards.

Content must:

  • Be accurate (where it states facts).

  • Be genuinely held (where it states opinions).

  • Comply with the law applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it is posted.

  • Be owned by you and be your original work. It must not infringe/copy any other person’s copyright or other personal rights.

  • Have all necessary consents and permissions required of any person performing in the Content.

Content must not:

  • Be defamatory of any person.

  • Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.

  • Bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate.

  • Promote sexually explicit material.

  • Include child sexual abuse material.

  • Promote violence.

  • Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.

  • Promote any illegal, immoral or political content.

  • Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.

  • Be likely to deceive any person.

  • Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.

  • Promote any illegal activity.

  • Be in contempt of court.

  • Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.

  • Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.

  • Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.

  • Advocate, promote, incite any party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

  • Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

  • Contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites.

1.3 Use of the Ploy Media

The “PLOY Media” constitutes the music, images, typefaces, graphics, and other content made available by PLOY (whether owned by or licensed to Ploy) in the Studio and which can be edited into your Content.

Your use of the PLOY Media is subject to the licence granted to you by PLOY in your Contract. In addition to these terms you understand that you cannot:

Use any PLOY Media:

  • as part of a theme song, logo, trademark or service mark.

  • in whole or in part, in any other stock product, library, collection, or database for distribution or resale;

  • make any re-mixes of the PLOY Media;

  • edit, modify, or alter the PLOY Media (i) beyond basic editing (including but not limited to setting fade-in/fade-out points, determining the start and end points), (ii) in a way that alters the PLOY Media’s fundamental character, harmonic structure, lyrics and/or melody, or (iii) to the prejudice of the moral rights of PLOY or its licensors;

  • use the PLOY Media separately from the Content (e.g. no standalone distribution);

  • register any Content containing PLOY Media, either personally or through a service provider/representative, with any digital recognition software aimed at collecting royalties such as “rights manager”, “Content ID”, “Media Match” or any other.