Terms of Use
Introduction: Consent to Terms
Please read these Terms of Use before using soundsciencepodcast.com and Sound Science Podcast's mobile sites and any other Sound Science Podcast sites, applications, platforms or services, or any features of these sites, applications, platforms, and services, including, but not limited to, content feeds, content accessed through Sound Science Podcast's application programming interfaces ("APIs"), including any accompanying headlines, links or metadata ("API Content"), podcasts, media players, tools, widgets, social networking features, forums and discussions (collectively, the " Sound Science Podcast Services"). By using any of the Sound Science Podcast Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and Sound Science Podcast's Privacy Policy.
You may copy, download one copy on a single computer, and print a limited amount of content, for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided that (a) you include without modification all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the content, (b) you do not modify the content, (c) you do not use the content in a manner that suggests Sound Science Podcast promotes or endorses your, or any third party's, causes, ideas, products, sites, applications, platforms or services, and (d) you do not use the content in any way that is unlawful or harmful to any other person or entity. In addition, you may use widgets and tools on the Sound Science Podcast Services that allow selected User Materials to appear on your personal, noncommercial site, blog, application, platform or service, subject to the conditions in the preceding sentence.
User Materials
Users of the Sound Science Podcast Services may post, upload, transmit and otherwise submit ("Submit") comments, messages, recommendations, photos, images, story ideas, essays and other content and materials ("User Materials") on or through the social networking features, forums, discussions, Contact Us page, and other features of the Sound Science Podcast Services. You acknowledge that User Materials may be routed through our servers, the servers of one or more third parties, and the Internet, and may be viewed by Sound Science contributors and on the Sound Science Podcast Services by the general public. You acknowledge that the Sound Science Podcast Services, including the social networking features, forums, discussions, Contact Us page and other features of the Sound Science Podcast Services, are for public and not private communications.
We reserve the right to screen, refuse to post, remove or edit User Materials at any time and for any or no reason in our absolute and sole discretion without prior notice, although we have no duty to do so. If we elect to screen User Materials, there may be a delay in the posting of such content to allow for review. If we have questions about your User Materials, we have the right, but not the duty, to contact you for further information, including, for example, to verify that you own the copyright or otherwise have the rights to post the User Materials.
You retain the copyright and other ownership rights in any User Materials that you submit on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services. However, by submitting User Materials on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services, you grant Sound Science Podcast, other Content Providers and their respective licensees a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable license to use, copy, sublicense, modify, transmit, publicly perform, display, create derivative works of, host, index, cache, tag, encode, and/or adapt your User Materials in any and all media formats, channels or platforms, whether now known or hereafter devised, including, the Sound Science Podcast Services, applications, platforms and services, third-party licensee sites, applications, platforms and services, over the air (on radio), and other applications and services, without payment and without further notice to you or request for consent. You further grant Sound Science Podcast the right to contact you in connection with your User Materials and to use your name, city and state and other information that you have provided in connection with the User Materials.
In addition, when you Submit any User Materials, you grant each user of the Sound Science Podcast Services, applications, platforms and services, and other Content Providers' sites, applications, platforms and services, a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to access your User Materials on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services, applications, platforms and services and other Content Providers' sites, applications, platforms and services, to use your User Materials pursuant to these Terms of Use and the terms of use of the member stations and other Content Providers, and as permitted by the functionality of the Sound Science Podcast Services, applications, platforms and services, and the other Content Providers' sites, applications, platforms and services (such as through widgets, tools and API Content distribution).
For any User Materials you Submit on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services, you agree to abide by the "Rules of Use for the Service" set forth below and these Terms of Use. You further agree to the representations and warranties, and indemnification obligations, set forth in the "Representations; Indemnity" section below.
Framing
Sound Science Podcast does not allow framing of the Sound Science Podcast Services.
Links to the Sound Science Podcast Services
Sound Science Podcast is committed to the highest scientific story telling ethics and standards and to independent, scientific story telling, both in fact and in appearance. Therefore, although Sound Science Podcast encourages and permits links to content on the Sound Science Podcast Services, the linking should not suggest that Sound Science Podcast promotes or endorses any third party's causes, ideas, sites, products or services, or use Sound Science Podcast content for inappropriate commercial purposes or in any way that is unlawful or harmful to any other person or entity. We reserve the right to withdraw permission for any link.
Links to Third-Party Sites, Applications, Platforms and Services
The Sound Science Podcast Services contain links to sites, applications, platforms and services maintained by third parties over which Sound Science Podcast has no control. Sound Science Podcast does not endorse the content, products or services of such sites, applications, platforms and services, or any of their operators, and Sound Science Podcast is not responsible or liable for the content, availability, accuracy, quality, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from such sites, applications, platforms and services. Sound Science Podcast shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, products or services available on or through such sites, applications, platforms and services.
In some cases, the Sound Science Podcast Services may include certain embedded tools provided and controlled by third parties and governed by the terms and policies of the third parties. You should only use these third-party tools if you agree to their respective terms and policies.
Content Feeds
Sound Science Podcast provides RSS feeds and provides or may provide other content feeds on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services, consisting of a selection of headlines, summaries or text blurbs, and links to full stories, which are delivered to users using RSS or other XML-based syndication technology (collectively, the "Content Feeds"). The Content Feeds are available for personal, noncommercial use or for noncommercial use on the site, blog or similar application of a nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income taxes under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and is not a news, broadcast or multimedia organization ("501(c)(3) Nonprofit Corporation"). You may display, excerpt from, and link to the Content Feeds on your personal site, blog, or similar application for personal, noncommercial purposes or on your 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Corporation web site, blog, or similar application for noncommercial purposes, provided that (a) the links redirect the user to the Sound Science Podcast Services when the user clicks on them, (b) you do not insert any intermediate page, splash page or other content between the links and the applicable Sound Science Podcast Services page, (c) the use or display does not suggest that Sound Science Podcast promotes or endorses any third-party causes, ideas, sites, products or services, (d) the fundamental meaning of the content contained in the Content Feeds, including the headlines and summaries, is not changed or distorted, and (e) you do not modify the stories or other content that are linked to by the Content Feeds. If you display an entire Content Feed on your personal or 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Corporation site, blog or similar application, you may not redistribute the Content Feed and you must provide attribution to Sound Science Podcast or the relevant Content Provider adjacent to the Content Feed, by including " Sound Science Podcast" or the name of the relevant Content Provider in text adjacent to the Content Feed. Any other use of Sound Science Podcast’s logo, the names or marks of any Content Provider, or the Content Feeds requires the prior written permission of Sound Science Podcast. For permission requests, please visit our Contact Us page.
Sound Science Podcast may withdraw Content Feeds at any time. Upon the request of Sound Science Podcast, you shall promptly cease all use of, and remove from your site, blog or other applications or platforms, any Content Feeds identified by Sound Science Podcast.
Podcasts
Sound Science Podcast provides podcasts consisting of audio content that is provided using an RSS feed and associated file so that the file may be downloaded and played from a user's computer or mobile device or via a link to www.dublab.com website (Terms of Use may apply). Podcasts are available only for personal, noncommercial use. You may download, copy and/or transfer a podcast to a computer or mobile device only for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you do not modify the content. You also may link to podcasts from your site, blog, application, platform or service, as long as (a) the links redirect the user to the Sound Science Podcast Services when the user clicks on them, (b) you do not insert any intermediate page, splash page or other content between the links and the applicable portion of the Sound Science Podcast Services, (c) the linking does not suggest that Sound Science Podcast promotes or endorses any third party's causes, ideas, sites, applications, platforms, products or services, (d) you do not use Sound Science Podcast content for inappropriate commercial purposes, and (e) you provide attribution to NPR adjacent to the link.
Rules for Use of the Service
By using the Sound Science Podcast Services, including by registering for the Sound Science Podcast Services, participating in Sound Science Podcast social networking features, forums and discussions, Submitting User Materials through the Sound Science Podcast Services, the Contact Us page or other means, using Content Feeds, API Content, or podcasts, or by using any other features of the Sound Science Podcast Services, you agree to the following rules:
1. You must be at least 18 years of age to submit any User Materials or personally-identifying information on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, you may browse the Sound Science Podcast Services or register for email newsletters or other features of the Sound Science Podcast Services with the consent of your parent or guardian, so long as you do not submit any User Materials. If you are under 13 years of age, or if you are an EU resident under 16 years of age, please do not send any information about yourself, including your name, address or email address. If we discover that we have collected any personally-identifying information from a child under 13, or from an EU resident under 16, we will remove that information from our database as soon as possible.
2. You may not submit any User Materials under a false name or a false email address. You may not impersonate another user or provide any false information about yourself.
3. You may not submit any User Materials or links to material that is libelous, defamatory, false, obscene, indecent, lewd, pornographic, violent, abusive, threatening, harassing, discriminatory, in violation of the law, harmful to children, in violation of third-party privacy rights, or that constitutes hate speech or a personal attack.
4. You may only submit User Materials for which you have the copyright or other necessary rights and permission to distribute electronically. You may not plagiarize content or violate or infringe on the rights of third parties, including copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, privacy, personal, publicity, moral or proprietary rights. You promise and represent that you own or have all necessary rights and permissions to use, distribute and authorize Sound Science Podcast and users of the Sound Science Podcast Services (to the extent permitted by these Terms of Use) to use and distribute any User Materials.
5. The Sound Science Podcast Services can only be used for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may not submit any material containing any solicitation of funds, advertising, promotion, solicitation for goods and services, or recruiting. You may not use the Sound Science Podcast Services for political campaigning, recruiting votes, or soliciting support for legislative or other initiatives.
6. You may not submit any software or other material which contains any virus, trap door, back door, worm, Trojan horse or other harmful computer code, files, scripts, agents, programs, adware, device or other features that may access, alter, delete, damage or disable any hardware, software, information or other property of Sound Science Podcast, other Content Providers, or users of the Sound Science Podcast Services. You may not use the Sound Science Podcast Services to distribute chain letters, mass mailings, "spam," or duplicative or unsolicited messages in violation of applicable laws, or to gather usernames and/or email addresses for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or other communications to other users of the Sound Science Podcast Services.
7. You may not interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Sound Science Podcast Services, any portion or contents thereof, or related systems or networks, or use the Sound Science Podcast Services in any way that degrades their reliability, speed or operation, or their underlying hardware or software. In addition you may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Sound Science Podcast Services or related systems or networks.
8. By submitting any User Materials on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services, you grant to Sound Science Podcast and other Content Providers, their licensees, and users of these sites, applications, platforms and services (to the extent permitted by these Terms of Use) the licenses to use those User Materials specified in the "User Materials" section of these Terms of Use.
9. You are solely responsible for any User Materials submitted using your account. Sound Science Podcast does not and cannot review all User Materials submitted by you or others and is not responsible for any User Materials submitted by you or others on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services. However, Sound Science Podcast has the right (but not the obligation) to review, screen, delete, edit or move any User Materials that it deems, in its sole discretion, to be in violation of the Rules for Use of the Service or these Terms of Use.
10. Sound Science Podcast is not responsible or liable for any User Materials Submitted by you or a third party, including any User Materials, on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services. Sound Science Podcast cannot verify the accuracy of statements that users make or place on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services, and does not guarantee that any User Materials have been submitted with the permission of the copyright or proprietary owner or are otherwise in compliance with the Rules for Use of the Service or these Terms of Use.
11. You acknowledge that Sound Science Podcast has the right to limit or terminate your, or any other person's, access to or registration in the NPR Services for any reason, in its sole discretion, including violation of these Terms of Use.
Representations; Indemnity
You represent and warrant that (a) if you Submit any User Materials or personally-identifying information on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services, you are at least 18 years of age, (b) you have obtained all clearances, releases, licenses and rights to any User Materials you Submit on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services that may be necessary for their use as contemplated by the Sound Science Podcast Services and these Term of Use, (c) there are no encumbrances or restrictions on the User Materials or their use as contemplated by the Sound Science Podcast Services and these Terms of Use, (d) the User Materials, and their use by Sound Science Podcast and users of the Sound Science Podcast Services does not and will not libel any person or entity, or violate or infringe upon the copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, reputation, creative or other rights of any person or entity or violate these Terms of Use, and (e) your use of the Sound Science Podcast Services complies with these Terms of Use. You agree that you will indemnify and hold harmless Sound Science Podcast, its founder/director(s), Sound Science Podcast contributors including guests or third-party program producers and content providers and their respective directors, officers, employees, members, and licensees from any and all claims, liabilities, costs or expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from (1) your breach of any of the above representations and warranties, (2) your use of the Sound Science Podcast Services, (3) the User Materials you have Submitted on or through the Sound Science Podcast Services, or (4) Sound Science Podcast's publication, distribution or use of such User Materials, or the authorized publication, distribution or use of your User Materials by Sound Science Podcast member stations, Content Providers, licensees, or users of the Sound Science Podcast Services.
Disclaimer
THE SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST SERVICES AND ANY CONTENT, MATERIALS, USER MATERIALS, FEATURES OR PRODUCTS AVAILABLE OR SOLD ON OR THROUGH THE SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST SERVICES OR ENDORSE, RECOMMEND, OR MAKE ANY WARRANTIES AS TO THE CONTENT, INFORMATION, MATERIALS, USER MATERIALS, FEATURES, SERVICES, PRODUCTS, OPINIONS, OR STATEMENTS AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST SERVICES OR THROUGH LINKS ON THE SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST SERVICES. USE OF THE SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST SERVICES IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
CONTENT ON THE SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST SERVICES IS NOT INTENDED TO SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OF ANY KIND. IN PARTICULAR, NOTHING CONTAINED IN THE SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST SERVICES IS OR SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, OR USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR, MEDICAL ADVICE, DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT. ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER QUALIFIED HEALTH PROVIDER WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING PERSONAL HEALTH OR MEDICAL CONDITIONS. NEVER DISREGARD OR AVOID PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY IN SEEKING IT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ, HEARD OR SEEN ON THE NPR SERVICES.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT WILL SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST, ITS FOUNDER/DIRECTOR(S), SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDING GUESTS OR THIRD-PARTY PROGRAM PRODUCERS AND CONTENT PROVIDERS BE LIABLE (A) FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST SERVICES, (B) RELATING TO ANY CONTENT OR PRODUCTS AVAILABLE OR SOLD ON OR THROUGH THE SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST SERVICES, OR (C) IN CONNECTION WITH ANY THIRD-PARTY CONTENT OR MATERIALS (INCLUDING USER MATERIALS) OR THE DEFAMATORY, INFRINGING, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY. IN NO EVENT WILL SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST, DR YEWANDE PEARSE, SOUND SCIENCE PODCAST CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDING GUESTS OR THIRD-PARTY PROGRAM PRODUCERS AND CONTENT PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY AMOUNT IN EXCESS OF $10.
Right to Change NPR Services
Sound Science Podcast reserves the right to change, terminate or suspend the Sound Science Podcast Services, any features of the Sound Science Podcast Services (including, but not limited to, Content Feeds, API Content, podcasts, and the Sound Science Podcast Media Player), and any content or materials contained in the Sound Science Podcast Services, in any way, at any time and for any reason or no reason. Sound Science Podcast also has the right to require you to cease accessing any features, content or materials of the Sound Science Podcast Services.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Notices; Sound Science Podcast respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement by any content or material on the Sound Science Podcast Services, please contact us including:
1. a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed.
2. a description of the material that you claim to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material.
3. information so that we can contact you, such as address, telephone number and email address.
4. a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of a copyright that is allegedly infringed.
Attributions & Third-Party Notices
Certain third-party content made available through the Sound Science Podcast Services may be subject to other terms.