Consumer Information
Artist Alliance welcomes you to our 'Online Artist Colony'. One of the cornerstones of this venture is
to provide a fun, safe environment to experience the best of West Coast culture. All purchases made, are
processed through Bank of America and are
completely safe and secure. You can use your credit card with full confidence that your transactions
will be kept totally private.
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Use of This Site
By using this site, you are agreeing to respect all of the ownership and copyrights of each member artist. We
provide free samples in the form of full-length songs in MP3 format. By downloading any or all of these free
songs, you can redistribute them only with the artists permission. Re-selling such downloads, or using them
on any compilation or in conjuntion with any other published work is strictly prohibited. We encourage you
to share our stuff, while at the same time, please respect that our artists need to be paid for their work if
they are to continue creating and providing more great stuff for you.
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Warranties
Because this is a not-for-profit operation, no warraties on any product sold here on this Web site, or at
Artist Alliance sponsored live events, are implied. That said, we will replace any
damaged or defective products at no charge to you. We do not offer cash or credit refunds under any circumstances,
except high-priced items, such as original art pieces, are shipped with the appropriate insurance coverage, so
in the case of damage caused by shipping, the carrier will be responsible for any lost or damaged goods.
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Artist Membership Guidelines
We strive to make as many useful tools available to our member artists to help them make a decent living doing
what they love to do. For this new concept to work, every artist must participate. We all must share our
resources and energy to help each other. Here are the simple rules and regulations of artist membership:
- Join (free) and interact with others on the Community board whenever possible
- Share resources and contacts with other member artists*
- Display graphic Artist Alliance Member link on your web site
- Make sure I am aware of all gigs, promo and releases, so we can promote them on the site effectively
- Support other member artists by attending their shows whenever possible
* We are aware of how very long and hard artists work to build followings and contacts. But this concept will
only work if everyone is supported equally. Strong upholding and encouraging the weaker (not in their content,
but in their ability to promote themselves) This can't realistically be enforced, but if everyone stays to
themselves, it will defeat the whole purpose here, which is to pool resources to forward all of our careers.
Above all, respect and tolerance are always required. Since there is such a diversity of different styles
and cultures represented here, we all must remain supportive, even if a particular act is not necessarily our
'cup of tea.' Finally, have fun! Art should uplift the spirit. My hope is that this Artist Alliance will
be fun and exciting. As long as everyone plays nice, this should be a blast for both artist and consumer alike!
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Credits / Disclaimers
All of the materials found on this Web site are © copyright and belong solely to each individual artist. The
Web site itself is designed, maintained, and owned by Scott Docherty /
Red Hare Graphics ©2003 and beyond. All rights reserved, and duplication of any graphics (except where noted)
is expressly prohibited without prior, written permission.
Thanks is due to a handful of talented and visionary people who help keep Artist Alliance alive. First and
formost, my silent but deadly partner, and father, James Docherty. To
Paul Zollo who was one of the main reasons I started this thing in the first place. To Louise "Wonderful"
Schmelka, who inspires my courage and makes me dance. To Steve Stafford, the hardest working musician I've ever known,
And to all those who lend their talents and expertise to make this Web site run smooth, including Gary Zorko of The
Walt Disney Company, Inc., Chartnoise, Inc., Cindy Collins,
Jack Kelly, and especially all the hard working bands, artists, writers, filmmakers and faithful fans.
General
This privacy statement was created in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our
information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: artistalliance.org.
We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with my server, and to administer my Web site. I do not currently
use cookies or any automatic information gathering technologies for any purpose outside of server statistics. The
Community board is hosted by
EZBoard, and follows their privacy and use policies. For more information, visit their Web site.
This site contains links to other sites. Artist Alliance, nor it's Web site administrator,
Red Hare Graphics are responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of such Web sites. I do not directly share any information about this web site's users with any service. Any
information gathered by these other web sites are governed by their respective privacy policies.
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Public Forums
This site makes a Community Discussion Board available to its artist members
and other users. Please remember that any
information that is disclosed on the Community Discussion Board
becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Use of
this public forum is voluntarily governed by the
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Children under the age of 13 must
obtain parental consent prior to using any of these public features and may not disclose personally identifiable information.
Violators may be banned from future use. Additionally, this web site is not intended for, nor directed to children,
and such information is never requested on this web site. (See "Children's Guidelines" below)
Also, this site may occasionally offer
Online Polls for various reasons. These are designed purely for fun, and no information about the user is
gathered for any purpose, other than the logging of the user's IP address to insure against multiple votes.
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Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under my control.
Users found in violation of my standards may be banned from future use of public features of the site. Oh, and then
their heads will explode.
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Children's Guidelines
This Web site meets the guidelines of TRUSTe's Children's
program and the
Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act
(COPPA).
We DO NOT collect online contact information without prior parental consent or parental notification, which will include an
opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Without prior parental
consent, online information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and will not be used for other
purposes without prior parental consent
We DO NOT collect personally identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent
We DO NOT distribute to third parties any personally identifiable information without prior parental consent
We DO NOT give the ability to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information without
prior parental consent
We DO NOT entice by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed
to participate in the activity
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Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web
site, you can contact the administrator:
Scott Docherty
Click here to contact
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