Terms of Service:

1. Acceptance of terms of use and amendments

Each time you use or cause access to this web site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of use, asamended from time to time with or without notice to you. Please read the site's Privacy policy, which isincorporated within these Terms of use by reference.

2. The site editor's service

This web site and the services provided to you on and via this web site are provided on an "AS IS" basis.You agree that the site editor reserves the right to modify or discontinue provision of this web site and itsservices, and to remove the data you provide, either temporarily or permanently, at any time, withoutnotice and without any liability towards you, The site editor will not be held responsible or liable fortimeliness, removal of information, failure to store information, inaccuracy of information, or improperdelivery of information.

3. Your responsibilities and registration obligations

In order to submit information through this web site, you are required to register for a user account; in thiscase, you agree to provide truthful information when requested. By registering for a user account, youexplicitly agree to this site's Terms of use, including any amendments made by the site editor that arepublished herein.

4. Privacy policy

Registration data and other personally identifiable information that the site may collect is subject to theterms of the site editor's Privacy policy.

5. Registration and password

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and you will be responsible for allusage of your user account and/or user name, whether authorized or not authorized by you. You agree toimmediately notify the site editor of any unauthorized use of your user account, user name or password.

6. Your conduct

You agree that all information or content of any kind, including data and text submitted in forms, and anyfiles uploaded to the server, will be under the sole responsibility of the person providing the said content, orof the person whose user account is used.By using this web site or any service provided, you explicitly agree that:

(a) you will not provide any content or conduct yourself in any way that may be construed as: unlawful;illegal; threatening; harmful; abusive; harassing; stalking; defamatory; libelous; vulgar; obscene; offensive;objectionable; pornographic; designed to interfere with or disrupt the operation of this web site or anyservice provided; infected with a virus or other destructive or deleterious programming routine; giving riseto civil or criminal liability; or in violation of an applicable local, national or international law;

(b) you will not impersonate or misrepresent your association with any person or entity; you will not forgeor otherwise seek to conceal or misrepresent the origin of any content provided by you;

(c) you will not collect or harvest any information about other users;

(d) you will not provide, and you will not use this web site to provide, any content or service in anycommercial manner, or in any manner that would involve junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes,or any other form of unauthorized advertising or commerce; you will not use this web site to promote oroperate any service or content without the site editor's prior written consent;

(e) you will not provide any content that may give rise to the site editor being held civilly or criminally liable,or that may be considered a violation of any local, national or international law, including -- but not limitedto -- laws relating to copyrights, trademarks, patents, or trade secrets;(f) all information you provide is true and verifiable to the best of your knowledge;

(g) any violation of this agreement, including, but not limited to the above points, may result in the removalof your user account and the termination of your inclusion in this project

7. Submission of content on this web site

By providing any content to this web site:

(a) you agree that any information or content you provide is to be used for the purposes of scholarlyresearch, and that you are by no means relinquishing any rights of authorship, distribution, or performance;

(b) you warrant and represent that you are the author of any works submitted in your name;

(c) you have read the Call for Scores, agree to the guidelines for the parameters of this project, and attestthat you and your submitted works fit the said guidelines;

(d) you acknowledge and agree that the final decision of what works and information to include in thefinished research project, as well as in any derivative publications, rests with the researcher and his facultycommittee, and that in the event of a dispute as to the parameters of this project, the final decision is to bemade by the researcher and his faculty committee.

8. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the site editor and the site editor's representatives, subsidiaries,affiliates, related parties, officers, directors, employees, agents, independent contractors, advertisers,partners, and co-branders, from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, that may be filed byany third party, arising out of your conduct or connection with this web site or service, your provision ofcontent, your violation of these Terms of use, or any other violation by you of the rights of another personor party.

9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS WEB SITE AND OF ANY SERVICES OR CONTENTPROVIDED (THE "SERVICE") IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED TO YOU "ASIS", AND THE SITE EDITOR EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER IMPLIED OREXPRESS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR APARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.THE SITE EDITOR MAKES NO WARRANTY, EITHER IMPLIED OR EXPRESS, THAT ANY PART OF THE SERVICEWILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, VIRUS-FREE, TIMELY, SECURE, ACCURATE, RELIABLE, OR OF ANYQUALITY, NOR IS IT WARRANTED EITHER IMPLICITLY OR EXPRESSLY THAT ANY CONTENT IS SAFE IN ANYMANNER FOR DOWNLOAD. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT NEITHER THE SITE EDITOR NOR ANYPARTICIPANT IN THE SERVICE PROVIDES PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OF ANY KIND AND THAT ANY ADVICE ORANY OTHER INFORMATION OBTAINED VIA THIS WEB SITE MAY BE USED SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK, ANDTHAT THE SITE EDITOR WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE IN ANY WAY.Some jurisdictions may not allow disclaimers of implied warranties, and certain statements in the abovedisclaimer may not apply to you as regards implied warranties; the other terms and conditions remainenforceable notwithstanding.

10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE SITE EDTIOR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT,INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES; THIS INCLUDES, BUT ISNOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLELOSSES (EVEN IF THE SITE EDITOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES),RESULTING FROM (I) THE USE OF SERVICES OR THE INABILITY TO USE SERVICES, (II) THE COST OFOBTAINING SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND/OR SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY TRANSACTION ENTERED INTOON THROUGH SERVICES, (III) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR DATATRANSMISSIONS, (IV) STATEMENTS BY ANY THIRD PARTY OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY USINGSERVICES, OR (V) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO SERVICES.

In some jurisdictions, it is not permitted to limit liability and, therefore, such limitations may not apply toyou.

11. Reservation of rights

The site editor reserves all of the site editor's rights, including but not limited to any and all copyrights,trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and any other proprietary right that the site editor may have in respectof this web site, its content, and goods and services that may be provided. The use of the site editor'srights. and property requires the site editor's prior written consent. By making services available to you, thesite editor is not providing you with any implied or express licenses or rights, and you will have no rights tomake any commercial use of this web site or provided services without the site editor's prior writtenconsent.

12. Notification of copyright infringement

If you believe that your property has been used in any way that could be considered a copyrightinfringement or a violation of your intellectual property rights, the site editor may be contacted via:pianorepertoireproject@u.northwestern.edu

13. Applicable law

You agree that these Terms of use and any dispute arising out of your use of this web site or products orservices provided will be governed by and construed in accordance with local laws applicable at the siteeditor's domicile, notwithstanding any differences between the said applicable legislation and legislation inforce at your location. By registering for a user account on this web site, or by using this web site and theservices it provides, you accept that jurisdiction is granted to the courts having jurisdiction over the siteeditor's domicile, and that any disputes will be heard by the said courts.

14. Miscellaneous information

(i) In the event that any provision of these Terms of use is deemed to conflict with legislation by a courtwith jurisdiction over the parties, the said provision will be interpreted to reflect the original intentions of theparties in accordance with applicable law, and the remainder of these Terms of use will remain valid andapplicable; (ii) The failure of either party to assert any right under these Terms of use will not be consideredto be a waiver of that party's right, and the said right will remain in full force and effect; (iii) You agree thatany claim or cause in respect of this web site or its services must be filed within one (1) year after suchclaim or cause arose, or the said claim or cause will be forever barred, without regard to any contrarylegislation; (iv) The site editor may assign the site editor's rights and obligations under these Terms of use;in this event, the site editor will be relieved of any further obligation.

Privacy policy:

Introduction

The site editor takes your right to privacy seriously, and wants you to feel comfortable using this web site.This privacy policy deals with personally-identifiable information (referred to as "data" below) that may becollected by this site. This policy does not apply to other entities that are not owned or controlled by the siteeditor, nor does it apply to persons that are not employees or agents of the site editor, or that are not underthe site editor's control. Please take time to read this site's Terms of use.

1. Collection of data

Registration for an account on this site requires only a valid e-mail address and a user name that has notbeen chosen already. You are not required to provide any other information if you do not want to, althoughcertain features of this site will be unavailable without additional data. Please be aware that the user nameyou choose, the e-mail address you provide and any other information you enter may render you personallyidentifiable, and may possibly be displayed on this web site intentionally (depending on choices you makeduring the registration process, or depending on the way in which the site is configured) or unintentionally(subsequent to a successful act of intrusion by a third party). As on many web sites, the site editor may alsoautomatically receive general information that is contained in server log files, such as your IP address, andcookie information. Information about how advertising may be served on this site (if it is indeed the siteeditor's policy to display advertising) is set forth below.

2. Use of data

Data may be used to customize and improve your user experience on this site. Efforts will be made toprevent your data being made available to third parties unless (i) provided for otherwise in this PrivacyPolicy; (ii) your consent is obtained, such as when you choose to opt-in or opt-out for the sharing of data;(iii) a service provided on our site requires interaction with a third party, or is provided by a third party,such as an application service provider; (iv) pursuant to legal action or law enforcement; (v) it is found thatyour use of this site violates the site editor's policy, terms of service, or other usage guidelines, or if it isdeemed reasonably necessary by the site editor to protect the site editor's legal rights and/or property; or(vi) this site is purchased by a third party, in which case that third party will be able to use the data in thesame manner as set forth in this policy. In the event you choose to use links displayed on this web site tovisit other web sites, you are advised to read the privacy policies published on those sites.

3. Cookies

Like many web sites, this web site sets and uses cookies to enhance your user experience -- to rememberyour personal settings, for instance. This is not a commercial site, and therefore there will be no advertisingon this site.

4. Minors

The site editor might not allow persons who are aged thirteen or younger to become members of this site.For more information, please contact the site administrator.

5. Editing or deleting your account information

You are provided with the ability to edit the information stored for your user account information duringregistration, by visiting your user account control panel. You can request that your user account be deleted;to do so, please contact the site administrator. Content or other data that you may have provided, and thatis not stored within your user account, such as articles published, may continue to remain on the site at thesite editor's discretion, even after your user account is deleted. Please see the site's Terms of use for moreinformation.

6. Changes to this privacy policy

Changes may be made to this policy from time to time. You will be notified of substantial changes to thispolicy either by through the posting of a prominent announcement on the site, and/or by a mail messagesent to the e-mail address you have provided, which is stored within your user settings.

7. NO GUARANTEES

While this privacy policy states standards for maintenance of data, and while efforts will be made to meetthe said standards, the site editor is not in a position to guarantee compliance with these standards. Theremay be factors beyond the site editor's control that may result in disclosure of data. Consquently, the siteeditor offers no warranties or representations as regards maintenance or non-disclosure of data.

8. Contact information

If you have any questions about this policy or about this web site, please feel free to contact the siteadministrator.