O'wango

This is a subscription entertainment website provided by the Provider with premium proprietary integrated content made up of music in the form of songs, text in the form of stories, forums or/and audio using live streaming or video files, together known as the “Service”. Subscription to the Service is free. Stories are provided through the Service according to a scheduled timetable. If you wish to access a story in advance of the timetable, then you have to pay for the content in advance (“Advance Content”). If you want to download the songs provided within the Service, you have to pay for them in advance.

The Service is only available to subscribers. To access the Service you simply provide your email address, password and a few personal details. Your email address and password will be used to identify you every time you log into the Service. Please make sure you enter a valid email address. 

By using  the Service you agree to be bound by  an agreement with the Provider goverened by the following Terms and Conditions together known as the O’WANGO Service Agreement..  


Provider:
O’WANGO Ltd
41 Oak Road
Harold Wood
RM3 0PH
Company Number: 06713253
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it


Please print or/and save a downloaded copy of the Agreement on your computer for your reference. The terms of this Agreement may be updated or additional terms may apply, from time to time. Each time you visit the Service please look out for these notices of updates and when you see these read and print or/and save a downloaded copy. 


As protecting your privacy is important, we would first like you to have a clear understanding of how you agree that your personal information will be used by clicking I agree when you register for the O’WANGO Service. 

Privacy and Data Protection

1.     We agree to be bound by any prevailing law, judgement, directive or Statutory Instrument that imposes upon us restrictions concerning the use in any manner of confidential information supplied by you to us including, any user name and or password supplied and other details relating to your personal information. Personal Information is information that identifies you, including identity information that you may provide to us  through your use of the Service. Your Personal Information will be collected, processed, stored and used by us.

2..     By using the Service and agreeing to the O’WANGO Service Agreement, you consent to our right to trade with any thrid party demographic data relating to your Personal Information. Using such demographic data we aim to personalise the content, advertising and promotions you receive and our communications with you.

3.     As a result of accessing our Website a “cookie” has been stored on your web browser that enables us to      provide restricted information to third parties. If you wish to remove the cookie or check that the information stored is accurate please refer to the Internet options on your Internet Explorer, Netscape Communication or other such system that serves the same function.

4.       We will open an account for you when you complete your registration. You must provide complete and accurate information about yourself, and notify us to keep this information up to date. You must be at least 18 years old to register for the Service. We do accept children between the ages of 13 and 18 to register but not without the consent of parents and guardians.  Parents and guardians will be responsible for their children's use of the Service and adherence to this Agreement and it is also the responsibility of parents and guardians to ensure that the content that their children may encounter on the Service is suitable for those children. As some of the content on the Service is not intended to be accessed by children.  We do not accept any children under the age of 13 for registration.

5.     You may access our stories by making a monetary payment per story that you access. You will not have the ability nor will you be permitted to download a story onto your disk, hard drive or any other electronic device. You may also access our songs by making a monetary payment per song. You will be able to and be permitted to download our songs as long as you have paid for them. All stories and songs and their arrangement  on the Service are subject to copyright and other intellectual property protection. Such intellectual property right protection shall include all registered and unregistered intellectual property rights of any type or nature including trademarks and community marks. You agree that you will not infringe our copyright by any method or manner now known or as may exist in the future. Specifically that you will not use our stories or/and songs for any use whatsoever except those uses set out as being fair use under Part III of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

6.    You must provide at your own expense the equipment and high speed internet connection that you will need to access the Service including  the latest version of flash. These costs are in addition to any fees you pay to access a song or a story. 

Variation

7.     In the event that you buy any stories or songs there will be no returns or refund once delivered or accessed. In the case of a technical problem with your access or delivery, as long as you can prove that you have not accessed or received the story or song, you will be eligible to claim a refund. You are responsible for any money you spend using the Service whether you remember spending it or not. We are not responsible for any fraud or other unpermitted use of your account once the money is spent you cannot get a refund except where there is a technical fault and you have not received or accessed a story or song.

8.    We reserve the right to change, remove, suspend or disable your access to the Service without prior notice to you. If you wish to terminate your Account you contact us by sending us an email to the address set out above. you must not make multiple registrations. you are only permitted one registration under one email addresses. you must use your email address linked to your account, and include in the header the words “TERMINATE MY ACCOUNT”.

9.     We may change this Agreement from time to time including our prices for the stories and songs. We will post the updated Agreement on the Service, and it will take effect immediately or on a date which is nominated in the posting or a in a notice we send to you. Your ongoing use of the Service after the changes take effect signifies your agreement to the updated Agreement. You are responsible for regularly reviewing this Agreement and any additional terms posted on the Service. If you disagree with changes that are made to this Agreement, you may simply terminate your Account as provided in clause 8 above.

Content

10.     Certain areas of the Service may allow you to post text or/and hypertext link (User Generated Content) that can be accessed and viewed by others. You may not post User Generated Content that violates this Agreement or any other terms governing usage of the Service. We do not claim ownership of any User Generated Content that you may post. However, by submitting User Generated Content to public areas of the Service, you grant us on a perpetual basis a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, copy, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote the User Generated Content in any medium and you agree that we may sub-license the User Generated Content to third parties.

11.     We have no duty to monitor User Generated Content, but reserve the right to remove such content and to terminate and ban your Account  immediately if in our absolute discretion it contravenes this Agreement or any other requirements governing the posting of such content. Particularly if such User Gednerated Content is rude, abusive, argumentative, or unpleasant.

12.    The copyright in all content on the Service, except User Generated Content, (O’WANGO Content) is the property of the Provider,  or/and its licensors. You may only use O’WANGO Content for personal, non-commercial purposes and in accordance with any additional terms and conditions which you may be notified of in relation to specific O’WANGO Content. You may not circumvent any mechanisms for preventing the unauthorised reproduction or distribution of O’WANGO Content and you may not alter the O’WANGO website for which the Service is provided. 

13.    The characters in the stories provided by the Service are purely fictious. Any resemblance to actual persons -- living or dead -- is purely coincidental. We do not accept any liability for any resemblance to real life characters.

Liability

14.     The Service is provided without warranties of any kind and your use of the Service is at your sole risk. We will, however, use reasonable skill and care to provide and maintain the availability of the Service. We expressly exclude any warranty, representation or undertaking that you will be able to access or use the Service at times or locations of your choosing. We depend upon third parties over which we may have little or no control for the delivery of the Service (for example, a broadband service outage). We are not liable for any hypertext links going to and from the Service.

15.     Without limiting the above paragraph (and except for our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for which our liability shall be unlimited), our liability under or in connection with this Agreement or your use of the Service (whether arising in negligence or otherwise) will not under any circumstances exceed the total value of songs or stories accessed by you, regardless of the cause or form of action. Your statutory rights are unaffected. 

Helpful Advice

16.     Please take full responsibility for your own security and do not under any circumstances disclose your bank details, credit card details, your personal user name or password or other such information to any other person unless you are confident that the information will not be misused. We will never send you an email asking for your personal details.

17.     Please also ensure that you do not leave your personal computer unattended while it is in operation unless it is safe to do so, and be aware that public forums and chat rooms are often used by people as a means of exploiting others and obtaining personal¬ information about you.

Jurisdiction

18.     This Agreement shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with United Kingdom Law and proceedings arising from this Agreement shall be heard in the United Kingdom courts.