Web Site Terms and Conditions of Use

Last updated on 03 october 2011. Added reasonexperts.com as the primary domain.

1. Terms

By accessing this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by these web site Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this web site are protected by applicable copyright and trade mark law. When we mention www.reasonexperts.com in this document, we mean either the domains www.reasonexperts.com, www.hydlide.nl or evanderheide.demon.nl, or other protected materials made by the author Hydlide, Hydlide24, or the musician Edwin van der Heide.

2. Use License

1. Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on www.reasonexperts.com's web site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:
   1. modify or copy the materials;
   2. use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
   3. attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on www.reasonexperts.com's web site;
   4. remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
   5. transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server.
2. This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by www.reasonexperts.com at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

3. Disclaimer

1. The materials on www.reasonexperts.com's web site are provided "as is". www.reasonexperts.com makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, www.reasonexperts.com does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet web site or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.

4. Limitations

In no event shall www.reasonexperts.com or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on www.reasonexperts.com's Internet site, even if www.reasonexperts.com or a www.reasonexperts.com authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

5. Revisions and Errata

The materials appearing on www.reasonexperts.com's web site could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. www.reasonexperts.com does not warrant that any of the materials on its web site are accurate, complete, or current. www.reasonexperts.com may make changes to the materials contained on its web site at any time without notice. www.reasonexperts.com does not, however, make any commitment to update the materials.

6. Links

www.reasonexperts.com has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its Internet web site and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by www.reasonexperts.com of the site. Use of any such linked web site is at the user's own risk.

7. Site Terms of Use Modifications

www.reasonexperts.com may revise these terms of use for its web site at any time without notice. By using this web site you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use.

8. Governing Law

Any claim relating to www.reasonexperts.com's web site shall be governed by the laws of Leiden, the Netherlands without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

General Terms and Conditions applicable to Use of a Web Site.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy.

• Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
• We will collect and use of personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
• We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
• We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
• Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
• We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
• We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.

We are committed to conducting our website in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.

Conduct of rules (Forumboard, Comments and Chat policy)

To have an account on reasonexperts.com Forums, we like you to agree and understand our rules of conduct. This rule of conduct is a basic guideline which applies on reasonexperts.com forums, comments section and reasonexperts.com chat room.

The purpose of reasonexperts.com is give support to people that use reason or record (or other DAWs in general). We help people out where we can. We like to share our music with others and we ask for opinions on our music that we create. We also want this to be a place where community can evolve and develop over time. And have joy in the process of learning, and understand the meanings about making music. To achieve this, we strive to maintain an atmosphere that can be enjoyed by all and we ask all members of the community to be respectful at all times. This means please use etiquette and politeness. Treat people with kindness, gentleness and respect. If you do this, the rest of the code of conduct won't need more than a cursory mention.

All posts made to these forums, or comments made in the chatroom, express the views and opinions of the author of each post. Those liable for the content of posts and private messages are the ones submitting the material, and not the administrators, moderators, webmaster, reasonexperts.com community, or anyone else.

This is a moderated forum, but only in the sense that we act to deal with content that violates the forum code of conduct when we become aware of it. The staff of this forum attempt to edit or remove any objectionable or illegal material as quickly as possible.

Users agree not to post anything abusive, rude, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, advertising or marketing related, or sexually-oriented. Material that suggests illegal activity or contains illegal content is also forbidden. Also, our forums are used by people at work and school and we want to ensure they will not encounter material that will cause them problems or cause their access to our site to be limited, so all content should be safe for work and school.

Users posting any content that violates this code of conduct may receive a warning or an infraction that creates a record of the behavior and will be connected to the account (this record is only visible by the member and staff), may have their posts edited or removed, may have their account or IP address banned temporarily or permanently. The IP addresses of all users are recorded to provide evidence or assist in enforcing these rules.

Posts which violate any part of this Code of Conduct may be edited or moved to a special holding area called "The Archive Section" where they are preserved as evidence. Posts in The Archive Section are only visible to staff members. The only exception are spam, or advertising-related posts, these will be removed when needed.

Finally, you agree that forum staff have the right to remove, edit, move or close any post, topic or thread at any time they see fit following the guidelines outlined below. You agree that the staff of this forum have the right to send a private message with a warning and/or censor any forum user who is in violation of forum policy.

Respect the Forum Staff: We provide a service in our free time to keep the forums running efficiently. We are all volunteers. Feedback is welcome in the Site Related section and this is also the place to request assistance with forum software issues. If you believe an error has been made in moderation or other staff actions,please contact one of the moderators/ admins to help us understand your perspective.

Adult Content, Violence, Illegal Activity: Messages containing violent, sexually oriented, or illegal content or links to sites with this content will either be deleted or saved in the The Archive section as evidence. Messages with links to or suggesting illegal activity will also be deleted. Posting or linking to any of these could result in a ban.

Trolling, Attacks and Flaming: These are always forbidden.
- Trolling is posting in a way that provokes emotional responses.
- Attacks and derogatory terms of any kind are not welcome. This includes references to other operating systems and the companies that produce them.- Flames are messages that personally attack or call any people names or otherwise harass. These, along with any generally condescending posts will be edited or removed at the moderators discretion. If a thread is flame-bait (appears to be intended to start an argument or is likely to cause an argument rather than enhance discussion, as in trolling), it will be locked or removed without notice. Individual flame-bait comments in a post may be deleted or edited at the moderators' discretion. If the thread turns into an argument, it can be closed to further comment or removed without notice. Sometimes a moderator may split the thread or delete certain portions in order to keep the discussion going, but that is not always possible since we are a staff of volunteers with limited time and numbers.
- Spam (unsolicited advertising): Spam will be deleted. If there is a problem with a link that got removed by an admin or moderator, feel free to send the moderation team a private message and discuss it with the moderation team.
- Politics and Religion: These two topics can cause serious problems. However, we do not have any guideline when it comes to politics and religion discussions yet. But please keep in mind that people may have a different opinion when it comes to these topics.
- Thread Drifting/Steering: Please keep discussions on topic.
- Report Posts: If you have found a post or receive a private message that you feel is inappropriate or that violates the forum code of conduct, please use the report function to notify staff. Do not attempt to moderate discussions or correct other users yourself. If there is a moderator or admin online in the chatroom you are able to address the issue in the chatroom as well.
- Multiple Accounts: Users may only have one active account. If you feel you have justification for requiring a new account, please contact an administrator to discuss your situation. Users who have multiple accounts without approval of an administrator may be penalized or banned.
- Private Messaging: Asking support questions via private messages is strongly discouraged. It is unlikely that users will respond to these requests and it defeats the secondary intent of the forums to be a resource for people seeking assistance using internet searches and forum searches.
- Editing of posts: Moderators or Admin are free to edit posts which breaks the guidelines. In most cases a reason is given why the post got edited
- Thread Closing: the Staff is capable to do so, but are requested to post an explanation in a thread that is closed and why it has been closed.

This code of conduct may change and evolve with time based on constructive feedback and experience. It is our hope that these policies will foster helpful, honest, and civil interaction. It is the users' responsibility to check this page for updates. All public forum data is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License and should be attributed to reasonexperts.com (http://www.reasonexperts.com).