Terms of Service

Madison Square Garden ("MSG") provides this service (the "Website") to you subject to the following Terms of Service ("TOS"). We may update this TOS by posting a new version here, and your continued use of the service after any such update constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes.

REGISTRATION

In order to register for the registration-only areas of the Website, you must provide certain information about yourself. You acknowledge and agree that you will provide true, accurate, complete, and correct information at registration, and that you will promptly update your registration information should it change. You will select a user name and password at registration; you are responsible for ensuring that your password remains confidential, and you agree that you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your user name. You agree to notify MSG immediately in the event of unauthorized use of your password or account, or of any other breach of security relating to your account. MSG is not liable for any loss or damage resulting from your failure to maintain the confidentiality of your account as provided herein.

The Website may offer you opportunities to vote in connection with certain events and also to enter contests and sweepstakes. By participating in any such event, you signify your agreement to all special terms set forth on the Website applicable to the event as well as the terms of this TOS.

USER CONTENT

The Website enables its registered users to post, upload, or otherwise make available through the Website (collectively, "post") content such as video clips, photographs, public messages, comments and other content (hereinafter, "User Content") that may be viewable by other Website users. You acknowledge and agree that all information, data, text, or other materials, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom the User Content originated.

When you submit User Content on the Website, you grant MSG a world-wide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and sublicenseable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, edit, adapt, publicly perform, publicly display, translate, create derivative works from, and publish such User Content, in whole or in part, in any format or medium now known or developed in the future, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.

You acknowledge and agree that your user name may be associated with any User Content that you post. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all rights to any content you post on the Website. You agree that you will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless MSG for all claims resulting from content you post.

You acknowledge and agree that MSG and its designees may or may not, at MSG's discretion, pre-screen User Content before its appearance on the Website, but that MSG has no obligation to do so. You further acknowledge and agree that MSG reserves the right (but does not assume the obligation) in its sole discretion to reject, move, edit or remove any User Content that is contributed to the Website. Without limiting the foregoing, MSG and its designees shall have the right to remove any User Content that violates the TOS or is otherwise objectionable in MSG's sole discretion. You acknowledge and agree that MSG does not verify, adopt, ratify, or sanction User Content, and you agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with your use of User Content or your reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of User Content. You understand that by using the Website, you may be exposed to User Content that you may consider to be offensive or objectionable.

Posting and other provision of User Content and use of the Website is subject to the following rules of conduct:

1. You agree not to post or otherwise provide User Content that harasses, abuses, or threatens any other person, or that contains obscene content. You may not post User Content that degrades others on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference, disability or other classification. You agree not to post User Content that is unlawful, harmful, tortious, defamatory, libelous, or invasive of another's privacy.

2. You agree not to post or otherwise provide any other party's intellectual property unless you have the right to do so, whether through an assignment of rights, use waiver, license, fair use exception, or under generally accepted news practices. You agree not to post any trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information, or to post any material that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships, including but not limited to inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements.

3. You agree not to falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, or impersonate any person or entity in a manner that does not constitute parody. You agree not to, through misrepresentation or otherwise, solicit personal or sensitive information from other users such as address, credit card or financial account information, or passwords.

4. You agree not to post spam or other advertisements or solicitations, promote commercial entities, or otherwise engage in commercial activity on the Website.

Violation of our rules regarding User Content may result in the removal of your User Content and/or the canceling of your account.

INDEMNITY

YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND, AND HOLD MSG AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, CO-BRANDERS AND OTHER PARTNERS, HARMLESS FROM ANY CLAIM OR DEMAND, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES, MADE BY ANY THIRD PARTY DUE TO OR ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, YOUR CONNECTION TO THE WEBSITE, YOUR VIOLATION OF THIS TOS, YOUR SUBMISSION, POSTING, OR TRANSMISSION OF USER CONTENT TO THE WEBSITE, AND/OR YOUR VIOLATION OF ANY RIGHTS OF ANOTHER.

CHANGES TO WEBSITE OR SERVICE OFFERINGS

MSG reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Website (or any part thereof), with or without notice. You agree that MSG shall not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Website.

ACCOUNT TERMINATION

You agree that MSG may, in its sole and absolute discretion and without notice or liability to you or any third party, terminate your account for cause. Grounds for such termination shall include, but not be limited to, (a) breaches or violations of the TOS or other agreements or guidelines, (b) requests by law enforcement or government agencies, (c) discontinuance or material modification of the Website (or any part thereof), (d) unexpected technical or security issues or problems, and (e) extended periods of inactivity. Termination of your account(s) may include removal of access to all offerings requiring registration, and, at MSG's sole discretion, the deletion of your account and/or User Content.

ADVERTISERS

Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Website, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that MSG shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Website.

LINKS

The Website may provide links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because MSG has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that MSG is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that MSG 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 linked content.

OUR PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

This site is owned and operated by MSG and contains material which is derived in whole or in part from material supplied by MSG and its affiliates, as well as other sources, and is protected by copyright and trademark laws. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute in any way any material from this site including code and software ("Material"). You may download Material from this site for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.

MSG Material on this server may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. MSG has the right to make changes and updates to any information contained within this server without prior notice.

Specific Restrictions on Use of Associated Press Material. Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use. AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or therefrom or in the transmissions or delivery of all or any part thereof for any damages arising from any of the foregoing.

COMMUNICATING WITH US

E-mail is an important communication channel for our online visitors. All e-mail sent to MSG should be generated by the person in whose name the e-mail account is registered. Email shall not mask their identity using a false name or someone else's name or account. If you are a customer and the topic of your email is a service issue, you must include your full name, address and cable, telephone or on-line account number in order to ensure that we can respond. MSG will use your e-mail address and the content of any e-mail only for correspondence purposes and to meet our legal and regulatory requirements with regard to customer communications.

Any information provided to MSG by e-mail, including but not limited to feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, plans, ideas or the like, shall be deemed to be non-confidential, and MSG assumes no obligation to protect such information from disclosure. The submission of such information to MSG shall in no way prevent the purchase, manufacture or use of similar products, services, plans and ideas by MSG for any purpose whatever, and MSG shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute the information to others without restriction.

On occasion, we may use your e-mail address to send you communications with information about service and product information that we believe may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive such unsolicited communications from MSG, simply contact us at msgfeedback@thegarden.com.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:

1. YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. MSG EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. MSG ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TIMELINESS, DELETION, MIS-DELIVERY OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE ANY CONTENT OR TO STORE ANY PERSONALIZATION SETTINGS OR USER MATERIALS.

2. ANY CONTENT DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE IS DOWNLOADED AND USED AT YOUR SOLE DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OR USE OF ANY SUCH CONTENT.

3. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM MSG OR THROUGH OR FROM THE WEBSITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TOS.

LIMITATION ON LIABILITY

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT MSG SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF MSG HAD BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE WEBSITE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE WEBSITE.

EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages. Accordingly, some of the above limitations may not apply to you.

NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT

MSG may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who infringe the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide MSG's Copyright Agent a Notice containing the following information:

1. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;
2. a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
4. your address, telephone number, and email address;
5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.

MSG's Copyright Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached in the following ways:

Attn: Scott Richman
4 Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10121
Tel. (212) 465-6000
msgfeedback@thegarden.com

LEGAL COMPLIANCE

You acknowledge, consent, and agree that MSG may access, preserve, and disclose your account information and any User Content (defined below) you submit or make available for inclusion on the Website, if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, preservation, or disclosure is reasonably necessary for any of the following reasons: (1) to comply with legal process; (2) to enforce these Terms of Service; (3) to respond to claims that any User Content violates the rights of third parties; (4) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of MSG, its users, and the public; or (5) to respond to your requests for customer service.

MISCELLANEOUS

Entire Agreement. The TOS constitutes the entire agreement between you and MSG with respect to the Website and supersedes any prior agreements, oral or written, between you and MSG.

Jurisdictional Statement. The TOS and the relationship between you and MSG shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the federal and state courts located in New York, New York. You further agree to accept service of process by mail, and hereby waive any and all jurisdictional and venue defenses otherwise available. MSG controls the Website from its offices within the United States of America, and the Website is intended for use only in the United States of America. MSG does not represent that the materials on this Website are appropriate or made available for use outside of the United States of America. You acknowledge and agree that you access the Website of your own volition and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.

Waiver and Severability of Terms. The failure of MSG to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TOS shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the TOS is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the TOS remain in full force and effect.

Third Party Beneficiaries. You agree that, except as otherwise expressly provided in this TOS, there shall be no third party beneficiaries to this Agreement.

Statute of Limitations. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to the use of the Website or the TOS must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

Section Titles. The section titles in the TOS are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.