Terms Of Use & Affiliate Disclosure

By using this website, you agree to the following terms:

You agree that by using this site, any legal issues resulting from this site or the site owners are bound by jurisdiction in Victoria/Australia, and any legal disputes will be restricted to Victoria/Australia. You agree that the site owners reserve the right to change venue as the site owners see fit.

Affiliate disclosure:

I participate in the Amazon Associates program, ebay affiliates and various other affiliate programs where I receive a small commission for my recommendations at no extra cost to you.

Privacy Policy

I have a stringent privacy policy.

I retain all the copyrights for the material on this blog. I work hard to create these articles – I will not put up with stealing or scraping my content or photos. 

Photos

You may use one photo as long as it’s linked prominently back to my site, and I am given the proper attribution. If you do not attribute my photos to Step-by-step Guitar lessons, you will be in violation of this privacy policy.

Please also include a link to my homepage if possible. 

Be advised that this policy extends to images I create for Pinterest or Instagram. If you use or repin or post my image on Pinterest or Instagram then remove the link to my website and replace it with your own, you are in violation of my privacy policy as well as Pinterest’s and Instagrams because you are stealing copyrighted images.

After I notify you that you have stolen my images, you have 24 hours to either remove my image from your board or replace your link with mine. If you do not do either of these, I will forward whatever information you have provided to WHOIS to my attorneys and invoice you for reprinting my copyrighted material. I will also file a complaint with Pinterest to have the image removed, as well as ask Pinterest to remove you as a user for repeat offenses.

BE ADVISED THAT IF YOU WASTE MY TIME AND MAKE ME FILE A COMPLAINT WITH PINTEREST AND MY LAWYERS I WILL INVOICE YOU FOR MY TIME AND FOR WHATEVER ATTORNEY FEES I ACCRUE CHASING YOU DOWN. CONDUCT YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY.

Content

I take this very seriously so listen up.

You may not reprint my articles in their entirety. 

You may use 10% of my original content, and you MUST (repeat MUST) link back to my site PROMINENTLY. This does not mean a small author link at the beginning or end of the article, it must be obvious.

If you wish to republish my articles for any use, please contact me directly at esther (at) stepbystepguitarlessons.com and we can take it from there.

Summarizing my articles in your own words and then prominently linking back to my site for attribution is fine.

If you reprint my articles, or use any photos outside of the permission I grant above, you will receive an invoice for reprinting my materials at my normal rate, which I reserve the right to determine. 

If I contact you regarding a copyright infringement, I expect a response within 24 hours. Failure to do so will result in a DMCA complaint and I will forward whatever information you have provided to WHOSIS to my attorney.

I take copyright infringement seriously.

BE ADVISED THAT IF YOU WASTE MY TIME AND MAKE ME FILE A DMCA COMPLAINT WITH GOOGLE AND MY LAWYERS I WILL INVOICE YOU FOR MY TIME AND FOR WHATEVER ATTORNEY FEES I ACCRUE CHASING YOU DOWN. CONDUCT YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY.

Limitation of Liability

AS PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL STEP-BY-STEP GUITAR LESSONS OR ITS OWNER ESTHER BERTRAM BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT LOST PROFITS OR LOST BUSINESS DAMAGES, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF, RELATED TO, OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: (A) YOUR USE OF THE SITE, THE CONTENT, USER CONTENT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION, AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION EITHER CONTAINED IN THE SITE OR SUBMITTED BY YOU TO THE SITE; (B) YOUR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE; (C) MODIFICATION OR REMOVAL OF CONTENT SUBMITTED ON THE SITE; (D) THE MERCHANT OFFERINGS, PRODUCTS, AND OTHER AVAILABLE PROGRAMS ACCESSIBLE OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE; (E) ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED DIRECTLY FROM A MERCHANT; (F) THESE TERMS OF USE; OR (G) ANY IMPROPER USE OF INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO THE SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION.