NME Networks Media Limited – Terms of Use

Last updated: October 26 2026

This website (“Website”) is operated by NME Networks Media Limited, a company established in England and Wales (company number 11417244) with its registered address at The Portland Building, 27-28 Church Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1RB, United Kingdom for itself and its group companies. A reference to “we”, “our” and “us” extends to NME Networks Media Limited and its group companies and their directors, employees, representatives and successors and assigns.

For the purposes of these Terms, “Website” includes nmenetworks.com, nme.com, guitar.com and musictech.com where operated by NME Networks Media Limited. NME Account is a separate account and subscription service provided by NME Networks Pte. Ltd. under its own terms, as explained in Section 2.

Please read the following terms and conditions, which include our Privacy and Cookies Policy (collectively, this “Terms of Use”), carefully before you use the Website because they affect your legal rights and obligations.

BY ACCESSING AND USING THE WEBSITE, YOU (“YOU” or “USER”) ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS TERMS OF USE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU CHOOSE TO REGISTER FOR AN ACCOUNT OR ORDER FROM US. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE.

When we refer to “Content” in this Terms of Use, we mean anything that is published or made available through the Website, e.g. text, audio, video, images, software, data, code, scripts etc.

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. You must be 18 years or older, or over the applicable age of majority in your jurisdiction to use the Website.

If you are below 18 years old or the applicable age of majority in your jurisdiction, you must obtain consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s), their acceptance of this Terms of Use and their agreement to take responsibility for: (a) your actions; (b) any charges associated with your use of the Website or purchase of goods and services; and (c) your acceptance and compliance with this Terms of Use.

If you do not have consent from your parent(s) or legal guardian(s), you must stop using the Website.

1.2. You may access some areas of the Website without an account. Certain content or features may require you to sign in through NME Account, a separate service provided by NME Networks Pte. Ltd. as explained in Section 2.

1.3. We may revise this Terms of Use at any time by updating this posting (see date on top). It is your responsibility to check the Website from time to time to review the current terms and conditions as each use of the Website by you signifies your acceptance to be bound by the latest terms and conditions. Certain provisions of this Terms of Use may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of the Website.

If you do not wish to accept any new terms and conditions after we have given notice, you should not continue to use the Website.

2. ACCOUNT

2.1. NME Account, accessible at account.nme.com, is provided by NME Networks Pte. Ltd. Its terms of use govern account creation, sign-in, administration, subscriptions, billing, cancellation and refunds. The contract for those services is between you and NME Networks Pte. Ltd.

2.2. These Website Terms continue to govern your use of the Website and its Content, including when you access Content using NME Account. Where the two sets of terms conflict, the NME Account terms apply to account and subscription matters and these Terms apply to use of the Website and Content. Nothing here affects your mandatory consumer rights.

2.3. Creating an account, signing in or paying for access does not give you permission to scrape, systematically collect, use Content for AI training, or commercially reuse Content contrary to Section 5.

2.4. To close your NME Account or manage or cancel subscriptions, follow the process in the NME Account terms or contact support@nmenetworks.com. Website access remains subject to these Terms after account closure.

3. BUYING GOODS AND SERVICES VIA THE WEBSITE

Where products, subscriptions or other paid services are offered through or in connection with the Website, the identity of the seller or service provider and any additional terms applicable to the purchase will be made available as part of the relevant transaction. Those additional terms will govern the purchase alongside these Terms and, in the event of any conflict in relation to the purchase, will take precedence.

Where the seller or service provider is NME Networks Media Limited, these Terms will apply together with any additional terms provided at the point of purchase and your applicable statutory rights. Where the seller or service provider is another NME Networks company or a third party, your contract for that product or service will be with that provider.

4. BUYING GOODS AND SERVICES FROM A THIRD-PARTY VIA THE WEBSITE

4.1. The Website may contain links to, or otherwise enable access to, goods or services offered by third parties. Where a third party is the seller or service provider, any contract for those goods or services is between you and that third party and will be subject to the third party’s own terms and conditions.

4.2. We are not responsible for the fulfilment, quality, availability or delivery of goods or services supplied by a third party, except to the extent that responsibility cannot lawfully be excluded or arises from something we have expressly agreed or represented to you.

4.3. You should review the third party’s applicable terms and privacy information before making a purchase or providing personal information.

4.4. The Website may contain affiliate links, sponsored content or reviews relating to third-party products or services. We may receive commission or other payment in connection with these. Where required, commercial relationships will be identified appropriately.

5. OWNERSHIP AND USAGE

5.1. The intellectual property rights in the Website and the Content, as well as trademarks, logos, service marks, trade names and trade dress appearing in them (collectively, “Marks”) are owned by us and/or our licensors. These are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

EXCEPT AS ALLOWED IN THIS TERMS OF USE, YOU MUST NOT USE THE WEBSITE, ANY CONTENT OR THE MARKS WITHOUT FIRST GETTING PERMISSION TO DO SO FROM US AND/OR OUR LICENSORS. It is important that you do this so that we (yes, that means you and us) don’t get in trouble unnecessarily.

5.2. You may for your personal and non-commercial use:

(a) view the Website on your computer and other devices;

(b) print one copy of the Content;

(c) save a copy of the Content on your computer or other devices (but not on any server or device that is connected to a network); or

(d) share the Content as permitted in this Terms of Use;

So, if you wish to use the Website or the Content (or any parts of them) for your business or other commercial purpose, you first need to get our permission and may have to pay a fee.

5.3. If you breach any of the terms in this Terms of Use, your permission to use the Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed Content from the Website.

5.4. You must not tinker with or harm the Website, the Content or the Marks. For example:

(a) don’t hack into, reverse engineer or impair the working of the Website;

(b) don’t help someone to use the Website when they are not allowed to (e.g. a child);

(d) don’t try to get around our content security technology (software that stops others from copying the Content);

(e) don’t use the Website to break any laws;

(f) don’t modify the paper or digital copies of any Content you have printed off or copied in any way;

(g) don’t use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text;

(h) don’t tell others or give them the impression that you own the Content;

(i) don’t sell the Content;

(j) don’t harvest metadata from the Content;

(k) don’t copy or change the Marks;

(l) don’t use the Marks without first getting permission from the rightful owner;

(m) don’t set up a company or register a domain name that uses the words appearing in the Marks;

(n) don’t use bots, crawlers, scrapers or other automated means to systematically access, copy, extract, download or monitor Content, or compile a collection, corpus, database or archive of Content, except as expressly permitted below or by applicable law;

(o) don’t use Content for training, fine-tuning, developing, evaluating or improving artificial intelligence or machine-learning systems, or create datasets, embeddings, vector stores or retrieval systems using Content, except with express written permission or where applicable law permits;

(p) don’t use Content to generate, supply or distribute automated answers, summaries or other outputs that reproduce or substitute for our journalism or licensed products, except with express written permission or where applicable law permits; or

(q) don’t circumvent technical limits, account requirements, crawler restrictions or machine-readable rights reservations, including through repeated manual requests, false accounts or third-party intermediaries.

5.5. Sometimes you may come across Content that you find interesting. We have made it possible for you to easily share it with others, but we don’t pay for any sharing that you may choose to do.

5.6. Content that you can share will have a “Share” button near to it with favicon buttons for you to email or post such Content to your social media platforms (such as Facebook, Twitter, etc). When you share Content on such social media platforms, their terms will also apply to you. Those terms will be different from these here. Take time to read through them to properly understand what you are getting into.

5.7. When sharing Content, you should:

(a) use the favicon buttons in the Website to share;

(b) make sure the Content is displayed accurately; and

5.8. You should not:

(a) be charging others to view the Content;

(b) use the Content in any way that may suggest you have any sort of business relationship with us or that we endorse you; or

5.9. Search and social previews. Subject to each Website’s robots.txt and other published technical instructions, search engines, including AI search services, may index public Content and display brief, attributed excerpts, thumbnails and summaries linking to the original page. Social platforms may fetch link previews. This limited permission is an exception to Sections 5.4(n)–(p). It does not permit full-article republication, uses that substitute for our journalism, AI model training or datasets for other purposes. Access restrictions must be respected. Applicable law and separate binding agreements continue to apply.

5.10. Reservation of rights. To the extent that such rights are owned by us or we are authorised to reserve them, all rights to reproduce or extract Content for text and data mining and AI-related use are expressly reserved, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 where applicable. This reservation should be read with machine-readable restrictions and does not exclude mandatory exceptions, including qualifying non-commercial research under section 29A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

5.11. Third-party platforms. Sharing a link, posting an approved preview, advertising on a third-party platform or operating a business account does not, by itself, grant that platform a wider licence under these Terms to crawl the Website or exploit hosted Content. Rights granted by any separate binding platform agreement are governed by that agreement; these Terms do not unilaterally override it or grant rights beyond its proper scope.

6. CHANGES WE MAY MAKE

6.1. Do note that we may also from time to time make changes to the Website and the Content. For example, when we introduce a new feature, when we change how we provide a service to comply with a new legal requirement or when we correct a mistake in the Content etc.

6.2. We can at any time suspend or terminate access to the Website or the Content for certain territories or for any period.

7. REPORTING INFRINGEMENTS

7.1. If you believe that any Content infringes your or another person’s intellectual property rights, please email us at support-media@nmenetworks.com to report it.

7.2. We appreciate your help in identifying and reporting infringements. We promise to investigate the matter, but we cannot guarantee that we will respond to your email or that we will take any action.

8. THIRD-PARTY SITES

8.1. The Website provides you with access to sites, applications, or platforms which are owned or operated by third parties. We can’t and don’t control these third parties. Whenever you use any of these third-party sites, applications, or platforms, they will have their own terms of use and privacy policies. You should read through their terms of use and privacy policies to ensure that you agree with them.

8.2. You agree that:

(a) we don’t endorse the third-party sites, applications, or platforms we link to, or the products, goods, services or content they provide;

(b) we’re not responsible for their products, goods, services or content, or liable for anything that happens to you if you use/buy them; and

(c) if you share something containing a link on the third-party site, application, or platform, we’re also not responsible for anything on that they link to.

9. DISCLAIMERS AND LIABILITY LIMITS

9.1. We take effort to make the Website and the Content interesting and informative for your reading pleasure. However, sometimes things may go wrong. We do not have any special relationship with you which puts a duty on us to act in your best interest. YOU USE THE WEBSITE AND THE CONTENT ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

9.2. We (and our related companies and their respective directors, employees, representatives, successor and assigns) are only liable for your losses that are caused directly by our fraud, gross negligence or wilful default.

9.3. We make no promises about the Website or the Content, including that:

(a) it is of satisfactory quality or suitable for your use;

(b) it is accurate, complete or adequate;

(d) it has no bugs, viruses or other malware;

(e) its defects will be corrected;

(f) it is lawful for you to use in your country; or

(g) your use does not infringe any third-party rights.

We are not liable to you for anything that happens if:

(a) if it is caused by any of the above matters that we did not promise;

(b) you rely on advice, data, commentary, opinions etc. in the Content;

(d) we remove your ability to share Content;

(e) we remove third-party sites linked in the Website and you can’t access them anymore;

(f) the thing that happens to you couldn’t reasonably have been foreseen; or

(g) the thing that happens to you wouldn’t usually result from our actions.

9.4. As far as allowed under law, we are also not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential losses or punitive damages that you may suffer from using the Website or the Content.

9.5. All the above applies to third-party sites that we link to as well.

9.6. Nothing in these Terms excludes or restricts liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any liability or statutory consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted. The other provisions of Section 9 apply only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

10. INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify us for all losses and expenses (including reasonable lawyer’s fees) that we may incur from claims made against us that arise from your use of the Website and the Content, including your breach of any laws, other persons rights or the rules in this Terms of Use, and our enforcement of our rights under this Terms of Use. For consumers, this indemnity applies only to the extent it is lawful and fair under applicable consumer law and does not make you responsible for losses caused by our own breach or negligence.

11. DATA PROCESSING

11.1. You should not submit any personal data to us without first reading our Privacy and Cookies Policy which explains how we process your personal data.

11.2. Like most websites, we also use cookies to help us understand how people are using the Website. Our use of cookies, and how to disable cookies, is explained in our Privacy and Cookies Policy.

11.3. Our Privacy Policy explains how we process personal data and the legal bases we rely on. Using the Website or accepting these Terms does not itself provide consent for optional marketing, non-essential cookies or other processing that requires separate consent. Where consent is needed, we will seek it separately.

12. IMPOSSIBILITY OF PERFORMANCE

We shall be relieved of the obligations to perform our obligations under this Terms of Use to the extent that the performance thereof is prevented by events or circumstances beyond our reasonable control including, but not limited to, acts of God, riots or civil disorder, fire, flood, lightning, industrial dispute, war or military operations, labour disturbance, inclement weather, disease outbreaks and any acts or omissions of government, persons or bodies beyond our reasonable control.

13. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

This Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Disputes arising in connection with this Terms of Use shall be in England and Wales.

14. MISCELLANEOUS

14.1. You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any of your rights or obligations under this Terms of Use. We may freely delegate and/or transfer our rights and obligations under this Terms of Use. This may occur, for example, when we hire others to help us run and operate the Website or when we reorganize or sell our business.

14.2. If any provision of this Terms of Use is found by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions which shall continue to have full force and effect.

14.3. A person who is not a party to this Terms of Use shall have no right to enforce any terms or, to enjoy any benefit under this Terms of Use.

14.4. These Terms do not supersede the separate NME Account terms in relation to account and subscription matters.