Terms and Coditions

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

The Ponce Project Official Website
Last Updated: October 17, 2026

1. Acceptance and Scope

These Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms”) govern access to and use of the website located at https://theponceproject.org/ and its pages, downloadable materials, audiovisual content, and website features (collectively, the “Website”).

The Website presents the cultural and musical activities associated with Ponce Project Music Foundation (“PPMF”), including Latin American classical music, concerts, international piano competitions, musical research, educational initiatives, and selected music scores and audiovisual materials.

By accessing or using the Website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, you must discontinue use of the Website.

These Terms govern Website use only. Separate rules, application terms, ticket terms, payment terms, licenses, participant releases, or other conditions may apply to specific competitions, events, transactions, or submissions. Where applicable, those separate terms govern the relevant activity.

2. Organization and Contact Information

The Website identifies Ponce Project Music Foundation as a nonprofit organization founded in Houston, Texas, in 2019.

For questions concerning these Terms or the Website, you may contact the organization using the following information:

Email: contacto@theponceproject.org
Telephone: +1 (832) 647-8730

3. Eligibility and Responsible Use

You may use the Website only in compliance with these Terms and applicable laws.

If you are under the age of majority where you reside, you should use the Website with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian. A parent or legal guardian must handle any registration, payment, consent, or submission requiring adult authorization.

You agree to provide accurate information when using Website forms or contacting PPMF, respect the rights and privacy of others, and refrain from interfering with the Website, its users, or its security.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your own devices, accounts, and network connections.

4. Prohibited Conduct

You must not:

Use the Website for unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, harassing, defamatory, or infringing purposes.
Upload or transmit malware, malicious code, or other harmful material.
Attempt unauthorized access to systems, accounts, databases, or administrative functions.
Probe, scan, or test vulnerabilities or bypass access controls without written authorization.
Disrupt, overload, scrape, or interfere with the Website or its infrastructure, except for ordinary access to publicly available pages and lawful search-engine indexing.
Misrepresent your identity or affiliation with PPMF, a competition, a performer, or another person.
Use Website content to imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation that has not been authorized.
Remove copyright notices, attribution, or other proprietary notices from Website content.
Use the Website in a manner that violates applicable intellectual-property, privacy, consumer-protection, or other laws.

PPMF may restrict or suspend access where it reasonably believes that conduct violates these Terms, threatens the Website or other persons, or creates legal or security risks. Any such action remains subject to applicable law.

5. Website Content and Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise indicated, the Website’s original text, design, graphics, logos, photographs, videos, audio, editorial material, compilations, and other content are owned by PPMF or used with permission and may be protected by United States and international intellectual-property laws.

The names, trademarks, and logos of PPMF and The Ponce Project may not be used in a manner suggesting sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement without prior written permission.

Subject to these Terms and any item-specific notice, PPMF grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable permission to access and display Website content for personal, informational, educational, and noncommercial use.

This permission does not transfer ownership or authorize publication, redistribution, public display, performance, commercial use, adaptation, or creation of derivative works unless permitted by applicable law or expressly authorized in writing by the relevant rights holder.

Nothing in these Terms is intended to restrict uses permitted by applicable copyright law, including applicable exceptions and limitations. All rights not expressly granted remain reserved by the relevant rights holder.

6. Music Scores and Downloadable Materials

The Website makes certain music scores available for competition preparation and musical study.

The availability of a score for download does not, by itself, place the score in the public domain or grant a general license to reproduce, distribute, sell, upload elsewhere, adapt, or use it commercially.

Some musical compositions may be in the public domain, while particular editions, editorial contributions, arrangements, engravings, scans, annotations, or digital files may be subject to separate rights or restrictions.

You may use a score only within the scope stated on its Website page, accompanying notice, or applicable competition rules.

Competition participants must consult the current official rules and repertoire instructions for the relevant competition. Permission to download or perform a score does not automatically authorize recording, livestreaming, synchronization with video, commercial distribution, or publication of a performance or score image.

If the rights status or permitted use of a score is unclear, contact PPMF before reproducing or distributing it. Users remain responsible for obtaining any permissions required for uses outside the scope expressly authorized.

7. Photographs, Videos, Audio, and Performances

Photographs, concert videos, livestreams, interviews, archival materials, and sound recordings may involve separate rights in the underlying composition, arrangement or edition, performance, sound recording, image, and production.

Permission to view or stream material on the Website is not a blanket license to download, extract, repost, edit, publicly perform, or commercially exploit it.

You may share a link to a publicly accessible Website page, provided that the link is not misleading and does not imply an endorsement or affiliation that has not been authorized.

You must not re-upload Website media to another platform unless you own all relevant rights or have obtained the necessary permissions from the applicable rights holders.

Competition applicants and performers should review any separate application terms, media consents, parental consents, releases, and competition rules applicable to their participation.

These Website Terms alone do not grant PPMF rights in a user’s name, image, likeness, voice, performance, or submitted video, nor do they replace any separate release or consent that may be required.

8. User Communications and Submissions

If you send an inquiry, suggestion, or other communication through the Website or by email, you represent that the information is lawful and that you have the right to provide it.

Do not send confidential, sensitive, or third-party personal information unless it is necessary and requested through an appropriate channel.

Unless PPMF expressly agrees otherwise in writing, PPMF may use general feedback or suggestions to improve its programs and Website without compensation or confidentiality obligations.

This provision does not transfer ownership of your original work to PPMF or override a separate agreement governing a competition entry, commissioned work, or other submission.

You must not submit copyrighted material belonging to another person without the necessary authorization.

9. Competitions, Events, Payments, and Awards

The Website may publish competition announcements, eligibility requirements, age divisions, repertoire, deadlines, fees, prize information, event details, and submission instructions.

These details may change and may be governed by separate official rules. The rules and deadlines specifically published for the relevant competition or event control participation, judging, eligibility, prize conditions, and related matters.

Before applying, paying a fee, travelling, or submitting a video, review the current official announcement and all applicable instructions. A general Website description is not a substitute for the specific rules governing a competition or event.

Unless the applicable published rules or law require otherwise, PPMF does not guarantee that a particular event, judge, venue, prize, performance opportunity, schedule, or program will remain unchanged.

Payment, refund, cancellation, tax, payment-processing, and prize-payment conditions must be determined by the relevant registration or transaction terms. These Terms do not create a refund entitlement or modify a separate published policy.

PPMF does not request payment-card details through ordinary email. Use only payment methods and pages identified through official channels, and contact PPMF if a payment request appears suspicious.

10. Third-Party Websites and Services

The Website may link to or embed third-party services, including video-hosting platforms, social networks, file-sharing services, registration systems, and payment providers.

These services are operated independently and are subject to their own terms and privacy practices. PPMF does not control and is not responsible for third-party content, availability, security, policies, or actions.

A link or embedded service is provided for convenience and does not necessarily imply endorsement.

When you leave the Website or use a third-party service, review that provider’s terms and privacy notice. Transactions or accounts established with third parties are between you and the relevant provider, subject to applicable law.

11. Privacy and Data Handling

These Terms do not constitute a privacy policy.

Information submitted through Website forms, email, competition registration, or third-party services may be handled under a separate privacy notice or the terms of the service involved.

Users should review the applicable privacy notice before submitting personal information.

Do not submit children’s personal information except through an official process and with any consent required by applicable law.

If the Website is directed to children under 13 or knowingly collects their personal information online, specialized requirements, including the United States Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and its implementing regulations, may apply.

12. Accessibility

PPMF aims to make its cultural and educational information reasonably accessible.

If you encounter an accessibility barrier when using the Website, please contact contacto@theponceproject.org and describe the page, content, and assistance needed.

This statement does not guarantee that every page or third-party feature is fully accessible and does not waive obligations imposed by applicable law.

13. Website Availability, Changes, and Security

PPMF may update, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the Website or its content at any time, including for maintenance, security, operational, legal, or programmatic reasons.

PPMF does not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or continuously available access. Website content may be incomplete, delayed, or temporarily unavailable.

You are responsible for using appropriate security measures. Although PPMF may take reasonable steps to protect the Website, no website or transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Do not treat the Website as an archival service. Keep your own copies of important documents and confirm critical competition information with PPMF.

14. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Website and its content are provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis.

PPMF makes no warranties, express or implied, regarding the Website’s accuracy, completeness, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or freedom from harmful components.

Website information is provided for general cultural, educational, and informational purposes and is not legal, financial, medical, or professional advice.

PPMF makes reasonable efforts to present accurate information but does not warrant that biographies, historical descriptions, repertoire lists, scores, dates, links, schedules, or other materials are error-free or current.

Users should independently verify information material to an application, performance, purchase, travel plan, or other important decision.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits a warranty, right, or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Any mandatory legal protections remain in effect.

15. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, PPMF and its directors, officers, employees, volunteers, agents, and representatives will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, data, opportunity, or business interruption, arising out of or related to access to or use of, or inability to use, the Website.

This limitation includes claims relating to reliance on Website content, third-party services, or interruptions.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the aggregate liability of PPMF and the persons listed above for claims arising out of or relating to the Website or these Terms will not exceed US$100.

This limit applies only to claims for which a limitation is legally permitted and does not apply where prohibited by law. It does not limit liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, personal injury, or other liability to the extent such limitation is prohibited by applicable law.

Some jurisdictions do not permit certain exclusions or limits of liability. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions and limits apply only to the extent permitted by law.

Nothing in this section affects rights that cannot be waived under applicable law.

16. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to be responsible for losses, liabilities, costs, and reasonable legal fees arising from your material breach of these Terms, unlawful use of the Website, or infringement of another person’s rights.

This section does not require you to indemnify PPMF for PPMF’s own negligence, willful misconduct, or other conduct where such indemnification is prohibited by law.

17. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas and applicable federal laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where mandatory law requires otherwise.

Subject to applicable law, any court proceeding concerning these Terms or Website use shall be brought in the state or federal courts located in Harris County, Texas, and the parties consent to those courts’ jurisdiction.

This section does not create mandatory arbitration, waive a right to a jury trial, impose a class-action waiver, or prevent a consumer from bringing a claim in a forum where applicable law requires that result.

18. Changes to These Terms

PPMF may revise these Terms from time to time.

The “Last Updated” date will be changed when revisions are published. Updated Terms apply prospectively from the stated effective date unless applicable law requires otherwise.

Continued use of the Website after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms to the extent permitted by law.

If you do not agree to a revision, discontinue use of the Website.

19. Severability, No Waiver, and Entire Agreement

If a provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, it will be modified only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed if modification is not possible. The remaining provisions will remain in effect.

Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.

These Terms, together with applicable notices or specific rules referenced herein, form the agreement concerning general Website use. They do not supersede separate written agreements or activity-specific rules.