Terms & Conditions

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Terms and conditions of use 1. Introduction 1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website. 1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website. 1.3 If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions. 1.4 You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; and by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age. 1.5 Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies. 2. Credit 2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (http://www.seqlegal.com). 3. Copyright notice 3.1 Copyright (c) 2014 S.U.Corporation Ltd. T/A Strictly Underground. 3.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions: (a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and (b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved. 4. Licence to use website 4.1 You may: (a) view pages from our website in a web browser; (b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser; (c) print pages from our website; (d) stream audio and video files from our website; and (e) use our website, services by means of a web browser, subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions. 4.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer. 4.3 You may only use our website for your own personal use, and you must not use our website for any other purposes. 4.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website. 4.5 Unless expressly granted By Strictly Underground and subject only to the use of any provided share connections links provided on the web site and/or by direct written consent, you must not: (a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website); (b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website; (c) show any material from our website in public; (d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or (e) redistribute material from our website. 4.6 Notwithstanding Section 4.5, you may redistribute using our provided share links directly and without interference between such links to the destination we provide. Any attempt to redistribute using a means to circumvent such links shall be a breach of copy write and these terms. 4.7 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website. 5. Acceptable use 5.1 You must not: (a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website; (b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity; (c) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software; (d) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent; (e) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means; (f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or (g) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).] 5.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities. 5.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading. 6. Registration and accounts 6.1 To be eligible for an individual account on our website under this Section 6, you must be at least 18 years of age. 6.2 You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account subscribe form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you. 6.3 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account. 6.4 You must not use any other person's account to access the website. 7. User IDs and passwords 7.1 If you register for an account with our website, we may provide you with / you will be asked to choose a user ID and password. 7.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 10; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person. 7.3 You must keep your password confidential. 7.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password. 7.5 You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure. 8. Cancellation and suspension of account 8.1 We may: (a) suspend your account; (b) cancel your account; and/or (c) edit your account details, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation. 8.2 You may cancel your account on our website. 9. Your content: licence 9.1 In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website. 9.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media / reproduce, store and publish your content on and in relation to this website and any successor website / reproduce, store and, with your specific consent, publish your content on and in relation to this website. 9.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 9.2. 9.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 9.2. 9.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. 9.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website. 9.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content. 10. Your content: rules 10.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions. 10.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law). 10.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not: (a) be libellous or maliciously false; (b) be obscene or indecent; (c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right; (d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation; (e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement; (f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity; (g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order; (h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation; (i) be anti-social; (j) be in breach of official secrets legislation; (k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person; (l) depict violence; (m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit; (n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading; (o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage; (p) constitute spam; (q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or (r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person or persons. 11. Limited warranties 11.1 We do not warrant or represent: (a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website; (b) that the material on the website is up to date; or (c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available. 11.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website. 11.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website. 12. Limitations and exclusions of liability 12.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will: (a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence; (b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or (d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law. 12.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions: (a) are subject to Section 12.1; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty. 12.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature. 12.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control. 12.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill. 12.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software. 12.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage. 12.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees). 13. Breaches of these terms and conditions 13.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may: (a) send you one or more formal warnings; (b) temporarily suspend your access to our website; (c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website; (d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website; (e) contact any or all your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website; (f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or (g) suspend or delete your account on our website. 13.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account). 14. Variation 14.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time. 14.2 [The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions 15. Assignment 15.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions. 15.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions. 16. Severability 16.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. 16.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect. 17. Third party rights 17.1 These terms and conditions are for our benefit and your benefit, and these terms and conditions are not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party. 17.2 The exercise of the parties' rights under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party. 18. Entire agreement 18.1 Subject to Section 12.1, these terms and conditions, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website. 19. Law and jurisdiction 19.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. 19.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England. 20. Statutory and regulatory disclosures 21.1 This website is owned and operated by S.U.Corporation Ltd. T/A Strictly Underground 21.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number [number], and our registered office is at [address].] 21.3 Our principal place of business is at [address]. 21.4 You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website contact form, by social media.

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Privacy Policy

We have Recently updated our Privacy Policy. Please read and accept the Privacy Policy in order to access the site

Business privacy policy

This website is owned and operated by Mark Ryder being the director of S.U.Corporation Ltd. T/A Strictly Underground This privacy policy sets out how Strictly Underground uses and protects any information that you give strictly underground when you use this website. Strictly Underground is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. Strictly Underground may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 23 May 2018. What we collect We may collect the following information: name and job title contact information including email address demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers What we do with the information we gather We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons: Internal record keeping. We may use the information to improve our products and services. We may periodically send promotional emailsabout new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided. From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests. We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure,we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. How we use cookies A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. Links to other websites Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. Controlling your personal information You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways: whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at support@markryder.com We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to [address]. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

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Strictly Underground Records

Strictly Underground Records

Question & Answer

We are GDPR compliant and we do not share any information to third parties out side of the specific applications we require to run our web site. Please review our GDPR Privacy policy.

Bit rates range from 96 to 320 kilobytes per second (Kbps). Using a bit rate of 128 Kbps usually results in a sound quality equivalent to what you’d hear on the radio. Many music people use a bit rate of 160 Kbps or 128Kbps if they want the MP3 file to have the same sound quality as a CD.

All our Music is at 320kBPs Thats the highest quality possible and makes a massive difference in quality especially when use in clubs.

Due to the constraints of the internet and the file size of an album in wav format its was always going to be an impossible task that would grind our site to a halt, taking too long for people to get an album due to its massive file size.
We decided that the highest MP3 Format (320Kbps) was the best solution to keep high definition and the size of an album download reasonable.

Digital Downloads by their very nature are non refundable.

CD’s and Vinyl are all checked during manufacture so we are very confident of the quality as all are manufactured using stampers so a unique fault is near on impossible.

All sales are final and we do not refund for ‘change of mind’ or errors in ordering.

We would always replace an item that was found to be a manufactures fault although the cost to return any item would be the responsibility of the buyer until a fault is proven to be a manufacturing fault.
Due to the nature of what we sell we have never experienced a manufacturing fault once in production.

NO. We use Paypal and we only get your address and email which is used to create your download account You can change this information at any time by login into your account.

Please contact us using the contact page on the web site with all the information you have so we can look into it.

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Pre-Order it the number one way to be the first to get actual Albums that are currently in production as the lowest price.
all Albums in the Pre-Order section are almost ready to be released by purchasing them in advance of release you ensure that you will be getting those releases way before the general release. Only Albums that are in production already are listed which means they are very close to completion. Purchasing them early gives you the best price and supports their completion process. as soon as they are ready for review you will be the first to get them and that would normally be at leas a full month before anyone else.

They are my heroes, The late Steve Job’s was a driven,focused and demanding person striving to reach a place no one else could see, I associate with him in my own life struggles and I suppose he was a true icon for me. Apple provided me with the tools I needed to find my own place in this world doing what I love (making music) I would be nothing without those tools, Apple opened a world of possibilities to me after leaving school with nothing, I might have started making music on other equipment and software but to continue to make great music it helps when you have great tools (at least to make great music with ease) and that’s why I focus on Apple and the things they do and stand for.
I feel like one of the team even if only as an end user. They have helped me build my home and paid my wages through me using Apple products. Some people just see things, but I see the passion that goes into making great ‘things’ and I am thankful there are people that care enough about what they do so as to allow me to then use their creation to make my life better and easier. Yes I am a freaky loopy mad fan boy!

If i DJ or attend an event, I will make the information available on my website social media feeds.

Yes and no, you never can forget how low it’s taken you and it’s like a looming shadow always following you around , some days its like the sun is shining so bright i cannot see it and don’t even think of it but other days its right there following me. those days I avoid the possibilities of any dark clouds making it more visible.

NO very unlikely.
Please refer to my track on ‘UK Underground Anthems’ called ‘Fakers’
It amazes me that people do it, but they do. if you see these fakers tell them they need to get a life.
I mean, What kind of person would knowingly DJ as me, playing my music and taking credit and bookings knowing they are not me but DJing as DJ Mark Ryder or Marc Ryder,
Yes there is a demand for me to DJ and I don’t DJ and there is a demand for events to have Mark Ryder on the line up? It amazes me that some people are that desperate for the work and the rub they will fake it.
I know it helps that I don’t push my face into the world either so they can wing it a lot easier. call them out when you find them, only a faker would be using someone else’s notoriety to get bookings and girls ;).

I am not currently doing any DJ appearance. I find it difficult to be in the ‘business’ of music unless I am putting on the event myself and I do that for the music first rather than the money or the limelight. DJ’ing is a very ego driven job and I’m not really that good in those situations , it’s not that I don’t love the vibe and mixing to an audience it’s just I don’t enjoy the expectations of me, fame does not have the same positive effects on everyone and i am lucky as i do not need to work as a DJ for income so i will only do it for pleasure. currently I’m not considering any DJ sets anytime soon, but I never say never. if all the stars can aline at the right time…. who knows?

Please contact Me via Facebook or twitter. If you ask something that’s relevant to others it will find its way onto this page also.

Strictly Underground is my company. It has always been a very flexible setup but generally it’s just me. Over the years people have come and gone and mostly it’s other producers that I have had a work relationships with. During the hardcore years (90-94) there were at least 4 other producers that I regularly was working with as well as an office and two regular staff to do the office stuff, but generally it has always been a very flexible and unconditional set up. I prefer to not have an office as I have always worked from home, doing things whenever I feel the need to be working. There are always friends and people who can jump on board and help me if required, so sometimes it’s frantic and other times there is nothing to do.
Everyone is on a ‘pay as you go’ style arrangement so there are no business contracts just a ‘friendship first’ attitude, this has never let me (or those that I have work with) down and its something I very proud of.
Most artists or workers in the business of music are ripped off and that’s not what I am about, my friends will all stand by me.
I prefers to run everything myself. For me it’s all about the music first, the business of music, I keep down to a minimum by controlling everything himself. I have never strived to make tons money just to make the best music I can in the hope that it will be worth buying and supporting by those it makes happy. Having minimum overheads allows me to not have to make money to just pay wages or office rent, which means I am always able to make the music I love regardless of any financial need.

Strictly Underground is a Registered Trademark, so no one is allowed to use the name or logo without permission. Anyone else outside of Apple selling my music is doing it illegally.
Please tell us of any website doing so, as we can deal with them using a hammer drill and some thumbscrews.
We will provide you with the gruesome video for your help 😉

I prefer to just use my web site and Apple Music for global distribution as there is no way for me to know what is being sold by others so no one else has it.

Apple provides me with a simple solution where I can concentrate on music first and deal with the least amount of business suits and as I have a direct account with them I can see every say directly from within apples admin.

But buying directly from me here is always the best place as your directly supporting me.

You can buy and download my music from here and collect all the albums using my shop system and you will be supporting me directly.
You can also purchase the CD versions exclusively from my shop.

No.
My web store and Apple are the Exclusive distributors of Strictly Undergrounds Catalogue. I feel they represent the best and fairest way for me to get paid and for users to have engaging access to my musical adventures.

Dealing with just one company for global distribution allow’s me more time to be creative in music. I am not greedy and don’t feel putting my music everywhere is something I ever want to do.

My music is exclusively available on my own store and iTunes. buying for me gives you unique access to my music.

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