Terms of Use

The First Nations Composers Initiative (FNCI) website is provided by the American Composers Forum (ACF), a Minnesota non-profit corporation, as a service to its members. If you choose to use this website or any services provided through this website, you agree that these terms apply to your use.

In order to be listed in the online directory of FNCI members which appears on this website, you must be an FNCI member. To join, you must complete the registration process by providing us with information as prompted by the registration forms provided on this website or via email, surface mail, or fax. You agree that the information you are providing us is accurate as of the time you enter it. You also agree to tell us if your information should change. As part of this process you will obtain a user ID for this website and choose a password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your user ID and password, and you agree that you are responsible for what might happen if another person should use your user ID.

Both you and FNCI and ACF have the right to terminate your membership and/or user account at any time, with or without reason. If FNCI and ACF wishes to terminate your user account, FNCI will attempt once to send email to your last-known email address, advising you of the termination. If you wish to terminate your user account, you agree to send email or some other written notice to FNCI, using the then current contact information listed on the FNCI website.

From time to time, ACF is asked to provide member names and contact information to organizations which promote opportunities for composers. Unless you have specifically authorized FNCI to do so for this purpose, your contact information will not be given to any such organization. Whatever contact information that you include in your online listing on this website will be visible to anyone who views this website.

This website contains links to third party websites. The websites to which this website is linked are not under the control of FNCI, and FNCI is not responsible for the contents of the linked sites.

This website includes statements or other content of third parties. FNCI is not responsible for screening, monitoring, or verifying such content, including with respect to such content's accuracy, reliability, or compliance with copyright and other laws. FNCI reserves the right, but does not have the obligation, to edit or remove any material from the site at any time. Statements of a controversial or political nature are not representative of FNCI management or personnel.

This website provides contact information concerning particular artists, and those artists may offer to sell you goods or services. Any dealings you have with these artists are solely between you and the artist; FNCI does not have any responsibility for the results you may obtain from your dealings with the artists.

As an artist or organization registering with this website, you agree that you will not use this website to post or display any material that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable to a reasonable person.

By posting textual information to this website, you are permitting FNCI to use your information in activities related to this website.

Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 5121(c)(2), notifications of claimed copyright infringement for any materials posted or displayed on this website should be in writing, comply with the terms set forth in the statute, and sent exclusively to the FNCI designated agent:

Georgia Wettlin-Larsen -Program Director First Nations Composer Initiative
American Composers Forum
332 Minnesota Street, E-145
St. Paul, MN 55101