Legal
Terms of use
What you may do with the material here, what you may not, and who owns it. The short answer: link freely, quote the words, ask before using the music.
1. Agreement
By using elissadelacruz.com you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site. They are governed by the law of England and Wales.
2. Who operates this site
| Operator and rights holder | Ingvar Steinberg |
| hola@elissadelacruz.com |
This is a promotional site for a recording artist. Nothing is sold here, no account can be opened, and no service is provided beyond reading the pages and playing the music.
3. Ownership of the material
All material on this site is owned by Ingvar Steinberg or licensed to him. That includes, without limitation:
- the musical compositions and lyrics;
- the sound recordings, and the performances captured in them;
- the artwork, photography, typography and visual design;
- the written text, including biography, release notes and these documents;
- the source code, layout and structure of the site itself.
This material is protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and, internationally, by the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. Performers' rights in the recordings, and database rights in any compilation of material, are likewise reserved. The names Elissa de la Cruz and Ingvar Steinberg, and the associated logos and artwork, are used as trade marks whether or not they are registered.
All rights are reserved. Nothing on this site grants you a licence to use the material beyond what section 4 permits.
4. What you may do
- View the site and stream the audio for your own personal, non-commercial enjoyment.
- Link to any page. You do not need permission, and we would rather you linked than copied.
- Share those links on social media.
- Quote short passages of the written text for review, comment, news reporting, criticism, research or private study, with attribution to elissadelacruz.com — this is fair dealing under sections 29 and 30 of the 1988 Act, and we are happy to see it.
5. What you may not do
- Download, rip, record or otherwise copy the audio, or attempt to circumvent the measures that protect it.
- Reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publicly perform, rent or lend the recordings or compositions.
- Sample, remix, edit, or make an adaptation or derivative work.
- Use any recording in a video, film, advertisement, game, podcast or livestream — including social video — without a synchronisation licence.
- Reproduce the photography or artwork, or alter, crop or overlay it.
- Copy the site design or code, or present the material as your own.
- Use the site for anything unlawful, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to it, disrupt it, or place an unreasonable load on it.
Written permission is easy to obtain and is usually given for reasonable requests. Please ask first: hola@elissadelacruz.com.
6. Text and data mining, AI and answer engines
We take a deliberately split position here, and state it plainly so that automated systems and their operators can act on it.
- Written text — permitted. Search engines, answer engines and AI assistants may read, index, summarise and quote the written content of this site, provided the artist is identified and elissadelacruz.com is cited as the source. The machine-readable summary at /llms.txt exists for exactly this purpose, and our robots.txt welcomes those crawlers by name.
- Recordings, compositions, photography and artwork — reserved. No permission is given to reproduce, ingest or use these for text and data mining, machine learning, or the training, fine-tuning or evaluation of any AI model or generative system. This is an express reservation of rights for the purposes of section 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and any equivalent provision in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.
Permission for the first does not imply permission for the second.
7. Press and promotional use
Press, promoters and venues may use the artist name, biography and the photographs published on this site for the purpose of announcing or reviewing a release or performance, provided the material is not altered and the photographer credit is retained. For anything beyond that, or for higher-resolution files, write to hola@elissadelacruz.com.
8. Licensing enquiries
This section is the licensing point of contact for everything published on this site, including the photographs. Synchronisation, mechanical, performance, image and sample-clearance enquiries all go to hola@elissadelacruz.com. Say what you want to use, where it will appear, for how long and in which territories, and you will get a straight answer.
9. Writing to us
The contact form sends your message to our inbox and nowhere else. Send only what is necessary, and nothing confidential. The privacy page describes plainly what happens to it, which is very little.
Unsolicited creative material — demos, lyrics, ideas, tracks — cannot be considered. By sending it you accept that no confidence arises, that no obligation is created, and that any resemblance to work released later is coincidental.
10. Availability and accuracy
The site is provided as it is. We aim to keep it accurate and available but do not promise that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of anything harmful. Release dates, formats and availability may change. We may alter or withdraw any part of the site at any time without notice.
11. Links to other sites
Links to streaming platforms and other services are offered for convenience. We do not control those services and are not responsible for their content, their availability, or what they do once you arrive there.
12. Liability
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. If you use this site as a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.
Subject to that, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of data, or loss arising from your reliance on anything published here.
13. If part of these terms fails
If any provision is found to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
14. Governing law
These terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the UK or in the EU, you keep the benefit of any mandatory protection of your own country's law, and may bring proceedings there.
15. Changes
These terms may be updated. The version and date at the top of this page always show which set is current, and continuing to use the site means accepting the version then published.
16. Contact
Site, photography, artwork, compositions and sound recordings © Ingvar Steinberg 2024–2026. Used on this site under licence.