Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using Spinshare, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the service. We may update these Terms from time to time as set out in Section 14. Material changes will be communicated to you in advance, and where required by law, your continued use after the effective date will not be treated as acceptance unless you have been notified and given the opportunity to object.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction) to use Spinshare. By using the service, you represent that you meet this requirement and that your use of the service complies with all applicable laws, including export controls and sanctions.

3. Accounts

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for all activity under your account. You agree to provide accurate information when registering and to keep it up to date. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or that we reasonably suspect of fraud, abuse, or misrepresentation.

4. The Service

Spinshare provides tools for two roles:

• Producers— create a public profile, publish drops, and earn money from paid subscriptions and one-time unlocks.
• Subscribers— follow producers, subscribe to producer pages, and access drops the producer has published.

We may add, remove, or change features at any time. Some features may be available only on certain subscription tiers (such as Spinshare Pro). Changes that materially reduce paid functionality will be communicated in advance and, where required by law, will give affected users a right to terminate.

5. Your Content

Producers retain full ownership of the content they publish through Spinshare. We do not claim a copyright or license that lets us sell, sublicense, or repackage your work outside of the service.

You grant Spinshare a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, display, and transmit your content solely as needed to operate the service. This includes showing your profile, delivering files to entitled subscribers, presenting metadata in dashboards, and serving cached previews. The license ends when you remove the content, except to the extent we need to retain it to fulfil obligations to existing subscribers for periods they have already paid for.

You represent and warrant that you own or have all necessary rights to publish the content you upload, and that the content does not infringe third-party intellectual property, publicity, privacy, personality, or other rights.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use Spinshare to:

• Publish content you do not own or have rights to distribute, including unlicensed samples, copyrighted recordings, or works subject to third-party royalties you have not cleared.
• Distribute malware, illegal content, content that incites violence, sexually explicit content involving minors, or content that violates applicable law.
• Misrepresent your identity, impersonate another person or artist, or set up accounts for fraudulent purposes.
• Attempt to bypass payment, access controls, rate limits, or any technical measures designed to protect the service or other users.
• Scrape, mass-download, or redistribute other producers’ drops outside the access granted by your subscription or unlock.
• Use the service to harass, threaten, or defame any person.

Violations may result in suspension or termination of your account, removal of content, and forfeiture of any undistributed earnings tied to the violating activity.

7. Subscriptions and Payments

Spinshare offers free producer accounts and a paid Spinshare Pro subscription. Subscribers pay producers directly through producer-page subscriptions and one-time drop unlocks. Payments are processed by Stripe Payments Europe, Limited (Ireland) and, where applicable, by Stripe Connect for producer payouts. By using paid features, you also agree to Stripe’s applicable terms.

Platform fee. Free-tier producers pay a platform fee on revenue generated through Spinshare. Spinshare Pro producers keep 100% of their revenue. Current fee percentages are disclosed in the dashboard and on the marketing site, and may be updated from time to time. Material changes will be communicated in advance and will not apply retroactively to revenue already earned.

Pro subscription. Spinshare Pro renews on the cadence selected at checkout (monthly unless stated otherwise) until cancelled. You can cancel any time from your dashboard; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period and prevents future renewals. Pro features remain active until the period ends.

Payouts. Producer earnings are disbursed through Stripe Connect on the schedule and currency supported by Stripe. Spinshare is not responsible for delays caused by the payment provider, banking partners, or compliance review. Producers are responsible for any taxes due on the income they earn through Spinshare and for providing accurate identity, banking, and tax information to Stripe.

Invoices. Where required, invoices for Spinshare Pro and any platform fees are issued through Stripe.

TODO: confirm German VAT treatment, cross-border digital services handling (OSS), and gross/net display rules. Add a clause stating whether prices are shown gross or net and how invoices are delivered.

8. Cancellation and Refunds

You can cancel Spinshare Pro and any producer subscription at any time from your dashboard. Access continues until the end of the period you have already paid for, then reverts to the Free plan (for Pro) or ends (for producer subscriptions).

Drops and Pro features are digital services delivered immediately upon payment. Where you expressly request immediate performance and acknowledge that you lose your statutory 14-day right of withdrawal, services already rendered are non-refundable. We may grant refunds on a discretionary basis in cases of demonstrable error, duplicate charges, or fraud. Mandatory consumer protection rights under EU and German law remain unaffected. For the full policy and how to request a refund, see Cancellation & Refunds.

9. Spinshare Intellectual Property

The Spinshare name, logo, software, design, and platform are owned by WantedAudio GmbH i.G. and protected by intellectual property laws. These Terms grant you a limited, non-transferable license to use the service for its intended purpose. You may not copy, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative works of the Spinshare platform itself except to the extent permitted by mandatory law.

10. Copyright Complaints

If you believe that content on Spinshare infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, please send a notice to support@spinshare.pro with the subject line “IP Complaint”. Include your contact details, identification of the work, the URL of the allegedly infringing material, and a statement made in good faith that the use is not authorised. We will review valid notices promptly and may remove or disable access to the content. Repeat infringers may have their accounts suspended or terminated.

11. Termination

You may delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms or for any reason where continued service would be unlawful or commercially impractical. Upon termination, your right to use the service ends. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including content licenses needed to serve subscribers for the period they have already paid for, payment obligations, and disclaimers.

12. Availability of the Service

We aim to keep the service available, but we do not promise uninterrupted operation. Maintenance, updates, technical faults, or events beyond our reasonable control (including outages of third-party hosting, payment, or storage providers) may temporarily limit access. Statutory warranty rights of consumers remain unaffected.

13. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

For consumers, we are liable without limitation for damages arising from injury to life, body, or health caused by us or our legal representatives or vicarious agents, for damages caused intentionally or by gross negligence, and where mandatory law (such as the German Product Liability Act) requires.

For damages caused by simple negligence, we are liable only for the breach of a material contractual obligation (an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible at all and on whose compliance you may regularly rely). In such cases, our liability is limited to typical, foreseeable damages.

Any further liability is excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law. The above limitations also apply to claims for breach of pre-contractual duties (culpa in contrahendo) and tort.

For business users (Unternehmer), our aggregate liability under or in connection with the service is, to the extent permitted by law, limited to the fees you paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim, with a minimum of one hundred euro (€100).

14. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms when needed (for example, to reflect new features, legal changes, or operational requirements). When we make material changes, we will:

• Update the “Last updated” date at the top.
• Notify you at least 30 days in advance of the effective date, in the app or by email, where we have an email on file.
• Where required by law, ask you to actively re-accept the new Terms before continuing to use paid features.

If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you may terminate your account before the effective date. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance only to the extent permitted by law.

15. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding its conflict-of-laws principles and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

If you act as a consumer (Verbraucher) within the meaning of § 13 BGB, the choice of German law does not deprive you of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you have your habitual residence (Art. 6 (2) Rome I Regulation). You may bring claims before the courts of your habitual residence to the extent provided by mandatory consumer protection law.

If you act as a merchant (Kaufmann), legal entity under public law, or special public-law fund, the place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from or in connection with these Terms is the registered seat of WantedAudio GmbH i.G. in Germany. We remain entitled to bring proceedings at your general place of jurisdiction.

16. EU Online Dispute Resolution

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution available at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not obliged and not generally willing to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration body.

17. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force. The invalid or unenforceable provision will be replaced by a valid provision that comes closest to the economic purpose of the original provision, to the extent permitted by law.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Reach us at support@spinshare.pro. For provider details, see our Legal Notice.