Terms of Service

1. The Agreement and Who We Are

BeatAdvisor is a marketplace where listeners purchase music-listening services from independent artists. Beat Advisor LLC is the intended future operator, but it has not yet been formed. In these draft terms, ‘BeatAdvisor,’ ‘we,’ and ‘us’ refer to the operator that must be identified in the final published agreement, and ‘you’ means the account holder or the organization they are authorized to represent. The final operator identity, business address, and effective date remain pending. This review draft is not a representation that Beat Advisor LLC exists or that an agreement has taken effect.

The final Terms of Service, the Refund and Cancellation Policy, and the Acceptable Use Policy govern use of the service. Artist Terms additionally govern advisors. The Privacy Policy explains personal-data handling; accepting service terms is not blanket consent to optional processing. An order’s disclosed service, price, and deadline govern that order. Mandatory legal rights prevail over every policy.

2. Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 18 and legally able to enter a binding contract where you live. Do not create an account for a minor or use another person’s identity. If you act for a company, label, or other organization, you must have authority to bind it and submit its material.

Provide accurate information, keep your contact details current, protect your sign-in credentials, and promptly report suspected unauthorized use. You are responsible for activity you authorize, not automatically for every unauthorized transaction. Accounts are personal and may not be sold, shared to evade restrictions, or transferred without approval.

BeatAdvisor intends to allow account access and purchases internationally where legally and technically available, rather than limiting listeners to the United States. Services and artist payouts can still be unavailable in particular places because of law, sanctions, payment-provider support, or other stated restrictions. English-language support and USD prices do not override local rights or guarantee that every person can transact. Do not bypass applicable account or payment restrictions.

3. What You Are Buying

Detailed feedback includes the selected artist’s written feedback on one submitted track, with at least three meaningful timestamped comments. It does not include production, mixing, mastering, a live consultation, revisions, or ongoing mentoring unless expressly included in the order.

Just a listen includes a full listen, the artist’s decision, and a short personal written response. It does not include the Detailed feedback service. An unfavorable decision can still be a completed service.

You purchase the stated service, not praise, an endorsement, a repost, playlist inclusion, airplay, signing, a collaboration, a release, commercial success, or a response from a third party. Feedback reflects an artist’s judgment and may be critical or unsuitable for your goals. You decide whether and how to use it.

Artists are independent providers, not employees or agents authorized to bind BeatAdvisor. A verification badge means an application has been reviewed and approved for participation; it is not a guarantee of identity, credentials, quality, suitability, or future conduct. This description does not exclude any responsibility the law places on BeatAdvisor as a platform or contracting party.

4. Prices, Payment, and Delivery

Review the artist’s price, listener service fee, currency, and total before confirming checkout. Prices are in U.S. dollars unless expressly stated otherwise. Your bank may impose conversion or other fees that BeatAdvisor does not control. Any taxes collected at checkout must be disclosed there; taxes otherwise owed depend on applicable law.

Stripe processes payments. Checkout ordinarily authorizes a temporary hold, and capture occurs when the artist completes the required service. The deadline shown on the order may be shorter than seven days because card authorizations expire. We do not guarantee that every card or payment attempt will be accepted.

The Refund and Cancellation Policy explains cancellation before work starts, missed deadlines, service problems, and statutory withdrawal rights. A pending bank hold is not necessarily a settled charge. Technical or payment uncertainty may require review; do not place another order solely because confirmation is delayed.

5. Your Music and Other Content

You retain ownership of your recordings, compositions, lyrics, artwork, and other submitted material. Uploading does not transfer your copyright, publishing rights, master rights, royalties, or ownership of your ideas to BeatAdvisor or an artist.

You grant BeatAdvisor a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, copy, process, transmit, and display your content only as reasonably needed to provide the service, make technical playback copies and waveforms, share it with your chosen advisor, provide support, enforce these policies, and preserve legally required records. Service providers may exercise that license only for those purposes. Public profile content and reviews may be displayed as part of the marketplace; uploaded tracks are not automatically public promotional assets.

This license does not permit selling your music, commercially releasing it, using it in advertising, or training general-purpose AI models on it without separate permission. Artists receive only the access and permission needed to fulfill the order. Deleting material ends future service use except for retained order history, lawful recordkeeping, and copies awaiting ordinary backup deletion as described in the Privacy Policy.

You must own the material or have all necessary permissions, including for samples, beats, co-writers, performers, images, and personal information. Merely buying a beat or crediting its creator may not grant every required right. Do not submit content subject to restrictions that prevent this review workflow. Keep your own backups: BeatAdvisor is not an archival or high-security prerelease-storage service.

6. Feedback, Reviews, and Publicity

Artists retain rights in their original feedback but license the purchasing listener to retain it and apply its suggestions to their own music, including commercial releases, without an additional feedback royalty. That license does not clear third-party samples or compositions and does not permit claiming the artist endorses a release. An artist’s name, likeness, private response, or recording may not be used in advertising without separate permission.

You retain ownership of your review and grant a non-exclusive license to display it with its rating and permitted attribution in the marketplace and relevant order history. Honest criticism is welcome. We do not penalize negative opinions, require favorable reviews, or require you to transfer ownership of a review. Content moderation addresses policy violations, not simply an unfavorable rating.

7. Safety, Suspension, and Closing an Account

We may restrict content, purchasing, or account access when reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, infringement, safety concerns, payment problems, legal obligations, or material policy breaches. Where appropriate and lawful, we will explain the action and provide a way to ask support to review it. Urgent protective action may occur without advance notice.

Closing or suspending an account does not automatically forfeit valid refunds or earned, undisputed artist payments. Open orders and payment obligations must be resolved, and legally necessary records may remain. Some deletion actions are unavailable while an order or checkout is active; contact support for help.

8. Changes or Discontinuation of the Service

We may change, suspend, or discontinue features or the service itself. If we plan to shut down the service, we will give reasonable advance notice where practical and legally required, and explain any available way to retrieve uploaded tracks or delivered feedback before access ends. Urgent security, legal, or provider-related circumstances may require action without advance notice. Keep your own copies of music and feedback; we do not promise permanent hosting or that every item can be recovered after access ends.

Discontinuing the service does not cancel a valid refund, earned and undisputed artist payment, or any other obligation or remedy that survives under applicable law. We will stop accepting new orders and take reasonable steps to resolve outstanding orders and payments as part of an orderly shutdown.

9. Service Limitations

To the extent permitted by law, the platform is provided as available without implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement beyond those that cannot lawfully be excluded. We do not promise uninterrupted access, error-free operation, permanent storage, or that advice will produce a particular result. These limitations do not excuse failure to provide a paid service as described or remove statutory service-quality guarantees.

Internet transmission and storage carry risks. Access controls do not prevent every leak, copying, or misuse. Playback links can confer access on someone who obtains them; do not share those links or upload material requiring stronger confidentiality safeguards than this service provides. Third-party websites and services have their own terms and privacy practices.

10. Allocation of Liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, BeatAdvisor is not liable for indirect, special, incidental, or consequential losses, including lost commercial opportunities, profits, or anticipated career benefits. To that same extent, BeatAdvisor’s aggregate liability arising from the service is limited to the greater of USD 100 or the amounts you paid to BeatAdvisor during the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

These exclusions and the cap do not limit valid refund obligations, earned and undisputed artist payments, fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability or remedy that cannot legally be limited. For consumers, mandatory protections and remedies under applicable law take priority, and an exclusion applies only where it is lawful and fair.

If you use BeatAdvisor for business purposes, you agree, to the extent allowed by law, to indemnify BeatAdvisor against reasonable third-party claim costs caused by your infringement, unlawful conduct, or material breach of these terms. This does not cover loss caused by BeatAdvisor’s own wrongdoing. We must promptly notify you, allow reasonable participation in the defense, and obtain your consent before a settlement imposes non-monetary obligations or an admission on you. Consumers do not provide this business indemnity.

11. Questions and Disputes

Contact support@beatadvisor.com with the order number and a description of the issue so we can try to resolve it. Informal support is encouraged, not a prerequisite that prevents urgent court relief, a regulator complaint, a lawful payment dispute, or another non-waivable remedy.

This draft does not impose mandatory arbitration, a class-action waiver, or an exclusive court location. Governing-law and venue provisions must be reviewed after the operator is formed and the international service scope is assessed. Nothing here removes a consumer’s mandatory home-country protections or right to use a court available under applicable law.

12. Changes and General Provisions

Material changes will be identified with a new version and effective date and communicated as required by law; renewed agreement will be requested where required. We will not retroactively change a purchased service, its price, or an accrued claim by silently replacing this page. Keep a copy of the version that applies to your order.

If a provision is unenforceable, it is limited or severed only to the extent permitted by law, without removing mandatory rights. Failure to enforce a provision immediately is not a waiver. Sections that by their nature must continue, including accrued payments, retained-content permissions, and lawful liability provisions, survive account closure. Notices and legal questions may be sent to support@beatadvisor.com.