Effective as of: August 5, 2025

Hello! Welcome to the BrandStake User Guidelines ("User Guidelines") which apply when using BrandStake's websites, applications and services that reference these User Guidelines (the "Services") including accessing any type of material or content made available through those Services ("Content"). These User Guidelines are designed to ensure the Services stay enjoyable for everyone. In addition to these User Guidelines, content must adhere to the BrandStake Platform Rules ("Platform Rules").

We may update these User Guidelines and the Platform Rules from time to time - you can find the latest version on our website.

Violating the User Guidelines or Platform Rules may result in removal of any content or material you've contributed to the Services and/or termination or suspension of your account. We try to make the Services broadly available to everyone, but you cannot use our Services if we've previously terminated your account on any of our Services. We also prohibit attempts to circumvent prior enforcement actions, including through the creation of new accounts.

The following is not permitted for any reason whatsoever in relation to the Services and the material or content made available through the Services, or any part thereof:

  1. reverse-engineering, decompiling, disassembling, modifying, or creating derivative works, except where such restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law. If applicable law allows you to decompile any part of the Services or Content where required in order to obtain the information necessary to create an independent program that can be operated with the Services or with another program, the information you obtain from such activities (a) may only be used for the foregoing objective, (b) may not be disclosed or communicated without BrandStake's prior written consent to any third party to whom it is not necessary to disclose or communicate in order to achieve that objective, and (c) may not be used to create any software or service that is substantially similar in its expression to any part of the Services or the Content;
  2. copying, reproducing, redistributing, "ripping," recording, transferring, performing, framing, linking to or displaying to the public, broadcasting, or making available to the public, or any other use which is not expressly permitted under the Agreements or applicable law, or which otherwise infringes intellectual property rights;
  3. importing or copying any local files that you do not have the legal right to import or copy in this way;
  4. transferring copies of cached Content from an authorized Device to any other Device via any means;
  5. "crawling" or "scraping", whether manually or by automated means, or otherwise using any automated means (including bots, scrapers, and spiders), to view, access or collect information, or using any part of the Services or Content to train a machine learning or AI model or otherwise ingesting BrandStake Content into a machine learning or AI model;
  6. selling, renting, sublicensing, leasing or other monetization except as expressly permitted under the Agreements;
  7. selling a user account or playlist, or otherwise accepting or offering to accept any compensation, financial or otherwise, to influence the name of an account or playlist or the content included on an account or playlist; or
  8. artificially increasing play counts or follow counts, artificially promoting Content, or other manipulation including by (i) using any bot, script or other automated process, (ii) providing or accepting any form of compensation (financial or otherwise), or (iii) any other means;
  9. circumventing any technology used by BrandStake, its licensors, or any third party, including any territorial or other content access restrictions applied by BrandStake or its licensors;
  10. circumventing or blocking advertisements or creating or distributing tools designed to block advertisements;
  11. removing or altering any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property notices (including for the purpose of disguising or changing any indications of ownership or source);
  12. deleting or altering any part of the Services or Content except as expressly permitted under the Agreements or, in the case of Content made available by another user, with such user's express consent; or
  13. providing your password to any other person or using any other person's username and password.

Please respect BrandStake, the owners of the material and content on the Services, and other users of the Services. Don't engage in any activity, post any User Content, or register or use a username, which is or includes material that:

  1. is illegal, or intended to promote or commit an illegal act of any kind, including violations of intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or proprietary rights of BrandStake or a third party, or would violate any agreement to which you are a party, such as, by way of example and not limitation, an exclusive recording agreement or publishing agreement;