These terms apply when you use songsbrew.com (the "Site"), subscribe to the SongsBrew newsletter, have a reader account, comment, post in Community, or send us music. By using the Site you accept them. If you do not, please do not use it.
1.Who we are
SongsBrew is a music blog and weekly newsletter run by Hernas OÜ, Kentmanni 4, 10116 Tallinn, Estonia ("SongsBrew", "we", "us"). Registry code 14157586, VAT number EE101929365. Contact: [email protected]. How we handle personal data is described in the Privacy Policy.
2.Using the Site
You must be old enough to agree to these terms where you live, and at least 16. You agree not to:
- break the law or the rights of others;
- attack, overload or probe the Site, or try to reach areas you are not allowed in;
- use bots or scrapers to sign up, log in, comment or submit, or to copy the Site in bulk;
- send spam, malware or misleading content, or pretend to be someone else;
- harass, threaten or discriminate against others, or post hateful, violent or sexually explicit content.
4.Reader accounts
You log in with a link we email to you, or with your Apple or Google account. Anyone who can read your email, or use that account, can log in as you: keep them secure. You can ask us to delete your account at any time. We may suspend an account that breaks these terms.
6.Music submissions
This section applies when you send music or other material ("Submission") through the Submit Music form or by email.
- No promise. We choose what we feature, and we may not reply. We never charge for a feature or for a review, and we do not pay for features.
- Rights. You confirm that you made the Submission or have the right to send it, including the permission of anyone else who holds rights in it. The form asks you to confirm this; you may answer False, and our editors take your answer into account.
- Licence. You let SongsBrew use the Submission, for free and non-exclusively, to review it and, if we feature you, to publish, embed, excerpt, edit for length and share it, with your name, images and the text you supply, on the Site, in the newsletter and on our social media accounts. The licence lasts until you ask us to remove the Submission; we then take it off the Site and leave it out of future emails and posts.
- You keep ownership. You keep all rights in your music and material.
- AI use. We may use AI tools to help draft a feature text, as the Privacy Policy explains. A person reviews and edits it before it is published. We may feature or decline AI-made music and may label it.
- Removal. Email [email protected] to ask us to take a Submission down.
- If you are wrong. If your Submission infringes someone else's rights and we are claimed against, you will compensate us for the resulting loss to the extent the law allows.
7.Our content
The articles, design, logos and software of the Site belong to Hernas OÜ or our authors. You may read them, share links, and quote short extracts with credit and a link, but not copy whole articles, republish the newsletter or use our name and logo without permission. Music, artwork and quotations belong to their owners. If you own something we show and want it changed or removed, write to [email protected] with the link and what you own, and we will act without undue delay.
8.Links to other services
The Site links to and embeds other services, such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, SoundCloud and Bandcamp. Their content and terms are theirs, and we are not responsible for them.
Some posts link to products on Amazon. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases made through those links on the Site; it costs you nothing extra, and it does not decide what we write about. Posts with such links say so.
9.Sponsorships
Sponsored content and placements are clearly marked as "Sponsored". Sponsors do not control our editorial opinions.
10.Availability and changes
The Site is provided "as is". We may change, interrupt or stop any part of it, including the newsletter, accounts and comments, at any time.
11.Disclaimers
Articles are opinion and information, not professional advice. We do not guarantee that the Site is free of errors or interruptions. Nothing in these terms limits the rights you have as a consumer under mandatory law.
12.Liability
We are liable without limit for intent, gross negligence, death or personal injury, and anything the law does not allow us to limit. Otherwise, to the extent the law allows, we are liable only for foreseeable loss caused by our breach, and not for loss of profit, indirect loss or loss of data. Our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid SongsBrew in the 12 months before the claim, except where the law does not allow liability to be limited. We are not liable for content provided by others.
13.Ending your access
You can stop using the Site, unsubscribe or ask us to delete your account at any time. We may end your access, remove content and block you from commenting or submitting if you break these terms. Sections 6 (for material already featured), 7, 11, 12 and 14 continue after that.
14.Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by Estonian law. If you are a consumer in the EU or EEA, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of your country and can bring a claim in the courts where you live. Please write to us at [email protected] first so we can try to solve the problem. Consumers can also go to the Estonian Consumer Disputes Committee (www.ttja.ee) or the consumer dispute body in their own country. For business users, the courts of Tallinn have exclusive jurisdiction.
15.Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. We post the new version with a new date, and tell subscribers by email about material changes. If you keep using the Site after a change, you accept it.
16.Contact
Hernas OÜ, Kentmanni 4, 10116 Tallinn, Estonia. Email: [email protected].
5.Comments and Community