DropVantage Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern access to and use of DropVantage™, dropvantage.com, and related applications, pages, features, content, and services (collectively, the “Service”). The Service is operated by Michael Alan Cotton II (“DropVantage,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

By creating an account, clicking an acceptance control, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Public beta

DropVantage is offered as a controlled public beta. Features may be incomplete, changed, limited, suspended, or removed. The Service may experience interruptions, data migration, and maintenance. We do not promise a service-level agreement unless a separate written agreement expressly states one.

We may limit beta enrollment, storage, uploads, releases, integrations, requests, or usage to protect reliability and users.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter a binding contract. If you use the Service for a company, label, artist, team, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it and that “you” includes that organization.

You may not use the Service if you are prohibited from receiving it under applicable law or sanctions restrictions.

3. Accounts and security

You must provide accurate information and keep it current. You are responsible for activity under your account and for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, devices, recovery email, and connected-service credentials.

Do not share accounts, bypass access controls, expose access tokens, or permit unauthorized access. Notify support@dropvantage.com promptly if you suspect compromise.

We may require email confirmation, reauthentication, multi-factor authentication, or other security steps.

4. What DropVantage provides

DropVantage helps independent artists organize music-release information and create campaign planning, content direction, rollout strategies, readiness checks, and marketing guidance. Depending on the active features, the Service may support release workspaces, private assets, public-safe assets, smart-link or fan pages, read-only provider connections, billing, analytics, and automated recommendations.

DropVantage is not a record label, distributor, publisher, performing-rights organization, attorney, accountant, investment adviser, advertising agency, or guarantee of commercial success. Unless a separate written agreement says otherwise, DropVantage does not distribute your music, register copyrights, collect royalties, clear samples, negotiate licenses, manage rights, or act as your agent.

5. Recommendations and automated outputs

Campaign plans, scores, audience suggestions, hook suggestions, budget guidance, captions, timelines, and other outputs are informational tools. They may be incomplete, inaccurate, unsuitable, or based on limited information. You are responsible for reviewing outputs and deciding whether and how to use them.

Nothing in the Service is legal, financial, tax, accounting, investment, medical, or professional advice. Advertising results, streaming performance, audience growth, revenue, playlist placement, or platform approval are not guaranteed.

6. Your content and ownership

“User Content” includes audio, recordings, compositions, lyrics, artwork, images, videos, names, logos, metadata, links, release information, campaign information, fan data, messages, and other material you submit or direct us to process.

You retain ownership of your User Content. You grant DropVantage a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, format, transmit, analyze, and display User Content only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, support, and improve the Service and to carry out your instructions. This license ends when the content is deleted from active systems, subject to backup cycles, legal retention, and rights that must continue to complete an authorized transaction or resolve a dispute.

Private master audio is intended to remain private. We will not make it public merely because it was uploaded. Public display requires your selection of a public page or public-safe asset, subject to the product controls then available.

7. Your rights and responsibilities for content

You represent and warrant that:

• you own or have all rights, licenses, permissions, and consents needed for User Content and its intended use;
• your use does not infringe copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy, contract, or other rights;
• all samples, beats, artwork, performances, features, photographs, videos, and third-party material are properly cleared;
• release, audience, and campaign information you provide is not deceptive or unlawful;
• you will not upload malware, stolen content, unlawful recordings, or content that exploits or endangers another person.

You remain responsible for registrations, clearances, splits, licenses, notices, releases, and payments owed to collaborators or rights holders.

8. Public pages and fan data

When you publish a page or asset, you direct us to make the selected information public. Public information may be copied, cached, indexed, embedded, or shared by others. Do not publish private, confidential, infringing, or unsafe information.

If you collect fan information, you must provide required disclosures and consent, honor unsubscribe and privacy requests, use the information lawfully, and maintain an appropriate privacy policy. You may not buy, sell, scrape, or misuse fan data, send unlawful spam, or use deceptive forms. DropVantage may disable fan collection to prevent harm or legal exposure.

9. Connected services

You may connect Meta, Spotify, or other supported services. You authorize DropVantage to access only the information and permissions shown during connection. Current Meta and Spotify functionality is read-only; no campaign activation, budget mutation, ad creation, or spending is enabled.

Third-party services control their own platforms, permissions, outages, policies, content decisions, fees, and data. DropVantage is not affiliated with or endorsed by those services unless expressly stated. We are not responsible for a third party’s actions or availability.

You must comply with every connected service’s terms and policies. You may disconnect a provider, but you may also need to revoke access directly through that provider.

10. Acceptable use

You may not:

• violate law or another person’s rights;
• upload infringing, fraudulent, defamatory, abusive, exploitative, or unlawful content;
• impersonate another person or misrepresent authority, affiliation, audience, performance, or rights;
• scrape, harvest, sell, or misuse personal information;
• send spam or unlawful marketing;
• attempt to access another user’s account, content, tokens, or data;
• bypass rate limits, storage limits, paywalls, security controls, or private-asset restrictions;
• probe, scan, reverse engineer, disrupt, overload, or introduce malicious code, except to the limited extent a law prohibits restricting reverse engineering;
• use automated methods that create unreasonable load or abuse;
• use the Service to create or operate deceptive advertising, fake engagement, stream manipulation, or platform-policy violations;
• expose secrets, passwords, access tokens, or payment credentials in uploads or support requests;
• resell or white-label the Service without written permission.

11. Copyright and rights complaints

We respect intellectual-property rights. Send a detailed rights complaint to support@dropvantage.com with the subject “Copyright Complaint.” Include identification of the work, the allegedly infringing material and location, your contact information, a good-faith statement, an accuracy and authority statement, and a physical or electronic signature.

We may remove or restrict material, notify the user, preserve records, and terminate repeat infringers. Submission of a false complaint may create liability. Before relying on a formal DMCA safe-harbor process, DropVantage should register and maintain a designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office.

12. Plans, billing, and taxes

Some features may be free, limited, trial-based, or paid. The price, billing period, included usage, and renewal terms shown at checkout are part of these Terms.

Where recurring billing is offered, you authorize the payment processor to charge the payment method on file until cancellation. You are responsible for applicable taxes, except taxes on our income. We may change prices prospectively with legally required notice.

Unless the checkout terms or applicable law say otherwise, fees are nonrefundable once a billing period begins. Canceling stops future renewal but does not automatically delete the account or content. Billing disputes should be reported promptly.

13. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. Account deletion is described at /account-deletion.

We may suspend, limit, or terminate access when reasonably necessary to address nonpayment, security risk, abuse, infringement, legal requirements, prohibited conduct, platform risk, or harm to users or the Service. Where appropriate, we will provide notice and an opportunity to export content, but urgent action may occur without advance notice.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including ownership, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, and dispute terms.

14. DropVantage intellectual property

The Service, software, interfaces, designs, branding, documentation, and original content are owned by DropVantage or its licensors and are protected by law. These Terms grant a limited, revocable, nontransferable right to use the Service for its intended purpose. No other license is granted.

“DropVantage,” its marks, logos, and visual identity may not be used without permission. Third-party marks belong to their owners.

15. Feedback

If you provide ideas or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use them without restriction or compensation, provided we do not publicly identify you as the source without permission.

16. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how personal information is handled. By using the Service, you acknowledge that processing described in that Policy.

17. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” DROPVANTAGE DISCLAIMS WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, AND RESULTS.

We do not warrant uninterrupted operation, error-free outputs, permanent availability of beta features, compatibility with every file or provider, or that any recommendation will achieve a particular result.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so some of these terms may not apply to you.

18. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DROPVANTAGE AND ITS OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AFFILIATES, AND PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OPPORTUNITIES, STREAMS, AUDIENCE, OR AD SPEND; OR UNAUTHORIZED THIRD-PARTY ACTIONS.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING FROM THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID DROPVANTAGE DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY OR (B) 100 U.S. DOLLARS.

These limits do not apply where prohibited by law or to liability that cannot legally be limited.

19. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless DropVantage and its owners, personnel, affiliates, and providers from claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable expenses arising from your User Content, infringement, unlawful marketing, fan-data practices, breach of these Terms, or misuse of the Service.

20. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by California law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to any rights you cannot waive, courts located in Alameda County, California will have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes.

This draft intentionally does not include a mandatory arbitration or class-action waiver. Those provisions should not be added without review by qualified counsel and a deliberate founder decision.

21. Changes to the Service or Terms

We may change the Service or these Terms. Updated Terms will be posted with a new effective date, and material changes will receive additional notice when required. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.

22. General terms

If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions will continue. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization or transfer of the Service. These Terms and incorporated policies are the entire agreement regarding the Service unless a separate signed agreement applies.

23. Contact

Operator: Michael Alan Cotton II Email: support@dropvantage.com Mailing address: 5387 Bancroft Avenue, Oakland, California 94601, United States