Terms of Use.

Track Verdict is a music-listening service built around anonymous excerpts, blind jury scoring, artist account tools, ranked tastemaker participation, public listening, and earned verdict signals. You may need an account to submit music, rate a track, manage a library, or use paid account features.

We may change, pause, or improve parts of the service as the product evolves. We will not describe an unannounced feature, availability commitment, or service level as guaranteed in this draft.

[TO COMPLETE] Identify the legal entity operating Track Verdict, effective date, contact method for formal notice, geographic availability, and any eligibility or age terms that counsel recommends.

Keep account information accurate, protect your sign-in credentials, and use your own account. Do not sell, transfer, automate, or share access in a way that bypasses product limits, verification, queue rules, or integrity controls.

Access to vote is sign-in required. Public visitors may be able to listen to selected anonymous excerpts without creating an account, but public listening does not create a right to rate, view private artist labels, or access jury tools.

When you upload music, you confirm that you have the rights and permissions needed to submit it and to allow Track Verdict to process it for the service. Artists may add private titles or labels for their own library; those fields are not part of the blind-jury presentation.

Uploads are used to create and deliver anonymous listening experiences, perform quality and safety checks, administer the jury record, investigate reports, and operate the account features you choose. Keep your own master backup: Track Verdict is not a backup or archival-storage service.

Archive Year is a paid record-preservation option for an eligible locked verdict. It is a product feature, not an ownership transfer, a guarantee of permanent storage, or a promise that a verdict will remain visible in every circumstance.

Ratings, written feedback, ranking position, score, Certified status, and other jury signals reflect subjective listener opinions and product rules. They are not professional advice, endorsements, appraisals, or guarantees of artistic quality, future opportunities, market acceptance, monetary value, or resale price.

Track Verdict may use integrity and moderation controls to determine whether a rating is eligible for a verdict, ranking, or seal. We may withhold, remove, recalculate, or decline to display content or signals when product rules, moderation decisions, integrity review, technical limits, or rights concerns require it.

Certified is an earned product signal under the published product rules. It cannot be purchased, promised, negotiated, or treated as a guarantee of value or resale price.

Paid plans, boosts, and Archive Year options are presented through Track Verdict but checkout is handled through a third-party platform checkout flow. The checkout provider may present its own transaction terms, privacy information, receipts, taxes, and payment methods.

Payment does not affect blind score calculation, rating eligibility, ranking fairness, or Certified eligibility. Product-specific cancellations, access periods, and refund rules must be reviewed against the actual checkout configuration before publication.

[TO COMPLETE] Confirm the checkout provider’s legal identity, payment/refund terms, taxes, subscriptions, cancellation procedure, chargeback process, and any required links or disclosures.

We may review and act on reports involving copyright, privacy, impersonation, illegal content, abusive behavior, technical abuse, or other rule violations. Actions can include review, restriction, removal, account limits, or other proportionate service actions. A report does not guarantee a particular outcome.

Use the report intake for rights, privacy, safety, or abuse concerns. Do not include passwords, payment data, or unnecessary sensitive information in a report.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the service and its content would be provided on an “as available” basis. Listening data, scores, rankings, feedback, seals, and public availability may change and are not guaranteed to be error-free, uninterrupted, or suitable for a particular purpose.

This draft is not a completed limitation-of-liability clause. Any limitations, exclusions, indemnity, dispute-resolution, arbitration, class-action, governing-law, venue, and severability language must be written and approved by counsel for the applicable business and jurisdiction.

[TO COMPLETE] Attorney to draft and approve limitation-of-liability, indemnity, dispute resolution, governing law, venue, notices, severability, assignment, and changes-to-terms language. Do not publish a final version until these fields are completed.