Terms of Service

Effective date: [date]

These terms are an agreement between you and Cinderblock LLC ("Branches", "we", "us"), 1113 Leland Ave, Nashville, TN 37216. By using Branches you agree to them, and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use Branches.

1. What Branches is

Branches lets you hear an artist's song before it's released and pass it on to friends with your own link. Each song has a tree showing how it travelled from person to person, up to the artist. A song's campaign runs until a date the artist sets (no later than release day). After that the tree is frozen and the song can't be played on Branches.

2. Who can use it

You must be at least 13 and able to agree to these terms. If you're under [18], you need a parent's or guardian's permission. You can have one account per phone number or email. Keep sign-in codes to yourself. You're responsible for what happens on your account.

3. The early song

• Artists let Branches stream their unreleased song for the campaign. You get a personal, limited right to listen to it on Branches during the campaign, and nothing more.
• Don't record, download, copy, rip, upload or share the song itself anywhere. Share your link instead. The song, its artwork and the artist's name belong to the artist or their label.
• We can end your access, and remove your spot, if you leak or copy the song.

4. Your link and the tree

• When you sign up you get a personal link for each song. Anyone who opens it joins the tree under you. Share it anywhere: texts, DMs, social posts.
• Your first name, last initial, city and stats show on the tree to everyone on it, and on the share cards you choose to post.
• Your listener number is your place in line when you signed up, and never changes. Your branch count and rewards come from real plays: a listener counts once they've confirmed their phone or email and listened for 30 seconds.

5. Joining an artist's fan list

When you tap Agree at sign-up, you join that artist's fan list. The artist's team receives your name, city and the phone number or email you signed up with, and may contact you. Tap "Don't share my details" instead and they don't. Joining another artist's tree asks you again. See the Privacy Policy §3 for how the artist may use your details.

6. Rewards

• Artists set rewards for branches that reach certain sizes (for example 10, 50 and 100 listeners under you). The artist provides each reward and is responsible for it, including any code, link, store or merch. Branches unlocks the reward and tells you.
• Rewards have no cash value, can't be transferred, and may have their own rules or end dates set by the artist (such as "use by 12/14/26").
• Locked rewards disappear when the campaign ends. Rewards you've already unlocked stay on your You tab.
• We can hold or cancel a reward if a branch looks fake: bots, fake accounts, or people who didn't really listen.

7. Play fair

Don't:

• create fake or extra accounts, use bots, or buy or sell listens or links;
• use someone else's phone number or email;
• harass people, or post anything illegal or hateful with your link;
• try to break, overload or get around Branches' security, or scrape it;
• pretend to be an artist, their team or Branches.

We may remove spots, cancel rewards, or suspend or close accounts that break these rules.

8. Texts — Branches Texts program

• Program: Branches Texts. Sign-in codes when you ask for one; and, if you signed up with your phone number, updates about the songs you joined (a friend heard it through you, a daily roundup on days your branch grows, a reward unlocked, the day before a campaign ends, release day), whether or not you shared your details with the artist.
• New drops: texts when new songs come out on Branches.
• How often: message frequency varies. Sign-in codes come when you ask for one. Nothing is sent between 9pm and 9am your time.
• Message and data rates may apply.
• Reply STOP to cancel at any time; we'll confirm and send nothing more except codes you ask for. Reply HELP for help, or email help@inbranches.com.
• Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
• Texts from an artist's team come from their own service, under their own terms.
• See the Privacy Policy for how we handle your number.

9. Ours and theirs

Branches' app, design, code, the tree and the share cards' design belong to us. The songs, artwork and artist names belong to the artists or their labels. We may show your first name, last initial, city and stats inside Branches and on tree images and share cards, including ones the artist shares about the campaign.

10. Ending

You can delete your account at any time from You → Edit → Delete account. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms, or stop offering Branches, with notice where reasonable. Sections 3, 6 (held rewards), 9, 11 and 12 survive.

11. No promises, limited liability

Branches is provided "as is". We don't promise it will always work, that any song will stay available, or that an artist will deliver a reward. To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability to you is limited to [$50] or what you paid us (Branches is free, so usually $0), whichever is greater.

12. Disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of Tennessee, USA. Disputes go to the state or federal courts in Davidson County, Tennessee.

13. Changes

We may update these terms. If a change matters, we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. If you keep using Branches after that, the new terms apply.

Contact

help@inbranches.com · Cinderblock LLC, 1113 Leland Ave, Nashville, TN 37216