The deal between you and KAN Samples

1. Who's who

KAN Samples ("we", "us", "our") operates KAN Pro Audio (the "Platform") at kanproaudio.com. You ("the producer") are anyone with a registered account. Visitors to public pages don't need an account but are still bound by the parts of these terms that apply to use of the site.

2. Account eligibility

• You must be at least 16 years old (or the age of digital consent in your country, whichever is higher).
• You provide accurate email + artist information.
• You keep your password to yourself. Activity logged from your account is treated as yours.
• One account per person. We may suspend duplicate accounts without notice.

3. Your music - who owns what

You retain full ownership of every track you upload. We never claim copyright, never sell your music, never use it outside the contexts described here.

By uploading a track, you grant KAN Samples a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to:

• Host the track and stream it from the Platform
• Display it on your profile, the relevant challenge page, the Hall of Fame, and the global feeds
• Generate and display branded share-kit assets (image cards, optional video) derived from the track
• Feature the track in promotional material for the relevant sample pack or challenge - emails, social posts, blog posts, KAN Samples' marketing site

This licence lasts as long as your account exists. If you delete your account or remove a specific track, the licence ends for that material. We will remove it from active surfaces; we cannot recall promotional material that was already published before deletion.

You confirm that the music you upload is yours to upload - that you own or control the rights to every sample, every collaborator's contribution, and every element in the track. If you sample a third party's recording, you're responsible for clearing that sample.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Platform to:

• Upload music that infringes someone else's copyright or moral rights.
• Upload audio with explicit hate speech, glorification of violence, or sexually explicit content involving minors.
• Harass, dox, or repeatedly mass-report other producers.
• Manipulate the leaderboard or like counts via bots, multi-accounts, or paid services.
• Reverse-engineer, scrape, or framebust the Platform.
• Re-upload a sample pack you bought from us as a track without producing something with it (the spirit of the challenges is making music, not redistributing the source files).

Breach of any of these can result in disqualification of submissions, suspension, or permanent removal of your account.

5. Sample packs and challenge rules

Each challenge is built around a specific KAN Samples sample pack. Buying the pack is not required to join the challenge, but it is required to make tracks that actually use the sounds. Submissions that obviously don't use the challenge pack may be disqualified at admin discretion. Disqualified submissions stay visible with a "DQ" badge but lose their accumulated likes and can no longer be liked.

6. Prizes

Prizes are awarded at our discretion based on the rules and prize roster of each challenge. Prize fulfilment specifics:

• Physical prizes require you to confirm size / colour / customisation and provide a shipping address.
• Digital prizes are delivered via download links on your "My Prizes" page. Downloads are capped at 10 per grant; an admin can reset the cap on request.
• Prizes have no cash value and aren't transferable to another account.
• You can decline any prize. Declining is final.
• Prizes for finishes pending manual review are only granted after the review is approved.

7. Levels, XP, and the leaderboard

Levels, XP, and your leaderboard rank are cosmetic. They confer status and bragging rights, not legal entitlements. The formulas can change with notice. We may adjust an individual user's XP in cases of abuse (bot likes, multi-account farming) - see Acceptable Use.

8. Suspension and account closure

• You can close your account at any time via the contact form.
• We can suspend an account that violates these terms. Suspension revokes all active sessions and pauses prize fulfilment.
• For serious or repeat violations we can permanently remove an account. The producer loses access to the account and any unfulfilled prize grants.

9. Disclaimers

The Platform is provided "as is". We don't guarantee uninterrupted availability; we do operate it in good faith and respond to outages quickly. Audio files are served via short-lived signed URLs; expired URLs are not the same as deleted content.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, KAN Samples is not liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from use of the Platform - lost profits, lost music, lost streaming revenue, etc. Our maximum liability for any direct claim is capped at the value of any prize you've received from us in the prior 12 months, or USD 100, whichever is higher.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which KAN Samples is registered. Disputes go to those courts first - except either party may pursue small-claims-style remedies in their own jurisdiction where local law allows.

12. Changes to these terms

If we materially change these terms, we'll notify your account email and post an in-app notification at least 14 days before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the Platform after the effective date counts as accepting the new version.

13. Contact

All questions, requests, and notices under these terms go through the contact form.