Terms

Short version: amplifriends is a directory where musicians find each other. Search, messaging, your profile, and safety tools are free. You own what you upload. Treat people well, only share music you have the rights to, and we’ll run the site openly: we tell you why we take any action on your account, and you can always ask a person to look again.

Who We Are

amplifriends is run by amplifriends LLC (“we” or “us”), a Nevada limited liability company. These terms are the agreement between you and us when you use amplifriends.com. By making an account, you agree to them and to the community rules. Our privacy page explains what we collect, why, and for how long. Questions about any of it go to [email protected], which is also our contact point for authorities.

Who Can Use amplifriends

• You need to be 13 or older. If we learn an account belongs to someone under 13, we delete it.
• amplifriends is for people in the United States. Location search only covers US cities and ZIP codes.
• One account per person. Don’t make an account for someone else without their permission.
• No getting around a suspension: don’t make a new account, or use someone else’s, to carry on. Sign-ups with a suspended account’s email address (or a variant of it) are refused, and an account used from the same internet connection as a recently suspended one is held until a moderator checks it.

Members Under 18

When you sign up, you tell us whether you’re 13 to 17 or 18 or older. Under 18, you get extra protection:

• Your profile is only shown to members who are logged in. It never appears to logged-out visitors, in search engines, or on the home page.
• Your age and when you were last active are never shown.
• Adults can only send you message requests, which wait until you accept them.

When you turn 18, you can switch to an adult account from your dashboard. You can’t switch the other way. Adults who pursue members under 18 romantically or sexually are removed for good.

Your Account

Keep your password to yourself; you’re responsible for what’s done with your account. If you think someone else got in, reset your password and email us.

What’s Free, and How Search Works

Search, messaging, your profile, and safety tools (reporting, blocking, and verification) are free, with no limits on who you can message. Membership never unlocks them. Search results are ordered only by distance or by who was active most recently, whichever you choose; nobody can pay to appear higher, and we don’t personalize results with anything we learn about you. The musician on the home page is picked at random.

Badges

The first 500 members to confirm their email get the Early Adopter badge automatically. A place frees up when a badge holder deletes their account or is suspended, and goes to the next person who confirms. A suspension removes the badge for good. The “ampliteam” label marks the people who build amplifriends. Neither changes where anyone appears in search.

Bands

Any member can start a band page and becomes its admin. Admins edit the page, invite members, and receive its messages; members can share their own samples to it and leave at any time. A band page follows the same rules as a profile, and its admins are responsible for what’s on it. You can be in up to 5 bands at once (10 with membership).

Venues

Only someone who books a venue should add it. A moderator checks each venue before its page is public: you put a short code on the venue’s own website or social page, and we look for it (or confirm another way). Its admins are responsible for what’s on the page and must be honest about bookings and pay. You can run up to 3 venues. Venue pages are free.

Studios

Only someone who runs a studio should add it, and it’s checked the same way as a venue before its page is public. Its admins are responsible for what’s on the page, including being honest about services and rates. You can run up to 3 studios. Studio pages are free, and any deal you make with a studio is between you and them.

Your Music, Photos, and Words

• You own what you upload. That includes samples, photos, videos you link, your bio, and your messages.
• You give us permission to run the site with it. Specifically: to store it, make copies and versions of it (like re-encoding audio or cropping your photo), and show it on amplifriends and in link previews of your profile. This permission is free, not exclusive, and only for running amplifriends. It ends when you delete the content or your account, except for backup copies, which are deleted within 90 days.
• We don’t sell your content or license it to anyone else, we don’t use it in ads, and we don’t use it to train AI.
• Only upload music you made or have the rights to share. If a sample includes someone else’s song (a cover, say, or a sample), you’re responsible for having permission to share it.

Reporting Illegal Content

Anyone can tell us about content on amplifriends they believe is illegal, with or without an account. Members can use Report on a profile or in a conversation. Anyone else can email [email protected] with the link to the content, why you believe it’s illegal, and your name and email address (you can leave these out if you’re reporting child sexual abuse material). We confirm we got it, a person reviews it, and we tell you what we decided and how to ask us to look again.

Copyright Complaints

If you think something on amplifriends uses your work without permission, email [email protected] with: the link to it, the work you own, your contact details, a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn’t authorized, a statement that your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you own the work or act for its owner, and your signature (typing your full name is fine). We’ll take it down and tell the member who posted it. If they believe it was a mistake, they can send us a counter-notice, and we’ll pass it on to you. We close the accounts of people who repeatedly upload other people’s work.

How We Moderate

• People make every decision about removing content or suspending an account. A person reviews every report, within 24 hours.
• Some checks are automatic. They never remove anything already posted. They are: a list of offensive words that profile links (handles) and new scene names can’t contain; limits on how many new conversations a new account can start each day (replies are never limited); limits on repeated log-in, sign-up, and report attempts; checks that uploaded files are real audio, video, or images; refusing sign-ups with a suspended account’s email address; and a hold on any account used from the same internet connection as an account suspended in the last 90 days. A held account is hidden and can’t send messages until a moderator checks it, usually within a day. We tell you when it happens and why, and a person makes the decision.
• What we do: remove the content that broke a rule, or for serious or repeated breaks, suspend the account. For less serious first breaks we usually remove the content and let you carry on. Threats of violence and anything that puts a minor at risk mean suspension straight away.
• We tell you why. When we act on your content or account, we email you what we did, which rule it broke, the facts it’s based on, and that a person decided. The person who reported you is told the outcome, but you’re never told who reported you.
• You can ask us to look again, free, for 6 months after any decision, including if you reported something and we didn’t act: reply to the email about it. A person reviews it and tells you what they decided, and we undo anything we got wrong. You can also take a decision to court, or to a consumer or data-protection regulator where you live.
• If we suspend your account, you can still get a copy of your data: reply to the email and ask.

Meeting People

amplifriends helps you find musicians; it doesn’t check who they are beyond the verified mark, which only confirms a profile belongs to the person it names. Deals you make with other members (joining a band, a gig, lessons, a session) are between you and them. Meet somewhere public the first time, and never pay a deposit to someone you met here. See Safety and reporting.

Membership

Membership isn’t open yet. When it opens:

• It’s $10 a month, paid by card through Stripe. It adds room for more samples.
• Changed your mind? Within 14 days of first joining, cancel and we refund you in full, no questions asked.
• Auto-renew is off unless you turn it on. Cancelling is one click, any time, and you keep member features until the date you’ve paid through. After the first 14 days, we don’t refund part-months.
• If we change the price, we’ll email you at least 30 days before. It only applies from your next payment after that, and you can cancel before then.
• When a membership ends, samples over the free limit are hidden, never deleted, and come back if you rejoin.

Deleting Your Account

You can delete your account from your dashboard at any time, and download everything first. It’s hidden right away and deleted for good after 7 days unless you log in and keep it. A membership ends with no further charges (and a full refund if you’re still within its first 14 days). The privacy page has the details of what’s deleted and what’s kept.

Things You Can’t Do

• Copy profiles or samples off amplifriends in bulk, or use bots to browse, sign up, or send messages.
• Get around limits, blocks, or suspensions.
• Try to break into accounts or the site. Found a security problem? Tell us at [email protected] and we’ll thank you, not blame you.
• Use amplifriends for anything illegal.

Changes

amplifriends changes as we build it; the changelog lists what’s new. If we change these terms in a way that matters, we’ll email you at least 30 days before the new terms apply and explain what changed. If you don’t agree, you can delete your account before then, with a refund of any unused membership.

The Legal Part

We run amplifriends with reasonable care and skill, but we can’t promise it will always be available or free of mistakes. We aren’t responsible for what members say or do, on the site or off it, unless we were told about something illegal and didn’t act.

If we’re responsible to you for a loss, our liability is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before, or $50 if that’s more. That limit doesn’t apply to death or personal injury caused by our negligence, to fraud, to harm we caused deliberately or through gross negligence, or to anything else the law where you live doesn’t let us limit.

These terms are governed by the laws of Nevada. You can bring a claim in the courts where you live, or in the state or federal courts in Clark County, Nevada. We don’t use forced arbitration, and nothing here takes away rights you have under the consumer law where you live.

Questions

Email [email protected].