Terms of Service

1. Who we are

inbl.link is operated by Logiciels Inbloom ("we", "us", "our"), a sole proprietorship registered in Quebec, Canada. We also operate inbloomsound.com, which has its own policies covering the shop and community.

You can reach us at [email protected].

2. Accepting these terms

By creating an account or using inbl.link you agree to these terms, our Privacy Policy, our Acceptable Use Policy, and our Copyright Policy. If you don't agree, don't use the service.

If you're using inbl.link on behalf of a band, label, or company, you confirm you're allowed to accept these terms for them.

3. Age

You must be at least 13 to use inbl.link. If you're between 13 and the age of majority where you live, you may only use it with the permission of a parent or legal guardian. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 13 — if you believe a child under 13 has an account or has submitted information through a download gate, email us and we'll remove it.

4. Your account

Accounts are created and secured through Clerk, our authentication provider, using Google, Discord, or Twitch sign-in. One person gets one account. You're responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping access to your sign-in method secure.

Your username becomes your public address (inbl.link/yourname) and is shared with your Inbloom Sound community profile. Some names are reserved for system routes or blocked as offensive. We may reclaim a username that impersonates someone, infringes a trademark, or was registered purely to squat on it.

Paid plans allow more than one creator page under a single account. Those extra pages belong to the same account — they are not separate accounts and cannot be transferred or sold separately.

5. What the service does

inbl.link gives you three public surfaces:

• A creator page at your username — links, socials, embedded players.
• Release pages at /r/CODE — a card of outbound streaming links for a release.
• Download gates at /g/CODE — a page where a fan completes steps you choose in order to download a file you upload.

We may change, add, or remove features. If we remove something you're actively paying for, we'll tell you in advance, and if you cancel because of it we'll refund the period you're in.

6. Your content

You own it

Everything you upload or write — audio, artwork, avatars, backgrounds, text, links — stays yours. We claim no ownership of it and we will never sell, license, distribute, or commercially exploit your music.

The permission you give us

To actually run the service we need a limited licence. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, reformat, resize, transcode, and publicly display or transmit your content solely for the purpose of operating inbl.link — meaning: showing your pages to visitors, generating thumbnails and previews, packaging stems you upload into a single archive for delivery, stripping audio from motion files, and creating backups.

This licence exists only so the product can function. It ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies in routine backups which age out on our normal cycle.

We may also display your public username, display name, and avatar in the product and in listings of creators using inbl.link. Tell us if you'd rather we didn't.

What you're promising

By uploading content you confirm that:

• You own it or have all the rights and clearances needed — including for samples, features, remixes, and artwork.
• Distributing it through inbl.link doesn't breach anyone else's rights or any agreement you're under.
• It doesn't break our Acceptable Use Policy.

We don't pre-screen uploads. We do respond to valid copyright complaints — see the Copyright Policy.

7. Download gates and fan data

This section matters if you run download gates, because it decides who is responsible for what.

You are responsible for the fan data you collect

When a fan gives an email address or connects a SoundCloud account to unlock one of your gates, that information is collected for you. In data protection terms you are the controller of it and we act as your processor. Practically, that means:

• We store and organise those records so you can see them in Audience and export them.
• We process them only to run the service and on your instructions. We do not sell them, share them with other creators, or use them to market anything.
• What you do with an exported list is on you. If you add addresses to a mailing list, you're the sender, and anti-spam law where you and your fans live applies to you — in Canada that's CASL, in the EU and UK it's the ePrivacy rules. You need a lawful basis and a working unsubscribe.

You agree to handle fan data lawfully, to honour deletion and access requests from your fans, and to indemnify us for claims arising from your misuse of it. If a fan contacts us directly about data you collected, we'll pass the request to you and help you action it.

What we do as your processor

We keep fan records confidential, restrict access to what's needed to run and support the service, use the subprocessors listed in our Privacy Policy, tell you without undue delay if we become aware of a breach affecting your fan data, and delete it when you delete the gate or your account. We'll help you respond to a fan's request within a reasonable time.

Being honest with fans

Gates must accurately describe what a fan is agreeing to. We show fans who is receiving their email address and link them to our Notice for Fans. You must not misrepresent what a download contains, promise things the gate doesn't deliver, or use gate copy to trick people.

SoundCloud steps

If you enable SoundCloud steps, fans authorise us through SoundCloud's own login and we then perform exactly the actions you configured — following, liking, reposting, or commenting — using that authorisation. We do not store their SoundCloud access token after the actions run.

SoundCloud is a third party with its own rules, which can change. We can't guarantee these steps will keep working, and we may have to disable them. You must not configure gate steps that breach SoundCloud's terms, and you must not use gates to manufacture engagement in a way those terms prohibit.

8. Plans, billing, and storage

inbl.link has a free tier and paid subscriptions. Payments are handled by Polar, who act as merchant of record — they process the payment and issue your receipt. We never see or store your card details.

Prices, renewal, cancellation, upgrades, downgrades, and refunds are covered in the Billing and Refunds Policy.

Each plan includes a storage allowance for private download-gate audio, and limits which audio formats you can upload. Images are not counted against storage. If you drop to a lower plan you won't be able to upload more until you're under the new limit. New saves already follow the lower plan; existing look, extra pages, and files stay for a grace period and may then be rolled back — the Billing and Refunds Policy sets out how long and what warning you get. Keep your own copies of anything you care about.

9. Acceptable use

The full list is in the Acceptable Use Policy. In short: nothing illegal, nothing that isn't yours to share, no malware, no harassment, no impersonation, no attempts to break or overload the service, and no using download gates to distribute something other than what you're advertising.

10. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate an account that breaks these terms, that we're legally required to act on, or that's causing harm to other users or to the service. Where it's reasonable and lawful to do so, we'll tell you why and give you a chance to fix it first. For clear-cut cases — illegal content, repeat copyright infringement, active abuse — we may act immediately.

If we terminate your account without cause, we'll refund the unused portion of any period you've paid for.

11. Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time from your account settings. Public pages go offline immediately, your login is removed, and any paid Polar subscription is cancelled immediately. Unused prepaid time is not refunded and cannot be moved onto a new account. If you want to keep using the period you already paid for, cancel from billing settings instead.

Profile, pages, releases, gates, uploaded files, and the fan records associated with your account are then purged in a regular batch. Allow up to 30 days for everything to leave our systems and storage.

We keep billing and tax records for as long as Canadian law requires, currently six years. Those records are kept for accounting only.

Deleting your inbl.link account does not automatically delete your Inbloom Sound community account — contact us if you want both removed.

12. Availability and changes

We work to keep inbl.link up, but we don't promise uninterrupted service. We may take it down for maintenance, and things occasionally break. Keep your own copies of anything important — inbl.link is not a backup service, and this matters most for gate audio.

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects your rights, we'll give notice on the site or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use inbl.link after that means you accept the new version.

13. Disclaimers

inbl.link is provided "as is". To the extent the law allows, we don't make warranties that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for a particular purpose. We're not responsible for content other users publish, for third-party services we link to or embed (SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube, Odesli, Clerk, Polar), or for what fans do with files you distribute.

14. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we're not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, or lost data. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or CAD $100.

Nothing here limits liability that can't be limited by law, including for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and nothing limits the rights consumers have under the Quebec Consumer Protection Act or equivalent consumer law where you live.

15. Indemnity

You agree to cover our reasonable costs if a third party brings a claim against us because of content you published, fan data you handled, or your breach of these terms. We'll tell you promptly about any such claim and let you take part in the defence.

16. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Quebec and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. Disputes go to the courts of the judicial district of Montréal, Quebec.

If you're a consumer, this doesn't take away your right to bring a claim in the courts where you live, or your right to rely on mandatory consumer protections in your own country.

17. Odds and ends

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. Not enforcing something straight away doesn't mean we've given up the right to. You can't transfer your agreement with us to someone else without our consent; we may transfer ours if the business is sold, and we'll tell you if that happens.

18. Contact

[email protected] — Logiciels Inbloom, Quebec, Canada.