Terms and Conditions

Who runs SAMPLEMENT

SAMPLEMENT is an independent music-discovery project operated in Portugal by Manuel Sant'Ana as a self-employed individual, not through a separate company. For questions, legal notices or reports about content, use the Contact page or email contact@samplement.com .

Postal address: R. Fernão Lopes, Lt. 5, 1.º Gab. 4, 2765-091 Estoril, Portugal.

Tax identification number (NIF): 236198343.

Accepting these terms and accounts

These terms apply when you browse SAMPLEMENT or use its account, catalogue, crate and community features. To create an account, you must be at least 16, provide accurate registration details and accept these terms. Keep your password private and tell us promptly through the Contact page if you believe someone has accessed your account without permission. You can stop using SAMPLEMENT or request account deletion in Account settings where available.

SAMPLEMENT is free to use. It does not sell a subscription or charge for account access. Voluntary support through Ko-fi is handled by Ko-fi and its payment providers under their terms; it is not a purchase from SAMPLEMENT and does not promise a product, service or account benefit.

XP and account levels recognise community participation only. They have no cash value, cannot be transferred or redeemed, and do not create a paid entitlement.

Using the service responsibly

Use SAMPLEMENT lawfully and respect other people's rights. You must not submit content that is unlawful, deceptive, abusive, threatening, invasive of privacy or infringing; use the service to spam, impersonate someone, disrupt its operation, bypass security or collect catalogue or user information through automated means at scale without permission. Do not use SAMPLEMENT to download, extract or redistribute music from YouTube or another service.

Add only information and links that you are entitled to share. A YouTube link or a tool that lets you cue or chop a recording does not give you permission to copy, sample, publish or distribute that recording. You are responsible for obtaining any rights or permissions required for your own use of music.

Sample Chopper includes original drum loops and one-shot Drum Pad sounds hosted by SAMPLEMENT, plus Play Instrument sounds generated in your browser. These tools are provided for in-browser experimentation; their availability does not grant rights to copy, sample or release any third-party recording.

Your content and visibility

You keep any rights you hold in the information, profile text, video suggestions (including their titles, languages, categories and links), Sampled In suggestions and Crates you submit. You give SAMPLEMENT a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to store, format, display and share that material only as needed to run and maintain the features you use, including the catalogue, Videos collection and your public profile and Crates. Sampled In entries are community suggestions and are not automatically verified by SAMPLEMENT; a displayed username identifies who submitted the suggestion. This permission does not give SAMPLEMENT or other users rights to the music recordings, videos or artwork linked from the site.

Profiles and contributions may be visible to other users. All Crates are public: they appear in the Crates collection and on your profile, where anyone can view them. Avoid adding information you do not want to share publicly. Approved catalogue information may remain in the shared catalogue after account deletion, without its link to your account, as described in the Privacy Policy .

Music information and external services

New catalogue submissions may be reviewed before they are approved. SAMPLEMENT combines community submissions with information from music databases and external services. Match suggestions and catalogue details can be incomplete, outdated or incorrect; check them before relying on them. SAMPLEMENT does not host or sell the music linked from catalogue records. YouTube, MusicBrainz, GetSongBPM, Discogs, Ko-fi and other external services operate under their own terms and privacy practices.

This application uses Discogs’ API but is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Discogs. ‘Discogs’ is a trademark of Zink Media, LLC.

Advertising

SAMPLEMENT may display advertising served by Google AdSense and other ad providers. Ads may link to third-party sites or services, which operate under their own terms and privacy practices; displaying an ad does not mean SAMPLEMENT endorses the advertiser or its products. Do not click ads, ask others to click them, or use automated means to generate ad views or interactions. The data used to serve and measure ads, and the choices available to you, are explained in the Privacy Policy .

Reports, moderation and restrictions

To report a specific item that you believe is illegal or violates these terms, use the Contact page . For a report about illegal content, include the exact URL, explain why you believe the content is illegal, give your name and email address, and confirm that you are acting in good faith and believe the information in your report is accurate and complete. For other reports, include the item's URL and explain the concern. We assess reports and catalogue submissions with human review. Automated tools may assist with metadata matching and limiting excessive requests; they do not make significant decisions about your account.

We may reject, correct, remove or limit access to content, or suspend an account, when reasonably needed to comply with law, enforce these terms, protect users, respond to a valid report or prevent abuse and security problems. When required by law, we will tell the affected user what was restricted, the reason, and how to ask us to review the decision or use another available remedy. You may ask for a review through the Contact page.

Availability and responsibility

SAMPLEMENT is an independent service that may change as it develops. We work to keep it available and catalogue information useful, but cannot promise uninterrupted access or that every record, match or third-party link will be accurate or available. Nothing in these terms removes rights or responsibilities that applicable law does not allow us to exclude or limit.

Changes and applicable law

The latest version appears on this page. We will update the date when these terms change and notify users of significant changes through an appropriate service communication. Portuguese law governs these terms, without removing any mandatory consumer protection or other rights that apply where you live. For questions or a review request, use the Contact page .