Terms of use

These terms govern brantow.com (the “site”), operated as Brantow (“we”, “us”). By using the site you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the site. The privacy policy and the UK GDPR page form part of these terms.

1. What Brantow is — and is not

Brantow is a drum machine in the browser. You can play it, change the pads, and, if you sign in, save a beat under a name. Playing is free. Keeping more than one beat, and downloading a file, is a monthly subscription. It is a beta. It is not a record label, a sample shop, or a guarantee that a beat will be stored forever.

2. Accounts

You can play without an account. An account is for saving beats. You must be 13 or over to create one. You must give accurate details and keep your password to yourself. Do not share a login. We may refuse or remove an account if these terms are broken.

3. Your beats

You keep ownership of the beats you make. You grant us a limited licence to host and display them so your account can show them back to you. Do not save material you do not have the right to store.

4. Recordings

If you load a ride or crash recording, you must have the right to use that file. A recording ripped from someone else’s product is often licensed for your own music, not for uploading into someone else’s app. Those files stay on your device. Saving a beat does not send them to us.

5. Sound

The machine can be loud. Long or high volumes can damage hearing. You set the level. We are not liable for hearing damage from how you play it.

6. Acceptable use

You must not:

break into the site, probe it, or overload it;

scrape accounts or saved beats;

pretend to be us;

use the site to harass anyone, or to store unlawful content.

7. Availability

We aim to keep the site up. We do not promise it will never fail, or that a saved beat cannot be lost if something breaks. Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose. We may change or remove a feature, including while the site is in beta.

8. The subscription

Playing the machine is free. An approved account may save one beat for nothing. £4.99 a month lets that account save more beats, up to ninety-nine, open Will's List, and download a sound file and a video of a beat. The seller is Brantow. The price is in pounds. It renews each month until you cancel. Card payments are taken by Stripe. We do not see your card number. Questions and refunds: admin@brantow.com.

Cancel any time from the Subscribe page, or by emailing admin@brantow.com. The month you have already paid for stays open. The next payment is not taken. Your saved beats stay in the account. The extra saves, Will's List, and the files close when the paid month ends. You can subscribe again later and they open again. We do not delete them because you cancelled.

This is digital content, supplied after payment. If you are a consumer in the United Kingdom, you have rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, including that the subscription must be as described, of satisfactory quality, and fit for purpose. Nothing in these terms takes those rights away.

If you change your mind within 14 days of the first payment, and you have not downloaded a file, email admin@brantow.com and we will refund that payment and end the subscription. If you download a file, you ask us to start supplying the subscription, and you lose that 14-day right to cancel the first payment. You can still stop the next month.

9. Liability

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for your statutory rights as a consumer. Subject to that, we are not liable for a lost beat, a recording that did not save, or any indirect loss from using the site.

10. Intellectual property

The Brantow name, the layout, and the original copy on the site belong to us. You may not copy the site or present it as your product. The beats you save remain yours, as set out above.

11. Changes

We may amend these terms. The date at the top will change. If you keep using the site, you accept the new terms. If you cannot accept them, stop using the site and ask us to close your account.

12. Law

These terms are governed by the law of Northern Ireland. The courts of Northern Ireland have exclusive jurisdiction. Questions: admin@brantow.com.