Terms of Service

1.Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and BrownKits ("BrownKits", "we", "us" or "our") governing your access to and use of the website brownkits.com, the BrownKits platform and every sound, loop, sample, sample pack and related content made available through it (together, the "Service").

By creating an account, subscribing, purchasing credits, downloading content or otherwise using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must not use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of a company or other entity, you confirm that you are authorized to bind that entity to these Terms.

2.BrownKits Services

BrownKits is a digital music library for producers and creators. The Service lets you browse and search a catalog of sounds organized by metadata such as instrument, genre, key, BPM, mood, Indian Raag, region and tradition; stream previews; and, with the appropriate subscription, credits or other entitlement, unlock and download high-quality master audio files for use in your own productions under the BrownKits Royalty-Free License described in section 9.

The catalog, features, plans and pricing displayed on the Service may change over time as described in these Terms.

3.User Accounts

You need an account to unlock or download content. You may register with an email address and password or sign in with Google. You agree to provide accurate information, to keep it up to date and to use the Service only for yourself (or your entity). Each account is personal; you may not share your account credentials or allow others to use your account, and you may not create accounts for the purpose of circumventing credit, download or other limits.

We may refuse registration, or suspend or close accounts, in accordance with section 17.

4.Account Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately at support@brownkits.com if you suspect unauthorized access. We are not liable for loss arising from unauthorized use of your account where you have failed to keep your credentials secure. We may require you to verify your email address before certain features become available.

5.Subscriptions

BrownKits offers paid subscription plans that provide a recurring allocation of credits and access to the catalog. The plan name, price, currency, billing period and credit allocation are displayed at the time you subscribe and govern your subscription.

Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period and your chosen payment provider charges the renewal amount until you cancel. Unused credits roll over while your subscription remains active, as shown in your account. If a subscription is paused, or a renewal payment fails and the subscription becomes past due, your subscription credits may be temporarily frozen until the subscription is resumed or payment is completed; frozen credits are preserved, not deleted, during that time. If a subscription is cancelled or ends, access to subscription benefits continues until the end of the paid period as described in section 14.

We may change plan features, prices or credit allocations as set out in section 19; changes will not apply to an already-paid billing period.

6.Credits

Credits are the unit used to unlock sounds. Each sound displays its credit cost before you unlock it. Credits may be obtained through a subscription plan or, where offered, by purchasing one-time credit packs; your account shows these balances. Subscription credits and purchased credits are governed by the plan or pack shown to you at the time of purchase.

Credits have no cash value, are not transferable between accounts and may not be sold, exchanged or redeemed for money. Once a sound is unlocked, the credits spent are not returned, except where we determine in our discretion that an unlock failed or was made in error. Once you have unlocked a sound you may re-download that same file without spending further credits while your account remains in good standing and the relevant entitlement is active.

7.Purchases

When you subscribe or buy credits you are making an offer to purchase a digital service. The purchase is complete when the payment provider confirms payment and the plan or credits appear in your account. All prices are shown in the currency you select and may be exclusive of applicable taxes, which will be shown where required. Promotional codes and coupons are subject to the conditions displayed with them and may be withdrawn or limited at any time.

8.Digital Delivery

All content is delivered electronically. When you unlock a sound we provide a secure, time-limited download link for the master audio file, and you can generate a new link from your account for sounds you have already unlocked. Preview streams are provided for evaluation only and may be lower quality than the master file. You are responsible for having a compatible device and internet connection. Download links are personal to your account and must not be shared.

9.Royalty-Free License

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, when you legitimately unlock, download or otherwise obtain a sound, loop or sample through the Service (a "Sound"), BrownKits grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to use that Sound as part of your own original creative productions (the "BrownKits Royalty-Free License" or "License").

Royalty-free means that, once you have obtained a Sound under the License, you do not owe BrownKits any additional royalties, fees or payments for using it in your finished productions — no matter how commercially successful those productions become — subject to the terms of this License.

You may incorporate properly licensed Sounds into original productions including, without limitation:

• songs, beats, instrumentals, remixes you have the right to make, albums and EPs, and other commercial music releases;
• films, movies, short films, documentaries, web series, television and other video productions;
• podcasts and radio productions;
• advertisements and commercials;
• video games and interactive media;
• YouTube videos, social-media content and other online videos; and
• other original music, audio and audiovisual productions.

You may edit, chop, slice, process, re-pitch, time-stretch, reverse, layer, arrange, mix and otherwise manipulate Sounds and combine them with your own and other recordings, instruments and vocals.

You may commercially release, monetize, distribute, perform, broadcast, stream, synchronize, license and sell your finished original productions that contain properly licensed Sounds, through any channel, including streaming platforms, record labels, sync libraries, content-ID systems and beat stores, provided the Sound is used as part of a larger original work and not as a standalone asset.

Examples. A producer may download a BrownKits guitar loop, build a beat around it with drums, bass, vocals or other production elements, and commercially release or sell the resulting beat or song. A filmmaker may incorporate BrownKits Sounds into a film soundtrack. A creator may use BrownKits Sounds in a podcast, advertisement, YouTube video or web series. None of these uses requires any further payment to BrownKits.

The License applies to each Sound individually, from the moment it is legitimately obtained, and records the License version in force at the time of unlock. It continues after your subscription ends for Sounds you obtained while entitled, but does not cover Sounds obtained through unauthorized means or in breach of these Terms. The License is personal to the account holder (an individual, or an entity and the people working on its productions) and is not transferable except as part of a finished production.

10.Permitted Uses

In summary, you may:

• use licensed Sounds in any number of your own original productions, personal or commercial;
• transform Sounds creatively and combine them with other material;
• release, distribute, monetize and sell the finished productions that contain them;
• register your finished productions with content-identification and rights systems, provided you do not claim the underlying BrownKits Sound itself;
• keep and re-download Sounds you have unlocked, for your own continued use;
• allow collaborators, mix engineers, session musicians, video editors and similar contributors to handle a Sound solely as part of working on your production.

Royalty-free does not mean you own the Sound. You receive a license to use it; BrownKits (or its licensors) retains ownership of the original recording.

11.Prohibited Uses

The License does not grant resale or redistribution rights. You are receiving a license to use Sounds within your productions, not ownership of the source recordings and not the right to pass the source audio on to others. You must not, directly or indirectly:

• resell an individual BrownKits loop or sample as a standalone audio file;
• redistribute, give away or make available an individual BrownKits loop or sample, whether for free or for payment;
• give BrownKits source audio files to another person, or share purchased or downloaded files with another account or user where the License does not permit it;
• resell or redistribute a complete BrownKits sample pack, or any substantial part of one;
• repackage BrownKits Sounds — alone or with other material — into another sample pack, loop pack, construction kit, preset pack, expansion or sound library;
• create and sell or distribute a competing loop pack or sample pack that contains BrownKits source Sounds, whether or not they have been renamed, re-tagged, trimmed, re-pitched or lightly processed;
• upload BrownKits source loops or samples to another sample marketplace, sound library, stock-audio site, AI-training dataset or similar service for others to access or download;
• upload BrownKits source files to file-sharing, torrent or cloud-sharing services for the purpose of redistribution;
• sublicense BrownKits source samples as standalone assets, including through sound-design services or "sample clearance" offers, unless BrownKits has expressly agreed in writing;
• claim ownership or authorship of a BrownKits original source recording, or register a BrownKits Sound itself (as opposed to your finished production) with a content-identification, collecting-society or copyright-registration system;
• sell a BrownKits loop or sample by itself simply by renaming the file or making superficial changes;
• use Sounds in a way that is unlawful, defamatory, infringing or that misrepresents an association with or endorsement by BrownKits;
• circumvent, disable or interfere with BrownKits' download, credit, subscription, authentication, payment, preview, watermarking or other security systems, or access the Service through automated means (scraping, bulk downloading, bots) without our written permission.

Allowed: use a BrownKits loop inside a finished beat or song and commercially release or sell that finished creative work.

Not allowed: take that BrownKits loop and sell, upload, share, redistribute or offer the loop itself as a standalone sample, or as part of another sample or loop pack.

Breach of this section is a material breach of these Terms and terminates the License for the Sounds concerned, in addition to any other remedy available to BrownKits.

12.Ownership and Intellectual Property

The Service and everything in it — the BrownKits website and software, the BrownKits name and branding, the original sample recordings, sample packs, artwork, cover images, text, metadata, taxonomy and other proprietary content — are owned by BrownKits or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual-property laws.

Purchasing a subscription or credits, or unlocking or downloading a Sound, gives you the License rights described in section 9. It does not transfer ownership of the underlying recording or any other BrownKits intellectual property to you. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are reserved by BrownKits.

You own the original productions you create using licensed Sounds, to the extent of your original contribution; BrownKits claims no ownership of your finished works.

13.Payments and Billing

Payments are processed by third-party payment providers — currently Razorpay for payments in INR and, where offered, Stripe for payments in USD — under their own terms. By providing a payment method you authorize the provider to charge the displayed subscription fees on each renewal and any one-time purchase you make. You must have the right to use the payment method you provide.

If a renewal payment fails, we or the payment provider may retry it; while a payment is outstanding your subscription may be marked past due and its credits frozen as described in section 5. We may suspend access until payment is received. Prices are as displayed at the time of purchase; applicable taxes may be added where required by law. BrownKits does not store your full card or bank details (see our Privacy Policy).

14.Subscription Cancellation

You can cancel your subscription at any time from your account. Cancellation stops future renewals; your subscription benefits, including the use of remaining credits, continue until the end of the billing period you have already paid for, after which the subscription ends and any remaining subscription credits are no longer available. Where your plan supports pausing, a paused subscription preserves your credits in a frozen state until you resume. Cancelling does not revoke the License for Sounds you obtained while entitled.

15.Refunds and Digital Products

Because Sounds are digital content that can be accessed and downloaded immediately, refund eligibility may be limited once digital content has been accessed or downloaded, or once a billing period has started and its credits have been made available. Subscription fees already paid are generally not refunded for the remainder of a billing period after cancellation.

We review refund requests in good faith — for example where a payment was charged in error, duplicated, or a file could not be delivered — and will honor any refund or cancellation policy displayed to you at the time of purchase. Contact support@brownkits.com with your account email and transaction reference.

Nothing in this section limits any statutory consumer rights you have under the laws of the country in which you live, including any right to a refund that cannot be excluded by contract. Where such rights apply, they prevail over this section.

16.Copyright and Intellectual Property Complaints

BrownKits respects intellectual-property rights and expects its users to do the same. If you believe that content available through the Service infringes your copyright or other rights, send a notice to support@brownkits.com including: identification of the work you claim is infringed; identification and location (URL or sound title) of the material you claim is infringing; your contact details; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the rights owner, its agent or the law; a statement, under penalty of perjury where applicable, that the information is accurate and that you are the rights owner or authorized to act for them; and your physical or electronic signature.

We will review complete notices promptly and may remove or disable access to the material, notify the uploader where applicable, and, for repeat infringers, terminate accounts. We may also act on reports of users redistributing BrownKits Sounds in breach of section 11.

17.Account Suspension and Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may request deletion of your account as described in our Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or terminate your account, or restrict access to any part of the Service, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe that you have breached these Terms (including the License and Prohibited Uses), engaged in fraud, chargeback abuse, credential sharing, bulk downloading or redistribution of Sounds, infringed the rights of others, or created a security or legal risk for BrownKits or other users. We may also terminate accounts that remain unverified or inactive for an extended period, with reasonable notice where practicable.

On termination for breach, your right to use the Service ends, any unused credits are forfeited and the License terminates for Sounds obtained in breach of these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including sections 9–12, 15 and 20–21) survive.

18.Service Availability

We work to keep the Service available and performing well, but we do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or available at all times. Access may be affected by maintenance, updates, failures of hosting, storage, payment or other third-party providers, or events beyond our reasonable control. We will try to give notice of planned maintenance where practicable. We recommend that you keep your own backup copies of Sounds you have downloaded.

19.Changes to the Service

BrownKits is an evolving platform. We may add, change, remove or discontinue features, plans, credit allocations, prices, metadata categories and Sounds or packs in the catalog at any time. Price or plan changes take effect from your next billing period after we display or notify them and will not affect a period you have already paid for. If a Sound you previously unlocked is removed from the catalog, your License for that Sound continues and we will make reasonable efforts to keep it available for re-download for a reasonable period.

20.Disclaimer

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Service and all Sounds are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not warrant that Sounds will meet your requirements, that metadata (such as key, BPM or Raag) is error-free, or that the Service will be secure, timely or free of viruses or defects. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties; in that case the exclusions apply only to the extent permitted.

21.Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, BrownKits and its owners, personnel, licensors and providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill or business opportunity, arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the same extent, our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the amount you paid to BrownKits in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or statutory consumer rights.

22.Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, for material changes, take reasonable steps to notify you (for example by email or a notice within the Service) before the changes take effect. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and may cancel your subscription. The License version recorded at the time you unlocked a Sound continues to govern that Sound.

23.Contact Information

Questions about these Terms, the BrownKits Royalty-Free License, billing or your account:

BrownKits Website: brownkits.com Email: support@brownkits.com