Rules for using the platform and acquiring licences to digital content.
Last updated: September 2, 2026 · Version 2026-09-02
The available contract languages are German and English. The version provided to the buyer during checkout applies to that purchase. Mandatory statutory rights remain unaffected by the language version.
These Terms apply to visitors, registered users, Buyers, and Certified Sellers/Producers of SampleVault. They govern the platform agreement with the operator, the supply of Content by Creators, and licence purchases for which SampleVault acts as the Buyer’s contracting party and licensor, unless specific product or licence terms apply.
“Content” includes beats, melody loops, one-shots, samples, stems, and sample packs. A “Creator” or “Seller” is the person identified in the listing from whom the Content and required rights originate; that person is not the Buyer’s contracting party for purchases through SampleVault Checkout. A “Buyer” acquires a licence from SampleVault. Consumer and trader status are determined under applicable law.
Individually agreed terms and the specific licence terms shown at checkout take precedence for the relevant purchase. A user’s conflicting terms apply only if the other contracting party expressly accepts them.
SampleVault is operated by Ömer Özmen, SampleVault, sole proprietorship, Goebenstraße 11, 10783 Berlin, Germany. Contact: support@samplevault.cc. Further provider details, including the telephone number, are available in the Legal Notice (Impressum).
SampleVault is an online marketplace and distribution platform for digital music products. For purchases through SampleVault Checkout, Ömer Özmen trading as SampleVault is the Buyer’s contracting party and SampleVault grants the displayed licence. SampleVault is responsible to the Buyer for contract formation, payment acceptance, digital delivery, statutory defect remedies, withdrawal, and refunds.
The Creator identified in the listing supplies SampleVault with the Content and rights required for the end-customer licence. The Creator’s identity and trader or private-provider status are displayed for transparency but do not change the Buyer’s contracting party. Buyers must review the Creator, licence type, total price, and material licence terms shown before ordering.
SampleVault is not a party to arrangements users conclude outside the platform’s designated flows. Platform use does not create a partnership, employment, commercial agency, or other representation relationship between SampleVault and a user.
A personal account is required for uploads, purchases, downloads, and certain other features. Users must provide accurate, complete, and current information, protect their credentials, and promptly notify SampleVault of suspected misuse. Accounts may not be transferred or shared without SampleVault’s consent.
Users must have legal capacity. Minors may enter paid contracts only with any consent required from their legal representatives. SampleVault may request reasonable evidence of identity, authority, payment, or rights ownership where required for security, fraud prevention, or legal compliance.
Creators must truthfully state and keep current whether they supply Content to SampleVault as traders or non-trader/private providers. The displayed status describes the source of rights; regardless of that status, the Buyer’s purchase and licence contract is with SampleVault and mandatory consumer rights against SampleVault remain unaffected.
The Creator is responsible to SampleVault for accurate listing, price and rights information, a complete chain of title, and conforming files. SampleVault is responsible to the Buyer for legally required pre-contract information, performance, and defect remedies. The Creator must promptly cooperate with support, cure, refunds, chargebacks, and rights complaints.
Each Seller warrants that they have all rights, consents, and clearances required for upload, preview, promotion, licensing, and the agreed use. This includes master recordings, compositions, samples, voices and personality rights, metadata, names, cover artwork, necessary clearances, credits, and publishing or royalty splits.
Creators retain their copyright and related rights. For the publication period and, where required for processing, evidence, support, or legal obligations, afterwards, the Creator grants SampleVault the necessary worldwide rights to store, reproduce, transcode, watermark or preview, make available, and promote the relevant listing on and outside SampleVault. SampleVault may use technical service providers for these purposes.
For every licence type activated by the Creator, the Creator also grants SampleVault the right to grant Buyers the displayed non-exclusive rights or, for a correspondingly marked Exclusive listing, exclusive rights, including the sublicensing authority necessary to do so. Licences already validly granted and necessary evidence, support, and transaction copies survive listing removal. Copyright itself is not transferred.
Creators set available licence types, prices, and product-specific terms within the platform features. Prices shown immediately before an order are total prices in the stated currency. Additional charges are due only if clearly disclosed before ordering.
The default order in Search and Explore primarily weighs literal query match and selected filters (especially content type, genre, key, BPM, and price); recency breaks otherwise equal results. A user-selected sort takes priority. Items labelled “popular” are ordered mainly by aggregated plays, downloads, or sales; the producer leaderboard is based exclusively on views of public beats and samples in the selected period. Recency is used only as a secondary tie-breaker. Manually curated areas such as “Featured”, “New”, or “Exclusive” rely on editorial selection or publication/exclusive status. SampleVault currently uses neither personalised ranking based on individual download history nor paid placement.
Product pages and licence options are invitations to place an order, not binding offers. The Buyer selects the Content and licence, reviews the Creator, rights, price, and other information, may correct the selection until submitting the binding order, and then makes a binding offer to SampleVault through a clearly labelled payment-order function.
Payment is processed by the payment provider offered at checkout. A mere receipt or forwarding notice is not acceptance. The licence contract is formed when the order or licence is electronically confirmed following successful payment confirmation. The contractual files and rights are released only then.
Exclusive listings may be reserved temporarily during checkout. Exclusivity takes effect only after successful payment confirmation and final allocation of the purchase. A reservation may be released if payment is cancelled, expires, or fails.
Payments are handled through the payment providers offered on SampleVault. Creators are charged the platform commission disclosed during onboarding, in the Creator area, or in an individual agreement; these Terms do not promise a fixed rate. Agreed payment-provider fees, refunds, chargebacks, taxes, or other clearly disclosed amounts may be reflected in settlement.
Payouts require successful payment, completed identity and payment-provider checks, enabled payout capabilities, and no justified withholding ground. SampleVault may reasonably hold, offset, or correct payouts where a payment is disputed, refunded, suspected of fraud, or connected to a rights dispute. Undisputed amounts remain unaffected.
SampleVault is responsible for payment and invoice information legally owed to the Buyer. Creators remain responsible for their own tax obligations and for records or settlements in their relationship with SampleVault. Buyers are not entitled to a Creator’s internal commission or payout details.
Beat files, melody loops, samples, one-shots, stems, and packs are digital Content. A Buyer does not acquire ownership of copyright, but only the usage rights described in the licence displayed and confirmed for the purchase. The individual licence record governs the licence type, commercial uses, media and usage limits, adaptation rights, territory and term, credits, publishing or royalty splits, exclusivity, Content ID, and additional deal terms.
Unless a licence expressly says otherwise, raw files may not be resold, shared, rented, offered as stock or sample Content, included in a sample pack, or sublicensed as raw files. Adaptation and incorporation into a new musical work are permitted only within the specific licence.
An “Exclusive” licence does not automatically transfer copyright. Its scope is determined only by the individual licence agreement. Valid non-exclusive licences granted before a later exclusive sale continue unless the earlier licence or an effective individual agreement provides otherwise.
Non-exclusive samples, melody loops, or beats must not be registered with Content ID, fingerprinting, or similar systems if this may block, demonetise, or claim against other lawful licensees. Registration for an exclusive licence is permitted only where the individual licence expressly allows it and existing licences are respected.
Unless the individual licence expressly permits it, purchased raw files must not be used to train generative AI, included in training or benchmark datasets, passed to dataset providers, or used to create public sample datasets. Ordinary use of digital audio tools to make a licensed musical work remains permitted, provided no training dataset is created from or distributed with the raw files.
Following successful payment confirmation, Content is generally supplied in the user account or through a protected download. The Buyer receives an electronic order or licence confirmation containing the material contract details. Orders and licence records are made available in the Purchases/Licences area; Buyers should also save the confirmation and licence on their own durable medium.
The Buyer is responsible for a compatible device, internet access, and suitable software for common audio and archive formats unless the product information states otherwise. Statutory requirements for functionality, compatibility, interoperability, supply, and updates remain unaffected.
Where the Buyer is a consumer, the distance contract with SampleVault generally carries a statutory withdrawal right. The specific withdrawal instructions, model withdrawal form, and—while a withdrawal period is running—the electronic withdrawal function are provided separately. A consumer may also withdraw by another unequivocal statement to SampleVault.
For paid digital Content, the withdrawal right expires early only where the consumer expressly consents to performance before the withdrawal period ends, acknowledges that the right is lost when performance begins, performance has begun, and the legally required contract confirmation has been supplied. If any requirement is missing, statutory rights remain.
These declarations cannot be hidden only in these Terms or preselected. They are requested separately at checkout and recorded with the order. The Creator’s private-provider or trader status does not change the Buyer’s consumer rights against SampleVault.
Statutory rights concerning conformity, cure, price reduction, termination, damages, and consumer protection remain unaffected. Where digital Content is defective, SampleVault must generally first be given the opportunity to provide the remedy required by law unless the law permits immediate further action.
For corrupt files, missing promised stems or components, broken ZIP archives, failed downloads, or material mismatch with the description, contact support@samplevault.cc promptly and include the Order ID. SampleVault reviews the case, arranges required cure, and decides statutory or voluntary refunds.
Where no mandatory statutory right applies, there is generally no entitlement to a voluntary refund solely for a change of mind, dislike, accidental purchase, or failure to review clearly displayed licence terms. A goodwill decision does not create an entitlement in other cases. Refunds and chargebacks may revoke the related licence and download access where legally and contractually permitted.
Prohibited conduct includes rights infringement, fraud, payment or rating manipulation, circumvention of technical safeguards, unauthorised scraping or automated downloading, malware, harassment, impersonation, and use that harms security, stability, or other users.
SampleVault may review Content, temporarily restrict visibility or delivery, request evidence, and remove Content where there are concrete indications of a violation, rights infringement, security risk, or legal duty. Copyright and other rights complaints may be submitted through the DMCA/Copyright page or to dmca@samplevault.cc; the process is not limited to US DMCA claims.
Notices about other allegedly illegal Content may be submitted through the Contact page using “Report an Issue”. A sufficiently precise notice should identify the exact URL, provide a reasoned legal explanation and contact details, and include a good-faith confirmation. Receipt is confirmed electronically and the report is reviewed without prejudging the legal outcome.
For moderation decisions, SampleVault considers the nature and severity of the possible violation, affected rights and legitimate interests, reach and recurrence risk, and reliable evidence. Where legally permitted, reporters and affected users receive reasons and may request another review at support@samplevault.cc using the report reference.
Depending on severity, frequency, and risk, SampleVault may warn a user, disable uploads, restrict Seller functions or payouts, remove Certified Seller status, temporarily suspend an account, or terminate it for cause. Grounds include rights violations, false Seller or identity information, fraud, chargeback abuse, security risks, material or repeated breaches, and legal orders.
Where reasonable and lawful, affected users will be told the reason and possible remedy and may respond. Prior notice may be omitted for urgent threats, fraud, illegality, or legal confidentiality duties.
Valid paid licences generally survive account termination. This does not apply where a licence is invalid, infringes third-party rights, has been effectively terminated or refunded, or continued supply is unlawful. Users should timely secure lawfully acquired files and records.
SampleVault’s software, design, marks, database, and own Content are legally protected. They may be used without prior permission only as necessary for contractual platform use. Rights in user Content remain with the respective rights holders, subject to the rights expressly granted for platform operation and purchased licences.
SampleVault has unlimited liability for intent and gross negligence; injury to life, body, or health; product liability; fraudulent concealment; an expressly assumed guarantee; and all other cases of mandatory statutory liability.
For a slightly negligent breach of an essential duty whose performance is necessary for proper operation of the platform agreement and on which a user may normally rely, liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for the contract when it was formed. SampleVault is otherwise not liable for slight negligence. These limits also apply to legal representatives and agents.
Creators remain responsible to SampleVault for their warranted chain of title, lawful Content, and their own tax obligations. This does not exclude SampleVault’s own duties to Buyers, including as contracting party and licensor and for delivery, defect remedies, payment processing, data protection, and mandatory law.
A Creator acting as a trader indemnifies SampleVault against justified third-party claims resulting from the Creator’s culpable breach of its rights warranties, illegal Content, or culpable breach of these Terms. The indemnity includes necessary and reasonable defence costs. SampleVault will promptly inform the Creator and, where legally and practically possible, allow the Creator to participate in the defence. Statutory contributory-fault rules remain unaffected.
The version supplied when an order is placed governs that purchase; later changes do not retroactively change completed licence contracts. SampleVault may amend these Terms for future transactions.
Changes to an ongoing platform agreement will be communicated in good time and in understandable form. Where a change materially affects the contractual balance, express consent will be requested unless a specific legal basis permits the change without consent. Mandatory information, consent, and termination rights remain unaffected.
German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. For consumers, this choice applies only insofar as it does not deprive them of protection under mandatory rules of their country of habitual residence.
Where the user is a merchant, public-law entity or special public-law fund, or has no general place of jurisdiction in Germany, Berlin is the exclusive venue for disputes with SampleVault to the extent permitted by law. Statutory venues apply to consumers.
If any provision is or becomes invalid, the remaining provisions continue to apply. The law replaces the invalid provision; no validity-preserving reduction applies to the detriment of consumers.
