Acceptable Use Policy

What this policy covers

This policy covers everything you put into WAValt. Your files, the names you give them, your pack names and intent lines, your messages, your display name, your username, and your profile.

It applies to you as the account holder. If you let somebody else use your account, whatever they do counts as yours.

It is part of the Terms of Service, so breaking a rule here is breaking that agreement. The rules below are written plainly on purpose. If something you are about to do is not clearly allowed, ask first.

You must have the rights to what you upload

In music this is rarely a simple question.

You may only upload and send files you have the right to upload and send. That means you made them, you own them, or the person who owns them has given you permission.

Be honest with yourself about all of this before you send:

• Samples you have not cleared, including one bar of a record you flipped.
• Interpolations, where you replayed or resang somebody else’s melody or lyric.
• Work by session players, engineers, writers, and featured artists who have not been paid, credited, or asked yet.
• Files you co-own, where a co-producer or a co-writer has to agree as well as you.
• Anything handed to you in confidence, including material under a non-disclosure agreement.
• Label, publisher, or studio property you hold as an employee, an intern, or a contractor.

We do not check any of this and cannot. Nobody here listens to your files to work out who owns them. When you send a file, you are saying you had the right to send it.

We are not part of any deal between you and the person you send to, and we take no position on splits, licenses, credits, or who owns what.

If you are not sure you hold the rights, do not send the file yet. Sort that out first.

Other people’s music

A leak usually starts with one file that travelled one person too far.

Do not use WAValt to move music you have no right to move. This matters most for unreleased work.

• Do not upload or send an unreleased record that belongs to somebody else.
• Do not pass on a file, a pack, or a share link that was sent to you in confidence.
• Do not post a share link in public when the music is not yours to release.
• Do not use WAValt to store or hand around leaked material.
• Do not strip or fake credits, watermarks, or ownership information on a file.

Malware and harmful files

We accept music files, DAW project files, and zip archives. Nothing else. The extension is checked when an upload starts, and for formats with a known signature the first bytes are checked as the file arrives. Renaming a program to .wav does not get it in, and anything that starts like an application or a script is refused.

Be clear about the limit of that. We do not scan uploads for viruses or malware. This is not antivirus software, and it will not catch something harmful hidden inside an archive or a project folder. So this part is on you.

• Do not upload or send malware, ransomware, or anything built to damage a computer.
• Do not disguise a program or a script as audio or as a session.
• Do not send an archive or a project file carrying something harmful inside it.

If something reaches you that looks wrong, do not open it. Scan it yourself, or delete it, then report it using the address near the end of this policy. A file that reaches you through WAValt was put there by another person, not by us.

Harassment, impersonation, and unwanted contact

WAValt has sends, messages, connections, and blocks. Use them like a professional.

• Do not threaten, harass, or bully anybody.
• Do not send hateful or abusive messages, file names, or pack notes.
• Do not pretend to be another artist, producer, engineer, label, manager, or A&R.
• Do not take a display name, username, or profile that passes you off as somebody else.
• Do not keep contacting a person who has blocked you, whether by email send, by a second account, or by any other way around it.
• Do not send bulk unwanted messages or links, to accounts here or to email addresses.
• Do not upload somebody’s private information, and do not use a send to expose them.

Sending somebody a pack they did not ask for is not harassment. Sending it forty times is.

A block is a decision, not an opening offer. When you are blocked, that conversation is over.

Do not abuse the system

WAValt is a small service. The limits are part of what keeps it up for everybody.

• Do not work around storage caps, send caps, link limits, or rate limits.
• Do not open extra accounts to dodge a limit or a suspension.
• Do not share your account with other people, and do not sell, rent, or resell access to it.
• Do not scrape the service, and do not run automated tools against it, without written permission.
• Do not probe, scan, or test the security of WAValt, and do not try to reach files, links, or accounts that are not yours.
• Do not overload the service on purpose, and do not interfere with anybody else using it.
• Do not come back under a new account after an account of yours has been closed.

If you find a security problem, report it instead of digging further. Use the address near the end of this policy, say what you found, and give us a fair chance to fix it before you tell anybody else.

Reporting a problem in good faith is not a breach of this policy. Helping yourself to other people’s files while you are in there is.

Illegal content and illegal use

Do not use WAValt to break the law. That is the short version and it is the whole rule.

• Do not upload or send anything that is illegal to hold or to pass on.
• Do not use WAValt for fraud, for stolen material, or to hide the proceeds of either.
• Do not use WAValt to plan or carry out violence, or to threaten anybody with it.
• Sexual material involving children is reported to the authorities and the account is closed for good.

A share link is a key

A share link works for whoever is holding it. Passing a link on is the same as passing the file on.

You can revoke a link whenever you want, and links expire on their own. Neither of those reaches a file that has already been downloaded: once it is on somebody else’s machine it is out of our hands, and out of yours. The Terms of Service says more about that, and it is the single most important thing to understand about sending.

We put no rules on the person who receives your file. They sign nothing and they do not need an account, so what protects you there is copyright law and your own judgment about who you trust. Pick recipients carefully, and keep the expiry short when the music is sensitive.

What happens if you break these rules

What we can do, not a description of an automatic system.

We can act when a rule is broken. Depending on what happened, that can mean any of these:

• Removing a file or a pack.
• Disabling or expiring a share link.
• Limiting what an account can do.
• Suspending an account.
• Closing an account for good.

How far it goes depends on how serious it was, whether it looks deliberate, and whether it has happened before. For the worst of it, the first step is the last one.

Copyright complaints do not run through this policy. They run through the Copyright and DMCA Policy, which sets out how a rights owner sends a notice, how you answer one, and how a file comes back if the notice was wrong. It also covers accounts that infringe again and again.

If you think a decision was wrong, write and say why. A person reads it.

How to report a problem

Email hello@wavalt.com. Say what happened, include the link, the file name, or the username if you have it, and say roughly when.

Do not use that address for a copyright complaint. Use the process in the Copyright and DMCA Policy instead. It tells you exactly what a notice has to contain, and a notice sent the right way gets acted on faster.

If somebody is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number first. WAValt is a file service and cannot reach anybody quickly enough.

Changes to this policy

This policy will change as WAValt changes. The version date at the top is always the one you are reading.

This policy forms part of the Terms of Service. When a change matters, we post the new version and the Terms acceptance flow is where you are asked about it.