Welcome to https://app.soldistro.co.za, which is located at https://app.soldistro.co.za (referred to as the “Site”) which provide a number of Internet-based services and products through the Site (all such services, collectively, shall be referred to as the “Service”). The following Terms of Service (“TOS”) contain the terms and conditions that govern Your use of the Site and Service. Purchase and/or use of any Service on the Site constitutes your agreement to and acceptance of all terms and conditions.
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Your Service provider
SOL Distro, a South African company, located at Unit No 106, Kingshaven Estate, 1011 Otto Du Plessis Drive, 7441 South Africa
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Introduction
Welcome to SOL Distro, dedicated to empowering creators in the music and content creation industry.
Your use of the Service is subject to these TOS (when you use the Service, these terms constitute the "Agreement" which is legally binding).
Please read this Agreement carefully and make sure that you understand it. If You do not understand the Agreement or do not accept any part of it, You may not use the Service.
We reserve the right to revise this TOS in Our sole and complete discretion at any time and without prior notice to You other than by posting the revised TOS on the Site. Any revisions to the TOS are effective upon posting. The TOS will be identified as of the most recent date of revision. It is incumbent upon You to visit this page periodically to ensure Your continued acceptance of this TOS. Your continued use of the Site after a revised version of this TOS has been posted on https://app.soldistro.co.za constitutes Your binding acceptance of such revision and the revised TOS.
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Here’s Our terms of service (“TOS”)
The following TOS contain the terms and conditions that govern Your use of the Site and Service (as defined below). Purchase and/or use of any Service on the Site constitutes Your agreement to and acceptance of all terms and conditions.
You shall select the Service to distribute content to various digital service providers (a list of such digital service providers shall be determined by https://app.soldistro.co.za by Our sole and complete discretion and shall be updated by time to time by Us) and shall be bound by the terms and conditions stipulated in the Distribution TOS attached hereto as Appendix A.
Any specific terms and conditions applicable to any particular Service shall apply in addition of the TOS.
In the event any specific terms and conditions applicable to any particular Service conflict with this TOS, the specific terms and conditions shall fully apply.
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Eligibility
To use the Service, You must create an account. By creating an account, You warrant the accuracy, integrity and legality of the information You provide regarding Your identity and contact details.
To protect Your account, keep Your password confidential.
You are responsible for all activities that occur under your account. By allowing others to access your account, You agree that they are acting on Your behalf and that You are bound by any changes they may make to the account, including, but not limited to, subscription to paying Services. To help maintain control over the account and prevent any unauthorized user from accessing the account, You must maintain control over the devices used to access the Service and not reveal to anyone the password or payment method details associated with the account. You agree to provide and maintain accurate account information, including a valid e-mail address, so that We may send You account-related notices. We may terminate or suspend your account in order to protect You, Us or other users from identity theft or other fraudulent activity.
You acknowledge, consent and agree that We may access, preserve and disclose Your account information and Your Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such access, preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to
(a) comply with legal process;
(b) enforce the TOS;
(c) respond to any claims that your Content violates the rights of third parties;
(d) provide You with certain customized features of Our Site;
(e) respond to You if you contact Us for any reason; or
(f) protect Our rights, property or personal safety or other users and the public. You may cancel Your account at any time. We reserve the right to reject or terminate Your account immediately at our sole discretion and without notice.
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Use of the Site and of the Service
As a condition of your use of the Service, You hereby warrant that You will not use the Service for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited these TOS.
You agree not to intentionally interfere with, damage, alter or disable the operation of the Site and of the Service by any means whatsoever, including, but not limited to, uploading or distributing viruses, worms, spyware, adware or other malicious code, or placing disproportionately large amounts of content on the Service in order to prevent other users from accessing the Service.
You agree not to remove, circumvent, disable, damage or interfere with the security features of Our Site, features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any portion of Our Site or features that impose limitations on the use of Our Sites.
You agree not to attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Our Site or any portion thereof, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to Our Site or any portion thereof, through hacking, password mining or any other means, or interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our Site or any activity conducted through Our Site.
You agree not to use automated means such as but not limited to robot, 'spider', 'scraper' to access the Our Site for any purpose without Our express prior written permission.
Unauthorized or prohibited use of Our Site or Our Materials may subject you to civil liability, criminal prosecution, or both.
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Property
Our Site, including its content, visual interfaces, interactive, audio, video and audiovisual elements, information, graphics, design, compilation, computer code, products, software, services, proprietary information, service marks, trademarks, trade names, distinctive signs (such as logos), presentation, look, appearance, the arrangement of elements, and all other elements of our Site ("Our Materials"), are owned by and/or licensed to Us, and are legally protected, without limitation, by French and European laws and regulations, as applicable, as well as applicable foreign laws, regulations and treaties.
You agree not to sell, license, distribute, copy, modify, publicly perform or display, transmit, publish, edit, adapt, create derivative works from, or otherwise use Our Materials in any unauthorized manner.
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License of rights
You acknowledge that by submitting Your content to Us, You hereby grant Us and Our affiliates a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license, with the right to grant and authorize sublicenses, to use, reproduce, digitize, encode, store, transmit, distribute, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works from, display, perform, communicate to the public and exploit such Your content in connection with the Service and Our business (and Our successors, assigns and sublicensees, and their respective affiliates), including, without limitation, for the promotion and redistribution of part or all of Our Site (and derivative works thereof) in any format and through any media channel. You must submit Your Content to the Site in compliance with our submission specifications. Our submission specifications are available in Our Site.
You may specifically notify Us the termination of the foregoing license, specifically identifying the item(s) of Your content to which such termination applies, in which case the foregoing license for this identified content shall terminate within a commercially reasonable time after You provide such notice to Us. You understand and agree, however, that even after such termination, We may retain, but not display or exploit, copies on its server of such content.
Except for the limited license granted above, We do not control any rights to Your content and exercise no editorial control over it. Nothing herein requires Us to verify, and We have not necessarily verified, any representations or warranties made by You with respect to Your content. Subject to our rights in these TOS, You shall retain all rights in Your content and nothing in these TOS shall constitute a transfer to Us of ownership of any such content.
With respect to Your content, You acknowledge and warrant that:
(a) You own, or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents and authorizations to use and authorize Us to use, all patents, trademarks, copyrights or other proprietary rights in all Your content to enable the inclusion and use of Your content in the manner intended by Us in accordance with these TOS, and to grant the rights and license set forth in this section,
(b) Your content, Our use of such content in accordance with these TOS, and Our exercise of the license rights granted to Us by these TOS will not and shall not:
(i) infringe, violate or misappropriate any right of any third party including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, right of privacy, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right;
(ii) defame, libel, or interfere with the right of privacy or any other proprietary right of any other person; or
(iii) violate any applicable law or regulation.
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Guarantee
With respect to Your content, You acknowledge and warrant that:
(a) You own, or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents and authorizations to use and authorize Us to use, all patents, trademarks, copyrights or other proprietary rights in all Your content to enable the inclusion and use of Your content in the manner intended by Us in accordance with these TOS, and to grant Us the rights and license set forth in these TOS
(b) Your content, Our use of Your content in accordance with these TOS, and Our exercise of the license rights granted to Us by these TOS will not and shall not:
(i) infringe, violate or misappropriate any right of any third party including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, right of privacy, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right;
(ii) defame, libel, or interfere with the right of privacy or any other proprietary right of any other person; or
(iii) violate any applicable law or regulation.
You also agree not to publish, post, submit, transmit any content that may be harmful to Us or any third party;
(i) any material that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, slanderous, pornographic, obscene, abusive, profane, vulgar, sexually explicit, threatening, harassing, harmful, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive or otherwise objectionable, or that encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law or right of privacy, or is otherwise inappropriate;
(ii) advertisements and/or commercial solicitations for products and/or services; or
(iii) anything that would be harmful to minors in any way.
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Deletion of content
We have the right at Our sole discretion, to refuse to publish or to remove any content available on the Service, in whole or in part, at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice and without liability of any kind.
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Purchase of Services
Some of the Services offered by Our Site are subject to a fee.
You may order paid Services on Our Site according to the conditions specified in the applicable order. Once Your order has been placed, you will receive an e-mail indicating receipt of Your order. This e-mail is only a confirmation of receipt of Your order and does not constitute an acceptance of Your offer to purchase. We reserve the right to reject any order for any reason or no reason, subject to compliance with applicable legislation.
By submitting an order, You authorize Us or Our third party payment processor to charge You using the credit card and other payment information You provide to Us for the purposes of authenticating Your identity, validating Your payment card, obtaining payment authorization and authorizing the relevant transaction. You consent to Us using any information You provide to Us, including personally identifiable information, to carry out fraud checks at Our sole discretion, and this authorization applies to the third party We appoint to process payments. In connection with such checks, We or such third party may disclose, and You authorize Us to disclose, Your information to credit reference and fraud prevention service providers, who may keep a record of such information disclosed.
We do not guarantee the immediate or continued availability of any particular Service. If We are unable to fulfill an order, We will issue a full refund.
You acknowledge that in providing the Services and payments hereunder, We will be required to enter into certain agreements with various third parties, including, but not limited to, digital service providers and/or payment operators. You agree that these TOS shall be subject to the terms and conditions applicable to any other agreement entered into by Us with such third parties. You expressly acknowledge that certain third parties may, with respect to audiovisual recordings, require that Your audiovisual recordings be available on their websites at certain times and in certain formats relative to the availability of such materials elsewhere on the market. To the extent that these requirements are not met, third parties may have the right to terminate the availability of said audiovisual recordings on their platform. Upon written request, We will provide You with current details of these requirements.
You agree that We may charge all Service fees to the payment method (e.g., credit card, PayPal account, debit card, etc.) You have provided in Your account. You are responsible for the timely payment of all Service Fees. It is Your responsibility to notify Us if your payment method has changed by making the appropriate changes to Your account settings. If You do not provide a valid payment method, or if You’re designated payment method is determined by Us to be inactive for any reason, We may immediately discontinue providing Services to You. You agree not to cause Your credit or debit card company to reverse or “chargeback” any Service fees charged in accordance with these TOS; and in the event you do so, We may terminate Your use of the Site and Service, and You agree to reimburse Us for any costs incurred in responding to such chargeback, including, without limitation, Our actual costs paid to the credit or debit card company, including chargeback fees, and the value of the time Our employees spend on the matter as determined in Our discretion in good faith.
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Violation of TOS - Termination
You agree that We may terminate any account (or any part thereof) to which You may have access through Our Site and remove and delete all or any part of Your account, at any time for any reason (including, without limitation, Your violation of the TOS), or for no reason, at Our sole discretion. You agree that your access to Our Site or any account You may have, or any part thereof, may be terminated without notice, and You agree that We shall not be liable to You or to any third party for any such termination. These remedies are in addition to any other remedies We may have at law or in equity.
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Indemnification - Liability
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Us and Our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates or any other related companies (including those sharing substantial common ownership) and the officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives of any of them from and against any and all claims, losses, obligations, damages, liabilities, costs, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys' fees) arising out of
(a) Your use or misuse of Our Site;
(b) Your violation of these TOS;
(c) Your violation of the rights of any other person or entity, including claims that any of Your content infringes or violates any intellectual property rights of third parties;
(d) Your breach of the foregoing representations, warranties and covenants; and
(e) any unauthorized use of Your account not caused by Us. We reserve the right, at Your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which You are required to indemnify Us, and You agree to cooperate with Our defense of such claims. You agree not to settle any matter involving Your indemnification obligations without Our prior written consent. We will use reasonable efforts to inform You of any claim, action or proceeding as soon as it becomes aware of it.
We do not warrant that Our Materials, Site or any other information communicated through Our Site will be uninterrupted or free of errors, viruses or other harmful components, and We do not warrant that any of the foregoing will be corrected.
You acknowledge and agree that any use of, access to, downloading of or obtaining of any information, materials or data through Our Site is at your sole discretion and risk and that You will be solely responsible for any damage to Your property (including your computer system) or loss of data that results from the use of, access to, or downloading of any such materials or data.
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Limitation of Liability
In no event, including, but not limited to, negligence, shall We or Our third party partners, licensors or suppliers, be liable for any special, indirect, incidental, consequential or exemplary damages (including, but not limited to, loss of profits, data, use or cost of coverage) arising out of or in connection with these TOS or which result from Your use of or inability to use the Our Materials and/or Our Site or any other interaction with Us, even if We are aware of the possibility of such damages.
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Copyright compliance procedure
Claims for Infringement
If You are a copyright owner or an agent thereof, and believe that a User content infringes Your copyright or intellectual property rights, You may submit a notification pursuant to European Parliament Directive 2000/31/EC, European Parliament Directive (EU) 2019/790, by providing Us with the following information in writing:
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right allegedly infringed.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works, or a link or URL to all such works.
The location of the allegedly infringing or infringing-activity material on the Site that is to be removed, including the link or URL to such material on the Site; A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement that the information contained in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that has allegedly been infringed.
You may send this infringement notification to Our Copyright Officer:
Failure to provide Us all of the above information will result in a delay in processing Your notification and may require You to repeat all or part of the above process.
Notification and removal
Upon receipt of proper notification of alleged copyright infringement, We will respond promptly by removing or disabling access to the allegedly infringing material or material that is the subject of infringing activity, as described below.
If Your content posted on Our Site has been removed for copyright or intellectual property infringement and You wish to contest such removal, You can proceed to a counter-notification.
You must provide Our Copyright Officer, at the address indicated above, with a written communication setting out the elements listed below.
Please note that any person who knowingly makes a material misrepresentation that the item or activity has been removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be held liable. Please also note that we have a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of infringing Users. Therefore, if you are unsure whether certain material infringes your copyright, we suggest that you first contact a lawyer.
To enable Us to proceed of Your counter-notification, please provide Us the following elements:
Identify the specific URLs (or other information sufficient to allow us to identify) the item that We have removed or to which We have disabled access.
Provide Your full name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and, if You are a registered user, the username of Your account.
Provide a statement that You consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of South Africa and that You will accept service of process from the person who made the notification to our Copyright Referent in accordance with the procedure described above, or to an agent of your choice.
Include the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that the material was removed or deactivated as a result of an error or misidentification of the material to be removed or deactivated".
Sign the notification. If You send the notification by e-mail, a scanned physical signature or a valid electronic signature will be accepted. Send the communication to the following address: SOL Distro, Unit No 106, Kingshaven Estate, 1011 Otto Du Plessis Drive, 7441 South Africa.
Upon receipt of your counter-notification, We will forward it to the party who filed the original copyright infringement complaint. Please note that when We forward the counter-notification, it will include all personally identifiable information You provided in the counter-notification. By sending a counter-notification, You consent to the disclosure of such personally identifiable information in this manner.
After sending the counter-notification, the claimant must then notify Us within ten (10) days that it has filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to prevent You from engaging in infringing activity relating to the materials on Our Site. If we receive such notice, We will not be able to restore the materials. If We do not receive such notice, We may, but are not obligated to, restore the infringing content(s).
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Notices
We may send You notices, including those regarding changes to these TOS, by e-mail, regular mail or by posting on Our Site. If notice is given by e-mail or postal mail, it will be sent to the e-mail or postal address you provided by creating Your account and it is Your responsibility to update such information to reflect any changes. Notification to you will be deemed to have been effected twenty-four hours after e-mail is sent, unless We are informed that the e-mail address is invalid, and if sent by post, three (3) days after the date of posting. You may only notify Us by mail at the following address :SOL Distro, a South African company, located at Unit No 106, Kingshaven Estate, 1011 Otto Du Plessis Drive, 7441 South Africa
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Applicable law
These TOS shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of South Africa, without giving effect to any principles of conflict of laws.
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Jurisdiction
The courts of South Africa shall have exclusive jurisdiction to deal with any dispute arising under these TOS.
You agree not to file or participate in any class action against Us.
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Severability
If any provision of these TOS shall be unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these TOS and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
No relationship
You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship exists between You and Us as a result of these TOS use of Our Site and Services.
Assignment
These General TOS and the rights and licenses granted hereunder may not be transferred or assigned by You. These TOS and all rights and licenses granted hereunder may be transferred or assigned by Us to any affiliate or to any third party without restriction. Any attempted assignment in violation of these Terms and Conditions shall be void.
Entire Agreement
This document constitutes the entire agreement between You and Us with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior communications, representations, understandings and agreements, oral or written, between the parties with respect to such subject matter.
This TOS was last updated in April 22nd of 2025