Terms of Service

Effective date: 10 June 2026 Last updated: 10 June 2026

Welcome to Simuze. We're a platform for musicians, fans, labels, and venues to share music, discover each other, and sell music and live shows directly. These Terms of Service ("Terms") are the agreement between you and us. Please read them — they're written to be understandable, but they are legally binding.

If you don't agree with these Terms, please don't use Simuze.

1. Who we are

Simuze is operated by Atypisch.nl, a company registered in the Netherlands.

Registered office: Europalaan 2b, 3525KS Utrecht
KvK (Chamber of Commerce) number: 08092524
VAT number: NL001582477B96
Contact: admin@simuze.com

In these Terms, "Simuze", "we", "us", and "our" mean Atypisch.nl operating the Simuze platform. "You" and "your" mean you, the person using Simuze.

The Simuze platform is part of a wider ecosystem operated by Atypisch.nl, including SIMEZU.com (account and payment services), Wemazu.com (infrastructure), and Rozuro (invoicing for professional sellers). Where these services are involved in your use of Simuze, they're covered by these Terms or referenced where they have their own.

2. What Simuze does

Simuze offers four things:

A community network for musicians, labels, venues, and fans to create profiles, follow each other, message, and form groups.
A music platform where artists and labels can upload music (singles and albums) and offer it for free streaming, paid downloads, or both.
A live shows platform where organisers can list events and sell tickets.
Geographic discovery — automatic city, province, and country groups so people can find music and shows near them.

We may add, change, or remove features. We'll tell you about meaningful changes in advance where reasonably possible.

3. Your account

To upload music, sell tickets, buy anything, or participate in groups, you need an account. Accounts on Simuze are provided through SIMEZU.com, our shared identity service.

Simuze is open to anyone. If you are under 16, you need a parent or guardian to agree to these Terms with you and to stay involved in your account.
Buying and selling on Simuze involves payments, so if you are under 18 you should only do that with your parent or guardian's permission.
You must provide accurate information and keep it up to date.
You're responsible for everything that happens under your account. Keep your password safe.
One person, one account. Bands, labels, and venues can have group accounts; that's a separate type, see below.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these Terms (see section 14).

4. Roles on Simuze

Simuze recognises several roles. The role determines what you can do:

Fan — anyone with an account. Can stream, buy, follow, message, comment, and join public groups.
Artist / Band / Label / Venue / Organiser — accounts that represent a music project, label, venue, or event organiser. These can upload music, list events, sell tickets, and run group pages.
Group admin / moderator — appointed by a group owner. Can manage that group's content and members.
Simuze staff — Simuze employees with platform-level moderation or administrative roles, managed via SIMEZU's role system.

Roles related to selling are subject to the Seller Terms at /legal/sellers, which form part of these Terms.

5. Commercial model: who sells to whom

This is important to understand:

For all paid transactions on Simuze — music downloads and event tickets — Simuze is the seller of record. When you buy something on Simuze, you are buying from Simuze, not directly from the artist or organiser. We issue the invoice, we collect VAT, and we are your contractual counterparty.

Behind the scenes, we pay the artist or organiser their share of the sale, minus our platform fee. This arrangement is called a "marketplace" or "commissionaire" model and is permitted under EU law (Council Directive (EU) 2017/2455 and the relevant Dutch implementations).

Our fees and the typical artist payout are set out transparently on the Fair Trade Policy at /legal/fair-trade.

The artist or organiser remains responsible for the content and delivery of what they offer:

For music: that they own the rights and that the files are what they claim to be.
For shows: that the show actually takes place as advertised.

If something goes wrong, we'll help resolve it (see section 11 and the Refund Policy at /legal/refunds).

6. Your content

When you post anything on Simuze — music, artwork, photos, biography text, comments, messages, event details, anything — you keep the copyright. We don't claim ownership of your work.

You do grant us the licences we need to run the platform:

A non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, stream, transmit, and (where you've enabled selling) sell your content through the Simuze platform, for as long as you keep it uploaded.
The right to make technically necessary copies — encoding, thumbnailing, caching, backups — to deliver the service.
The right to display your content in our own promotion of Simuze (for example, featuring an album on our homepage, sharing a quote in a press piece). We'll always credit you. If you don't want this, you can opt out in your account settings.

You do not grant us:

The right to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models on your content, or to allow third parties to do so. See our AI and Data Use Policy at /legal/ai.
The right to license your content to third parties outside the Simuze platform without your specific consent.
The right to keep using your content after you remove it (with normal exceptions for backups in transit and legally required retention).

You promise that:

You own or have permission to upload everything you post.
Your content doesn't break the law or anyone else's rights.
Your content complies with our Acceptable Use Policy at /legal/acceptable-use.

If a third party claims your content infringes their rights, our Copyright Policy at /legal/copyright explains what happens.

7. Buying things on Simuze

When you buy a download or a ticket:

You pay through SIMEZU's payment system.
You receive a confirmation and an invoice from Simuze.
For downloads: you get an account-bound right to download the files (and re-download from your library).
For tickets: you receive a ticket valid for the listed event, subject to the organiser's specific terms shown at checkout.
All prices are shown including VAT.
Right of withdrawal for digital content is limited under Dutch law once delivery has started with your consent (more in the Refund Policy).

8. Selling things on Simuze

If you want to sell music or tickets, you must accept the Seller Terms at /legal/sellers in addition to these Terms. In short:

We take a transparent platform fee.
Payment processor fees are passed through.
You can be a private seller or a professional seller (trader). Professional sellers handle their own VAT through Rozuro self-billing or their own invoicing; private sellers receive net payouts.
Professional sellers (traders) must verify their identity under DSA art. 30.

9. Free streaming and downloads

Artists can offer their work for free. Free streaming is unlimited; we don't put it behind a paywall or use it to push you to a subscription. We don't run ads in the player. We don't track what you stream beyond what's needed to make the service work and to count plays for the artist.

10. Community conduct

How you treat other people on Simuze matters. The Acceptable Use Policy at /legal/acceptable-use sets out the specifics. The short version:

Be respectful. Disagreement is fine; harassment isn't.
No illegal content. No content that endangers minors. No targeted hate.
No spam, no scams, no impersonation.
No circumventing platform fees or moving transactions off-platform to avoid them.

We may remove content and suspend accounts that breach these rules. We follow due process: you'll get notice and a chance to respond unless an immediate action is necessary (for example, illegal content). See our DSA Transparency Statement at /legal/dsa-transparency for how we handle moderation.

11. When something goes wrong

For sales-related issues — undelivered downloads, cancelled shows, broken files — please first contact the artist or organiser through their Simuze page. If that doesn't resolve it, contact us at admin@simuze.com and we'll step in. See the Refund Policy for specifics.

For content disputes — a copyright claim, an impersonation, harmful content — use the reporting tools on the relevant page or email admin@simuze.com. See the Copyright Policy and Acceptable Use Policy.

12. Things we don't promise

We work hard to keep Simuze running well, but we have to be honest about what we don't guarantee:

We don't guarantee the service is uninterrupted, error-free, or bug-free.
We don't guarantee any specific content will remain available forever (artists and labels can remove their work).
We don't guarantee any specific result from using Simuze (audience growth, sales, anything).
We don't endorse the views, content, or claims of users.

To the extent permitted by Dutch law, Simuze is provided "as is". Our liability for any indirect, consequential, or incidental damages is excluded. Our total liability to you for direct damages in any twelve-month period is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you've paid to Simuze in that period or (b) €100.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under Dutch law (including liability for intent or gross negligence, or our liability to consumers under mandatory consumer protection rules).

13. Indemnification

If a third party brings a claim against Simuze because of content you posted or because you breached these Terms, you'll cover our reasonable costs of dealing with it, except where the claim relates to something Simuze did wrong itself.

14. Suspension and termination

You can close your account at any time from your account settings, or by emailing admin@simuze.com.

We can suspend or close your account if:

You materially breach these Terms or any policy that forms part of them.
You use Simuze for illegal activity.
We're legally required to.
Your account has been inactive for more than 24 months and we've notified you (this won't apply to accounts with purchased content in their library, which we'll preserve).

When an account closes:

Purchased content remains downloadable from your library for at least 90 days, where technically possible.
Outstanding seller payouts will be settled in the next scheduled payout cycle, minus any disputed amounts.
Some data is retained for legal and accounting reasons (see the Privacy Policy).

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes, we'll notify registered users by email or in-app at least 30 days before they take effect. If you keep using Simuze after that, you accept the new Terms. If you don't, you can close your account.

Minor changes (typo fixes, clarifications, references to new features that don't change your rights) take effect when published. The "Last updated" date at the top will always reflect the most recent change.

16. The legal small print

Governing law: Dutch law applies to these Terms.
Jurisdiction: Disputes go before the courts of [ATYPISCH_DISTRICT, e.g. Midden-Nederland, Utrecht], unless mandatory consumer rules require otherwise.
Consumer rights: Nothing in these Terms limits your rights as a consumer under Dutch or EU law. If a clause conflicts with such mandatory rights, that clause doesn't apply to you to that extent.
EU dispute resolution: Consumers in the EU can use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr — though we'd much rather resolve things directly first.
Severability: If a clause is unenforceable, the rest still applies.
No waiver: If we don't enforce something immediately, that's not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
Assignment: You can't transfer your account or rights under these Terms without our consent. We may transfer our rights and obligations to a successor entity (for example, if Atypisch.nl is restructured), with notice.
Entire agreement: These Terms, together with the policies they reference, are the whole agreement between you and us about Simuze.

17. Contact

For anything about these Terms: admin@simuze.com For privacy questions: support@atypisch.nl For abuse, copyright, and reporting: admin@simuze.com

Thanks for reading. Welcome to Simuze.