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These Terms govern your use of Spotify and contain several terms that significantly limit your rights. If something goes wrong, the most money you can recover from Spotify is capped at what you paid Spotify in the past year or $30.00, whichever is greater, and you cannot join a class action — any dispute must go through individual arbitration. Spotify can also remove your uploaded content at any time without warning and change its Service offerings without notice.
Spotify's Terms and Conditions establish the conditions under which users may access and use the Spotify Service, imposing significant limitations on Spotify's liability and users' legal remedies. The agreement caps Spotify's aggregate financial liability at the greater of amounts paid in the prior twelve months or $30.00, excludes indirect, consequential, punitive, and exemplary damages, and disclaims all warranties on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis. Users must resolve disputes through mandatory individual arbitration and are barred from participating in class proceedings in any forum, with a one-year contractual limitation period on all claims. Spotify acquires a non-exclusive, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, worldwide license over User Content, and reserves the right to remove User Content for any or no reason without prior notice and to alter Service offerings without notice or liability.
As a Spotify user, your ability to recover money from Spotify for any claim is hard-capped at the greater of what you paid Spotify in the prior twelve months or $30.00, and you cannot pursue or join a class action in any forum. Spotify makes no warranties about the quality or availability of its Service, will not refund partial subscription periods unless law or the Terms expressly require it, and bills your payment method automatically at the then-current subscription fee each billing period. Any claim you bring must be started within one year of when you first knew or reasonably should have known of the issue. If you upload content to Spotify, the license you grant is irrevocable and sublicensable, and Spotify may remove that content at any time without advance notice. Users aged 13–17 must have parental or guardian consent to use the Service, and users under 13 are not permitted to use it at all.
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