Bandcamp
Terms of Use | Bandcamp
Bandcamp is an online music marketplace and service where artists offer digital music, merchandise, and subscriptions to fans.
Analyzed August 14, 2026
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Users must commence service-related causes of action within one year after they arise or they are permanently barred.
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Bandcamp collects account information and automatically collects website activity data, including logs, cookies, IP address, browser information, and usage metrics.
From: Privacy | BandcampPrivacy Policy Effective Date: September 23, 2025 Bandcamp Ventures LLC (“Bandcamp”) knows that you care about how your Personal Data is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, share, and safeguard your Personal Data when you access the www.bandcamp.com website and domain name, mobile applications, and any other linked pages, features, content, or application services offered from time to time by Bandcamp in connection therewith (collectively, the “Service”), or otherwise interact with us. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Bandcamp does not own or control, or to individuals that Bandcamp does not employ or manage. “Personal Data” means any data related to an identified or identifiable individual. By accessing or using the Service, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy. What Personal Data Does Bandcamp Collect? User information, such as the name, username, password, email address, photograph or other likeness, settings, associations with bands and fans, purchase history, and any other information you provide in connection with your user account. User financial information, such as your credit or debit card number, bank account number, and billing and shipping address. This information is collected and processed by our payment processor, as necessary to complete your purchase. We do not receive your credit card information directly, but we may receive information about the transaction, such as the date and time it occurred. This information may or may not be associated with an existing user or fan account on the website. Band information, such as user-provided biography, location, and tags. Band financial information, such as Paypal account(s), Stripe account(s), Pro/label subscriptions, and payouts. Fan information, such as the user-provided name, email address, country of residence, zip/postal code, picture, location, and biography. Emails and messages, including receipts, newsletters, and support contact. This information consists of the emails we send to individuals, and the messages that users may send to one another. In addition to the above, we may automatically collect the following types of information: Website activity information, such as application logs, data files, information collected by cookies, IP address, browser information, and metrics generated in the normal operation of a website. “Application logs” are text files in which are recorded most of the activities on a website, including page visits, payments, and usage. Website activity information is sometimes associated with an IP address or other Personal Data. Third parties may also collect information about your website activity over time and on other websites or mobile applications. Information collected via cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our site are visited and by how many people. Other than as explicitly outlined in the ‘Analytics and Third-Party Tracking Technologies’ section below (applicable only where you have actively consented to the use of advertising cookies), Bandcamp cookies do not collect Personal Data, and we do not combine the general information collected through cookies with other Personal Data to tell us who you are or what your screen name or email address is. Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways.View source document
Bandcamp may share Personal Data with group members, including affiliates, when disclosure is reasonably necessary or desirable for stated processing purposes.
From: Privacy | BandcampMembers of our Group: We may share your Personal Data with any members of our group, which includes our affiliates, employees, subsidiaries and branch offices, to which it is reasonably necessary or desirable for us to disclose your data in order to carry out the above-mentioned data processing purposes.View source document
Users grant Company a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, and transferable license to exploit User Submissions in connection with the Site, Service, and Company's business.
From: Terms of Use | Bandcampby Submitting any User Submissions through the Site or the Service, you hereby grant Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform (including on a through-to-the-audience basis and by means of a digital audio transmission), communicate to the public, synchronize and otherwise fully exploit the User Submissions in connection with the Site, the Service and Company’s (and its successors and assigns’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Site (and derivative works thereof) or the Service in any media formats and through any media channels (including, without limitation, third party websites), whether now known or hereafter developed.View source document
The Company may terminate access to all or any part of the Service at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, and effective immediately.
From: Terms of Use | BandcampCompany may terminate your access to all or any part of the Service at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately, which may result in the forfeiture and destruction of all information associated with your membership, including, without limitation, any access to any Music you may have purchased through the Service.View source document
Users must commence service-related causes of action within one year after they arise or they are permanently barred.
From: Terms of Use | BandcampBecause Company is not the buyer or seller in any actual Merchandise Transaction between Artists and fans and is not the agent of either for any purpose, Company does not have the duty to resolve and will not be involved in resolving any disputes between participants related to or arising out of any such Merchandise Transaction. Artists are individually responsible for compliance with all consumer rights laws applicable to their Merchandise Transactions, including EU and UK Consumer Rights Laws. International/Non-California Use. Other than its requirements to comply with the EU’s Digital Services Act, Company makes no representation that the Content is appropriate or available for use in locations outside of California, and accessing the Service is prohibited from territories where such Content is illegal. Save in respect of users based in the EU, if you access the Service from other locations, you do so at your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. Dispute Resolution. A printed version of these Terms of Use and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to these Terms of Use to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. You and Company agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to the Service must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action arose; otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred. These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, excluding its conflicts of law rules, and the United States of America.View source document
Payments for purchased Artist Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each subscription period unless canceled before that period ends. This finding is limited to Terms of Use | Bandcamp.
From: Terms of Use | BandcampHowever, you understand and agree that Bandcamp is a platform that Artists use to sell their products, and the Digital Content is derived from files provided by the relevant Artist, and the relevant Artist is solely responsible for such files. Your total price for each Transaction will include the price of the product plus any applicable tax. If a Transaction is subject to any type of sales tax, value added tax, goods and services tax, or similar indirect tax (collectively, “Sales Tax”), then you agree that we may charge you for those Sales Taxes and that you will pay all the fees and Sales Taxes you incur as applicable. If you purchase an Artist Subscription, your payment for such Artist Subscription will automatically renew at the end of the applicable subscription period, unless you cancel your Artist Subscription before the end of the current subscription period. The cancellation will take effect the day after the last day of the current subscription period. Content you purchase in a Transaction cannot be guaranteed to be available to you perpetually. For example, if we receive a notification of claimed infringement from a copyright owner or its agent with respect to specific Content, then we may be required by law to remove that Content from the Service and not make it available for future sale and we may also have to deny continued access to anyone who previously purchased such Content. This means that you may lose access to purchased Content previously available to you through the Service. If we are required by law to deny access through the Service to previously purchased Content, including by removing access to Content from a user’s personal collection through any mobile application, then Company will not provide the user who purchased that Content with a refund, except as required by applicable law.View source document