Terms of Service

Last Updated: June 7th, 2026

Welcome to Recordbuilds. These Terms of Service, the “Terms,” govern your access to and use of recordbuilds.com, builder.recordbuilds.com, and any related pages, products, features, tools, emails, content, community areas, and services we operate, collectively, the “Site.”

“Recordbuilds,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Recordbuilds L.L.C.

By accessing or using the Site, creating an account, submitting content, uploading images, publishing a build, clicking affiliate links, or participating in community features, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

1) Who We Are

Recordbuilds L.L.C. operates the Site.

Contact email: info@recordbuilds.com
Mailing address: 1388 Haight St #1036, San Francisco, CA 94117

2) What the Site Is

Recordbuilds provides educational content, planning tools, setup-building tools, public and private profile features, community features, and related resources centered around vinyl gear, listening setups, audio equipment, and related topics.

The Site may allow you to:

browse educational articles, guides, product pages, and community content;
use setup-building or planning tools;
create an account or profile;
create, save, edit, publish, or share builds;
upload photos, avatars, cover images, comments, and other content;
view, vote on, comment on, fork, or otherwise interact with public community content;
access links to third-party retailers, creators, brands, social platforms, or other services.

The Site is intended to be helpful and educational, but it is not a guarantee of product compatibility, safety, quality, availability, or outcome.

3) No Professional Advice

The Site and all content, scores, recommendations, compatibility guidance, rankings, and community information are provided for general informational and educational purposes only.

Recordbuilds does not provide engineering, electrical, installation, repair, legal, financial, tax, or other professional advice.

You are solely responsible for verifying:

compatibility and suitability of any products;
safe setup, installation, and use;
pricing, availability, shipping, taxes, warranties, and returns;
whether any product, setup, or recommendation is appropriate for your room, needs, preferences, and budget.

You use the Site and any information on it at your own risk.

4) Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Site. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the Site only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian.

The Site is not directed to children under 13, and you may not use the Site or submit personal information if you are under 13.

We may impose additional age or eligibility requirements for specific features, promotions, contests, rewards, or community activities.

5) Accounts and Account Security

Some Site features require an account.

If you create or use an account, you agree that:

you will provide accurate, current information;
you will keep your login credentials secure;
you are responsible for activity under your account;
you will not impersonate another person or entity;
you will not create fake accounts, duplicate accounts for manipulation, or accounts intended to spam, scrape, or abuse the Site.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your account, profile, content, or access if we believe there is abuse, fraud, impersonation, harassment, scraping, automation, infringement, vote manipulation, security risk, or other harmful behavior.

6) Public Profiles, Public Builds, and Community Features

The Site may allow you to create a public profile, make content public, or participate in community features such as community pages, featured lists, setup directories, voting, comments, badges, rankings, “setup of the week” style modules, or other public-facing features.

If you choose to make content public, you understand and agree that your public content may be:

visible to visitors and other users;
indexed or cached by search engines;
displayed across profile pages, feeds, community pages, featured sections, rankings, badges, directories, and similar Site surfaces;
shown with your display name, username, profile image, cover image, build title, build description, votes, comments, scores, or other public-facing metadata;
highlighted, shared, excerpted, screenshotted, reposted, featured, or promoted by Recordbuilds in connection with the Site, our emails, our social media, our ads, our marketing materials, and the Recordbuilds brand.

Public content should be treated as public. Do not include sensitive or confidential information in usernames, profile text, build names, descriptions, notes, comments, custom fields, or uploads.

We do not guarantee that any public content will remain visible, ranked, featured, or available in any specific place or format.

7) User Content

“User Content” means any content you upload, submit, post, create, transmit, or otherwise make available through the Site, including:

profile information;
usernames and display names;
build titles and descriptions;
profile photos, avatars, build images, room photos, and cover images;
comments and other community posts;
custom component entries or notes;
votes, reactions, tags, forks, badges, and related interactions;
photos, text, graphics, and other materials.

You retain ownership of your User Content, subject to the rights you grant in these Terms.

8) License You Grant to Recordbuilds

By submitting or making available any User Content through the Site, you grant Recordbuilds a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to:

host;
store;
cache;
reproduce;
modify for technical or presentation purposes, such as cropping, resizing, compression, formatting, or layout adjustments;
publish;
display;
distribute;
perform;
promote;
feature;
use in connection with the operation, improvement, promotion, and marketing of the Site and the Recordbuilds brand.

This includes the right to use public User Content in connection with:

public profiles;
public builds;
community pages and feeds;
setup directories;
featured lists and badges;
editorial or promotional showcases;
email newsletters and product emails;
social posts, screenshots, ads, and other promotional materials;
partner pages, brand showcases, or sponsorship-related materials where applicable.

You can stop future public display of certain content by deleting it, changing it to private where that option exists, or closing your account, but you understand that:

cached or archived copies may persist for some time;
prior promotional uses may continue where already created or published;
emails already sent may still contain the content;
social posts already published may remain available;
third parties may already have copied, shared, screenshotted, downloaded, or saved public content.

9) Your Promises About User Content

You represent and warrant that:

you own your User Content or have all rights and permissions needed to submit it and grant the license above;
your User Content does not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any copyright, trademark, trade secret, publicity, privacy, or other rights of any person or entity;
your User Content is not unlawful, defamatory, obscene, hateful, threatening, harassing, misleading, fraudulent, or otherwise prohibited by these Terms or applicable law;
if your User Content includes another person’s likeness, property, home, room, private information, or protected material, you have any permission needed to submit it and allow Recordbuilds to use it as described in these Terms;
your User Content does not include people, children, addresses, mail, IDs, private documents, or sensitive details unless you have the right to share them and want them public.

We may remove, hide, edit, restrict, or disable User Content at any time if we believe it violates these Terms, our policies, applicable law, or the spirit of the Recordbuilds community.

10) Community Rules and Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Site to:

break the law or encourage unlawful conduct;
infringe or violate another person’s rights;
impersonate another person, creator, brand, or business;
harass, threaten, intimidate, stalk, or abuse others;
post hateful, discriminatory, sexually explicit, violent, or otherwise inappropriate content;
post private information about another person without permission;
spam, self-promote abusively, or flood community surfaces;
upload malware, harmful code, or security exploits;
scrape, harvest, or bulk extract Site data without permission;
use bots, scripts, or automation to create accounts, post content, vote, comment, click links, or manipulate engagement;
manipulate rankings, badges, votes, featured status, rewards, contests, referrals, or community visibility;
bypass limits, security measures, or access controls;
attempt to access private builds, private accounts, systems, databases, or non-public areas;
interfere with the Site’s performance, stability, or integrity;
misrepresent brand relationships, sponsorships, endorsements, product experiences, or affiliate relationships.

We may investigate misuse and may remove content, invalidate votes, revoke badges, reset metrics, restrict visibility, suspend accounts, or take any other action we consider appropriate.

11) Voting, Rankings, Badges, and Featured Placement

The Site may include votes, rankings, badges, featured placements, trending lists, editorial showcases, setup directories, and similar community signals.

These features are offered at our discretion. We may:

change how they work;
add or remove eligibility criteria;
remove fraudulent or suspicious engagement;
adjust rankings or featured placement;
revoke badges or labels;
limit or disable participation for some users or builds.

You have no guaranteed right to keep any vote total, rank, badge, featured placement, reward eligibility, or community status.

Any attempt to manipulate votes, rankings, visibility, rewards, or community status through fake accounts, automation, purchased engagement, vote trading, brigading, or similar tactics may result in removal, disqualification, suspension, or termination.

12) Community Rewards, Setup Milestones, and Promotions

Recordbuilds may offer community rewards, setup milestone rewards, weekly giveaways, badges, featured placements, custom URLs, editorial spotlights, profile highlights, vinyl record prizes, PR packages, gift cards, store credits, gear, paid creator opportunities, or other benefits to recognize authentic community participation, helpful setup pages, and genuine engagement.

Rewards, contests, giveaways, and promotions may be subject to separate rules, eligibility requirements, deadlines, prize terms, judging criteria, and restrictions.

Unless otherwise stated in separate rules, reaching a milestone, receiving engagement, or appearing in a featured area does not automatically guarantee a prize, package, payment, feature, call, or other benefit. Rewards may be subject to verification, availability, shipping limitations, legal eligibility, tax or payment requirements, content review, and Recordbuilds approval.

Recordbuilds may require participants to complete identity, age, location, eligibility, originality, tax, payment, prize acceptance, publicity release, shipping, or other verification before issuing any prize, gift card, gear, PR package, cash-equivalent reward, paid opportunity, referral payout, affiliate-style payout, or creator compensation.

Recordbuilds may withhold, substitute, revoke, or decline to issue any reward if issuing the reward could create legal, tax, payment, shipping, fraud, eligibility, immigration, employment, platform, or compliance concerns.

Community rewards and setup milestone rewards are intended to recognize authentic participation and helpful community contributions. They do not create an employment, contractor, agency, partnership, ambassador, affiliate, or joint venture relationship unless Recordbuilds separately enters into a written agreement with the participant.

If a participant posts publicly about Recordbuilds, a Recordbuilds reward, PR package, prize, paid opportunity, or other benefit, the participant is responsible for clearly disclosing any material connection where required by law, platform rules, or applicable advertising guidelines.

Recordbuilds may modify, pause, discontinue, or replace any community reward, setup milestone reward, weekly giveaway, badge, feature, prize, PR package, or related program at any time.

13) Comments and Interactions

If comments or interactive community features are available, you are solely responsible for what you post.

We do not guarantee that comments or interactions will be accurate, useful, respectful, or safe. We are not obligated to monitor all content, but we may monitor, moderate, remove, hide, filter, restrict, or disable comments and interactive features at any time.

14) Builder and Product-Specific Features

Certain Site features, including the setup builder, compatibility guidance, public builds, forking, votes, scores, pricing displays, and similar functions, may also be governed by separate builder terms, community rules, contest rules, or feature-specific rules.

If feature-specific terms exist, they supplement these Terms.

15) Affiliate Links, Sponsorships, and Third-Party Links

Some links on the Site may be affiliate links. If you click and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.

Recordbuilds participates in the Amazon Associates Program and may also participate in other affiliate programs, sponsored content, discount code programs, paid partnerships, brand relationships, creator partnerships, or similar monetization programs.

The Site may link to third-party retailers, creators, brands, social platforms, tools, and other services. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, pricing, policies, shipping, returns, warranties, customer service, outages, privacy practices, or security.

Any transaction or interaction you have with a third party is solely between you and that third party.

16) Product Information and Recommendations

The Site may include product information, setup recommendations, gear ratings, prices, compatibility notes, editorial opinions, automated suggestions, user-submitted information, and community rankings.

We do our best to provide useful information, but we do not guarantee that product information, prices, availability, specifications, compatibility, ratings, images, recommendations, scores, or rankings are accurate, complete, current, safe, or suitable for your specific needs.

Before buying, you should verify product details, compatibility, pricing, shipping, returns, warranties, and other purchase terms with the retailer or manufacturer.

17) Intellectual Property

Except for User Content, the Site and its original content, design, layout, text, graphics, logos, trademarks, photos, software, code, databases, and other materials are owned by Recordbuilds or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property and other laws.

You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, sell, license, modify, create derivative works from, publicly display, reverse engineer, scrape, or otherwise exploit our content, software, data, or systems without our prior written permission, except as permitted by law.

Third-party names, logos, brands, products, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Use of third-party names or trademarks does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation unless expressly stated.

18) Copyright Complaints

If you believe content on the Site infringes your copyright, please send a notice to:

Recordbuilds Copyright Agent
1388 Haight St #1036
San Francisco, CA 94117
info@recordbuilds.com

Please include enough information for us to review the claim, including:

the URL or location of the allegedly infringing content;
a description of the copyrighted work or rights at issue;
your contact information;
a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized;
a statement that the information in your notice is accurate;
your physical or electronic signature.

We may remove or disable access to allegedly infringing material and may terminate repeat infringers where appropriate.

We may create a separate Copyright / DMCA Policy with additional details in the future.

19) Privacy

Your use of the Site is also subject to our Privacy Policy.

Depending on how you use the Site, we may collect account information, profile information, uploads, comments, voting activity, analytics data, communications data, affiliate interaction data, and other information described in the Privacy Policy.

20) Emails and Communications

By creating an account, using Site features, submitting content, or participating in community features, you agree that we may send you service-related communications, such as:

account notices;
verification emails;
password reset emails;
moderation notices;
security notices;
feature updates;
build or profile status notifications;
contest, reward, or community participation notices.

If you opt in to marketing or promotional emails, we may also send you newsletters, community highlights, featured-build emails, product announcements, and similar promotional messages. You can unsubscribe from promotional emails using the link provided in those messages, but we may still send service-related communications where permitted by law.

21) Changes to the Site

We may change, suspend, limit, or discontinue any part of the Site at any time, with or without notice, including:

content;
profiles;
community features;
builder logic;
products and data;
scores and rankings;
comments and votes;
badges and featured sections;
rewards and promotional programs;
integrations;
email features;
security or anti-abuse protections.

We are not liable for any modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the Site or its features.

22) Disclaimers

The Site and all related content, features, tools, and services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Recordbuilds disclaims all warranties, express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, reliability, and availability.

We do not guarantee that the Site will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, accurate, complete, or free from viruses or other harmful components.

23) Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Recordbuilds and its affiliates, owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, licensors, agents, and service providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, business opportunities, or other intangible losses arising out of or related to:

your use of or inability to use the Site;
your reliance on Site information, scores, rankings, or recommendations;
public posting or sharing of content;
third-party links, products, or services;
content posted by other users;
moderation decisions;
removal of content, badges, votes, rankings, rewards, or visibility;
outages, bugs, security incidents, or unauthorized access;
changes to the Site or any feature within it.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, if Recordbuilds is found liable for any claim related to the Site, our total liability will not exceed the greater of: (a) one hundred U.S. dollars (US $100), or (b) the amount you paid, if any, to Recordbuilds for the specific service giving rise to the claim during the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

24) Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Recordbuilds and its affiliates, owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, licensors, agents, and service providers from and against any claims, demands, actions, liabilities, damages, judgments, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or related to:

your use of the Site;
your User Content;
your violation of these Terms;
your infringement or violation of any rights of another person or entity;
your misuse of community features, public profiles, voting systems, rewards, contests, or other Site functionality.

25) Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Site, remove your content, disable your profile, or restrict your use of any feature at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you violated these Terms, posed a risk to the community or product, or created legal, security, or reputational risk.

You may stop using the Site at any time.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including sections relating to licenses, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, governing law, and dispute-related provisions.

26) Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

You agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Delaware for any dispute arising out of or relating to the Site, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

27) Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time by posting a revised version on the Site. Changes are effective when posted unless a later effective date is stated.

Your continued use of the Site after updated Terms are posted means you accept the revised Terms.

28) Contact

Questions, copyright complaints, or Terms-related issues may be sent to:

Recordbuilds L.L.C.
Email: info@recordbuilds.com
Mailing Address: 1388 Haight St #1036, San Francisco, CA 94117