Cade Meridian

Effective date: 9/10/2026 Last updated: 9/10/206

Welcome. These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and [LEGAL ENTITY NAME] ("Cade Meridian," "we," "us," or "our"), covering your use of cademeridian.com and any related pages, stores, downloads, mailing lists, and community spaces we operate (together, the "Site").

By using the Site, buying anything from it, or downloading anything from it, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the Site.

1. Who we are

Cade Meridian is an independent publishing and music imprint based in Nevada, United States. We publish fiction and release music under the Cade Meridian name. Questions about these Terms email [cade@cademeridian.com].

2. Who may use the Site

You must be at least 16 years old to buy from the Site, download from it, or sign up for our mailing list. If you're between 13 and 16, you may browse the Site with a parent or guardian's permission but shouldn't submit any personal information. If you're under 13, please don't use the Site.

By using the Site you confirm that any information you give us is accurate and that you're not barred from receiving our products under the laws of your country.

3. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we'll change the "Last updated" date above. Material changes will be announced on the Site or by email where we have your address. Continuing to use the Site after a change means you accept the updated Terms. Changes don't apply retroactively to purchases you already made.

4. Accounts

Some parts of the Site may require an account. You're responsible for keeping your login details secure and for everything that happens under your account. Tell us promptly at [CONTACT EMAIL] if you think someone else has access to it. We may suspend or close an account that's being used to break these Terms.

5. Purchases and payment

Prices and currency. All prices are listed in U.S. dollars unless stated otherwise, and may change at any time. The price shown at checkout is the price that applies to that order.

Payment. Payments are handled by third-party payment processors. We don't store your full card details. Your use of a payment processor is also governed by that processor's own terms and privacy policy.

Taxes. Prices may not include sales tax, VAT, GST, or similar charges. Where we're required to collect them, they'll be shown at checkout or added to your total.

Order acceptance. We may cancel or refuse any order — including for suspected fraud, pricing errors, or unavailability. If we cancel a paid order, we'll refund it in full.

6. Delivery of digital products

Everything we sell and give away on this Site is a digital file. There's no physical shipment, and nothing will arrive in the mail.

After a successful purchase or signup you'll receive a download link, usually by email and usually within a few minutes. Download links may expire or limit the number of downloads. If your link fails or expires before you've saved your files, email us at [CONTACT EMAIL] and we'll sort it out.

You're responsible for having a device, software, and internet connection capable of downloading and playing the files. We list file formats on the product page. We can't guarantee that every file works with every device or player.

7. Refunds

Because digital files can't be returned once downloaded, all sales are final and we don't offer refunds as a general rule.

We will make it right if something is genuinely wrong on our end — a corrupted file, a wrong or missing file, a duplicate charge, or a download you were never able to access. Email [CONTACT EMAIL] within 30 days of purchase and we'll replace the file or refund you.

If you're in the EU or UK: you normally have a 14-day right to withdraw from an online purchase. By starting your download immediately after purchase, you're asking us to begin performance right away and acknowledging that you lose that withdrawal right once the download starts. If you haven't downloaded the files yet, your withdrawal right still applies — just email us.

Nothing here limits any consumer rights you have under the laws of your own country that can't be waived by agreement.

8. What you may do with our music

When you buy or download music from us — paid or free, the terms are the same — we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to:

• download and keep the files;
• play them for your own private listening;
• copy them onto your own devices for your own use.

You may not, without written permission from us:

• resell, rent, trade, or otherwise distribute the files;
• upload them to streaming services, file-sharing sites, torrents, YouTube, or any public platform;
• broadcast or perform them publicly, including in a venue, business, or DJ set that's recorded or streamed;
• use them in videos, films, games, ads, podcasts, or any other production (that requires a separate sync license — email us and we'll talk);
• sample, remix, edit, or make derivative works from them;
• use them to train, fine-tune, or benchmark any machine learning or AI system;
• remove or alter any credit, watermark, or metadata in the files.

Buying a track buys you a copy for personal listening. It does not transfer ownership of the recording, composition, or any copyright in it.

9. Free music and free books

We give some music and some digital books away at no charge. Free doesn't mean unrestricted.

Free music is licensed under exactly the same terms as Section 8 above. The only difference is that you didn't pay for it.

Free digital books are licensed to you for your own personal reading. You may download them, keep them, and read them on your own devices. You may not resell them, upload them to file-sharing or ebook piracy sites, post the full text publicly, distribute copies to others, strip out watermarks or metadata, or use them to train any AI system. You may quote short passages for review, commentary, or scholarship with credit to the author and title.

We may withdraw, change, or stop offering any free item at any time. Free items are offered as-is, and a free download creates no ongoing obligation on our part to keep it available, keep hosting it, or provide support for it.

Where a free download requires you to join our mailing list, you can unsubscribe at any time and keep whatever you already downloaded.

10. Our intellectual property

All content on the Site — recordings, compositions, cover art, book text, logos, photographs, page copy, and design — is owned by us or our licensors and protected by copyright and trademark law. "Cade Meridian" and "Cade Meridian Press" are our marks.

Nothing on the Site transfers any ownership to you. Any right not expressly granted in these Terms is reserved.

No AI or data mining. You may not use automated systems to scrape, crawl, harvest, or copy the Site or its content, and you may not use any part of the Site or our works to develop or train an AI or machine learning model. We expressly reserve our rights under Article 4(3) of EU Directive 2019/790 and any equivalent law.

11. Content you submit

If you post comments, reviews, messages, or other material on the Site or in a community space we run, you keep ownership of it. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, and share it in connection with running and promoting the Site.

You agree not to post anything that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, sexually explicit, infringing on someone else's rights, or that contains malware or spam. We may remove content and block users at our discretion.

12. Acceptable use

Don't use the Site to break the law, break into anything, or wreck anything. Specifically: no attempts to gain unauthorized access to the Site or its servers; no interference with its operation; no circumventing download limits, paywalls, or access controls; no uploading of malicious code; and no automated bulk downloading.

13. Third-party links and services

The Site links to services we don't control — streaming platforms, retailers, payment processors, social networks, and mailing list providers among them. We're not responsible for their content, terms, or privacy practices. If you buy our music through a third-party store, that store's terms govern that purchase, not these.

14. Copyright complaints

If you believe something on the Site infringes your copyright, email [CONTACT EMAIL] with: your contact details, identification of the work you say is infringed, the URL of the material in question, a statement that you believe in good faith the use is unauthorized, a statement that the information is accurate and that you're authorized to act for the copyright owner, and your signature (electronic is fine). We respond to valid notices and will remove infringing material.

15. Disclaimers

The Site and everything on it is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

We don't promise that the Site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, that files will be free of defects, or that any download will work with your particular hardware or software.

Some jurisdictions don't allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

16. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, or device damage, arising from your use of the Site or our products.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the Site or a product will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us for that product in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty U.S. dollars.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability for fraud, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or anything else that can't lawfully be excluded.

17. Indemnification

You agree to cover our reasonable losses, costs, and legal fees arising from your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Site, or content you submit.

18. Termination

We may suspend or end your access to the Site at any time if you break these Terms. Sections 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, and 19 survive termination. Files you already lawfully downloaded remain yours to use under the license in Section 8 or 9, unless we ended your access because you breached that license.

19. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules.

Before filing anything, please email us at [CONTACT EMAIL] and give us 30 days to resolve the problem. Most things get fixed this way.

If we can't resolve it, you and we agree that any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Clark County, Nevada, and we each consent to the jurisdiction of those courts. If you're a consumer resident in the EU, the UK, or another jurisdiction that guarantees you the right to bring a claim in your local courts, that right isn't affected by this section.

20. General

If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision isn't a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms; we may transfer ours in connection with a sale or reorganization of the business. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us regarding the Site.

21. Contact

Admin: K. Ziegenbein 
2654 W Horizon Ridge Pkwy
Ste B5 #2346 Henderson, NV 89052] Nevada, United States [cade@cademeridian.com]