These Terms of Service are the terms for your access to Pickin’ Folk websites, mobile applications, jam discovery, jam invitations, messaging, and related services. When you set up your account, you are asked to accept these Terms, our Community Guidelines, and our Privacy Policy. By using Pickin’ Folk, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

Pickin’ Folk is a product of Wyvern Byte LLC. In these Terms, “we,” “us,” and “our” mean Wyvern Byte LLC, and wherever these Terms refer to Pickin’ Folk as a party (for example, granting or receiving rights, disclaiming warranties, or limiting liability), that means Wyvern Byte LLC.

You must provide accurate information, keep your credentials secure, and promptly tell us about unauthorized account use. You are responsible for activity under your account. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. We ask for your date of birth to confirm this, and you must enter it accurately. If it shows you are under 18, the account is deleted. An account found to belong to someone under 18 will be closed. Anyone under 18 may attend a jam only as a guest of their parent or guardian, who must RSVP for them, stay with them throughout the jam, and is responsible for them.

Pickin’ Folk provides tools to help people discover, organize, and communicate about informal jam sessions and musician connections. Unless explicitly stated, Pickin’ Folk does not own, operate, supervise, referee, or control a jam, venue, host, musician, or jam session and does not guarantee that a listed jam will happen as described.

Pickin’ Folk introduces musicians who may then choose to meet in person. Meeting people you do not know involves real-world risks, including risks of personal injury, property damage or theft, and harmful conduct by others. Pickin’ Folk does not conduct criminal background checks, verify identities, screen musicians or hosts, or inspect venues, and we are not present at jams. We cannot guarantee anyone’s identity, intentions, conduct, or safety.

You are solely responsible for your own safety and for your interactions with other users, online and in person. You decide whether to attend a jam, whom to meet, and where. You voluntarily assume the risks of meeting other users, and you are responsible for following applicable laws and venue rules. These precautions do not make you responsible for another person’s misconduct.

We strongly encourage you to hold first meetups with anyone new in a public place: a familiar, well-lit, populated venue during open hours. Avoid private homes and isolated, unfamiliar, or hard-to-leave locations until you know the people involved. Bring a trusted friend or tell someone where you are going and when you expect to return, arrange your own transportation, keep your phone available, and keep personal details such as your home address private until trust has been earned.

Trust your instincts. If a musician, host, venue, or situation makes you uncomfortable, leave as soon as you safely can. Once you are safe, block and report the musician or host through Pickin’ Folk so we can review the concern. Call local emergency services when immediate help is needed; Pickin’ Folk reporting is not an emergency service.

Hosts must describe the jam honestly, including the venue (and whether it is a private residence), accessibility, expected duration, costs, house rules, age expectations, and any material changes. A host designation is not a background check, safety certification, or endorsement by Pickin’ Folk.

Play the person, not the loophole. You may not harass, threaten, discriminate against, impersonate, defraud, coerce, stalk, or endanger another person; ignore stated boundaries; publish unlawful or invasive content; manipulate attendance or ratings; spam musicians; access accounts or data without permission; interfere with the service; or use Pickin’ Folk for illegal activity. Our Community Guidelines are part of these Terms.

Child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE), including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming, and sexual solicitation of minors, are strictly prohibited. Our Community Guidelines describe reporting and enforcement. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. Content or conduct that is hateful, sexually explicit, threatening, harassing, or otherwise objectionable may be removed, and the accounts responsible may be suspended or terminated, without prior notice. You can block any user and report content or users from their profile, a jam, or a conversation.

You retain ownership of content you submit. You grant Pickin’ Folk a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, format, display, and share that content only as needed to operate, secure, improve, and promote the service according to your settings. You represent that you have the rights needed to submit it.

Businesses and organizations can create a sponsor account on our website to run sponsored ads in Pickin’ Folk. You must be authorized to act for the business you name, and your ads must be truthful, lawful, suitable for a general audience, and relevant to musicians. Ads may not promote adult content, weapons, tobacco or vaping, illegal drugs, gambling, or political or issue campaigns, may not imitate app notifications or other users, and must link to a working, secure page you are authorized to use.

Every ad is reviewed before it can run, and again when its photo, text, or link changes. We may decline, pause, or remove any ad at any time, including one that is already running. Approval is not an endorsement of the sponsor.

Each ad is a separate monthly subscription that starts when you launch it and renews every month until you cancel. You can cancel from your sponsor dashboard at any time; the ad keeps running until the end of the paid month. Prices are shown before you pay, and applicable taxes are added at checkout. Except where required by law, fees are non-refundable. If we remove an ad that follows these Terms, we will refund the unused part of that month. We do not guarantee any number of views, clicks, or customers.

Sponsors receive aggregate reporting only and may not try to identify, contact, or collect information about the musicians who see their ads through Pickin’ Folk. You are responsible for your ads and grant us a license to display them, as described in Your content.

Jam Pro is an optional subscription that adds recurring jams for musicians who host regularly. Hosting your own jams and everything musicians need to meet and play stay free.

Jam Pro is billed monthly or yearly at the price shown before you subscribe, plus applicable taxes, and renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. If you subscribe in the iOS app, payment is charged to your Apple Account and you manage or cancel it in your App Store subscriptions; in the Android app, through Google Play; on the web, from Manage subscription in the app. Cancel at least 24 hours before a period ends to avoid the next charge. You keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for. If Jam Pro comes with a free trial, the first charge is made when the trial ends unless you cancel before then; trials are for new subscribers only, as each store decides. Refunds for App Store and Google Play purchases are handled by Apple and Google under their policies; except where required by law, web fees are non-refundable.

When Jam Pro ends, jams already posted stay up, but new recurring dates stop until you subscribe again. We may change Jam Pro’s features over time and will tell you before removing one you pay for. If we offer other paid plans in the future, we will show their terms before you subscribe.

We review reports promptly, generally within 24 hours. We may investigate reports and remove content, limit features, remove someone from a jam, cancel access to a jam, suspend, or terminate accounts when reasonably necessary to address a safety risk, legal requirement, fraud, abuse, prolonged inactivity, or a violation of these Terms. We may consider messages, session details, prior reports, and other relevant context, but we do not promise a particular outcome. You may stop using Pickin’ Folk at any time and request account closure through support.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Pickin’ Folk is provided “as is” and “as available.” We disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant a musician’s or host’s identity or conduct, the condition or safety of a venue, the accuracy of a listing, uninterrupted operation, compatibility at the jam, or any jam outcome.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Pickin’ Folk and its owners, affiliates, employees, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from the service or an in-person jam, and are not responsible for the conduct, online or offline, of any user. Any dispute you have with another user is between you and that user. Rights that cannot legally be waived remain unaffected.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Pickin’ Folk and its owners, affiliates, employees, and agents from claims arising out of your use of the service, your content, your violation of these Terms, or your interactions with other users, to the extent permitted by law.

We may update these Terms prospectively by posting a revision and effective date and giving additional notice where required. When we make material changes, we will ask you to review and accept the updated Terms before you continue using the service. If any provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect. Questions may be sent to support@pickingpost.com.