Sponsor Terms

1What sponsorship here is — and is not

1.1. A sponsor on Groovity is a business credited on an event by that event’s organizer, sometimes with an offer carried on the backs of that event’s passes. Groovity records the credit and reports what it reached.

1.2. NO MONEY MOVES BETWEEN A SPONSOR AND AN ORGANIZER THROUGH GROOVITY. GROOVITY IS NOT A PARTY TO ANY AGREEMENT BETWEEN A SPONSOR AND AN ORGANIZER, DOES NOT PROCESS, HOLD, GUARANTEE OR CLEAR PAYMENT BETWEEN THEM, AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATION ABOUT WHAT EITHER PARTY OWES THE OTHER.

Whatever you pay an organizer — cash, product, venue support, anything — is agreed, invoiced and settled entirely between the two of you, off this platform. We take no cut of it, and we will not chase it for either side.

1.3. Reach reports are counts, not promises. Views, taps and redemptions are honest tallies of things that happened. They are not guarantees, not forecasts, and not audited measurements, and Groovity makes no representation about attendance, impressions or what a credit is worth. Do not price a deal on a number we have not shown you, and do not treat a number we have shown you as a warranty of the next one.

1.4. No endorsement. A credit or a placement is not an endorsement of your business by Groovity, the organizer, the venue or any artist. You get no rights to any artist’s name, image or likeness — clear those separately if your marketing needs them — and you will not state or imply otherwise.

2Profiles, credits and claims

2.1. Anyone may create a sponsor profile for a business they are authorised to represent. The name, category, city and address must be accurate. The address is required, is never shown to guests, and is the one fact about you we can check. Creating or claiming a profile for a business you do not represent, or under a name that imitates one you do not own, ends the account.

2.2. Only an event’s organizer can credit a sponsor on it. A profile with no credit reaches no guests at all — that is the design, not a limitation of your plan.

2.3. Claims are confirmed by the organizer that credited the business. They are asked whether you are their sponsor, and a claim nobody answers within 7 days expires. A confirmed claim is revocable: if the organizer withdraws it, or it turns out to be false, your offers come off passes immediately and the account is flagged or ended.

2.4. Vetting, where we grant it, is a reviewed badge on your record. It is not an endorsement and it unlocks nothing by itself.

3Offers

3.1. An offer is your advertisement. You write it and you are solely responsible for it — that it is true, that it is lawful, that its pricing claims stand up, and that you honour it. Groovity does not read offer copy. The organizer accepts it, or declines it, for their own event; editing live copy sends it back for approval unless that organizer has said they do not need to be asked.

3.2. Discounts only, never stored value. An offer may discount your own goods or services. It may not promise money, credit, gift value or anything redeemable for cash — that is a gift card, and it drags escheatment and unclaimed-property law into a business neither of us is in. Offers have no cash value.

3.3. Offers must carry an expiry, go quiet after at most 60 days, and are limited to one live offer per sponsor per event. Offer copy renders live, so a pass shows what you have written now — which means you owe some care to passes that were bought under something else.

3.4. Alcohol offers only on 21+ events. If your category is age-restricted, your offers only ever appear where the event’s age floor permits it, and your content must comply with the laws and industry codes that govern your products — including alcohol advertising codes and tied-house rules. How you structure payments to venues and organizers is yours to keep lawful.

3.5. Redemption is a scan, not a settlement. Your scanner redeems an offer at most once per pass, having checked that the pass is valid, that it was scanned into the event, and that it carries your live offer. The discount comes off your own books. A redemption record is a receipt for a scan, never a receipt for money: the scanner is not a payment terminal and nothing clears through us.

4What you can never have here

The following are unavailable at any price — including a price we do not charge:

• The guest list, or any guest’s identity. You get counts, never people.
• Contact with guests through the platform — no push notifications, no text messages, no interstitial in checkout.
• Placement on an event whose organizer has not credited you.
• Anything at all while unclaimed or suspended.
• Stored-value offers.

Trying to obtain guest identities — including by asking an organizer to export them for you — ends the account. One list handed over once would make this promise retroactively false for every guest on the platform, which is why there is no procedure for it to go wrong.

5The board

Where an organizer opens an event to sponsors, you can show interest in it. Your interest carries your record — the credits you actually have and who has vouched for you — rather than a pitch; it is rate-limited; and the organizer is free to ignore it entirely. Organizers are never cold-contacted on your behalf.

6Marks and content

6.1. You grant Groovity and the crediting organizer a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to display your name, your logo and your offer copy on that event’s surfaces — the event page, the passes, the reports — for the life of the credit, and afterwards in historical records. You confirm the marks and content are yours to give.

6.2. Beyond that, neither Groovity nor the organizer may use your marks without permission, and you may not use theirs, or an artist’s, beyond what these terms allow.

7Conduct and standing

7.1. Terms of Service §10 applies. On top of it: no misleading offers, no offers for unlawful goods, no using the board to spam organizers, and no social engineering of organizers or staff for data or placement.

7.2. Conflicts get disclosed, not hidden. If your business shares people with an organizer, that relationship is shown on the platform. Concealing it is a breach.

7.3. We may suspend a sponsor for breach, fraud, impersonation, or legal or reputational risk; suspension pulls offers from passes and closes the board. An organizer may pull your credit or your offer from their event at any time — though copy already agreed to on passes that are already issued was agreed to.

8Liability and indemnity

8.1. You indemnify the Groovity Parties, on the terms of Terms of Service §16, and the crediting organizer, against claims arising out of: your offers and whether they are honoured; your products and services, including product liability and alcohol-law compliance; your marks and content; how you used a reach report; and your breach of these terms.

8.2. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF $100 OR WHAT YOU HAVE PAID GROOVITY, IF ANYTHING, IN THE SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE. TERMS OF SERVICE §13 TO §15 APPLY. WE DO NOT WARRANT REACH, REDEMPTIONS, FOOT TRAFFIC, SALES, OR HOW ANY ORGANIZER OR GUEST WILL BEHAVE.

8.3. Your deal with an organizer is yours to enforce. Groovity owes you no help collecting from one, or performing against one, and owes them none against you.