Effective Date: October 11, 2026 Website: www.housenest.net
Welcome to House Nest (“we”, “our”, “us”). By using www.housenest.net, including submitting music, booking coverage, or requesting a premiere, you agree to these Terms and Conditions. If you disagree, please don’t use our services.
1. About House Nest
House Nest is a digital media platform covering the global landscape of electronic music and culture. We publish interviews, reviews, news, premieres, features, and playlists, and we offer paid services for artists, labels, and event organisers who want to reach our audience.
House Nest is operated by Erikas Gustas, VAT number LT100018612619, Klaipėda, Lithuania.
House Nest is not a music production service, label, distributor, or career management platform. Our content is editorial and informational.
2. Our Services
We offer three ways to work with us:
a) Direct submission. You send us a track through our submit page and pay the submission fee shown at checkout. In return, you receive a full listen of one track by our editorial team and a reply, with optional written feedback, within the response time stated on the submit page.
b) Booked coverage. You book a review, interview, feature, news piece, social media post or SoundCloud repost, choose a date and time, send us your information and pay online. A booking is only confirmed once our team has accepted it. Prices and details are shown on the booking page.
c) Premiere requests. You send us a request for a premiere of your release, and we confirm the date once we have accepted it.
We may also add tracks we cover to our playlists on streaming platforms such as Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, Tidal and Deezer, and create smart links that send listeners to your release on their preferred platform. Playlist placement is at our editorial discretion, isn’t guaranteed, and we may remove a track at any time.
Current prices and what each service includes are always the ones shown on the website at the time you order.
3. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old, or have the permission of a parent or guardian, to buy our services. If you order on behalf of an artist, label or company, you confirm you are authorised to do so.
4. No Follower Requirements
We don’t require a minimum number of followers, streams, or listeners. Every track is considered on its own merits.
5. Paid Services and Editorial Independence
Payment covers our team’s time, a guaranteed reply, or a confirmed date in our schedule. Payment does not buy a positive opinion.
- We only confirm releases that fit House Nest and meet our editorial standards.
- Our reviews and feedback are honest, whether or not you paid for the slot.
- Paid features, such as booked coverage, are marked as sponsored content where appropriate.
- Paying for a submission or a booking does not guarantee that your track will be featured, shared or published on any particular channel, unless your booking was confirmed for that specific format and date.
6. Payments
- Prices are shown in euros (€) and are the final price unless stated otherwise. Any applicable taxes are shown at checkout.
- Payments are processed by our third-party payment providers, Stripe and PayPal. We never see or store your full card details.
- An order is complete once payment has been received and, for booked coverage, once we have confirmed the booking.
7. Cancellations and Refunds
- Booked coverage: if we can’t run it or it doesn’t fit, you get a full refund, except for fully AI-generated tracks (see below).
- Booked coverage: you can cancel or reschedule free of charge up to 48 hours before the scheduled date. After that, or once the work has started, we may keep the fee for the work already done.
- Direct submissions: the fee covers the listening and reply. If we don’t reply within the stated time, we’ll refund you in full. Once a reply has been delivered, the fee is non-refundable.
- Consumers in the EU: if you are a consumer, you may have a statutory right of withdrawal. By ordering a service with a specific date, you ask us to start the service within the withdrawal period, and you acknowledge that you lose the right once the service has been fully performed.
Premieres: if we can’t run your premiere, you get a full refund. Once your date is confirmed, we can’t refund changes of mind, changes to your release date, or missing files.
Fully AI-generated tracks: if our team finds that a submitted or booked track is fully AI-generated, we decline or cancel it and the fee is not refunded. If you think we got it wrong, reply to our email within 14 days, and we’ll review the decision. We may refuse future orders from anyone who repeatedly submits fully AI-generated tracks. - To request a refund, email [email protected] with your order details. Approved refunds go back to the original payment method.
8. What We Need From You
When you submit music or booking details, you confirm that:
- you own the music and related materials (artwork, text, photos), or have permission to share them with us;
- your material doesn’t infringe anyone’s rights or break the law;
- the information you give us is accurate;
- any links you send us are safe and work;
- your track is not fully AI-generated, as you confirm by ticking the box at checkout. We keep a record of that confirmation (date, IP address and browser) as proof. AI tools that help your production are fine.
We may decline or remove any submission or booking that breaks these rules or doesn’t fit House Nest, and refund you under Section 7 (where a refund applies).
9. Content You Send Us
You keep ownership of everything you send us. By submitting or booking, you give House Nest a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permission to display, embed, quote, and share your music, artwork, photos, and text on our website, social media channels, playlists on streaming platforms, smart link pages, newsletters, and other House Nest channels, for the coverage you ordered and for promoting that coverage.
You can ask us to remove your content at any time by emailing [email protected]. We’ll remove it from our own channels within a reasonable time. We can’t control copies already shared by third parties.
10. Our Content
All content on House Nest, including articles, videos, interviews, graphics, branding, and editorial material, belongs to House Nest or its contributors. You may use it for personal, non-commercial purposes.
If you’ve been featured, you’re welcome to share a link to or screenshot of your coverage, and to quote it with credit to House Nest. Any other reproduction, redistribution, or commercial use needs our written permission.
11. No Guarantee of Results
We do not guarantee any specific outcome from our services, including streams, followers, sales, bookings, playlist placements, press pickup, or income. We promise the work described in your order, done in good faith.
12. Availability
We aim to keep the website available at all times, but we can’t guarantee uninterrupted access. We may change, pause, or stop parts of the website or our services. If this affects a service you’ve already paid for, we’ll offer a refund or a new date.
13. Third-Party Links and Platforms
Our website links to and embeds content from third parties, such as Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, Tidal, Deezer, and social media platforms. We’re not responsible for their content, availability, or policies.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, House Nest isn’t liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from the use of our website or services. Our total liability for any claim relating to an order is limited to the amount you paid for that order. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that can’t be limited by law, including your statutory consumer rights.
15. Privacy and Cookies
How we handle personal data is explained in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
16. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Changes are posted on this page with a new effective date. Orders you’ve already placed are covered by the Terms that applied when you placed them.
17. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live.
18. Contact
General questions: [email protected]; Orders, bookings, refunds, and these Terms: [email protected]
