Spotify User Guidelines

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Account & Service Control · Company practice

Breaking the guidelines or Platform Rules may lead to content removal and account suspension or termination

If you violate the User Guidelines or the Platform Rules, Spotify may remove content or material you contributed to the Services, and may suspend or terminate your account, or do both. The page says these outcomes "may" follow; it does not say they always will, and it does not describe a warning, notice or appeal process.

Supporting quotations

Violating the User Guidelines or [Platform Rules](https://www.spotify.com/platform-rules/plain/) may result in removal of any content or material you've contributed to the Services and/or termination or suspension of your account.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The consequences are possible outcomes ("may result"), not automatic.
  • Removal and suspension or termination can be applied separately or together ("and/or").

Not stated here

  • No warning, notice, review or appeal process is described on this page.
  • How Spotify chooses between removal, suspension and termination is not stated.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

After a termination on any Spotify service you cannot use its services, and getting around enforcement is prohibited

Spotify says it tries to make its Services broadly available, but you cannot use them if Spotify has previously terminated your account on any of its Services, so a termination on one Spotify service also bars use of the others. Spotify also prohibits attempts to get around earlier enforcement actions; creating a new account is one example it names, not the only one.

Supporting quotations

We try to make the Services broadly available to everyone, but you cannot use our Services if we've previously terminated your account on any of our Services.
We also prohibit attempts to circumvent prior enforcement actions, including through the creation of new accounts.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The bar follows a previous termination "on any of our Services", not only on the service now being used.
  • Creating new accounts is an example of prohibited circumvention ("including"); other ways of getting around enforcement are also covered.

Not stated here

  • The page does not say whether the bar ever ends, or whether a suspension (rather than a termination) also triggers it.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

No selling accounts or playlists, or taking or offering payment to influence an account's or playlist's name or contents

You may not sell a user account or a playlist. You also may not accept, or offer to accept, any compensation, financial or otherwise, to influence the name of an account or playlist or the content included in it.

Supporting quotations

selling a user account or playlist, or otherwise accepting or offering to accept any compensation, financial or otherwise, to influence the name of an account or playlist or the content included on an account or playlist;

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Compensation includes non-financial rewards ("financial or otherwise").
  • Offering to accept compensation is prohibited, not only accepting it.

Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception

No blocking or circumventing ads, and no making or distributing ad-blocking tools

You may not circumvent or block advertisements on the Services, and you may not create or distribute tools designed to block advertisements.

Supporting quotations

circumventing or blocking advertisements or creating or distributing tools designed to block advertisements;

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The tools rule covers creating or distributing tools designed to block advertisements, not only using them.