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FREE HOSTING PROGRAM USER AGREEMENT (Updated Effective April 1, 2023)

Terms of service for Podcasters opting into the Ossa  Free Hosting (Spreaker or Megaphone) account

A.i  As part of our Service offerings, Ossa has established an OSSA master account on the Spreaker (https://www.spreaker.com/ ) and Megaphone (https://megaphone.spotify.com/) hosting platform and is offering any Podcaster who has an active Account to establish an Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account to host their shows on Spreaker or Megaphone, and your establishing an Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account to host your shows shall indicate your agreement to the additional terms and conditions set forth below in this subsection ii.  For those Podcasters who create an Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account:

  1. OSSA has arranged with Spreaker  or Megaphone to provide you with the following additional services and benefits:
  2. Your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account will be dedicated exclusively to hosting your shows on Spreaker or Megaphone at no cost to you. This includes any shows currently hosted on a different hosting platform that are migrated to your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account.
  3. You will have access to Spreaker’s or Megaphone capabilities, tools and services, including user support services, that are associated with an individual, paid Publisher (enterprise) level account on Spreaker or Megaphone.
  4. Statistics for your shows hosted on your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account.
  5. Programmatic advertising opportunities for your shows hosted on your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account.
  6. Dynamic advertising opportunities for your shows hosted on your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account.
  7. Enhanced PodSwap opportunities with other Ossa member Podcasters also having shows hosted on their Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account that Ossa may make available to Ossa members who maintain Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone accounts.

B:  You agree to the following additional terms of service:

  1. To open an Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account, you will receive and invite from Ossa and agree to the Spreaker or Megaphone terms of service once you have signed up.
  2. You will cooperate and work with Ossa to migrate to your Ossa-Spreaker or Megaphone account your eligible pre-existing shows, which migration must be completed within fourteen (14) days of opening your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account.  Note that the only shows that can be migrated into your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account are shows of an Ossa member having an active Account.
  3. You will adjust your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account settings to:
    1. opt out of accepting the following categories of advertising:  smoking, vaping, guns, and illegal content.
    2. permit a minimum of two (2) spots for programmatic advertising, which spots can be pre roll and/or post roll per show.
    3. include in the RSS feed for each show any prefix that may be required by Ossa or Spreaker or Megaphone for tracking your shows hosted on your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account to generate statistics as compiled by Spreaker or Megaphone, e.g,, information relevant to advertising, e.g., downloads, impressions, etc.
  4. Ossa may at any time access your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account to obtain your hosted show statistics, and also to act as your agent to adjust any of your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account settings so that you are or will be in compliance with your obligations under subsection B.3.3, provided that Ossa’s use of your statistics will be limited to Ossa’s business purposes as set forth in these Terms of Service and in particular for finding advertising opportunities for you.
  5. You may terminate your use of your Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account at any time, except that if you are participating in an active campaign through Ossa, you must wait until all Ossa campaigns are concluded to terminate your use of you Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account.  If you terminate use, you will be responsible for transferring your shows to another hosting company or to a Spreaker or Megaphone-provided hosting account offered at Spreaker’s or Megaphone then available terms and conditions and associated pricing.
  6. Except for programmatic advertising opportunities, you may opt out of any Ossa advertising campaign offered to you, the same as if you were not using an Ossa Spreaker or Megaphone account.
  7. Ossa has no liability for any issues, lost shows, mishaps, inaccurate statistics, failed downloads, etc. that may arise from hosting your shows on your Ossa Spreaker  or Megaphone account.
  8. Ossa may cancel this program and Ossa’s master account at any time in which case you will be responsible for transferring to another hosting company or to a Spreaker or Megaphone-provided hosting account offered at Spreaker’s or Megaphone then available terms and conditions and pricing.
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