Terms

Who runs the archive

The legal operator is Charlie Arnerstål. The Echo Archives is a Continental project, not a separate legal entity. The operator is established in Sweden.

For privacy requests, email [email protected]. For copyright, legal, or other follow-up requests, use the public Continental contact route. For metadata corrections and creator verification, the fastest route is usually Submit or correct.

What you may and may not do

You may browse the archive, use discovery tools, read show pages, and send corrections, reviews, ratings, and verification requests.

• Do not spam, scrape abusively, overload the service, probe protected areas, or interfere with site availability.
• Do not submit unlawful, deceptive, malicious, or irrelevant material.
• Do not impersonate creators, rights holders, maintainers, or other listeners.

What stays independent

Archive ratings, archive notes, review copy, recommendation routes, and collection placement are editorial decisions. Creator verification only signals factual metadata confirmation and does not imply creator approval of ratings, reviews, or curation choices.

• Money does not buy ratings, reviews, collection placement, or archive recommendations.
• Creator and community input can improve objective facts, but not override editorial judgment.

What happens when you send something in

By sending a correction, listener review, creator verification request, or other submission, you confirm that the information is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you have the right to share it.

• You retain ownership of what you submit. You grant Charlie Arnerstål, for operating The Echo Archives, a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to receive, store, review, moderate, technically format, and, where accepted, publish the submission as part of the archive.
• That permission includes making the technical copies and limited excerpts reasonably needed for hosting, backups, security, moderation, attribution, and archive presentation, including when the full submission is not published as submitted. Service providers acting for the archive may exercise those limited rights only to provide those functions.
• The license does not give the archive a general right to sell, license, or repurpose your submission for unrelated advertising or marketing. It lasts only as long as reasonably needed for the purposes above, subject to the public-content and backup limits described in the Privacy Policy.
• The archive may hold, revise, reject, hide, or remove submissions when needed for quality, safety, rights, or editorial-boundary reasons.

Ratings and reviews must be genuine

Community ratings and listener reviews are meant to help other listeners make better choices. Do not use them for harassment, brigading, vote trading, impersonation, spam, or attempts to distort a show record.

• Do not automate votes or submit duplicate or coordinated manipulation attempts.
• Do not post listener reviews that are knowingly false, abusive, or off-topic.
• The archive may remove votes, reviews, summaries, or related access where manipulation or abuse is suspected.

Public access versus maintainer access

The public site currently does not require listener accounts. Some internal maintainer routes use passphrase-protected session access for moderation and publishing work.

Do not attempt unauthorized access, share protected credentials, or interfere with moderation systems. If public accounts are added later, these terms should be updated to match the live implementation.

What the archive can and cannot promise

The Echo Archives aims for careful metadata, grounded recommendations, and honest editorial context, but it cannot guarantee that every page, recommendation, or linked destination is complete, current, or error-free at all times. Use official sources when the exact fact matters.

The site links to official show pages, listening platforms, Patreon, Ko-fi, GitHub, and other third-party services for convenience. The Echo Archives does not control those services and is not responsible for their content, availability, payment processing, or policies.

Unless otherwise noted, the archive’s original site design and archive copy are controlled by Charlie Arnerstål for the Continental project. Podcast names, cover art, third-party descriptions, trademarks, and related materials belong to their respective owners. Rights-holder requests can be sent through the Copyright & Takedown page.

How these terms may change and what law applies

The archive may update these terms as features, moderation workflows, or legal needs change. Material updates should appear on this page with a revised last-updated date.

The archive may suspend, limit, hide, or remove features, submissions, reviews, listings, or access when needed for moderation, legal, technical, or quality reasons.

These terms are governed by Swedish law, except to the extent that mandatory consumer or data-protection rules apply where you live and cannot be limited by these terms.