These Terms are an agreement between you and {COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME} ("MelodyBin," "we," "us"), which runs melodybin.com and the MelodyBin app (the "Service"). By creating an account, uploading, buying a plan, or unlocking a shared track, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
1. Who can use MelodyBin
You must be at least 13 years old. To buy a paid plan you must be 18 or older, or have a parent or guardian's permission. They agree to these Terms for you. If you use MelodyBin for a business or band, you confirm that you can bind that group to these Terms.
2. Your account
Keep your login details private. You're responsible for everything that happens on your account. Tell us right away at {SUPPORT_EMAIL} if you think someone else got in. We may limit signups and uploads to prevent abuse.
3. Your music stays yours
You keep full ownership of everything you upload ("Your Content"). You give MelodyBin a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, copy, convert (for example, making a streaming MP3 copy), and stream or deliver Your Content. We use this license only to run the Service for you and the people you share with. The license ends when you or we delete Your Content. We may keep backup copies for a short time after that, as described in our Privacy Policy. We do not sell Your Content, license it to anyone else, or use it in advertising.
4. What you promise about uploads
Every time you upload, you promise that:
- you own the track, or you have permission from everyone who holds rights in it, including composition, recording, samples, beats, and vocals, to upload and share it;
- it doesn't infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy, or publicity rights; and
- it isn't illegal, hateful, sexually exploitative, or malware.
If someone makes a claim against us because of Your Content or your breach of these Terms, you agree to cover our reasonable costs and losses from that claim.
5. Sharing, passwords, and listeners
You decide who can hear your tracks with password links, name-and-email gates, download settings, and expiry dates. You're responsible for who you share links with. When a listener unlocks a gated track, you'll see their name, email, approximate location, and how much they listened. Use that information only to manage your own music and contacts. Don't sell it, spam people, or use it in any illegal way.
6. Copyright complaints
We respond to copyright complaints under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). See our Copyright & DMCA Policy. We remove content when we receive a valid notice, and we close the accounts of repeat infringers.
7. Plans, billing, and auto-renewal
- Free: up to 3 tracks.
- Paid plans: storage limits and prices are shown on the pricing page at checkout.
- Paid plans are billed monthly in advance through our payment processor, Stripe, and renew automatically until you cancel.
- You can cancel anytime in Settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period. Except where the law requires otherwise, we don't give refunds for partial months.
- If we change a plan's price, we'll email you at least 30 days before your next renewal at the new price. You can cancel before the new price applies.
- If a payment fails, we may retry it. If it can't be collected, your plan ends.
8. When a plan ends: 30-day grace period and file deletion
If you cancel, downgrade, or your payment fails, your account moves to Free when your paid plan ends. Then:
- We'll email you that day with the date your files will be deleted. You have 30 days to renew and keep them.
- After 30 days, files over the Free limit may be permanently deleted on or after that date. Unless you choose which tracks to keep, we keep your 3 most recently uploaded tracks.
- Deleted files can't be recovered. It's your responsibility to keep your own copies (see section 9).
9. MelodyBin isn't a backup service
Keep your own copies of everything you upload. We work hard to keep files safe, but we don't guarantee that the Service will always be available or that files will never be lost.
10. Things you can't do
Don't hack, overload, scrape, or reverse-engineer the Service. Don't get around plan limits, storage caps, or rate limits. Don't create accounts in bulk, and don't use MelodyBin to distribute content you don't have rights to.
11. Suspension and termination
You can delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close accounts that break these Terms, put the Service or others at risk, or that we're required to close by law. When we can, we'll tell you why and give you a chance to download your content, unless the content is illegal or infringing.
12. Disclaimers
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
13. Limit of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, MELODYBIN WON'T BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST DATA, PROFITS, OR REVENUE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) WHAT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR (B) $50.
14. Disputes
Please contact us first at {SUPPORT_EMAIL}, and we'll try to resolve the problem informally within 30 days. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of {STATE}, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any lawsuit must be brought in the state or federal courts in {COUNTY}, {STATE}, although either side may use small-claims court. {ATTORNEY: decide whether to add binding arbitration and a class-action waiver.}
15. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. For material changes, we'll give you notice by email or in the app before they take effect, and we may ask you to accept them again. Continuing to use the Service after the effective date means you accept the changes.
16. Contact
{COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME} · {MAILING_ADDRESS} · {SUPPORT_EMAIL}