Terms of Service

Effective 19 August 2026.

These terms are the agreement between you and [LEGAL ENTITY] ("we", "us") for the use of Anocturne (the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Pre-launch status

Anocturne is new. Features may change, move, or be withdrawn, and occasional downtime should be expected. We will not deliberately destroy your work, but you should keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.

2. Eligibility and your account

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. You are responsible for keeping your password safe and for everything that happens under your account. Tell us promptly if you believe someone else has access to it. One person per account; do not share credentials.

3. Subscriptions and payment

Paid plans are billed through Stripe. By subscribing you authorise us, through Stripe, to charge your chosen payment method on a recurring basis for the billing cycle you select, until you cancel.

• Free trial. Pro can be started with a 14-day free trial. We take your card details when you sign up and place no charge on them during the trial. At the end of day 14 the first payment is taken automatically and the subscription continues on the cycle you chose, unless you cancel before then. Cancelling during the trial costs you nothing. Basic and Studio have no trial and begin billing when you subscribe. One trial per person.
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each cycle.
• You can cancel at any time from your billing settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, and you keep access until then.
• Except where the law requires otherwise, payments already made are not refundable. If something has gone genuinely wrong, contact us — we would rather resolve it than stand on this clause.
• We may change prices. Any change takes effect at your next renewal, and we will tell you before it does.
• Taxes, where they apply, are your responsibility unless we state otherwise at checkout.

4. Your content

You own what you create. Your lyrics, recordings, images, documents, project material and everything else you put into Anocturne remain yours. We claim no ownership of it.

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, copy, transmit and display your content, strictly for the purpose of operating the Service for you. That includes displaying it on the public surfaces you choose to use — your portfolio page, community posts, or a share link you generate. This licence exists so we can run the product and ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies in routine backups that age out.

You are responsible for having the rights to what you upload, including any samples, artwork, or material involving collaborators.

5. Acceptable use

Do not use the Service to: break the law; infringe anyone's copyright, trademark or other rights; upload malware; harass, threaten, or abuse anyone; impersonate another person or artist; send unsolicited bulk messages; scrape or bulk-download other people's material; probe or attack the Service's security; or resell access to the Service.

Community areas are shared spaces. We may remove posts and suspend accounts that make them unusable for other people.

6. Features that produce documents or advice

Anocturne can help you draft split sheets, quotes, invoices, rate cards, release plans, and similar documents, and its AI features can offer suggestions about your projects.

None of this is legal, financial, tax, or professional advice. A split sheet generated here is a starting point for a conversation with a lawyer, not a substitute for one. AI output can be confidently wrong. Check anything that matters before you rely on it or send it to anyone.

7. Third-party services

If you connect Google Calendar or Google Drive, or pay through Stripe, your use of those services is governed by their own terms, and we are not responsible for them. Disconnecting an integration is always available to you.

8. Availability

We aim to keep the Service running and will not promise an uptime figure we cannot yet stand behind. We may suspend access for maintenance, and we will try to give notice when we can.

9. Suspension and termination

You can stop using the Service at any time, and can ask us to delete your account as described in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms, that we are legally required to act against, or that is being used in a way that endangers the Service or other users. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will warn you first and give you a chance to export your work.

10. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will meet your requirements.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or lost business opportunities, arising out of your use of the Service.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or fifty US dollars.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

12. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims, damages and reasonable costs arising from content you upload or from your breach of these terms.

13. Copyright complaints

Anocturne stores and transmits files that other people upload. If you own a copyright and believe something here infringes it, tell us and we will act.

To make a complaint, email [COPYRIGHT AGENT EMAIL] with:

1. Enough detail to identify the work you say is infringed.
2. The link or a description precise enough for us to find the material.
3. Your name, address, telephone number and email address.
4. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. A statement that the information is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorised to act for them.
6. Your physical or electronic signature.

We will remove or disable access to the material and tell the person who uploaded it. Our designated agent for copyright notices under 17 U.S.C. §512 is [COPYRIGHT AGENT NAME], [COPYRIGHT AGENT EMAIL], [POSTAL ADDRESS].

Counter-notice. If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, email the same address with the material identified, a statement under penalty of perjury to that effect, your contact details, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the courts named in section 15. We may restore the material after ten business days unless the complainant tells us they have filed suit.

Repeat infringers. We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe. Knowingly making a false claim in either direction carries liability for damages under §512(f).

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects your rights, we will notify you in the product before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the new terms.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of [STATE / COUNTRY], and the courts of [STATE / COUNTRY] have exclusive jurisdiction, without regard to conflict of law rules. Nothing here removes any mandatory consumer protection you have where you live.

16. General

If a provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing a term on one occasion does not waive it. You may not assign these terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger or sale of the business. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Service.

Contact

[LEGAL ENTITY] — [CONTACT EMAIL] — [POSTAL ADDRESS]