Terms ofService

Using BandCue, including joining a rehearsal room, requires a free account. When you create one, you agree to these Terms; you may also choose to receive BandCue updates by email, and you can unsubscribe at any time. You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your credentials secure. You must be at least 13 years old to create an account, and if you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use BandCue only with a parent or guardian's permission.

Provide accurate information. Do not impersonate another person or choose a display name designed to mislead. We may reclaim or clear display names that violate this, and hold the right to do so at our discretion.

"Your Content" means anything you upload or create on BandCue, tab and notation files, set lists, lyrics, sync timings, song details, and your profile information.

You keep ownership

You retain all rights you already hold in Your Content. These Terms do not transfer ownership to us.

The permission we need to run the service

To operate BandCue, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, adapt, and display Your Content solely for the purpose of providing the service — which necessarily includes transmitting it to other members of a rehearsal room you invite or join, rendering it, and syncing it to a recording. If you mark content public, that license extends to displaying it in the public library to other users. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies retained in backups for a reasonable period, and except where the content has already been used by others in ways that cannot be undone.

Public and private content

Content you create is private unless you explicitly make it public. Public content appears in the shared library, is visible to other users, and may be sorted or surfaced by how often it is used.

Private content does not appear in the public library. It can be opened by you, by BandCue administrators acting on a copyright notice or a moderation report, and — while you have it loaded in a rehearsal room — by anyone signed in who has that room's six-character code. That last one is how your bandmates play it with you, and it means a room code is a shared secret: whoever you give it to can join. Direct any questions about who can see your content to team@bandcue.app.

You can change content back to private at any time. That stops new file links being handed out, but it cannot recall a link already shared or copies others have already used.

Music is heavily protected, and sheet music carries two separate copyrights: the underlying composition, and the specific published edition or engraving. A piece can be old enough that the music is in the public domain while a modern printed edition of it is still protected. Scanning, photographing, converting, or transcribing a published edition you do not have rights to — and uploading the result — infringes both.

If you are not certain you hold the rights, do not upload it. Keeping something private limits who can open it; it is not permission, and it does not make an upload lawful that would not otherwise be. BandCue is built so a band can rehearse from its own material without publishing anything to anyone — that is what the private setting is for.

Uploading something to BandCue does not grant you any rights in the underlying music, and does not make an upload lawful that wasn't. We make no representation that anything in the public library is licensed or cleared for your use — other people's uploads carry the same obligations as your own, and finding something here is not permission to use it.

• Upload or publish content that infringes copyright, trademark, or any other right.
• Upload content obtained from another service in breach of that service's terms — including tab, notation, or score files taken from platforms that license them.
• Upload malicious files, or anything designed to disrupt the service or other users' devices.
• Harass, threaten, impersonate, or abuse other users.
• Attempt to access accounts, rooms, or data that are not yours without permission.
• Circumvent access controls, rate limits, or moderation.
• Use BandCue to build a competing dataset or service from other users' content.

We respond to valid copyright notices and we terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. The full procedure — how to send a notice, how to file a counter-notice, and how our repeat-infringer policy works — is set out in our Copyright & DMCA Policy.

You may stop using BandCue and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account that violates these Terms, that is the subject of repeated copyright complaints, or where we are required to do so by law. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why.

We may also remove any content, or switch it from public to private, at any time and with or without notice — whether or not anyone has complained about it. We are not obliged to host anything, and acting on something we notice ourselves does not require us to wait for a formal notice first.

On termination, your right to use the service ends. We may retain content and records where needed to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements — including records of copyright complaints.

BandCue is under active development. Features may change, and we may add, alter, or remove functionality. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation, and rehearsal synchronization depends on your network conditions, your device, and third-party services such as YouTube, which are outside our control.

BandCue plays audio and video through third-party services and uses third-party infrastructure. Your use of those services is governed by their own terms. We are not responsible for third-party content, availability, or practices.

BandCue is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that content in the library is accurate, correctly transcribed, correctly synchronized, or lawfully uploaded by the user who posted it.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of BandCue. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or USD 100.

Nothing in these Terms limits our liability for gross negligence, for willful misconduct, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, damages, and reasonable legal costs arising out of content you upload or publish, or your violation of these Terms or of anyone's rights.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in New York County, New York, for any dispute not subject to another agreed process.

We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will give reasonable notice — for example by posting a notice in the app or updating the effective date above. Continuing to use BandCue after a change takes effect means you accept the revised Terms.

Questions about these Terms: team@bandcue.app