Terms of use

These terms are the agreement between you and Rekordcloud B.V., a private limited company registered in the Netherlands (Chamber of Commerce 85684759) in Enschede (“Rekordcloud”, “we”, “us”). They cover Groof: the app on every platform, our API, the website at groof.app and the messages we send you (together “Groof” or “the Service”).

By installing or using Groof, continuing past the welcome screen or creating an account, you accept these terms and our privacy policy. If you don’t accept them, don’t use Groof. If you use Groof for a business, you accept on its behalf as well.

1. What Groof is

Groof plays previews of tracks from services such as Beatport, Bandcamp, SoundCloud and Spotify, shows information about them such as BPM and key, and lets you keep the ones you like in a Prep List. Groof is a discovery tool. It does not host, sell or license music. When you want a full track, you buy or stream it from the service it came from, under that service’s terms.

Track information and recommendations are produced automatically from third-party data and from how people use Groof. They can be incomplete or wrong, and we don’t guarantee that any track, preview, BPM, key or other detail is accurate or available.

2. Who may use Groof

• You must be at least 16 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you.
• You must give accurate information when you create an account and keep it up to date.
• One account per person. An account is personal and may not be shared, sold or transferred.
• You are responsible for everything that happens through your account. Keep your sign-in details to yourself and tell us right away if you think someone else has used it.
• You may not use Groof if the law where you live doesn’t allow it, or if we have previously suspended or closed an account of yours.

You can try Groof before creating an account. A trial that is not turned into an account is deleted after 30 days of inactivity, together with its likes.

3. Plans, payment and refunds

• Free includes 10 likes a day. We may change what Free includes.
• Unlimited is a subscription, billed monthly or yearly. The price, the billing period and any tax are shown before you buy.
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. Cancel at any time; Unlimited stays active until the end of the period you paid for and that period is not refunded.
• You buy through the App Store, Google Play or our payment provider (RevenueCat with Stripe). They handle payment and we never see your card details. The store you buy through may apply its own rules, including for refunds and cancellation; where it does, you cancel and ask for refunds there.
• If you are a consumer in the European Union and buy directly from us, you have 14 days to withdraw from the purchase. By asking us to start Unlimited right away, you agree that if you withdraw you pay for the part of the period you used.
• Apart from that, and from what mandatory consumer law gives you, payments are not refundable. Refund requests outside those rules are decided by us case by case and our decision is final.
• If a payment fails or is reversed, we may move your account to Free until it is settled.
• We may change prices and what each plan includes. A price change never applies to a period you have already paid for; we tell you before it applies to a renewal, and you can cancel before then.
• Trials, discounts and promotional offers are given at our discretion, may be limited to one per person, and can be changed or ended at any time.

4. How you may use Groof

Groof is for your own personal use. You agree not to:

• Use Groof to run a service for others, or resell, rent, sublicense or otherwise commercially exploit it or anything it shows.
• Copy, download, record, scrape or store the previews, artwork, track data or other content Groof shows, beyond what the app itself does for you.
• Access Groof or our API with scripts, bots, automated tools or anything other than the official app.
• Get around the like limit, the sign-in, a payment, a region restriction or any other limit or protection in Groof.
• Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the app, or try to extract its source code, data or models, except where the law expressly allows it despite this term.
• Overload, probe or interfere with our servers, or introduce malicious code.
• Use Groof to infringe anyone’s rights or to break any law, or in a way that could harm us, our providers or other users.
• Break the terms of the services Groof uses or that you connect, such as Spotify.
• Use our name, logo or brand without our written permission.

5. Music and third-party services

The tracks, previews, artwork, names and other content you see belong to their artists, labels and the services they come from, and are provided under those services’ terms. Rekordcloud has no ownership of them and no responsibility for them. Those services decide what is available, where and for how long. They can change, restrict or end what they offer at any time, and when they do, parts of Groof may stop working. We may add, change or remove a source at any time.

If you connect an account such as Spotify, you authorise us to access it as described in the privacy policy, you confirm that you are allowed to, and you agree to that service’s terms. You can disconnect at any time, and we can disconnect it if we have to. We are not responsible for what a third-party service does with your data or your account.

6. Your content

Your likes, skips, Prep List, pinned sets, settings and anything else you add to Groof are “your content”. You keep the rights you have in it. You grant Rekordcloud a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, analyse, aggregate, adapt and create derivative works from your content, for the purpose of operating, securing, improving and promoting Groof and other Rekordcloud Products (see section 7). This licence lasts as long as we hold your content, and continues afterwards for backup copies and for anything that no longer identifies you, such as aggregated statistics and music data.

If you send us feedback, ideas or suggestions, we may use them freely and without owing you anything.

7. Rekordcloud Products and shared data

Rekordcloud makes other products and services besides Groof, now and in the future, such as Lexicon DJ, Sonovault and MixID. Together with Groof, and with anything made by Rekordcloud B.V. or by a company it owns, they are “Rekordcloud Products”. No outside company, advertiser or partner is ever a Rekordcloud Product.

Rekordcloud Products work together. You agree that we may share your account details and your Groof activity with other Rekordcloud Products, and bring data from them into Groof, to recognise you across them, offer features that span them, build and improve them (including music data, recommendations and paid features) and tell you about them. We may also use other Rekordcloud Products and their infrastructure to provide Groof. The privacy policy says what is shared, why, and what choices you have. Agreeing to this sharing is a condition of using Groof.

8. Our rights

Groof, including its name, logo, design, code, databases and the track data and statistics we compile, belongs to Rekordcloud or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property law. Under these terms you get a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to install and use the app for personal use. You get no other rights. We may end this licence when these terms end.

9. Updates, changes and availability

• The app updates itself. You may need to install an update to keep using Groof.
• We may change, limit, suspend or discontinue Groof or any part of it at any time, for any reason, including technical, legal or business reasons, with or without notice.
• We don’t promise that Groof, or any feature, source or integration, will stay available, keep working with any operating system, device or third-party service, or be supported or updated.
• If we discontinue Groof entirely while you have paid for a period, we refund the unused part of that period. That refund is the only remedy for a discontinuation.
• Export your Prep List regularly. Groof is not a backup service and we are not responsible for lost likes or lists.

10. Suspension and ending

We may suspend or close your account, and limit or remove your access to Groof, immediately and without notice if you break these terms, if we reasonably suspect fraud, abuse or unlawful activity, if a payment is reversed, if the law requires it, or if we discontinue Groof. A period you paid for is not refunded when we close your account for a breach. You can stop using Groof at any time and delete your account in the app or by emailing us. Deleting your account removes your data as described in the privacy policy. It does not cancel a subscription bought through a store; cancel that with the store.

Sections that by their nature should survive, including 6, 7, 8 and 11 to 16, survive the end of these terms.

11. No warranties

Groof is provided as it is and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, we give no warranties or guarantees of any kind, express or implied, including about merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, availability or results. We don’t guarantee that Groof will be uninterrupted, secure or free of errors, that defects will be fixed, that any track, preview or piece of information is accurate, complete or lawful, or that using Groof will lead to any particular outcome, such as finding music you like or improving a set. Decisions you take based on what Groof shows are yours.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent the law allows, Rekordcloud, its directors, employees, affiliates, suppliers and licensors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damage, or for loss of profits, revenue, business, data, goodwill or other intangible loss, arising from or related to Groof, these terms or your use of or inability to use Groof, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, even if we were told such loss was possible. This includes loss caused by third-party content and services, by changes to or discontinuation of Groof, and by anything beyond our reasonable control.

To the maximum extent the law allows, our total liability for all claims together is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event that caused the claim, or €50 if that is more.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, such as liability for intent or gross negligence, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence. If you are a consumer, the rights that mandatory consumer law gives you are not affected.

13. Your responsibility to us

As far as the law allows, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Rekordcloud and its directors, employees, affiliates, suppliers and licensors from any claim, damage, loss, liability, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of Groof, your content, your breach of these terms or of the terms of a third-party service, or your violation of any law or of anyone’s rights.

14. Events outside our control

We are not liable for any delay or failure caused by something outside our reasonable control, such as outages of networks, hosting or third-party services, changes to or shutdowns of music services, government action, labour disputes, natural disasters, war, terrorism or epidemics.

15. App stores

If you installed Groof through the Apple App Store or Google Play, these terms are between you and Rekordcloud only. Apple and Google are not parties to them and have no obligation to maintain or support Groof or to handle any warranty, claim or complaint about it; those are our responsibility, within the limits of these terms. You must also follow the store’s own usage rules. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

16. General

• These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and Rekordcloud about Groof. They replace anything said or written earlier.
• If a part of these terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that part is replaced by what comes closest to its purpose and is allowed.
• If we don’t enforce a term at some point, we can still enforce it later.
• We may assign or transfer these terms, and our rights and duties under them, to an affiliate or to a successor of our business without your consent. You may not transfer yours.
• Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency or employment relationship between you and us.
• If these terms are translated, the English version prevails.

17. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. If a change matters, we will tell you in the app, by email or on groof.app at least 30 days before it applies, unless the law or a security problem requires us to act sooner. If you keep using Groof after the change applies, you accept it. If you don’t accept it, stop using Groof and cancel any subscription before then. The date at the top shows the latest version.

18. Law and disputes

Dutch law applies to these terms and to any dispute about Groof, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. If you have a problem, email us first and we will try to sort it out. Disputes go to the competent court in the Netherlands, which for us is the District Court of Overijssel, unless mandatory law gives you, as a consumer, the right to go to a court where you live.

19. Contact

Rekordcloud B.V., Brandijzerhoek 55, Enschede, the Netherlands. Chamber of Commerce 85684759, VAT NL863706873B01. Email groof@rekord.cloud.