Terms and Conditions

1. About these terms

We are CHORUS MUSIC LTD (‘we’, ‘us’, or ‘our’), a company registered in the United Kingdom at 124 City Road, London, England EC1V 2NX. We operate https://writewithchorus.com and related products and services that refer to these terms (the ‘Services’). We provide a suite of songwriting tools to help you write original songs.

These terms (the ‘Legal Terms’) are a legally binding agreement between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (‘you’), and us. By using the Services you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

The Services are for people aged 18 or over. If we change these terms, we will post the new version or email you, and the changes apply from the date stated. If a change materially affects your rights, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice. By continuing to use the Services after a change takes effect, you accept it.

2. Your account

You may need to register to use the Services. You agree that the information you give us is true, accurate and kept up to date; that you have the legal capacity to agree to these terms; that you will keep your password confidential; and that you are responsible for all activity on your account. We may suspend or terminate accounts that use false information. We may reclaim or change a username that we reasonably consider inappropriate or offensive.

3. Your content

‘Your Content’ means the songs, lyrics, chords, recordings, notes and any other material you create, upload or store using the Services.

3.1 You own your songs

You keep full ownership of Your Content and of all intellectual property rights in it. Nothing in these Legal Terms transfers ownership of Your Content to us, and we will never claim to be the author or owner of your songs. You are free to use Your Content however you wish, including releasing, performing, selling or licensing it, commercially or otherwise.

3.2 Licence to provide the Services

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, back up, copy, process and display Your Content, solely as needed to provide, secure, maintain and support the Services for you. If you choose to share Your Content with other people through the Services, this includes displaying it to the people you share it with, in the way you chose.

3.3 Licence to improve the Services

You also grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to access and analyse Your Content (including lyrics, chords and recordings) in order to understand how the Services are used and to develop, test and improve them. This includes:

• Individual review. Members of our team may view individual items of Your Content for support, debugging, quality and safety purposes, to understand how people use the Services (for example, when an account is cancelled or when a user writes a large number of songs), and to identify users who may be interested in partnership, collaboration or similar opportunities with us, whom we may then contact about them.
• Aggregate analysis. We may analyse Your Content together with other users’ content to produce statistical or aggregated information, for example which words are most often rhymed, or which words and chord patterns are most common in a genre (‘Insights’). We use Insights to improve features such as our rhyming, word suggestion and chord tools.

3.4 What we will not do

• We will not publish, sell, license or distribute Your Content, or any recording of it, to third parties, or use it in our marketing, without your permission.
• We do not use Your Content to train artificial intelligence models that generate lyrics or music.
• We do not use Your Content to select or target advertising.
• Insights will not reproduce substantial parts of Your Content and will not identify you or your songs. Insights are ours to use.
• If we contact you about a partnership or collaboration, any such arrangement would be a separate agreement made with you in writing. Nothing in these Legal Terms gives us rights in your songs for that purpose.

3.5 Third-party AI features

Some features of the Services (such as our ‘Genius’ feature) use third-party AI providers. When you use such a feature, the content you submit to it is sent to one or more of those providers in order to generate a response for you. We do not send your content to a third-party AI provider unless you use one of these features. We have not agreed to our providers using that content to train their models, and under their terms they do not do so by default. Details of the providers we use are in our Privacy Policy.

3.6 Privacy of Your Content

Your Content is private to you unless you choose to share it. Where you share Your Content, other people may be able to view it, so only share what you are comfortable with them seeing.

3.7 Deletion and export

You can delete Your Content or your account at any time. When you do, we will delete Your Content from our systems within 30 days (including from backups), except where we are required by law to keep it. Insights that have already been produced will remain ours.

3.8 Your responsibilities

You confirm that Your Content is your own original work, or that you have the rights needed to use it in the Services, and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights, is not unlawful, and does not otherwise breach these Legal Terms. We have no obligation to monitor Your Content, but we may remove or disable access to content that we reasonably consider to be unlawful or in breach of these Legal Terms. If we do, we may also suspend your account and, where the content is unlawful, report it to the authorities.

4. Our intellectual property and feedback

We own or license all intellectual property in the Services, including the software, source code, databases, designs, text, audio, video, graphics, trademarks and logos (the ‘Content’ and the ‘Marks’). Your Content is not part of our Content. Subject to these Legal Terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Services for your own personal use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you. No part of our Content or Marks may be copied, republished, sold, licensed or otherwise exploited for commercial purposes without our written permission. To ask for permission, email [email protected].

If you send us a question, comment, suggestion, idea or other feedback about the Services (‘Feedback’), we may use it freely, without obligation or compensation to you, to improve the Services. Feedback does not include Your Content.

5. Using the Services

You may use the songs and other material you create with the Services for any purpose, including commercially. The rules below concern use of the Services themselves. You agree not to:

• use the Services in a way that is unlawful, or that infringes anyone’s rights;
• access the Services by automated means, such as bots, scrapers or scripts, or systematically retrieve data or content from the Services to build a database or collection;
• reverse engineer, decompile or copy the Services’ software, except as permitted by law;
• bypass or interfere with security features, or attempt to disrupt or overload the Services or our networks;
• upload viruses or other harmful code;
• impersonate another person, or share, sell or transfer your account or profile;
• harass, threaten or abuse our staff or other users, or use information from the Services to do so;
• create accounts by automated means or under false pretences, or collect other users’ usernames or email addresses; or
• use the Services (other than Your Content) to build a competing product or service, or resell access to the Services.

6. Payments and subscriptions

We accept Visa, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Prices are shown, and payments are taken, in the currency presented to you at checkout. If your card or bank account is in a different currency, your bank or card provider may convert the payment and may charge you for doing so. Applicable taxes (including VAT or sales tax where required) will be added to the price. You agree to provide current, complete and accurate billing information and to keep it up to date. We may correct pricing errors, even if we have already requested or received payment, and we may refuse any order.

Billing and renewal. Your subscription will continue and automatically renew unless cancelled. You authorise us to charge your payment method on a recurring basis, without needing your approval for each charge, until you cancel. Your billing cycle depends on the plan you choose.

Free trial. We offer a 10-day free trial to new users who register. At the end of the trial, your account will be charged according to your chosen subscription unless you cancel first.

Cancellation. You can cancel your subscription at any time by logging in to your account. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid term. If you have questions or are unsatisfied with the Services, please email [email protected]. This does not affect any statutory right you may have to cancel or to a refund.

Price changes. We may change subscription fees from time to time and will tell you in advance in accordance with applicable law.

7. Advertising and third-party services

We display advertisements on certain pages of our website, including pages containing our songwriting tools. We simply provide the space for advertisements and have no other relationship with advertisers. Advertisements are not based on Your Content (see section 3.4). We are not responsible for any third-party website, product or service that is advertised or linked to through the Services, or for any transaction between you and a third party.

8. Privacy

Please read our Privacy Policy at https://writewithchorus.com/legal/privacy. It explains how we collect and use personal data, including Your Content, who we share it with, and your rights. The Services are operated from the United Kingdom, and data is stored and processed by our service providers, including in the United States. Where we transfer personal data outside the UK or the European Economic Area, we do so using appropriate safeguards as described in our Privacy Policy.

9. Copyright complaints

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material on the Services infringes a copyright you own or control, please notify us using the contact details below (a ‘Notification’). A copy of your Notification may be sent to the person who posted or stored the material. You may be liable for damages if you make material misrepresentations in a Notification, so if you are not sure that material infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting a lawyer.

10. Suspension and termination

These Legal Terms apply while you use the Services. You can stop using the Services and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access, and block IP addresses, if you breach these Legal Terms or the law. We may also stop providing the Services to you for other reasons, for example if we discontinue them, by giving you reasonable notice.

Unless your account has been terminated for serious breach, or the law prevents it, we will give you at least 30 days after our notice to export Your Content before it is deleted, as described in section 3.7. If we terminate your account for breach, you may not register a new account under your own or any other name.

11. Changes and availability

We may change, update, suspend or discontinue parts of the Services from time to time, giving you notice where reasonably practicable. We cannot guarantee that the Services will always be available. There may be maintenance, interruptions, delays or errors. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for loss or inconvenience caused by downtime or by changes to the Services. We may correct errors or inaccuracies in descriptions, pricing and other information on the Services at any time.

12. Disclaimer and limitation of liability

NOTHING IN THESE LEGAL TERMS EXCLUDES OR LIMITS OUR LIABILITY FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE, FOR FRAUD OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION, OR FOR ANYTHING ELSE THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY LAW, AND IT DOES NOT AFFECT YOUR STATUTORY RIGHTS AS A CONSUMER.

SUBJECT TO THE ABOVE, THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN ‘AS IS’ AND ‘AS AVAILABLE’ BASIS, AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOST REVENUE OR LOSS OF DATA, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER WILL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US DURING THE SIX (6) MONTHS BEFORE THE CAUSE OF ACTION AROSE. SOME LAWS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

We perform regular backups, but you should keep your own copies of any Content that is important to you. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for loss or corruption of data.

13. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us (and our officers, employees and agents) harmless from any loss, damage, liability, claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, made by a third party arising out of: (1) Your Content, to the extent it infringes the rights of a third party or breaches section 3.8; (2) your breach of these Legal Terms; or (3) your violation of the rights of a third party. We may assume the exclusive defence of any such matter at your expense, and you agree to cooperate. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Legal Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. If you are a consumer, you also have the benefit of any mandatory consumer protection provisions of the law of the country where you live. Both parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales, and if you are a consumer you may also bring a claim in the courts of the country in which you live.

If you have a complaint or dispute, please contact us first at[email protected]. We will try to resolve it informally and in good faith, and both parties agree to try to do so for at least thirty (30) days before starting formal proceedings. This does not prevent either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief or protecting intellectual property rights, or prevent you from using any consumer dispute resolution scheme or going to court as described above.

15. General

These Legal Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any policies we post on the Services, are the entire agreement between you and us. If we do not enforce a right straight away, we have not given it up. If any provision is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, the rest of the terms continue to apply. We may assign our rights and obligations to another company; you may not assign yours without our consent. We are not liable for failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control. Nothing in these Legal Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship between you and us. You consent to receiving notices and other communications from us electronically, by email or on the Services, and these satisfy any requirement that they be in writing.

16. Contact us

To make a complaint about the Services or to ask a question, contact us at:

California users: if a complaint with us is not satisfactorily resolved, you can contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834 or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.