Notefusion

Terms of Service

Last updated [DATE]

The short version

Your recordings are not kept. Audio you submit is transcribed and then deleted as soon as the job finishes. We keep the notation, not the sound.

These terms govern your use of NoteFusion: the app, the subscription plans, the accuracy you can expect from an automated transcription tool, and what happens when you submit a transcription to the African Tunes and Choruses library.

Where you buy through Google Play, Google is the store you pay and the seller of record for that purchase. Your rights and the way you cancel a subscription are set out below and in the Google Play Terms of Service.

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

These terms are a contract between you and [LEGAL ENTITY NAME], [ENTITY TYPE AND REGISTRATION NUMBER], of [REGISTERED ADDRESS] ([COUNTRY]) (“NoteFusion”, “we”, “us”).

By creating an account, signing in with Google, or using the app, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use NoteFusion. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data and is part of these terms.

If you buy a Choir plan under a separate written order form, that order form governs where it conflicts with these terms.

2. Definitions

3. Who can use NoteFusion

You must be 18 or older to open an account in your own name.

If you are 13 to 17, you may use NoteFusion only if a parent or legal guardian opens the account, accepts these terms on your behalf, and takes responsibility for all activity and charges on it.

NoteFusion is not for children under 13.

Where the Nigeria Data Protection Act applies, anyone under 18 is a child, and verified parental consent is required before their data is processed. If you are a teacher or choir master enrolling minors on a Choir plan, you warrant that you have obtained guardian consent for each minor seat.

You may not use the service if you are barred from it by sanctions or export law, or if the law of your country does not permit you to enter this contract.

4. Your account

You can register with an email address and password, or with Google sign-in. If you register with Google, your account has no password on our side, and actions that require proof of identity (changing password, closing the account) require you to sign in with Google again.

Keep your credentials secure. You are responsible for activity on your account that you authorised, or that happened because you failed to keep your credentials secure. You are not responsible for activity after you have told us the account may be compromised.

One account per person. Do not share credentials, and do not sell or transfer your account.

If you believe your account has been compromised, tell us at security@notefusion.studio and change your password. We may ask you to re-authenticate before sensitive actions.

5. What the service is, and what it does not guarantee

NoteFusion is an automated tool. It listens to Audio and returns its best estimate of the music as movable-do Tonic Solfa and staff notation, with a detected key, tempo, and time signature.

That estimate is not always right. Accuracy varies with recording quality, background noise, overlapping voices, room acoustics, instrument timbre, microtonal music, and heavy percussion. Key detection is an inference, not a measurement. If the detected key is wrong, the notes may be right but labelled in the wrong key. You can change the key in the app: that re-labels the transcription, it does not re-analyse the audio.

Do not rely on the output as the sole source for commercial publication, exam material, or performance-critical use without checking it by ear. We cannot promise that any particular recording will produce usable output, or any output at all.

We will provide the service with reasonable care and skill. We make no commitment that the service will be uninterrupted, and we may schedule maintenance and change features. A “priority queue” on Pro means relative ordering, not a time guarantee.

6. Plans and subscriptions

The Free plan is a working plan, not a demo. Paid plans are recurring subscriptions sold through Play Billing. They renew automatically at the price shown in the app and on Google Play at the time you subscribe, until you cancel.

Plan limits (transcription minutes, monthly quota, seat count) are described in the app at the time you buy. We may change the limits of a plan for new subscribers, and for existing subscribers only with notice before their next billing period. A failed transcription does not consume a monthly quota unit.

If you cancel a subscription, it stays active until the end of the current paid period, and you keep your Library.

To cancel: open the Google Play app, go to Payments and subscriptions, then Subscriptions, find NoteFusion, and choose Cancel. You can also visit play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions, or use the link in your NoteFusion account settings. Cancel at least 24 hours before your renewal date: Google may charge from 24 hours before a period begins, and a pre-authorisation hold can appear up to 48 hours ahead (longer in some countries), which is released if you cancel before the new period starts.

Uninstalling the app does not cancel your subscription, and neither does deleting your NoteFusion account. A Play subscription keeps billing until you cancel it in Google Play. Cancel there first, then delete the app or the account if you want to.

The Choir plan covers a named set of seats. The account administrator controls the shared library and can add or remove seats. Removing a seat ends that member’s access at the end of the paid period.

Organisational plans bought by email or order form are governed by these terms plus the order form, which sets payment terms, invoicing, and taxes.

7. Payment and billing

Purchases are processed by Google Play, not by us. We never see or store your card details, and you cannot pay us directly for a consumer plan. Depending on your country, Google is either the seller of record or is processing the payment on our behalf; your purchase is additionally governed by the Google Play Terms of Service.

Prices are shown in Nigerian Naira, and the price displayed in the app and on Google Play before you buy is the price that applies. Google may display a converted local price, and your bank may add conversion or foreign-transaction fees. We do not set or keep those fees. Prices are inclusive of applicable taxes where Google collects them.

If a payment fails, your paid features pause and your account drops to Free for that period. Your Library is not deleted. When payment succeeds again, paid features resume.

8. Refunds

For purchases through Play Billing, ask Google first. Google Play offers self-service refunds for roughly 48 hours after purchase, and that window is Google’s to set, not ours.

After that window, write to hello@notefusion.studio and we will answer within [DAYS] days. We refund in full where the service failed: a transcription you paid for was never delivered, the service was unavailable for a sustained period, or you were charged twice. Google may issue that refund on our behalf.

Where you cancel part-way through a period you have already used, we may keep a reasonable amount for the part you used rather than refunding the whole period.

Your statutory rights come first. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any right you have under the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2018, or under any other consumer-protection law that cannot be excluded. If a term here conflicts with such a law, that law wins and the rest of these terms still stand.

If you are in the UK or EU, you have a 14-day right to withdraw from a distance purchase of digital content or services. That right is lost only if you expressly agreed to start the service immediately and acknowledged losing it, which you are asked to confirm in the purchase flow. If we terminate or materially degrade a paid plan without cause, we refund the unused portion pro rata. If the service is not as described, or is not provided with reasonable care and skill, your statutory remedies still apply.

9. Price changes

We reserve the right to change the price of a subscription, on advance notice, for valid reasons: a change in our hosting or processing costs, a change in tax or currency conditions, or a material change in what the plan includes.

Existing subscribers get at least 30 days’ notice before a change takes effect, or longer where Google Play or your local law requires it. The notice states the subscription name, your current price, the new price, the date it takes effect, and how to cancel. A change never applies to a period you have already paid for.

If you do not accept the new price, cancel before it takes effect and you will not be charged it. Where Google Play requires you to opt in to an increase, that process governs: if you do not opt in, Google cancels the subscription before the first charge at the higher price.

Price decreases take effect automatically at your next renewal.

10. What you own, and what we are allowed to do

You own your Audio and the Transcriptions in your private Library. We claim no ownership of them. We use them only to operate the service: receive, process, store, back up, transmit, and display them to you (and, on a Choir plan, to your seat-holders). That permission ends when you delete the content or close the account.

Audio is deleted when the job finishes. Only the musical data is retained, and it is used to run the service, not for anything else. We do not use your Audio or Transcriptions to train machine-learning models, we do not sell them, and no human reviews them except where you submit to the Public Library or where we investigate a specific abuse report.

To the extent that copyright in machine-generated output would otherwise belong to us under any law (including the UK’s rules on computer-generated works), we assign that right to you, free of charge. In some places machine output may attract no copyright at all.

Owning a transcription is not owning the song. Writing out a song does not make the song yours. You keep only the notation you contributed, and you remain responsible for complying with this agreement and the law if you later share or publish a transcription of music you do not own.

11. What you must have the right to record

For every recording you submit, you warrant that you have the right to record and transmit it. That means one of the following: you own the rights, you hold a licence, the material is public domain or traditional, or your use falls within a permitted exception in your country.

Two separate rights are in play, and you need both where both apply:

Private transcription of a copyrighted song for personal study may be permitted in some countries. Publishing or distributing it is a separate act, and usually is not. The Public Library is publishing.

12. The Public Library, and the licence you give us

African Tunes and Choruses is an openly available library of Transcriptions that users chose to submit and we chose to publish. Submission is voluntary, item by item, and opt-in. Nothing in your private Library is ever published without a specific submission action from you.

This is the one clause to read carefully. Publishing is publishing. If you submit a transcription of a song you do not own, you are asking us to distribute a copy of someone else’s work, and that is on you. Read clause 11 again before you submit.

Licence. When you submit, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, sublicensable (to the hosting and delivery providers that run the service), and transferable (on a sale of the service) licence to reproduce, adapt, correct, re-key, reformat, publish, distribute, publicly display, and make available the submitted Transcription, and to let other users view, download, print, and perform it. This licence covers only what is needed to operate the Public Library. It does not cover advertising, marketing, or training models, and we do not use it for those.

Editing. We may edit submissions for accuracy: correct errors, change the notated key, and normalise formatting. By submitting, you consent to those edits.

Credit. We credit you by your chosen display name on published transcriptions, including the transcription page and the music data where practicable. We may also list the composer and lyricist where we can identify them. Credit is a courtesy, not a condition of publication. You can ask us to change the credit name or make it anonymous at any time.

What you must warrant. By submitting, you warrant that you own the rights to the Content, or have written permission from the owner to publish it openly, and that the music and lyrics are in the public domain in your country, or you hold permission that expressly covers public publication and distribution. A church copyright licence that permits your own arrangements does not, on its own, cover publishing them in a public library.

Old does not mean free. A public-domain song and a specific recording of it are different things. A choir’s modern recording of a traditional hymn is a separate, copyrighted work even though the hymn is free. What matters for a transcription is whether the music and lyrics, not the audio, are in the public domain. An old recording, a viral sound, or a freely available upload does not make the song it performs public domain. And a modern arrangement of a public-domain song can itself be protected. When in doubt, do not submit. Keep the transcription private instead.

Review, not certification. Every submission is reviewed before publication. Review is an editorial check for musical plausibility. It is not an accuracy certificate, an endorsement, or a rights clearance. We may refuse or remove any submission at any time.

Removal. You can ask us to remove your submission, and we will do so within [DAYS] days. Copies other people have already downloaded cannot be recalled, and your credit may remain on copies already distributed. If you remove a submission, we will not republish it.

13. Copyright and takedowns

We respect intellectual property and comply with the Nigerian Copyright Act 2022 and, where it applies, the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512).

If you believe something in the Public Library infringes your copyright, send a notice to [COPYRIGHT-EMAIL] with:

We act expeditiously to remove or disable access, notify the user who submitted the content, and honour counter-notices. Knowingly false notices carry liability. Users whose accounts receive repeated, sustained takedown notices are suspended in line with our repeat-infringer policy: three sustained notices within 12 months ends the account.

14. Acceptable use

You may not use NoteFusion to:

We may apply rate limits and automated abuse detection, and may suspend an account while we investigate suspected abuse.

15. What belongs to us

NoteFusion, its name, logo, app, website, API, and the movable-do solfa engine and transcription pipeline behind the service belong to [LEGAL ENTITY NAME] or its licensors. We give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the app on devices you control, for the plan you hold. This does not give you any right to copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works of the app or the marks.

The service includes open-source and third-party components whose licences require attribution; see the third-party notices at [NOTICES-URL]. Feedback you send us may be used without obligation or compensation.

16. Third-party services

NoteFusion relies on these providers, each governed by its own terms: Google Play (distribution and billing), Google sign-in, Heroku (hosting), Cloudinary (profile images), and Expo (push notifications). We are not responsible for their terms, availability, or changes. But we remain responsible to you for delivering our service, even where we built it on a subcontractor.

17. Suspension, termination, and deleting your account

You can leave any time. Cancel a subscription in Google Play (see clause 6). Close your account in the app under Profile, confirming it is really you by re-entering your password or signing in with Google again. Closing the account deletes your profile, your Library, your saved transcriptions, your sessions, and your registered devices, including the profile picture held by our media host. It is irreversible.

Cancel your subscription before you delete your account. Deleting the account does not cancel a Google Play subscription, and it keeps billing until you cancel it in Play. Cancel first, then delete.

If you have already uninstalled the app and cannot delete the account from inside it, email privacy@notefusion.studio from your registered address and we will delete the account and its data for you. You do not need to reinstall the app.

Transcriptions you published to the Public Library, and the credit on them, stay published after you close your account. Ask us to remove a submission before you delete the account if you do not want it to remain.

We may suspend or terminate for material breach, illegal use, non-payment, fraud, or where the law requires it. Otherwise we give reasonable notice and a reason. On termination we give you [DAYS] days to export your Library as MusicXML, whatever plan you are on, except where the account was terminated for illegality. If we terminate without cause, we refund the unused portion of the paid period pro rata.

Clauses on ownership, the Public Library licence, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and governing law survive termination.

18. Disclaimers

The service and its output are provided “as is” and “as available”. We make no warranty of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted or error-free operation, or that defects will be corrected. We make no warranty about the accuracy, legality, or rights status of Public Library content.

Nothing in this clause excludes or restricts any right you have as a consumer that cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted, including the right to a service performed with reasonable care and skill.

19. Our liability

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded: death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or your statutory rights as a consumer.

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss; loss of profit, revenue, goodwill, or anticipated savings; loss of or corruption of data beyond our reasonable control; or loss arising from reliance on transcription output, including decisions made for performance, rehearsal, publication, or recording on the basis of it.

Our total liability is limited to the greater of (a) the amounts you paid in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) [NAIRA AMOUNT]. For Free-plan users with no payments, the cap is [NAIRA AMOUNT].

20. Indemnity

If you run an organisation on a Choir or invoiced plan, you indemnify us against claims arising from your use of the service.

For everyone else, you indemnify us only against claims arising from (i) Content you submitted to the Public Library, (ii) breach of the rights warranties in clause 11, or (iii) breach of the acceptable-use clause. We take no general indemnity from consumers. If someone makes a claim we say your indemnity covers, we will tell you promptly and you can take part in the defence.

This clause does not apply where the law of your country prohibits imposing an indemnity on a consumer, including under the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2018.

21. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. For non-material changes, we post the new version and update the date at the top. For material changes, we give at least 30 days’ notice in the app and by email, say what changed, and the change takes effect for paid subscribers at the start of the next billing period. If you do not accept a material change, you can cancel and, if the change happened mid-period, you receive a pro-rata refund.

22. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of [COUNTRY], and the courts of [VENUE] have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer-protection laws of your country of habitual residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country.

Before formal proceedings, write to hello@notefusion.studio and we will respond within [DAYS] days. UK consumers whose complaint is not resolved can contact the Citizens Advice consumer service for information on alternative dispute resolution.

23. General

These terms are the entire agreement between you and us, except where fraud is involved and except for the separate order form for Choir plans. If any part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest stands. Our failure to enforce a term is not a waiver of it. We may assign these terms on a merger or sale of the service; you may not without our consent. We may contact you by email at the address on your account. The English version of these terms governs.

24. Contact

Registered number: [REGISTRATION NUMBER]