Terms of Service

The online services are provided by Saltado LLC, a Texas limited liability company of Austin, Texas ("we", "us"). Contact: [email protected].

What these terms cover. The Sessions app runs on your own computer and is licensed to you under the EULA. These terms cover the parts that run on ours: your account, the Vault backup service and its web drive, share links, and Sessions A&R research. Together we call those "the services". Where the two documents overlap, the EULA governs the software and these terms govern the services.

By creating an account or using any of the services you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not create an account. You can keep using the free app either way.

1. Who may use the services. You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian has to agree to these terms on your behalf. An account is for one person. Don't share your password, and tell us at [email protected] if you think someone else has got into your account.
2. Your account. Give us a real email address and keep it current, because it is how we reach you about your license, your subscription and your backup. You are responsible for what happens under your account. You can delete your account at any time.
3. Your work stays yours. You keep every right you already have in the music, files and text you put into the services. We claim no ownership of it and we will not sell it, license it to anyone, use it to train a model, or use it to promote Sessions.
4. The permission we need to run the service. To back your files up, show them to you in a web page, let you download or play them, zip a folder, and serve a share link you created, we need your permission to store, copy, transmit and display those files. You give us that permission for those purposes only, and only for as long as you keep the files with us. It ends when you delete them.
5. Standard folders can be read by us; private folders cannot. Standard is the default: your files are encrypted in transit and on disk, but we hold the keys, so our systems can open them. That is what makes web browsing, downloads, playback, folder zips and share links possible. Mark a folder private and it is encrypted on your computer before it leaves, with a passphrase you choose. If you lose that passphrase and the recovery code we print for you, nobody can open those files again, including us. There is no reset. Private folders cannot be browsed on the web, downloaded in a browser, or shared by link, because none of that works without reading them. The Privacy Policy describes this in more detail.
6. What you may not store or share. Don't use the services for anything unlawful, and don't upload or share:
   • material you have no right to store or distribute, including music, samples or artwork you do not own or have not licensed;
   • material that infringes someone's copyright, trademark or other rights;
   • malware, or anything built to damage or gain unauthorised access to a system;
   • sexual material involving minors, which we report to the authorities;
   • material that harasses, threatens or defames someone.
   Don't resell the services, run them as a service for other people, use them to build a competing product or dataset, or try to get around quotas, rate limits or payment.
7. Share links are public. A share link is a key. Anyone who has it can open, play and download what it points at, with no account and no sign-in, until it expires or you switch it off. Publishing a link is your decision and your responsibility. We store only a one-way fingerprint of each link, never the link itself, so we cannot show you a link again after you make it or recover one you have lost. Make a new one instead.
8. Copyright complaints. If you believe something on our services infringes your copyright, email [email protected] with: your contact details; what work you say is infringed; the share link or file it appears at; a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised; a statement that the information is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorised to act for them; and your signature, electronic is fine. We will remove or disable the material and tell the person who posted it, who may send a counter-notice to the same address. Our designated agent for these notices is Saltado LLC, Austin, Texas, reachable at that address. We close the accounts of repeat infringers.
9. Suspending or removing content. We would rather never do this, and we are not in the business of looking through your files. But if we receive a valid complaint, or we have good reason to believe something breaks section 6 or the law, we may disable a share link, remove the material, or suspend the account. We will tell you what we did and why, and give you a way to respond, unless the law stops us.
10. How much you can store, and for how long. A subscription includes 150 GB, and that included amount is unchanged. If you want more room you can add one or more Vault Storage add-ons, each of which adds a further 150 GB for as long as it is paid for. If an add-on ends, whether you cancel it or a payment stops, your storage limit goes back down, but nothing is deleted: everything already in your Vault stays readable and downloadable, you just cannot back anything new up until you are back under the limit. A copy of a file stays as long as one of your backups still points at it; when none does, because you deleted it or saved over it, the old copy is kept for 30 days and then deleted for good. That is what lets you get yesterday's version back. If we ever need to change the included storage we will tell you first, and it will not apply to a term you have already paid for.
11. If your subscription lapses, nothing is wiped. Your backup stays readable for 30 days on the monthly plan, or a full year on the yearly plan. During that window you can browse and download everything, you just cannot back anything new up. You can delete everything in your Vault at any time, whatever state your subscription is in, and that erases the files, not just your access to them. The copies on your own computer are never touched by any of this.
12. The Vault is a backup, not a guarantee. Keep your own copies. We run the service carefully and design it to be recoverable, but no backup service should be the only place your work exists, including ours. Sessions ships a free local backup tool for exactly this reason, and we recommend you use it.
13. Paying for things. Purchases and subscriptions are handled by Lemon Squeezy, which is the merchant of record: they take the payment, they handle tax, and their terms cover the transaction itself. Prices are shown before you pay. A subscription renews automatically at the interval you chose until you cancel, and you can cancel any time from your account, which stops the next renewal and leaves the rest of the paid period in place. Refunds within 14 days, no questions. If we change the price of a subscription we will tell you at least 30 days before it takes effect, and you can cancel instead.
14. Research credits. A subscription includes a monthly allowance of research credits that does not roll over. Credits you buy separately never expire and are spent after the monthly ones. Credits have no cash value and cannot be refunded once spent or transferred to someone else.
15. What A&R research is, and what it is not. Research results are compiled information about labels and outlets: who runs them, what they release, how to reach them and what it costs. It can be out of date, incomplete or wrong, and a label's plans change without telling anyone. Check anything that matters before you act on it. We do not represent you, we do not pitch your music, and nothing here is a promise that a label will listen, reply, or sign you.
16. Early access, availability and changes. Sessions is early access and the services are new. We do not promise any particular uptime. We may add, change or remove features, and we may take the services down for maintenance. If we discontinue a paid service outright we will give you reasonable notice, a way to get your files out, and a refund of anything you paid for time you will not get.
17. No warranty. The services are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not warrant that they will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that they will preserve every file in every circumstance.
18. Limit of liability. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Saltado LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost music or lost data. Our total liability for any claim relating to the services is limited to what you paid us for them in the 12 months before the claim. Some places do not allow these limits, and where that is true this section applies only as far as it legally can.
19. Ending it. You can stop using the services and delete your account whenever you like. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, does not pay, or is used in a way that threatens the service or other people. If we close your account for something other than a serious breach, we will give you a chance to get your files out first.
20. Changes to these terms. We may update these terms. If a change materially affects you we will give notice by email or in the app before it takes effect, and the date at the top will change. Carrying on using the services after that means you accept the new version. If you don't, cancel, and we will refund anything you paid for time you will not get.
21. Governing law. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the courts of Travis County, Texas have jurisdiction. Nothing here takes away consumer rights you have where you live that cannot be waived.
22. The rest. If a part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest still stands. Not enforcing something once does not mean we have given it up. These terms plus the EULA and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the services. You may not transfer your account or your rights under these terms without our agreement; we may transfer ours if the business is sold, and you can cancel if you would rather not come along.

Questions: [email protected]
Published by Saltado LLC, Austin, Texas.