TERMS
Make music. Don’t make trouble.
Groove Machine is free to use. Make beats, export them and have fun. These terms cover the less exciting but necessary part.
1. Agreement and operator
These Terms form an agreement between you and Ciarán Paul Roche, the independent operator of GrooveMachine.com in Pennsylvania, United States. By accessing or using GrooveMachine.com, you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.
If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, use GrooveMachine.com only with permission from a parent or legal guardian. GrooveMachine.com is a general-audience service and is not directed to children under 13.
2. What Groove Machine provides
GrooveMachine.com is a free browser-based music tool. It lets you generate and edit beat patterns, play procedurally synthesized sounds, save project settings in your browser, share editable project links, and export WAV audio and MIDI files. The current service does not provide accounts, cloud project storage, uploaded samples, public profiles, collaboration, payments, or a marketplace.
3. Permission to use the service
You receive a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable permission to use GrooveMachine.com for lawful creative purposes in accordance with these Terms. This permission does not transfer ownership of the service, its source code, branding, interface, copy, artwork or other site materials.
You may use recordings and MIDI files you create with Groove Machine for personal or commercial projects, subject to the rights and responsibilities below.
4. Your patterns, recordings and exports
GrooveMachine.com does not claim ownership of the beat patterns you create or the WAV and MIDI files you export. You keep whatever rights applicable law gives you in your creative choices and resulting work.
The built-in instrument sounds are generated procedurally in your browser rather than copied from a third-party sample library. To the extent the operator owns rights in those procedural sound elements, you receive a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual and royalty-free license to use them as incorporated into recordings you create with Groove Machine, including commercial recordings.
Different users may create similar or identical patterns and sounds. Copyright and other rights vary by jurisdiction and depend on the work involved and the amount of human authorship. GrooveMachine.com does not promise that an output is unique, copyrightable, registrable, non-infringing or eligible for exclusive ownership.
5. Your responsibility
You are responsible for your creative choices and for how you use, publish, perform, sell or distribute an export. Do not add music, recordings, images, names, trademarks or other material unless you have the right to use them. You are also responsible for checking that a finished project does not infringe another person’s rights or break applicable law.
6. Shared links
A shared beat link contains editable project settings. Anyone who receives the link can inspect, copy, change and redistribute that beat state. Do not put confidential information or material you are not permitted to share into a shared link. GrooveMachine.com cannot revoke a link after someone else has copied it.
7. Acceptable use
Do not interfere with the service or another person’s use of it. This includes attempting unauthorized access, introducing malicious code, evading security measures, overloading the service, falsely implying endorsement, using the service for unlawful activity, or copying or reverse-engineering protected parts of the service except where applicable law expressly permits it.
8. Availability, changes and your files
Groove Machine may be updated, changed, interrupted or discontinued. Features and browser compatibility may also change. Keep separate copies of any exports you care about. Project settings stored in your browser and offline application files may be removed when you, your browser, your device or your operating system clears site data.
9. Listen safely
You control your device, speakers, headphones and playback volume. Start at a sensible level and avoid prolonged exposure to loud sound. GrooveMachine.com is not responsible for unsafe listening choices or the condition of equipment used with the service.
10. Third-party services and names
The site relies on ordinary hosting and browser technology and may link to websites operated by others. Third-party services have their own terms and privacy practices, and GrooveMachine.com is not responsible for their content or availability.
GrooveMachine.com is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any third-party music-software, instrument or hardware company. Third-party names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
11. Disclaimer of warranties
To the maximum extent permitted by law, GrooveMachine.com is provided “as is” and “as available,” without express or implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, uninterrupted availability, compatibility, security or error-free operation. Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded.
12. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, goodwill, data, recordings, projects or opportunities arising from or connected with GrooveMachine.com.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator’s total liability for all claims connected with the service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid to use GrooveMachine.com during the twelve months before the claim or US $100.
These limitations do not apply to fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limits, so those provisions apply only to the extent allowed where you live.
13. Claims arising from misuse
To the extent permitted by law, you are responsible for reasonable losses, liabilities and costs arising from your unlawful use of GrooveMachine.com, your deliberate violation of these Terms, or material you use without the necessary rights. This section does not require a consumer to compensate the operator for the operator’s own negligence or unlawful conduct.
14. Restricting access
The operator may restrict or block access when reasonably necessary to protect GrooveMachine.com, its users, its security or its legal rights, or when these Terms are materially violated.
15. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and applicable United States federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Before filing a claim, you and the operator agree to make a reasonable good-faith effort to resolve it informally. Any claim that cannot be resolved informally will be brought in a state or federal court with proper jurisdiction in Pennsylvania.
Nothing in this section takes away non-waivable consumer rights or requires you to give up protections that apply where you live.
16. Changes to these Terms
These Terms may be updated when the service or applicable law changes. The effective date at the top will be revised when that happens. Changes apply to use of the service after the revised Terms are published; they do not retroactively change rights that already arose unless the law permits and requires it.
17. General terms
If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, that part will be limited or removed only as much as necessary, and the rest will remain in effect. A failure to enforce a provision once is not a permanent waiver. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement concerning your use of the current service.
18. Contact
Questions about these Terms or GrooveMachine.com may be sent through the contact page at CiaranRoche.com .