Terms of Service

1. Who can use CollabSync

You must be at least 16 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, a parent or legal guardian must agree to these Terms for you.

If you use CollabSync on behalf of a company or band, you confirm that you can accept these Terms for them, and "you" includes them.

2. Your account

You sign in with your email address (a one-time link or code) or your organization's single sign-on. Keep access to that email account secure: anyone who can read it can sign in as you.

Give us accurate information, use one account per person, and tell us right away if you think someone else has used your account. You are responsible for what happens under your account.

3. What CollabSync does

CollabSync keeps a version history of your Ableton Live projects, syncs them between your computers and your collaborators, lets several people edit the same Live Set together in live sessions, and checks which plugins a collaborator is missing.

To do this, the desktop app watches the project folders you choose, uploads the project files and samples they contain, and installs a MIDI Remote Script into your Ableton User Library so it can talk to Live. The app updates itself automatically.

CollabSync is free right now. If we introduce paid plans, we will tell you before anything is charged, and paid plans will come with their own terms.

4. Your content

You keep all rights to the projects, Live Sets, samples, presets, recordings and other files you put into CollabSync ("Your Content"). We don't claim ownership of any of it.

So that we can run the service, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, transmit, process and display Your Content, only as needed to operate, secure and improve CollabSync and to share it with the people you choose. Processing includes reading your .als files to show what changed between versions and which plugins they use.

This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for (a) copies in backups, which expire as described in the Privacy Policy, and (b) content you shared with others, as described in section 5.

We don't sell Your Content, use it for advertising, or use it to train machine-learning models.

5. Sharing and collaborators

When you add collaborators to a project or invite people to a live session, they can see, download and change what you share with them, and they may keep copies they have downloaded. Only share with people you trust.

A live-session share link works like a key: anyone who has it can join with the role it grants until it expires or you revoke it.

Versions and files you add to someone else's project become part of that project. They stay there if you leave the project or delete your account; your name is removed from them.

6. Samples, plugins and copyright

Only upload and share material you have the right to use and share. Many sample packs, loops and presets are licensed to you alone; sharing them with collaborators may not be allowed.

CollabSync never transfers plugin or Ableton licenses. Each collaborator needs their own licenses for Ableton Live and for the plugins a project uses.

If you believe content on CollabSync infringes your copyright, email girardi.ang@gmail.com with the work, where it appears on CollabSync, your contact details, and a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use isn't authorized. We will review valid notices, may remove the content, and will close the accounts of repeat infringers.

7. Acceptable use

Don't use CollabSync to:

• break the law, or store or share illegal content;
• infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights;
• upload malware, or anything designed to harm devices, data or the service;
• access accounts, projects or data that aren't yours, or probe, scan or test the service's security without our written permission;
• get around rate limits, access controls or other technical limits, or overload the service;
• store files that have nothing to do with music projects, or resell or rent out the service;
• harass people, including through invitations or share links.

You may not copy, modify or reverse engineer the service except where the law allows it despite this restriction.

8. Other people's software and services

CollabSync works with software and services we don't control, such as Ableton Live, your plugins and the sign-in provider. Their own terms apply to them, and we aren't responsible for them.

9. Availability, backups and changes

We work to keep CollabSync running and your data safe, but the service may sometimes be unavailable, slow, or lose data. Keep your own backups of projects that matter to you: CollabSync is not a replacement for them.

We may change, add or remove features. If we decide to shut CollabSync down, we will try to give you at least 30 days' notice so you can download your projects.

10. No warranty

CollabSync is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We don't promise the service will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, or that it will work with every version of Ableton Live or every plugin.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising from or related to CollabSync, even if we were told they were possible.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for all claims related to CollabSync is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and US$50.

Some places don't allow these limits. Where that is the case, they apply only as far as the law allows.

12. Indemnity

If someone makes a claim against us because of Your Content or because you broke these Terms, you agree to cover our reasonable costs and losses from that claim, as far as the law allows.

13. Ending your use

You can stop using CollabSync at any time, and you can delete your account in the desktop app under Settings → Account. What we delete, and when, is described in the Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or close your account if you break these Terms, if the law requires it, or if your use puts the service or other users at risk. Unless the law or a security concern prevents it, we will tell you first and give you a chance to download your projects.

Sections 4 (for content already shared), 6, 10, 11, 12, 15 and 16 continue to apply after your account is closed.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will post the new version with a new effective date, and for material changes the desktop app will ask you to accept them before you continue. If you don't accept, stop using CollabSync and delete your account.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute related to these Terms or CollabSync will be heard only in the state or federal courts located in Texas, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction. Either side may still ask any court for an injunction to protect its intellectual property.

If you are a consumer and the law where you live gives you rights that can't be waived by contract, nothing in these Terms takes those rights away.

16. General

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about CollabSync. If a court finds part of them unenforceable, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a part isn't a waiver of it. You may not transfer these Terms to anyone else; we may transfer them to whoever takes over CollabSync, and we will tell you if that happens.

Questions about these Terms: email girardi.ang@gmail.com.