TERMS OF SERVICE

Plaq is operated by [YOUR FULL LEGAL NAME], an individual doing business as Infinite Rhythm ("Infinite Rhythm," "we," "us," "our"). "You" means the person using Plaq.

By downloading, installing, or using Plaq, creating an account, or buying a subscription, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use Plaq.

You must be at least 18 years old to buy a subscription or otherwise enter into this agreement. If you are between 13 and 18, you may use Plaq only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf. Plaq is not for anyone under 13.

If you are using Plaq on behalf of a company, label, or studio, you confirm you have authority to bind that organization, and "you" means that organization.

Plaq is an AI-native music production application for macOS. Rumi is the mixing, mastering, and effects engine inside it. Plaq processes your audio on your own computer.

Plaq is currently in beta, and the beta is free. That means something specific, so we'll say it plainly:

• Beta software is unfinished. It will have bugs, it may crash, features may change or disappear, and results will not always be what you expect.
• We may change, suspend, limit, or discontinue the beta — or any feature in it — at any time, with or without notice.
• The beta is provided free of charge, and we make no promise about how long it stays free or that any particular feature will exist in a paid release.
• Beta participation does not entitle you to a free or discounted subscription later, unless we say so in writing.

Pricing comes after the beta. If and when we introduce paid subscriptions, Section 4 governs them, and we will tell beta users before anything starts costing money.

Some parts of Plaq require an account. You agree to give accurate information, to keep your password secure, and to be responsible for everything that happens under your account. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has gotten in.

Don't share your account, resell access to it, or use someone else's. One account is for one person.

This section applies once paid subscriptions launch. While Plaq is in free beta, there is nothing to pay and nothing to cancel.

Automatic renewal. Plaq subscriptions renew automatically. When you subscribe, you authorize us and our payment processor to charge your payment method the subscription price, plus tax, on a recurring basis — every month for a monthly plan, or every year for an annual plan — until you cancel. The price, billing frequency, and renewal date are shown to you before you buy and confirmed by email afterward.

Cancelling. You can cancel at any time, from your account settings or by emailing us, and cancelling is not harder than subscribing was. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period. You keep full access until then, and you are not charged again after that.

Refunds.

• Annual plans: if you're not happy, email us within 14 days of the charge and we'll refund it in full.
• Monthly plans: we don't refund partial months. Cancel and you keep access through the period you already paid for.
• These are our standard terms. Where the law where you live gives you stronger refund or cancellation rights — including statutory cooling-off rights for consumers in the EU and UK — those rights apply and nothing here takes them away.

Price changes, taxes, and failed payments. We may change subscription prices. If we do, we'll give you at least 30 days' notice before the new price applies to you, and the change takes effect at your next renewal — never mid-term. If you don't want the new price, cancel before it takes effect. Prices exclude tax unless stated; you're responsible for any applicable sales, use, or VAT. If a payment fails, we may retry it and may suspend your access until it clears.

This is the part that matters most to the people we built Plaq for, so there's no fine print on it.

You own everything you make in Plaq. Your recordings, your sessions, your stems, your mixes, your masters — all yours, 100%, exactly as if you'd made them in any other studio.

• We take no ownership stake in your recordings or in the mixed and mastered files Plaq produces.
• We take no royalty, no revenue share, no publishing, and no credit. Not on streams, not on sync, not on sales, not ever.
• You can release it commercially — anywhere, on any platform, under any deal — without asking us, paying us, or crediting us.
• We claim no license back to your music. We do not need permission to run the software for you, because the processing happens on your own computer.
• Nothing changes if you cancel your subscription, if the beta ends, or if we shut Plaq down. Files you've already made stay yours.

The optional settings described in Section 4 of our Privacy Policy — the sound profile, and helping improve our models — do not change any of this. They are permissions to learn from audio you choose to share, never a transfer of ownership, and both are off unless you turn them on.

"Your Content" means anything you bring into Plaq — beats, vocals, stems, samples, loops, artwork, project files.

You are responsible for having the rights to it. By using Plaq you confirm that you own Your Content or have the necessary licenses, permissions, and clearances for it, and that using it in Plaq doesn't infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, publicity, or other rights. That includes beats you bought or leased — check what your lease actually allows.

You agree not to use Plaq for content that is unlawful, that infringes someone else's rights, or that impersonates a real person's voice or likeness without their permission.

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any third-party claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of Your Content or your breach of these Terms. We may participate in the defense of any such claim at our own expense.

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use Plaq on computers you own or control, for the duration of your beta access or paid subscription, in line with these Terms. That's a license, not a sale — you own your music, we own the software.

You agree not to:

• copy, redistribute, sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or share the application or your license key
• reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble Plaq, or try to extract our models, weights, presets, or source code, except where that restriction is prohibited by law
• use Plaq, its outputs, or its behavior to develop, train, evaluate, or benchmark a competing audio-processing model or product
• resell or offer Plaq's processing to third parties as a service, mixing bureau, or API
• bypass license checks, usage limits, or any technical protection
• use Plaq to break the law, infringe rights, or harass anyone
• interfere with, overload, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems

Running Plaq on your own records, for your own clients, in a commercial studio, is expressly allowed. What's not allowed is reselling the engine itself.

Plaq, Rumi, the Plaq and Rumi names and logos, the software, the models, the presets, the interface, and everything else we made are owned by us and protected by intellectual property law. These Terms give you permission to use Plaq. They don't give you any ownership of it or the right to use our names or logos without written permission.

Plaq includes third-party and open-source components, which are licensed under their own terms. Those terms are included with the application and control over these Terms where they conflict, but only for those components.

If you send us feedback, bug reports, or suggestions, thank you — and you agree we can use them to improve Plaq, freely and without owing you compensation or credit. Feedback is not confidential. This covers your ideas about the software; it does not cover your music, which is governed by Section 5.

Please read this one. Plaq is audio software running on your computer, and beta audio software at that. A crash, a power loss, a bad file, an operating system update, or a bug can lose a take, a session, or a project. A recording that is still in progress when the application quits unexpectedly may not be recoverable.

Keep your own backups of anything you care about. You are responsible for backing up Your Content, and we are not liable for lost or corrupted recordings, sessions, or exports.

PLAQ IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

In plainer terms: we work hard on Plaq, but we don't promise it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or compatible with every setup; we don't promise any particular sonic result, that a mix or master will suit a given song, or that anything you make will be commercially successful; and results vary from record to record. Mixing and mastering involve judgment, and an AI's judgment is not a substitute for your own ears.

Some places don't allow certain disclaimers. If you live somewhere that gives you warranty rights that can't be waived, this section applies to you only as far as the law allows.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST OPPORTUNITIES, OR LOST OR CORRUPTED DATA, RECORDINGS, OR SESSIONS, EVEN IF WE'VE BEEN TOLD SUCH DAMAGES ARE POSSIBLE.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO PLAQ IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

Nothing in these Terms limits liability for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or anything else that can't be limited under the law that applies to you. Some jurisdictions don't allow limits on incidental or consequential damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights. It requires most disputes between you and us to be resolved by individual binding arbitration rather than in court, and it waives your right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action. You may opt out within 30 days, as described below, and opting out will not affect your use of Plaq in any way.

Talk to us first. Most problems can be sorted out quickly. Before starting arbitration, you agree to email us a written description of the dispute and what you'd like us to do about it, and to give us 60 days to try to resolve it informally. We'll do the same before bringing any claim against you. This step is a condition of starting arbitration.

Agreement to arbitrate. If we can't resolve it informally, you and we agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to Plaq or these Terms will be settled by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The arbitrator, not a court, decides questions about the interpretation and scope of this section, except that a court decides whether the class action waiver below is enforceable. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

Arbitration is less formal than a lawsuit, uses a neutral arbitrator instead of a judge or jury, allows more limited discovery, and is subject to very limited review. The arbitrator can award the same individual relief a court could. Arbitration will take place in the county where you live, or remotely, unless we both agree otherwise. Where the AAA rules require us to pay the majority of filing and arbitrator fees for consumer claims, we will.

Class action waiver. You and we each agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. If this class action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, then that claim — and only that claim — will proceed in court rather than in arbitration, and the rest of this section still applies.

Exceptions. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court instead of arbitration, if it qualifies. Either of us may also go to court to seek an injunction or other equitable relief for infringement or misuse of intellectual property.

How to opt out. You can decline this arbitration agreement. Email us at plaq088@gmail.com with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out," including your name and the email address on your account, within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. That's all it takes. If you opt out, disputes go to the courts described in Section 15, and nothing else about your access to Plaq changes.

You can stop using Plaq at any time, and you can cancel a subscription as described in Section 4.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these Terms, if we're required to by law, or if we discontinue Plaq. Except where a breach makes it impractical, we'll give you reasonable notice and a chance to fix the problem first. If we terminate your paid subscription for convenience rather than for breach, we'll refund the unused portion of what you've paid.

When access ends, your license to use the software ends. Your music is unaffected. Files already on your computer stay yours, and Sections 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 15 survive termination.

We may update these Terms. When we do, we'll post the new version with a new "last updated" date. If a change is material — for example, a change to pricing terms, to Section 5, or to Section 12 — we'll give you notice by email or in the app at least 30 days before it takes effect, and continuing to use Plaq after that means you accept the change. If you don't accept it, stop using Plaq and cancel any subscription before the change takes effect.

Changes to Section 12 will not apply retroactively to a dispute we already knew about.

Governing law and venue. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Where a claim isn't subject to arbitration under Section 12, you and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in California. If you're a consumer elsewhere, you keep the protection of any mandatory laws of your country of residence.

Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the rest stays in force.

No waiver. If we don't enforce a provision right away, that's not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about Plaq, and replace any earlier understanding.

Export and sanctions. You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. embargo and are not on any U.S. government restricted-party list.

Events outside our control. We're not liable for failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

Questions about these Terms, a refund, a cancellation, or an arbitration opt-out? Email plaq088@gmail.com, or write to us at [BUSINESS MAILING ADDRESS].