Terms of Service

BopOps is operated by:

Alan Mendelevic, trading as BopOps
Individual activity certificate No. 756015
Tuskulenu 54-35, 09208 Vilnius, Lithuania
Email: info@bopops.com

"BopOps", "we", "us" and "our" mean the operator above. "You" means the person using Studio. If you use Studio on behalf of a band, label, company or other organization, you confirm that you have the authority to accept these Terms for it, and "you" includes it.

• Studio: BopOps Studio, the web app at studio.bopops.com, including the public Landing pages published from it, together with our website at www.bopops.com.
• Account: your login to Studio. It has a Plan and manages one or more Artists.
• Artist: a credited music-making identity, such as a solo name, band or project. A Managed Artist is one your Account works as. A Collaborator Artist is one you create only to credit someone else.
• Song, Version, Revision and Release: a composition, a distinct recording of it, one iteration of a recording's audio, and a single, EP or album.
• Output: something you make with one of Studio's Tools, such as Lyrics, a Visualizer, a Lyric video or a Landing page.
• Landing page: a public web page for one Release that you can Publish.
• Your Content: everything you add to Studio or make with it, including audio, Lyrics, Notes, artwork, text, Links, Analytics imports and Outputs.
• Plan: Hobbyist (free), Pro or Label.
• Subscription: the paid agreement that keeps an Account on a paid Plan.
• AI Credits: what Studio's AI features spend. They come as a monthly Allowance included in a Plan, and as Extra credits bought in Credit packs.

• You must be at least 13 years old to use Studio, or older if the law where you live sets a higher age for using online services without a parent's consent. If you are under 18, you need your parent or guardian's permission to make purchases.
• Give us accurate information when you sign up, and keep your email address up to date.
• Keep your password safe. You are responsible for what happens in your Account. Tell us straight away at info@bopops.com if you think someone else has used it.
• One person per Account. Don't share your login or sell, transfer or rent your Account.
• If you sign in with Google, Google's terms also apply to your use of their sign-in.

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use Studio under these Terms and your Plan, for as long as you have an Account.

4.1 Files on your device

Studio keeps your audio, Attachment files and uploaded Backgrounds in your browser's storage on your device, not on our servers. This means:

• on another computer or browser, those files will be missing until you add them again
• clearing your browser's data for Studio, or losing or replacing your device, removes them
• you are responsible for keeping your own copies. We can't recover files kept only on your device, and we aren't liable for their loss

If we offer cloud sync and you turn it on, the files you choose will also be stored with us. Cloud sync is a convenience, not a backup service. Please still keep your own copies.

4.2 Video and file exports

Exports such as videos and lyrics files are made on your own device and saved by you. We don't keep them. How fast an export runs depends on your device and browser.

4.3 Changes to Studio

Studio is developed continuously. We may add, change or remove features, Tools, Themes and backgrounds. If we remove a significant feature from a paid Plan during your paid period, we will tell you in advance, and if the change materially reduces what you paid for, you may cancel and receive a refund for the unused part of your paid period.

Features labelled as previews, beta or "coming soon" may be incomplete, may change, and may be withdrawn.

4.4 Availability

We work to keep Studio available and reliable, but we don't promise that it will always be available or free of errors. We may interrupt Studio for maintenance, updates or security.

5.1 Plans

Studio offers the Plans described on our website and in Studio, each with its own limits and features. The free Hobbyist Plan has no time limit. Label is arranged directly with us, and a separate written agreement may apply to it.

If your Account moves to a Plan with lower limits, you keep what you already have, but you can't add more beyond the new limits. Features that affect what other people see, such as watermarks on premium Themes, the "Powered by BopOps Studio" footer and ads on Landing pages, follow your current Plan, including on Outputs and Landing pages you made before.

5.2 Ads on the Hobbyist Plan

We may show ads to Accounts on the Hobbyist Plan inside Studio, and to visitors of Landing pages published by Accounts on the Hobbyist Plan. Ads won't replace or hide your Links, Cover Art or other content you chose to show. Pro and Label Accounts don't see ads in Studio, and we won't place ads on their published Landing pages. Our Privacy Policy explains how ads use data.

5.3 Buying a Subscription or Credit packs

Pro Subscriptions and Credit packs are sold through our authorized reseller, FastSpring, which is the seller of record. FastSpring processes your payment, charges any applicable taxes, and issues your invoice, and its terms of sale apply to the purchase as well as these Terms.

Prices are shown in US dollars before you buy. Taxes are added where applicable.

5.4 Subscriptions

• A Subscription is billed monthly or yearly, in advance, and renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time with Manage subscription on the Plan & billing page. Your Plan stays active until the end of the period you have paid for, and then your Account returns to the Hobbyist Plan.
• We don't give refunds or credits for partial periods or unused features, except where these Terms or the law say otherwise.
• If a payment fails, we may limit your Account to the Hobbyist Plan's features until it is paid. No new monthly Allowance is granted while a payment is overdue.

5.5 Price changes

We may change our prices. A new price for an existing Subscription applies from your next renewal after we give you at least 30 days' notice by email. If you don't want to pay the new price, you can cancel before it takes effect.

5.6 AI Credits

• Your Allowance resets each month and doesn't roll over, even on yearly billing.
• Extra credits are valid for 12 months from purchase and are only spent once the Allowance has run out.
• AI Credits have no cash value, can't be exchanged for money, and can't be transferred to another Account.
• What each AI feature costs in AI Credits is shown in Studio. We may change these costs; a change doesn't affect requests already made.
• If an AI request fails, we return the AI Credits it didn't use.
• If a Credit pack is refunded, we take back, in proportion to the amount refunded, as many of that pack's credits as are still unspent.

5.7 Right of withdrawal for consumers in the EU and UK

If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you generally have the right to withdraw from a purchase within 14 days without giving a reason.

• Credit packs are digital content supplied immediately. By buying one, you ask for the credits to be added to your Account straight away and acknowledge that you lose your right of withdrawal once they are added.
• Pro Subscriptions start immediately when you buy them, at your request. If you withdraw within 14 days, you will receive a refund minus a proportionate amount for the time your Subscription was active and for any Allowance credits you used.

To withdraw, contact FastSpring through the link in your order confirmation, or email us at info@bopops.com.

5.8 Refunds

Apart from the cases above and where the law requires, purchases are not refundable. We may still grant a refund at our discretion, for example if something went wrong on our side.

6.1 You own it

You keep all rights you have in Your Content. These Terms don't transfer ownership of any of it to us.

6.2 The permission you give us

You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, process, adapt the format of, and display Your Content, only as needed to provide and improve Studio for you. This includes:

• showing Your Content to you on your devices
• sending the necessary parts of it to our AI provider when you use an AI feature
• showing your published Landing pages, and what you chose to show on them, to the public, including to search engines and social networks that preview links, and, on the Hobbyist Plan, alongside ads as described in section 5.2
• showing what you choose to show through Discovery to Industry users, if you turn Discovery on

This licence ends when you delete Your Content or your Account. It continues only for copies in our backups until they are deleted, and for content you made public, where others have already accessed or copied it.

We won't use Your Content, including your published Landing pages and Outputs, in our own marketing without your explicit permission.

6.3 AI training

We don't use Your Content to train AI models, and our AI provider's terms don't allow it to train on what we send.

6.4 Your responsibility for Your Content

You confirm that you own, or have all the rights and permissions needed for, Your Content and our use of it under these Terms, including:

• the music, recordings and lyrics you add
• the images and videos you add
• the names, images and details of other people, including Collaborator Artists and anyone credited
• Analytics reports you import, which may include details of other artists and people you work with

You are responsible for Your Content and for what you publish with Studio.

Studio's AI features, such as Co-Writer and AI Backgrounds, use third-party AI models.

• What AI makes for you is yours, as far as the law allows. We claim no ownership of it.
• AI output may not be unique. It may resemble existing works or what other users receive, and it may not be protected by copyright where you live.
• AI output can be inaccurate or unsuitable. Check it before you use or publish it. You are responsible for how you use it.
• Don't use AI features to imitate a real person or artist in a way that could mislead, to infringe anyone's rights, or to create content these Terms don't allow.

When you Publish a Landing page, it becomes publicly available at its address on studio.bopops.com. Anyone with the address can see it, and search engines can find it. You can Unpublish or delete it at any time, but we can't remove copies that others have already made.

Landing pages on the Hobbyist Plan show a "Powered by BopOps Studio" footer and may show ads (see section 5.2).

If we offer Discovery, you can choose, separately for each of your Managed Artists, to let record labels, A&R, managers and other music-industry users ("Industry users") find that Artist through Studio.

• Discovery is off until you turn it on, and you can turn it off at any time.
• Industry users see only what Studio says Discovery shows when you turn it on. We describe this in our Privacy Policy.
• Turning Discovery off stops Industry users from finding the Artist from then on. It can't undo what they have already seen.
• We don't promise that Discovery will lead to any contact, offer or deal. We are not a party to, agent in, or responsible for any discussions or agreements between you and an Industry user. Check any offer carefully and get advice before signing anything.
• Industry users may only use what they see through Discovery to evaluate and contact Artists, and must not copy, publish or sell it.

If we let you connect another service to Studio, such as a distributor or a streaming service's artist dashboard, you authorize us to receive from it the data you allow, and to use that data to provide Studio to you. The other service's own terms apply to your use of it. We are not responsible for other services, their data or their availability, and a connection may stop working if the other service changes. You can disconnect a service at any time.

Studio also links to and embeds third-party services, such as music stores and YouTube. We aren't affiliated with them unless we say so, and we aren't responsible for them.

You must not use Studio to:

• upload, publish or share content that infringes anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy, personality or other rights
• publish content that is illegal, hateful, harassing, threatening, sexually explicit involving minors, or that promotes violence
• impersonate any person, artist or organization, or misrepresent who you are or who made something
• mislead people, for example with false Release details or Links that lead somewhere other than they claim
• send spam, malware or phishing, including through Links on Landing pages
• manipulate streams, counts or Analytics, or import data you aren't entitled to use
• get around Plan limits, AI Credit charges, watermarks or other restrictions
• access other users' data, probe, attack or overload Studio, or interfere with its security
• scrape, copy or resell Studio or its data, or access it by automated means other than the ones we provide
• reverse engineer Studio, except where the law allows it
• break any law

12.1 Contact point

Our single point of contact for users, for authorities, including under the EU Digital Services Act, and for reports of illegal content is info@bopops.com. You can write to us in English or Lithuanian.

12.2 Reporting content

If you believe something on Studio, such as a published Landing page, is illegal or infringes your rights, email us at info@bopops.com with:

• the address of the page or a precise description of where the content is
• why you believe it is illegal or infringing, and for copyright, which work is being infringed
• your name and email address, unless the report concerns child sexual abuse material
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the information in your report is accurate and complete

We will confirm that we have received your report, review it promptly, carefully and objectively, and tell you what we decided.

12.3 What we may do

If we find that content is illegal or breaks these Terms, we may remove it, Unpublish a Landing page, restrict features, or suspend or close the Account. When we restrict your content or Account, we will tell you what we did and why, unless the law doesn't allow it, and you can reply to us at info@bopops.com if you disagree. We close the Accounts of users who repeatedly infringe other people's rights.

We review reports by hand. We don't use automated systems to moderate content.

13.1 By you

You can stop using Studio at any time. To delete your Account, email us at info@bopops.com from the email address on your Account. Deleting your Account deletes Your Content stored with us, as described in our Privacy Policy, and takes down your published Landing pages. Cancel any Subscription first; deleting an Account doesn't refund a paid period.

13.2 By us

We may suspend or close your Account, with notice where reasonable, if you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms, if the law requires it, or if your use puts Studio, other users or third parties at risk. If we close your Account for a reason that is not your fault, we will refund the unused part of any paid period.

We may stop offering the Hobbyist Plan, or change what it includes, with at least 30 days' notice. We may also introduce a rule for deleting Accounts on the Hobbyist Plan that have been inactive for a long time; we will announce it at least 30 days in advance and warn you before your Account is affected.

If we stop offering Studio altogether, we will give you at least 30 days' notice so you can save Your Content, and refund the unused part of any paid period.

13.3 What continues

Sections 6.4, 14, 15, 16 and 17 continue to apply after your Account ends.

Studio, including its software, design, Themes, BopOps backgrounds, logos and the name "BopOps", belongs to us or our licensors. You may use Themes and BopOps backgrounds in Outputs you make with Studio, including when you share or publish those Outputs, but not separately from them. These Terms don't give you any other rights in our intellectual property.

If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them freely, without any obligation to you.

15.1 Studio as provided

Studio is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we make no promises beyond those in these Terms, including about Studio being suitable for a particular purpose. This is especially true of the free Hobbyist Plan. If you are a consumer, you keep the rights the law gives you when digital content or services aren't as promised, and nothing in these Terms limits those rights.

15.2 Limits on our liability

To the extent the law allows:

• we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, such as lost profits, lost opportunities or lost data, including files kept only on your device
• our total liability to you for all claims relating to Studio is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose or €100

These limits don't apply to liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for intentional misconduct or gross negligence, for fraud, or to any other liability that the law doesn't allow us to limit.

15.3 Your responsibility

If you are using Studio for business, you will compensate us for claims by third parties, and the reasonable costs of dealing with them, that arise from Your Content or from your breach of these Terms.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania.

If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you can bring a claim in the courts of that country or of Lithuania. If you use Studio for business, the courts of Vilnius, Lithuania, have exclusive jurisdiction.

If you have a problem, please contact us first at info@bopops.com; most issues can be solved quickly. Consumers can also refer a dispute to the State Consumer Rights Protection Authority of Lithuania (Valstybinė vartotojų teisių apsaugos tarnyba), Vilniaus g. 25, 01402 Vilnius, www.vvtat.lt, or to the consumer dispute body in their own country.

• Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms. If a change significantly affects you, we will tell you by email or in Studio at least 30 days before it takes effect, unless it is required by law sooner. If you don't agree, you can stop using Studio and delete your Account before the change takes effect; if you have a Subscription, you can cancel it and receive a refund for the unused part of your paid period. If you keep using Studio after that, the new Terms apply.
• Notices. We send notices to the email address on your Account. You can send notices to us at info@bopops.com.
• Transfer. We may transfer this agreement to a buyer or successor of BopOps or Studio, provided your rights under it are not reduced. You may not transfer it without our consent.
• Events beyond our control. We aren't responsible for delays or failures caused by events we can't reasonably control, such as outages at our providers, network failures or natural disasters.
• Whole agreement. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any separate agreement for the Label Plan, are the whole agreement between you and us about Studio.
• Severability. If any part of these Terms is found invalid, the rest remains in effect.
• No waiver. If we don't enforce a right, we haven't given it up.
• Language. These Terms are written in English. If they are translated, the English version applies where the law allows.

Alan Mendelevic, trading as BopOps
Tuskulenu 54-35, 09208 Vilnius, Lithuania
info@bopops.com