Terms of use
These are the terms for the Hearhood creative-tools beta. Hearhood is a working name for a music-making, DJ-practice and learning website. Please read these terms before you create an account. A copy can be downloaded from this page and kept.
1. Who provides Hearhood
Hearhood is provided by Francesca Piscopo, a sole trader (eenmanszaak), trading as Scopra and Hearhood, registered in the Netherlands under KVK number 98218794, at Kraanspoor 7 C 4, 1033 SC Amsterdam, Netherlands, VAT ID NL005316644B86. You can contact us at info@hearhood.com. The Contact page lists every route.
These terms govern the creative-tools beta at hearhood.com. We show them before you create an account, they can be read inside the app at any time, and a copy of this version can be downloaded here.
2. What the beta is
The beta is a free test of creative tools that run in your browser: a step sequencer and arrangement tools (Make and Mix), the Studio songwriter workspace (hum or play parts onto instruments, record your voice), a DJ practice area with decks, a mixer and your own music library, learning material, and an AI assistant.
It is a beta: features change, things break, and we may switch parts on or off while we test. Availability depends on your device, browser, connected equipment and the features actually offered to you. We mark experimental features as such.
Free accounts can use community member pages, follows, messages, supported account sync and playable Produce song links with remix credits. Song links carry editable notes and supported settings, without recorded takes. The beta does not include a licensed commercial-song catalogue, recorded-audio uploads for public hosting, public DJ mixes, listening subscriptions, artist payouts, live shows, or any paid offer. Nothing in this beta is a promise that those will exist, when, or on what terms.
3. Joining, age and your account
The beta is for people aged 18 or older. When you create an account you confirm that you are 18 or older and that you have read and accept the version of these terms shown at that moment. We record which version you accepted and when.
A free account can be created through the sign-up options shown on the site. Email-and-password registration finishes when you follow the welcome email link to confirm the address; Google sign-in uses its own confirmation flow. An internal account code and older invite codes also grant account access. Keep passwords, sign-in links and codes private; anyone who has them may be able to use your account. Tell us if you think it has been misused.
New registration asks for a name (which can be a nickname), what you do (DJ, singer, producer and so on), and an email address for sign-in. You may set a password or use another offered sign-in option. Older accounts may still use their invite code. The privacy notice explains how we use it. Accepting these terms is not consent to marketing or to any processing beyond what the privacy notice describes; marketing email is a separate, optional, unticked choice.
We may ask you to re-confirm your age or accept a new version of the terms at your next use. Until then, features that require current terms acceptance (including the AI assistant) may be unavailable; everything stored on your device keeps working and nothing is deleted.
4. Your projects and rights
You keep every right you already hold in your recordings, songs, patterns and other material. Using Hearhood does not transfer ownership to us, and we do not claim any licence to publish, sell or release your work.
You are responsible for having the permissions you need for the material you use: recordings, samples, compositions, artwork, other people's voices and contributions. Owning a song, or having a personal streaming subscription, does not by itself let you upload, redistribute or publicly perform it. Third-party sounds keep their own licence terms and credit requirements; see the Community and copyright policy for the free music and instruments the app offers.
5. What leaves your device, and permission to process it
Your songs, patterns, recordings and settings are saved in your browser on your device. When you are signed in, account sync also keeps supported editable work on our server, excluding recorded takes and DJ audio files. Creating a Produce song link makes its notes and supported settings available to anyone with the link. Community posts and messages, feedback and AI requests are sent as described in the privacy notice and the feature's controls. Recordings are not included in account sync or shared song links.
Where a feature sends your material to our server, you allow us and the providers named in the privacy notice to process it only as needed to provide that feature, keep the service secure and comply with the law. This does not allow us to sell your songs, publish a private project or train a model of our own on your material. That permission ends when it is no longer needed for the feature, subject to the retention periods in the privacy notice.
6. Saving and backups
Unless a feature expressly says otherwise, projects and recordings are saved only in the browser you are using, on that device. Clearing site data, private browsing, a different browser, a different device, or losing the device can remove access to them. Export what you want to keep (My songs has backup and export; the DJ area can export cues and playlists). Account sync keeps supported editable work, but excludes recorded takes and DJ audio files. Short-course progress and practice notes remain local. Check the last successful account copy and keep a separate exported backup including recordings; neither a listening export nor a public song link is a complete private project backup. This section describes how the product works; it does not exclude any liability or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded.
7. AI assistance
The assistant is an AI system, not a person. When you use it, your messages and a description of your song or decks (not audio) are sent to the Hearhood server and on to the AI provider named in the privacy notice. The app tells you this before your first message, and the panel shows what is sent.
Do not put secrets or other people's personal information in a message unless you have a lawful reason. The assistant can be wrong, can misread your song, and its suggestions may not be original or suitable for release. Review changes it proposes; the app keeps an undo for its changes and version history for your songs. We do not promise exclusive rights in AI output or that it is clear of third-party rights.
8. Fair use and prohibited behaviour
Do not use Hearhood for anything illegal, for copyright infringement, fraud, harassment, threats, discrimination, sexual exploitation, deceptive impersonation or imitating someone's voice without consent. Do not try to bypass limits, use or guess other people's invite codes, overload the service, or distribute malware. Limits on the number of AI messages are shown in the app before you hit them. We do not punish honest criticism of Hearhood.
9. Availability and changes
We provide the beta with reasonable care. Maintenance, defects and our own tests can interrupt it, and we may change or remove beta features with reasonable notice where practicable. The beta is free; we will not charge for past use and will not introduce a paid feature without a separate, clear offer that you can accept or decline.
10. Restrictions, closure and leaving
We may restrict or close an account where reasonably necessary for security, legal compliance or a serious breach of these terms, considering the seriousness and context. Where permitted we explain the reason and how to ask for a review; write to info@hearhood.com.
You can delete your account yourself at any time in the app (My account, Delete my account). Deletion removes your name, email address, usage counts and feedback from the server. It does not clear the songs, recordings and settings stored in your browser on each device; the app has a separate button for that, and the Cookies and device storage page explains it. You can also export what the server holds about your account (My account, Download my data).
11. Problems and responsibility
If something goes wrong, use Feedback in the app or write to info@hearhood.com with the feature, the date and what happened. We aim to acknowledge within two business days and to answer within fourteen days or explain the delay. These are service commitments, not limits on your remedies.
We do not exclude liability for our fraud, deliberate misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Your statutory rights remain intact. The beta is free and experimental, but that is not a blanket exclusion of responsibility.
12. Applicable law and changes to these terms
Dutch law governs these terms, without depriving you, as a consumer, of the mandatory protection of the law of the country where you live. You may use the courts available to you under mandatory law; these terms do not impose exclusive jurisdiction on consumers.
We date and keep every version of these terms. When we change them in a way that matters, we tell you in the app and ask you to accept the new version before features that use the server continue; the version you accepted is recorded on your account. Changes do not take away rights that arose before the change. A support or privacy request never requires agreeing to marketing.