Terms of Service
Takebase is a mobile app for a band to keep its recordings in one place: share a take in, drop a comment at a timecode, stack a new take on top of the old one. These terms are the agreement between you and the person who makes it.
Who you are agreeing with
Takebase is made and operated by Tanel Teemusk (trading as Massruum), Estonia. Where these terms say we or us, that is who they mean. You can reach a human at tanel@teemusk.com.
Your account
You need an account to use Takebase, and you can create one with an email address and password, with Google, or with Apple. You are responsible for what happens under your account, so keep the credentials to yourself. You must be at least 13 years old, or older if the law where you live sets a higher age for agreeing to something like this.
If you want your account and everything in it removed, write to the address above and it will be deleted.
Your recordings stay yours
Everything you put into Takebase — audio, song and album names, artwork, comments — remains yours. We claim no ownership of it and we do not licence it to anybody, use it to train anything, or listen to it for any purpose other than making the app work and, if you ask us to, helping you with a problem.
What you do give us is the narrow permission the app cannot run without: to store your files, to move them between your device and our storage provider, to produce the playable version and the waveform the app draws, and to serve them to the people you have shared them with. That permission ends when you delete the content.
What you upload
Upload only recordings you have the right to upload. Do not use Takebase for anything unlawful, for material you have no licence to, or to distribute somebody else's music as if it were yours. We do not screen what you upload, but we will remove content and close accounts if we are given good reason to.
Albums, members and share links
An album is the unit you invite people to. Anyone you make a member of an album can hear everything in it; an admin can also change it. Choose who you invite accordingly.
A share link is a public web address. Anyone holding it can open the page and listen, and — if you leave those permissions on — download and comment. The token in the link is long and random, so it will not be guessed, but it is not a password: treat a share link as something that can be forwarded, because it can. You can put a password on a link and you can revoke a link at any moment, which takes effect immediately.
Storage allowance and subscriptions
Every account gets an allowance measured in recorded minutes. The albums you own are charged to your allowance; an album somebody else shares with you costs you nothing.
A paid plan raises that allowance. Paid plans are sold and billed by Apple's App Store or Google Play, not by us, so the price you see, the renewal, the payment method and any refund are handled under their terms and managed in your Apple or Google account. A subscription renews until you cancel it there. Cancelling stops the next charge; it does not delete anything you have already uploaded, and if you end up over the free allowance you keep access to what is there and cannot add more until you are back under it.
Availability, and the part nobody likes reading
Takebase is provided as it is. We work to keep it up and to keep your files intact, and there is a daily backup of the metadata, but we cannot promise the service will never be unavailable, never lose data, or never change. Keep your own master copies of anything you care about. Takebase is a place for a band to work, not an archive of record.
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability to you is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim.
Ending it
You can stop using Takebase and delete your account whenever you like. We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or stop offering the service — with reasonable notice, and with a chance to get your files out, unless the reason makes that impossible.
Changes
If these terms change in a way that matters, the app will tell you before the change takes effect. The date at the top says when this version was written.
Law
These terms are governed by Estonian law, and the courts of Estonia are where a dispute would be heard. Nothing here takes away a consumer right you have under the law of the country you live in.