Terms of use

Using the site and the apps

Anychord needs no account. The website is free. The apps for iPhone, iPad and Android are free too, with an optional paid Premium that is described below. Use the service and you accept what is written here. If you do not, do not use it.

Premium in the apps

In the apps a few songs open at no cost; after that a song opens once a short advert has played. Premium removes the adverts and the limit. It is optional, it applies to the app it was bought in, and the website works the same with or without it.

Premium is sold by Apple’s App Store or by Google Play, never by us directly, at the price the store shows before you confirm. The monthly and yearly plans are subscriptions: they renew automatically until cancelled, and cancelling at least 24 hours before a period ends stops the next charge while the period already paid for runs its course. You manage and cancel a subscription in your store account settings. Refunds are decided by the store that took the payment, under its own rules.

Lifetime is a single payment with no renewal. “Lifetime” means the lifetime of the service, not of the person who bought it: the purchase holds for as long as Anychord and its apps are operated. It is not a promise that the service will run forever. Should it ever be wound down, we will say so on this site as early as we reasonably can. A purchase belongs to the store account that made it, and one made on Apple’s store does not carry over to Android, nor the other way round.

What you get, and what it is worth

The chords on this site are produced by a machine listening to a recording. They are an estimate. They are frequently right and sometimes wrong, and nothing here is presented as an authoritative transcription. Do not rely on an analysis for anything that matters — a performance, a recording session, a lesson you are teaching — without checking it by ear.

The service is provided as it is, with no warranty of any kind: no promise that it is accurate, that it is available, or that it is fit for your purpose. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss arising from using it or from being unable to.

Fair use of the service

Analysis costs real server time, so there are rate limits, and they are there to keep the queue moving for everyone. Do not try to get around them, do not script the site for bulk analysis, and do not scrape the catalogue. Do not upload audio you have no right to upload. Persistent abuse gets an address blocked; that is the only sanction there is.

Rights in the content

The site's own code, design, layout and written text are ours. The chord analyses are generated from recordings and are published as factual descriptions of harmony — you may use them freely for playing, teaching and learning, which is the point of the site.

Anychord hosts no music, no lyrics and no sheet music. Recordings play through YouTube's embedded player, from youtube-nocookie.com, and remain the property of whoever owns them; using that player is also subject to YouTube's terms of service. An audio file you upload is read for its chords and deleted as soon as the analysis finishes.

If you hold rights in a recording and want its page removed, write to maidr52@gmail.com with the address of the page. It comes down.

Ads

The site carries advertising from Google AdSense and the apps from Google AdMob, and that is what pays for everything that is free. We do not choose the individual ads and are not responsible for what an advertiser says or sells. What data is involved is set out on the privacy page.

Changes

These terms can change; the date above changes with them. A change is not applied backwards, and continuing to use the site after one means accepting it.

Law and contact

These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Serbia. Questions about them: maidr52@gmail.com.