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Terms of Service

Last updated: May 10, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the SonoVault website, API, data, documentation, and related services (collectively, the “Service”) operated by Rekordcloud B.V., a private limited company incorporated in the Netherlands (“Rekordcloud”, “we”, “us”, “our”). SonoVault is a product of Rekordcloud B.V. By accessing or using the Service, by creating an account, by generating an API key, or by sending any request to the API, you represent that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, you must not access or use the Service.

If you are using the Service on behalf of a company, organization, or other legal entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms, and “you” refers to that entity. These Terms are intended primarily for business and professional use.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old and capable of forming a binding contract under the laws applicable to you to use the Service. By creating an account, you represent that you meet these requirements, that you are not barred from receiving services under the laws of any applicable jurisdiction, and that you are not a person with whom we are legally prohibited from doing business.

2. Account Registration

You must provide accurate and complete information when creating an account, and keep that information current. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your API keys and account credentials, and you are solely responsible for all activity that occurs under your account or any API key issued to you, whether or not authorized. Notify us immediately at support@sonovault.now if you suspect unauthorized use, and rotate any compromised key.

3. License Grant

Subject to your continuous compliance with these Terms and timely payment of all applicable fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access the Service and to use the data returned to you by the API solely to operate your own internal applications, products, or services for the duration of your active subscription. No other rights are granted by implication, estoppel, or otherwise. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

4. Acceptable Use and Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to, and not to permit any third party to:

We may, at our sole discretion and without liability, investigate suspected violations, monitor request patterns for abuse signals, and suspend, throttle, or terminate accounts or API keys that we reasonably believe violate these Terms, with or without notice.

5. High-Risk and Restricted Applications

The Service provides aggregated factual metadata for general-purpose use. It is not designed, intended, or licensed for use in any application where errors, omissions, delays, inaccuracies, or unavailability could result in financial loss, legal liability, regulatory penalty, personal injury, or other material harm. Without limiting the foregoing, you must not use the Service, alone or as a component, as a system of record or sole authoritative source for:

You acknowledge that ISRCs, release dates, artist credits, label names, genre classifications, BPM and key values, popularity scores, identifiers, and all other fields are aggregated from third-party sources and may be incorrect, incomplete, out-of-date, mismatched across platforms, or inconsistent between fields. You assume all risk of any decision made or action taken in reliance on data returned by the Service.

6. AI and Machine Learning Restrictions

You may not, and may not permit any third party to, use any data returned by the Service to train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark, calibrate, retrieval-augment, or otherwise develop any artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language, recommendation, generative, or similar model that is (a) made available to third parties, (b) released as open weights or open data, (c) embedded in a product distributed to third parties, or (d) used to generate or supply data, embeddings, or features to a third party, in each case without our prior express written consent and a separate written agreement covering that use. Use of the data to improve internal, non-public models that operate solely on your own infrastructure for your own internal purposes is permitted, provided no model output, embedding, or derivative dataset is shared, sold, or otherwise made available externally.

7. Caching, Storage, and Derivative Datasets

You may store data returned by the API solely as a transient internal cache for the purpose of serving your own end users' live requests through your own applications, and only for so long as reasonably necessary for that purpose. You must refresh or invalidate cached records on at least a thirty (30) day rolling basis, and immediately upon any takedown, correction, or removal notice from us. The cache permitted by this Section is for your own request-serving operations only and may not be exposed, exported, transmitted, sold, licensed, published, or otherwise made available to any third party as data. You may not assemble, export, transmit, sell, license, publish, or maintain any persistent copy, mirror, archive, dump, replica, or derivative dataset of the catalog or any portion of it, however small, regardless of how that portion was selected, sampled, transformed, normalized, scored, enriched, or combined with data from any other source. On termination of your subscription, you must purge all cached data within thirty (30) days, except for minimal records reasonably required to satisfy a documented legal retention obligation.

8. Customer Obligations Regarding Upstream Sources

The Service aggregates metadata from third-party sources, including (without limitation) MusicBrainz / MetaBrainz, Discogs, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and Beatport. Each upstream source has its own terms of use, developer terms, attribution requirements, and brand guidelines. Identifiers (such as Spotify track IDs, Apple Music IDs, Tidal IDs, and Beatport IDs) are useful only when you yourself hold a valid relationship with the corresponding platform; we do not grant you any right, license, or authorization to access, link to, embed, display, or interoperate with any third-party platform.

You are solely responsible for: (i) determining whether your use of the data complies with each upstream source's terms; (ii) entering into any required developer or partner agreement directly with that source; (iii) attributing each source as required by its terms; (iv) obtaining any licenses or consents required to use trademarks, logos, or other branded elements of any source; and (v) ensuring that your use does not cause us to be in breach of any agreement with an upstream source. See our Data Sources & Attribution page for an overview. We may, at any time and without liability, add, change, restrict, or remove any source, field, identifier, or platform from the Service, including in response to a request, demand, or change of terms by an upstream source.

9. API Usage and Rate Limits

Each plan includes a monthly request quota and burst rate limit. Requests exceeding your quota will receive a 429 (Too Many Requests) response. We do not automatically charge overage fees — you must upgrade your plan to increase your limits.

We reserve the right to throttle, deprioritize, or temporarily restrict access to protect Service stability, even within your plan's stated limits, during periods of exceptional load, suspected abuse, or operational risk.

10. Intellectual Property and Trademarks

As between you and us, we and our licensors retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Service, including its software, infrastructure, design, documentation, API specification, query patterns, ranking and matching logic, normalization, cross-reference graph, popularity model, and the selection, arrangement, coordination, and curation of metadata. To the extent any compilation, database, or sui generis database right exists in the curated catalog, those rights are owned by us. The underlying factual metadata is not claimed as our copyrighted work; rights in identifiers, titles, artist names, label names, and other factual elements remain with the parties who originated them, and you remain responsible for your own use of them.

The SonoVault name, logo, and all related marks, slogans, and trade dress are trademarks of Rekordcloud B.V. The Rekordcloud name and logo are also trademarks of Rekordcloud B.V. The names, logos, and trademarks of third parties (including, without limitation, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Beatport, Discogs, MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz, Billboard, and Shazam) are the property of their respective owners. Nothing in these Terms grants you any license or right to use any of our marks or any third-party name, logo, or trademark, and you must obtain any such rights directly from the relevant owner.

You retain ownership of your own application code, products, and services, and of any content you provide to us. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use feedback, suggestions, and bug reports you submit, without obligation or compensation, to operate and improve the Service.

11. Takedown, Corrections, and Removal Requests

If you believe that any data returned by the Service is incorrect, infringes a right you hold, violates an applicable law, or should otherwise be removed, contact support@sonovault.now with the affected identifier(s) and a description of the issue. We will review and act on legitimate requests in a reasonable timeframe at our sole discretion. We may remove, modify, suppress, or correct any data at any time, with or without notice, and we may comply with takedown, removal, or correction demands from upstream sources, rights holders, regulators, or law enforcement.

When we issue a removal, suppression, or correction notice to you (including via API response codes, change-data feeds, or written notice), you must purge or update the affected records in your cache and downstream systems within seven (7) days, and you must implement reasonable procedures to propagate corrections to your end users. You remain solely liable for any continued use of withdrawn data after notice.

12. Payment and Billing

Paid plans are billed in advance on a monthly or annual basis. All fees are in euros (EUR), exclusive of any applicable taxes, duties, or withholdings, which are your responsibility. Fees are non-refundable except as required by mandatory applicable law. You may cancel or change your plan at any time; changes take effect at the end of the current billing period.

You authorize us and our payment processors to charge your designated payment method for all amounts due. If a charge fails, we may suspend the Service, downgrade the account, or terminate access until amounts are paid in full. We may charge interest on overdue amounts at the lesser of 1.5% per month or the maximum rate permitted by law, plus reasonable costs of collection.

We reserve the right to modify pricing with thirty (30) days' notice. Price changes do not affect the current billing period.

13. Service Modifications and Availability

We reserve the right to modify, update, restrict, or discontinue any part of the Service — including endpoints, parameters, response fields, identifiers, data coverage, source mix, response formats, and rate limits — at any time, with or without notice. We will make reasonable efforts to communicate material breaking changes in advance, but are not obligated to do so.

We strive to maintain high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. The Service is provided on an “as available” basis. We may perform scheduled maintenance, deploy updates, or experience unplanned outages that temporarily affect availability.

We are not liable for any damages, losses, or costs arising from Service modifications, downtime, interruptions, latency, queue backlogs, data loss, source unavailability, or performance degradation, whether planned or unplanned, and we make no commitment to any specific service level unless one is set out in a separate written agreement signed by an authorized representative of Rekordcloud B.V.

14. No Warranties; Data Accuracy Disclaimer

THE SERVICE AND ALL DATA RETURNED BY IT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITH ALL FAULTS, AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE AND OUR LICENSORS, SUPPLIERS, AND UPSTREAM SOURCES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE, OR TRADE.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT: (a) ANY DATA RETURNED BY THE SERVICE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, CURRENT, CONSISTENT BETWEEN FIELDS OR SOURCES, UNIQUELY MATCHED, OR FREE OF ERROR; (b) ANY ISRC, IDENTIFIER, RELEASE DATE, ARTIST CREDIT, LABEL, GENRE, BPM, KEY, OR POPULARITY VALUE IS CORRECT OR AUTHORITATIVE; (c) THE SERVICE WILL BE AVAILABLE, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR FREE FROM HARMFUL COMPONENTS; (d) ANY DEFECT WILL BE CORRECTED; OR (e) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR EXPECTATIONS. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING ANY DATA BEFORE RELYING ON IT, ESPECIALLY FOR ANY COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, LEGAL, OR REGULATORY PURPOSE.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES; IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS, THE FOREGOING EXCLUSIONS APPLY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

15. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, REKORDCLOUD B.V. AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, LICENSORS, SUPPLIERS, AND UPSTREAM DATA SOURCES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, BUSINESS, OPPORTUNITY, ROYALTIES, USE, DATA, OR SUBSTITUTE PROCUREMENT, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OR NUMBER OF CLAIMS, SHALL NOT EXCEED THE LESSER OF (a) THE AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (b) ONE HUNDRED EUROS (EUR 100). FOR USE OF THE FREE TIER, OUR LIABILITY IS CAPPED AT EUR 100 IN THE AGGREGATE.

THE PARTIES AGREE THAT THESE LIMITATIONS REFLECT A REASONABLE ALLOCATION OF RISK BETWEEN THEM AND ARE A FUNDAMENTAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS EXCLUDES OR LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

16. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Rekordcloud B.V. and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, contractors, licensors, and upstream data sources (the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all claims, demands, suits, proceedings, losses, damages, fines, penalties, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and the costs of investigation and defense) arising out of or related to: (a) your access to or use of the Service or any data returned by it; (b) your breach or alleged breach of these Terms or any applicable law, including any upstream source's terms; (c) your applications, products, services, or business operations, including any decision made or action taken in reliance on data returned by the Service; (d) any claim that your use of the Service or data infringes, misappropriates, or violates any intellectual property right, right of publicity, privacy right, or other right of any third party; (e) any royalty, licensing, performance-rights, neighbouring-rights, mechanical, sync, master, or publishing claim brought by any rights holder, society, or collective management organization in connection with your use of the data; (f) any claim by an upstream source that your use caused us to be in breach of an upstream agreement; (g) any dispute between you and a third party (including end users); and (h) your negligence, fraud, or willful misconduct.

We may, at our option, assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you will cooperate with our defense. You may not settle any claim without our prior written consent if the settlement would impose any obligation on, or admit fault by, an Indemnified Party. This Section survives termination.

17. Termination

You may terminate your account at any time by deleting it from your dashboard settings.

We may suspend or terminate your account, any API key, or access to the Service at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice. This includes, but is not limited to, termination due to: violation or suspected violation of these Terms, suspected fraudulent or abusive activity, non-payment, requests or orders from law enforcement or government agencies, takedown demands or term changes from upstream sources, legal or regulatory requirements, discontinuation of the Service (in whole or in part), or extended periods of inactivity.

Upon termination, your right to use the Service ceases immediately, and you must purge all cached data as set out in Section 7. We may delete your account data, including API keys and usage history, within a reasonable period after termination. We are not obligated to retain, return, or forward any data associated with your account.

If we terminate or suspend your account without cause, any prepaid fees for unused portions of the current billing period may be refunded at our sole discretion. No refund is owed where termination is for cause.

Sections 3 (License limits), 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 23 survive termination.

18. Force Majeure

We shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations under these Terms where such failure or delay results from circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to: natural disasters, acts of war or terrorism, pandemics, government actions or orders, changes in applicable law or regulation, sanctions, embargoes, labor disputes, power, network, or infrastructure failures, cyberattacks, denial-of-service events, or the unavailability, modification, or termination of any third-party service or data source on which the Service depends.

19. Compliance with Laws, Sanctions, and Export Controls

You represent and warrant that: (a) you are not located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in any country or territory that is the subject of comprehensive sanctions administered by the United Nations, the European Union, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, or the United States; (b) you are not on any restricted-party list maintained by any of those authorities; (c) you will not access or use the Service in violation of any applicable export control, sanctions, or trade law; and (d) you will not provide the Service or any data returned by it to any person or entity prohibited from receiving it under such laws. You are responsible for compliance with all laws applicable to your use of the Service, including data protection, privacy, consumer protection, intellectual property, and competition laws.

20. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms, and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation, are governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the Netherlands, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. The competent courts in Amsterdam, the Netherlands shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim, save that we may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect our intellectual property or confidential information.

21. Time Limit for Claims

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to these Terms or the Service must be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues, otherwise it is permanently barred.

22. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will notify you of material changes by posting the updated Terms on this page and updating the “Last updated” date, and may, at our discretion, also notify you by email or in the dashboard. Continued use of the Service after the effective date of the updated Terms constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree with revised Terms, you must stop using the Service.

23. General Provisions

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable, or, if it cannot be so modified, severed, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

Entire Agreement. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any order form or written agreement signed by an authorized representative of Rekordcloud B.V., constitute the entire agreement between you and Rekordcloud B.V. regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements, communications, and understandings, whether oral or written. No purchase order, click-through, or other terms presented by you shall apply.

No Waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of that provision or any other provision. A waiver of any provision is only effective if made in writing and signed by us.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent; any attempted assignment without consent is void. We may assign our rights and obligations under these Terms without restriction, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.

Relationship of the Parties. The parties are independent contractors. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary, or employment relationship.

No Third-Party Beneficiaries. Except for the Indemnified Parties identified in Section 16, these Terms do not create any third-party beneficiary rights.

Notices. Notices to us must be sent to support@sonovault.now. Notices to you may be sent to the email address associated with your account, posted in the dashboard, or published on the SonoVault website.

Headings. Section headings are for convenience only and have no legal effect.

Language. These Terms are drafted in English. Any translation is provided for convenience only; the English version controls.

24. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at support@sonovault.now.