Terms of service

These terms are the agreement between you and the person who runs MTMTME. They are short on purpose. By signing in you accept them; if you don't, please don't sign in.

1. Who you are dealing with

MTMTME is operated by Simon Curd, an individual, as a personal project. “We”, “us” and “the service” below mean him and the site at which MTMTME is published. “You” means the person using it.

2. What the service is

A private place to record which albums matter to you and to write about them. It looks up album details and cover art from public music catalogues, keeps your collection and notes, and shows them back to you. It is provided free of charge. There is no paid tier, no advertising and nothing to buy.

3. Your account

• You need a Google account to sign in; Google's own terms apply to that account, not these.
• An account is for one person. Keep control of the email address and the devices you are signed in on, because anything done from a signed in browser is treated as done by you.
• You must be old enough to agree to these terms — at least 13, and old enough under the law where you live to form a contract.
• Tell us promptly at the address below if you think someone else has got into your account.

4. What you write stays yours

Your notes, ratings, ages, starred tracks and the shape of your collection are yours. Nothing here transfers ownership of them.

You give us only the permission needed to run the service for you: to store your content, back it up, and display it back to you. That permission ends when you delete the content or your account. Your content is not published, sold, shared with other users, used to train anything, or read except where strictly necessary to fix a fault you have reported or to comply with the law.

You are responsible for what you upload. Don't put anything unlawful in it, and only upload an image — a cover for a record you added by hand, say — if you are entitled to.

5. Album data and cover art

Album titles, artists, tracklists and cover images come from third-party catalogues — Apple, Deezer and MusicBrainz — and remain the property of their respective owners. They are shown here to help you identify your own records. MTMTME is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Apple, Deezer, MusicBrainz, Google, or any label, artist or rights holder.

Catalogue details can be wrong, incomplete or missing, and a service may change or withdraw its data at any time. Nothing here is warranted to be accurate. The service does not host, stream, sell or link to recordings: there is no music here, only a shelf.

If you hold rights in material shown by the service and believe it is being used improperly, write to the address below and it will be dealt with promptly.

6. Fair use of the service

Please don't:

• try to reach another person's collection, or any part of the system you haven't been given access to;
• attack, overload or probe the service, or automate it in a way that hammers it or the catalogues it depends on;
• use it to store or distribute unlawful, infringing or abusive material;
• resell it, or present it as your own service.

Ordinary personal use — including keeping a large collection — is exactly what it is for, and none of the above is aimed at you.

7. Availability, changes and backups

The service is offered as is and as available. It is a personal project, not a company with an operations team: it may be slow, may be down, may lose a feature you liked, and may one day stop altogether. No uptime is promised.

Features may be added, changed or removed at any time. If the service is going to shut down, reasonable notice will be given by email to the address on your account — at least 30 days where that is possible — so you can export your collection.

Keep your own copy. Use Export collection (.json) from the menu. It is one click, and it is the only backup that is genuinely in your hands.

8. Ending it

You can stop at any time: delete what you like, or ask for the account to be deleted by emailing the address below. We may suspend or end an account that breaks these terms, or where it is necessary to protect the service or other people — with notice and a chance to put it right where that is reasonable, and immediately where it is not.

9. Liability

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected by anything here.

Beyond that, and to the extent the law allows: the service is provided without warranties of any kind; we are not liable for loss of data, loss of profit, loss of opportunity, or any indirect or consequential loss; and our total liability arising out of or in connection with the service is limited to £100.

That figure is not meant to be glib. It is the honest limit of what a free personal project can carry, which is exactly why clause 7 asks you to keep your own export.

10. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer living elsewhere in the UK or in the EU, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country you live in, and may bring proceedings there.

If something goes wrong, please email first. Most things are a misunderstanding and can be sorted out in a message.

11. General

• These terms, together with the privacy policy, are the whole agreement between us about the service.
• If a clause turns out to be unenforceable, the rest of the terms continue in force.
• Not enforcing a term on one occasion doesn't waive it later.
• These terms may be updated; the date at the top changes when they are, and material changes will be notified by email before they take effect. Continuing to use the service after that means accepting the new version.
• Nobody other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms.

12. Contact

simoncurd@gmail.com — for questions about these terms, account deletion, rights complaints and anything else.