Terms of Use

Effective date: 14 July 2026

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

GRIND is desktop software for music producers, operated by its founder, based in France ("GRIND", "we"). These terms govern your use of the grindapp.io website, the private beta application process and the GRIND desktop app provided during the private beta. By using the website, applying, or installing a beta build, you agree to these terms.

2. The private beta application

• Applying is free and requires no payment details.
• Applications are reviewed manually. Applying does not guarantee access to the beta, and does not create a subscription or any payment obligation.
• We may limit, pause or close application waves at any time.
• Access to the desktop app is invite-only. Invitations are personal and may not be transferred or resold.

3. Beta license

If you are selected, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the GRIND beta on your own devices, for your own production work, for the duration of the beta. You may not distribute the app, rent it, sell access to it, or attempt to extract its source code except to the extent such a restriction is not permitted by applicable law (for example the interoperability rights of Directive 2009/24/EC).

Beta software is pre-release software: features may change, break or be removed, and the beta program itself may be modified or ended at any time.

4. Your music and your data

• You keep every right to your music, your files and your data. These terms give us no ownership of, and no license to, your creative work.
• GRIND is local-first: the app works on files on your computer and does not upload your music. Features that would ever share or sync something will say so clearly before doing anything, and will be optional.
• We do not use your music or library data to train AI models.
• During the beta, keep your own backups. GRIND is designed never to delete or overwrite your original files without an explicit action from you, but pre-release software cannot promise perfection and your originals should always exist somewhere the beta does not touch.

5. Feedback

The point of the beta is feedback. You are never obliged to provide it beyond what the program asks, but any suggestions, ideas or reports you do send may be used to improve GRIND without restriction or compensation. This concerns your ideas about the product, never your music.

6. Founder pricing

• The private beta is free. When the paid beta begins, GRIND will be offered as a subscription with monthly and annual plans.
• Founder pricing is a reduced recurring subscription rate reserved for testers who activate GRIND and complete the first feedback cycle. It is not a lifetime license and is not guaranteed to every applicant.
• Exact prices and full subscription terms, including the legal right of withdrawal for EU consumers, will be presented clearly before any payment is ever requested. No payment can happen under these terms alone.

7. Acceptable use

Do not misuse the website or the app: no attempts to break, overload or probe our systems, no submitting applications with someone else's identity, no using the beta to build a competing product by copying its expression, and no unlawful content in anything you send us.

8. Our intellectual property

The GRIND software, name, logo, website design and content are protected by intellectual property law and remain ours. These terms grant you only the limited beta license described above.

9. Warranties

The website and the beta are provided as-is and as-available. To the extent permitted by law, we make no warranty that the beta will be uninterrupted, error-free or fit for a particular purpose. If you are a consumer in the European Union or elsewhere, nothing in these terms limits statutory rights that cannot be limited by contract, and when paid subscriptions begin, French and EU legal guarantees will apply to them.

10. Liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for intentional misconduct or gross negligence, for death or personal injury, or for any liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law. Subject to that, and given that the private beta is provided free of charge, our total liability for damages arising out of the website or the beta is limited to the greater of 50 euros or the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event (which during the private beta is zero), and we are not liable for indirect damages such as lost profits or lost opportunities. You remain responsible for keeping backups of your own files as described in section 4.

11. Term and ending

We may suspend or end beta access if these terms are broken or when the beta program ends; you can stop using the beta at any time. Sections that by nature survive (your ownership of your work, our IP, feedback, warranties, liability, governing law) survive the end of the beta.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by French law. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings before the courts of that country. EU consumers can also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform.

13. Site publisher and hosting

Publisher: GRIND, published on a non-professional basis by its founder (France); in accordance with Article 6-III-2 of the French LCEN, the publisher's identity is held by the hosting provider identified below · contact@grindapp.io
Hosting: Netlify, Inc., 512 2nd Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States · netlify.com

14. Changes and contact

We may update these terms; the current version with its effective date always lives at this address, and meaningful changes will be announced to testers by email before they apply to them. Questions: contact@grindapp.io.