These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a legal agreement between you and La Corporation Tempo Inc., a corporation constituted under the laws of Québec, Canada (Business Number 771577368; Québec Enterprise Number (NEQ) 1180432917) ("Tempo," "we," "us," or "our"), governing your access to and use of the Tempo Music mobile application, the tempomusic.app website, and any related services we operate (collectively, the "Service").
By creating an account, connecting an existing account, or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
If any provision of these Terms is prohibited by mandatory consumer protection legislation that applies to you, including, if you reside in Québec, the Consumer Protection Act (Québec), that provision applies to you only to the extent permitted by that legislation, and nothing in these Terms limits rights that such legislation grants you and that cannot be waived by contract.
1. What Tempo Music Is
Tempo Music is a social application for sharing and discussing music. It is built on the AT Protocol, an open, decentralized social networking protocol. Using Tempo, you can create posts about songs and albums, publish ratings and reviews, customize your profile, and follow and interact with other users.
The Service can connect to third-party music services, currently Apple Music and Last.fm, so you can view your listening history and pick a song or album from it to post about. You can also share a song or album directly from Spotify, Apple Music, or Shazam into Tempo using those services' sharing features (Section 8.2).
Tempo is not a music streaming service. We do not host, stream, sell, or license sound recordings or musical works. Song and album titles, artist names, artwork, links, and audio previews displayed in the Service are provided through the third-party music services and/or through third-party service providers described in Section 8 and remain the property of their respective owners.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Service only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf. If the law of your place of residence requires a higher minimum age to consent to the processing of your personal information without parental consent, you must meet that higher age or have the required parental consent.
By using the Service, you represent that you meet these requirements and that any registration information you provide is accurate. We may suspend or terminate accounts that we reasonably believe belong to ineligible users.
3. Your Account and the AT Protocol
3.1 Two ways to have an account
You can use Tempo Music with:
- an account hosted by Tempo: we operate a Personal Data Server ("PDS") on the AT Protocol network, and when you create a new account in the app, your account and data repository may be hosted on our PDS; or
- an existing AT Protocol account: you may sign in with an account hosted by a third-party provider (for example, Bluesky Social PBC or a self-hosted PDS).
3.2 If Tempo hosts your account
When your account is hosted on our PDS, we store your data repository (your posts, ratings, likes, follows, profile, and similar records) and make it available to the AT Protocol network. Consistent with the design of the AT Protocol, you have the right to migrate your account and your data repository to a different PDS provider at any time, using the protocol's account-migration mechanisms. We will not obstruct a properly initiated migration. After you migrate away, we may retain copies of your data only as needed to comply with law or as described in our Privacy Policy.
3.3 If a third party hosts your account
When you sign in with an account hosted elsewhere, that host, not Tempo, stores your data repository and controls your credentials, availability, and data handling. Your relationship with that host is governed by its own terms and policies. We are not responsible for the acts, omissions, outages, or data practices of third-party account hosts, and we cannot restore data or credentials that they control.
3.4 Account security
You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials (including passwords and app passwords) and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us promptly at support@tempomusic.app if you suspect unauthorized use of your account.
3.5 Handles and identifiers
Handles, display names, and other identifiers are subject to the rules of the AT Protocol and of the relevant host. We may reclaim, change, or refuse identifiers on our PDS that infringe third-party rights, impersonate others, or violate Section 6.
4. An Open, Federated Network. Please Read This Section Carefully
The AT Protocol is an open, public, federated network. This has consequences you must understand and accept before posting:
- Your public content is public beyond Tempo. Posts, ratings, reviews, images, profile information, follows, likes, and similar records you publish are public records on the AT Protocol network. They can be viewed, indexed, copied, and displayed by other applications and services that participate in the network (for example, Bluesky and other AT Protocol clients), by relays and feed generators, and by anyone operating protocol infrastructure, including people and services that have no relationship with Tempo.
- Deletion has limits. When you delete content or your account, we delete the relevant records from the systems we control and issue the corresponding deletion events to the network. However, we cannot guarantee that third parties who have already copied, cached, or archived your content will honor the deletion. Content that was public on a federated network may persist on servers we do not control.
- Other apps may present your content differently. We do not control how other applications label, moderate, rank, or display network content, including yours.
- Third-party content reaches you. Content created in other AT Protocol applications may appear in Tempo. We do not create, endorse, or pre-screen network content.
You accept these characteristics of a federated network as an inherent part of the Service.
5. Your Content
5.1 You own it
You retain all ownership rights in the content you create and share through the Service: posts, ratings, reviews, images, profile content, and any other material that does not infringe on a third party's copyright ("Your Content").
5.2 The license you grant us
So that we can operate the Service, you grant Tempo a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, adapt (for technical purposes such as formatting, resizing, and generating previews), publish, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute Your Content, in connection with operating, providing, promoting, and improving the Service. You acknowledge that publishing content on the AT Protocol necessarily involves transmitting it to the network, where it will be processed and displayed by third-party participants; the license above includes this transmission, and your relationship with those third parties is not governed by these Terms.
This license ends when you delete Your Content or your account, except (a) to the extent the content has been shared with the network or others and they have retained copies, (b) for reasonable backup and legal-compliance retention, and (c) for content you have made part of others' content (for example, replies within others' threads), which may remain visible in that context.
5.3 Your responsibilities
You are solely responsible for Your Content. You represent that you own it or have the necessary rights to it, and that it does not violate these Terms, the law, or the rights of others (including copyright in photographs and artwork you upload).
5.4 Feedback
If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them without restriction or compensation.
6. Acceptable Use and Community Rules
We want Tempo to be a place where people talk about music, not a place where people get hurt. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behaviour on Tempo Music. You must not post, share, or engage in:
- content that is illegal, or that promotes or facilitates illegal acts;
- content that sexually exploits or endangers minors in any way (we report such content to relevant authorities);
- harassment, bullying, threats, or incitement of violence against any person or group;
- hate speech: content attacking people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or similar characteristics;
- non-consensual intimate imagery, or pornographic or sexually explicit content;
- content that infringes copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property rights, including uploading images you have no right to use;
- impersonation of any person or entity, or misrepresentation of your affiliation;
- spam, scams, fraudulent schemes, or deceptive practices;
- malware, or attempts to probe, disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorized access to the Service, our PDS, or other users' accounts;
- scraping or bulk collection of user data outside the normal operation of the AT Protocol;
- use of the Service in violation of the terms of the third-party music services you connect (Section 8); and
- circumvention of moderation measures, suspensions, or blocks.
6.1 Moderation, reporting, and blocking
The Service provides tools to report content and users and to block users. We review reports and act on objectionable content promptly, ordinarily within 24 hours of a report, including by removing content and ejecting the responsible user where warranted. We may remove or restrict any content, and suspend or terminate any account, that we reasonably believe violates these Terms or exposes users or Tempo to harm. Where appropriate and lawful, we will notify you of significant moderation actions affecting your account and give you an opportunity to respond.
Because the network is federated, our moderation actions apply to the systems we control (the Tempo Music app and our PDS). We cannot guarantee removal of content from third-party infrastructure.
7. Copyright Complaints
We respect intellectual-property rights and expect users to do the same.
If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to support@tempomusic.app (subject: "Copyright Notice") including: (a) identification of the copyrighted work; (b) identification and location (URL or post reference) of the allegedly infringing material; (c) your contact information; (d) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (e) a statement, under penalty of perjury where applicable, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner; and (f) your physical or electronic signature.
We will process notices in accordance with applicable law, including the notice-and-notice provisions of the Copyright Act (Canada) and, for users and rightsholders in the United States, the notice-and-takedown framework of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). We may remove or disable access to allegedly infringing material, forward notices to the user concerned, accept counter-notifications where the law provides for them, and terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
8. Third-Party Music Services
8.1 Connections you control
You may optionally connect your Apple Music or Last.fm account to the Service. Connecting is done through each service's authorization process; we receive only the data those services make available under the permissions you grant. You can disconnect a linked service at any time in the app's settings, which stops further data access from that service.
8.2 Sharing from a third-party service
Optionally, you may share a song directly from Spotify, Apple Music, or Shazam via their provided sharing options into Tempo. This functionality depends on sharing capabilities provided by those services and can be revoked at any time by the services.
8.3 Their content, their rules
- Apple Music, Last.fm, Shazam, and Spotify are independent services. Tempo Music is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or certified by Apple, Last.fm, Shazam, or Spotify.
- Your use of each connected service remains governed by that service's own terms and privacy policy, and you must comply with them when using its features through Tempo.
- Music metadata, artwork, links, and audio previews presented in the Service are provided by these services and their licensors and remain their property or the property of the respective rightsholders. You may not copy, extract, redistribute, or use this material outside the Service's intended functionality, and you may not use the Service to download, rip, or permanently store audio from any connected service.
- Apple Music, Last.fm, Shazam, and Spotify are third-party beneficiaries of this Section 8 solely to the extent required by their developer terms, and may enforce it against you to that extent.
8.4 No guarantees
Third-party services may change, rate-limit, suspend, or discontinue their APIs or sharing capabilities, or revoke our access, at any time. Features of the Service that depend on them may degrade or stop working as a result, and we are not liable for this. We may add or remove supported services at our discretion.
9. Tempo's Intellectual Property
The Service, including the Tempo Music name, logo, app, design, and software, but excluding Your Content, network content, and third-party materials, is owned by Tempo or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the app on devices you own or control, for personal, non-commercial use, in accordance with these Terms and the applicable app-store rules. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works of the Service except as permitted by law notwithstanding this restriction. Open-source components included in the app are governed by their own licenses.
10. Fees and Future Paid Features
The Service is currently free of charge. We may introduce optional paid features, subscriptions, or other offerings in the future. If we do: (a) we will clearly disclose pricing and terms before you incur any charge; (b) no existing free feature will convert to paid without prior notice to you; (c) purchases made through the Apple App Store or Google Play will be processed by Apple or Google and subject to their payment, renewal, cancellation, and refund policies in addition to any terms we present; and (d) where required by law (including Québec consumer law), we will obtain your express consent before charging you.
11. Termination
By you. You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your account in the app's settings. If your account is hosted on our PDS, you may alternatively migrate it to another provider (Section 3.2).
By us. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, or remove Your Content from systems we control, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, if required by law, or if providing the Service to you creates risk or legal exposure for us. Unless the violation is serious or we are legally prevented from doing so, we will give you reasonable notice and a description of the reason.
Effect. Upon termination, your license to use the app ends. Sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 4, 5.2 (as limited), 7, 9, 12, 13, and 14) survive termination. Termination of your Tempo account does not, by itself, delete records already propagated to the federated network (Section 4), and if your account is hosted by a third party, termination of Tempo access does not affect that account.
12. Disclaimers
We work to make the Service reliable and safe, but, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, accuracy, and non-infringement. Without limiting the foregoing, we do not warrant that: the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure; content on the federated network (which we do not create or control) will be accurate, lawful, or inoffensive; or third-party music services or third-party PDS hosts will remain available or compatible.
Some jurisdictions, including Québec, under the Consumer Protection Act and the Civil Code of Québec, do not allow certain warranty exclusions for consumers. Where that is the case, the above exclusions apply only to the extent permitted, and you retain the legal warranties that cannot be excluded.
13. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law: (a) Tempo, its directors, officers, employees, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, data, goodwill, or opportunities, arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms; (b) we are not liable for the conduct or content of any user or third party, including third-party PDS hosts, other AT Protocol applications and infrastructure operators, and connected music services; and (c) our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (i) the amounts you paid us for the Service in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim and (ii) CAD $100.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for our own intentional or gross fault under Québec law, for bodily or moral injury, or under mandatory consumer-protection legislation.
14. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by applicable law, and except where you use the Service as a consumer under legislation that prohibits such clauses, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Tempo from claims, damages, and reasonable expenses (including legal fees) arising from Your Content, your use of the Service in violation of these Terms, or your violation of the rights of a third party.
15. App Store Terms
If you download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play, the following also applies:
- These Terms are between you and Tempo only, not with Apple Inc. or Google LLC. Apple and Google are not responsible for the Service or its content, and have no obligation to furnish maintenance or support for it.
- Your use of the app must comply with the applicable store's terms of service and usage rules.
- Apple: In the event the app fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple is not responsible for addressing claims relating to the app, including product-liability claims, legal-compliance claims, and consumer-protection claims, or for third-party IP claims concerning the app. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. government embargo or designated as "terrorist supporting," and that you are not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
16. Changes to the Service and to These Terms
We may modify, add, or discontinue features of the Service. We may also amend these Terms. If we make material changes, we will give you advance notice through the app or by other reasonable means, including, where Québec consumer law applies, written notice at least 30 days before the change takes effect, identifying the new or amended provisions, and informing you of your right to refuse the change and terminate your use of the Service without cost or penalty before it takes effect. Continued use of the Service after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the amended Terms, except where the law requires your express consent.
17. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms and any dispute arising from them or from the Service are governed by the laws of the Province of Québec and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to the paragraph below, disputes will be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Québec, judicial district of Montréal.
If you are a consumer, nothing in this Section deprives you of: the protection of mandatory consumer-protection rules of the jurisdiction where you reside; the right to bring or participate in proceedings before your local courts where the law gives you that right; or the right to participate in a class action. These Terms do not require arbitration and do not waive your right to a class action.
18. General
- Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Tempo regarding the Service.
- Severability. If any provision is held invalid, the remainder stays in effect.
- No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, with notice to you.
- Language. In accordance with the Charter of the French Language (Québec), these Terms are drawn up in French and in English, and both versions are made available to you before you accept them. By accepting the English version, you confirm that you had the opportunity to review the French version and that it is your express wish to be bound by the English version. Both versions have the same legal value; for Québec consumers, nothing in this clause limits the rights granted by the Charter.
- Contact. La Corporation Tempo Inc. — support@tempomusic.app.