Terms of Service & Privacy Notice

1) Terms of Service

VVavy is an experimental, web-based audio visualization experience. Use is for personal, non-commercial purposes unless we approve otherwise.

• Eligibility: You must be at least 13 (or the minimum age in your jurisdiction).
• Your content: You are responsible for any audio or video you use, capture, or record with VVavy, and for any transcript, lyric words, or other text generated from that media, and for having all required rights, permissions, licenses, and consents.
• Exports: If you export audio, video, or visuals, you represent and warrant that you have all required rights and permissions to record, capture, synchronize, and export that content. This includes any live video feed and any third-party content (for example, YouTube videos). Exports may be muted by default for third-party streams.
• Transcription tools: If you enable live transcription or lyric-word rendering, VVavy uses your browser’s native speech-recognition path. Depending on the browser and platform, browser-native speech recognition may process audio locally or send audio to a third-party service and may not work offline.
• Safety: Visuals may include flashing or motion; stop use if you feel unwell.
• Changes: We may modify, suspend, or discontinue VVavy at any time.
• Prohibited: No stream-ripping, unauthorized copying, or removal of attribution/watermarks.

Accounts And Sign-In

You can use core VVavy features without creating an account. If you choose to sign in with Google or an email magic link, you authorize VVavy and its authentication providers to create and maintain the account, session, and verification records reasonably needed to authenticate you, keep you signed in, sync enabled account features across devices, and enforce feature access.

Third-Party Content

VVavy does not host, control, endorse, or assume any responsibility for third-party content you access, load, capture, or record through the service, including audio and video. You are solely responsible for ensuring you have all rights, licenses, and permissions required to use, record, and export that content with VVavy.

Custom Visuals And Review Submissions

As between you and VVavy, you retain any rights you have in custom visual source code you create. Saving a visual only in your browser does not grant VVavy a license to publish it.

If you submit a custom visual for VVavy review, you represent and warrant that either: (a) you or your employer or client own all of the visual and source code, and you are authorized to submit it; or (b) every source-code element not owned by you, your employer, or your client is demonstrably free of copyright restrictions worldwide through the public domain or a valid CC0 dedication, and you are authorized to submit the remaining elements. Ordinary open-source, source-available, or other third-party licenses do not satisfy this review-submission policy, even if they permit reuse. Keep records supporting your stated rights basis.

AI-assisted or AI-generated code is not automatically free of third-party rights, and an AI provider's output terms do not establish that generated code is original or public domain. You remain responsible for reviewing the output, identifying its sources, and confirming the rights basis before submitting it.

When you submit a custom visual for review, you grant VVavy a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, execute, and make modifications solely as reasonably necessary to operate the submission process and conduct security, compatibility, and quality review. This review license lasts while the submission or its review records are retained for service operation, dispute handling, security, or legal compliance. If VVavy accepts the visual after it passes review, you additionally grant VVavy a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to publicly showcase the accepted visual, including by hosting, reproducing, executing, and publicly displaying it through VVavy. These licenses do not transfer ownership or dedicate your visual to the public domain. Any use beyond review processing and publicly showcasing an accepted visual requires a separate agreement or choice presented to you.

Assumption of Risk

VVavy generates flashing lights, rapid motion, and high-contrast visual effects. By using VVavy, you voluntarily assume all risk of adverse reactions, including but not limited to photosensitive seizures, dizziness, and discomfort. If you have a history of photosensitive epilepsy or similar conditions, do not use this service. VVavy assumes no responsibility for any health effects resulting from use of the service.

No Warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ”AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” VVAVY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not guarantee uninterrupted, secure, or error-free operation.

Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, VVAVY, ITS AFFILIATES, AND CONTRIBUTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY. TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED $100 USD. Nothing in these Terms limits liability where such limitation is prohibited by applicable law.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless VVavy and its contributors from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of the service; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your use, recording, or export of any audio or video content without required rights, permissions, or licenses; (d) a custom visual review submission that infringes or misappropriates third-party rights or includes an inaccurate rights attestation; or (e) any claim that your use of the service harmed a third party.

Governing Law & Disputes

Unless mandatory law says otherwise, these Terms are governed by the laws of the owner’s domicile, without regard to conflict of law principles. You agree to resolve any dispute arising from these Terms or use of VVavy through good-faith negotiation before pursuing legal action. If a court finds any provision unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in full effect.

2) SoundCloud Streaming Rules

When you use SoundCloud sources, these rules apply in addition to SoundCloud’s terms. VVavy is not affiliated with or endorsed by SoundCloud.

• SoundCloud audio is accessed only via official APIs for real-time visualization.
• No downloading, recording, caching, or stream-ripping. Only temporary playback buffering is allowed.
• SoundCloud Go-only content is not available.
• Exports made from SoundCloud streams are muted by default unless you have all required rights.
• We show attribution and link back to the original SoundCloud track.
• No scraping, rebroadcasting, ad-wrapping, or bypassing SoundCloud protections.

3) Privacy Notice

We keep privacy minimal. We do not sell personal data.

• Account and sign-in data: if you create or use an account, we store the contact, profile, session, provider, and verification information reasonably needed to authenticate you and manage your account.
• Synced account content: VVavy currently syncs favorites and playlists for signed-in users, along with related state needed to restore that content across devices.
• Custom visual review data: when you submit a custom visual for review, VVavy sends and stores its source code, name, description, account attribution, review status and findings, stated provenance basis, accepted review-policy version, and server-recorded acceptance time. Authorized reviewers and automated review systems may inspect and execute the submitted code for security, compatibility, and quality review.
• Local browser storage: on your device, VVavy stores preferences and working state such as favorites, recent/seen visuals, playlists, render or export settings, custom visual code and drafts, session markers, and essential authentication state.
• Usage analytics: we collect limited product analytics such as page views, visual and source selections, playback and export events, favorite interactions, custom-visual create/preview/save events, successful playlist creation events and the playlist names you provide, session duration, and referrer hostname.
• Local processing of media: visualization and device-media handling happens locally in your browser. Webcam, microphone, tab capture, uploaded audio/video, and similar media are processed client-side rather than sent to VVavy servers for visualization.
• Browser-native speech recognition: if you enable live transcription with the browser-native SpeechRecognition option, your browser or platform provider may process the captured audio using a local or remote speech-recognition service. Depending on the browser and platform, audio may be sent to a third-party service and may not work offline. VVavy does not control that browser- or platform-level processing path.
• Session minimization: VVavy does not intentionally write IP address or user-agent fields into its application-level auth session storage.
• Retention: daily analytics records currently use a retention window of up to 1 year, and some cumulative aggregate analytics counters may be retained longer. Account and session records are retained for as long as reasonably needed to operate the service, maintain security, and comply with legal obligations. Custom visual source and attestation records are retained while needed to operate review, administer the submission, address security or rights disputes, and comply with legal obligations; account deletion may not remove records that must be retained for those limited purposes.
• Purpose: authenticate users, sync enabled account features, operate and secure the service, improve reliability, understand product usage at an aggregate level, and comply with applicable law and third-party platform rules.

Privacy questions or data requests: privacy@vvavy.io.

4) Contact

• General support: support@vvavy.io
• Legal and terms: legal@vvavy.io
• Privacy and data requests: privacy@vvavy.io
• Business inquiries, licensing, and partnerships: business@vvavy.io
• Feature requests and product feedback: feature@vvavy.io

Project home: vvavy.io