Terms of Service

These Terms are an agreement between you and Rime’s operator (section 17). They cover Rime’s website, its apps, and everything you do on them: listening, signals, the Weekly and the Final, Studio, the Release Room and your public pages.

You agree to them when you make an account, by ticking the box at sign-up. Rime keeps which version you agreed to and when. The Privacy Policy, the Community Guidelines and the Copyright Policy are part of this agreement. Where a page or a checkout shows its own conditions (a paid feature, for example), those apply too.

Making an account takes four steps: your email or your Google account, a password, your name and date of birth, and agreeing to these Terms. You can correct anything before you finish, and change it afterwards in Settings. You can read the Terms you agreed to here at any time; Rime sends an earlier version on request.

You keep ownership of your music, your artwork, your name and everything else you bring to Rime. Rime claims none of it.

You give Rime a licence that is worldwide (listeners are everywhere), non-exclusive (you can do anything else with your music), free of charge, and limited to running Rime: to store your files, make the copies Rime needs (a stream copy and the waveform that draws your track), play your track to listeners inside Rime while you choose to have it heard, and show it publicly where you make it public (a release page, a track page once it’s out). The services that run Rime for it (hosting, storage, delivery) may handle your files only to do that.

The licence ends when you delete the track or your account. What stays: backups, for up to 14 days; results already decided, which keep their place and counts but show the track as no longer on Rime, without its title, your name or the artwork; posts on Rime’s channels already made; and what the law or an open dispute requires Rime to keep.

Rime never sells your music, never sends it to stores or streaming services, never lets anyone download it, and never plays a track that isn’t out anywhere outside Rime.

Rime’s own channels. When a result is already public on Rime (a Weekly win, a place in a Final, an honour, Release ready, a release page), Rime may repeat it on its own channels (its social accounts and playlists). A post uses only what the result shows on Rime (the title, your name, the artwork and the record line) and links back to Rime. You can turn this off in Studio settings for every post after. Once a track is out, Rime may share the groove video its artist made for it, credited to them, and may repost what you post about your music when you tag Rime.

Rime takes music its artists made. When you upload a track, you confirm that:

You are responsible for your credits being accurate. Once a track has entered testing or an event, its credits change only after a review, so public records stay true.

Every new track is checked before listeners hear it (section 11). A track found to break section 4 can be taken out of testing, events and public pages. If someone claims a right in your upload, the Copyright Policy says what happens.

A track that isn’t out is confidential to its artist. When Rime plays you one, you may listen to it inside Rime, as Rime plays it, and nothing more:

Listening on Rime is free. Each night Rime offers you a few tracks to hear blind, and after thirty seconds you say Weak, Normal or Strong, with words and marks if you like.

What you give (signals, words, marks, ballots, Hidden Gems) you give to Rime to run Rime: it is counted into a track’s record, shown to the track’s artist without your name, used to keep testing and events fair, and kept as a count after your account goes. One exception: if you were among the first to call a track Strong or a Hidden Gem and it goes on to place, Found early names you with it, if your profile is public. Give a signal only for what you heard yourself.

A record on Rime is what listeners said, read the way Fairness describes. It isn’t advice and isn’t a promise: no result guarantees a release, a playlist, an audience, income or anything outside Rime.

Some features are paid: Artist Pro, a subscription, and Rime Review, bought once. In the founding season they are free to every artist. When payments open, Paddle sells them on Rime’s behalf as the merchant of record: the price, taxes, renewal, cancellation and refunds are shown at checkout and in Paddle’s terms, which apply alongside these.

Paid features add capacity and depth. They never buy signals, votes, placement, a result or a record. Cancelling keeps every public record a track has earned; what the paid feature added stops at the end of the period paid for.

If a price, or what a paid feature includes, changes for you, Rime tells you at least 30 days before, and you can cancel before it applies.

Rime does not use your music, your artwork, your signals or your drafts to train any AI model, and doesn’t let anyone else do so.

Nobody may scrape Rime, or use anything on it, to train or test an AI model or to build a dataset, without the written permission of Rime and of the artist.

The Release Room can draft words for a release (such as the pitch, captions or a note to a curator) with Anthropic’s Claude, only when the artist turns it on. To write a draft, it sends Anthropic text only (the track’s title, genre and record, and the artist’s own notes), never sound. Drafts are labelled as drafts: read and correct them before you publish, because they can be wrong. What you publish is yours, and your responsibility.

Every new track is checked before listeners hear it, and a person decides. Reports are read by a person. Rime doesn’t watch everything people do, but it acts on what it learns.

When something breaks these Terms, the Community Guidelines or the law, Rime can label it, keep it out of testing or events, hide or remove it, limit what an account can do, suspend an account, or close it. Rime chooses what fits how serious it is, and acts at once where people or unreleased music are at risk.

When Rime acts on your content or your account, it tells you what it did, why, which rule or law, whether an automated check was involved, and how to ask again. You can ask Rime to look again within six months, on Appeals: a person reviews it, free, in English or Turkish. You can always go to a court.

Where something on Rime suggests a threat to someone’s life or safety, Rime tells the authorities.

Anyone, with or without an account, can report something on Rime: with Report on the page, or by email to [email protected]. Say where it is (the link), what is wrong and why, and how to reach you. Rime confirms it has your report, decides, and tells you what it decided. Rights claims follow the Copyright Policy.

Reporting in bad faith (to silence someone, or with claims you know are false) is itself a breach of these Terms.

You can delete your account at any time in Settings (Data). It stays for 30 days in case you change your mind, then it is deleted as the Privacy Policy says.

Rime can suspend or close an account that breaks these Terms seriously or repeatedly, or where the law requires it, and tells you why (section 11). For something less serious, Rime warns first.

Some things outlast an account: counts of signals and ballots without a name, results already decided, the confidentiality of unreleased music (section 6), and what the law makes Rime keep.

Rime works to keep the service running and your music safe. It is a young service, and it can change, pause or stop features. It tells you ahead of changes that matter to you, and if Rime ever closes, it gives you at least 60 days to take your music and your data with you.

Rime is responsible under the law for harm it causes on purpose or through gross negligence, and for harm to anyone’s life or health. Nothing in these Terms takes away rights the law gives you as a consumer.

Beyond that, Rime isn’t responsible for losses that don’t follow directly from what it did (such as lost income, opportunities or contracts); for what other people do with Rime, including someone breaking these Terms; for links and services outside Rime; or for interruptions and losses it couldn’t reasonably prevent. Keep your own copies of your music: Rime is not a backup.

If you use Rime for a business (a label or a company, not as a person), you answer for claims against Rime that come from your content breaking someone else’s rights.

When Rime changes these Terms in a way that matters, it tells you by email and in Rime at least 30 days before the change applies, says what changes, and asks you to agree the next time you use Rime. If you don’t agree, you can leave, and delete your account, before then.

A change the law requires, or one that protects people from harm, can apply sooner; Rime tells you as soon as it can. A fix that changes nothing for you (a typo, a clearer word) needs no notice.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye. If you use Rime as a consumer, you keep the protections of the law of the country where you live.

Write to Rime first, at [email protected]: most problems are solved that way.

In Türkiye, a consumer can take a dispute to the consumer arbitration committee (tüketici hakem heyeti) up to the limit the law sets each year, and above it to the consumer court, where they live or where the agreement was made. In the EU, a consumer can bring a claim in the courts where they live. For anyone else, the courts of Türkiye decide.

Rime is run by an individual in Türkiye, named in the Privacy Policy (section 1) as the controller of your data.

One address for everything (your account, these Terms, your data, reports, rights claims), for anyone, authorities included: [email protected]. Rime answers in English or Turkish.