Terms of use

These terms govern the use of the Surroundify website, the optional account it offers, and the software it distributes, published by Resourcepool: a multichannel spatial audio player installed on a computer of your own, driven from a browser on the same network.

Using the site, creating an account or installing the software constitutes acceptance of these terms. If you do not accept them, simply do not use it: no registration is required to read this site or to run the player.

Surroundify is supplied free of charge, without a quota or a trial period, and the player needs no account. The publisher guarantees neither continuous availability nor freedom from interruption: the software and this site may be modified, suspended or discontinued. Because the player runs on your own machine, a discontinued project does not take your installation with it — what is installed keeps working.

An account is optional. Nothing the player does requires one, and nothing on this site asks for one except the pages that are about accounts. It exists so that a Surroundify installation you own can be bound to you.

• The address you sign up with must be one you can receive mail at — it is how a password is reset and how a change of address is confirmed. An account whose address no longer works cannot be recovered.
• The account is yours to keep secure. Choose a password you do not use elsewhere, and tell us if you believe someone else has reached it.
• You may delete it at any time from the account page. Deletion is immediate and final: the publisher keeps no copy and cannot restore it.
• The publisher may suspend or remove an account used to attack this site, to claim installations that are not yours, or to sign up in bulk.
• Accounts are a convenience, not a guaranteed service. If the account space were ever withdrawn, your installation would keep working — it runs on your machine and does not need permission from anything.

Binding a server. You may bind Surroundify installations that are yours to bind — a machine you own, or one you are responsible for. A pairing code is issued to your account, is good for one installation, and expires in ten minutes: give it to somebody else and you are giving them a place in your account, so do not. Either end can unbind at any time, and unbinding never affects playback.

Rooms, speaker layouts, mix profiles, your own presets and their audio are stored on the machine you installed the player on. They are yours; the publisher does not access them and can neither restore nor recover them. Reinstalling the operating system, changing machine or deleting the data folder makes them disappear: use the backup feature. The detail is in the privacy policy.

Preset Studio takes audio files you supply. You undertake to use only material you have the right to use, and to keep any licence conditions attached to it — a commercial sound library used in a public venue is not the same thing as the same file played at home.

Exporting a preset produces a file containing that audio. Passing it to someone else is a distribution, and the same conditions apply to it.

The player can claim a name under apps.surroundify.co and obtain a certificate for it. That name is provided as a convenience, points at a private address on your own network, and gives nobody outside it access to anything. The publisher may withdraw a name that is used to mislead — a name chosen to imitate a third party, for instance — and you may give one up at any time from the player. Availability of that service is not guaranteed; giving up a name does not stop the player working, it stops your phone installing it as an app.

The player drives your speakers at the level you set. It can send full-scale signal to every output at once, which is exactly what a spatial player is for, and which an amplifier or a small driver may not be happy about.

Setting a safe level, and checking it before playing anything to anybody else, is yours to do — particularly with headphones, with children present, or with equipment whose limits you do not know. Start quiet.

Within what the law allows, the publisher cannot be held liable for damage to equipment, hearing damage, or disturbance caused by playback: these terms do not exclude the publisher’s liability for gross or intentional fault, nor the statutory guarantees consumers enjoy.

Notably prohibited:

• attempting to disrupt this site or force access to it;
• claiming names under the subdomain in bulk, or using the naming service as anything other than a way of reaching your own machine;
• using the player to broadcast unlawful content, or content infringing a third party’s rights.

The publisher may withdraw a name and restrict access to the service in the event of a breach.

The site, its visual identity and the software remain the property of the publisher and are made available under the licence accompanying the distributed package. What you produce — rooms, mixes, exported presets — stays yours: the publisher acquires no right over it.

These terms may be modified; the applicable version is the one published on this page, whose update date appears at the top. Continuing to use the site after a change constitutes acceptance.

These terms are governed by French law. In the event of a disagreement, an amicable solution will be sought first: send your complaint to the publisher by email. Failing agreement, the dispute falls to the competent French courts; a consumer may bring proceedings in the courts of their place of residence and may use a consumer mediator free of charge.