Terms and Conditions

Thanks for using GFM Mastering.com web services. These terms of service ("Agreement") cover your use and access to the services, client software, and websites ("Services") provided by GFM Mastering Audio Inc (for clarity, “Services” include the “Release Service”, “Samples Service” and "Plugins Service” as defined below, as well as our Projects and Network Services, as defined separately). Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your information while our Acceptable Use and Fair Usage Policy outlines your responsibilities when using our Services.

By using our Services, you're agreeing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and to review our Privacy and Acceptable Use and Fair Usage Policy. If you're using our Services for an organization, you're agreeing to the terms of this Agreement on behalf of that organization.

By using or accessing the Services, you agree to all the terms and conditions stated in this Agreement. If at any time, you do not or cannot agree to the terms of this Agreement, you must stop accessing or using the Services.

Account Registration

To use certain Services you must register and provide certain information (e.g. a member (user) name, password, billing information, and valid email address) to GFM Mastering ("Registration Data") for the purposes of creating an account (your “Account”). You agree to provide current, complete, and accurate Registration Data at the time you register and you will update your Registration Data as necessary to keep it current, complete, and accurate. The Registration Data will apply to all Services and act as your username and Registration Data for accessing, communicating, purchasing, and/or streaming (where purchasing and/or streaming are applicable) in connection with all Services. GFM Mastering may terminate your Account and any or all rights to the Services if any information you provide is inaccurate, false, or incomplete, or, if the GFM Mastering, in its discretion, suspects fraudulent and/or illegal behavior, such as but not limited to identity theft or stolen credit cards or artificial purchasing to inflate sales data, associated with your registration. You agree that GFM Mastering may store and use the Registration Data you provide for use in billing fees to your credit card and maintaining your Account.

You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your Account. You agree to notify GFM Mastering immediately of any unauthorized use of your password and/or Account. GFM Mastering shall not be responsible for any losses arising out of the unauthorized use of your Registration Data or Account, and you agree to hold harmless and to indemnify GFM Mastering, its partners, parents, subsidiaries, agents, affiliates, and/or licensors, as applicable, for any improper, unauthorized or illegal uses of your Account. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services. Should you attempt to do so, assist others in making such attempts, or distribute instructions, software, or tools for that purpose, GFM Mastering shall have the right to terminate your Account and pursue all available remedies at law.

By establishing an Account, you grant permission for GFM Mastering to contact you at your provided e-mail address as well as through any of your provided social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.). You can update and manage your email preferences, under your account settings. You acknowledge and agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically will satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. You must provide GFM Mastering with an active email account to receive important notices from us at all times, and you are responsible for making sure the email account is active, able to receive emails from GFM Mastering, and that your email address on file with GFM Mastering is up-to-date.

Your Assets & Your Permissions

When you use our Services, you provide us with things like your files, content, configuration settings, Metadata, and so on ("Your Assets"). Your Assets are yours. The terms of this Agreement don't give us any rights to Your Assets except for the limited rights that enable us to offer the Services.

If you want to use our Release Service or Samples Service for your Recordings (as defined below), please carefully review all applicable provisions of the terms of this Agreement.

We need your permission to do things like hosting Your Assets, backing them up, and sharing them when you ask us to. Our Services also provide you with features like song previews, editing, sharing, searching, and releasing. These and other features may require our systems to access, store and scan Your Assets. We may also utilize Your Data (as defined in our Privacy Policy) to conduct investigations and studies, test functionalities during the development phase, and analyze the information at our disposal to assess and improve our Services, implement new services and functionalities, and perform audits and troubleshooting procedures, or for promotional purposes. You permit us to do these things, and this permission extends to trusted third parties we work with.

Once you access our Services via an offer or link provided by a GFM Mastering partner, we will likely share some of Your Data with said partner, more specifically, your name, email address, subscription plan to our Services, and information regarding the usage that you make of our Services. You authorize us to share such information with the aforementioned partner. The Data shared with this partner will also be governed by conditions of use and this partner’s privacy policy.

Sharing Your Assets

Our Services let you share Your Assets with others, so please think carefully about what you share. You understand that you assume all risks, including unwanted public release, related to your decision to share Your Assets. When you share Your Assets, you’re responsible for ensuring that those accessing Your Assets understand what they’re allowed to do, or not do, with Your Assets. Your sharing of Your Assets via our Services will not entitle you to any payments from any persons participating in our Services.

When content is shared with you, offering comments, suggestions, and/or feedback to another user’s content on the GFM Mastering site does not mean that you acquire ownership rights or credits in that content nor does it mean that you shall have a right to any royalties or other monetary payments derived from that content. Without written approval from the party owning the content that was shared with you, you cannot share or reproduce the other user’s content. To obtain more information about your rights as a contributor, songwriter, or performer, please consult your performing rights organization, publisher, and/or legal counsel.

Pricing

We work for musicians and creators. Our pricing aims to be affordable to allow as many creators as possible, from all over the world, to use our Services. You can increase your privileges and add paid features to your account (turning your account into a "Paid”, or “Premium” Account). Please refer to GFM Mastering’s website for all details regarding our free offer, A-la-Carte offers, and subscription plans for our Services and further details relating to upgrades, downgrades, billing, refunds, and changes to Paid accounts. Both free and paying users must have a GFM Mastering account to be able to use our Services.

Copyright and Intellectual Property

We respect the intellectual property of others and ask that you do too. You cannot upload, share, release, or otherwise use on our Services any content, including any audio files, samples, or Recordings, for which you do not own all necessary intellectual property rights unless you have the express written consent from all persons owning the intellectual property rights in the content. If you don’t respect this rule, you assume all risks and liabilities arising therefrom, and we will have the right to delete any violating content on our Services. Further, you shall indemnify and save us harmless from and against any reasonable costs, expenses, losses, liabilities, and damages (including, without limitation, court costs and counsel fees on a substantial indemnity basis) arising out of or connected with any claim arising from your submission to our Services of intellectual property you do not own or properly control. Without renouncing our other rights and remedies, we can also suspend or terminate your account.

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement if they comply with the law, and such notices should be reported to us by email. We reserve the right to delete or disable content alleged to be infringing and terminate accounts of repeat infringers. Our designated agent for notice of alleged copyright infringement on the Services is: mastering@goodfmusic.com

Your Responsibilities

You're responsible for your conduct, Your Assets and you must comply with our Acceptable Use and Fair Usage Policy. Content in the Services may be protected by others' intellectual property rights. Please don't copy, upload, download, or share content unless you have the right to do so. We may review your conduct and content for compliance with the terms of this Agreement and our Acceptable Use and Fair Usage Policy. That said, we have no obligation to do so. We aren't responsible for the content people post and share via the Services.

Contact

If you have any customer service inquiries, concerns, questions, or complaints regarding this Agreement, please contact us at: mastering@goodfmusic.com

The current Agreement's last update was March 1, 2024.