Clariva Terms and Conditions

# Clariva Terms and Conditions

Version: 2026-05 
Effective date: May 28, 2026

## 1. Agreement

These Terms govern your access to and use of Clariva, including the Clariva mobile applications, websites, software, analysis tools, social features, and related services. By creating an account, signing in, or using Clariva, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, you must not use Clariva.

## 2. The Clariva Service

Clariva is a music practice and performance analysis service. It can record or process instrumental audio, infer musical notes and related practice information, display practice statistics, detect repeated attempts of musical passages, and provide feedback intended to help users understand their practice.

## 3. Accounts and Eligibility

You must provide accurate account information and keep your account secure. You are responsible for activity under your account. Clariva is intended for users who are at least 13 years old, or older where required by local law. If you are not old enough to enter into a binding agreement, you may use Clariva only with permission from a parent or legal guardian.

## 4. Third-Party Sign-In and Integrations

Clariva may allow sign-in through third-party providers such as Google or Apple. Those providers may process information under their own terms and privacy policies. Clariva is not responsible for third-party services, devices, platforms, or integrations.

## 5. Practice Data, Audio, and User Content

In these Terms, “User Content” means any content or information that you record, upload, create, submit, post, share, or otherwise make available through Clariva. This may include audio recordings, practice sessions, inferred notes, timing, pitch, articulation, comments, profile information, interpretation passages, and other musical or social content.

You remain responsible for your User Content. You confirm that you own your User Content or have the necessary rights, permissions, licenses, or legal basis to record, upload, process, share, or otherwise use it through Clariva.

You must not use Clariva to record, upload, share, publish, or distribute content in a way that infringes copyright, neighboring rights, performance rights, publicity rights, privacy rights, contractual rights, or other rights of another person or organization.

Clariva does not claim ownership of your User Content. As between you and Clariva, you keep the rights you have in your User Content, subject to the license you grant to Clariva under these Terms.

## 6. License to Operate Clariva

To provide, maintain, protect, and improve Clariva, you grant Clariva a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process, analyze, display, transmit, synchronize, and otherwise use your User Content as needed to operate Clariva.

This license includes permission for Clariva to process audio and derived musical data to generate notes, scores, practice statistics, visualizations, passage attempts, feeds, comments, notifications, leaderboards, and other Clariva features.

If you choose to make User Content public or visible to other users, you also grant Clariva permission to display, distribute, and make that User Content available according to the visibility settings and sharing features you select.

This license continues for as long as needed to provide Clariva and to preserve features that depend on shared or aggregated information. If you delete User Content or your account, Clariva will stop making that User Content available where reasonably possible, subject to technical limitations, backups, legal obligations, and content that has already been shared with or used by others according to your settings.

## 7. Clariva-Provided Passages, Interpretation Passages, and Musical Rights

Clariva may support different types of musical passages, including Clariva-provided passages and user-created interpretation passages.

Clariva-provided passages are passages provided or curated by Clariva. Clariva aims to provide Clariva-provided passages only where Clariva owns the relevant rights, has obtained an appropriate license, or believes the underlying musical material is in the public domain or otherwise lawfully usable. Clariva-provided passages may still be protected by Clariva’s own selection, arrangement, analysis, formatting, metadata, software, or database rights.

Interpretation passages are user-created passages derived from a user’s own performance or interpretation. They are intended to represent how a user performed, interpreted, phrased, timed, tuned, articulated, or otherwise expressed a musical passage. Interpretation passages are not intended to be official sheet music editions, complete musical scores, or substitutes for licensed sheet music.

When you create an interpretation passage, you confirm that you have the rights needed to create and use that passage in Clariva. You also grant Clariva the license described in these Terms to store, process, analyze, display, compare, and make the interpretation passage available according to the visibility settings you choose.

You must not use interpretation passages to upload, reconstruct, publish, distribute, or make available copyrighted sheet music, protected compositions, protected arrangements, or other third-party musical material unless you have the necessary rights or the material is lawfully usable.

Clariva may remove, restrict, or disable access to any passage or User Content if Clariva believes it may infringe rights, violate these Terms, create legal risk, or be otherwise inappropriate for the service.

## 8. Privacy and Data Protection

Clariva processes personal data as described in its Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy explains what data Clariva collects, why it is collected, how it is stored, and what choices or rights may be available to you. These Terms do not replace the Privacy Policy.

## 9. Visibility and Sharing

Clariva may include social features such as profiles, feeds, follows, applause, comments, leaderboards, or shared practice results. You are responsible for choosing what you share. Clariva may provide privacy controls, and you are responsible for using them appropriately.

## 10. Acceptable Use

You agree not to misuse Clariva, interfere with the service, access data you are not authorized to access, impersonate others, harass users, upload illegal or infringing content, attempt to reverse engineer protected parts of the service, or use automated scraping or data collection unless Clariva has expressly allowed it.

You also agree not to use Clariva to create, upload, share, or distribute content that infringes another person’s copyright or other rights, including unauthorized recordings, sheet music, arrangements, transcriptions, backing tracks, samples, or other protected musical material.

You are responsible for ensuring that your use of Clariva complies with applicable law and with any licenses, agreements, or restrictions that apply to music, recordings, performances, teaching materials, or other content you use with Clariva.

## 11. Community Guidelines and User Safety

Clariva is intended to support constructive musical practice, learning, collaboration, and community interaction.

You agree not to create, upload, post, share, transmit, or otherwise make available content or behavior that:

- is unlawful, abusive, defamatory, threatening, harassing, hateful, discriminatory, pornographic, sexually explicit, or contains nudity intended for public sharing;
- depicts, promotes, glorifies, or encourages graphic real-world violence, self-harm, exploitation, or illegal activity;
- infringes another person’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights;
- includes spam, scams, impersonation, deceptive behavior, or malicious links;
- targets or harasses other users;
- attempts to misuse Clariva’s social, feedback, ranking, or notification systems.

Clariva may review, moderate, restrict, remove, disable, or delete User Content or accounts that violate these Terms or that may create legal, safety, security, or community risks.

Clariva may also temporarily or permanently suspend accounts involved in repeated violations, abusive conduct, copyright infringement, spam, harassment, or other harmful behavior.

Clariva may provide in-app tools allowing users to report content, report users, mute users, block users, or otherwise manage interactions. Users are encouraged to use these tools responsibly.

Clariva reserves the right to investigate reports and take reasonable moderation actions at its discretion.

## 12. Reporting Content and Users

Clariva may provide tools that allow users to report content, comments, profiles, sessions, interpretation passages, or user behavior that may violate these Terms or applicable law.

Reports may be reviewed manually or through automated systems. Clariva may remove content, limit visibility, suspend accounts, or take other reasonable moderation actions where appropriate.

Submitting false, abusive, or malicious reports may itself violate these Terms.

## 13. Musical Feedback Is Not Professional Advice

Clariva provides educational and informational feedback about practice and performance. Clariva does not provide medical, therapeutic, professional music instruction, or guaranteed performance assessment. You remain responsible for your practice habits, health, hearing safety, posture, instrument use, and interpretation of feedback.

## 14. AI and Automated Analysis

Clariva may use signal processing, machine learning, and other automated systems to infer notes, articulation, tuning, rhythm, similarity, and other practice information. These systems can be incomplete or wrong. You should treat Clariva analysis as helpful feedback, not as an authoritative judgment.

## 15. Fees and Subscriptions

Some Clariva features may be free, and some may require payment or a subscription. If paid features are introduced, pricing, billing period, renewal, cancellation, and refund information will be shown before purchase. App store purchases may also be subject to the terms of the relevant app store.

## 16. Ownership of Clariva

Clariva, including its software, design, analysis systems, visualizations, trademarks, logos, and service content, is owned by Clariva or its licensors. Except for rights expressly granted to you, Clariva reserves all rights in the service.

## 17. Feedback

If you provide ideas, suggestions, bug reports, or other feedback, Clariva may use that feedback without restriction or compensation to you, while respecting applicable privacy obligations.

## 18. Service Changes

Clariva may add, change, suspend, or remove features. Clariva may also impose reasonable limits on storage, synchronization, upload size, or usage to keep the service reliable and sustainable.

## 19. Suspension and Termination

Clariva may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms, create risk for other users or the service, fail to pay applicable fees, or use the service unlawfully. You may stop using Clariva at any time and may request account deletion where available.

## 20. Disclaimer

Clariva is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Clariva does not guarantee that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, accurate, or suitable for your specific purpose.

## 21. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Clariva will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits, goodwill, or business opportunities. Nothing in these Terms limits liability where such limitation is not allowed by law.

## 22. Changes to These Terms

Clariva may update these Terms from time to time. If changes are material, Clariva will provide reasonable notice. The updated version will show the effective date and version number.

## 23. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to Clariva through the support or contact method provided in the app or on the Clariva website.