These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of BeatID Online (the “Platform”), operated by BEAT ID LTD, a company incorporated in England and Wales (company number 17175762), registered address Office 18878, 182-184 High Street North, London, England, E6 2JA (“Beat ID”, “we”, “us”, “our”).
By accessing or using the Platform you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Platform. If you subscribe to Premium, Section 9 also applies to you and forms part of your contract with us.
Section 1
What Beat ID Online is
BeatID Online is a browser-based multiplayer music game. A host creates a room, chooses music from the Apple Music catalogue, and plays short song previews. Players join with a six-digit PIN and compete to name the track. The Platform is the web companion to the Beat ID iOS app.
The Platform is free to play. A host may optionally subscribe to Premium to lift the limit on how many players can be in a room, and to unlock the additional host features described on our Plans page.
Section 2
Who can use it
Anyone may join a room and play. If you are under 13, please ask a parent or guardian before using the Platform.
By using the Platform you confirm that you have the legal capacity to agree to these Terms, or that a parent or guardian has agreed on your behalf.
Section 3
Hosting and joining
3.1 Hosting a room
To host, open the host page. An anonymous session is created for you automatically so the room knows which browser controls it. You choose the music, and you control the game — starting rounds, playing previews and ending the room.
3.2 Joining a room
To join, enter the six-digit room PIN and pick a nickname (up to 24 characters). An anonymous session is created for you automatically. Your nickname is shown to the host and to everyone else in the room.
3.3 Claiming your score
After a game you may be invited to claim your score in the Beat ID iOS app. This creates a temporary record of your nickname and score which is deleted automatically after 7 days. Claiming is optional.
Section 4
Host accounts
Playing needs no account. Hosting a Premium room does: you sign in with Google, which links your anonymous host session to a Beat ID account so that a subscription can belong to you rather than to one browser.
- You are responsible for keeping your Google account secure, and for what is done through it on the Platform.
- One account may run one live Premium room at a time.
- If you sign in to an account that already exists, any rooms you were running in that browser are transferred to it.
- Tell us at admin@beatidapp.com if you believe someone else has used your account.
Section 5
Your playlists
Hosts can build their own queues: searching the Apple Music catalogue, pasting a link to an Apple Music playlist or album, or pasting a list of track names. We store the resulting playlist — its name and the tracks in it — against your account so you can reuse it.
You are responsible for the playlist names you choose; the rules in Section 6 apply to them as they do to nicknames. We may remove a playlist that breaches these Terms.
Section 6
Nicknames and other things you type
6.1 What you provide
The content you provide is your nickname, your playlist names, and your guesses during a game. Your nickname is shown publicly to everyone in your room and on the room leaderboard.
6.2 What is not allowed
You must not use a nickname or playlist name that:
- Is offensive, hateful, harassing or threatening
- Contains profanity, slurs or discriminatory language
- Impersonates another person or a public figure
- Is defamatory
- Promotes illegal activity
- Contains someone else’s personal information — their real name, phone number or address
We may filter, reject or remove anything that breaches these rules, and repeated breaches may end your session or your access.
Section 7
Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use the Platform unlawfully, or in breach of any applicable regulation
- Try to gain unauthorised access to the Platform, our systems or our networks
- Introduce malware or any other harmful code
- Use bots, scripts or automated tools to play, submit guesses or otherwise interact with the Platform in a way that gives an unfair advantage or disrupts it
- Scrape or harvest data from the Platform without our written consent
- Spoil other players’ enjoyment of a game
- Capture, extract, download or redistribute the song previews the Platform plays
- Deliberately overload our infrastructure, or take part in a denial-of-service attack
- Resell, sublicense or share access to a Premium subscription outside your own account
Section 8
Intellectual property
8.1 The Platform
The Platform — its design, code, logos, branding and game mechanics — belongs to BEAT ID LTD. Nothing in these Terms transfers any of it to you. “Beat ID”, “BeatID” and “BeatID Online” are trading names of BEAT ID LTD.
8.2 The music
Song previews come from the Apple Music API and belong to the artists, labels and publishers behind them. We claim no ownership of any music. Previews are streamed in real time and are not stored on our servers.
8.3 Apple Music
Apple Music content is provided under Apple’s developer licence and is subject to Apple’s own terms and conditions, which you agree to observe when using the Platform.
Section 9
Premium subscriptions
9.1 What you are buying
Premium is a subscription sold to your Beat ID account. It lifts the player limit on rooms you host and unlocks the host features listed on the Plans page. It does not remove the Apple Music preview format, and it does not give you rights over any music.
9.2 Price, VAT and the offer
Current prices are shown on the Plans page and again on the Stripe checkout page before you pay. The price you see is the price you pay: our prices are inclusive of any VAT that applies.
We sometimes run introductory offers. Where one applies, the checkout page shows the discounted amount, how long the discount lasts, and the amount that will be charged afterwards. When the offer period ends, the subscription renews at the standard price.
9.3 Automatic renewal
The billing period and the renewal date are shown at checkout and in your billing page at any time.
9.4 Your 14-day right to cancel
As a consumer buying at a distance you have a statutory right to cancel within 14 days of the start of your subscription, under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013. You do not need to give a reason.
Premium starts as soon as you pay, which is what most hosts want. By subscribing you ask us to begin the service straight away. If you then cancel within the 14 days, we will refund what you paid less a proportionate amount for the period you had access, and we will do so within 14 days of being told.
To use this right, email admin@beatidapp.com from the address on your account, or cancel from your billing page and tell us you are exercising the 14-day right.
9.5 Cancelling after that
You can cancel at any time from your billing page, which opens the Stripe customer portal. Cancelling stops the next renewal; Premium continues until the end of the period you have already paid for, and is not pro-rated after the first 14 days unless the law requires it or we agree otherwise.
9.6 Refunds and faults
Beyond the 14-day right, we are not obliged to refund part-used periods. If Premium is faulty, not as described or not supplied with reasonable care and skill, your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 apply and nothing here limits them — contact us and we will put it right, or refund you.
9.7 Price changes
We may change the price of a subscription. We will tell you by email at least 30 days before a change affects you, and the new price will only apply from your next renewal. If you do not want to pay it, you can cancel before that renewal.
9.8 Failed payments
If a renewal payment fails, Stripe will retry it. If it keeps failing, Premium features stop and your rooms return to the free limits until payment succeeds. Your playlists and account are not deleted.
9.9 Complimentary access and codes
We sometimes issue codes granting Premium for a period at no charge. A code is personal to the account that redeems it, has no cash value, cannot be resold, and can be withdrawn if it was issued in error or is being misused. Complimentary access does not renew and is not a subscription.
9.10 How payment is taken
Payments are processed by Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd. and its group companies. You enter your card details on a page hosted by Stripe. We never see, handle or store your card number. Stripe’s handling of your data is described in our Privacy Notice and in Stripe’s own privacy policy.
Section 10
The free plan
Hosting without a subscription is free and always has been. A free room has a limit on how many players can be in it at once; the current limit is shown on the Plans page and in the room itself when it is reached. We may change the free limits, and we will show the change on the Plans page before it takes effect.
Section 11
Availability
We aim to keep the Platform running but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may update, change or withdraw the Platform or any feature. If we withdraw a feature that is a material part of a paid subscription, you may cancel and we will refund the unused part of your current period.
The Platform depends on services we do not control — Apple Music in particular. An interruption to those services may interrupt the Platform.
Section 12
Our liability to you
12.1 What we do not exclude
Nothing in these Terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights — including those under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 — are not affected by these Terms.
12.2 What we are not liable for
Subject to 12.1, and to the extent the law allows, we are not liable for:
- Loss of scores, leaderboard positions or game progress
- The nicknames other people choose, or anything else another user does in a room
- Interruptions, errors or unavailability of the Platform or of Apple Music
- Loss that was not reasonably foreseeable when you started using the Platform
- Business losses, if you use the Platform for a business — lost profit, revenue, goodwill or opportunity
12.3 Our overall limit
Subject to 12.1, our total liability to you in connection with the Platform is limited to the greater of £100 and the total amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.
Section 13
Suspension and termination
We may suspend or end your access if you breach these Terms, if we reasonably suspect abusive or disruptive behaviour, or if we are required to by law. Where it is reasonable to do so we will tell you first.
If we end a paid subscription for a reason that is not your breach, we refund the unused part of the period you have paid for. If we end it because of your breach, we are not obliged to refund it.
You can stop using the Platform at any time; to end a subscription, see Section 9.5.
Section 14
Privacy
Your use of the Platform is also governed by our Privacy Notice, which explains what personal data we collect and why, and by our Cookie & Storage Policy.
Section 15
Complaints, law and disputes
If something has gone wrong, please contact us first at admin@beatidapp.com. We aim to resolve complaints within 30 days.
These Terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer living elsewhere in the UK, you may also bring proceedings in your own home courts, and you keep the benefit of any mandatory consumer protections that apply where you live.
Section 16
Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. The “Updated” date at the top of this page shows when they last changed. For changes that materially affect a paid subscriber, we will give at least 30 days’ notice by email, and you may cancel before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the Platform after a change takes effect means you accept it.
Section 17
Contact
BEAT ID LTD
Office 18878, 182-184 High Street North, London, England, E6 2JA
Email: admin@beatidapp.com
Companies House: 17175762