Nearlight Creative Services

The Original Songwriting Adventurer

Usage Policy

Permitted and prohibited uses of The Original Songwriting Adventurer.

Effective date: May 23, 2026

This Usage Policy applies to The Original Songwriting Adventurer, published by Jonathan Martin, operating as Nearlight Creative Services ("Nearlight Creative Services," "we," "us," or "our"), and is intended to clarify permitted and prohibited uses of the app. By downloading, opening, accessing, or using the app, you agree to this Usage Policy and the Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

Permitted Use

You may use The Original Songwriting Adventurer to:

  • write, edit, develop, organize, or explore songs and related creative material
  • use the app for personal, professional, educational, or commercial songwriting work
  • publish, license, perform, monetize, or otherwise commercially exploit the original creative work you make using the app
  • revise, adapt, and build derivative songwriting work from your own output created with the app

For clarity:

  • your songs and original writing created by you in the app remain yours, subject to any third-party rights that may exist in material you choose to include
  • using the app to support paid songwriting, releases, pitches, commissions, sync work, demos, or client work is permitted

Ownership and Reservation of Rights

The app itself, including its code, design, interface, branding, documentation, built-in examples, curated story materials, prompt structures, audio assets, graphics, and other app-owned content, remains the property of Nearlight Creative Services or its applicable licensors unless expressly stated otherwise.

Prohibited Use

You may not:

  • copy, clone, resell, sublicense, redistribute, repackage, or commercially exploit the app itself or substantial parts of it as a competing or substitute product
  • copy or scrape the app's built-in examples, stories, prompts, data sets, or proprietary content in order to publish, train, seed, or power another product or service without permission
  • reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, extract, or attempt to derive source code or protected assets from the app except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law
  • remove, obscure, or alter copyright notices, branding, attribution, or proprietary markings
  • use the app in connection with fraud, deception, spam, malware, unlawful exploitation, infringement, harassment, or other unlawful or abusive activity
  • misrepresent the app, its outputs, or its underlying materials as being authored, licensed, or endorsed by you when they are not
  • use the app or its built-in content to create a confusingly similar competing product, prompt pack, story pack, generator, or songwriting tool based on copied app-owned materials

Third-Party Rights

You are responsible for ensuring that any material you input, adapt, export, publish, or monetize does not infringe the rights of any third party.

Assumption of Risk and User Responsibility

You use the app voluntarily and at your own risk. The app is a creative support tool, not professional advice, legal clearance, publishing advice, business advice, financial advice, mental-health advice, or any other professional service.

You are solely responsible for:

  • how you use the app and any app output
  • your creative, editorial, business, legal, publishing, licensing, release, and monetization decisions
  • reviewing the accuracy, originality, suitability, and legality of any generated, suggested, organized, exported, or saved material
  • keeping independent backups of any writing, exports, songs, metadata, business records, or other material that matters to you
  • ensuring that your use of the app, your inputs, your exports, and your finished work comply with applicable law and third-party rights

The app may be interrupted, unavailable, delayed, inaccurate, incomplete, changed, discontinued, or affected by device, operating-system, App Store, iCloud, Apple purchase system, network, audio, storage, subscription, third-party service, or other technical issues. You accept all risk arising from those conditions, including the risk of lost work, lost time, lost opportunity, lost revenue, missed deadlines, damaged files, unavailable exports, failed sync, failed playback, incorrect suggestions, or other consequences connected with using or being unable to use the app.

Release, Waiver, and Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you release, waive, and agree not to bring any claim against Nearlight Creative Services for any loss, damage, cost, expense, claim, demand, liability, or other consequence arising out of or relating to:

  • your access to, use of, misuse of, reliance on, or inability to use the app
  • any app outage, interruption, delay, bug, crash, audio failure, sync failure, storage failure, export failure, subscription issue, App Store issue, iCloud issue, or third-party service issue
  • any output, prompt, suggestion, example, story, chord map, topline sketch, export, recap, saved material, or other content generated, organized, displayed, stored, or exported by the app
  • any publishing, licensing, commercial, creative, editorial, business, or legal decision you make in connection with material created, revised, or supported by the app
  • any loss of profits, revenue, business, opportunity, data, goodwill, reputation, time, creative material, or expected benefit

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Nearlight Creative Services will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, statutory, business, economic, reputational, data-loss, service-interruption, or other damages, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, statute, equity, or any other legal theory, even if Nearlight Creative Services has been advised of the possibility of those damages.

If liability cannot be fully excluded under applicable law, then to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Nearlight Creative Services' total cumulative liability for all claims relating to the app, this Usage Policy, or the Terms of Use will not exceed the greater of:

  • CAD $50; or
  • the amount you personally paid for the app or app subscription during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, excluding any taxes, App Store fees, Apple charges, refunds, chargebacks, or amounts not actually received by Nearlight Creative Services.

Nothing in this Usage Policy attempts to exclude or limit liability, rights, remedies, warranties, or protections that cannot legally be excluded or limited under applicable law. If any part of this section is found unenforceable, the remaining parts should be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Indemnity

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Nearlight Creative Services from and against any claims, demands, losses, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or relating to:

  • your use or misuse of the app
  • your inputs, outputs, exports, published work, shared challenge content, or other material connected to your use of the app
  • your violation of this Usage Policy, the Terms of Use, applicable law, or third-party rights
  • any allegation that material you input, create, adapt, export, publish, monetize, or share using the app infringes or violates another person's rights

Enforcement

Nearlight Creative Services may restrict or refuse support, access, or future licensing to any person who uses the app in violation of this Usage Policy, the Terms of Use, or applicable law.

This Usage Policy should be read together with the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Contact

If you have questions about this Usage Policy, contact support through the support page.