Terms of use
1. Who can join
You must be at least 18 and create a real profile of yourself. One account per person; keep your login private. Publisher accounts are only activated after a check.
2. What Sessionmates is
Sessionmates helps musicians find each other, chat and plan sessions. We are not a party to arrangements between users, do not broker contracts or pay anything out, and do not guarantee that a session takes place or works out.
3. Conduct
Zero tolerance: Objectionable content and abusive behaviour towards others are not tolerated on Sessionmates. Anyone who breaks this rule will be suspended.
- Be respectful – no harassment, threats, discrimination or unwanted advances.
- No spam, no fake profiles, no impersonation.
- No illegal content and nothing you do not have the rights to.
- When meeting: start in public places or studios, trust your gut, report problems.
4. Your content and songs
All rights in your content – profile, messages, audio, lyrics, songs – remain with you and your co-writers. You only allow us to store it and show it to the people you share it with (chat or session participants, your publisher if you accepted a roster invitation), as far as needed to run the app. Credits and splits in the app are documentation and do not replace contracts or registrations with collecting societies.
5. Moderation
You can block and report people – on their profile or in the chat via the warning sign at the top right. We review reports promptly and may remove content and suspend accounts temporarily or permanently for breaches of these terms or the law.
- Reporters are informed: whoever files a report sees our decision in the app (Settings).
- Statement of reasons: if we remove content or suspend an account, we tell the person concerned why, usually by email.
- Appeal: you can contest a decision via the contact form or by email; we will review it again.
- Point of contact: the single point of contact for users and authorities (Art. 11 and 12 Digital Services Act) is [email protected]; languages: English and German.
6. Price, ending, liability
The app is currently free; nothing becomes paid without your explicit consent. You can delete your account at any time in the app. We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence and for injury to life, body or health; for slight negligence only for breach of essential obligations, limited to typical foreseeable damage. We are not responsible for other users’ content or conduct or for meetings between users. German law applies; mandatory consumer protection rules of your country remain unaffected.