Beta terms
This agreement is between you (the "Tester") and Syne Labs ("we", "us"). It covers the pre-release version of Syne, the software, its updates, fixture library updates and any documentation we give you (together, the "Beta"). By clicking "I agree", installing or using the Beta, you accept this agreement. If you're accepting for a business or venue, you confirm you're allowed to bind it.
1. What you may do
We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the Beta on computers you own or control, to test it, including at real events, until the beta ends or this agreement ends. You may not:
- sell, rent, lend, share or publish the Beta, or give it to anyone we haven't invited;
- reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except where the law allows this despite this limit;
- remove notices, or get around the Beta's signature checks or other protections;
- use it to build a competing product.
Open-source parts of the Beta are under their own licenses (listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt, shipped with the app). Nothing here limits your rights under those licenses.
2. It's a beta
The Beta is unfinished. It may have bugs, crash, mis-detect a song's parts, send wrong values to lights, change or lose settings, or stop working. Features may change or be removed. Keep your own backups (the app has a backup option in Settings) and have a way to run the lights without it at a show.
3. Light, laser and atmosphere safety — your responsibility
The Beta controls real equipment that can hurt people if used wrongly. You are responsible for how it's used:
- Strobes and flashing light can trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy. Use the app's "Safe strobes" mode for events where this could matter, and put up notices where strobes are used.
- Lasers: you, or the venue, are responsible for following the laser laws where you use them (in the US this may include an FDA/CDRH variance for laser light shows), for keeping beams well above people (at least 3 m / 10 ft, or more where required), and for checking beam positions before an audience is present. The app's laser settings help, but they can't see the room.
- Fog, haze, moving heads and rigging: follow the venue's rules and the equipment makers' instructions; secure fixtures with safety cables; check smoke detector and fire rules.
- Signal loss: set each fixture's own signal-loss behaviour (blackout for lasers, strobes and fog machines).
- Have a person able to stop the lights (Blackout) whenever the app is running with an audience present.
4. Feedback and reports
We'd like your feedback: bugs, ideas, how it looked at a show. You give us the right to use any feedback freely, without paying you or naming you, including in the product. Problem reports are files the app makes on your computer; they reach us only if you send them (see the Privacy Policy for what's in them).
5. Confidentiality
Until we release the product publicly, keep the Beta and anything we tell you about it that isn't public (features, plans, prices, builds) confidential: don't share builds, screenshots or recordings of the app itself publicly without our OK. You may show the lights it makes at your events and post videos of the lights. This doesn't cover information that is or becomes public without your fault, or that you already had.
6. Your music and data
Your music stays on your computer; the app reads it to analyze it and doesn't upload it. You are responsible for having the right to play the music you use. We don't claim any rights in your music, shows or settings.
7. Updates
The app checks our server for newer versions and fixture library updates (see the Privacy Policy). It never installs anything without you choosing to. We may stop supporting old beta versions.
8. No warranty
THE BETA IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND THAT IT WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS.
9. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST BOOKINGS, LOST DATA OR DAMAGED EQUIPMENT, ARISING FROM THE BETA OR THIS AGREEMENT, AND OUR TOTAL LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO US $50 / THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE BETA, IF ANY. Some places don't allow some of these limits; then they apply as far as allowed.
10. Indemnity
You'll defend and hold us harmless from claims by others arising from how you or your event used the Beta, including breaking safety rules or laws in section 3.
11. Ending
Either side may end this agreement at any time. It ends by itself when the beta ends or the product is released (then the released product's license applies). When it ends, stop using and delete the Beta (your own files, shows and backups are yours to keep). Sections 3–6 and 8–12 survive.
12. General
STATE law governs, without its conflict-of-law rules; courts in COUNTY, STATE have jurisdiction. This is the whole agreement about the Beta. If a part is unenforceable, the rest stays. You may not transfer this agreement; we may transfer it with our business. Product and company names mentioned in the app (rekordbox, Pro DJ Link, Serato, Traktor, Engine DJ, VirtualDJ, QLC+, Art-Net and others) belong to their owners; Syne isn't affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Contact: support@synelabs.app