Grovv Terms of Use
Welcome to Grovv. These Terms of Use govern your download, installation, access to, and use of the Grovv iOS application and related features.
1. Acceptance
By downloading, installing, opening, accessing, or using Grovv, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and the Grovv Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the app.
If you use Grovv on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Terms on that organization's behalf.
2. Service Description
Grovv is an iOS app for managing vinyl record collections. Current features may include:
- Searching Discogs for record data, barcodes, catalog numbers, and release versions.
- Viewing record artwork, tracklists, labels, years, countries, genres, styles, formats, and related metadata.
- Maintaining a local collection and want list on your device.
- Searching and playing available music through Apple Music.
- Using the camera or selected photos to recognize barcodes, QR codes, Aztec codes, and catalog numbers.
- Creating share posters and saving them to your photo library.
- Saving and importing backup files through local device storage.
- Displaying a current record or today's pick through iOS widgets.
Specific features may vary depending on your iOS version, device, network connection, account permissions, region, third-party service availability, and future app updates.
3. Eligibility
You must have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms of Use. Users under 13 years old, or a higher minimum age required by local law, should not use the app without consent and supervision from a parent or legal guardian.
4. Local Data and Connected Accounts
Grovv primarily stores your record collection, preferences, image cache, widget data, and backup information on your device. You understand and agree that:
- You are responsible for securing your device, Discogs account, Apple Account, and related credentials.
- Deleting the app, clearing device data, deleting backup files, or switching devices may cause local data to become unavailable or unrecoverable.
- Backup and import features are intended to help restore your collection, but they are not guaranteed to be complete, timely, error-free, or recoverable in every situation.
- When you connect Discogs or use Apple Music, you must also comply with the applicable third-party terms, policies, and account rules.
Grovv does not currently provide iCloud synchronization. If iCloud sync is introduced later, the related process will apply only when the app expressly presents and enables that feature, and these Terms and the Privacy Policy will be updated accordingly.
5. Discogs
Grovv uses the Discogs API to obtain record data, but Grovv is not an official Discogs app.
This application uses Discogs' API but is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Discogs. "Discogs" is a trademark of Zink Media, LLC.
Record data shown through the Discogs API is provided by Discogs or its users. It may contain errors, omissions, delays, or rights limitations. You must not use Grovv or Discogs data to violate Discogs terms, infringe third-party rights, scrape at abnormal scale, resell data, bypass platform restrictions, or engage in unlawful activity.
Where the app displays data provided by Discogs, product interfaces or related notices should identify the source as "Data provided by Discogs" and link to the relevant Discogs page where appropriate.
6. Apple Music and Apple System Services
Grovv uses Apple Music / MusicKit, AVFoundation, Vision, Photos, WidgetKit, SwiftData, App Groups, and StoreKit. Apple Music content, accounts, playback, media permissions, photo permissions, camera permissions, widgets, and purchases are provided or managed by Apple and are subject to Apple's terms, policies, system limitations, and regional availability.
7. User Content and Conduct
You are responsible for content that you enter, store, import, or generate in Grovv, including collection records, notes, names, signatures, backup files, scan results, and share posters. You agree not to:
- Use the app for unlawful, infringing, fraudulent, harassing, abusive, or security-compromising activity.
- Create, store, or share content that infringes intellectual property, privacy, publicity, reputation, or other rights of others.
- Abuse the app or third-party APIs through automation, abnormal request frequency, reverse engineering, packet capture for copying, or bypassing restrictions.
- Remove, obscure, or misleadingly modify copyright, trademark, attribution, or link information from Discogs, Apple, or other third parties.
- Use the app for unauthorized public commercial playback, data resale, data mining, model training, advertising profiles, or any purpose prohibited by applicable law.
If your conduct causes claims, losses, or expenses to us, third-party service providers, or other rights holders, you are responsible to the extent permitted by applicable law.
8. Intellectual Property
The app software, interface, design, icons, name, code, documentation, and other content provided by us are owned by us or our licensors unless otherwise stated. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, sublicense, reverse engineer, or otherwise exploit any part of the app without written permission, except where applicable law expressly allows it.
Discogs, Apple Music, Apple, and other third-party names, trademarks, content, and data belong to their respective owners. These Terms do not grant you rights in any third-party marks or content.
9. License
Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use Grovv on your personal devices. This license is for personal, non-commercial use unless we separately agree in writing.
10. Grovv Gold Record and Purchases
Grovv Gold Record is a non-consumable in-app purchase: it is bought once and has no preset expiration. It unlocks the premium Grovv features expressly identified as included on the purchase screen at the time of purchase. Future products or features are included only when we expressly say so.
- The App Store displays the price and currency applicable to your storefront before confirmation. Apple processes the transaction; Grovv does not receive your full payment-card or bank details.
- Your entitlement is associated with the Apple Account used for the purchase. You may use Restore Purchases to ask the App Store to restore an eligible purchase.
- Price changes apply to future purchases and do not create an additional charge for a completed non-consumable purchase.
- Refund requests, payment disputes, taxes, and transaction administration are handled under Apple Media Services terms and applicable consumer law.
- “Lifetime” or “permanent” describes an entitlement without a preset expiry while Grovv remains offered and supported; it does not guarantee that Grovv, a device, operating system, or third-party service will operate forever.
Grovv Gold Record does not include an Apple Music subscription, music ownership, or third-party content. Music playback remains subject to the relevant account, subscription, authorization, catalog, region, and service availability. Free previews do not create a purchase or entitlement.
11. Changes, Interruptions, and Termination
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue some or all app features at any time, including to adapt to system updates, third-party API changes, security needs, abuse prevention, or maintenance decisions. Features that depend on Discogs, Apple, or other third parties may become unavailable because of service changes, limits, review decisions, outages, regional restrictions, or revoked authorization.
If you violate these Terms of Use, applicable law, or third-party service rules, we may restrict or terminate your access to relevant features to the extent permitted by law.
12. Disclaimers
Grovv is provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we do not make express or implied warranties that:
- The app will always be secure, continuous, error-free, vulnerability-free, or compatible with your device and system.
- Data from Discogs, Apple Music, or other third parties will be accurate, complete, timely, lawful, or available.
- Search results, scan results, artwork, tracklists, release versions, playback matches, or backup restoration will always be accurate.
- The app will meet all of your needs or remain unaffected by system, network, account, permission, storage, or third-party service changes.
Grovv is not a record authentication, valuation, trading, copyright licensing, legal, financial, or professional advice tool. You should independently verify important information.
13. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the app. This includes data loss, collection loss, failed backups, account restrictions, playback unavailability, lost profits, loss of goodwill, or third-party claims.
If applicable law does not allow liability to be fully excluded, our total liability will be limited to the amount you actually paid us for using the app. If the app is provided free of charge, our liability will be limited to the lowest amount permitted by applicable law.
14. Privacy
Our handling of information is described in the Grovv Privacy Policy. These Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy together govern your use of the app. If there is any inconsistency about personal information handling, the Privacy Policy controls. If there is any inconsistency about service use rules, these Terms of Use control.
16. Updates to these Terms
We may update these Terms of Use for product, legal, third-party service, or operational reasons. Material changes may be communicated through the app, release notes, a published page, or another reasonable method. The updated Terms are effective from the stated effective date. Continued use of the app after an update means you accept the updated Terms.
17. Disputes
If a dispute arises from these Terms of Use or the app, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it informally. Nothing in these Terms limits mandatory consumer protection rights or other non-waivable rights that apply in your place of residence.
17. Contact
For questions about these Terms of Use, contact us at wang1118911@gmail.com.