Terms of Use

Last updated: 2026-08-26

By installing or using GRIDWERK, you agree to these terms. If you don't, don't use the app.

Who you're dealing with

GRIDWERK is made by Byrdbyte Creations LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. We build the software and we answer the support email.

We sell it through Polar, which acts as Merchant of Record. That has real consequences worth stating plainly: your contract of sale for the purchase is with Polar, not with us. Polar takes the payment, issues the receipt, and is the party responsible for charging and remitting any sales tax, VAT or GST that applies where you live. Prices shown on the pricing page are exclusive of those taxes; Polar adds them at checkout if they apply. We never see or store your card details. These Terms of Use still govern how you may use the software itself.

What you're buying

GRIDWERK Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. There is no recurring charge, no renewal, and nothing to cancel. Paying once grants you a perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use GRIDWERK Pro for as long as you like. The app is licensed, not sold — you own your licence and your files; we keep ownership of the software.

The Free tier is free to use indefinitely and needs no licence key. Pro unlocks the production and business tools listed on the pricing page.

Updates, and what happens at 2.0

Your Pro licence includes every 1.x update at no extra cost — bug fixes, new features, new tools — for as long as we keep publishing them. Your key records the major version it covers, so that promise survives any later change of policy on our side.

A future GRIDWERK 2.0 would be a paid upgrade. We say that up front rather than promising "lifetime updates", because we would rather under-promise than quietly redefine the word later. If 2.0 ships, your 1.x licence does not stop working: it keeps unlocking every 1.x release you already have the right to, and the app stays yours.

How many machines

One Pro licence covers two machines at a time, on hardware you own or control. This is a hard limit and it is enforced when the app activates: a third machine is refused until you free a seat.

• To move to a new machine, deactivate on the old one first (Settings → License), then activate on the new one.
• If a machine died, was sold, or was wiped — or a seat is stuck for any other reason — email [email protected] with your licence key and we will release it. We are not going to lock you out of software you paid for over a bookkeeping detail. (Reinstalling GRIDWERK on the same computer does not consume a second seat; the machine is identified by the hardware, not by the app's data folder.)

Pro checks your licence with our server when the app starts, if it can reach us, and whenever you press Check now in Settings → License. If it can't reach us — you're offline, or we're down — nothing happens: GRIDWERK carries on. A one-time licence has no expiry and no offline countdown, so being offline for a week, a month or a year never locks Pro. The only thing that stops a licence is a refund or a revocation, and that takes a definitive answer from our server, not a missing one.

14-day money-back guarantee

If GRIDWERK isn't for you, email [email protected] within 14 days of your purchase and we will refund you in full. You don't have to give a reason and you don't have to argue with anyone. Polar returns the money to your original payment method; your licence is then deactivated and Pro features stop working, which is the whole of what a refund means here.

After 14 days, refunds are at our discretion. Ask anyway if something is genuinely wrong — a broken product is a support problem before it is a refund policy.

EU / UK right of withdrawal

If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you have a statutory right to withdraw from a digital purchase within 14 days, under EU Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU and the UK Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013.

We never ask you to waive that right, and we will not treat it as waived. Even if a checkout step somewhere asks you to give up the withdrawal period in exchange for immediate access, we will honour the withdrawal request anyway. Your statutory withdrawal right applies in full, alongside the guarantee above — the guarantee is our promise, the withdrawal right is your law, and neither one displaces the other. To withdraw, email [email protected] within 14 days of purchase; because Polar is the Merchant of Record, you may also exercise it directly with Polar.

Your content

You own everything you create or import: your audio files, projects, lyrics, samples, presets, exports. We claim no ownership over them. We don't access, store, or process them on our servers (see our Privacy Policy).

Sample clearance & copyright

The Sample Clearance feature is a tracking and reminder tool — it doesn't grant or verify legal clearance for any sample. You are solely responsible for clearing samples, paying mechanical royalties, and complying with copyright law in your jurisdiction. GRIDWERK is not a substitute for legal advice.

Third-party services

Optional integrations (Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, ByrddDrive) are governed by each service's own terms. We're not responsible for changes, outages, or rate-limiting of those services. If a third-party service becomes unavailable, the corresponding feature in GRIDWERK may stop working — that does not affect your licence to the rest of the app.

No warranty

To the maximum extent permitted by law, GRIDWERK is provided "as is" — we make no guarantees of fitness for a particular purpose, uptime, or freedom from defects. Music production tools have edge cases. We strongly recommend keeping backups of any project you can't afford to lose, regardless of what tool produced it. Nothing in this section limits any warranty rights you have under mandatory consumer protection law in your jurisdiction.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising from your use of GRIDWERK is limited to what you paid for your licence. We are not liable for any indirect, consequential, or incidental damages (including loss of work, revenue, or reputation). This limitation does not exclude or limit liability that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable consumer law (for example, liability for death, personal injury caused by our negligence, or fraud).

Acceptable use

You agree not to use GRIDWERK to:

• Process audio you don't have the legal right to use.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or extract trade secrets from the app, except where this right is granted by mandatory law (e.g. for interoperability under EU Software Directive 2009/24/EC Art. 6).
• Resell or redistribute the app or its license keys.
• Share your licence key, or run it on more machines than the two it covers.
• Bypass the Pro license check.

Open source

GRIDWERK includes open-source components — see Acknowledgements in the app's About dialog for the full list and licenses. Those components remain governed by their original licenses.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes arising under these terms shall be brought in the state or federal courts located in Delaware. Nothing in this clause deprives you of the protections of mandatory consumer law in your country of residence: EU and UK consumers retain the right to bring proceedings in their local courts.

Changes

We may update these terms as the product evolves. Material changes will be announced via the app's release notes and the Last Updated date above. Continued use after a change means acceptance. A change to these terms cannot retroactively take away the licence you already bought, the 1.x updates it covers, or the two machines it runs on.

Contact

Licence, refund, and seat questions: [email protected]. Legal notices: [email protected].

These terms are not legal advice and should be reviewed by a qualified lawyer for your jurisdiction before being relied on for binding contracts. Byrdbyte Creations is a Delaware-registered LLC; the governing-law clause reflects that domicile.