DIVE MUSIC DISCOVERY
Terms of Use
Who runs it: Dive Music Discovery (“DMD”, “Dive”, “we”), operated by its developer, an individual based in Brazil, who is responsible for the service and is the controller of the personal data processed in it.
Contact: support@divemusicdiscovery.com
Related documents: Privacy Policy · Community Guidelines · Delete your account
When the service is transferred to a company, we will publish a new version of this document with its legal name, registration number and address, and tell you in the app. Until then, any request — including about personal data — is handled at the contact address above.
In short (the summary helps you read, but the full text below is what applies):
- DMD is for discovering, logging and talking about music. It does not play music: links take you to other services.
- You must be 16 or older.
- What you write stays yours. You give us only the licence needed to show it in DMD, according to the privacy you choose, and we do not sell your reviews or train AI on them.
- Respect people and the Community Guidelines; do not manipulate ratings, rankings or missions.
- Every moderation decision can be appealed from inside the app.
- DMD sells nothing today: there is no purchase or subscription in the app.
- You can delete your account whenever you want, and you have 30 days to change your mind.
- Brazilian law applies, and you can bring any dispute in the courts where you live.
1. Acceptance
1.1. These Terms are the agreement between you and DMD for using the Dive Music Discovery app, for iPhone and Android, and the pages at divemusicdiscovery.com.
1.2. By creating an account and accepting these Terms in the app, you agree to them and to the Community Guidelines, which are part of them. Some public pages can be read without an account; people who only read them must also respect the rules of use in sections 6 and 7.
1.3. The Privacy Policy separately explains how we handle personal data. Accepting these Terms is not consent to optional processing, which we ask for separately when the law requires it.
1.4. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use the features that depend on one.
2. Definitions
Service: the app, the public pages and the servers that run them. Account: your DMD registration. Your content: what you publish or log — profile, photo, ratings, reviews, lists, listens, collection, reports and support requests. Catalogue: DMD’s artist and album data and editorial content. Premium: DMD’s plan with additional features, which is not on sale today. Store: Apple’s App Store or Google Play, where you download the app.
3. Who can use DMD
3.1. DMD is for people aged 16 or over. When you create your account you enter your date of birth, and sign-up does not complete if it shows you are under 16. We do not ask for an identity document, because that would be excessive for this purpose.
3.2. If we identify an account belonging to someone under the minimum age, access is ended and the account’s data is deleted, except what the law requires us to keep.
3.3. You may not use the Service where the law forbids it, or to get around a suspension, block or ban applied under these Terms.
4. Account and security
4.1. You sign in to DMD with Apple, with Google or by email (a link or code sent to the address you enter). DMD does not create or store a password for you. To sign in or create an account by email, the app first shows an anti-bot check.
4.2. Sign-up requires a unique username, a display name and your date of birth; photo, bio, genres and favourite album are optional. Give truthful information and do not use another person’s name, image or identity without permission. Usernames and display names containing a severe slur — racist, homophobic, transphobic or hateful — are refused automatically.
4.3. Your account is personal: do not sell, transfer or share it. You are responsible for protecting your device and the Apple, Google or email accounts you use to sign in, without prejudice to DMD’s legal responsibilities for the systems it runs. If you suspect someone accessed your account, tell us through in-app support or at support@divemusicdiscovery.com.
4.4. When you finish signing up, your account starts following the official Dive profile, which posts news and highlights. You can unfollow it whenever you want.
5. The Service
5.1. DMD is a platform for music discovery and for listeners to connect: a catalogue of artists and albums, editorial and personal lists, listen logging, ratings and reviews, profiles, a feed, statistics, a physical collection, album raffles, missions, levels, rewards and sharing.
5.2. DMD is not a streaming service. It does not play music or license you to listen to protected works.
5.3. Visibility. Your username, display name, photo and what you publish can be seen by other people in the app and, when your profile is public, on public web pages. With a private profile, your profile and everything on it is visible only to you, throughout the Service; people you follow can see that you follow them, with your name, username and photo, and aggregate album averages and counts may include your ratings without identifying you. The Listen Later list is always private, and only public lists appear on the web.
5.4. Listens. Listen sharing starts on. Before your first listen is logged, the app tells you that listens will be public and offers, right there, the option to keep them private; the listen is only published after you answer. You can change this at any time in Settings → Listening Privacy. Turning sharing off does not make older private listens public, and does not change your ratings or reviews.
5.5. Blocking someone stops interactions between you inside DMD, but does not reach copies, screenshots or what was already seen before the change.
5.6. The catalogue is updated continuously, including inside the app, without a new store release. Selections such as Dive 2000 are DMD’s editorial choices; genres, dates and classifications may contain mistakes and be corrected.
6. Licence to use the app
6.1. While these Terms apply, DMD grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable and free licence to install and use the app on devices you control and to use the Service for personal, non-commercial purposes. On iPhone, the licence also follows the App Store’s usage rules.
6.2. The licence does not include copying, modifying, decompiling or reverse engineering the app, except where the law allows it; or reselling, renting or commercially exploiting the Service or the catalogue.
7. Acceptable use
7.1. You may not harass, threaten, intimidate, discriminate, promote hatred, stalk, expose other people’s personal data, sexually exploit, incite violence, defraud, impersonate others, send spam or share unlawful content.
7.2. It is also forbidden to: use bots, scripts or fake accounts to manipulate followers, ratings, rankings, charts, missions, XP or statistics; keep several accounts to inflate numbers; deliberately get around technical limits, minimum intervals or blocks; collect data from the Service by automated means (scraping), including to build a database or a competing service; overload, probe or try to break into the Service; send false data to the catalogue, in addition requests or in reports; and use the Service to infringe intellectual property.
7.3. Disagreeing about music, giving low ratings and criticising works and artists is allowed, as long as you follow the Community Guidelines.
8. Your content and the licence you give us
8.1. The original content you create remains yours. You confirm that you may publish it and that it respects the law and the rights of others.
8.2. By publishing it, you grant DMD a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence limited to the purposes of the Service to host, store, reproduce, adjust format and size, display, distribute through the sharing features and moderate that content, according to your privacy settings. We may let the providers that run the Service on our behalf do the same, for that purpose only. You also allow other people to view and share, through DMD’s own features, what you made visible to them.
8.3. The licence lasts while the content is published and for the retention periods described in the Privacy Policy. When you remove the content or delete your account, we stop showing it and remove it within the flows and periods described, subject to legal obligations and copies already made by others.
8.4. The licence is not perpetual, is not irrevocable, and does not allow DMD to sell your reviews as a database, claim authorship of them, use your content in advertising outside the Service, or train artificial intelligence models with it. Your moral rights as an author remain yours.
8.5. We may remove or restrict content that breaks these Terms, the rights of others, the safety of other people or a legal order, through the procedures in section 13.
9. DMD’s and third parties’ intellectual property
9.1. The app, the Dive Music Discovery brand, the design, the editorial content and the organisation of the catalogue belong to DMD or to those who licensed them to us. These Terms do not transfer any of those rights to you.
9.2. Third-party data, covers, photographs, typefaces and trademarks remain with their owners, and their sources are listed in Credits and licences. Covers and images appear to identify albums; using DMD does not license you to download, redistribute or separately exploit them. Sharing a collage does not give you rights over the covers in it.
9.3. Streaming services, artists, labels and platforms are not DMD’s sponsors or partners just because their names, covers or links appear in the catalogue.
10. Copyright: how to ask for removal
10.1. If you hold rights (or represent someone who does) and believe something on DMD infringes them — a cover, a photo, a text —, write to support@divemusicdiscovery.com with: your name and contact details; the protected work; where the content is on DMD (the link, or the album, artist or profile); the basis of the request; and a statement that the information is true and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.
10.2. We review good-faith requests and, when they are well founded, remove or disable the content. If someone published it, that person is told and can respond at the same address, explaining why they have the right to publish it; the response is passed on to the requester.
10.3. Accounts that repeatedly infringe copyright are closed. Knowingly false requests may make the requester liable.
11. Free plan and Dive Premium
11.1. DMD sells nothing today. The app is free and has no purchase or subscription, on any platform.
11.2. Free use has limits: up to five active personal lists (the Listen Later list does not count), and certain themes, effects, discovery modes and additional missions are reserved for Dive Premium.
11.3. Today, Premium only exists on accounts DMD granted it to directly, as a courtesy or for testing, under the conditions communicated in writing when it was granted, including its duration.
11.4. If DMD starts selling Premium, these Terms will be updated first, and price, renewal and any offer will appear on the store’s purchase screen before you confirm.
12. Rewards, statistics and recommendations
12.1. XP, levels, missions, badges, titles and decorations are elements of participation and personalisation. They are not currency, cash prizes or a right to financial compensation, and cannot be sold. The Raffle is an album discovery tool: it involves no betting and no prize.
12.2. Statistics, averages, charts and recommendations depend on data people send, editorial criteria and calculation rules. Test and automated accounts are left out of the counts. We may correct errors, fraud, duplicate entries and abusive activity, with a proportionate effect on counters and rewards. We do not guarantee that recommendations will suit everyone, or that ranking positions are permanent.
13. Reports, moderation and appeals
13.1. DMD provides tools to report people and content and to block other accounts. Authorised people review reports and may remove content, warn, temporarily suspend or ban accounts, under the Community Guidelines. When your whole contribution to an album is removed, you cannot publish a new rating or review on that album while the decision stands. Decisions consider severity, context, repetition and effect on others; serious cases may lead to immediate action.
13.2. Every moderation measure can be appealed. Appeals are opened through the app’s support requests, in the category “Appeal a restriction on my account”, which stays available to restricted accounts, and the answer comes through the same channel, with the reason for the decision. Our goal is to answer within 7 days — a goal, not a promise. Appealing does not guarantee a reversal.
13.3. Abusing reports, including knowingly false reports meant to target someone, may lead to proportionate measures.
14. Third-party services and app stores
14.1. DMD links to third-party services — Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, Deezer and other music services, MusicBrainz and the Cover Art Archive (when searching for albums outside the catalogue) and YouTube (for video thumbnails) — and lets you sign in with Apple or Google. Those services have their own terms and policies, which apply when you use them, and DMD does not control their availability, content or charges.
14.2. If you use the app on iPhone: these Terms are between you and DMD, not Apple, and DMD — not Apple — is responsible for the app and its content. Apple has no obligation to maintain or support the app. If the app fails to meet an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, which may refund the price paid for the app, if any; beyond that, Apple has no other warranty obligation regarding it. Claims about the app — product liability, failure to meet a legal requirement, consumer or data protection — and claims that it infringes third-party rights are DMD’s responsibility, not Apple’s. You confirm that you are not in a country subject to a United States government embargo and are not on a United States government list of restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are beneficiaries of these Terms as regards use of the app on iPhone and may enforce them against you. The App Store terms, including Apple’s standard licensed application end user licence agreement, also apply to the extent they do not conflict with these Terms.
14.3. If you use the app on Android: downloads through Google Play also follow Google Play’s terms.
15. Feedback
15.1. If you send us ideas, suggestions or criticism about the Service, we may use them freely to improve it, with no obligation to pay or credit you, and without making you responsible for them. Do not use the feedback channels to send other people’s personal data or confidential material.
16. Ending the agreement and deleting the account
16.1. By you: you can delete your account at any time in Settings → Delete Account, or through divemusicdiscovery.com/delete-account if you no longer have the app. The request hides your profile immediately and opens a 30-day window to change your mind by signing in; after that, deletion is final and erases the account’s data, except what must be kept for the reasons and periods in the Privacy Policy. Data stored on your own device is removed in Settings → Clear All Data or by uninstalling the app.
16.2. By DMD: we may suspend or close an account that breaks these Terms seriously or repeatedly, when the law requires it, or to protect other people and the Service. Unless the law, safety or an investigation prevents it, we tell you why, and the decision can be appealed as in section 13.2.
16.3. Accounts that performed auditable administrative actions (for example, moderation) may need an assisted procedure, because those records cannot be rewritten; support handles the request.
16.4. When the agreement ends, the licences in sections 6 and 8 end (subject to the retention described in the Privacy Policy). What by its nature must survive stays in force: sections 9, 10, 17, 19 and 20.
17. Warranties and liability
17.1. We make reasonable efforts to keep the Service available, sound and secure, but it is provided as is and as available: there may be maintenance, network failures, provider outages, catalogue corrections and suspensions needed for security. Editorial information and other people’s contributions may contain mistakes, opinions or outdated information.
17.2. We are not liable for independent acts of third parties outside our control, such as music services, stores or internet providers. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability the law places on DMD, including under the Brazilian Consumer Protection Code, for security, improper processing of data or failure to provide the service.
17.3. You are responsible, as the law provides, for your own conduct and the content you publish, including for damage you cause to others or to DMD by breaking these Terms.
18. Changes to the Service and to these Terms
18.1. We may change the Service’s interface and features, respecting the rights guaranteed by law. Relevant changes that affect the processing of data will be communicated.
18.2. Each version of these Terms has its own date and a permanent address. The current version is at divemusicdiscovery.com/terms, and earlier versions remain available at their addresses.
18.3. Relevant changes to these Terms will be announced in the app at least 15 days in advance, unless the law or safety requires an immediate change, and we will ask for acceptance again before you use the affected features. If you do not agree, you can delete your account before the change takes effect. Corrections that do not change rights or duties may be published without new acceptance.
18.4. Your silence will not be taken as consent to optional processing.
19. Governing law and courts
19.1. These Terms are governed by Brazilian law, including its data protection, consumer, copyright and internet (Marco Civil da Internet) rules, without prejudice to mandatory protections of the place where you live.
19.2. If you are a consumer, you may bring any claim in the courts where you live. There is no mandatory arbitration and no class-action waiver.
19.3. Before taking any step, we encourage you to contact support@divemusicdiscovery.com to resolve the problem. Nothing here limits your access to administrative authorities, such as data protection and consumer protection authorities, to public consumer dispute platforms, or to the courts.
20. General
20.1. These Terms and the Community Guidelines are the entire agreement between you and DMD about the Service. The Privacy Policy is information about data processing, not a contractual clause.
20.2. If any clause is held invalid, the others remain in force. Not enforcing a clause is not a waiver of it.
20.3. You may not transfer your account or these Terms. DMD may transfer them to a company that takes over running the Service — such as the developer’s own company —, keeping your rights, with advance notice in the app.
20.4. These Terms exist in Portuguese and English. If the versions differ, the Portuguese version prevails, without prejudice to rights the law of your country gives you.
21. Contact
Operator: the developer of Dive Music Discovery, an individual based in Brazil.
Support, copyright, privacy and data subject requests: support@divemusicdiscovery.com
Website: divemusicdiscovery.com