Terms & Conditions — Golden Melodies Music

1. Introduction

Haven is a Bible, hymn and gospel-music app operated by Golden Melodies Music ('we', 'us', 'our'). Golden Melodies Music is independently owned and operated, and runs Haven remotely from India. You can reach us using the contact details at the end of these Terms, or visit goldenmelodiesmusic.com.

These Terms set out the rules for using Haven, including the terms that apply when you create an account and when you submit hymns, lyrics, audio or other creative content.

2. Acceptance of these Terms

By downloading, accessing or using the Service, or by creating an account, you confirm that you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not accept them, you must not use the Service.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account or use account-based features of Haven. If you are under the age at which you can consent to data processing in your country, you may only use Haven with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

We do not knowingly allow anyone under 13 to create an account. If we learn that a child under 13 has created an account, we will disable it and take reasonable steps to delete the associated data.

4. Accounts and security

You can sign in using an email address and password, or with Google or Apple sign-in. You agree to provide accurate information and to keep your credentials and account secure.

You are responsible for activity that happens under your account.
Notify us promptly at support@goldenmelodiesmusic.com if you believe your account has been used without your permission.
For accounts created with Google or Apple, sign-in and identity are managed by that provider; some account actions (such as changing your email or setting a password) behave differently.

5. Haven services and features

Haven lets you read Bible editions, keep notes, bookmarks and highlights, read and listen to hymns and music, download selected content for offline use, write your own hymns and submit them for review, receive notifications, and sync your personal content across your devices.

Some features need an internet connection, and some work offline. We may add, change, suspend or discontinue features at any time (see also section 13).

6. Your content

You retain ownership of the content you create or submit through Haven, such as notes, bookmarks, highlights, hymns, lyrics, audio recordings and other creative material ('Your Content').

You give us permission to store, process and display Your Content as needed to operate, provide and improve the Service, and to sync it across your devices. Submissions of hymns, lyrics and audio are also subject to the additional licence in section 7.

You are responsible for Your Content and for making sure you have the rights needed to submit it.

7. Hymn and music submissions; licence to Haven

You keep ownership

You retain ownership of the hymns, lyrics, audio, recordings and other creative material you create and submit through Haven ('Submitted Content'). Haven does not automatically take copyright ownership of your original Submitted Content.

Licence you grant us

By submitting content through Haven — including drafts, works in progress and submitted versions — you grant Golden Melodies Music a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable and sublicensable licence to use the Submitted Content. As applicable, this licence covers the right to:

reproduce and copy it;
host, store and cache it;
display and publicly perform it;
distribute, publish and communicate it to the public;
modify, edit, adapt, arrange and translate it;
record it and create derivative versions of it, including AI-generated or AI-assisted songs, vocals and recordings;
promote and market it; and
commercialise and monetise it.

This licence may be exercised through Haven and through channels controlled or operated by Golden Melodies Music, including websites, social media, YouTube, music and streaming platforms, promotional materials, and other distribution channels. This includes using AI and other music-production tools to turn your Submitted Content into full songs or recordings, and publishing or promoting the results on our social media channels and platforms with author credit as described below.

Revenue

There is no automatic revenue share, royalty or payout owed to you merely because Haven or Golden Melodies Music monetises accepted content. Submitting content does not create a revenue-sharing agreement. If we separately agree in writing to compensate you, that separate agreement overrides this general rule.

Credit

Where we choose to provide attribution, we may credit you using your Haven name or username. When we publish a song or recording created from your hymn — including an AI-generated song — we will mention your author details (your Haven name, or the author name you provided) where the channel or platform allows. We do not guarantee that credit will be shown in every instance or in any particular format.

Withdrawing a submission

You can withdraw a submission while it is still pending review, using the withdraw action in the app. Once content has been accepted or published, the licence above survives withdrawal or removal of the submission, and the content may continue to be used, distributed, published or monetised under that licence, subject to applicable law and our right to remove or discontinue content.

What this covers

These submission rules apply broadly to drafts, lyrics, hymns, audio, recordings and other creative materials submitted through the app, and not only to final published versions.

Your promises

You confirm that you have the necessary rights and permissions to submit your content, and that your submission does not knowingly infringe anyone's copyright, privacy, publicity or other rights, or break any law.

8. User responsibilities and acceptable use

Acceptable use

You agree to use Haven only for lawful, personal purposes and in a way that does not harm the Service, other users, or Golden Melodies Music.

Prohibited activities

You must not:

break the law, infringe anyone's rights, or encourage others to do so;
upload or submit content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, defamatory, misleading, or that you do not have the right to submit;
impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation;
copy, scrape, mirror, resell or redistribute Haven content (including Bible editions, hymns, lyrics, recordings, artwork and catalogue data) without our written permission;
reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to extract source code from the app, except where the law expressly permits it;
interfere with, overload, probe, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, its servers, or other users' accounts;
misuse another person's personal information; or
use the Service to send spam or unauthorised commercial communications.

9. Intellectual property

Except for Your Content and third-party material that we license, the Service and its content are owned or controlled by Golden Melodies Music. This includes the app's software, user interface and design, branding, logos, original artwork, original music and catalogue content, original text and content, the compilation, selection and arrangement of catalogue content, and other proprietary materials.

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the app and its content for their intended personal use, subject to these Terms. You must not, without our prior written permission:

copy, redistribute, resell or republish Haven-owned material;
scrape or bulk-extract content or catalogue data;
reverse engineer the app where prohibited by law; or
commercially exploit Haven-owned material.

We do not claim ownership of third-party material that Haven only licenses. All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved.

10. Third-party services

Haven relies on third-party services and is distributed through third-party platforms. These include Google and Apple sign-in, the Apple App Store and Google Play, and the infrastructure providers described in our Privacy Policy. Your use of those services and platforms is also governed by their own terms.

Apple and Google are third-party platform providers. They do not operate Haven and are not responsible for the Service or its content. For apps downloaded from the Apple App Store, you acknowledge that these Terms are between you and Golden Melodies Music, not Apple, and that Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.

11. Purchases and paid features

Haven is currently offered free of charge, and the app does not currently include in-app purchases or subscriptions. If we introduce paid features in future, purchases may be handled by the relevant app store and will be subject to that store's rules and payment terms, in addition to these Terms.

12. Moderation and content removal

You can report content, behaviour or problems through Haven's in-app Feedback & Reports feature, or by contacting support@goldenmelodiesmusic.com. You can report inappropriate content, abusive behaviour, copyright concerns, illegal content, policy violations and other problems.

We may review, reject, restrict, remove, disable or otherwise moderate content or accounts when reasonably necessary for reasons including Terms violations, applicable law, safety, copyright or intellectual-property concerns, abuse prevention, platform requirements, or operational reasons. We do not promise a specific review time or any particular outcome.

If you believe content on Haven infringes your copyright or other rights, please report it with enough detail for us to investigate. We may remove accounts that repeatedly infringe the rights of others.

13. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your account or access to the Service if you breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if we need to protect the Service, other users or third parties. We may also change, suspend or discontinue the Service, in whole or in part.

You can stop using Haven and delete your account at any time from Settings. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including the licence you granted for accepted content, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification and governing law — will continue to apply.

14. Disclaimers

Haven is provided 'as is' and 'as available'. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we make no warranties that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure or accurate, and we provide no warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose.

Haven is a devotional and informational tool. Its content is not professional, legal, medical or financial advice, and you should not rely on it as such.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Golden Melodies Music will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue or goodwill, arising from your use of or inability to use the Service.

Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

16. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Golden Melodies Music and the people who operate it from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your content, your use of the Service, or your breach of these Terms.

17. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Subject to any mandatory protections that apply to you, disputes arising from these Terms or the Service are intended to be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Delhi, India. This is not a statement of any registered office or business address.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the 'Last updated' date and may notify you in the app. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.