Legal — Beatfold

Legal Notice

Information pursuant to § 5 ECG, § 14 UGB and § 25 MedienG (Austria).

Beatfold is a brand of MRJ Production e.U.

Media owner & service provider

MRJ Production e.U.
Owner: Manuel Renje
Registered office: Traun, Austria
Tannhubstraße 40
4050 Traun, Austria

Phone: +43 670 4098260
Email: support@beatfold.app
Website: https://beatfold.app

Company details

Company register: FN 575271m
Register court: Landesgericht Linz
Supervisory authority pursuant to ECG: Bezirkshauptmannschaft Linz-Land
Member of Wirtschaftskammer Oberösterreich
Applicable trade law: Gewerbeordnung (GewO), available via the Austrian Legal Information System (RIS)
Trades: Ton- und Musikproduktion; IT-Dienstleistung

Business purpose & editorial policy

Business purpose: Development and operation of music-production software.

Editorial policy / Blattlinie: Information about Beatfold, its development and features, as well as topics related to music production and producer workflows.

Tax note

Small business owner according to § 6 Abs. 1 Z 27 UStG 1994. Invoices are issued without VAT (no input tax deduction).

Consumer dispute resolution

We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

Privacy Policy

Beatfold was designed around a simple idea: your creative work belongs to you. Beatfold does not use its own analytics, advertising or tracking tools, and we avoid unnecessary data collection. Most of your data never leaves your device. (Our host, IONOS, processes some anonymized access data for basic server logs and web statistics — see below.)

Beatfold is built local-first. Your sessions, beats, contacts, opportunities and notes are stored only in your own browser or device and never leave your machine unless you explicitly export or share them.

What we collect

We keep no workspace content and no user accounts on our servers. Beatfold itself has no accounts, no advertising and no cloud sync, and uses no analytics tools of its own, so the beats, contacts, sessions and notes you create stay on your device — we cannot see, access or recover them. When you simply visit this website, technical access data is processed by our host (server logs and IONOS's basic WebAnalytics — see below); this is not linked to your workspace.

Local storage

The app keeps your workspace data in your browser's localStorage so it persists between visits. You can export a backup or erase everything at any time from your profile. Clearing your browser data also removes it.

This website

This website serves all fonts, scripts and images from our own server — no external content-delivery networks, web-font services or third-party trackers are embedded. We run no analytics tools of our own and set no tracking or advertising cookies; the only server-side processing is by our host, IONOS (described below).

Cookies

We use a single functional cookie, bf-theme, to remember your light/dark preference across pages. The cookie expires after one year. The same preference may also be stored in your browser's local storage, where it remains until you change it or clear your browser data. It contains no personal data and is not used for tracking or profiling.

Hosting

This website is hosted by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Straße 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany, on servers located in Germany (EU). IONOS acts as our processor under a data-processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR) and processes data only to host and deliver the site.

Server logs & web statistics (IONOS)

IONOS collects technical access data such as the requested page, browser and device information, time of access and an anonymized IP address. According to IONOS, this visitor data is anonymized upon collection and retained for 8 weeks. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in the secure and stable operation of the website (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

We embed no analytics or tracking scripts of our own, and this data is not used for advertising, profiling or cross-site tracking. Further details are available in IONOS's own privacy information.

Contact

If you email us at support@beatfold.app, we use your name, email address and message solely to handle and answer your enquiry — for example to help with a problem, a bug, or your feedback. We never use it for advertising, marketing, newsletters or profiling, and we never sell it or pass it on to third parties for such purposes. The legal basis is the handling of your request and our legitimate interest in responding to it (Art. 6 (1) (b) and (f) GDPR). We keep this correspondence only for as long as needed to deal with your request and any follow-up, and delete it afterwards unless we are legally required to retain it. Our email is handled by our host, IONOS SE (see “Hosting” above), which processes messages solely to transmit them to us.

Your rights

Because we do not hold personal data about you on our side, there is normally nothing for us to access, correct, export or delete — the data on your device is fully under your control. Where we do process personal data (for example an email you send us), you have the rights to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection and data portability under the GDPR. To exercise them, contact the controller below.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is the Austrian Data Protection Authority (Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde, www.dsb.gv.at).

Age

Beatfold is intended for users aged 16 and over. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time — for example when features or legal requirements change. The current version always lives on this page, with the “Last updated” date shown at the top.

Controller

MRJ Production e.U., Tannhubstraße 40, 4050 Traun, Austria — support@beatfold.app

Terms of Service

By using Beatfold you agree to these terms.

The product

Beatfold is a workspace for music producers. It is currently free and in early access (v0.3.0). Early Access software may contain bugs, incomplete features and compatibility issues, and features may change between versions.

Price & license

Beatfold is free to use — everything it offers today is free of charge and will stay free. We may add optional paid features in the future, but the current functionality remains free and nothing is concretely planned yet. Your license is personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable. See the License section for details.

Availability

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue Beatfold (or parts of it) at any time without prior notice.

Your data & backups

You are responsible for your own content and for keeping backups. Beatfold stores data locally on your device; we cannot restore it for you. We strongly recommend creating regular backups of your workspace.

Acceptable use

Don't resell, redistribute, sublicense or reverse-engineer the app, and don't use it for unlawful purposes.

No warranty & liability

Beatfold is early-access software and may contain errors, incomplete features or compatibility issues. You are responsible for maintaining appropriate backups of your workspace data. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation is prohibited by applicable law. Mandatory statutory consumer rights remain unaffected.

Changes & governing law

We may update these terms; the current version always lives on this page. Austrian law applies, place of jurisdiction Linz, to the extent legally permissible for consumers.

Disclaimer

Content

We prepare the content of this website with care, but assume no liability for its accuracy, completeness or timeliness.

External links

Our site may link to external websites over which we have no control. We accept no responsibility for their content; the respective operators are solely responsible. At the time of linking, no unlawful content was apparent.

Software

Beatfold is Early Access software. Use is at your own risk. Always keep backups of important data.

License

End-user license agreement (summary).

You may

Install and use Beatfold on devices you own, for your own music-production work.
Create unlimited sessions, beats, contacts and opportunities with it.

You may not

Redistribute, resell, sublicense or rent the app.
Remove branding, copyright or other notices.
Reverse-engineer or attempt to extract the source code, except where such restriction is prohibited by law.

Ownership

Beatfold, its branding and its code remain the property of MRJ Production e.U. This license grants usage rights, not ownership of the software.

“Beatfold” is a brand of MRJ Production e.U.

Your content

Anything you create with Beatfold is yours. We claim no rights over your music, sessions or data.

Termination

This license ends automatically if you breach these terms; on termination you must stop using the app.

Open Source & Credits

Beatfold is proprietary software, but it stands on the shoulders of some excellent open work. Required copyright notices and applicable licence information are provided on our Third-Party Notices page.

Fonts

The Beatfold website — landing page and all content pages — uses Google Sans Flex by Google, bundled and served from our own server and licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The main workspace (app) uses your device's system fonts. The full font licence and copyright notice are reproduced in the Third-Party Notices.

Icons

Static interface icons are based on the open-source Lucide icon set (lucide.dev), embedded as inline SVG and served from our own server. Lucide is licensed under the ISC License, with Feather-derived portions licensed under the MIT License — the copyright and permission notices are reproduced in the Third-Party Notices.

Animated icons

Animated icons are provided by Lordicon (lordicon.com) and rendered with the bundled Lordicon web component (lordicon.bundle.js), served from our own server. The icons were downloaded and are used under a Lordicon PRO license. The player bundles the lottie-web renderer (MIT). Full details are in the Third-Party Notices.

Background images

Background and landscape artwork is sourced from Unsplash (unsplash.com) and used under the Unsplash License.

JavaScript

The app's own interface logic is hand-written vanilla JavaScript with no front-end framework. The one third-party script we bundle and serve from our own server is the Lordicon player (lordicon.bundle.js), used to render the animated icons; it includes a Lottie animation renderer. No external CDNs, third-party analytics scripts or trackers are loaded.

If you believe a credit is missing or incorrect, let us know at support@beatfold.app.

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