Terms of sale and licence

Last updated 17 September 2026.

Placeholder to complete before launch. The bracketed items need your legal name, address, contact email and chosen jurisdiction, and a lawyer should review this before you take money. Section 4 is the one that matters most and the one to have checked first.

1 · Who you are contracting with

Kuthu is sold by [LEGAL ENTITY NAME] of [TRADING ADDRESS] (“we”, “us”). Contact: [CONTACT EMAIL]. Payment is processed by our reseller [MERCHANT OF RECORD], who is the seller of record for your purchase.

2 · What you are buying

A perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use Kuthu. Kuthu covers personal and household use on up to two computers. Kuthu Pro covers up to three computers and adds the right to use Kuthu at events you are paid for — weddings, functions, club nights and the like. The free version is personal and household use only. All of them are bought once; there is no subscription and no renewal.

Your licence covers every platform Kuthu is released for.

Activation

A paid licence is activated once, over the internet. Kuthu sends us the licence key and a one-way hash identifying the computer — not its name, its serial number or its location, and nothing about your music, your library or your parties. We send back a signed licence file, and from then on Kuthu checks that file on your own machine. It never contacts us again. There is no check-in during a party, nothing that stops working if our website is down, and no way for us to switch off software already on your computer.

You can release a computer from the Kuthu console at any time, which frees that activation for another machine. A machine you no longer have — lost, sold or wiped — can be released by writing to us.

If you have no internet on the machine that runs Kuthu, tell us and we will email you a licence file to paste in instead.

3 · What you may not do

Resell, sublicense, rent or redistribute the software
Remove or alter licence notices
Use it in a way that breaks the law where you are

Reverse engineering is permitted to the extent the law where you live says it must be, regardless of anything above.

4 · Music, and rights in it

Kuthu plays music. It does not license it, and it grants you no rights in any song, recording, video or other content. This is the most important clause on this page.

Songs played from YouTube are delivered by YouTube under YouTube's Terms of Service, which you accept by using the service through Kuthu. Those terms permit personal, non-commercial viewing and do not permit publicly screening videos or streaming music from the service.
Video files of your own are yours to deal with. Whether you may play a particular file is a matter between you and whoever you obtained it from.
Playing recorded music to people who are not your household may be a public performance, which generally requires a licence from the relevant collecting societies — ASCAP, BMI, SESAC or GMR in the United States; IPRS and PPL in India; PRS for Music and PPL in the United Kingdom; the equivalent elsewhere. That licence is normally held by the venue or obtained by the event organiser. It applies whatever the music is played from, and it is not something we can provide.

You are responsible for having the rights to play what you play. We make no representation that any particular use of Kuthu is licensed, and we accept no liability arising from your use of content you did not have the right to use.

5 · Third-party services

Kuthu uses the YouTube API Services. By using those features you also agree to be bound by YouTube's Terms of Service, and Google's privacy policy applies to the data Google receives. Kuthu is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by YouTube or Google.

6 · Refunds and the right to cancel

Our refund promise. If Kuthu is not for you, write to us within 30 days of purchase and we will refund you in full. You do not have to give a reason.

If you are a consumer in the EU or UK you additionally have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance contract within 14 days. Because Kuthu is delivered as a digital download, you will be asked at checkout to consent to immediate delivery and to acknowledge that you lose that statutory right once the download begins. Our own 30-day promise above is unaffected by that, and is more generous.

A free version exists precisely so you can run a real party before paying.

7 · Updates

Kuthu includes updates for the period stated on the pricing page at the time of purchase — one year for Kuthu, two for Kuthu Pro. When that period ends, your software carries on working exactly as it did. You are never obliged to pay again and nothing stops working.

8 · Warranty and liability

We provide Kuthu with reasonable skill and care, but it is supplied “as is”. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we do not control YouTube: videos can be removed, blocked or made unplayable by their owners at any time, and that is outside our control.

To the extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or in connection with this licence is limited to the amount you paid for it. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for your statutory rights as a consumer.

9 · Ending the licence

You may stop using Kuthu at any time. We may end your licence if you materially breach these terms and do not put it right within 30 days of being asked. We have no technical means of disabling software already installed on your computer, and we do not intend to acquire any.

10 · Open-source components

Kuthu includes open-source software, each component under its own licence. Those licences and their notices are listed in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt file included with the application, and they govern those components rather than these terms.

11 · Law

These terms are governed by the law of [JURISDICTION], and the courts of [JURISDICTION] have non-exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country where you live, or of the right to bring proceedings there.