Terms of Service

1. The agreement

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a contract between you and Aimi, Inc. (“Aimi”, “we”, “us”). They govern your use of Aimi Session, the Aimi Mixtape listening site, our websites, and everything we offer through them (together, the “Service”).

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the Service. If you're agreeing on behalf of a company or other organisation, you confirm you're authorised to bind it, and “you” means that organisation.

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and why; it forms part of this agreement.

2. Eligibility and your account

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you're under 18 (or the age of majority where you live), you may only use it with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian, who agrees to these Terms with you. We do not knowingly allow anyone under 13 to create an account.

You create an account with an email address and a password. Keep your password to yourself, use a unique one, and tell us promptly if you think someone else has access to your account. You're responsible for activity that happens under your account, except to the extent it results from our own failure.

One account per person, please. Creating multiple accounts to collect the signup credit grant more than once is a breach of these Terms, and we may remove the extra credits and close the duplicate accounts.

You can close your account at any time from the app or by writing to support@aimi.fm.

3. The service

The studio is free. Recording, editing, arranging, mixing, using the loop library, uploading your own audio, exporting, publishing and remixing are free to every account, with no subscription. We intend to keep it that way; section 12 explains what happens if that ever has to change.

Aimi works in turns. A “turn” is one step Aimi takes — generating a song or stems, separating audio, writing lyrics, arranging, mixing, or replying to you. Each turn costs 10 credits, and whatever that turn creates is included in the price. Turns are metered in the chat as they happen.

The producer is an AI system. It makes mistakes, it interprets instructions loosely, and running the same prompt twice will not give you the same result. Listen to what it makes before you release it.

Your projects are stored in the cloud so they follow you between devices. Keep your own copies of anything you can't afford to lose — export early, export often. We take backups for our own operational purposes, but we don't promise to recover a specific project for you.

4. Credits

Credits are a prepaid entitlement to use Aimi. They are not money, not a stored-value instrument, and not a security. They have no cash value, can't be transferred, sold, exchanged or withdrawn, and can only be used inside the Service.

Grants

New accounts receive a one-time signup grant: 3,000 credits for accounts created before 1 November 2026, and 1,000 credits for accounts created after that. The grant is issued once per person, on first signup. We may change the grant offered to future signups at any time, but we will not reduce a grant that has already been issued to you.

Expiry

Credits do not expire — neither grant credits nor purchased ones. Your balance stays where you left it while your account exists. If your account is closed (by you or by us under section 13), any remaining balance is forfeited.

Fair use

Credits are for making music in the Service. Automating, scripting or reselling access to Aimi, or otherwise using credits in a way designed to extract bulk generation rather than to work on sessions, is a breach of these Terms.

Occasionally a turn fails through a fault on our side. If that happens, tell us at support@aimi.fm and we'll return the credits.

5. Payments, refunds and taxes

Credit packs are sold in one-off purchases — there is no subscription, nothing renews, and there's nothing to cancel. Prices are shown before you buy and are in US dollars unless stated otherwise.

Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your full card details. Your purchase is also subject to Stripe's own terms, and Stripe may carry out fraud and sanctions checks.

Credits are delivered immediately on payment, and purchases are final and non-refundable except where these Terms say otherwise or where the law requires a refund. If something goes wrong with a purchase — you were charged twice, or credits never landed — contact support@aimi.fm and we'll put it right.

Cooling off. Where your local law gives you a right to withdraw from a purchase of digital content, credits are made available immediately, so by buying you ask us to begin performance right away and accept that the right of withdrawal ends once credits have been delivered and used. As a matter of policy, and wherever you live, unused credits purchased within the last 14 days can be refunded on request.

Prices exclude taxes unless stated. Where we're required to collect sales tax, VAT or an equivalent, it's added at checkout and shown before you pay.

If you initiate a chargeback, we may suspend the account and remove the disputed credits while the dispute is resolved. Please contact us first — it's faster.

6. Your content and your ownership

“Your Content” means what you bring and what you make: audio you upload, sessions and projects you build, MIDI, arrangements, mixes, prompts, lyrics, artwork, your profile, and the tracks you publish.

As between you and Aimi, Your Content is yours. We claim no ownership of it, and you may release, share, sell, sync, stream and distribute the music you make here commercially, with no additional payment to us and no obligation to buy credits.

Your Content does not include the loops and samples from the Aimi library that you build with. Those stay ours, and you hold a licence to use them inside your music — never ownership of the samples and never the right to redistribute them. Section 7 sets out exactly where that line falls, and it applies to every track you make here.

The licence you give us

To run the Service, we need your permission to handle Your Content. You grant Aimi a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to host, store, copy, transmit, transcode, render, display, analyse and otherwise process Your Content to operate, secure, support, develop and improve the Service — for example rendering a mix, streaming a preview, generating a waveform or restoring a backup. The separate use of content as machine learning training material is narrower, it applies only to tracks you publish, and you can object to it at any time without unpublishing anything: see the next subsection.

The operating part of this licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies retained in routine backups for a limited period, content you've published publicly (see section 8), and anything we must keep for legal or accounting reasons.

Analysis and machine learning — sharing is the switch

Publishing a project is what brings it into scope for training. Nothing else does. While a project is private, neither it nor the audio you uploaded into it is used as training material. You can build, scrap and rebuild indefinitely, and if you never publish, none of it ever becomes training data.

What it's for is making Aimi better at the job — arranging, mixing and generating music. You don't have to take part: one switch turns it off for everything you've published and everything you publish next, and it costs you nothing else. Our Privacy Policy sets out the detail.

When you share a project (section 8), you are opening it up to be built on — and that is one decision with two audiences:

That is the trade a shared project makes: it goes out to be built on, by people and by Aimi working alongside them. It expressly includes audio you uploaded into a project you then share — vocals, stems, samples and instrumentals you brought in yourself. That is a large part of why the next subsection asks you to be certain of your rights before you upload: the permission you give when you share has to be yours to give.

Uploads are shared as a mix, not as a session

If a project contains audio you uploaded, publishing it shares the mix and not the session. The track appears on the community feed and on Mixtape exactly like any other — playable, shareable, commentable — but we do not hand the project file to other members, so no one can open it in the studio and build a derivative from your uploads. Such tracks are marked mix only.

This is a limit on what other members receive, not on what you can do: you keep the project in your own account, and any remix prompt you attach still works as a starting point for someone else's own material. Projects built only from library loops and from audio Aimi generated for you are unaffected and remain fully remixable.

We apply this to tracks already published as well as new ones. If you published a track containing your uploads before this rule existed, it is now mix only too.

When a member remixes your track, they get their own copy

Opening a remixable shared project copies the audio it references into that member's own storage, so their session keeps working independently of yours. Two consequences worth being explicit about: their remix survives you deleting your original, and it is their work, not yours. What does follow your decisions is the audio itself — see the controls below.

Some limits we hold ourselves to, and which are part of this agreement:

Switching it off — the controls you have

You do not have to unpublish a track, or ask us, to keep it out of training. In the app you can:

Withholding covers the audio you uploaded into a track, not just the finished render — switching it off means your music. Because one upload can appear in several of your own tracks, withholding it withholds it everywhere it appears.

Your uploads follow your decision into other members' remixes. Where a copy of audio you uploaded is sitting inside someone else's remix, withholding that audio withholds that copy too. Their remix remains published and remains their own work — it is your recording, not their arrangement, that follows you.

Unsharing stops future use: we won't put the project into new training runs. A model that has already learned from it cannot be untrained, so unsharing — and every control above — works forwards, not backwards, the same way it works for remixes other members have already made (section 8). The sooner you change your mind, the more completely it takes effect.

Separately from all of the above, we always analyse how the Service is used — feature usage, producer turns, error diagnostics, aggregate statistics — in order to operate, secure and improve it. That is telemetry about usage rather than training on your music, and it applies whether or not you ever share.

Questions about any of this: support@aimi.fm. Depending on where you live you may also have rights under our Privacy Policy.

Audio you upload — you must have the rights

You may only upload audio that you own, or that you otherwise hold sufficient rights to. “Sufficient rights” means all the rights needed to use that audio in the Service and to grant Aimi the licence set out in this section — and, if you share the project it's in, the further permissions that sharing carries: the public and remix licences in section 8, and the machine learning use above. If you can't grant those permissions for a piece of audio, either keep the project private or don't upload it.

That covers every layer of a recording, which is where people usually come unstuck: the composition, the master, the performances on it, and the voice and likeness of anyone audible in it.

You promise that everything you upload meets this standard, that Your Content doesn't infringe anyone else's rights or break the law, and that you have secured any consents and clearances the material needs — including from featured vocalists and performers. This is your responsibility, not ours. We don't pre-screen uploads and we can't check clearances for you.

If we're told that uploaded audio infringes someone's rights, we may remove it and act on the account under sections 10 and 13. If material you uploaded turns out not to be yours to license, tell us at support@aimi.fm as soon as you realise, so we can remove it and exclude it from future training runs.

7. Our library, and what the AI produces

The sample and loop library

You do not own the library, and you never acquire ownership of any loop or sample in it. Every loop and sample is owned or fully licensed by Aimi, and Aimi keeps that ownership. Using one in a session — or having Aimi place one for you — does not transfer any ownership to you. What you get instead is a licence, and its boundary is the important part of this whole document:

We grant you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable licence to use library loops and samples only as incorporated into music you create in the Service. That licence survives the end of your account and doesn't depend on you ever buying credits.

Put simply: the licence is for the music you build with the samples, not for the samples themselves. A track that happens to be a bare, unaltered library loop is the ingredient, not a work built from it, and redistributing it as a track doesn't get around this section.

The same applies to loops that reach you indirectly — through a remix, a challenge starter session, or a forked project. They arrive under this licence, not under an ownership transfer.

AI output

Material Aimi generates inside your session — stems, songs, separations, lyrics, arrangements — is treated as Your Content under section 6, and as between you and Aimi it's yours to release and monetise.

Two honest caveats. First, generative systems are not unique: another user's prompt may produce something similar, and we can't promise that what you generate is one of a kind. Second, in some countries purely AI-generated material may not attract copyright protection at all — that's a feature of the law, not something we can grant or withhold. Neither caveat affects your right to use and sell what you make here.

8. Sharing, Mixtape and remixing

Sharing is optional, and it is the single most consequential choice in these Terms. Nothing you build leaves your account until you choose to share it — and publishing is also what brings a track into scope for the machine learning use in section 6. One decision, three consequences, all of them the same idea: your project becomes something others can build on — and you can switch the training part off on its own, at any time, without undoing the rest.

When you share a project — publishing a track to the community or to Mixtape — you're making it public, and you grant three licences at once:

That's the deal that makes remixing work, so read it twice before you share. If you unshare a track, we'll stop displaying it, remove it from discovery, delete the audio behind it, and keep it out of future training runs — but remixes already made from it stay valid and stay live, and a model that already learned from it can't unlearn it. Unsharing works forwards: you can't withdraw a licence someone, or something, has already built on. The one thing that does reach into an existing remix is audio you uploaded: withholding that from training withholds the copy inside their remix too, without disturbing their track.

When you remix, the same rules apply to you: credit stays attached, and you can't pass off someone else's published work as an original of your own.

Challenges, prizes and featured placement are run at our discretion; specific rules are published with each challenge and form part of these Terms for entrants.

9. Acceptable use

Use the Service to make music. Don't use it to:

• upload, generate or publish anything that infringes copyright, trademark, publicity or privacy rights, or upload audio you don't own or hold sufficient rights to (section 6);
• clone or imitate a real person's voice or likeness without their permission, or present generated audio as a genuine recording of a real person;
• publish content that is unlawful, defamatory, hateful, harassing, or that sexualises minors;
• harass, spam, impersonate or abuse other members, in comments, chats or anywhere else;
• probe, scrape, overload, reverse-engineer or circumvent the Service, its rate limits, its credit metering or its access controls;
• resell, sublicense or provide access to the Service or Aimi as your own product;
• extract or redistribute loops and samples from the Aimi library as samples, loops, stems or a sample pack — see section 7, which is the one rule people most often assume runs the other way;
• use automated systems to generate at bulk scale, or to build a competing dataset or model from our library or outputs.

We may remove content that breaks these rules and act on accounts under section 13. Where we can, we'll tell you what happened and why.

10. Copyright complaints

If you believe something on the Service infringes your copyright, write to support@aimi.fm with: your contact details; identification of the work you say is infringed; a link to the material in question; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use isn't authorised; a statement that the information is accurate and that you're the rights holder or authorised to act for them; and your signature (electronic is fine).

We remove infringing material, and we terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, tell us at the same address and we'll review it.

11. Third-party services

Parts of the Service depend on providers we don't control — payment processing, generative audio and language models, and cloud infrastructure. Our Privacy Policy lists who they are and what reaches them. Their availability and their own terms can affect what the Service can do at any moment.

Links out of the Service — including to Mixtape listeners' platforms and to stores where you distribute your music — are not our responsibility, and we don't endorse what's on the other end.

12. Availability and changes

The Service is offered as-is and evolves constantly. We may add, change or remove features, and we may set or adjust technical limits (storage, project size, upload size, rate limits) to keep it running for everyone.

We may change these Terms. For material changes we'll give reasonable advance notice — in the app, by email, or both — and update the “last updated” date above. Changes apply from their effective date; if you don't accept them, stop using the Service and close your account. Changes never reduce a credit balance you already hold, and never retroactively remove the licence you have to music you've already made.

If we ever have to discontinue the Service, we'll give you reasonable notice and a window to export your projects, and we'll refund unused purchased credits.

13. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time. Closing your account deletes your projects and content from the Service, subject to the retention described in our Privacy Policy, and forfeits any remaining credit balance.

We may suspend or terminate your account if you materially breach these Terms, if we're required to by law, or if your use creates a genuine risk to the Service or to other members. Except where the breach is serious or urgent, we'll warn you first and give you a chance to fix it. If we terminate your account for reasons other than your breach, we'll refund unused purchased credits.

Sections 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 survive termination.

14. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement and any warranty arising from course of dealing or trade usage.

We don't warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, that Aimi's output will meet your expectations or be original, or that stored projects will always be recoverable. AI output is not legal, financial or professional advice, and it isn't a clearance check.

Nothing here excludes liability that can't lawfully be excluded — including, for consumers, your statutory rights, which sit alongside these Terms and are not affected by them.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither Aimi nor its officers, employees or suppliers is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, goodwill, data, or the cost of substitute services, arising out of or relating to the Service — even if we were told such damages were possible.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in that period and (b) US$100.

These limits don't apply to liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or anything else that can't be limited by law. Some jurisdictions don't allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

16. Indemnity

If you're using the Service other than as a consumer, you agree to defend and indemnify Aimi against claims, damages and reasonable costs arising from Your Content, from your breach of these Terms, or from your infringement of someone else's rights. We'll tell you promptly about any such claim and let you control the defence, provided any settlement releases us fully.

17. Governing law and disputes

The Service is operated from, and directed to, the United States. We don't market it to any other country, price it in any other currency, or offer it in any other language. It is reachable from elsewhere, and you're welcome to use it — but it is a US service, and these Terms are written on that basis.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You and Aimi agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Delaware, and each of us waives any objection to venue there.

If you're a consumer in a country whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings locally, nothing in this section takes that right away, and you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer-law provisions of the country you live in.

Before filing anything, please write to support@aimi.fm. Almost everything is faster to fix by email.

18. General

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any rules published with a specific feature or challenge, are the entire agreement between us about the Service. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing a provision isn't a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. There are no third-party beneficiaries. Neither party is liable for failure to perform caused by events genuinely beyond its reasonable control.

19. Contact

Aimi, Inc.
Questions, complaints, copyright notices and account issues: support@aimi.fm

See also our Privacy Policy.