Terms of use

1. Purpose

These terms govern access to this site and use of the Volta application, on any medium: browser, desktop or mobile device.

Volta is a personal project made available free of charge. These terms are not intended to create a commercial relationship: no payment is requested and no subscription is offered.

2. Acceptance

Using the service constitutes acceptance of these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the service.

3. Provided as is

The service is provided as is, with no guarantee of availability, continuity or freedom from errors. It may be interrupted, changed or permanently discontinued at any time, without notice and without compensation — that is the trade-off for it being free.

You remain responsible for keeping your own backups of any data you care about.

4. Account

Some features require an account. You undertake to provide accurate information and to keep your credentials confidential. Any activity carried out from your account is deemed to originate from you.

5. Minimum age

The service is intended for people aged 15 or over — the digital consent age in France. Below that age, signing up requires the agreement of a parent or guardian, who may request closure of the account at any time at [email protected].

6. Use of the service

You undertake not to:

• circumvent technical protection measures applied to the service or to the content it makes available;
• extract, redistribute or commercialise all or part of the content you access;
• disrupt the operation of the service, access it through unauthorised automated means, or probe its security without authorisation;
• infringe the rights of third parties, in particular intellectual property rights.

7. API keys

From your account area you can create keys that let your own programs reach your Volta account. These keys act on your behalf, within the permissions you grant them.

They are your responsibility: keeping them safe, and whatever is done with them. A leaked key gives access to your data with no password and no second factor — delete it from your account area at the slightest doubt.

These keys must not be used to work around rate limits, to extract the catalog in bulk, or to make the service available to third parties. The publisher may suspend one key, or all of them, in case of plainly abusive use.

8. Content you publish

Playlist names, profile picture, username: you remain the owner of what you publish, and you warrant that you have the right to publish it.

You grant Volta the right to display these items to the people you share them with, solely so the service can work — a collaborative playlist or a shared listening session cannot function otherwise. That right ends with your account.

When your account is closed, these items are deleted. Tracks you added to a collaborative playlist may remain there, no longer associated with your account: the other participants should not lose their work.

9. Reporting content

If content published by another user — a playlist name, username or image — appears unlawful to you or infringes your rights, write to [email protected] stating what is concerned. Any well-founded request is handled promptly.

Requests from holders of rights in a work follow the procedure set out in the legal notice.

10. Third-party content and import

The service gives access to content supplied by third-party platforms and lets you import a library from other services. That content remains governed by the terms of its providers. Its availability, accuracy and continued presence are not guaranteed.

The maximum audio quality available and the presence of synced lyrics depend on the source of each track and are not guaranteed for any particular title.

11. Intellectual property

The service and its components remain the property of their author. These terms grant you only a personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable right of use, for the duration of your use of the service.

12. Liability

As Volta is made available free of charge and on a non-professional basis, its publisher can only be held liable in the event of gross negligence or wilful misconduct, within the limits permitted by law.

In particular, the publisher cannot be held liable for content supplied by third parties, for the unavailability of the service, or for the loss of data that has not been backed up elsewhere.

13. Ending use

You may stop using the service and request deletion of your account at any time. The publisher may suspend or close an account in the event of a breach of these terms, after informing you except in cases of urgency or legal obligation.

An account with no sign-in for three years is deleted, after a warning email sent thirty days in advance. Signing in during that period is enough to keep it.

14. Changes

These terms may change. The date of the last update appears at the top of the page; substantial changes are notified to account holders. Continuing to use the service after they take effect constitutes acceptance.

15. Severability

If any provision of these terms is held void or unenforceable, it is deemed unwritten and the remaining provisions continue to apply.

16. Governing law

These terms are governed by French law. If a problem arises, write to [email protected]: an amicable solution will always be sought first.

These terms are published in French and in English. In the event of any discrepancy between the two versions, the French version prevails.