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Last updated: 21 October 2026 · Version 2.0

Welcome to PocketStage, the app where people sing, record, post and listen, follow each other and take part in singing challenges. We want PocketStage to be a fun, friendly and safe stage for everyone. These Terms of Use explain the rules that apply when you use it. Please read them carefully: by creating an account or using PocketStage you accept them. If you do not agree, please do not use PocketStage.

1. Who we are and what these Terms cover

1.1. The PocketStage mobile application, the website pocketstage.app and their related features (together, the "Platform" or "PocketStage") are operated by NEXORA COMMERCE S.R.L., a Romanian limited liability company with its registered office at Strada Weiner Palada nr. 60D, Ilfov, România, registered with the Trade Register under no. J2026031476005, EUID ROONRC.J2026031476005, tax identification number (CUI) 54679106, e-mail contact@pocketstage.app, telephone +44 800 229 4307 ("PocketStage", "we", "us", "our"). 1.2. These Terms govern your access to and use of the Platform. Together with our Privacy Policy (pocketstage.app/privacy), our Cookie Policy (pocketstage.app/cookies), our Child Safety Standards (pocketstage.app/child-safety) and the rules of each challenge, they form the agreement between you and PocketStage. 1.3. Using PocketStage is free of charge. There are no purchases, subscriptions or advertising in the app. If we ever introduce paid features, they will be governed by separate terms that you will have to accept before using them.

2. Definitions

  • Account: your personal PocketStage account.
  • User or you: any person who creates an Account or uses the Platform.
  • Content: anything you upload, record, write or send through the Platform, including voice recordings, songs, videos, photos, cover images, titles, descriptions, comments and messages.
  • Post: a song or video that you publish on the Platform.
  • Instrumental: a backing track from the PocketStage library that you can sing over in the app.
  • Our Lyrics: the song lyrics offered by PocketStage together with an Instrumental.
  • Recording: a Post made in the app by singing over an Instrumental, i.e. your voice mixed with the Instrumental.
  • Challenge: a singing contest organised by PocketStage in the app, with an entry period, a voting period and, where announced, prizes.
  • Prize: a reward announced by PocketStage for a Challenge or a chart, such as a voucher or a gift card.
  • Minor User: a User aged 16 or 17.

3. What PocketStage is

3.1. PocketStage is a social platform for singers. You can record your voice over our Instrumentals, upload songs and videos in which you sing, listen to other people, follow them, like, comment, share, send private messages, vote and take part in Challenges. 3.2. PocketStage is for singing. Posts must show or contain your own vocal performance: over our Instrumentals or over music that you have the right to use (for example a song you wrote and produced yourself). 3.3. PocketStage hosts and shows Content created by its Users. We do not create, check in advance or endorse that Content, except for the automatic safety checks described in section 11 and for our own Instrumentals and Our Lyrics. 3.4. The recommendations, charts and lists in the app are tools to help you discover music. They are not a guarantee about any User or Post.

4. Who can use PocketStage. Your Account

4.1. You must be at least 16 years old to create an Account and use PocketStage. When you sign up we ask for your date of birth. Please give your real date of birth: it decides which safety rules apply to your Account. Once set, it can only be corrected by our team, on request at contact@pocketstage.app. 4.2. You can sign up with your e-mail address and a password, or with your Google or Apple account. When you sign up with an e-mail address, we send you a verification code; codes are valid for a short time and the number of attempts is limited for your security. 4.3. One person, one Account. Accounts are personal and may not be sold, transferred or shared. Creating several Accounts to vote more than once, to escape a restriction or to mislead other Users is not allowed. 4.4. Give us true and up-to-date information, keep your password and verification codes private, and tell us at once at contact@pocketstage.app if you think someone else has accessed your Account. You are responsible for what is done from your Account, unless it happened without any fault on your part.

5. Minor Users (16 and 17 years old)

5.1. We protect Minor Users with extra rules: only people they follow can send them private messages, nobody can message them with a "message request", and messages to them that ask for contact details, photos, a move to another app, secrecy or a meeting are blocked automatically. 5.2. A Minor User's private-message settings cannot be changed to "Everyone". 5.3. Minor Users can take part in Challenges and receive votes like any other User. To receive a Prize, a Minor User needs the written consent of a parent or legal guardian, which we ask for when the Prize is handed over (see section 15). 5.4. Parents and guardians can contact us at contact@pocketstage.app about a Minor User's Account. If we learn that someone under 16 has created an Account, we close it and delete its data, as described in the Privacy Policy.

6. Recording and posting

6.1. You can record over an Instrumental in the app (with headphones), upload a song, or film or upload a video in which you sing. Posts must last at least 20 seconds; the app shows the other limits (length and file size) when you post. 6.2. When you record in the app, the app processes your voice to make it sound good: for example a noise gate that quiets the pauses between phrases, equalisation, compression, loudness levelling and, if you choose it, reverb. It does not change your pitch, and it changes the timing only by the sync adjustment you choose. 6.3. When you post, our servers convert your files to formats suitable for streaming, make a cover picture if you do not choose one and, when a Post is shared, make a short preview of up to 25 seconds for share links (section 7.4). 6.4. New videos are checked automatically before other people can see them (section 11). Until the check is complete, the video is visible only to you. If the check cannot run, the video is published and our team reviews it. 6.5. You can change the cover of your songs, and hide or delete your Posts, at any time. A Post hidden by our moderation cannot be shown again by you; you can ask us to review the decision (section 14).

7. Your Content and the rights you give us

7.1. Your Content stays yours. We do not claim ownership of your voice, your performance, your songs, your videos or anything else you create. 7.2. So that we can run PocketStage, you give us a free, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to host, store, copy, technically adapt (for example convert, compress, level the volume, make previews, cover pictures and the "Save to phone" version described in section 8), display, stream and make your Content available to other Users in the app and through the share links described in section 7.4. We may let our technical service providers (for example hosting and the automatic safety checks) process your Content only as far as needed to provide these services to us. 7.3. This licence lasts as long as your Content is on PocketStage. It ends when you delete the Content or your Account, except for copies we must keep for a limited time under the law or for safety reasons, as described in the Privacy Policy, and except for copies that other people have already received through share links or "Save to phone" files you made. 7.4. Share links. You and other Users can share a link to a public Post (pocketstage.app/s/…). Anyone who opens the link can see the cover, title and artist name and hear or see up to the first 25 seconds of the Post, even without the app. Hidden or deleted Posts are not shown through share links. 7.5. No advertising with your Content. We do not use your Content in PocketStage advertising or marketing (for example on our social media accounts or in paid ads) without your consent. Showing your Posts inside the app, in feeds, charts, recommendations and Challenge pages, and through share links, is part of the service and is not advertising. 7.6. Other Users may watch and listen to your public Posts in the app and share links to them. They cannot download your Posts, and they may not copy, re-upload or use your Content outside PocketStage without your permission. 7.7. You confirm that you have all the rights needed for the Content you post, and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights. If other people can be seen or heard in your Content, you confirm that they agree to it being posted.

8. Save to phone

8.1. You can save your own Posts to your phone with "Save to phone". You get a video file with the PocketStage logo and your @username in a corner and a short closing card "Made on PocketStage". Songs are saved as a video with the cover, the title and a moving waveform, because most social networks only accept video. 8.2. "Save to phone" is available only for your own Posts that you recorded in the app over our Instrumentals (songs and videos you uploaded from your phone are already on your phone), and not while a Post is being checked or is hidden by our moderation. 8.3. You may post the saved file on other social networks and video platforms as described in section 9. Please do not remove or hide the PocketStage logo or the closing card from files that contain our Instrumentals.

9. Our Instrumentals and Our Lyrics

9.1. The Instrumentals and Our Lyrics belong to PocketStage or are used by us under licence. Most of them are created with the help of artificial intelligence tools and reviewed by our team; some are produced by people and licensed to us. Our Lyrics are original texts, not copies or translations of existing songs. 9.2. You may sing over the Instrumentals and use Our Lyrics, or your own words, to make Recordings in the app. 9.3. Your vocal performance in a Recording is yours. The Instrumental and Our Lyrics in it remain ours. 9.4. You may share your complete Recording, including the Instrumental, on other social networks and video platforms (for example TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or Facebook) for personal, non-commercial purposes, as long as it is clear that it was made on PocketStage (the "Save to phone" file does this for you). 9.5. Without our written permission you may not:

  • sell a Recording or any Instrumental, or distribute it through music streaming or download services (for example Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer or Amazon Music) or through music distributors;
  • license a Recording or Instrumental to third parties, for example for use in advertising, films or games;
  • register a Recording or Instrumental with content identification systems (such as YouTube Content ID) or with collective management organisations, or claim it as your own composition;
  • separate the Instrumental from a Recording, or use an Instrumental or Our Lyrics on their own outside PocketStage.

9.6. If you want to use a Recording commercially, write to us at contact@pocketstage.app. We are happy to talk about it.

10. Community rules

10.1. PocketStage is a place for music and respect. You may not post, send or do anything that:

  • is illegal, or promotes illegal activities;
  • sexualises minors in any way or shows child sexual abuse or exploitation (zero tolerance: such content is removed at once, the Account is closed and we report it to the authorities);
  • contains nudity or sexual content;
  • shows or encourages violence, self-harm, suicide or dangerous acts;
  • is hateful, discriminatory, harassing, bullying or threatening, or attacks people for who they are;
  • is a cover of someone else's song, uses a backing track or lyrics you do not have the right to use, or otherwise infringes copyright, trademarks or other rights;
  • is not singing (for example only talking, only playing an instrument, or content unrelated to your vocal performance);
  • shares someone's private information (such as address, phone number or documents) without their permission;
  • impersonates another person or misleads people about who you are;
  • is spam, scams, chain messages or advertising for third parties;
  • contains malware or links meant to harm devices or steal data.

10.2. You also may not:

  • ask a Minor User for contact details, photos, secrecy or a meeting, or try to move a conversation with a Minor User to another app;
  • create fake or multiple Accounts, buy, sell or exchange votes, likes, comments or followers, or use bots;
  • try to get around a restriction, a block or a suspension;
  • collect other Users' data, scrape the Platform, or access it by automated means without our permission;
  • try to break, overload, reverse engineer or get unauthorised access to the Platform;
  • misuse the reporting tools, for example by making reports you know are unfounded.

10.3. Be kind. Constructive comments are welcome; insults are not. Our word filter refuses offensive words in English, Spanish, Romanian and Italian.

11. Automatic checks and moderation

11.1. To keep PocketStage safe, some checks run automatically:

  • new videos stay hidden from others until frames from them are checked for sexual, violent or self-harm content; profile photos, cover photos and song covers are checked in the same way when uploaded (these checks use an automated image moderation service; if the check of a video cannot run, the video is published and our team reviews it);
  • names, usernames, bios, titles, descriptions, comments and messages are checked against a list of offensive words, and text that matches is refused;
  • messages to Minor Users are checked as described in section 5.1;
  • when three different people report the same Post, it is hidden until our team reviews it (entries in a running Challenge stay visible and go straight to our team).

11.2. These automatic checks can hide a Post or refuse a text. Decisions about your Account (warnings, restrictions, suspension or closure) and the permanent removal of Content are taken by a person from our team. 11.3. We do not check all Content before it is published and we are not obliged to monitor the Platform in general. We act on reports and on the results of the checks described above.

12. Reporting content

12.1. Anyone can report Content they believe is illegal or breaks these Terms: in the app, with "Report" on any Post, comment, profile or conversation, or by e-mail to contact@pocketstage.app. 12.2. To help us act quickly, an e-mail report should include: an explanation of why you believe the Content is illegal or breaks these Terms; the exact location of the Content (for example the share link, the username and the title); your name and e-mail address (not required for reports of child sexual abuse material); and a statement that you make the report in good faith and that the information in it is accurate and complete. 12.3. Copyright and other rights. If you believe a Post uses your work without permission (for example a cover of your song), report it with "Stolen Content" in the app or by e-mail with the information above and a description of the work concerned. We remove infringing Content and may close the Accounts of repeat infringers. 12.4. We confirm e-mail reports, review reports without undue delay, in a fair and objective way, and tell the person who reported what we decided, where we have their contact details. Reports concerning the safety of a minor are handled first. 12.5. If someone often sends reports that are clearly unfounded, we may, after a warning, stop handling their reports for a reasonable period.

13. Measures we may take

13.1. If Content or conduct breaks the law or these Terms, we may, depending on how serious it is, whether it happened before and the risk for other people:

  • hide or remove the Content;
  • give a warning ("strike"); at three warnings, sending messages and comments is paused for 7 days;
  • pause messages and comments for a longer period, or limit other features;
  • suspend the Account; or
  • close the Account.

13.2. In serious cases (for example the sexual exploitation of minors, threats, serious harassment or fraud) we may suspend or close an Account at once, without a previous warning, and we may inform the competent authorities. 13.3. When we take a measure, we tell you, in the app or by e-mail, what we decided, why (including the rule concerned and whether the decision was taken by automatic means), and how you can ask us to review it. We do not have to give reasons where the law does not allow it, for example when the authorities ask us not to. 13.4. While an Account is suspended, its owner cannot log in, and its profile and Posts are not shown to anyone. A suspended Account, with its e-mail address, stays stored until we lift the suspension or close the Account.

14. Asking us to review a decision

14.1. If you disagree with a decision we took about your Content or your Account (or about a report you made), write to contact@pocketstage.app within six months of the decision, preferably from your Account's e-mail address, and explain why you think it was wrong. 14.2. A person from our team who was not involved in the original decision, where possible, reviews your request and replies within 14 days. If we find that the decision was wrong, we reverse it without delay (for example we show the Post again or lift the suspension). 14.3. This does not affect your right to go to the competent authorities or courts, or to use an out-of-court dispute settlement body where one is available.

15. Challenges

15.1. PocketStage organises singing Challenges in the app. Each Challenge has its own page with its theme, the type of Posts accepted (audio, video or both), the Instrumental or genre where applicable, the entry period, the voting period, the Prizes and any special rules ("Challenge Rules"). If the Challenge Rules differ from this section, the Challenge Rules apply to that Challenge. 15.2. Taking part is free. No purchase or payment is ever needed to enter, vote or win. 15.3. Any User whose Account is not suspended can enter, from any country, unless the Challenge Rules say otherwise. You can enter once per Challenge, with one of your own Posts of the type requested, during the entry period. Entries must follow these Terms and the Challenge Rules; for "original song" Challenges, the song must be your own. 15.4. Voting. Each person has one vote per Challenge. Accounts linked to the same e-mail address (for example name+1@gmail.com and name@gmail.com) count as one person. You can vote while the Challenge is open for entries and during its voting period, and you can move your vote to another entry until voting closes. You cannot vote for your own entry. Votes obtained through fake or multiple Accounts, bots, buying, selling or exchanging votes are removed, and the entries that benefited from them may be disqualified. 15.5. Winners. When voting closes, the entries with the most votes win places 1 to 3. If two entries have the same number of votes, the one with more likes and plays wins; if they are still equal, the one that entered first wins. Entries that are hidden, deleted or disqualified at that moment do not take part in the ranking. Winners are notified in the app. 15.6. Prizes are announced on the Challenge page. Unless stated otherwise, Prizes are vouchers or gift cards sent by e-mail. To receive a Prize, the winner must reply to our message within 30 days and give us their full name and e-mail address; Minor Users must also send the written consent of a parent or guardian. If a winner does not reply in time, does not meet these conditions or is disqualified, the Prize may pass to the next eligible entry. 15.7. Prizes cannot be exchanged for cash or transferred. If a Prize becomes unavailable, we may replace it with one of equal or greater value. We take care of any tax that the law requires the organiser to withhold on a Prize. Some vouchers or gift cards can only be used in certain countries; we will try to choose one that works where the winner lives. 15.8. The winners' usernames, names as shown in their profile and winning Posts are shown in the app (for example on the Challenge page and in notifications). 15.9. We may cancel, pause or change a Challenge for legal, technical, safety or fairness reasons (for example in case of vote fraud). If we do, we tell the participants in the app. 15.10. Apple and Google are not sponsors of Challenges and are not involved in them in any way.

16. Charts

16.1. PocketStage shows weekly charts (a new week starts every Monday at 00:00 UTC) and all-time charts. The score of a Post is calculated from the reactions of other Users: likes count 1, comments 0.5 and shares 3; your own likes, plays and shares do not count. Votes count in the artists chart. 16.2. If we announce Prizes for a weekly chart in the app, sections 15.6 to 15.10 apply to them, and the chart at the end of the week (Monday, 00:00 UTC) decides the winners.

17. Private messages

17.1. You can choose who can send you private messages: everyone, only people you follow, or nobody. Messages from people you do not follow arrive as message requests, and the sender can send only one message until you accept. Section 5 sets stricter rules for Minor Users. 17.2. Messages are sent through our servers and stored by our provider so that the conversation can be shown to you on your devices. They are not end-to-end encrypted. Our team does not read your conversations, except when a conversation is reported to us (the report includes the last messages of the reported person) or a message is blocked by the safety checks described in section 5.1. 17.3. You can block any User. Blocked Users cannot message you or comment on your Posts.

18. Notifications and communications

18.1. We send you notifications in the app and, if you allow them on your phone, push notifications (for example about likes, comments, new followers, votes, Challenge results, messages and decisions about your Account). You can turn push notifications off in your phone settings at any time. 18.2. We send you e-mails needed for the service, such as verification codes and decisions about your Account. These are not marketing. We do not send you marketing messages. 18.3. You can write to us at contact@pocketstage.app. This is also our single point of contact for Users and for authorities. You can write to us in English or Romanian; we will also try to answer in Spanish and Italian.

19. Our rights in PocketStage

19.1. The Platform, including its software, design, texts, the PocketStage name and logo, the Instrumentals and Our Lyrics, belongs to PocketStage or to our licensors and is protected by intellectual property law. Using PocketStage does not give you any rights in it, except those described in these Terms. 19.2. We give you a personal, free, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable right to use the app on your devices for its intended purpose, in line with these Terms. 19.3. You may not copy, modify, decompile or reverse engineer the app, remove legal notices, or use the PocketStage name or logo without our permission, except where the law expressly allows it. Files made with "Save to phone" may of course show our logo as described in section 8. 19.4. The app uses open-source software, which is licensed under its own terms. The list is available in the app (Settings → Open-source licenses). 19.5. The artists you may choose when you sign up are only a list of musical tastes used for recommendations. They are not affiliated with PocketStage and do not endorse it.

20. Availability and changes to the service

20.1. We work to keep PocketStage available and secure, but we cannot promise that it will always work without interruption or error, for example during maintenance, updates, security incidents or problems at our providers. 20.2. We may add, change or remove features. If a change significantly affects you, we will tell you in advance where reasonably possible. 20.3. Some features depend on third-party services, such as Apple, Google, Firebase or our hosting provider, whose availability we do not fully control.

21. Liability

21.1. We are responsible for providing the Platform in line with these Terms and the law. 21.2. Content on PocketStage is created by Users, who are responsible for it. As a hosting service, we are not responsible for Content posted by Users as long as we do not know it is illegal and we act quickly to remove it once we become aware of it. 21.3. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for: the conduct of other Users, on or off PocketStage; loss of data you did not keep elsewhere; indirect losses, lost profits or loss of opportunity; or interruptions caused by events outside our reasonable control. 21.4. Nothing in these Terms limits our liability for intent or gross negligence, for death or personal injury caused by us, or any other liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing in them limits your mandatory rights as a consumer.

22. Deleting your Account

22.1. You can delete your Account at any time in the app: Profile → menu → Account settings → Delete account. Your profile, Posts, comments, likes, votes, follows and conversations are deleted at once. Some data is kept for a limited time for legal or safety reasons, as described in the Privacy Policy. 22.2. Deleting your Account also removes your Challenge entries, including places already won. Prizes already handed over are not affected. 22.3. We may close your Account as described in section 13, or if PocketStage stops operating; in the latter case we will tell you at least 30 days in advance, where possible.

23. Personal data

We process your personal data as described in our Privacy Policy, available at pocketstage.app/privacy and in the app.

24. Complaints and disputes

24.1. If you are unhappy with PocketStage, please write to us first at contact@pocketstage.app; we reply within a reasonable time and at the latest within 30 days. 24.2. If you are a consumer, you can also contact the consumer protection authority (in Romania, ANPC, www.anpc.ro) and use the alternative dispute resolution procedures available under the law.

25. Applicable law and courts

25.1. These Terms are governed by Romanian law. If you are a consumer living in another country, this does not deprive you of the protection given to you by the mandatory rules of the law of your country. 25.2. Disputes that cannot be solved amicably are settled by the competent courts. If you are a consumer, you can always bring a claim before the courts of the place where you live, and we can only bring a claim against you there.

26. Changes to these Terms

26.1. We may change these Terms, for example to follow the law, to reflect new or changed features or to make them clearer. 26.2. We will tell you about important changes in the app or by e-mail at least 15 days before they apply, unless a shorter period is needed for legal or safety reasons. If you do not agree with the changes, you can delete your Account before they apply. If you keep using PocketStage after the changes apply, the new Terms apply to you.

27. Apple and Google

27.1. If you downloaded PocketStage from the Apple App Store: these Terms are between you and PocketStage only, not Apple; Apple is not responsible for the app or its content and has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for it; in so far as any warranty applies, Apple has no warranty obligation for the app, and you may notify Apple if the app does not conform to an applicable warranty; Apple is not responsible for any claims relating to the app (including product liability claims, claims that the app does not comply with legal or regulatory requirements, consumer protection claims, privacy claims, or claims that the app infringes third-party intellectual property rights), which are our responsibility; you confirm that you are not in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as "terrorist supporting", and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties; and Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you. 27.2. If you downloaded PocketStage from Google Play, the Google Play Terms of Service also apply to your use of Google Play.

28. Final provisions

28.1. If a provision of these Terms is invalid, the rest remains valid. 28.2. If we do not enforce a right at a given moment, this does not mean we waive it. 28.3. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms to anyone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations to another company in case of a reorganisation or sale of PocketStage, provided your rights under these Terms are not reduced; we will tell you in advance. 28.4. These Terms are available in English and in Romanian (pocketstage.app/ro/terms). If the two versions differ, the Romanian version prevails. 28.5. These Terms enter into force on 21 October 2026.