Effective June 29, 2026 · Version 1.0
Spotsheet is a professional spotting and cueing tool for sound editors. These Terms are a binding agreement between you and Spotsheet. Please read them. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
“Spotsheet,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the Spotsheet service (the “Service”), currently operated by J. Murphy Ryan. We may assign these Terms and the Service to an affiliated company we form; on assignment, that company becomes the operator and these Terms continue in force.
You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Service. The Service is intended for professional and business use in audio post-production.
The Service lets you create spotting sheets and cues against picture, organize and audition sound, capture notes, collaborate with people you invite, and move work into your digital audio workstation. The Service is presently provided free of charge. We may add, change, limit, or discontinue features at any time. We are not obligated to provide any particular feature or uptime.
You may invite others to your projects and grant them per-area permissions (for example, read, write, or edit on specific tabs). You are responsible for whom you invite and for the access you grant. Invited collaborators may view, and depending on their permission contribute to, the projects you share with them. People you collaborate with may, in turn, own projects and invite you.
As between you and us, you retain ownership of the project data, notes, cues, and other materials you create in the Service (“Your Content”). You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, and display Your Content solely to operate, secure, and provide the Service to you and the collaborators you authorize. This license ends when Your Content is deleted, except for residual copies in routine backups and except as described in Section 8.
Spotsheet never stores your sound recordings. To operate and improve the Service, we keep descriptive cue metadata about the sound effects you place (for example category, source library, license information, timecode, revision history, and bounded, non-reconstructable derived descriptors). This is the kind of cue information the industry already uses, and we use it to power features like cue suggestions and to support open formats such as the Universal Category System (UCS). We never retain the underlying source audio in order to do this.
We may create aggregated and de-identified data derived from use of the Service, and use and retain it to operate, analyze, and improve the Service, to develop and improve our products, services, and industry standards (including cue standardization and provenance), and to develop and improve the Service’s own features. Such data does not identify you, is not Your Content, and we do not attempt to re-identify it. We do not sell your personal information or your identifiable work. Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy.
You agree not to: (a) use the Service unlawfully or to infringe others’ rights; (b) attempt to access accounts or data that are not yours; (c) probe, scan, or breach security, or interfere with or disrupt the Service; (d) reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code or the underlying standard except to the extent permitted by law; (e) scrape, harvest, or bulk-export data other than your own; (f) resell or commercially exploit the Service without our consent; or (g) upload malware or unlawful, infringing, or harmful content.
The Service, its software, design, the Spotsheet name and marks, and the methods and standards underlying it (including any patents and patent applications) are owned by us and our licensors and are protected by law. These Terms grant you no rights in them other than the limited right to use the Service as permitted here. If you send us feedback or suggestions, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them without obligation to you.
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that any data will not be lost. You are responsible for maintaining your own backups of materials important to you.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenues, data, or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the Service. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you.
You will indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of the Service, Your Content, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.
You may stop using the Service at any time and may request deletion of your account. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms or if we discontinue the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including 6’s license tail, 8, 10–13, and 15) survive.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The exclusive venue for any dispute will be the state and federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, and you consent to their jurisdiction.
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the “Effective” date above and, where appropriate, notify you. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.
Questions about these Terms: murphy@murphyryan.com.