Last updated October 2026

Terms of service

These terms cover the hosted service at app.bandstand.info and the Bandstand apps. Questions: hello@bandstand.info.

Your band and your account

Whoever starts a band is its first admin. Admins decide who is in the band and what everyone can see is limited to the bands they’re in. Keep your password to yourself, and tell us if you think someone else has it.

Price, trial and billing

A person’s first band is free for 30 days, with no card needed. After that, a yearly plan pays for the bands on it, each with up to 25 people: One band, $24 a year; Three bands, $48 a year; Ten bands, $96 a year. One person’s plan covers everyone in the bands on it. Moving up a plan makes room for more bands; nobody already in a band is removed.

On the web, payments are taken by Polar, which sells the plan on our behalf as the merchant of record: it takes the card, sends receipts and handles sales tax and VAT, under its own terms. In the iPhone and iPad app, the App Store sells it; in the Android app, Google Play does, each under its own terms and at its own prices where they differ. We never see your card details.

A plan renews every year until you cancel it, which you can do any time: from Account → Your plan on the web, or in the App Store’s or Google Play’s subscriptions for a plan bought there. Canceling stops the next renewal; the bands on it keep working until the year it paid for ends. If you’re unhappy within 14 days of a payment on the web, email us and we’ll refund it in full; the App Store and Google Play handle refunds for purchases made through them.

If a band stops paying

When a trial or a paid year ends without renewal, the band becomes read-only: everyone can still sign in, read charts, perform from setlists and download PDFs, but nothing can be changed until someone puts it on their plan. We don’t delete a lapsed band. If you want its data deleted, ask us and we will.

What you put in it

Your charts, setlists, notes and photos stay yours. You give us permission to store them and show them to the members of your band, which is all we do with them. A band’s content is private to that band.

Only upload things you have the right to use. Charts and lyrics are often someone else’s copyright: keeping a private working copy for your band’s own rehearsals and gigs is how this service is meant to be used, and it is your responsibility. We respond to copyright notices as described on our copyright page.

Don’t

• use it for anything unlawful, or to harass anyone;
• try to get into bands or accounts that aren’t yours;
• overload, probe or attack the service;
• resell access to it.

We may suspend a band or account that does, after telling its admin why.

How it’s run

We run the service carefully, with nightly backups, but we can’t promise it will never be down or never lose anything. It’s provided as is. As far as the law allows, our liability for anything that goes wrong is limited to what your band paid us in the previous 12 months.

Leaving, and changes

You can stop using Bandstand at any time; email us to close your band and delete its data. If we change these terms in a way that matters, we’ll email band admins at least 30 days before the change takes effect. If we ever shut the service down, we’ll give at least 60 days’ notice and a way to take your charts with you.