Content & Copyright Notice

Last updated: 26 September 2026

Strumfolio (strumfolio.com) is a tool for managing your own personal song collection, run by an individual developer rather than a company, with a free plan and paid plans. This notice clarifies how content and copyright work within the Service, regardless of which plan an account is on.

1. No built-in song library

Strumfolio does not contain a song catalog or library to browse. There is nothing to search through before you have added anything of your own. Every song that appears in your collection is content you have personally typed in or imported from a file on your own device — with the one exception below.

The one exception is the “Example songbook”, and it is the only thing this app ever puts into an account by itself: a new account is created with it already in place, and an account that no longer has any songbook can add it again from the home screen. It brings in one short song written for Strumfolio itself and a small, fixed set of traditional songs — hymns and folk ballads old enough to be in the public domain in the EU, the UK and the US, kept in this app the same way any public-domain text is kept in any other. It is an ordinary songbook once it is there: rename it, edit it, or delete it outright, and nothing puts it back unless you ask.

The Service does not search the web, scrape third-party sites, or fetch content from external sources on your behalf. Apart from that one fixed set of public-domain songs, nothing enters your collection unless you put it there.

2. What you may keep here

Strumfolio does not ask what a song is or where it came from. Your collection can hold any song you play — your own, someone else's, one you have known for thirty years. What the Service is built for, and all it supports, is personal use: playing, rehearsing, singing.

Two things stay yours to answer for:

• that you came by the song lawfully, and
• that it stays inside that personal use.

Strumfolio neither grants nor can grant any right over the underlying work, and nothing here is a licence to reproduce or distribute it. Whether a personal copy is yours to keep is between you and the law where you live; making a work available to other people is what the law reserves to the rightsholder, and that is the line this notice is about.

Strumfolio does not review, verify, index, or endorse the content you import, and does not make any user's content publicly searchable or browsable by other users — the one exception is the people you let into a Strum Together session, described below.

3. Where personal use ends

Three things this app can do touch that line — a live session, a backup, a printed booklet. Here is where each of them falls.

Strum Together shows the song you play, live, on the screens of people who opened your link, and while the session lasts they can open the rest of your collection too. That is a private performance among people you invited: nobody reaches a session without the link you handed them, and what is shown ends when the session does. It is not a broadcast, and it is not a publishing or distribution feature — it grants no rights over the underlying work to Strumfolio or to anyone in the session, and participants should not record or redistribute what they were shown. How many devices your plan allows changes how many people can be in the room; it does not change what the room is.

The backup and the printable booklet hand you your own collection, as a file or on paper, for yourself. Strumfolio does not review what comes out of either, and what you do with it afterwards is yours to answer for rather than something the Service authorizes.

4. Copyright concerns and other notices about content

If you believe that content stored by a user of Strumfolio infringes your copyright, or is otherwise illegal, contact us at info@strumfolio.com. A notice we can act on says why you consider the content infringing or illegal, identifies it as precisely as you can (the account or the link through which you saw it, and the work concerned), gives your name and an email address we can reply to, and states that you believe in good faith that what you say is accurate. We confirm that we have received it, and every notice is read by a person.

Strumfolio stores content on behalf of its users, which makes it a hosting service under the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065). The address above is our single point of contact for those notices, for the people who send them, for the account holders they concern, and for authorities; we read English and Italian. When we restrict or disable an account because of a notice, we tell the account holder what we did, on what facts and on what ground, and how to reply — and their reply reaches the same address.

Content on Strumfolio lives inside private, individual accounts that we do not routinely access or review — see our Privacy Policy. Because of that, we do not inspect its content to verify a claim ourselves. What we do instead: within a few business days, we forward a complete notice to the account holder and ask them to remove the content or explain why it does not infringe; if the notice is clear-cut or they do not respond, we restrict or disable access to the account rather than inspect its private content ourselves.

The account holder may reply with a counter-notice — for example, that the content is their own work, is in the public domain, is used under a license they hold, or is a personal copy they keep for playing and do not distribute — which we will pass back to you. If the two of you cannot resolve it this way, the dispute remains between you and the account holder, to pursue through whatever legal channels apply.

5. Changes to this notice

We may update this notice from time to time. Significant changes will be communicated through the app or by email.