What we will and will not do.

Your input content. You retain full ownership of any original prompts, ideas, lyrics, or drafts you provide to the Service, including drafts submitted for refinement. We do not claim any copyright, publishing, or other proprietary interest in your input content.

Generated and refined output. To the extent SongForgeAI holds any copyright or other proprietary interest in lyrics or other output produced by the Service in response to your inputs, we assign that interest to you, subject to the operational license below. You are free to record, perform, release, license, sync, and otherwise commercialize this output without attribution or royalty back to SongForgeAI.

Operational license back. To operate the Service on your behalf, you grant SongForgeAI a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, display, and process your input and output within your account for as long as your account is active. This license exists only to operate the Service for you; we do not use it for training, advertising, redistribution, or any other purpose outside your account.

Your prompts, lyrics, and evaluations are sent to third-party AI providers (currently Anthropic) for processing. These providers have their own privacy policies and their own no-training commitments for API traffic.

We do not train any evaluation or generation models on your creative content. Not our models, not third-party models. If we ever offer an opt-in research or training program, it will be a separate, clearly labeled, revocable consent flow — never a default, never implied. Your silence is never consent.

Your songs, evaluations, and refined drafts are stored privately in your account and are not shared with other users unless you explicitly make a song public (via the dashboard visibility toggle or share link).

Song deletion. Deleting a song removes it from your account immediately. Associated evaluations and refinement history are deleted alongside it. Aggregate craft-telemetry rows (composite score, prosody warning count, emotional-arc classification, etc.) remain in our internal metrics pipeline to support the public craft-metrics report, but they carry no reference to your identity, song title, or lyric content — only genre-level and build-level slices, and only when a slice exceeds a 30-row minimum threshold.

Account deletion. On full account deletion we purge: your profile, all songs and evaluations linked to your account, your API keys, your session state, and any personalization data. We retain billing records (Stripe transaction metadata) as required by tax and audit law, and anonymized aggregate telemetry as described above.

This standard is built around a simple creative ethic: AI should help people make more human songs, not more generic ones. The goal is not to automate taste into sameness. The goal is to expose cliché, reward specificity, protect the writer’s voice, and help songwriters move beyond first-draft fluency.

SongForgeAI does not train its evaluation models on user-submitted lyrics without explicit consent. User lyrics remain the property of their writers. A score is a gift from the system to the writer, not an extraction.

A lyric score should not shame the writer. It should give the writer a path. The best use of this standard is not judgment. It is revision.