Garoove Terms of Use

Effective date: October 12, 2026
Last updated: October 29, 2026 (v6)
App: Garoove for Android, an AI DJ that talks back (package com.fusiontechai.aidj). Garoove is in beta (testing).
Made by: Fusion Tech AI LLC, a Maryland limited liability company ("we", "us", "our")
Contact: ricky@fusiontechai.com

These are the rules for using Garoove. What Garoove collects, why, who gets it, how long it is kept and how you delete it is in the Garoove Privacy Policy at https://fusiontechai.com/aidj/privacy. It is the only copy of our privacy policy, and it is part of what you agree to.

When you tap Agree and start (or Agree and play / Agree and open) on Garoove's first screen, or when you use Garoove, you agree to these terms and the Garoove Privacy Policy. You also agree to YouTube's Terms of Service, and Google's Privacy Policy covers what happens inside YouTube's player.

The short version

• Songs come from YouTube and play in YouTube's own player. The music is always free.
• Your DJ is an AI. It can be wrong, and its roasts are jokes.
• No account and no sign-in. We don't put ads in Garoove (YouTube's player may show YouTube's own ads), and we don't sell your data.
• What you say to the DJ goes to our server and to AI services so the DJ can answer. Our server's log deletes itself after 30 days.
• Your lists, DJ memory and settings are saved on your phone. Your DJ memory and some of your song lists also go along with your questions to the AI (the Privacy Policy says exactly what).
• Share links are public. Turn one off any time in Library > My shares > Unshare.
• To erase it all: Settings > Legal & privacy > Delete my data.

1. What Garoove is

Garoove is a music app with an AI DJ that talks. You ask for songs out loud or by typing. The DJ picks them, plays them and talks about them. The songs come from YouTube.

2. It's a beta

Garoove is still being tested. That means:

• Features can change, break or go away without notice.
• The DJ's server (we call it the "gateway") runs on a computer we operate, and it is moving to a hosted server. While the server is offline, the DJ can't talk, search or answer.
• Please tell us what breaks: ricky@fusiontechai.com.

3. YouTube's terms apply too

Garoove uses YouTube API Services. By using Garoove, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. What happens inside YouTube's player is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.

• Garoove is not made, endorsed or sponsored by YouTube or Google.
• Songs and videos belong to their owners. Garoove shows them the way YouTube provides them.
• YouTube can change or end what it offers at any time. If it does, parts of Garoove may stop working.
• If a song can't play inside Garoove, Garoove may offer Watch on YouTube, which opens YouTube's own app or website.

4. The music is always free

• Every song in Garoove comes from YouTube and is always free. Search, play, pause, skip, folders, stations and songs a friend sends all work with or without DJ Lines.
• We never charge for music. Nothing you buy unlocks, improves or removes anything about the music or YouTube's player, including YouTube's ads.
• Songs play only while Garoove is open on your screen. If you leave the app, the song pauses.

5. DJ Lines (Garoove Monthly and Boosts)

These rules apply to DJ Lines in Garoove 1.0.2 and later:

• One DJ Line = one spoken line from your DJ: an intro, a joke, a roast, a story or an answer. DJ Lines pay for the DJ's talk only. They don't buy songs, music, videos, ad removal, background play, downloads, offline listening or access to YouTube.
• New installs get 20 free DJ lines. We never give lines for watching, listening, liking or sharing.
• Garoove Monthly is $4.99 a month (price shown by Google Play) and renews every month until you cancel in Google Play > Payments & subscriptions. Each month gives 200 DJ lines; lines you don't use that month do not carry over.
• Boosts give extra lines that never expire. Google Play handles every payment and the receipt.
• All purchases are final. You get 20 free DJ lines to try Garoove first, so we don't give refunds ourselves; Google Play may still refund under its own policy. If Google Play or your bank reverses a payment, the lines from it are removed; lines you already used stay used.
• Your subscription and Boosts are tied to the Google account you used, and you can restore them through Google Play. Lines you have already used are used up.
• DJ Lines have no cash value and can't be sold or traded.
• When you run out, the music keeps playing. Only the DJ goes quiet.

6. Personal use only

Garoove is for your own personal, non-commercial use. Don't use it to play music for a business, store, bar, gym, event or broadcast. YouTube's terms don't allow that, and neither do we.

7. Your DJ is an AI

• The DJ's lines, song picks, answers, the weather in its own words and the short notes on "near me" tiles are written by artificial intelligence. They can be wrong, out of date or not to your taste. Weather and place details come from outside services, and they can be wrong too.
• A roast is a joke, not a fact about anyone.
• Don't rely on the DJ for anything important: health, safety, money, legal matters, or directions you haven't checked.
• The DJ can open apps, websites and maps for you, but only while Garoove is open on your screen, only secure (https) web pages, and you press the final button. It never orders, pays, books, calls or sends anything for you.

Personalities and safety. You can pick a built-in personality or make your own. Our safety rules go along with every personality, including the ones you make, everywhere the DJ talks (answers, quick lines, folder names, weather, "near me" tiles, chats about a place): no slurs or hate, nothing sexual, no harassing real people, nothing that encourages self-harm or danger, never pretending to be a real person, and roasts aim at music taste only. Every line and every folder name the DJ makes up, in every personality, also passes a filter of words the DJ must never say; a line that trips it is swapped for a neutral one, and a folder name for "Fresh Picks". A personality you make, and every line and folder name made in it, also goes through a safety check. If the check finds a problem, the DJ won't use that personality and switches to a built-in one (and says why), or replaces the line or folder name with a neutral one. If the check can't run right then, nothing unchecked goes out: the DJ talks as a built-in personality (and says why) or keeps the line short and neutral until the check passes. AI can still slip up.

Report a bad line. If the DJ says something offensive, hateful, sexual, dangerous or wrong, tap the flag next to the DJ's words (or press and hold the words), or go to Settings > Legal & privacy > Report a DJ line. A person reviews every report within 7 days. A review can block words, or block the custom personality that said the line, for everyone. The Privacy Policy (section 7) says what a report holds and how long we keep it.

Not a crisis service

Garoove is an AI music app, not a counselor, doctor or emergency service. If you're thinking about hurting yourself, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), or call 911 if you're in danger. When Garoove hears words like that, it stops the personality and shows you 988. Our crisis protocol: https://fusiontechai.com/aidj/safety

8. Share links

• When you share a song or a folder, Garoove makes a public link. Anyone who has the link can open it and see the songs, the folder name and the picture card. Only send it to people you mean to.
• Your name is not on the link or the picture card, unless you turn on Put my first name on it in the share box (it's off by default). Then the first word of your profile name shows on the card, the link's page and the message.
• The link points to songs on YouTube. It doesn't hold copies of the music. Your friend's phone plays the songs in YouTube's player.
• Every link Garoove makes is listed in Library > My shares. Unshare turns a link off for everyone. If our share host can't be reached, Garoove doesn't make a link at all; it shows Retry. Chat apps (like Messenger or WhatsApp) make their own copy of a link's preview, and we can't remove a copy a chat app already made.
• When you open the share box for a song or folder, Garoove gets Google Play ready (Play Integrity). When a share has a card picture, Garoove asks Google Play to confirm it's the real Garoove; a share without a card picture never asks. Without that confirmation the share still goes up, just without the picture.
• Delete my data doesn't turn off links you already sent, and it erases the codes that do. Unshare first. After that, email us the link and we'll take it down. We may also remove links that break these terms, YouTube's rules or the law, or that someone reports to us.
• When a friend's link opens Garoove for the first time, the first screen says a friend sent you music, and it plays only after you tap Agree and play. That also works when you installed Garoove from a friend's link: Garoove reads Google Play's install note on your phone only to show that screen, and sends nothing anywhere until you tap Agree. (If Google Play is slow, you see the normal screen, and the friend's link then waits in the Import box until you tap Open link.) A folder from a link is added to your Library.
• The Privacy Policy (section 8) says exactly what a share sends and keeps.

Copyright complaints

If you believe a song, folder or share link infringes your copyright, see https://garoove.com/dmca. It explains how to send us a notice, how a counter-notice works, and our repeat-infringer policy: we remove links and end access for repeat infringers.

9. Your part

You need to be at least 18 years old to use Garoove.

You agree not to:

• copy, download, record or pass around music or video through Garoove, or try to get around YouTube's player;
• try to make the DJ produce hateful, sexual, violent or illegal content, or make a personality meant to get around the safety rules or to copy a real person;
• use Garoove or share links to harass anyone, to spam, or to share anything you don't have the right to share (copyright notices: https://garoove.com/dmca);
• take apart (reverse-engineer), scrape, overload or break Garoove, our server or our share links;
• use Garoove against the law, or against YouTube's or Google Play's rules.

The DJ remembers things you tell it, like your name or city, so it can talk to you better. That memory lives on your phone and goes along with your questions to the AI services (see the Privacy Policy). Don't tell the DJ passwords, card numbers or other secrets. You can see, fix or erase the DJ's memory in Settings > DJ Memory, and erase everything with Delete my data.

10. Privacy

The Garoove Privacy Policy (https://fusiontechai.com/aidj/privacy) explains what Garoove collects and why, where it goes (our server, AI service providers, YouTube, map, weather and song-recognition services, and our share host), how long it is kept, and how to delete it. In short:

• The microphone and approximate location are asked for only with a plain-words card first, and location only the first time "near me" or the weather needs it.
• "Hey Garoove" is heard on your phone, offline, only while Garoove is open. It's on until you turn it off in Settings. The listening stays on your phone, and nothing it hears leaves your phone. When it hears "Hey Garoove", Garoove may send our server a short note that it woke (no words). What you say goes to the DJ only after "Hey Garoove" or a mic tap. Its speech model (about 40 MB) downloads once, on Wi-Fi, or after Garoove asks you first on mobile data. Music Detective records a short clip only when you tap its mic.
• Your conversation with the DJ is kept separate from every other user's.
• Delete my data (Settings > Legal & privacy) erases what Garoove keeps on your phone and asks our server to delete your records.

11. Changes and ending

• We may update Garoove and these terms. If a change matters, Garoove will ask you to agree again before you keep using it.
• You can stop using Garoove at any time by uninstalling it. If you want our server's records gone right away, use Delete my data first.
• We may suspend or end your use of Garoove if you break these terms, and we may stop offering Garoove. If we stop it while you have unused paid DJ Lines, refunds follow Google Play's refund policy and the law.

12. No warranty

Garoove is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we make no promises that it will always work, be free of errors, or that any song will be available.

In plain words: it's a beta, and things can go wrong.

13. Limit of liability

To the extent the law allows, Fusion Tech AI LLC isn't liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or lost data, arising from Garoove. Our total liability for any claim is limited to what you paid us for DJ Lines in the 12 months before the claim. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

In plain words: if something goes wrong, the most we owe you is what you paid us for DJ Lines in the last year.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, USA. If the law where you live gives you consumer protections that an agreement can't take away, you keep them.

15. Contact

Fusion Tech AI LLC · 109 E Chestnut St, Salisbury, MD 21801, USA · ricky@fusiontechai.com

What changed in v2 (October 12, 2026): the privacy part now lives in one place, the Garoove Privacy Policy (this page used to carry a second copy); share links can carry your first name only if you turn it on, and My shares > Unshare turns a link off; the custom-personality safety check; the DJ opens apps and websites only while Garoove is open, and only secure web pages; the agreement screen for a friend's link (Agree and play).

What changed in v3 (October 12, 2026): every link Garoove makes is listed in My shares (no more basic song links; Retry when the share host can't be reached); the friend's-link agreement screen also shows after installing from a link, with nothing sent until you tap Agree; Play Integrity on share card pictures (Google Play is made ready when you open the share box; only a share with a card picture asks for a token); "Hey Garoove" sends our server only a note that it woke, never the words it heard; the blocked-words filter on every line and every folder name the DJ makes up, and the safety check holds back anything it can't check; a custom personality that fails the safety check is switched off with a reason; a person reviews every report within 7 days.

What changed in v4 (October 12, 2026): Garoove is for adults. You need to be at least 18 years old to use it (it was 13).

What changed in v5 (October 14, 2026): the app is now called Garoove, and its wake phrase is "Hey Garoove"; our mailing address; where to send copyright notices.

What changed in v5.1 (October 14, 2026): Garoove is not a crisis service (section 7); copyright complaints (section 8).

What changed in v6 (October 29, 2026): DJ Lines are now Garoove Monthly ($4.99 a month, 200 lines, no carry-over) and Boosts (extra lines that never expire); the old packs are gone (section 5).