Last updated: April 21, 2026
These Terms of Use (the "Terms") govern access to and use of the website guitarscientist.com (the "Service"), operated by IMPACT SRL, an Italian limited liability company with registered office at Via G.E. di Velo n. 95, 36100 Vicenza (VI), Italy, VAT number 04548760240, registered at the Vicenza Business Register under no. VI-412310, certified email (PEC) impactsrl24@pec.it, contact email jay@guitarscientist.com (hereinafter "IMPACT SRL", "we", "us", "our").
By using the Service you agree to these Terms in full. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
Authoritative version. The Italian version of these Terms is the official, authoritative version. This English version is provided as a courtesy. In case of discrepancy the Italian version prevails.
Using the Service implies full acceptance of these Terms. We may modify the Terms at any time:
The Service is intended for adults. To register, you must declare that you are at least 18 years old. If we discover that an Account has been created by a minor in breach of this provision, the Account will be suspended and related personal data deleted, except where retention is required by law.
To access functionality requiring authentication you must create an Account providing accurate, complete and up-to-date information, and keep it so.
You are responsible for the confidentiality of your Account credentials and for any activity performed through the Account. You must notify us promptly of any unauthorised use. We cannot be held liable for losses arising from failure to safeguard credentials.
We reserve the right to refuse registration, reject a username we deem offensive, misleading or infringing third-party rights, or suspend an Account that breaches these Terms.
The Service allows you to create, save and share musical diagrams and related content, interact with other Users and access community features.
By using the Service, IMPACT SRL grants you a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Service in compliance with these Terms for personal purposes and — if you have an active Membership — for the commercial and professional purposes allowed by your plan.
Copyright and other intellectual property rights in User Content remain with the User who created it. By publishing such Content on the Service, the User represents and warrants:
(a) that they are the author or hold all rights and permissions necessary to publish it; (b) that the Content does not infringe any third-party right (including copyright, trademarks, personality rights, trade secrets); (c) that the Content does not breach any law, regulation or authority's order.
To enable IMPACT SRL to operate the Service, the User grants a free, non-exclusive, worldwide, non-sublicensable licence (save as needed for the Service's technical providers), limited to the following strictly operational purposes:
(a) host, store, reproduce, transmit and make the Content visible on the Service according to the visibility settings (public/private) chosen by the User; (b) generate thumbnails, previews, format conversions, adaptations for different devices and technical optimisations; (c) include public Content in the Service's navigation pages (feed, profiles, lists, internal search); (d) send email notifications that reference the Content (e.g. "Tizio commented on your diagram"); (e) allow indexing by traditional search engines, as set out in §12; (f) perform and retain technical backups for security, audit and recovery purposes.
Duration. The licence operates only while the Content remains published on the Service according to the visibility settings chosen by the User. If the User changes visibility (from public to private) or deletes the Content, IMPACT SRL will cease active uses within a reasonable technical timeframe, save:
No active promotional use. IMPACT SRL does not use User Content for marketing or active promotion on third-party channels (advertising, social campaigns, commercial materials that feature the Content as an example). Any promotional use identifying specific Content or a specific User requires the prior explicit consent of the User concerned.
None of the licences above transfers ownership of the Content, nor obliges IMPACT SRL to pay any fee, right or royalty in any form.
When a User publishes a public diagram on the Service, they automatically grant other Users a free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to use such diagram as a basis or reference for creating derivative works, for non-commercial purposes. Commercial uses of the derivative diagram require the original author's explicit consent.
By publishing, the User accepts this sharing regime and waives financial claims against other Users for non-commercial use of their public diagrams as reference.
Derivative works created by other Users while a diagram was public remain valid even if the author of the original subsequently changes its visibility or removes it from publication: the derivative work belongs to whoever created it.
We may remove or make inaccessible User Content that we reasonably believe breaches these Terms, applicable law or third-party rights. Removal may occur without prior notice where required by law, authority's order, or to protect the integrity of the Service and other Users.
Content deleted by the User (or by the Administrator) may be retained for a limited time in backups for technical and security purposes.
Diagrams the User creates and saves on the Service remain the User's property and may be used freely for any purpose, including without limitation:
An active Membership is not required for commercial use of one's own diagrams, nor is any attribution to IMPACT SRL or guitarscientist.com mandatory. Voluntary attribution (e.g. "Diagrams made with guitarscientist.com") is appreciated but never required.
Restrictions:
(a) Commercial use of diagrams published by other Users and employed as templates remains subject to §6.3 (non-commercial use unless the original author gives explicit consent).
(b) Bulk redistribution of diagrams extracted from the Service — including packs, datasets, collections compiled via scraping or automated use — is not allowed, regardless of who owns the individual diagrams.
(c) It is not allowed to use trademarks, logos, screenshots or distinctive graphic elements of guitarscientist.com in ways that suggest endorsement, official partnership or affiliation that does not exist.
IMPACT SRL reserves the right to suspend activity that, while nominally falling within the above permission, is manifestly aimed at circumventing the economic model of the Service (e.g. creation of multiple Accounts to abuse the free tier).
By using the Service, the User agrees not to post, upload or distribute content that:
The reference to "unlawful" content automatically includes all content whose publication, possession or distribution constitutes a criminal offence under Italian law.
Users may report Content they believe breaches these Terms or the law through the Service's built-in reporting system. We will review reports within reasonable timeframes.
If you believe Content published on the Service infringes your copyright, send us a notice at jay@guitarscientist.com stating:
We will respond within 14 working days and, if the claim is well-founded, we will remove or make inaccessible the content.
Pursuant to EU Regulation 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act), should we remove any of your Content or suspend your Account, we will provide a written statement of reasons (unless prevented by law) and you may lodge a complaint by writing to jay@guitarscientist.com within 6 months of being notified of the decision. We will review the complaint and respond within reasonable timeframes.
If the complaint is rejected, you may use the out-of-court dispute resolution mechanisms provided by the DSA, or bring proceedings before the competent courts pursuant to section 20 of these Terms.
The Service offers paid plans whose description, price, duration and features are set out on the /upgrade page. Prices are expressed in Euros (EUR) and include VAT where applicable.
Payments are processed exclusively through PayPal. IMPACT SRL does not store or directly handle payment card data. PayPal is governed by its own terms.
Subscription plans (e.g. Annual Subscription) renew automatically at the end of each billed period, through PayPal, at the same terms and price agreed at activation. The renewal price will never be unilaterally increased for a User who keeps the subscription active; any price-list change applies only to new activations.
The User may turn off auto-renewal at any time from the Account page. The change takes effect from the following cycle: the Membership remains active until the end of the already-paid period.
One-time plans (e.g. One Year Membership, add-on packs) are single payments without auto-renewal. Features enabled by the plan remain available for the duration set by the plan.
This section reflects the mandatory pre-contractual disclosure required by art. 49 of the Italian Consumer Code (implementing EU Directive 2011/83/EU). It applies exclusively to Users qualifying as Consumers resident or domiciled in the European Union.
Under art. 52 et seq. of the Italian Consumer Code, EU Consumers have the right to withdraw without reason from a Membership purchase within 14 days from payment. To exercise it, send a notice to jay@guitarscientist.com within the deadline; refunds are processed via PayPal in the following working days.
Outside this statutory case, no refunds are issued: see §9.6.
Save as provided under section 9.5 and in cases of non-conformity of the digital service under Italian Consumer Code art. 135-octies et seq., no refunds are issued for payments already made, including:
In case of unjustified chargeback, we reserve the right to suspend the Account pending resolution of the dispute and to charge back any bank costs incurred.
The User may delete their Account at any time from the Account page. Deletion involves:
After Account deletion, we no longer have tools to authenticate requests for removal of specific Content after the fact, unless the requester provides sufficient proof of authorship.
The Service, including code, interface, trademarks, graphics, sounds, documentation, algorithms and any other element not constituting User Content, is owned exclusively by IMPACT SRL or its licensors and is protected by Italian and international copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws.
Any reproduction, distribution, modification, decompilation or reverse engineering of the Service or parts thereof is prohibited, save as permitted by mandatory law.
The following is expressly prohibited:
Exception: traditional search engines (Googlebot, Bing, DuckDuckGo and analogues) may access the Service solely for indexing purposes to return search results to end users. AI service bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, PerplexityBot, and analogues) are explicitly excluded from this exception.
Breach of these provisions will be pursued by all available legal means, including damages claims and injunctive relief.
To provide the Service we rely on the following providers:
These parties process data as processors or independent controllers. Details and their respective privacy notices are in our Privacy Policy.
Processing of personal data is described in the Privacy Policy, an integral part of these Terms. By using the Service the User confirms having read it.
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, IMPACT SRL disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including — without limitation — warranties of uninterrupted operation, error-freedom, security, fitness for a particular purpose, compatibility with any device or configuration, perpetual retention of Content.
Mandatory rights granted to Consumers under the Italian Consumer Code, in particular conformity of the digital service under art. 135-octies et seq., remain unaffected.
Nature of the Service. The Service is a tool for editing and sharing musical diagrams for educational and creative purposes. It is NOT, and is not intended as, critical infrastructure for any professional, business, educational or other activity the User may conduct. The User must independently maintain local copies, backups and business-continuity plans for any use of the Service relevant to their activity: IMPACT SRL does not replace these tools and cannot guarantee continuous availability of the Service.
Exclusions. In no event shall IMPACT SRL be liable for:
Cap. To the extent applicable law permits a quantification of liability, IMPACT SRL's total liability towards the User for any claim relating to the Service (whether in contract, tort or otherwise) shall in no event exceed the greater of (a) EUR 50 (fifty) or (b) the total amount paid by the User to IMPACT SRL in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to liability.
Mandatory provisions. The limitations above do NOT apply in cases of wilful misconduct or gross negligence of IMPACT SRL, personal injury, and other cases in which Italian law prohibits such limitation, including Consumer rights under art. 135-octies et seq. of the Italian Consumer Code concerning conformity of the digital service.
IMPACT SRL is not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including — without limitation — internet outages, third-party infrastructure failures (cloud providers, CDNs, payment processors, DNS), cyberattacks, public authority orders, natural disasters, pandemics, armed conflicts, strikes. In such cases, contractual obligations are suspended for the time strictly necessary to overcome the event.
We may suspend or terminate the User's Account, at our reasonable discretion, in case of:
In case of termination for cause attributable to the User, no refund is due for residual Memberships. Provisions intended to survive termination (in particular sections 6, 11, 15, 16, 20) remain in force.
Until 9 October 2024 the Service was operated by IMPACT di Motta Giuseppe, a sole proprietorship. As of 9 October 2024 the Service and related contractual relationships have been transferred to IMPACT SRL, which succeeds in all rights and obligations. Continued use of the Service by existing Users as of that date constitutes acceptance of the succession.
Any relationship, transaction, claim or title arisen before 9 October 2024 is assumed by IMPACT SRL.
These Terms are governed by Italian law.
For disputes with Users who are Consumers, the Consumer's forum applies pursuant to art. 66-bis of the Italian Consumer Code (the courts of the place where the Consumer is resident or domiciled on Italian territory; for Consumers resident in other EU Member States, art. 18 of Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 applies).
For disputes with non-Consumer Users (professionals, businesses, entities), the Court of Vicenza, Italy, has exclusive jurisdiction.
jay@guitarscientist.com) or, for formal or legal communications, to the PEC impactsrl24@pec.it.For any request relating to these Terms, contact:
jay@guitarscientist.comimpactsrl24@pec.it