Versepond

Terms of Service

Effective date: 2026-07-21 · Last updated: 2026-09-03

These Terms govern your use of the Versepond website and products (Versepond Hymnals and future lines), together the “Services”, provided by Versepond Digital (a sole proprietorship registered in Kenya, “Versepond”, “we”, “us”). By using the Services you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.

1. Your account

  • One Versepond account gives you access across Versepond products. You are responsible for your account and for keeping your credentials secure.
  • You must be at least 16 (or have parental/guardian consent where required).
  • You may sign in with email or a supported provider (e.g. Google). You agree the information you provide is accurate.

2. Licence to use the Services

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Services for your personal, non-commercial use, subject to these Terms.

3. Content & intellectual property

  • The Services and their content (software, design, text, audio, and compilations) are owned by Versepond or its licensors and protected by law.
  • Hymn and related content is provided on the basis of public-domain hymn texts and tunes and/or content used with permission, together with original transcriptions, engravings, and arrangements created by Versepond. You may use it within the Services for personal worship/study; you may not redistribute, resell, or extract it except as the Services expressly allow.
  • Your content: content you create (e.g. favorites, notes, backups) remains yours; you grant us a licence to host and process it solely to provide the Services. For comments you post publicly, you additionally grant us a worldwide, royalty-free licence to display, store, moderate and remove them within the Services (see §4.1).
  • Copyright complaints: if you believe content infringes your rights, contact support@versepond.com with details and we will respond in line with applicable law.

3.1 Personalised score copies

Musical scores (notated hymnals) are delivered to you as personal copies. Each one is marked with details identifying the account that requested it — a short account code repeated faintly across the page, and your account email in a line at the foot of the page.

  • This does not limit what you may properly do with a score. Read it, print it, project it for your congregation, and sing or rehearse from it as much as you like.
  • It exists so copies are attributable. If a score is shared or published outside what these Terms allow, the mark lets us identify the account it came from. We use it only for that purpose, and only where we reasonably believe these Terms have been breached.
  • Because the mark includes your email, a score you pass to someone else discloses your address to them. That is one reason to keep the file to yourself.
  • Do not remove, obscure or alter the mark, or use tools designed to strip it (see §4).

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to: misuse, disrupt, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services; reverse engineer or circumvent security or entitlement controls; remove, obscure or alter the personalised marking on a score (§3.1); scrape or bulk-extract content; infringe others’ rights; or use the Services unlawfully.

4.1 Comments & community rules

Some Versepond Hymnals apps let signed-in members post public comments on a hymn. Anyone using the app can read them. By commenting you agree to these rules, which you are shown once before your first comment:

  • Be kind and stay on the hymn. Comments are for sharing what a hymn means, its history, or how it is sung.
  • Not allowed: hateful, harassing, threatening or abusive content; obscenity or sexual content; spam, advertising or links; personal data of others; impersonation; content that is unlawful, infringes rights, or targets a person or group on the basis of a protected characteristic.
  • Screening and moderation. Comments are screened automatically before they are posted and may be refused. We may hide, edit-lock or remove any comment, and close comments on any hymn, at any time and without notice. We are not obliged to pre-screen, monitor or keep any comment.
  • Consequences. Refused or removed comments count against your account. Repeated or serious breaches lead to temporary mutes and then a permanent ban from commenting. Bans may be applied without a further warning.
  • Your tools. Every comment can be reported (with a reason) and any commenter can be blocked, which hides their comments from you. Reports are reviewed by us.
  • Your comments. You may edit a comment for a short time after posting and delete it at any time. Deleting your account deletes your comments. Your commenting display name is shown next to your comments to everyone.

5. Subscriptions & payments

Some features require a paid subscription. Purchases, renewals, cancellations, and refunds are governed by the Subscription & Refund Terms, which form part of these Terms. Entitlements are tied to your account and may be honored across Versepond surfaces (e.g. web and app) for the same account.

6. Advertising

The Services may display advertising. Ads may be provided by third parties subject to their own terms and policies.

7. Changes to the Services

We may add, change, or discontinue features. We aim to avoid breaking existing functionality but do not guarantee any feature will remain available.

8. Disclaimers

The Services are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind to the extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted or error-free.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by the laws of Kenya, Versepond will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits, or goodwill arising from your use of the Services.

10. Termination

You may stop using the Services and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms or where required by law.

11. Governing law & disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Kenya. Disputes are subject to the courts of Nairobi, Kenya, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protections in your jurisdiction.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms; the “Last updated” date will change and, for material changes, we will provide notice. Continued use means you accept the updated Terms.

13. Contact

Versepond Digital — support@versepond.com · +254 118 701280.