Acceptance of these Terms
By creating a Mivia Sign account or using any part of
the service, you agree to these Terms of Service
("Terms"). If you don't agree, don't use the service.
These Terms form a binding agreement between you and
Venezia LLC, a Wyoming limited
liability company trading as Mivia ("Mivia", "we",
"us").
The service
Mivia Sign embeds inaudible cryptographic signatures
into audio files and lets those signatures be
verified. The service includes the website at this
domain, the Mivia Sign DAW plugin (AU / VST3 / CLAP),
and related APIs.
We may add, change, or remove features. We will give
reasonable notice of material changes that reduce
functionality you are currently paying for.
Your account
Eligibility. You must be at least 16
years old to create a Mivia Sign account. You must be
at least 18 years old to subscribe to a Pro plan,
because our payment processor (Stripe) requires the
account holder of a paid subscription to be 18 or
older. If your jurisdiction sets a higher age of
digital consent than 16, that higher age applies. We
don't direct the service to anyone below these ages.
If we find out someone is below the applicable age,
we will close the account.
Accuracy. Give us accurate
information when you register and keep it up to date.
Security. Keep your credentials
confidential and tell us promptly at
[email protected]
if you think your account has been accessed without
your authorisation. You are responsible for activity
on your account. "Credentials" means whichever
sign-in factors you have enabled: your password,
any passkeys you have registered, your
authenticator-app code if you have
two-factor authentication enabled, and the
single-use backup codes generated when you turn
two-factor on. Passkeys are tied to the device or
keychain that holds them. If you can no longer
sign in with a passkey, sign in another way and
remove the unreachable key from account settings
before adding a new one. Treat backup codes the
way you would a password. Each works once.
Electronic communications. By using
Mivia Sign, you agree that we may send you notices,
including legal notices and notices about changes to
the service, by email to the address on your account
and by in-app message. Email satisfies any requirement
that a notice be in writing.
Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Sign audio you do not have the rights to sign, or falsely claim authorship of work you did not create.
- Upload content that infringes third-party rights, violates applicable law, or is intended to harass, defame, or deceive.
- Reverse-engineer, disassemble, or attempt to bypass our watermarking, verification, or OpenTimestamps systems.
- Use the service to distribute malware, conduct automated abuse, or interfere with the operation of the service.
- Resell, sublicense, or wrap the service in a product you charge others for without our prior written permission. If you want to build commercial detection or verification on top of Mivia, write to [email protected].
We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach this
section. We reserve the right to cooperate with law
enforcement and to disclose account information where
required by law.
Your content and authorship
You keep all rights to the audio you upload and the
metadata you submit ("Your Content"). You grant Mivia
a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to process
Your Content solely to provide the service: to
watermark, store, and make it available for
verification at your direction.
When you sign a track, Mivia records a manifest (a
track identifier, the watermark, a timestamp, and the
public half of your signing identity) and anchors it
to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps. These records are
intentionally permanent and are how authorship is
later proved. You can delete your account (see
Termination), but the
on-chain anchor itself is immutable by design (see
Permanent on-chain records).
Mivia's intellectual property
The Mivia Sign service, plugin, website, brand assets,
and underlying watermarking technology are the
property of Mivia. We grant you a personal,
non-transferable, revocable licence to use the
service under these Terms. Nothing here transfers
ownership of any Mivia intellectual property to you.
"Mivia", "Mivia Sign", and associated logos are
trademarks of Venezia LLC. Don't use them without our
written permission, except to refer to the service in
ordinary descriptive language.
DAW plugin licence
The Mivia Sign DAW plugin (AU, VST3, CLAP) is part of
the service covered by these Terms and is included
with an active Pro subscription. While your Pro
subscription is active we grant you a personal,
non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to
install and use the plugin on machines you own or
control, solely to sign audio you are entitled to
sign.
You will not redistribute the plugin, sub-license it,
reverse-engineer it, or use it outside an
authenticated Mivia Sign session. When your
subscription ends or your account is closed, your
licence to the plugin ends and you must uninstall it.
The plugin is covered by the same warranty disclaimer
and limitation of liability as the rest of the
service.
Recipient labels (data-processing agreement)
When you attach a recipient label to a signed track
(for example, the name or email of an A&R contact
you have sent a copy to), you are the data controller
of that recipient's personal data and Mivia acts as a
data processor on your behalf. This section, together
with our Privacy Policy, forms
the data-processing agreement (DPA) required by
Article 28 of the GDPR and UK GDPR for that
processing.
Scope. We process recipient labels
only to store them against your signed manifest,
display them to you, and surface them in the scan
activity for that manifest.
Your instructions. We process labels
on your documented instructions, which are the
actions you take in the product (creating, editing,
or deleting a label). We won't use labels for any
other purpose, won't disclose them to third parties
except as required by law, and will tell you if a
legal obligation requires us to act outside your
instructions, unless we are prohibited from telling
you.
Your responsibility. You confirm you
have a lawful basis under applicable data-protection
law for naming each recipient. Where appropriate, you
should tell the recipient that the track they have
received is watermarked.
Confidentiality. Mivia personnel with
access to labels are bound by confidentiality
obligations.
Sub-processors. We use the
sub-processors listed in our Privacy Policy
(Cloudflare, Stripe, Resend) to run the service. You
authorise these sub-processors. We will tell you
before we add or replace one, and you can object by
closing your account.
Security and transfers. We apply the
security measures and international-transfer
mechanisms set out in our Privacy Policy.
Data-subject rights. If a recipient
contacts Mivia to exercise rights over a label, we
will forward the request to you because you are the
controller. You must respond within the timeframes
your local law requires.
Information rights. On reasonable
written request, and no more than once a year, we
will give you the information you need to demonstrate
compliance with Article 28 obligations. On-site
audits are not available at the Pro tier.
Deletion. When you close your
account, we delete the related label data in line
with the retention section of the Privacy Policy,
including its backup carve-out. To delete an
individual label or manifest before closing your
account, email
[email protected].
Liability. Our liability under this
section is subject to the overall limitation of
liability in these Terms.
Permanent on-chain records
Each track you sign produces a cryptographic timestamp
anchored to the Bitcoin blockchain through
OpenTimestamps. By the nature of public blockchains,
the anchor is permanent, public, and outside Mivia's
control. By signing a track, you acknowledge:
- The on-chain anchor cannot be deleted, modified, or recalled by Mivia, by you, or by anyone else, once created.
- The anchor itself contains a hash, not your name, your email, or the audio. It is not personally identifying on its own.
- When you delete a manifest or close your account, we remove the records on our side that link the anchor back to you. The anchor itself remains on the blockchain.
- You should not sign tracks you do not intend to commit to a permanent record.
If you do not want to create a permanent record, do
not sign the track.
Public certificate pages
Every Mivia signature has a public certificate page
at /c/<mivia-id>. The page is open to anyone,
no Mivia account required. When you sign a track
you are publishing this certificate, and you should
treat it as public from the moment of signing.
The certificate shows the title and creator name
you provided at sign time, the date of signing,
the Mivia ID, and the Bitcoin transaction that
anchors the record. It does not show your library,
your scan history, your collaborators, or the
recipients of any per-recipient variants. Those
stay private to your account.
Anyone with a Mivia ID can paste it at
/database to open the
matching certificate. Anyone with the audio file
can scan it at /scan to reach
the same record. Neither route requires a Mivia
account.
Renaming a track in your library after signing
changes the display title in your own account
only. The title shown on the public certificate
is the one you provided at sign time and cannot
be edited afterwards.
What the service is and isn't
Mivia Sign is a tool, not a guarantee. A few things
you should understand about how it works:
Watermark survival. Our watermarks
are designed to survive normal distribution: lossy
compression (MP3, AAC, Opus), format conversion,
mastering, EQ, dynamics, and screen-capture playback.
They are not guaranteed to survive aggressive
transformations such as heavy time-stretching, large
pitch shifts, re-tracking in a DAW, re-recording
through a microphone in a noisy environment,
deliberate adversarial removal, or remastering by a
human engineer trying to defeat the mark.
Not legal evidence on its own. A
Mivia signature is a technical record: a hash of your
audio, a public signing key under your control, and a
Bitcoin-anchored timestamp. It is evidence that a
specific file existed at a specific time and was
signed by the holder of a specific key. It is not a
legal determination of authorship, ownership, or
infringement. We do not provide expert-witness
services, courtroom testimony, or chain-of-custody
attestations. You may submit our technical records as
exhibits in your own proceedings; what they prove is
for that forum to decide.
Per-recipient labels are evidence, not
proof. When you sign one track for several
recipients and a copy later turns up on a public site,
the recipient label on the matching copy tells you
which labelled copy was scanned. It does not, on its
own, prove that the named recipient leaked the file.
They may have shared it under your authorisation, had
a machine compromised, lost a drive, or passed it on.
Treat the label as a strong signal that warrants a
conversation, not as a conclusion.
Subscriptions and billing
The Free plan gives limited access at no charge. The
Pro plan is offered at the prices shown on the
Pricing page, in US dollars.
Currently: $12.99 per month or
$129 per year. Prices are stated
exclusive of taxes; VAT, GST, or sales tax is added at
checkout where Stripe Tax determines it applies, and
is remitted by Stripe.
Payment processor. Payments are
handled by Stripe. Stripe collects your card details
directly; we never see your card number. By
subscribing, you also accept Stripe's terms.
Auto-renewal and your consent. Your
subscription renews automatically at the end of each
billing period (monthly or annual) at the then-current
price, until you cancel. By clicking Subscribe at
checkout, you give your express affirmative consent
to the recurring charge, the billing frequency, the
price, and the cancellation procedure. Stripe retains
the consent record.
Cancellation. You can cancel at any
time using the Manage button on the
Pricing page (which opens
Stripe's customer portal) or by emailing
[email protected].
Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current
billing period; Pro features remain available until
then. We don't require a phone call, a mailed letter,
or a retention conversation.
Refunds. Payments are non-refundable
except where required by law (including the EU and UK
cooling-off rights below) or where we choose to issue
a refund at our discretion. Cancellation stops future
renewals; it doesn't refund the current period.
Renewal notices. Where applicable
consumer-protection law (including the California
and other state automatic-renewal statutes
referenced below) requires advance notice of a
renewal, you'll receive a reminder email before the
charge, showing the renewal date, the amount, and a
link to cancel.
Failed payments. If a charge fails,
Stripe retries on its standard schedule (typically up
to four attempts over about two weeks). If all
retries fail, your Pro features pause and your
account reverts to Free. We do not delete your data
during the grace period.
Price changes. We may change prices
for future billing periods. We will give you at least
30 days' notice by email before any price increase
takes effect on your subscription, and you can cancel
before it does.
California, New York, Florida and other
states with automatic-renewal laws. The
above terms are intended to satisfy California
Business and Professions Code §§17600 et seq.
(including AB 2863), New York General Business Law
§527-a, Florida Statutes §501.165, and similar laws.
You can cancel through the same channel you used to
subscribe and we'll retain your renewal-consent
record for the period these laws require.
EU and UK cooling-off period
If you live in the EU, EEA, or UK and you are buying
for personal use, you have 14 days from your
subscription date to cancel and receive a refund,
without giving a reason. To use the right, email
[email protected] or
cancel from your account before the 14 days are up.
Mivia Sign is a digital service. By starting to use
the service during the 14-day period (for example, by
signing a track), you expressly consent to immediate
performance and acknowledge that you lose the right
to withdraw once performance has begun. If you
withdraw after starting to use the service but before
the period ends, we may charge a proportionate amount
for the use you made of it.
Termination
By you. You can close your account at
any time from Your settings.
By us, for cause. We may suspend
access immediately, without notice, if we reasonably
believe you are materially breaching these Terms,
that your account is compromised, or that immediate
action is required to protect the service or its
users. Where possible we'll tell you what's wrong and
give you a chance to fix it. We may terminate for
material breach or non-payment on 30 days' notice, or
immediately for fraud, illegal use, abuse of staff,
repeated infringement, or where the law requires.
By us, for convenience. We may
retire the service or any plan on 90 days' notice by
email. If we do this while you have a paid
subscription, we will refund any prepaid fees for the
unused portion of the term.
Data export window. For 30 days
after termination of a paid account, you can request
export of your signed-track manifests and account
data by emailing
[email protected].
After 30 days we delete in line with the retention
schedule in the
Privacy Policy.
After termination. Bitcoin-anchored
manifests remain publicly verifiable, as described
under Permanent on-chain records.
That is the point of the service.
Warranty disclaimer
The service is provided "as is" and "as available".
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Mivia
disclaims all warranties, express or implied,
including merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose, non-infringement, and uninterrupted or
error-free operation. You use the service at your own
risk.
Nothing in this section limits or excludes any
statutory right you have as a consumer that cannot be
limited or excluded by law. If you are a UK consumer,
this includes your rights under the Consumer Rights
Act 2015. If you are an EU or EEA consumer, this
includes your statutory rights under EU consumer
protection law.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Mivia's total
aggregate liability to you for any claim arising out
of or relating to the service, whether in contract,
tort (including negligence), strict liability, or
otherwise, will not exceed the greater of
US$100 or the fees you paid Mivia in
the twelve months before the event giving rise to the
claim. Mivia is not liable for indirect, incidental,
special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for
loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability
for: (a) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (b)
gross negligence or wilful misconduct; (c) death or
personal injury caused by our negligence; (d) for UK
consumers, your rights under the Consumer Rights Act
2015; (e) for EU and EEA consumers, your statutory
rights under EU consumer protection law; or (f) any
other liability that cannot be excluded under
applicable law.
Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless
Mivia, its officers and contractors from any
third-party claim, demand, loss, or expense
(including reasonable legal fees) arising out of:
(a) Your Content, including audio you sign and
recipient labels you attach; (b) your breach of these
Terms or applicable law; or (c) your infringement of
any third party's intellectual property, privacy, or
publicity rights.
We will tell you promptly about any covered claim,
give you reasonable cooperation, and not settle
without your consent (not to be unreasonably
withheld). You may control the defence with counsel
of your choice, subject to our right to participate.
For consumers in the EU, UK, and other jurisdictions
where consumer indemnity obligations are limited by
law, this indemnity applies only to the extent
permitted by that law and only to claims arising from
your wilful misconduct or breach of these Terms.
Copyright notices
We respect copyright. If you believe content on Mivia
Sign infringes your copyright, send a notice to
[email protected].
A compliant notice should include: your physical or
electronic signature; identification of the
copyrighted work; identification of the material you
claim is infringing and where it is on the service;
your contact information; a statement that you have a
good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by
the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a
statement, under penalty of perjury, that the
information is accurate and that you are authorised
to act on the copyright owner's behalf. We respond to
properly formed notices, may send counter-notices,
and may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. Material changes are
announced at least 30 days in advance by email and an
in-app notice. If you continue to use the service
after the effective date, you accept the updated
Terms. If you don't agree, you can close your account
before the change takes effect and, where you've
prepaid for a future period, we'll refund the unused
portion.
Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of
Wyoming, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.
The state and federal courts located in Wyoming have
exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute.
Consumer carve-out. If you are a
consumer resident in the EU, EEA, UK, or Switzerland,
nothing in this section deprives you of the
protection of the mandatory consumer-protection rules
of your country of habitual residence, or of the
right to bring proceedings in the courts of that
country where local law guarantees that right.
General
Entire agreement. These Terms,
together with our Privacy Policy,
are the entire agreement between you and Mivia about
the service and replace any earlier agreement on the
same subject.
Severability. If any part of these
Terms is held unenforceable, the rest stays in
force.
No waiver. If we don't enforce a
term, that isn't a waiver of our right to enforce it
later.
Assignment. We may assign these
Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or
sale of all or substantially all of our assets, on
at least 30 days' advance notice by email. You may
not assign these Terms without our written consent.
Force majeure. We aren't responsible
for delay or failure to perform caused by events
outside our reasonable control, including natural
disasters, war or civil unrest, government action,
large-scale internet or infrastructure outages, and
major denial-of-service attacks. We'll use reasonable
efforts to resume normal performance as soon as the
event passes.
Headings. The section titles in
these Terms are for reference only and do not affect
interpretation.
Last updated: 26 May 2026
