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# Use Lightify only with services, files, and accounts you are allowed to use.

This page explains Lightify's independent status, user responsibilities, local data handling, and the legal topics that should be reviewed by qualified counsel before broad public distribution.

## Not Legal Advice

This page is a good-faith product notice, not legal advice. Laws and platform terms can change, and different users may be subject to different rules. If you plan to publish, modify, redistribute, monetize, or rely on Lightify, ask a qualified attorney to review your situation.

## Independent Project

Lightify is an independent desktop project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or approved by Spotify. Spotify names, marks, content, APIs, accounts, and services remain governed by Spotify's own terms and policies.

## User Responsibility

You are responsible for using Lightify only with accounts, services, and local files that you have the rights or permission to use. Lightify does not grant rights to Spotify content, third-party content, copyrighted recordings, artwork, metadata, or any other protected material.

Do not use Lightify to avoid payment, bypass platform restrictions, block ads, create unauthorized copies, share copyrighted material, or violate artists', rightsholders', platforms', or local legal requirements.

## Spotify And Platform Terms

Your use of Spotify is governed by Spotify's Terms of Use, Developer Terms, Developer Policy, User Guidelines, and related policies. Spotify may change, restrict, suspend, or revoke access to its services, accounts, APIs, or content according to those terms.

Before using or distributing Lightify with Spotify-related features, review the current Spotify terms directly on Spotify's legal and developer websites.

## Privacy And Local Data

Lightify is designed as a local desktop app. Spotify OAuth tokens, app configuration, downloader configuration, and local runtime logs are stored on the user's own Windows account rather than on a Lightify server.

Lightify sends Spotify API requests needed for user-authorized features such as login, playback control, library views, playlist actions, search, recently played items, and account-authorized metadata. Those requests go to Spotify or supporting local helper processes, not to a Lightify-hosted analytics service.

Lightify does not intentionally collect, sell, broker, or upload user tokens, playlists, listening history, local file paths, or downloader configuration to a Lightify backend.

## Disconnect And Delete Data

You can disconnect Lightify from Spotify by logging out in the app, deleting local Lightify token/config files, and revoking access from your Spotify account settings where applicable.

Downloader helper data may be stored separately in the user's Windows profile, including OnTheSpot configuration and session data. To fully reset downloader setup, remove the local OnTheSpot configuration folder for that Windows user after closing Lightify.

Deleting local configuration may require signing in again and may remove app settings such as selected folders or playback preferences.

## Third-Party Components

Lightify includes or interacts with third-party open-source components, including OnTheSpot and Rust/Tauri components. Third-party components keep their own licenses and attribution requirements. Review bundled license files before redistributing modified builds or installers.

## Attorney Review Checklist

Before broad public distribution or monetization, ask counsel specifically about:

- DMCA 1201 and any anti-circumvention concerns.
- Spotify Terms of Service, Developer Terms, Developer Policy, and User Guidelines.
- Downloader distribution, local copying, metadata/artwork handling, and rightsholder permissions.
- Ad-blocking, ad-skipping, modified clients, or features that could affect advertising or paid-access models.
- Donation, sponsorship, commercial-use, tax, consumer protection, and charitable-solicitation optics.
- Third-party license compliance for bundled source, binaries, installer distribution, and source package obligations.