Terms & Conditions

First published July 25, 2026 · Last updated October 31, 2026

1. These terms

These terms are an agreement between you and SATUS LLC ("we", "us"), a limited liability company registered in Washington, United States, which operates soundbuddystudio.com and publishes Sound "Buddy" Studio. By downloading, using or purchasing Sound "Buddy" Studio you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the software.

2. Who we sell to

Who you buy from depends on where you are when you check out.

• In the United States or Canada, you buy from SATUS LLC. These terms are both the contract of sale and your license.
• Everywhere else, you buy through Link (Link, LLC, a Stripe company), which sells the license to you as merchant of record. Your purchase, payment, tax invoice and any refund of the payment are handled by Link under its own terms, which it shows you at checkout. SATUS LLC remains the publisher and licensor of Sound "Buddy" Studio: these terms still govern your license and your use of the software.

Which of the two applies is decided from the country your internet connection comes from at checkout. Purchases may not be available in every country, and we do not sell where United States law prohibits it. You are welcome to download and use the free version from anywhere in the world.

3. Your license

When you purchase Sound "Buddy" Studio we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use it on up to two computers that you own or control. The license does not expire and there is no subscription.

You may not resell, sublicense, rent out or redistribute Sound "Buddy" Studio, share your account credentials, or attempt to circumvent the licensing system. This applies to Sound "Buddy" Studio itself; it does not restrict the third-party components described in section 12, which carry their own licenses and their own permissions.

4. Free version and paid features

The free version makes every effect available in the live preview, and exports always include AI noise reduction at no cost. Without an account it exports 5 times on that computer; a free account raises this to 5 exports a month and keeps the fades in the exported file. A one-time purchase unlocks the rest of the rack for export, with no export limit.

5. Price, payment and taxes

Prices are set in US dollars. The price that applies is the one displayed at the time of purchase.

• United States and Canada: prices are exclusive of any applicable sales tax, which is calculated and added at checkout where we are required to collect it.
• Everywhere else: prices include tax such as VAT or GST. Link collects and accounts for that tax as the seller and issues your tax invoice. Checkout may show the price in your own currency; if you pay in another currency, your bank or card issuer may apply its own conversion.

Payments are processed by Stripe, or by Link through Stripe. We never receive or store your card details. Your purchase is a one-time payment — we will not charge you again or renew anything.

6. Refunds

If Sound "Buddy" Studio is not for you, email support@soundbuddystudio.com within 14 days of your purchase and we will refund it in full. You do not need to explain yourself, though we always appreciate knowing what went wrong.

If you bought through Link, the refund is issued by Link to your original payment method. You can ask us at the address above, or ask Link directly.

This refund promise is in addition to any rights you have under the law of the country where you live, including any right to withdraw from the purchase; it does not reduce them.

A refund returns the application to its free version. Your projects, videos and settings stay exactly where they are — nothing on your computer is deleted.

7. If a purchase is refunded or charged back

When a purchase is refunded — by us or by Link — or reversed through your bank, the associated license is withdrawn and the application returns to the free version. If your computer is offline at the time, this can take up to 14 days to take effect — see section 8.

8. Working offline

A licensed copy of Sound "Buddy" Studio checks in with us periodically while you are online, and keeps working with full paid features for up to 14 days completely offline. After that it needs to reach the internet briefly to confirm the license is still valid.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to reverse engineer, decompile or tamper with the software except where that right cannot lawfully be excluded, not to use it to produce unlawful content, and not to interfere with our servers or other people's use of the service.

10. Your content

Everything you create with Sound "Buddy" Studio remains entirely yours. Your media is processed on your own computer, so we claim no rights over it and normally have no access to it at all.

There is one exception, and it only happens if you ask for it. When you report a problem we cannot reproduce, we may open a troubleshooting window on your account; while it is open, the application can package up your effect settings, technical details of the file you had open, a short piece of its audio from where the problem happened, and its own logs, and send them to us encrypted. The picture from your video is never included. It shows you exactly what it would send, file by file, before anything leaves your computer. We use it only to investigate the fault you reported, we claim no rights over it, and we delete it after 30 days.

Because you decide what to send, please check the list before you send it. If you are working on material you are not free to share — a recording made under an agreement with someone else, for instance — that is your call to make, and you can close the window without sending anything.

11. Our intellectual property

Sound "Buddy" Studio, its name, logo and the software we have written remain the property of SATUS LLC. Your purchase grants a license to use the software; it does not transfer ownership of it.

This section covers our own work only. It does not apply to the third-party components described in section 12, which belong to their authors and reach you under their licenses, not ours.

12. Third-party components

Sound "Buddy" Studio includes software published by others. Those components are licensed to you by their authors under their own terms, not by us under these. Where their terms and ours differ, theirs govern that component — including any rights they grant you that sections 3 and 11 would otherwise appear to restrict.

The most significant is FFmpeg, which Sound "Buddy" Studio uses to read and write video files. FFmpeg is independent software licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3. We have not modified it. The FFmpeg programs installed with the app are digitally signed by SATUS LLC, as the Microsoft Store and Apple require of every program in an app; signing adds a signature and changes nothing else. Its license applies to FFmpeg alone — it does not extend to Sound "Buddy" Studio. The full license text is installed alongside it, and you may obtain its complete source code, free of charge, from our FFmpeg source page.

For a current list of the third-party components we distribute and the license each is provided under, email support@soundbuddystudio.com.

13. Changes to the software

We improve Sound "Buddy" Studio over time and may add, change or remove features. If we ever have to discontinue it entirely we will give reasonable notice.

14. Warranties

The software is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that it will meet a particular requirement. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, in which case this section applies only so far as the law permits.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or relating to these terms or the software is limited to the amount you paid for your Sound "Buddy" Studio license in the twelve months before the claim arose. We are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including lost profits or lost data. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Keep your own backups of anything you care about. The software does not delete your source media, but no software should be your only copy.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms; the "last updated" date at the top of this page always reflects the current version. If a change is significant we will tell you directly. Continuing to use the software after a change means you accept the updated terms.

17. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles, and the courts of Spokane County, Washington will have jurisdiction over any dispute.

If you are a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose law grants you mandatory protections that cannot be waived by agreement, nothing in these terms deprives you of those protections.

18. Contact

Questions about these terms: support@soundbuddystudio.com. See also our Privacy Policy.