Terms of Use

The agreement between you and Kollekta — what the service is, what we promise, and what we ask of you.

Version: 2026-07-23 · Last updated: 23 July 2026

Draft — under legal review. This document is published in draft so it can be read alongside the alpha. It has not yet been reviewed by our lawyers, and will be finalised before Kollekta opens beyond the invite-only alpha.

1. Who we are, and what this covers

Kollekta (Kollekta, we, us) is operated by Kain Tietzel trading as FNRBLR, a sole trader in New South Wales, Australia, of FNRBLR at Workit Spaces, Unit A1/35–39 Bourke Road, Alexandria NSW 2015.

These Terms of Use (Terms) are an agreement between you and us, and they govern your use of the Kollekta application at alpha.kollekta.app, the website at kollekta.app, and everything we offer through them (together, the Service).

By creating an account, or by using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree to them, don't use the Service. Our Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms.

2. What Kollekta is

Kollekta is a tool for managing a collection of physical music — records, CDs, cassettes and digital purchases. It lets you:

  • track albums through three stages: Up Next (albums you want to listen to), Want List (albums you would like to add to your collection), and Collection (albums you physically own);
  • optionally import your collection from a CSV file;
  • optionally connect a Discogs account and synchronise your collection and wantlist;
  • track when you play a physical album, and see insights built from that history over time;
  • link out to streaming services to listen to an album.

Kollekta is not a streaming service and does not host, stream or sell music. Where we show links to Apple Music or Spotify, those are links only — they take you to those services, which are operated by third parties under their own terms. We don't deliver any audio.

3. Alpha status — read this one properly

The Service is in an early, invite-only alpha. That means, plainly:

  • It will break. Features may be incomplete, behave incorrectly, change significantly, or be removed without notice.
  • We do not guarantee it will be available, or that it will be available at any particular time.
  • We do not guarantee your data will survive. We take reasonable care, and we do not intend to lose anything — but while Kollekta is in alpha you should not treat it as the only record of your collection. If you sync with Discogs, we recommend setting Discogs as your source of truth so your Discogs collection remains your master copy, and reviewing any synchronisation carefully before approving changes that remove items.
  • We may end the alpha, or the Service, at any time.

We may update these Terms as Kollekta develops. Routine changes — new features, clarifications — take effect when we post the updated Terms with a new version date. If we make a material change that reduces your rights, we'll tell you — by email, or in the app — before it takes effect where we reasonably can. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

4. Your account

Eligibility. You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service, or older where the law of your country sets a higher minimum age for consenting to the processing of your data. If you're under 18, you should have a parent or guardian's permission. Some services you can connect to Kollekta — such as Discogs — have their own terms and their own age requirements; those are between you and them, and connecting through Kollekta doesn't change them.

Invitations. Access is by invitation during the alpha. Invitations are personal to you and single-use. Don't share, sell or transfer one.

Your credentials. Keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us promptly at help@kollekta.app if you think someone else has access to it.

Accuracy. Give us accurate information when you sign up, and keep it current.

5. Acceptable use

Use Kollekta for managing your own music collection. Don't:

  • break the law, or infringe anyone's rights;
  • access someone else's account, or try to;
  • probe, scan, or test the security of the Service, or get around any limit, authentication or access control we've put in place;
  • scrape, bulk-download, crawl, or systematically extract data from the Service, or use automated means to access it beyond ordinary personal use;
  • use the Service to build a competing dataset or product;
  • resell, sublicense or commercially exploit the Service or the data in it;
  • interfere with the Service, or place an unreasonable load on it.

And don't post, upload or enter content that:

  • is defamatory, or invades someone's privacy;
  • is pornographic or sexually explicit, or sexually exploitative;
  • depicts, incites or glorifies violence;
  • is abusive, harassing, hateful or discriminatory;
  • impersonates any person, or misrepresents your affiliation with anyone;
  • contains someone else's personal information without their consent;
  • is malicious or unlawful, or infringes someone's rights (including copyright);
  • is spam or unsolicited promotion.

These rules apply to everything you put into Kollekta, whether or not it's visible to anyone else today. We may suspend or terminate your access if you do any of these, or if we reasonably believe you have.

6. Content you provide

You warrant that you have the right to it. By uploading content, you confirm you own it or have permission to use it, and that it doesn't infringe anyone's rights.

You give us a licence to run the Service. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt (for example, to resize an image) and display your content for the purpose of operating, improving and developing the Service and providing it to you. This licence exists so we can technically deliver the product to you; it ends when you delete the content or your account, except where we've explained otherwise in the Privacy Policy (for example, feedback you've submitted, or backups that take time to cycle out).

Feedback. If you send us feedback, suggestions or ideas about the Service, we may use them — including by building them into Kollekta or other FNRBLR products — without restriction, credit, obligation or payment to you. To the extent any right in a suggestion would otherwise remain with you, you assign it to us on submission; no feature of the Service, however inspired, gives anyone a claim to ownership of it or to compensation for it. We don't treat suggestions as confidential.

7. Profile visibility

As at the version date of these Terms, no part of your collection is publicly visible. Everything in Kollekta requires you to be signed in, and your data is visible only to you and to our administrators (see the Privacy Policy).

We're building features that will let you share parts of your profile or collection publicly — they may appear during the alpha. If and when they do:

  • you'll be able to choose whether your profile is public;
  • we'll explain what becomes visible before the feature reaches you;
  • your Discogs-synchronised collection will only ever appear on a public page with your explicit opt-in.

How visibility controls work will be described in the app when the feature ships.

8. Third-party data and services

Kollekta's album and artist catalogue is built from openly-licensed data published by Discogs and MusicBrainz, and it links to services operated by others. Specifically:

Discogs

This application uses Discogs' API but is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Discogs. 'Discogs' is a trademark of Zink Media, LLC.

Where we show data obtained from the Discogs API, we credit it as Data provided by Discogs and link to the relevant Discogs page. If you connect your Discogs account, you authorise us to access your Discogs collection and wantlist on your behalf, and your use of Discogs remains subject to Discogs' own terms. You can disconnect at any time.

MusicBrainz and the Cover Art Archive

Kollekta is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by MusicBrainz or the MetaBrainz Foundation.

Album and artist data is also sourced from MusicBrainz, and cover artwork may be sourced from the Cover Art Archive. We credit both. MusicBrainz data is used under its published licence terms.

Apple Music and Spotify

We show links to Apple Music and Spotify so you can listen to an album on a service you already use. These are link-outs only — we don't stream, host or redistribute any audio, and those services are governed by their own terms.

Cover artwork and copyright

Album cover artwork is generally the copyright of the rights-holder. We display it to help you identify albums in your own collection. Most artwork is linked directly from its source rather than copied by us. If you believe artwork or other material on the Service infringes your copyright, see section 9.

9. Copyright complaints and takedown

We respect copyright. If you believe material available through the Service infringes a copyright you own or represent, email legal@fnrblr.com with:

  1. your name and contact details;
  2. your physical or electronic signature;
  3. identification of the work you say is infringed;
  4. the specific material you're complaining about, and where to find it on the Service (a URL, ideally);
  5. evidence that you are, or are authorised to act for, the rights-holder — for example a link to the registered or original work, and your role or written authority;
  6. a statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn't authorised by the rights-holder or the law;
  7. a statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the rights-holder or authorised to act for them.

What we do: we aim to acknowledge a complete notice within 10 business days, and where the complaint appears well-founded we will remove or disable access to the material. Where the material is hosted by a third party we link to rather than copy, we'll tell you who to approach and remove our link where appropriate. We may pass your notice to the person who uploaded the material, and we may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

10. Our intellectual property

The Service itself — the software, design, the Kollekta name and logo, and our own content — belongs to us or our licensors. These Terms don't transfer any of it to you. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service in accordance with these Terms. Underlying catalogue data is licensed from its sources as described in section 8; nothing here grants you rights in it beyond your use of the Service.

11. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time, and may ask us to delete your account as described in the Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or terminate your access — with notice where practical, and immediately where necessary — if you breach these Terms, if we're required to by law, or if we discontinue the Service. If we discontinue the Service we'll give you reasonable notice where we can, so you can record your data.

If Kollekta ends. We hope it never happens, but if the Service is discontinued — by decision, insolvency, or events outside our control (including something happening to the people who run it) — we'll make reasonable efforts to give you notice and a window to retrieve your data before it closes. Subject to section 12 and to any rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law (which nothing in these Terms excludes), we're not liable for loss of access to the Service or to your data on discontinuation, and refunds are limited to those described below and those the law requires.

Payments and refunds. Kollekta is currently free. If we introduce paid features: a one-off purchase will be refunded in full on request within 30 days of purchase; a subscription can be cancelled at any time with the unused portion refunded pro rata; and nothing in this section limits any refund or remedy the Australian Consumer Law gives you.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination (6 — the licence you grant, to the extent needed for retained content; 8; 9; 10; 12; 13; 14; 15) do survive.

12. Warranties and disclaimers

Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), including the Australian Consumer Law, or any other law where it can't lawfully be excluded. If a statutory guarantee applies and we fail to meet it, you have rights that these Terms do not take away.

Subject to that: the Service is provided as is and as available. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we exclude all other warranties, express or implied — including that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or fit for a particular purpose, or that the catalogue data (which comes from third-party sources) is accurate or complete.

Where our liability for failing to meet a statutory guarantee can lawfully be limited, our liability is limited — at our option — to re-supplying the Service or paying the cost of re-supply.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, and subject to section 12:

  • we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, or loss or corruption of data, however it arises;
  • our total aggregate liability to you for all claims connected with the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you have paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the claim, and (b) AU$100.

Kollekta is currently free, so (a) will usually be nil. That is deliberate — it's the trade for early access to an unfinished product, and it's why section 3 asks you not to treat Kollekta as the only record of your collection.

14. Indemnity

You indemnify us against claims, losses and costs arising from your content, your use of the Service in breach of these Terms, or your breach of the law — except to the extent we caused the loss.

15. General

Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales and the courts able to hear appeals from them.

Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Service.

Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, it's severed and the rest continues.

No waiver. If we don't enforce a right, we haven't waived it.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them to a successor — including, for the avoidance of doubt, on the transfer of the business to a company (such as FNRBLR Pty Ltd) — and we'll tell you if we do.

Notices. We'll contact you at the email address on your account. You can reach us at help@kollekta.app, or by post at FNRBLR, Workit Spaces, Unit A1/35–39 Bourke Road, Alexandria NSW 2015.

16. Contact

Kollekta is a product of FNRBLR. Album and artist data from MusicBrainz and Discogs.