Terms of Service

1. Who we are and how to reach us

The application portal is operated by Spicy Lyrics, from Slovakia (EU) (“we”, “us”).

Our single point of contact, for you and for authorities under Articles 11 and 12 of the Digital Services Act, is [email protected]. You can also reach us on our Discord server at discord.gg/lyrc. Both reach a person. We accept messages in English and Slovak.

2. What these Terms cover

These Terms cover this website, the Spicy Lyrics application portal: signing in, the list of open roles, applying, and voting and deciding on applications.

The other Spicy Lyrics services, such as the website at spicylyrics.org, the Spicetify extension, the Discord bot, the lyrics API and the developer platform, have their own terms. The rules of our Discord server govern how you behave there and what is expected of you once you hold a role. Nothing here changes them.

By signing in to the portal, you accept these Terms. If you don't, please don't use it. Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with your data.

3. What the portal is

Spicy Lyrics Staff publish openings: roles in the Spicy Lyrics community that need approval, each with its own requirements and questions. You apply by answering an opening's questions.

Spicy Lyrics Staff vote on your application, give a written reason, and make the final call. For some roles, an opening can instead let the votes decide: once enough are in, the application is accepted or declined automatically, whichever way most of them went. When an application is accepted, our Discord bot gives you the role on our Discord server.

The portal is free. There is no paid tier and there are no ads.

4. Who can use it

• You must be at least 13 years old, or older if the law where you live sets a higher minimum for a service like this.
• You sign in through Clerk, our login provider, with your Discord account, so you must also meet Discord's own requirements, including its age requirements. We never see your password.
• To apply, you must be a member of the Spicy Lyrics Discord server. Each opening can add requirements of its own, and shows them.
• One account per person. You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think someone else has access to it, secure your Discord account and tell us.

5. Applying

• Answer truthfully, in your own words. Don't pretend to be someone else, and don't submit answers someone else wrote for you.
• Only claim work that is yours. Where an opening asks you to pick TTMLs, pick ones you made.
• You can have one open application per opening. You can withdraw it while it is undecided, under My applications.
• After a decline, an opening can make you wait before you apply for it again. The opening shows when you can.
• Some openings ask you to confirm something before the role is given, usually that you have read a guide. Confirming means you have read it and will follow it.
• Keep to what the questions ask. Please don't include sensitive information about yourself, such as your health, beliefs or sexuality, or anyone else's personal details.

You can't edit an application once you have sent it. If you need to change something, withdraw it and apply again, or contact us.

6. How decisions are made

Roles are volunteer positions of trust in our community. Nobody is entitled to one. Whether to accept an application is up to the people deciding, within the opening's rules. Every vote is cast by a person, and the final call is made by a person or, where the opening lets the votes decide, by the count of those votes.

Two things happen automatically. The portal refuses an application before it is sent if you don't meet the opening's published requirements. And where an opening lets the votes decide, it accepts or declines once enough votes are in, whichever way most of them went. Every vote it counts was cast by a person.

The person deciding can add a note, which you will see with the result. We don't promise a reason for every decline. You see the result under My applications. Our Discord bot also tries to send it to you as a Discord message, but that only works if your Discord settings allow it, so My applications is the place to check.

If you think a decision is wrong, or a requirement refused you by mistake, tell us on Discord or at [email protected] and a person will look at it again. The decision on a role stays ours to make.

The portal only gives roles. It never removes them. Roles are removed on Discord, under the server's rules, and that is outside these Terms.

7. If you vote, decide or write openings

If your role lets you see applications, you handle them on our behalf, and only to decide them. While you do:

• Keep applications confidential. Don't share answers, votes, reasons or notes outside the portal, and don't post screenshots of them.
• Judge the application, not the person's life outside our community. Write reasons that are honest, specific and respectful.
• If you have a conflict of interest, such as a close friendship or a dispute with the applicant, vote Recused.
• Applicants never see staff notes or who voted what in the portal, but they can ask us for a copy of what was written about them, and the law may require us to give it (see section 11 of the Privacy Policy). Write as if they will read it.
• If you write openings, ask only what the decision needs. Never ask for sensitive information such as health, beliefs, sexuality or political views, for contact details outside Discord, or for passwords.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use more than one account, for example to get around a waiting period or to vote twice;
• try to see applications, votes or notes your role doesn't give you, or get around any other access control;
• probe, scrape, automate or interfere with the portal or its internal interfaces, or put an unreasonable load on it;
• submit anything unlawful, infringing, deceptive, harassing, hateful or sexually explicit;
• pressure, harass or try to bribe the people voting on or deciding an application;
• use the portal to break any law.

9. What you submit

You keep every right in what you write. So that we can run the role process, you give us a free, non-exclusive licence to store what you submit, and to show it to the people who handle your application, for as long as we keep it under the Privacy Policy. The same applies to votes, notes and openings you write.

The Spicy Lyrics name and logo, and the design of this website, are ours. These Terms don't give you a licence to use them.

10. Reporting illegal content, and our decisions about content

Applications, votes and notes are not public. They are seen by the applicant and by the people who handle the application. Openings are shown to signed-in members and announced in our Discord server.

Reporting. Anyone, with or without an account, can tell us about content in the portal they believe is illegal. This is our notice and action mechanism under Article 16 of the Digital Services Act. Write to [email protected] with:

1. why you believe the content is illegal;
2. where it is: the page address, and which part of the page;
3. your name and email address, unless your report concerns an offence under Articles 3 to 7 of Directive 2011/93/EU (child sexual abuse and exploitation), which you may report anonymously;
4. a statement that you believe in good faith that your report is accurate and complete.

We confirm that we received it without undue delay, look at it in a timely, diligent and objective way, and tell you what we decided and how to take it further if you disagree. A person reads every report. We use no automated means to handle them.

If we act on content you provided. If we remove something you submitted, or restrict your access to the portal, because it is illegal or breaks these Terms, we tell you what we did, the facts and the ground we relied on, and how to contest it, unless the law or an immediate risk prevents us. Reply to us at [email protected] or on Discord and a person who did not make the first decision will look at it again. You can also go to a court, or to Rada pre mediálne služby, the Slovak Digital Services Coordinator.

Declining an application is a decision about a role, not about your content, so section 6 covers it rather than this one.

11. Suspension and termination

By you. Stop using the portal whenever you like, and withdraw any open application. To have your data deleted, see section 11 of the Privacy Policy.

By us. We may remove an application, or restrict or end your access to the portal, if you breach these Terms or our Discord server's rules, if the law requires it, or to protect the portal or the people using it. We act proportionately, and section 10 says what we tell you. Leaving or being removed from our Discord server also means you can't apply, since applying requires membership.

12. Availability

We open and close openings, and change their requirements and questions, as our community needs. An application keeps the questions and the role it was sent with. We may change, pause or remove any part of the portal, or shut it down, without notice. We don't promise that it is available at any particular time.

13. Disclaimers and liability

The portal is provided as is and as available, free of charge. We don't promise that it is uninterrupted, error-free or secure, or that an application leads to any particular result.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for:

• death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence; or
• anything else that can't lawfully be excluded or limited, including your mandatory rights as a consumer.

Apart from that, and because the portal is free, our liability is limited as far as the law allows. In particular, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of data or access.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the law of the Slovak Republic, without its conflict-of-law rules, and disputes can be brought before the Slovak courts.

If you are a consumer resident in the EU, this doesn't take away the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you can bring proceedings in the courts there instead.

We are not obliged to use, and don't commit to, an alternative dispute resolution body. The European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform closed on 20 July 2025.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms when there is a reason to: a change in the law or in guidance from a regulator or court, a change to the portal, its roles or how our community runs them, security or the prevention of abuse, a change in a service we depend on, or correcting an error or something unclear.

A change takes effect immediately when we publish it on this page. There is no notice period. The version on this page, under the date at the top, is the one in force, and it governs your use of the portal from then on.

For a significant change, we will say so on the portal or on our Discord server rather than leave you to notice, but that announcement is not a condition of the change taking effect. Using the portal after a change means you accept it. If you don't, stop using the portal and ask us to delete your data.

A change applies from publication onwards. It doesn't alter what either of us did under an earlier version, or an application that was already decided. Where mandatory consumer law that applies to you requires advance notice of a change, or gives you a right to end the contract because of one, that law prevails over this section to the extent of the conflict.

16. General

Severability. If part of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in force, and the invalid part is replaced by the closest valid provision.

No waiver. If we don't enforce something straight away, we haven't given up the right to enforce it later.

Whole agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the portal. Our Discord server's rules apply on the server itself.

Language. These Terms are written in English. If we publish a translation and the two differ, the English version governs.

17. Contact

• Email: [email protected]
• Discord: discord.gg/lyrc