01 / Agreement + site use
Using the site means accepting these terms.
By accessing aljostudios.com, submitting an inquiry, or following a link to scheduling, you agree to these website terms. If you do not agree, do not use the site.
You may use the site only for lawful personal or business purposes related to learning about, contacting, or purchasing ALJO Studios services. You may not interfere with the site, attempt unauthorized access, introduce malicious code, scrape the site in a way that disrupts service, impersonate another person, or use the site to violate another person's rights.
02 / Rates + information
Website prices are starting points until scope is confirmed.
ALJO Studios works to keep service descriptions, availability, and prices accurate. Website rates may be hourly rates, package starting prices, minimums, or planning examples—not universal flat fees. Final pricing may change with setup, personnel, equipment, media condition, rights, deliverables, revisions, outside costs, travel, timing, or other approved scope.
ALJO Studios may correct errors and change future rates, equipment, availability, or procedures. An accepted and paid booking remains governed by its confirmed scope and applicable written terms.
03 / Inquiries + bookings
An inquiry is not a confirmed booking.
A message, project brief, file review, verbal discussion, proposed date, unsigned quote, or unpaid invoice does not reserve calendar space. A session or project is confirmed only after ALJO Studios approves the scope, receives the required retainer or payment, and issues written confirmation.
The applicable Acuity appointment description, booking confirmation, quote, proposal, facility agreement, rights agreement, or other project document controls the service-specific minimum, cancellation deadline, deliverables, revisions, file access, and special conditions.
04 / Payments + changes
Payment structure follows the service risk.
Standard time-based rehearsal, recording, and A/V bookings generally require a 50% booking retainer, with the approved balance due before or at session start. Defined post-production and technical deliverables are generally paid in full before work begins unless written milestones are approved. Outside personnel, rentals, licenses, travel, media, and purchases must be funded before commitment.
Retainers reserve capacity and are generally nonrefundable after confirmation except where the governing booking terms or law require otherwise. Rescheduling, cancellation, no-show, overtime, late arrival, and refund rules follow the specific appointment or approved quote. A material scope change may require a change order, added payment, different minimum, new personnel, or schedule reconfirmation.
05 / Client materials + rights
You must have the right to use what you supply.
You represent that music, recordings, footage, artwork, logos, performances, samples, software, fonts, and other materials you provide may lawfully be used for the approved project. You are responsible for participant releases, copyright and music clearances, location permissions, platform rules, and other third-party consents required for recording, release, distribution, or broadcast.
Providing a room, engineering, recording, mixing, video, playback, or post-production service does not by itself give ALJO Studios songwriting, publishing, or ownership in your work. Master ownership, work-for-hire status, licensing, producer participation, exclusivity, credits, and source-file rights must be established in the applicable written agreement when material.
Project information and unreleased materials are treated as private within normal operational and legal limits. ALJO Studios will not use a client's name, image, audio, video, testimonial, or unreleased excerpt for portfolio or publicity without approval, unless the material is already public and lawfully usable.
06 / Delivery + archive
Deliverables and storage are defined by the project.
Rough references, final mixes, mastered files, stems, raw multitracks, camera originals, switched programs, consolidated files, and native sessions are separate deliverables unless expressly included. Final, unrestricted, raw, stem, native, or archive materials may be withheld until approved balances and charges are paid.
Clients are responsible for downloading, checking, and maintaining independent backups of delivered materials. Storage and recall windows follow the service-specific policy or quote. ALJO Studios may keep an archive as a professional courtesy, but permanent retention, future compatibility, and successful recovery are not guaranteed.
07 / Facility conduct
Safe, respectful use is a condition of service.
Clients and guests must follow occupancy, access, parking, noise, equipment, food and beverage, smoking, impairment, recording, and load-in instructions. Harassment, threats, illegal drugs, unsafe impairment, unauthorized equipment changes, and conduct that threatens people, property, operations, or the private character of the facility are prohibited.
ALJO Studios may limit access, stop work, remove a participant, or terminate a booking when reasonably necessary for safety or material noncompliance. Damage, missing equipment, excessive cleanup, outside service, and required reset or recovery work may be charged as permitted by the governing agreement and law.
08 / Third-party services
External services have their own terms.
The website links to services operated by other companies, including Acuity Scheduling, Stripe, email providers, file-transfer providers, and social platforms. Their availability, security, accessibility, content, and practices are outside ALJO Studios' direct control. Your use of those services is also governed by their own terms and privacy policies.
09 / Disclaimers + liability
The website is provided as available.
To the extent permitted by law, this website is provided “as is” and “as available.” ALJO Studios does not promise uninterrupted access, error-free content, or that every service, rate, date, person, or item of equipment shown will remain available.
To the extent permitted by law, ALJO Studios is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising solely from use of or inability to use this website. Nothing in these terms excludes liability or consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Service-related liability, if any, is governed by the applicable booking or project agreement.
10 / Governing terms + contact
New York law governs these website terms.
These website terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without overriding protections that applicable law does not allow a consumer to waive. If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to apply. ALJO Studios may update these terms prospectively; the effective date above identifies the current version.
Questions about these terms may be sent to info@aljostudios.com or mailed to ALJO Studios, 157-02 111th Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11433.