Terms of use

Last updated 22 October 2026.

The short version: the app is free and has no adverts, your crate lives on your phone, and a Pikeworks account and friends are optional and off until you choose them.

The agreement

Vinyl Vault is an app made by Pikeworks, a sole trader in Northern Ireland. By installing it you agree to these terms. If you don't, please uninstall it.

What you get

The app is free to use. You can use it on any device you own. You can't sell it, take it apart to pass off as your own, or use it to break the law.

Records, pressings and prices

Vinyl Vault is a record of your collection, not an appraisal. Release details, credits and sleeve images come from MusicBrainz, Discogs and the Cover Art Archive, which are run by other people and can be wrong or missing. What the app says about a runout mark is what that mark suggests, never proof of where or by whom a record was pressed. A price is the lowest marketplace price Discogs listed when it was asked, an estimate for a copy like yours, not a valuation and not an offer to buy.

Purchases

Vinyl Vault Pro is a one-off payment, not a subscription. It's handled by Google Play or the App Store, so the store takes the payment and its own terms apply to it. What you've bought stays bought and comes back with Restore purchases on a phone signed in to the same store account. Refunds are the store's to give, and your rights as a consumer are unaffected.

Your crate

Everything you log is kept on your phone. Settings has a backup file, restoring from one, and a spreadsheet export, and all three are free and always will be. Charging someone to get their own records out would be a poor way to behave.

Your Pikeworks account

You don't need an account to use Vinyl Vault. If you make one, it's one sign-in for every Vault app, and you need to be 13 or over. Keep your way of signing in to yourself: don't share your password or a sign-in code, and sign out of the app when you finish on a phone you share. You can delete the account at any time, in Settings or from the delete page, and your crate on your phone stays where it is.

An account used to get round a block or a suspension, to pretend to be someone else, or to attack or overload the service can be closed.

Friends, if you turn them on

Friends is off until you switch it on, it needs a Pikeworks account, and the app works fully without it. The community rules are part of these terms. The app asks you to agree to them the first time you share a spin, comment or send a friend request, and again whenever they change. They say what isn't allowed, how Block and Report work, what happens when something breaks them, and how to ask for a second look.

What you share stays yours. By sharing it you let Pikeworks store it and show it to the people you shared it with, for as long as it's shared, and only to run friends. You can delete anything you've shared at any time.

If something you share breaks the rules, it can be taken down, and friends can be switched off for your account for 7 days, 30 days or for good. Your own crate, and the rest of the app, aren't touched. If you think a decision was wrong, the rules say how to ask for it to be looked at again, and you keep your right to take it to court.

The old Vault Social

Friends in earlier versions of the app ran on Vault Social, an older service with an account made from a handle. It was switched off on 10 October 2026. Its accounts weren't moved to Pikeworks accounts, and they were deleted on 19 October 2026, as the privacy policy explains.

Availability and liability

The app is provided as it is. Look-ups come from outside services that can be slow or unavailable, and the app carries on without them: your crate and the shop test work with no signal. The account and friends depend on an online service that can be paused for safety or upkeep; your crate on your phone never does. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't be limited by law, and your statutory rights as a consumer aren't affected. Beyond that, and as far as the law allows, Pikeworks isn't liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data or lost records, and any liability is limited to what you've paid for purchases in the twelve months before the claim.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of Northern Ireland, and its courts have jurisdiction. If you live elsewhere in the United Kingdom or in the EU, you keep the protections of your own local law.

Getting in touch

Email vinylvault@pikeworks.co.uk.