Terms of service
Updated October 30, 2026. These terms cover use of Sounds Useful, published by BidRL.Com Inc.
The service
BidRL.Com Inc. offers Sounds Useful: short daily audio shows and ordered lesson series, grouped by category and topic. The website describes the product and provides these legal pages. It does not play the shows.
We may change, pause, or remove a show or lesson. We may refuse or end access that breaks these terms or the law.
Accounts
You need an account to use the app. Keep the sign-in code to yourself. You are responsible for activity on the account.
Write to support@soundsuseful.com if you cannot get into the account.
Referrals
A referral code can be entered during setup, before you subscribe. It is optional. The person who shared the code can earn one free month after your first paid charge. You get the usual free trial and nothing extra.
Each person can earn one free month this way, once. The code can still be shared after that. A refund of the friend's charge does not remove the free month and does not let the referrer earn another one.
The free month is applied by the store when we can extend the renewal date, or as promotional access when there is no paid subscription to extend. Sandbox and test purchases do not qualify.
Acceptable use
Do not misuse the service: no probing, scraping that degrades it, or attempts to get another person's account or audio before it is published.
The shows are for personal listening. Do not republish the audio or transcripts as your own.
Disclaimers
Shows are general information. They are not professional advice. The service is provided as available, without a promise that every episode will arrive on a given day.