Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you and [LEGAL ENTITY NAME, registered address] ("Short Studio", "we", "us"), operator of the Short Studio service at shortstud.io (the "Service").

You accept these Terms when you click to accept them in the app, and again whenever we publish a materially changed version and ask you to accept it. We record which version you accepted and when. If you do not accept, you may not use the Service.

You must be at least 16 years old, or the minimum age of digital consent in your country if that is higher, and you must have the legal capacity to enter into a contract. If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and "you" means that organisation.

You are responsible for your account and for anything done through it. Tell us promptly if you believe it has been compromised.

You upload a video. We analyse it, transcribe the speech, select candidate segments, and render vertical short clips with burned-in captions, reframing, optional music you supply, and generated text such as hooks and titles. Parts of this are performed by automated systems and third-party AI providers listed in our Privacy Policy.

We may change, add, or remove features. If a change materially reduces functionality you are paying for, we will give you reasonable notice and you may cancel under §11.

You keep ownership of your content. "Your Content" means everything you put into the Service — source video, audio, music files, images, watermarks, and any text you enter — and the clips rendered from it.

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, copy, transcode, transmit, and process Your Content solely to operate the Service for you and to comply with law. This licence exists so that our servers and processors can technically do the job you asked for. It ends when you delete the content or your account. We do not use Your Content to train AI models, and we do not sell it or use it to advertise.

You are solely responsible for Your Content and for how you use the clips the Service produces. You represent and warrant, each time you upload, that:

• you own Your Content or hold all rights and licences necessary to upload it and to have it processed, reproduced, modified, and published — including rights in any music, footage, images, fonts, logos, and third-party material it contains;
• you have obtained the consent of every identifiable person who appears in, or can be heard in, Your Content, including consent to the processing of their voice, face, and speech as described in our Privacy Policy, and including consent from a parent or guardian where a minor is involved;
• Your Content does not infringe any copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral right, right of publicity or personality, or privacy or data protection right of anyone;
• Your Content is not unlawful, defamatory, fraudulent, hateful, sexually exploitative of minors, or otherwise prohibited under §6; and
• your publication and use of the resulting clips complies with all laws that apply to you and with the terms of every platform you post them to.

We do not review, verify, endorse, or take editorial responsibility for Your Content. We have no obligation to monitor it, and the fact that content passes through the Service does not mean we have checked its legality or that you hold the rights to it. Any automated filtering we may apply is for our own protection, is not a rights clearance, and you may not rely on it.

Uploaded video routinely contains other people's faces, voices, and speech. Under data protection law you are the controller of that personal data and we act as your processor when we handle it on your instructions. That means you are responsible for having a lawful basis to process it and for giving those people the information and rights the law requires. The obligations we take on as processor, the providers who receive personal data on our behalf, and where they are located are set out in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

Do not upload special-category data (such as health information) or any content subject to sector-specific regimes. The Service is a consumer video tool and is not built, certified, or offered for that purpose.

You may not use the Service to:

• upload or produce content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or that depicts or sexualises minors;
• impersonate a real person, or create synthetic or deceptively edited media presented as a genuine recording of someone;
• harass, threaten, dox, or target an individual, or promote violence or hatred against a group;
• circumvent quotas, plan limits, watermarks, rate limits, or access controls, or share credentials to do so;
• reverse-engineer, scrape, or copy the Service, or use it to build a competing product;
• interfere with the Service's operation or security, or access data that is not yours; or
• violate any applicable law or third-party platform's rules.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach this section, and we may remove content, without refund where the breach is serious.

We respect intellectual property and expect you to. If you believe content processed through the Service infringes your copyright or other rights, send a notice to legal@shortstud.io identifying the work, the material complained of and where it is, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith the use is unauthorised and that the information in your notice is accurate.

We will review valid notices and may remove or disable access to the material. The affected user may respond, and we may restore material if the complaint is withdrawn or shown to be unfounded. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

Transcripts, highlight selection, captions, hooks, titles, and similar outputs are produced by automated systems and machine-learning models. They will sometimes be wrong — mistranscribed words, mistimed captions, poor cuts, inaccurate or inappropriate generated text. Output is provided for you to review and edit. You are responsible for checking every clip before you publish it, and you accept the consequences of publishing it.

As between you and us, you own the clips the Service produces from Your Content, subject to your paying any fees due. We make no representation that generated output is original, non-infringing, or free of third-party rights, and similar or identical output may be generated for other users from other inputs.

Fonts, templates, and other assets we make available inside the Service are licensed to you only for use within clips you create with the Service. Bundled fonts are distributed under their own open-source licences, copies of which ship with the software. We keep all rights in the Service itself, our software, and our branding; nothing in these Terms transfers them to you.

Paid plans are billed in advance through our payment processor. Subscriptions renew automatically each period until cancelled. You can cancel at any time from your billing settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period and you keep access until then. Prices may change with reasonable notice, effective from your next renewal.

Except where the law gives you a right to a refund, payments are non-refundable and we do not refund partial periods. [EU/UK consumers: 14-day withdrawal right — confirm the express-consent waiver flow before relying on this sentence] If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract; by asking us to start processing your video immediately you consent to us beginning performance during that period and acknowledge you lose the withdrawal right once the service is fully performed.

Quotas, caps, and credits attached to your plan are described in the app and on our pricing page.

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time from your privacy and data settings; deletion removes your stored media and account record. You can export your data before you do.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if required by law, or if continuing to serve you would expose us or others to material risk. Where circumstances allow we will give notice and an opportunity to fix the problem. Sections 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 survive termination.

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Short Studio, its officers, employees, and suppliers against any claim, demand, proceeding, loss, liability, damages, fine, and reasonable legal costs arising out of or connected with:

• Your Content, including any allegation that it infringes or misuses someone's rights;
• your use of the Service or of the clips it produces, including how and where you publish them;
• your breach of these Terms or of any representation or warranty in §4; or
• your failure to obtain a required consent or to meet your obligations as controller under §5, including a claim by a person appearing in Your Content or an action by a data protection authority.

We will notify you of any claim we seek indemnity for and will not settle it without your consent, not to be unreasonably withheld. We may take over its defence with our own counsel at our expense.

If you are a consumer, this section applies only to the extent permitted by the consumer protection law that applies to you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or uninterrupted or error-free operation.

We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that output will be accurate or suitable for publication, that clips will perform on any platform, or that data will never be lost. Keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties. Where that is the case, the exclusions above apply only so far as that law permits, and your non-excludable statutory rights as a consumer are unaffected.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost revenue, lost business, lost goodwill, or lost or corrupted data, however caused and on any theory of liability.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service and these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) EUR 100.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, for our own breaches of data protection law, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

If you are a consumer, mandatory consumer protection law in your country of residence may give you rights and remedies that these Terms cannot reduce — including, in the EU, under the Unfair Contract Terms Directive, and in Brazil, under the Código de Defesa do Consumidor. Those rights prevail over anything inconsistent in this section.

We may update these Terms. When a change is material we will publish the new version, bump its version stamp, and ask you to accept it before you continue using the Service. Continuing to use the Service after acceptance means the new version applies. If you do not accept, you may stop using the Service and delete your account.

[PLACEHOLDER — governing law and courts of the operating entity's jurisdiction; to be completed with counsel]

These Terms are governed by the laws of [JURISDICTION], and the courts of [VENUE] have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in your local courts.

Before starting formal proceedings, please contact us — most problems are faster to fix directly.

If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that provision is narrowed to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable. Our not enforcing a right is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to a successor of our business. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about the Service.

General and legal: legal@shortstud.io
Privacy and data protection: privacy@shortstud.io