Acceptable use

You process only what you own or are licensed to use, and you do not use the output to harm anyone. Everything below is that sentence, made specific enough to act on.

This policy is part of the terms and conditions. It applies to the material you put in, the clips that come out, and the way you use the service itself.

• Video, audio or music you did not create and are not licensed to reuse — including a third party’s upload you happen to have a link to.
• Footage of people who have not agreed to appear in clips cut from it, where their agreement is needed.
• Material obtained by circumventing a paywall, an access control or a platform’s terms.
• Confidential recordings — private calls, internal meetings, medical or legal consultations — that you are not permitted to publish clips from.

• Child sexual abuse material, in any form, without exception.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery, or sexual content involving anyone who has not consented to it being processed.
• Content that incites violence, terrorism or self-harm, or that promotes hatred against people for who they are.
• Deliberate impersonation, synthetic footage passed off as real, or clips edited to make someone appear to say something they did not — cutting a passage shorter is editing; reversing its meaning is not.
• Coordinated deception: fake endorsements, manufactured testimony, or campaigns designed to mislead about who is speaking or why.
• Fraud, scams and financial deception, including clips made to promote them.

• No sharing an account. Credentials are personal. Driving one account on behalf of several people is the same thing as sharing it.
• No working around the limits. Do not open multiple accounts to get more allowance, evade a suspension, or repeat the one-off free trial.
• No scraping or undocumented automation. Use the interfaces we document. Do not probe, load-test or reverse engineer the service without written permission.
• No reselling. You may cut clips for clients. You may not resell access to the service, or wrap it as your own product, without an agreement.
• No interference. Nothing that degrades the platform for other people, and nothing aimed at another account’s data.

Analysis costs money in proportion to how long a video is, while rendering does not. The limits follow that shape rather than being arbitrary:

• A per-period allowance of minutes of source analysed, which is what the plan is sold in. Exports are not metered.
• A cap on any single upload, so one very long file cannot consume an allowance by accident.
• A limit on jobs in flight at once, so no account monopolises the render fleet, and request rate limiting on the API.

These are enforced in the product. You will not be billed for exceeding them.

• For most things, we contact you first and give you a chance to put it right.
• For a credible risk to the platform, to a third party, or for anything in the content list above, access is suspended immediately and we tell you why.
• Illegal material is removed and, where the law requires it, reported to the authorities.
• Repeated or serious breaches end the agreement without a refund for the remainder of the period.

If you hold rights in material being processed here, or you believe something breaks this policy, tell us and we will act on it. Write to intheclips.business@gmail.com with the word Takedown in the subject.

So that we can act rather than write back asking, a notice needs:

• What is being complained about — the URL of the original recording, or the clip, or enough detail to identify the material without guessing.
• What right is being infringed, and on what basis you hold it or are authorised to act for whoever does.
• How to reach you — a name, an address and an email we can reply to.
• A statement that the notice is made in good faith and that what it says is accurate.

What happens then:

• We acknowledge every notice within two working days.
• Where the notice is clear on its face, the material is made unavailable while we look at it. Acting quickly and asking afterwards is the right order here; the alternative leaves an infringement running for as long as the argument lasts.
• The account that processed it is told what was removed and why, and may answer. If the answer shows the notice was wrong, the material goes back.
• We keep a record of notices. An account that attracts repeated well-founded ones loses access — repeatedly infringing is itself a breach, separately from any single file.
• A notice that is knowingly false is not free either: it is a misuse of this procedure, and it is on the record in the same way.