Legal
The agreement between you and us. It covers what the service does, what you pay for, what you may and may not make with it, and what happens if either of us wants to end it.
These Terms of Service are a binding agreement between you and TheBoringApp LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("TheBoringApp", "we", "us"), the operator of theboringapp.com and the software reachable through it (the "Service").
By ticking the box at sign-up, creating an account, or using the Service in any way, you accept these terms and the Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into them by reference. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.
If you are agreeing on behalf of a company or other organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and "you" means that organisation.
Read the Privacy Policy alongside this document. It explains what we collect, who processes it on our behalf, and how to have it erased.
You must be at least 18 years old to hold an account. The Service generates synthetic video and audio, and we do not offer it to children.
You must not be barred from receiving software or services under the export control or sanctions laws that apply to you or to us, and you must not be using the Service on behalf of anyone who is.
One person, one account. Accounts are not transferable, and you may not share your sign-in with anyone else.
Sign-in is handled by Clerk, our authentication provider. You are responsible for the security of the email address and any credentials that reach your account, and for everything done through it.
Tell us at once if you believe someone else has access to your account. Until you do, activity through your account is treated as yours.
You may close your account at any time from Settings. Closing it is immediate and irreversible - see the section on ending the agreement.
You describe a scene. The Service helps you write and rewrite that description, produces a still image from it, and - once you approve that still - renders a short video clip. Clips are placed on a timeline and can be exported as a single file.
A project holds up to 10 clips. Clips are short by design, roughly eight seconds each, and the length of a finished video is the sum of the clips in it.
Writing, rewriting, still generation and export are free and unmetered beyond the fair-use limits built into the product. Rendering a video clip is what consumes a video credit.
We change the Service. Models are replaced, limits move, features arrive and are withdrawn. We will not make a change that removes a credit you have already bought, but the exact model, resolution or duration behind a credit is not fixed by these terms.
Video credits are bought outright in packs. There is no subscription, nothing renews, and credits do not expire while your account exists.
One credit is reserved when you start rendering a clip. If the render fails on our side or on our provider's, the credit is returned to your balance automatically. A clip that renders successfully but does not look the way you hoped has consumed the credit - the compute was spent.
Payments are processed by Stripe. We never receive or store your card number. Prices are shown in US dollars and are exclusive of any tax that applies to you; where we are required to collect tax, it is added at checkout.
We may change the price of future packs at any time. A price change never affects a pack you have already paid for.
Credits are attached to the account that bought them. They cannot be transferred to another account, sold, or converted back to money.
Credit packs are sold as digital goods and are non-refundable once any credit in the pack has been spent, except where the law where you live says otherwise.
If a pack is entirely unused, write to us within 4 days of the purchase and we will refund it.
If you were charged twice, charged for a pack that never arrived in your balance, or lost credits to a fault on our side that we cannot fix by returning them, we will make it right. Email us and describe what happened.
Deleting your account forfeits any unused credits on it. That is stated in the deletion dialog before you confirm, and it is not reversible - so spend them, or ask us about a refund, before you delete.
Everything you put into the Service - prompts, scripts, titles, uploaded images - is "Your Content". Everything the Service produces from it - stills, clips, exported videos - is "Output".
You keep ownership of Your Content. As between you and us, you own the Output generated from it, to the extent it is capable of being owned.
You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, transmit, reformat and process Your Content and Output for one purpose only: operating and supporting the Service for you. That licence ends when the content is deleted.
We do not use Your Content or Output to train our own models, and we do not license it to anyone for that purpose. Our providers process it under their own terms, which are listed in the Privacy Policy.
Generated media may not be protected by copyright in some countries, and similar prompts can produce similar results for different people. We make no promise that your Output is unique or that you can register rights in it.
You are responsible for what you generate. You may not use the Service to produce, upload, or distribute anything that:
You also may not: resell or sublicense access to the Service; automate access outside what we publish; attempt to evade credit accounting, rate limits or retention; probe, scan or attack our infrastructure or our providers'; reverse engineer the Service except to the extent that restriction is unenforceable; or attempt to extract, override or manipulate the system instructions behind the generation pipeline.
We may remove content, refuse a generation, or suspend an account that we reasonably believe breaches this section. Where we can, we will tell you why.
The Service lets you upload a reference image to steer generation. Doing so is a statement that you have the right to use that image and, if it shows a person, that the person has consented to a synthetic video being made from their likeness.
Several jurisdictions treat a face as biometric or personal data and give a person a direct claim against whoever synthesised their likeness without permission. That claim would be against you. You indemnify us for it under the indemnity section below.
If someone tells us their likeness has been used without consent, we will act on it: the content comes down and the account is reviewed.
The Output is synthetic. It is generated by statistical models and is not a recording of anything that happened.
Output can be wrong, distorted, physically implausible, or plainly not what you asked for. It may render text incorrectly, alter faces between clips, or produce artefacts. This is a property of the technology, not a defect in the Service, and it is not a ground for a refund of a clip that rendered.
Do not rely on Output as factual, medical, legal, financial or safety information. Where a law requires synthetic media to be labelled as such, labelling it is your responsibility as the publisher.
The Service is assembled from third-party infrastructure. Your prompts and generated media pass through those providers, and your use of the Service is also subject to their acceptable-use policies.
We choose these providers and remain responsible to you for the Service. We are not responsible for their independent acts, and an outage at one of them is an outage of the Service.
The Service is provided on an as-available basis. There is no uptime commitment, no support-response commitment beyond the ones we publish, and maintenance may make it unavailable without notice.
Generated clips are held by our video provider for 13 days from the moment they are made. We do not keep a second copy. After that window the file is gone, the clip stops playing, and it cannot be recovered by us or by anyone.
Export your finished videos. The timeline is a workspace, not an archive, and treating it as one will eventually lose you work.
You may stop using the Service at any time, and you may delete your account from Settings. Deletion is immediate and permanent: your account, projects, clips, scripts, uploaded images and support history are erased, your sign-in is removed, and any unused credits are forfeited.
We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these terms, if we are required to by law, or if keeping it open would expose us or our providers to material risk. Where the breach is serious - the content described in the acceptable-use section, or an attack on the infrastructure - we may do so without notice.
If we terminate an account for reasons that are not a breach by you, we will refund any unused credits on it.
The sections on ownership, disclaimers, liability, indemnity and governing law survive the end of this agreement.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service and all Output are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied.
We disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, that any given generation will succeed, or that Output will meet your requirements or be fit for publication.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties. Where that is so, the exclusions above apply only to the extent permitted, and you may have rights that these terms do not affect.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither TheBoringApp LLC nor its members, officers or suppliers will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost goodwill, or the cost of substitute services, arising out of or relating to the Service - whether the claim is in contract, tort, or any other theory, and even if we were told such damages were possible.
Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred US dollars.
These limits apply to the fullest extent permitted by law. Nothing in these terms excludes liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless TheBoringApp LLC and its members, officers and suppliers against any claim, demand, loss, liability, or expense - including reasonable legal fees - arising out of Your Content, your Output, your use of the Service, your breach of these terms, or your violation of any law or of anyone's rights.
We will tell you promptly about any such claim and will not settle it without your consent, which you will not unreasonably withhold. You will not settle a claim in a way that admits fault on our part or imposes an obligation on us without our written consent.
We may update these terms. The version and the date at the top of this page always identify the current one.
For a change that materially affects your rights, we will give notice by email or in the product before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that date is acceptance of the updated terms. If you do not accept them, delete your account - and if you have unused credits at that point, write to us and we will refund them.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
Before filing anything, write to admin@theboringapp.com describing the dispute and what you want. Most things end there, and we will engage with it in good faith for thirty days.
If that does not resolve it, the state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction, and both of us consent to venue there. If the law where you live gives you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts, this section does not take that right away.
These terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about the Service, and they replace anything said before.
If any provision is held unenforceable, it is limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
You may not assign this agreement without our written consent. We may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, on notice to you.
Neither of us is liable for a failure to perform caused by something outside our reasonable control, including provider outages, network failure, or acts of government.
Notices to us go to admin@theboringapp.com, or by post to TheBoringApp LLC at [REGISTERED MAILING ADDRESS]. Notices to you go to the email address on your account.
Questions about any of this go to admin@theboringapp.com. You can delete your account and everything on it at any time from Settings.