1. Agreement
This License Agreement governs your use of CINESLATE, including the desktop application, browser tools, related websites, license services, shared-link tools, updates, documentation, and online services. By downloading, installing, accessing, or using CINESLATE, you agree to this Agreement.
2. License grant
Subject to this Agreement, CINESLATE grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the software and services for your own creative, production, or business workflow. This is a license, not a sale. CINESLATE and its licensors keep all rights not expressly granted to you.
3. Trial, free, and paid plans
CINESLATE may offer free, trial, paid, subscription, lifetime, studio, or business plans. Features, export options, watermarks, seats, storage, shared-link access, and usage limits may differ by plan. Trial or free access may be changed, limited, suspended, or ended at any time. Paid access remains subject to successful payment, license validation, and compliance with this Agreement.
All paid Creator, Studio, and Business plans allow commercial work. The plan name does not restrict Creator users to non-commercial projects. Prices, billing periods, and included benefits are shown on the pricing page and at checkout.
Creator Lifetime is a one-time purchase with no scheduled desktop license expiry. It includes all future CINESLATE desktop application updates we release, including major versions, without an additional desktop license purchase. It also includes the allowance of five active hosted shared links described in section 8.
Hosted sharing and other online services operate separately from the desktop update entitlement and remain subject to their stated availability, access settings, individual-link expiry dates, and plan limits. These operational conditions do not remove your desktop license or entitlement to future desktop updates. Any material change to purchased benefits remains subject to the protections in section 15.
4. Accounts, activation, and seats
You may need an account, serial key, license token, or online activation to use some features. A desktop seat means one activated device. Creator includes two device activations for an individual creator; Studio includes five device activations for a small team. Business includes the number of paid device activations purchased, with a minimum of six paid seats for new monthly and annual subscriptions. Viewing a shared link in a browser does not use a desktop seat.
You are responsible for keeping account credentials, license keys, and activation tokens secure. Do not sell or publish them, bypass activation limits, or provide access to people or devices outside the scope of your license.
5. Ownership of your content
You keep ownership of projects, boards, images, videos, notes, text, and other content you create or import. You are responsible for having the rights needed to use that content. When you use online features such as shared links, uploads, feedback, or support, you give CINESLATE the limited rights needed to host, process, display, transmit, troubleshoot, and provide those features.
6. Restrictions
- You may not copy, resell, rent, lease, sublicense, distribute, or provide CINESLATE as a hosted service except as allowed by your plan or by written permission.
- You may not reverse engineer, decompile, modify, bypass, disable, or interfere with license checks, watermarks, feature limits, security controls, or usage limits, except where applicable law expressly allows it.
- You may not remove copyright, trademark, license, or proprietary notices.
- You may not use CINESLATE to upload malware, infringe rights, harass others, violate law, or publish content you do not have permission to use.
- You may not overload, scrape, attack, or attempt unauthorized access to CINESLATE servers or accounts.
7. Updates and online services
CINESLATE may provide updates, patches, downloads, analytics, account services, license validation, AI-assisted tools, shared links, browser tools, and other online services. Some features require internet access. Maintenance and technical problems may temporarily affect availability. Material changes to paid features or services are subject to the notice and paid-term protections in section 15 and your mandatory rights.
8. Shared links and online tools
If you create shared links or use our browser tools, you are responsible for the content you upload, link, export, or share. Shared links may have access settings, expiration dates, download settings, comments, and analytics. Do not share confidential or third-party content unless you have the right to do so.
An active shared link is a hosted link that has not expired, been revoked, or been deleted. The allowance is the total number active at one time across the license, all its seats, and all projects. It is not a monthly creation allowance and does not multiply by the number of seats or boards.
- Creator Monthly and Annual: 10 active shared links.
- Creator Lifetime: 5 active shared links.
- Studio Monthly and Annual: 100 active shared links.
- Business Monthly and Annual: no active-link count limit, with a minimum of six paid seats for new subscriptions.
Deleting, revoking, or allowing a link to expire frees its place in the allowance. Updating an existing link with a new project version, or extending an already-active link, does not use another place. Reactivating an expired or revoked link requires available capacity. If an account is above its allowance, existing active links are not automatically deleted: you may view, update, or extend them, but must reduce the active count below the limit before creating or reactivating another link.
Separate file-size, upload, storage, and technical limits apply to shared content, including Business plans with no active-link count limit. These limits are distinct from the number of links included in a plan.
Feedback you post on a shared project, including comments, annotation discussions, review decisions, and the identity shown with them, may be visible to the project owner and people who can access that link under its access settings. Updating the project may retain previous-version feedback and discussion history; removed items do not necessarily remove that history. See the Privacy Policy for how shared content and feedback are handled.
9. Payments, subscriptions, and refunds
Payments may be handled by third-party payment providers. Subscription plans may renew until canceled according to the checkout terms shown at purchase. Taxes, currency conversion, payment failures, refunds, and cancellation handling may depend on the payment provider and applicable law. Refund requests and cancellation procedures are described in our Refund Policy. Nothing in this Agreement limits mandatory cancellation, refund, or other consumer rights.
10. Third-party services and components
CINESLATE may use third-party services, libraries, fonts, media tools, payment providers, hosting providers, or open-source components. Those components may be subject to separate terms or licenses. Third-party services are responsible for their own products and services.
11. Termination
You may stop using CINESLATE at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you violate this Agreement, misuse licenses, fail to pay, create security risk, or use the product unlawfully. After termination, you must stop using the software and services, but sections that by nature should continue will remain in effect.
12. Disclaimers
CINESLATE is provided "as is" and "as available" to the maximum extent permitted by law. We do not promise that the software or services will be uninterrupted, error-free, compatible with every device, or suitable for every production workflow. Your mandatory consumer rights, if any, are not limited by this Agreement.
13. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, CINESLATE will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, production delays, or business interruption. Where liability cannot be excluded, it will be limited to the amount you paid for CINESLATE during the 12 months before the claim, unless applicable law requires otherwise.
14. Export and legal compliance
You must comply with laws that apply to your use of CINESLATE, including export control, sanctions, intellectual property, privacy, and data protection laws. You may not use CINESLATE where doing so is prohibited by law.
15. Changes to this agreement
We may update this Agreement to reflect changes to the product, plans, services, or legal requirements. We will identify the updated version and its effective date. For material changes affecting existing customers, we will give clear advance notice through email, an account notice, or another appropriate channel, explaining the change, its reason, when it takes effect, and any action or cancellation options available.
Planned changes to subscription prices or included benefits apply to a future renewal after reasonable advance notice, giving you time to cancel before the changed renewal charge. They do not apply retrospectively to a period already paid for. We will not reduce included paid benefits during an already-paid term unless a change is required by law or is reasonably necessary and proportionate to address a security risk. If urgent action makes advance notice impracticable, we will explain the change as soon as reasonably possible. Any applicable cancellation, refund, or other consumer rights remain available; see the Refund Policy.
A website update or continued use alone does not waive your existing paid rights or mandatory legal rights. Where a change requires your express agreement, we will request it.
16. Contact
For license questions, contact support@cineslate.app.