Terms of service

Who we are

Fireside Cut is run by JMD Product Services LLC ("we", "us"). These terms are the agreement between you and us when you use Fireside Cut. By creating an account you accept them.

Early access

Fireside Cut is in early access. We're improving it every week, features may change, and there may be interruptions. We'll tell you on the status page and in the app when something is wrong for everyone.

Your account

• You need an email address to sign in. Keep access to it secure: anyone with your sign-in link can use your account.
• You must be 18 or over.
• One person or business per workspace. You're responsible for what happens in your workspace.

Minutes, plans and payment

• You pay for finished minutes: the length of each finished video or Short, rounded up to a tenth of a minute. A cut that doesn't finish is not charged, and re-renders of a video are free up to the number shown in the app.
• Plans renew monthly until cancelled. A plan's minutes are for that month and don't carry over. Extra minutes bought as a top-up last 12 months. Trial minutes last 30 days.
• Payments are taken by Stripe. Prices are shown in US dollars and may include tax where it applies.
• You can cancel at any time from Plan and minutes → Card, invoices, cancel. Your plan carries on to the end of the period you've paid for.
• Minutes already used are not refunded, except where the law says they must be. If something we did went wrong, tell us and we'll put it right.

Your content

• You keep all rights to your recordings, your brand files, your own footage, and the videos and Shorts Fireside Cut makes for you.
• You give us permission to store, copy and process your content only to run Fireside Cut for you: transcribing, planning, finding footage, rendering, and answering your help questions.
• You must have the rights to everything you upload: recordings, footage, music, fonts and logos.
• We don't use your content to train AI models, and we don't let our providers do so.

Footage, music and AI pictures

• Footage from the included archives is public domain or Creative Commons. Some of it must be credited: the app lists the credits for each video, and you must include them where you publish.
• Footage from stock libraries you connect with your own key is used under your account with that library and its licence. Those licences are between you and the library.
• AI reconstructions are labelled on screen. Where you publish, follow the platform's rules for altered or synthetic content (on YouTube, tick the altered-content box).
• You're responsible for checking a finished video before you publish it.

Fair use of Fireside Cut

Don't use Fireside Cut to make or publish anything illegal, anything that infringes someone else's rights, sexual content involving anyone under 18, content that harasses or threatens people, or deliberate deception presented as fact. Don't try to break, overload or get round the limits of the service. We may suspend an account that does, and we'll tell you why.

Availability and our responsibility

We work hard to keep Fireside Cut running and your content safe, but we provide it as it is, without promises that it will always be available or free of mistakes. As far as the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect losses (such as lost income or audience), and our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't be limited by law.

Ending

You can stop using Fireside Cut and ask us to delete your data at any time (see deleting your data). We may close an account that breaks these terms, or close Fireside Cut with at least 30 days' notice, giving you time to download your videos.

Changes

We'll tell you by email or in the app before any important change to these terms takes effect.

Contact

In the app: Help → Get help from a person. Or email us at the address on the privacy page.