Terms of Service

These Terms are an agreement between you and NOT CONFIGURED · NEXT_PUBLIC_LEGAL_NAME (“we”, “us”), NOT CONFIGURED · NEXT_PUBLIC_LEGAL_COUNTRY, and govern your use of Nightshift (the “Service”). By signing in or using the Service you accept them. If you use the Service for an organisation, you confirm you may bind it to these Terms. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data.

Nightshift helps you produce videos for YouTube channels you manage: it researches topics, writes and fact-checks scripts, narrates, renders, and uploads videos to your channel, and shows how they perform. Features may change, and parts of the Service may be offered as a preview.

Access is currently by invitation. Keep your sign-in details secure and tell us promptly at NOT CONFIGURED · NEXT_PUBLIC_CONTACT_EMAIL if you suspect unauthorised use. You are responsible for activity under your account, including actions taken by team members you invite.

You may connect only channels you own or are authorised to manage. By connecting one, you authorise Nightshift to act on it within the permissions you grant on Google’s consent screen, as described in the Privacy Policy. You remain responsible for your channel and must comply with the YouTube Terms of Service and YouTube’s Community Guidelines. Google’s handling of your data is governed by the Google Privacy Policy.

You can revoke access at any time at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions; the Service then stops acting on that channel.

You own the content produced for your channel, and you are responsible for it — including everything uploaded under your account, whether you reviewed it or let the Service publish it under settings you chose. In particular, you are responsible for:

• having the rights to the topics, scripts, voices, footage, music, logos and other material in your videos;
• checking facts: generated scripts and summaries can be wrong, and a fact-check pass reduces but does not remove that risk;
• labelling altered or synthetic content where YouTube or the law requires it;
• your channel’s standing with YouTube, including strikes, monetisation decisions and terminations.

You grant us a limited licence to process your content solely to operate the Service for you.

You must not use the Service to:

• publish spam, or mass-produced, repetitive or low-value content made mainly to game YouTube’s systems, or anything that violates YouTube’s spam, deceptive practices and scams policies;
• mislead viewers — including clickbait titles or thumbnails that misrepresent the video, impersonation, or fabricated claims presented as fact;
• publish content that is illegal, infringes someone else’s rights, harasses or incites hatred, sexualises minors, or violates YouTube’s Community Guidelines;
• operate channels you are not authorised to manage, or create or run channels to evade a YouTube restriction or termination;
• circumvent YouTube API quotas or limits, access other users’ data, probe or disrupt the Service, or reverse-engineer it except where the law allows;
• resell or share access to the Service without our written permission.

The Service relies on third-party providers, listed in the Privacy Policy. Where you supply your own API keys, your use of those providers is subject to their terms and their charges, and we are not responsible for their availability or output.

This section describes how prepaid credits work in the Service today. It is awaiting review by a qualified lawyer; any change will be published on this page with a new effective date.

8.1. What you buy. Some use of the Service is paid for with prepaid credits. Credits are sold in packs, at the prices shown on our Pricing page and, finally, in the checkout before you pay. Each purchase is a one-time payment: there is no subscription and nothing renews automatically. Credits are added to the balance of the organisation you buy them for, and can be used only for the Service, by that organisation.

8.2. Who you buy from. Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com (“Paddle”). Paddle is the Merchant of Record for all our orders: you buy credits from Paddle, under Paddle’s Buyer Terms. Paddle processes the payment, calculates and collects any applicable sales tax or VAT, issues your receipt or invoice, and handles payment questions and refund requests. Paddle handles your payment details under the Paddle Privacy Notice; we never receive or store your card details.

8.3. How credits are used. Credits are used when the Service produces a video for one of your organisation’s channels:

• Before a run starts, an estimated number of credits is put on hold. The estimate is the length of video requested multiplied by the per-minute rate in effect or, where no per-minute rate applies, is based on the cost of your channel’s recent runs; it is never less than the minimum per run. The estimate is shown in the Service before you start a run, and a run does not start if your available credits (your balance minus credits already on hold) do not cover it.
• When the run completes, the credits for the resources it actually used are charged, at the rates in effect, and never more than the hold. The unused part of the hold is returned to your available credits at the same time. If the resources a run used cannot all be measured and priced, the hold is charged in full.
• If a run fails or does not complete, the whole hold is returned and nothing is charged. A hold for a run that never starts, or never reports back, is returned automatically.
• Every hold, charge and return is recorded in your organisation’s credit history in the Service.

8.4. Nature of credits. Credits are a prepaid right to use the Service, not money or a deposit: they have no cash value, earn no interest, and cannot be exchanged for cash (except by a refund under section 8.6), transferred to another organisation or resold.

8.5. Expiry. Credits do not expire.

8.6. Refunds. Because Paddle is the seller, refunds are handled by Paddle under Paddle’s Buyer Terms and applicable law, including any right you have as a consumer where you live to withdraw from a purchase. To ask for a refund, use the link in your Paddle receipt, or write to us at NOT CONFIGURED · NEXT_PUBLIC_CONTACT_EMAIL and we will help.

8.7. Refunds and chargebacks remove credits. When a purchase is refunded or charged back, the credits it added are removed from your organisation’s balance — all of them for a full refund, and in proportion to the amount refunded for a partial one. Only available credits can be removed: credits already used, or on hold for a run in progress, cannot. Where a chargeback leaves credits used but unpaid, we may suspend the organisation’s access to paid features.

8.8. Price changes. We may change the prices of credit packs and the rates at which credits are used. A change never reduces the credits already in your balance, and a run is never charged more than the hold taken when it started.

The Service, its software and its brand belong to us or our licensors. These Terms give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service while your account is active. If you send us feedback, we may use it without obligation to you.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we disclaim all implied warranties. We do not guarantee views, subscribers, revenue, monetisation approval, or that YouTube will not restrict, demonetise or remove any video or channel.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, goodwill or channel standing. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

You will indemnify us against claims by third parties arising from your content, your channel, or your breach of these Terms or the law.

You may stop using the Service at any time, disconnect your channels and revoke Google access. We may suspend or end your access if you breach these Terms, if your use puts YouTube’s or Google’s policies — or our compliance with them — at risk, or if the law requires it; where reasonable we will tell you first. When access ends, the Service stops acting on your channels, your stored Google tokens are deleted, and your data is deleted as described in the Privacy Policy. Sections 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 15 survive termination.

We may update these Terms. We will post the new version on this page with a new effective date (NOT CONFIGURED · NEXT_PUBLIC_LEGAL_EFFECTIVE_DATE) and tell you in the Service about material changes. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept it.

These Terms are governed by the laws of NOT CONFIGURED · NEXT_PUBLIC_LEGAL_COUNTRY, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection you have where you live.

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