Legal Agreement

Version: 2026-05-23.1

Effective Date: 2026-05-09

Last Updated: 2026-05-23

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Atropos Unified Terms of Service & End-User License Agreement

Version: 2026-05-23.1

Effective Date: 2026-05-09

Last Updated: 2026-05-23

This Unified Agreement (“Agreement”) governs your access to and use of the Atropos desktop application, free local creation features, and related premium publishing automation services (“Atropos”, “Service”).

By downloading, installing, or using Atropos, you agree to be bound by this Agreement.

If you do not agree, you may not use the Service.

If you access or use Atropos in any manner, that use constitutes your affirmative acceptance of this Agreement, whether or not you completed an in-app "Agree" action. You are solely responsible for any attempt to bypass, evade, or circumvent acceptance prompts or enforcement controls, and Atropos Video, LLC disclaims liability arising from such conduct to the fullest extent permitted by law.

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1. Company Information

Atropos is operated by:

Atropos Video, LLC

Ohio, United States

Email: contact@atropos-video.com

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2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use Atropos.

If you are under 18 years old, you represent that you have permission from a parent or legal guardian.

By using Atropos, you represent that you have legal capacity to enter into this Agreement.

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3. Nature of the Service

Atropos is a desktop software tool that:

Atropos is distributed as downloadable desktop software for non-mobile devices.

Atropos does not provide a web application user interface.

Atropos is not a social media platform.

User content is not stored or publicly accessible by Atropos Video, LLC.

Atropos is local-first: in normal operation, your media files are processed on

your device and are not uploaded to Atropos-operated servers, except as

necessary to fulfill platform uploads you initiate that require a publicly

reachable URL (currently Instagram). In those cases, the rendered short is

transferred to Atropos-operated Cloudflare R2 storage solely to be served to

the destination platform, and is deleted upon upload completion or within 24

hours, whichever comes first. Source footage is never uploaded — only the

final rendered short you choose to publish. See the Privacy Policy for

details.

Server-side account records are limited to operational metadata such as the

original account email used for recovery, billing email received from Stripe,

subscription state metadata, premium entitlement metadata, legacy trial counters

where they still exist for compatibility, aggregate daily local usage counters

for Get Clips, Edit to Music, and Project Ask, device authorization metadata,

and legal acceptance metadata.

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4. License Grant (Desktop App EULA)

Subject to this Agreement, Atropos Video, LLC grants you a:

license to install and use the Atropos desktop application on your device.

Free local creation features may be used without an active paid subscription

unless we remove, modify, discontinue, limit, or move those features behind a

paid plan or other premium entitlement as described in this Agreement. Free

local renders and exports may include an Atropos watermark. Premium publishing,

automation, and watermark-free rendering features require paid access, VIP

access, or another entitlement we expressly provide.

The software is licensed, not sold.

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5. Restrictions

You may not:

Violation may result in immediate termination without refund.

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6. Free Local Features and Premium Automation

Atropos currently provides a free local creation model. Free local features may

include importing or downloading source media, generating candidate clips,

captions, local review/editing, rendering, exporting, local library access, and

compatible local desktop integrations.

Free local renders and exports include a burned-in Atropos watermark applied at

render time, regardless of whether the selected layout includes watermark

elements.

Premium features require paid access, VIP access, or another entitlement we

expressly provide. Premium features include watermark-free rendering and export,

publishing profiles, connected platform accounts, direct publishing, scheduling,

saved publishing presets, upload queues, retry/recovery workflows, publishing

history, source-to-post automation, and adult-content or NSFW publishing options

where separately enabled. If enabled, those options may use third-party hosting

providers such as RedGIFs before posting links to destination platforms.

The descriptions of free local features and premium features are current

examples, not permanent commitments that any feature, workflow, integration,

entitlement, plan, price, quota, limit, destination, watermark rule, or access

boundary will remain available on the same terms. Atropos Video, LLC may

reclassify, package, meter, cap, limit, move to premium, move to free, rename,

replace, remove, or discontinue any feature or access category at any time,

including features previously described as free, included, bundled, beta,

promotional, experimental, premium, paid, or VIP-only.

Temporary free access, beta access, grandfathered access, promotional access,

or failure to enforce a premium gate does not create a continuing right to use

that feature for free or on the same terms later. Unless we expressly state

otherwise in a written offer, no current or former feature availability creates

a vested right, lifetime license, perpetual free tier, price lock, feature

lock, quota lock, or entitlement to future versions of Atropos.

Premium publishing automation depends on third-party provider systems and

permissions outside Atropos's control, including OAuth access, app review

status, API availability, quotas, rate limits, upload caps, account standing,

content policy review, moderation decisions, and technical or policy changes by

providers such as YouTube/Google, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook/Meta, LinkedIn,

and other destinations. Atropos does not guarantee that any provider will

accept, publish, keep available, monetize, recommend, or permit any upload, or

that automation can run at any particular volume, cadence, or schedule. We may

throttle, pause, disable, modify, or remove destinations or automation workflows

to comply with provider limits, safety requirements, or operational constraints.

Free access is not a free trial of premium publishing automation. Existing

trial users, users with exhausted trial counters, canceled users, and users with

no subscription are treated as free users for free local features unless their

access is terminated for violation of this Agreement.

Free local features, premium features, and feature boundaries may be removed,

modified, limited, metered, reclassified, moved to a paid plan, moved to free,

or discontinued at any time. No refunds apply because a free feature changes,

because a free feature becomes premium, because a premium feature changes, or

because we make more of the Service free in the future, except where required

by applicable law.

6.1 AI-Assisted Project Answers

Project Ask and similar AI-assisted features may generate answers, summaries,

recommendations, and suggested pipeline settings from available local project

artifacts such as transcripts, extracted frames, audio cues, candidate moments,

and project metadata. These outputs are generated automatically and may be

inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, misleading, or unsuitable for your use case.

You are responsible for reviewing AI-assisted outputs, checking the evidence

shown in the app, and deciding whether to use any answer or recommendation.

Atropos does not provide legal, medical, financial, tax, mental health, or other

professional advice, and AI-assisted outputs should not be relied on as a

substitute for professional judgment or review.

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7. Subscription & Billing Terms

7.1 Subscription Plans

Atropos offers monthly and annual subscription plans processed through Stripe.

Subscription automatically renews until canceled.

7.2 Auto-Renewal

By subscribing, you authorize recurring charges to your payment method.

Charges continue until canceled.

Subscription status changes (including new subscriptions, cancellations, and plan

changes) may take 30-60 seconds to appear in the Service.

7.3 Cancellation

You may: 1. Cancel at end of billing period (retain access until period ends), or 2. Cancel immediately (access ends immediately; required for account deletion and requested data deletion)

If you cancel with end-of-period timing, your access continues until the end of

your current billing period.

If you cancel immediately, access ends immediately.

No prorated refunds will be provided unless required by applicable law.

7.4 No Refund Policy

Payments are generally non-refundable except where required by applicable law.

No refunds will be issued for:

This policy applies whether cancellation is immediate or end-of-period. No

prorated refunds are provided unless required by applicable law.

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8. Pricing Changes

Atropos Video, LLC may:

Price increases take effect after the current billing period ends.

Price decreases, removal of fees, feature reclassification, or plan packaging

changes may take effect immediately and do not entitle existing subscribers to

refunds, credits, cash value, or continued access to any prior feature package,

except where required by applicable law.

When pricing changes are applied prospectively, the updated price is charged at

your next renewal after the current paid period ends.

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9. Payment Issues & Chargebacks

If:

Atropos Video, LLC may immediately suspend or terminate access without refund.

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10. User Content & Ownership

You retain full ownership of your content.

Atropos does not claim ownership of your videos or clips.

Watermarks applied to free renders identify the software used to create the

rendered output and do not transfer ownership of your content to Atropos.

You grant Atropos Video, LLC a limited license to use publicly posted content created using Atropos for marketing and promotional purposes.

This marketing license is non-exclusive and applies only to content you made

publicly available. You may opt out of future marketing use by contacting

contact@atropos-video.com.

Private content is not used.

10.1 Device-Bound Account Model

Atropos uses a device-bound account model and does not provide

email/password login.

Your account identifier is derived from a device hash (device_id_hash), and

subscription entitlements are tied to that device-bound account.

The original email you provide during setup is stored with the account record

for account recovery purposes.

Local credentials are stored in your operating system keychain or equivalent

secure local store. You are responsible for maintaining access to your device

and local credentials.

We do not guarantee restoration of access if local credentials are lost,

corrupted, deleted, or otherwise unavailable.

10.2 Recovery Phrase (Optional Feature)

Atropos may provide an optional recovery phrase that is displayed once at the

time of generation.

Atropos stores only a hash of the recovery phrase, never the plaintext phrase.

Recovery requires both: (a) your prior account identifier (device_id_hash),

and (b) the matching recovery phrase.

Successful recovery migrates entitlement to a new device-bound account and

invalidates prior device access associated with the old account.

If you lose your recovery phrase, account recovery may be impossible. Any

assistance we provide is best-effort only, and we are not responsible for

inability to restore access.

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11. Third-Party Services

The Service may integrate with:

You are responsible for complying with third-party terms and maintaining

authorized accounts in good standing on any provider you connect.

If you use Atropos features that connect to, use, or upload to YouTube,

including features that use YouTube API Services, you also agree to be bound by

the YouTube Terms of Service at

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms.

Atropos is not responsible for third-party provider outages, removals,

rejections, restrictions, upload failures, API changes, policy changes, app

review delays or denials, authorization changes, quotas, rate limits, upload

limits, account restrictions, bans, monetization decisions, recommendation

decisions, or other provider actions. Provider limits may reduce, delay, pause,

or prevent publishing automation even when your Atropos subscription is active.

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12. Open Source & Apache 2.0 Components

Atropos uses open-source software and models licensed under various licenses, including Apache License 2.0.

Those components remain governed by their respective licenses.

A copy of required open-source notices is included with the application.

Open-source licenses applicable to bundled dependencies do not grant any right,

title, or interest in Atropos proprietary source code or other proprietary

materials.

You may view third-party notices in-app and through the Atropos website

materials that publish these notices.

Nothing in this Agreement grants you ownership of those third-party components.

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13. Termination

We may terminate or suspend your account immediately if:

Termination may occur without notice and without refund.

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14. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.”

We make no warranties regarding:

We do not guarantee social media success.

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15. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW:

Atropos Video, LLC’s total liability shall not exceed the greater of:

We are not liable for:

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some of

these limitations may not apply to you.

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16. Arbitration & Dispute Resolution

To the fullest extent permitted by law, all disputes shall be resolved through

binding arbitration in the State of Ohio.

This arbitration provision does not apply where prohibited by applicable

consumer protection law.

Either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court for matters

within that court's jurisdiction.

You waive:

Arbitration shall be conducted on an individual basis.

Each party bears its own legal fees unless the arbitrator rules otherwise.

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17. Governing Law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, United States.

If you are a consumer residing outside the United States, mandatory consumer

protection laws in your country of residence may apply.

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18. Changes to This Agreement

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we

will provide reasonable notice. Continued use of the Service after changes

become effective constitutes acceptance.

Changes to the Service, feature availability, premium boundaries, plans,

pricing, quotas, limits, provider integrations, watermark rules, or entitlement

requirements may be implemented by app update, server-side configuration,

account setting, provider requirement, or updated legal terms. If a change

requires your acceptance under the app flow, continued access may be blocked

until you accept the updated version.

If updated:

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19. Export Compliance

You may not use the Service in violation of U.S. export laws or applicable

sanctions regulations.

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20. Severability

If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force.

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21. Contact

Atropos Video, LLC

Ohio, USA

contact@atropos-video.com