Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a binding contract between you and Highstyle (“Highstyle,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They govern your access to and use of the Highstyle website at highstyle.ai, our waitlist, our software, our APIs, our content, and any related services we provide (together, the “Service”).

By accessing or using the Service — including by joining the waitlist, uploading content, or otherwise interacting with the site — you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you accept these Terms on behalf of a company or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and “you” refers to that organization.

Highstyle is an artificial intelligence (“AI”) video clipping service. We accept long-form video content as input — via a YouTube URL, direct file upload, or other supported source — and generate short-form vertical clips with captions, reframing, and metadata. The output is intended for distribution on third-party platforms including TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and X.

The Service is provided on an evolving basis. Features, capabilities, model behavior, pricing, supported platforms, and file size limits may change at any time. We make no commitment that any specific feature will remain available.

To use the Service you must be at least eighteen (18) years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, if older), and legally capable of entering into a binding contract. The Service is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age stated in our Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any account credentials, magic-link tokens, API keys, or other access mechanisms we issue you, and for all activity under your account. You must notify us promptly at contact@highstyle.ai of any unauthorized access or suspected breach.

You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information when registering or contacting us, and to keep that information updated.

The Service is currently offered in waitlist mode. Joining the waitlist does not guarantee access. We may invite users to access the Service in any order we choose, at any time, with or without notice. Invitations may be subject to additional terms, beta agreements, or use limits.

Early-access and beta features are provided “as-is” and may contain bugs, inaccuracies, or incomplete functionality. We may modify or discontinue early-access features at any time without liability.

You retain ownership of the content you submit to the Service, including any long-form videos, audio, images, transcripts, metadata, source URLs, prompts, and instructions (collectively, “User Content”). Highstyle does not claim ownership of your User Content.

You are solely responsible for your User Content. You represent and warrant that:

• You own or have the necessary rights, licenses, consents, and permissions to submit the User Content to the Service and to permit us to process it as described in these Terms.
• Your User Content does not infringe, violate, or misappropriate the rights of any third party, including intellectual property, publicity, privacy, or contractual rights.
• Your User Content complies with all applicable laws, including export controls, sanctions, child protection laws, and laws governing recorded media (such as consent for recording in two-party-consent jurisdictions).
• Submitting the User Content to the Service does not breach any agreement with a third-party platform (for example, the terms of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, or any other source from which the content originates).
• You have obtained any consent required from individuals featured in your User Content for the processing, transformation, and distribution we are facilitating.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Highstyle and its officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, and agents from any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to your User Content or your breach of the warranties in this section.

You grant Highstyle a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to access, store, copy, transmit, modify, create derivative works of, transcribe, analyze, encode, reformat, and display your User Content solely for the following purposes:

• Providing the Service to you, including generating clips, captions, reframed renders, transcripts, metadata, and other outputs.
• Routing your content to the third-party processors necessary to deliver the Service (see our Privacy Policy for the current list).
• Operating, securing, troubleshooting, and improving the Service, including detecting abuse and enforcing these Terms.
• Complying with legal obligations and responding to lawful requests.

We will not use your User Content to train our or any third party’s generative AI models without your explicit opt-in consent. Aggregated and de-identified usage data — which by definition cannot reasonably be linked back to you or your content — may be used to improve the Service.

This license terminates when you delete the relevant User Content from the Service, except to the extent we are required to retain copies to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce these Terms.

The Service uses artificial intelligence models — some operated by Highstyle, some operated by third parties — to produce outputs from your User Content (“Output”). Output includes clips, captions, transcripts, metadata, scores, suggestions, and any other AI-derived material.

AI Output is provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Transcription, moment selection, reframing, and scoring may contain errors, omissions, hallucinations, or misrepresentations. You are responsible for reviewing all Output before publishing or otherwise relying on it.

You acknowledge that:

• Identical inputs may produce different Outputs across runs and across model versions.
• Output may incorporate or resemble third-party content. You are responsible for verifying that any Output you publish does not infringe third-party rights.
• Output may be subject to platform-specific rules (TikTok, Reels, Shorts, X, etc.). Highstyle does not guarantee distribution, monetization, or platform compliance.
• Where applicable law (such as the EU AI Act or U.S. FTC guidance) requires you to disclose AI-generated content, you are responsible for making that disclosure.

As between you and Highstyle, you own the Output produced from your User Content, subject to any rights of third parties in the underlying content and to your compliance with these Terms.

The Service — including its software, models, designs, trademarks, logos, brand marks (including the Cut-H mark), website copy, documentation, articles, and Insights content — is owned by Highstyle or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property and other laws.

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for its intended purpose, subject to these Terms. You may not:

• Copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, or sublicense any part of the Service except as expressly permitted.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code or underlying models, except to the extent applicable law prohibits this restriction.
• Use the Service or its Output to train a competing AI model.
• Use any automated means (scrapers, bots, crawlers) to access the Service beyond what we expressly permit through our documented API.
• Remove or alter any proprietary notices, attribution, or watermarks we apply to Output.

You agree not to use the Service, and not to submit User Content to the Service, in any way that:

• Violates any law, regulation, or third-party right (including copyright, trademark, right of publicity, or privacy).
• Constitutes or promotes child sexual abuse material (CSAM), non-consensual intimate imagery, or sexual content depicting minors.
• Creates a non-consensual deepfake, voice clone, or synthetic depiction of a real person — including for harassment, defamation, fraud, intimidation, election interference, or misleading impersonation.
• Uses the Service to identify, profile, or surveil individuals, to build a facial-recognition or biometric database, or to scrape or harvest a person’s likeness or biometric data.
• Promotes violence, terrorism, self-harm, illegal weapons manufacturing, dangerous biological or chemical agents, or similar serious harm.
• Constitutes hate speech, harassment, doxxing, or targeted abuse on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or similar protected characteristic.
• Distributes malware, spyware, exploits, phishing payloads, or content designed to interfere with the security or integrity of computer systems.
• Misrepresents your identity, falsifies disclosures required by applicable law (including paid-promotion or AI-content disclosures), or facilitates fraud.
• Violates the terms of service of any third-party platform to which Output is distributed.
• Interferes with the operation of the Service, including by overloading systems, circumventing rate limits, or scraping our content for resale.

Your User Content is private to your workspace by default — we do not publish it or make it public. We have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor, review, or screen User Content, and the fact that we may do so does not make us responsible for it or obligate us to monitor any content. We may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice, remove or disable access to User Content, suspend or terminate your access to the Service, and report unlawful conduct to law enforcement.

The Service interoperates with third-party platforms and services, including (without limitation) YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, OpenAI, Vercel, Modal, Neon, and Resend. Your use of those platforms and services is governed by their own terms. We are not responsible for the availability, conduct, content, or policies of any third party.

When the Service ingests content from a third-party platform (such as via a YouTube URL), you represent that you have the right to do so under both these Terms and the platform’s own terms. Some platforms restrict downloading, re-encoding, or redistribution. You bear sole responsibility for those restrictions.

Highstyle respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users to do the same. We accept copyright notices under both the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA, 17 U.S.C. § 512) and the Canadian Copyright Act’s Notice-and-Notice regime (sections 41.25 and 41.26).

Send all copyright notices to:

• Email: contact@highstyle.ai with subject line “Copyright Notice — Highstyle”
• Mail: Highstyle, 149 Roselawn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

DMCA Notices (U.S. claimants)

A DMCA Notice must include:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or person authorized to act on their behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
3. Identification of the allegedly infringing material and sufficient information to allow us to locate it.
4. Your contact information (address, telephone, email).
5. A statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

We respond to valid DMCA Notices in accordance with applicable law and accept counter-notices that meet the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(g).

Canadian Notice-and-Notice (Canadian claimants)

Under sections 41.25 and 41.26 of the Canadian Copyright Act, a valid notice must include: the claimant’s name and address, identification of the work, the claimant’s interest or right in the work, location data sufficient to identify the alleged infringement, the relevant infringement details (including the date), and any other information required by regulation.

On receipt of a valid Canadian notice, we will forward it to the user responsible for the material and retain associated records as required by law. We do not remove material solely on the basis of a Notice-and-Notice complaint, but we may do so under our own policies if the material violates these Terms.

Repeat infringers

We will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are determined to be repeat infringers under either U.S. or Canadian law.

Access to certain features of the Service may require payment of fees. Pricing, plan limits, and billing terms will be disclosed at the point of purchase. You authorize us (and our payment processor) to charge your designated payment method for all applicable fees.

Unless we expressly state otherwise:

• Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled.
• Paid plans include an allowance of processing credits denominated in minutes of video. Credits are consumed as you run jobs, may expire at the end of the period in which they are granted, are not transferable, and have no cash value.
• Fees are exclusive of any taxes, which you are responsible for paying.
• Fees and consumed credits are non-refundable except where required by applicable law.
• We may change pricing on prospective billing cycles with reasonable notice.
• If you initiate a chargeback or payment dispute instead of contacting us first, we may suspend your account pending resolution.

You may cancel a paid plan at any time through the account interface or by contacting contact@highstyle.ai. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle.

You may stop using the Service at any time. You may request deletion of your account by emailing contact@highstyle.ai.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service — with or without notice, and at our sole discretion — if we believe you have violated these Terms, if your use poses risk or potential harm to Highstyle, other users, or third parties, or if required by law.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including the User Content warranties, the license you grant us for retained data, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, and the miscellaneous provisions — will survive.

THE SERVICE AND ALL OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Highstyle disclaims all warranties, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, security, uninterrupted operation, error-free operation, and that the Service or Output will meet your requirements.

Highstyle does not warrant that any Output will be free of errors, free of bias, suitable for any specific platform, monetizable, accurate, or compliant with any third-party rule. You assume sole responsibility for evaluating Output before relying on it or publishing it.

No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from Highstyle or through the Service, creates any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL HIGHSTYLE, ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES — INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST DATA, LOST GOODWILL, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES — ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, THESE TERMS, OR ANY OUTPUT, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT HIGHSTYLE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

HIGHSTYLE’S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO HIGHSTYLE FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or liabilities, so the above limitations may not apply to you in full. In those cases, our liability is limited to the smallest extent permitted by applicable law.

The limitations in this section are an essential basis of the bargain between you and Highstyle and apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Highstyle and its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any and all third-party claims, demands, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your User Content; (b) your use or misuse of the Service or any Output; (c) your violation of these Terms; (d) your violation of any applicable law or third-party right; or (e) your distribution of Output on a third-party platform.

We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you. You agree to cooperate with our defense of any such claim and not to settle any matter without our prior written consent.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Informal resolution first

Before filing any claim, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by emailing contact@highstyle.ai with a written description and proposed resolution. We’ll do the same. If we cannot resolve the dispute within sixty (60) days, either party may proceed to formal dispute resolution.

Binding arbitration

Except for the carve-outs below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms that is not resolved informally shall be finally resolved by binding arbitration administered by the ADR Institute of Canada, Inc. (“ADRIC”) under its Arbitration Rules then in effect. The arbitration will be before a single arbitrator, seated in Toronto, Ontario, and conducted in English. The arbitrator has exclusive authority to resolve disputes about the interpretation, scope, or enforceability of this arbitration agreement. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. These Terms evidence a transaction involving commerce, and this section will be governed by applicable arbitration legislation.

Class-action waiver

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you and Highstyle agree to bring claims only on an individual basis and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding, and the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims or preside over any class or representative arbitration. If this class-action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim — and only that claim — will be severed from the arbitration and brought in the courts of the Province of Ontario, while the remaining claims proceed in arbitration.

30-day right to opt out of arbitration

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement (including the class-action waiver) within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms by emailing contact@highstyle.ai with the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out — Highstyle” and your account email. If you opt out, disputes will be resolved in the courts of the Province of Ontario, sitting in Toronto, as described below. Opting out has no effect on any other part of these Terms.

Carve-outs

Notwithstanding the above, either party may (a) bring an individual claim in any small-claims court of competent jurisdiction, and (b) seek injunctive or other equitable relief in the courts of the Province of Ontario to prevent the actual or threatened infringement of intellectual property, unauthorized access, or breach of confidentiality. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario, sitting in Toronto, and consent to personal jurisdiction there; the language of the proceedings will be English.

Consumers and non-waivable rights

Nothing in these Terms waives rights that cannot be waived under the consumer-protection or other mandatory laws of your jurisdiction. Where mandatory arbitration or a class-action waiver is not enforceable against you as a consumer — including, where applicable, under Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act, Quebec’s Consumer Protection Act, or the law of an EU/EEA or UK member state — the binding-arbitration and class-action-waiver provisions above do not apply to you, and those disputes will instead be resolved by the courts of the Province of Ontario, sitting in Toronto, without prejudice to any non-waivable right you have to bring proceedings in the courts of your place of residence.

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we’ll provide reasonable notice — for example, by posting the updated Terms on this page with a new effective date, or by emailing the address associated with your account. The updated Terms will apply prospectively from the effective date.

If you continue to use the Service after the updated Terms take effect, you accept the changes. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service.

Entire agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any other agreements expressly referenced, constitute the entire agreement between you and Highstyle regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on that subject.

Business customers and data processing

Where you use the Service for business purposes and we process personal data contained in your User Content on your behalf, we act as your processor (or “service provider”). If your processing is subject to the GDPR, UK GDPR, or a comparable law, a Data Processing Addendum (DPA) is available on request and, once executed, forms part of these Terms. See the “Business customers and data processing” section of our Privacy Policy for details and how to request it.

Feedback

If you send us suggestions, ideas, or other feedback about the Service, you grant Highstyle a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use and incorporate it without restriction, attribution, or compensation. You are not obligated to provide feedback, and we are not obligated to use it.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary; the rest of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.

No waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your rights under them without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms freely, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

Force majeure

Neither party will be liable for any failure or delay in performance due to causes beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, civil unrest, network outages, third-party platform changes, or government action.

Export controls and sanctions

You agree to comply with all applicable Canadian, U.S., and international export-control and sanctions laws — including the Canadian Export and Import Permits Act, the Canadian Special Economic Measures Act, and U.S. regulations administered by OFAC, BIS, and the State Department. You represent that you are not located in, and will not access the Service from, a country or region subject to comprehensive Canadian or U.S. sanctions, and that you are not on any restricted-party list.

Government users

The Service is commercial software offered to government entities (Canadian, U.S., or otherwise) on these Terms. Use by government entities does not grant rights beyond what these Terms expressly provide.

Questions about these Terms? Reach us at contact@highstyle.ai.

For categorized requests, use the following subject-line prefixes so we can route promptly:

• “Legal — Highstyle” for these Terms or contract questions.
• “Privacy — Highstyle” for data-subject requests.
• “Security — Highstyle” for vulnerability disclosures.
• “Copyright Notice — Highstyle” for DMCA or Notice-and-Notice complaints.
• “Billing — Highstyle” for subscription and payment questions.

Mailing address: Highstyle, 149 Roselawn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.