Terms of Service

Last updated [DATE]

1. What Variation Poster does

You upload videos and connect your social media accounts. We create slightly altered versions of those videos — trimming, minor speed and framing adjustments, an inserted frame, or an added text overlay, depending on the settings you choose — and publish them to your connected accounts on the schedule you set.

We publish through Upload-Post, a third-party service that holds the connections to your social accounts on our behalf. Section 6 covers what that means for you.

2. Your account

You must be at least 18 and provide an accurate email address. You are responsible for keeping your password secret and for everything that happens under your account. Tell us promptly if you believe someone else has access.

One person or organisation per account. You may not share, sell or transfer your account.

3. Your content and your accounts

Your videos remain yours. You grant us only the permission we need to run the service: to store your videos, create altered versions of them, and publish those versions to the accounts you have connected. That permission ends when you delete the video or close your account.

You are responsible for confirming that you hold the rights to everything you upload — the footage, the music, any people appearing in it, and anything else that may be protected. You must not upload content that is unlawful, infringes anyone’s rights, or that you do not have permission to publish.

You remain responsible for your social accounts

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook each have their own terms and content policies, and those agreements are between you and them. Using our service does not change them. You are responsible for ensuring that what you publish through us complies with each platform’s rules, including their rules on repetitive, duplicated, automated or unoriginal content.

4. What we do not promise

We think this matters more than most of the language in this document, so it is written plainly.

• We do not promise that your posts will be published. Platforms reject, delay, rate-limit and remove content for reasons outside our control and often without explanation.
• We do not promise any level of reach, views, engagement or growth. Nothing in our marketing should be read as a prediction of results.
• We do not promise that altered versions of a video will be treated as distinct by any platform, or that they will avoid detection, filtering, down-ranking or enforcement of any kind. Platforms change how they assess content continually. Variation is a feature of our software, not a guarantee about anyone else’s.
• We are not responsible for action taken against your social accounts. Section 5 sets this out in full.

The service is provided “as is”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

5. Risk to your social accounts

This is the risk you are taking on, and we would rather it were plain than buried.

Publishing frequently, publishing on a schedule, and publishing variations of the same footage are all things a platform may act on. You acknowledge and accept that using Variation Poster may result in any of the following to any account you connect:

• reduced distribution, down-ranking, or removal from recommendation feeds, whether or not you are told it has happened;
• individual posts being removed, hidden or refused;
• temporary restriction of posting, commenting or other features;
• suspension or permanent termination of the account, including loss of your followers, your published content and any revenue attached to it;
• loss of monetisation, partner status, or eligibility for any programme.

You accept that risk. We are not liable for any of it, whether it follows from the frequency you chose, the content you uploaded, the variations applied, a change in a platform’s rules or enforcement, an error on their side, or anything else. That is so whether the action is taken against one post or against your entire account, and whether or not a reason is given.

If a platform restricts or removes an account, your subscription continues and is not refunded or credited — we have no control over their decision and no ability to reverse it. You may of course cancel, and section 8 explains what happens then.

You are responsible for judging what settings are appropriate for your accounts. Our defaults are conservative, the limits we allow are not recommendations, and posting at the maximum we permit is a choice you are making rather than advice we are giving.

If a platform objects to us

If a platform, or Upload-Post, requires us to stop publishing for you or to remove your content, we will comply, and we may suspend or close your account to do so. Where we can, we will tell you first and refund any unused part of the period you have paid for.

You cover us for your content

You agree to indemnify us against any claim, loss, or cost, including reasonable legal fees, arising from the content you upload, the accounts you connect, your use of the service, or your breach of these terms — including a claim brought by a platform or by a rights holder.

6. Acceptable use

You may not use Variation Poster to:

• publish content you do not hold the rights to;
• publish content that is unlawful, harassing, hateful, deceptive, or sexually explicit material involving minors;
• impersonate another person or organisation;
• operate accounts in a way that a platform prohibits, including coordinated inauthentic behaviour or artificial engagement;
• attempt to breach, overload or reverse engineer the service;
• resell or white-label the service without our written agreement.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches this section, and in serious cases without notice.

7. Third parties we rely on

Running this service requires other companies. The main ones are Upload-Post, which holds your social account connections and performs the publishing; Stripe, which processes payments; and our hosting and storage providers. Our Privacy Policy lists them and what each receives.

If one of those services fails, changes, or loses its own access to a social platform, our service may be interrupted or reduced. We will tell you if we know, but we cannot be liable for their acts or omissions.

8. Plans, payment and cancellation

Plans are billed monthly in advance through Stripe. Prices are shown on the plans page and may change with at least 30 days’ notice, which will not affect a period you have already paid for.

Cancelling

You may cancel at any time. Your service continues until the end of the period you have paid for — cancelling does not stop your posts immediately, and we do not refund part of a period.

At the end of that period, if you have not subscribed again, your profiles are removed from Upload-Post (disconnecting your social accounts from us) and the videos you uploaded are deleted. This cannot be undone. Download anything you want to keep before then.

Changing plan

Moving to a larger plan takes effect immediately. Moving to a smaller one takes effect at the end of your current period. If you then have more profiles than the smaller plan allows, you choose which to remove before that date; if you have not chosen by then, we keep the oldest profiles that fit and remove the rest, along with their videos.

Closing your account

Closing your account stops all posting, disconnects your social accounts from Upload-Post and deletes your uploaded videos immediately. Your email address cannot be reused to create a new account.

9. Suspension and termination by us

We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these terms, if payment fails, if we are required to by law, or if continuing would put our own access to a third-party platform at risk. Where we reasonably can, we will give you notice and an opportunity to put things right.

We may also discontinue the service entirely. If we do, we will give at least 30 days’ notice and refund any period paid for beyond that date.

10. Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data or lost goodwill.

Our total liability arising out of or relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects your rights we will email you at least 30 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the updated terms.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of [STATE / COUNTRY], without regard to its conflict of laws rules. The courts of [JURISDICTION] have exclusive jurisdiction.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms: [SUPPORT EMAIL].