Terms of Service

1. The Service

OptimaClip is an AI-assisted tool for turning long-form video into short-form clips, including transcription-informed moment detection, caption styling, a clip editor, brand templates, team collaboration, and (where enabled) scheduling and publishing to connected third-party social platforms. Some features described on the marketing site or in documentation may be in active development and not yet fully available; we'll indicate this where applicable.

2. Accounts

You must provide accurate information when creating an account and are responsible for activity under your credentials. You must be legally able to enter a binding contract to use the Service. Team members you invite are subject to these Terms as well, and you are responsible for their conduct on your account.

3. Credits, Plans, and Billing

Free trial and automatic conversion: new accounts may start one free trial — currently 30 credits for 3 days (72 hours) — on the plan and billing interval you choose. Starting the trial requires a valid, active credit or debit card in your name, which we (through our payment processor, Stripe) verify with your card issuer; prepaid cards and cards that fail verification are not accepted, and each person and each card may receive only one free trial. Nothing is charged when the trial starts. Unless you cancel before it ends, your card is charged the chosen plan's then-current price automatically at the earlier of (a) the end of the 72-hour trial period or (b) the moment all of the trial's credits have been used, and the plan then renews automatically as described below. You can cancel the trial at any time from your dashboard's Billing page; if you cancel before either event, you will not be charged. You may also buy a plan at any time before or during the trial, which charges its price immediately, ends the trial, and grants that plan's full monthly credit allowance.

Paid subscriptions and automatic renewal:once you've chosen and paid for a plan, it is billed on a recurring monthly or annual basis and renews automatically at that cadence until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your dashboard's Billing page to avoid the next renewal charge; cancelling does not refund the current billing period already paid for.

Paid plans are billed on a recurring monthly or annual basis through our payment processor (Stripe) and grant a fixed number of "credits" per billing period, as described on our Pricing page and in documentation. Additional credit packs may be purchased separately at any time, regardless of your current balance. Credits are consumed by certain actions (video analysis, clip generation, exporting, captions, and similar) and do not carry a cash value and cannot be exchanged for currency. Each grant of credits (a plan renewal, trial credits, or a credit pack purchase) expires 60 days after it is granted if unused; credits are consumed oldest-first so nothing expires early simply because you acquired more later. Once expired, unused credits are forfeited and cannot be reinstated.

14-day money-back guarantee:if you are a first-time subscriber on a monthly billing plan and have used 20% or less of your monthly plan's included credits, you may request a refund of your first paid subscription charge within 14 days of that charge by contacting us via the contact page. The refund is for the amount you paid minus a 3.5% payment-processing fee, which is not refunded. This guarantee applies once per customer, to the first paid subscription charge only, and only to monthly subscriptions — annual subscriptions are not eligible. It does not apply to credit pack purchases, renewal charges, additional seats, or any subsequent subscription charge.

No other refunds: except as described in the money-back guarantee above, or where otherwise required by applicable law, all subscription charges, credit pack purchases, and consumed or expired credits are non-refundable (the free trial itself is never charged). This includes fees paid for a billing period in which you cancel partway through, and includes credits that expire unused. Cancelling a subscription stops future charges; it does not entitle you to a refund of any amount already charged.

You can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a subscription at any time from your dashboard's Billing page. An upgrade — including switching from monthly to annual billing — is charged the prorated difference immediately. A downgrade, or switching from annual to monthly billing, takes effect at the start of your next billing period (your next monthly renewal, or your next annual renewal if you're on an annual plan) — you keep your current plan and price until then. For monthly subscriptions, cancellation takes effect at the end of the current monthly billing period. For annual subscriptions, cancellation takes effect at your next annual charge date — you retain access through the period you've already paid for, and no partial-year refund is issued.

4. Your Content

You retain ownership of video, audio, and other content you upload or submit to the Service — including any YouTube, Twitch, or Kick link you paste in ("Your Content"). You grant Hypersmarty a limited license to host, process, transcribe, analyze, and transform Your Content solely to provide the Service to you (for example, generating clips, captions, and metadata, and — where you enable it — publishing to platforms you've connected). We do not claim ownership of Your Content and do not use it to train third-party models beyond what's necessary to operate the Service.

You alone choose what to submit, and you alone are responsible for it. OptimaClip does not select, review, or endorse source videos or links before they're processed — every link or file is submitted by you. Each time you submit a video, link, or file, you represent and warrant that: (a) you own the content, or you hold all rights, licenses, and permissions needed to submit it to the Service, have it transcribed and clipped, and (where you choose to enable it) publish the resulting clips; and (b) doing so does not and will not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any third party's copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other right, or any platform's terms of service. This representation applies regardless of whether the source is a file you upload or a link (YouTube, Twitch, Kick, or otherwise) you paste in — pasting a link to someone else's video does not make it yours to submit, and you're certifying that it is yours to submit, or that you're otherwise authorized to use it, each time you do so.

Indemnification:you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Hypersmarty LLC, its officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to Your Content, your breach of the representations in this section, or your violation of any third party's rights in connection with content you submit to the Service.

Storage and retention: we store the files the Service creates or holds for you — rendered clips, exports, dubbed videos, Studio renders and edits, and videos you upload — for 30 days after they are created, and then permanently delete them. Cached copies of YouTube, Twitch, or Kick source downloads that we keep to speed up repeat jobs may be kept for up to 60 days. Deleted files cannot be recovered, so you are responsible for downloading and keeping a copy of anything you want to keep before it is deleted; your dashboard shows how many days each clip has left. Clip titles, descriptions, hashtags, and AI analysis text may remain in your account after the files are deleted. Files created before October 24, 2026 will not be deleted before that date. We may change this retention period by updating these Terms and giving notice in your dashboard.

5. Copyright / DMCA Policy

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. See our full DMCA / Copyright Policy for how to file a takedown notice or counter-notice, and our designated agent's contact information. Accounts subject to repeated valid infringement notices may be suspended or terminated.

6. Connected Social Accounts

If and when you connect a third-party social media account (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads, or others) for scheduling or auto-posting, you authorize OptimaClip to publish content to that account on your behalf according to the settings you configure. You are responsible for complying with each platform's own terms of service. You can disconnect a platform at any time from your dashboard, which revokes that authorization going forward.

7. API Access

API keys are personal to your account and must not be shared or published. You're responsible for all activity performed with your API keys, including the same content-ownership representations in Section 4 applying to every video or link submitted through the API. We may rate-limit or suspend API access that we reasonably believe is abusive, and you can revoke a key at any time from the Developer page.

8. Acceptable Use

You may not use the Service to process or publish content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, fraudulent, or that violates a third party's rights; to submit a video or link you don't own and aren't authorized to use; to attempt to disrupt or reverse-engineer the Service; or to circumvent plan limits or credit metering.

9. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

The Service, including AI-generated clip picks, scores, captions, and metadata, is provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind. AI-generated output can be inaccurate; you are responsible for reviewing clips before publishing them. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Hypersmarty LLC will not be liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from use of the Service.

No guarantee of virality or performance:the virality score, AI reasoning, and any other prediction, ranking, or recommendation the Service provides are estimates only, intended to help you prioritize which clips to review and post. OptimaClip does not promise or guarantee that any clip will go viral, gain views, followers, engagement, or revenue, or perform any particular way once published. Outcomes depend on factors outside our control, including each platform's own algorithm, moderation, and audience behavior, which can change at any time.

10. Termination

You may stop using the Service and cancel your subscription at any time. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, including accounts subject to repeated valid copyright infringement notices under our DMCA / Copyright Policy.

11. Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by an updated "Last updated" date on this page.

12. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent via the contact page.