Terms of Service
This English version is provided for convenience. If it differs from the German version, the German version prevails.
1. Provider and scope
The website theclippinghouse.com and Clipping Studio at clips.theclippinghouse.com (the “Studio”, together the “Service”) are operated by [NAME], [STRASSE], [PLZ ORT], Germany (“we”, “us”). Contact details are in the legal notice (Impressum).
These terms apply to the use of the Studio. For simply visiting the website, only sections 9 to 12 apply.
2. What the Studio does
The Studio is an internal tool for our team. With it you can
- submit videos by link or upload,
- have them cut into short vertical clips, by our own tool or via OpusClip; an AI can suggest moments, titles and captions,
- watch, edit, approve or discard every clip,
- publish or schedule approved clips to your own YouTube, TikTok or Instagram account.
On TikTok you can send a clip as a draft to your TikTok inbox and finish posting it there yourself. Or you can publish it directly with the settings you choose for that specific post: privacy, comments, Duet and Stitch, and commercial content disclosure. The Studio never publishes anything a person has not approved.
We provide the Studio to the team [free of charge]. We may change, extend or discontinue features.
3. Access and user account
- Only team members for whom an admin has created an account get access. There is no public sign-up.
- Keep your sign-in details secret and do not share them. We recommend two-factor sign-in.
- If you suspect someone else is using your account, tell an admin immediately.
- We may temporarily lock an account if there are signs of misuse.
4. Your content
Only submit videos you hold the necessary rights to or have permission for. This applies in particular to
- copyright and related rights, e.g. in video, images and music,
- personality rights, i.e. the rights of the people shown or heard in the video,
- the terms of campaigns or clients you create clips for.
Your content remains yours. You only allow us to store, cut, transcribe and edit it, and to send it to the platforms you choose and to the service providers listed in the Privacy Policy. This permission only applies as far as needed to provide the Service and ends when the content is deleted.
You are responsible for the content you submit and publish. This includes captions suggested by an AI: review them before you approve.
5. Connected social media accounts
- Only connect accounts you own or are allowed to use.
- Every post is subject to the platform's rules, for example the TikTok Terms of Service, the TikTok Community Guidelines, the Music Usage Confirmation and the Branded Content Policy, the YouTube Terms of Service and the Instagram Terms of Use.
- You must disclose advertising, partnerships and paid campaigns as required by the platform and by law. The Studio provides the matching settings for this.
- Platforms set their own limits, e.g. how many drafts or posts are possible per day, or they only allow private posts until they have reviewed an app. We have no influence on this.
- You can disconnect an account at any time under Einstellungen → Verknüpfte Accounts (Settings → Linked accounts).
6. What is not allowed
- publishing unlawful, abusive, discriminatory or misleading content,
- infringing the rights of others,
- spam, bought or artificial engagement,
- circumventing security features, using other people's accounts or scraping the Studio,
- circumventing daily limits or lockouts.
7. Availability
We try to keep the Studio running well, but we do not promise any particular availability. Maintenance, problems at service providers or platform changes can cause outages. Keep your own copy of important videos.
8. Ending use
You can stop using the Studio at any time and ask an admin to delete your account. We can end your access, e.g. if you leave the team or break these terms. What happens to your data afterwards is described in the Privacy Policy.
9. Liability
We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and under the German Product Liability Act.
For slight negligence we are only liable if we breach an essential obligation, meaning an obligation without which the Service cannot work properly and on which you may rely. In that case our liability is limited to the damage that was typically foreseeable. Otherwise, liability for slight negligence is excluded.
Providers of third-party content and services that we link to or connect with are responsible for them.
10. Third-party claims
If someone brings claims against us because your content culpably infringed third-party rights or the law, you will indemnify us against them, including reasonable legal defense costs. We will inform you promptly in that case.
11. Privacy
How we handle your data is described in the Privacy Policy.
12. Changes and final provisions
- We may change these terms, e.g. when the Service or the law changes. We will tell team members about material changes in the Studio in advance. If you don't agree, you can stop using the Service.
- German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer protection rules of your country of residence remain unaffected.
- If any provision is invalid, the rest remain valid.