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Terms of Service

Effective date: October 14, 2026
Last updated: October 14, 2026

Summary

Here's the short version, in plain language. It's a summary, not the contract — the numbered sections below are what actually binds us both.

1. This agreement

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a contract between you and Local Group Software, Corp., a Delaware corporation with a mailing address at 1968 S. Coast Highway, #3447, Laguna Beach, California 92651, United States, doing business as Cutleap. When we say "Cutleap," "we," "us," or "our," we mean Local Group Software, Corp.

They cover everything we offer: the website, the early-access pilot, the tools we use to receive your footage and deliver your videos, the documentation, and anything related. We call all of that the "Service."

You agree to these Terms, including the Acceptable Use Policy in Section 6, and to our Privacy Policy when you join early access or use the Service. If you don't agree, you can't use it.

Signing up for a company? Then you're confirming you have the authority to commit that company, and "you" means the company as well as you personally.

If you've signed a separate agreement with us, that one wins wherever the two conflict.

2. Words we use

"Affiliate" — any entity that controls a party, is controlled by it, or sits under the same control. Control means owning more than 50% of the voting interests or having the power to direct management.

"Authorized User" — anyone you let use the Service through your account or contact details, such as a teammate or an agency working on your behalf.

"Customer Material" — defined in Section 5.

"Videos" — the finished videos we make for you from your Customer Material.

"Third-Party Service" — defined in Section 8.

"Usage Data" — operational data we generate from running the Service: performance metrics, error rates, turnaround times, feature usage, and abuse signals. Usage Data describes how the Service is behaving. It isn't your footage, your Videos, or the contents of your messages to us.

3. Who can use Cutleap

You need to be at least 16 and legally able to enter a contract. If your local law sets a higher minimum, that one applies. If you're under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian has to agree to these Terms for you.

You also can't use Cutleap if the law says we can't serve you, including trade sanctions and export-control rules. By using the Service you're confirming that you aren't located in, resident in, or organised under the laws of a country or territory under comprehensive sanctions, and that you don't appear on a UK, UN, EU, or US restricted-party or sanctions list.

Children

We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you're under 16, please don't sign up, use the Service, or send us personal information. If we find out we're holding information from someone under 16 without a valid basis, we'll delete it. If you think a child has given us personal information, email info@localgroup.software.

4. What Cutleap does, and what it doesn't promise

Cutleap turns the footage you send us into short, finished videos. The Service can also include requests for versions, revisions, exports, and the tools we use to receive and deliver your material.

Cutleap is in early access. The pilot is free, we may not be able to take everyone who signs up, and we'll add, change, limit, pause, and retire features over time. Early-access features are unfinished. They can change without notice, break, or lose data, and you use them at your own risk.

If we start charging, we'll tell you first and you won't be charged for anything you haven't agreed to. If we make a change we expect will substantially cut the core functionality of something you're paying for, we'll give you at least 30 days' notice — unless a security, legal, or operational emergency makes that impossible. If a change like that genuinely hurts you, you can cancel the affected paid Service and we'll refund the unused part of what you've prepaid.

We can't promise any given video will be ready by a particular time, suit a particular platform, or perform in any particular way once you post it.

Uptime

There's no uptime commitment, no SLA, and no service credits. We work hard to keep Cutleap running, but we don't guarantee any level of availability. Nothing on our website or docs creates an availability commitment unless we've signed something separate saying so.

5. Your footage and your videos

You own it

The footage, images, audio, text, brand assets, and everything else you or your Authorized Users send to Cutleap is yours. We call all of it "Customer Material."

Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of it to us.

The Videos are yours

The Videos we make for you are yours to post, share, or use in ads. As between you and us, you own them, subject to the rights of anyone whose material is in your Customer Material and any third-party material (such as licensed music) we've told you about.

The licence we need to make them

To actually operate the Service you have to let us handle your material. So you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, copy, cache, transmit, reproduce, edit, adapt, display, and otherwise process Customer Material — and to let service providers working for us do the same — but only as far as reasonably necessary to:

That licence runs as long as your material is with us, plus a reasonable tail where residual copies sit in backups, logs, or systems we keep for security and legal reasons. We won't use your footage or Videos in our own marketing without asking you first.

We don't sell it or hand it around

We won't sell, license, or disclose your Customer Material to anyone else, with four exceptions: service providers working for us under written confidentiality obligations, things you tell us to do, things the law requires, and anything you've separately opted into.

Usage Data is different

Usage Data — the operational data described in Section 2 — is ours, and we use it to monitor, debug, secure, and improve the Service, to plan capacity, and to detect abuse. We may also publish aggregated statistics drawn from it, provided they don't identify you or reveal anything about your footage or Videos.

Usage Data doesn't include your footage, your Videos, or the contents of your messages to us. Those are Customer Material and the rest of this Section governs them.

What you're promising us

By sending us material you're confirming that:

Making a video for you doesn't make us the publisher of it. What you post, where you post it, and what you claim in it are your responsibility, including any advertising, endorsement, or disclosure rules that apply to you.

Backups, and getting your data out

Keep your own copies of your footage. Unless we've agreed otherwise in writing, Cutleap is not a backup or archival service, and material you send us can be lost.

We'll give you your finished Videos while your account is open, and during the retention window in Section 14.

6. Acceptable Use

This Section is our Acceptable Use Policy. It applies to the Service, including the website, and to you and your Authorized Users.

Don't use Cutleap, or help anyone else use it:

How we enforce this

We can investigate suspected violations, and we can refuse, remove, or delete Customer Material or Videos, or limit or end access. You agree to cooperate with us to remedy a violation. Section 11 covers what we tell you and how to push back.

Not sure whether something's allowed? Ask info@localgroup.software before you send it.

7. Automation and AI tools

We may use software, including AI-assisted tools, to help make your Videos. We review output before it reaches you, but you should check each Video before you post it, because you're responsible for what you publish.

Third-party tools we use are Third-Party Services under Section 8. We don't use your Customer Material to train AI models that we or others offer to the public.

If you use automated tools or agents to interact with Cutleap, you're responsible for everything they do with your account, including anything they spend.

8. Other people's services

Cutleap relies on outside platforms and infrastructure, such as hosting, email, payment processors, storage, and AI tools. We call these "Third-Party Services." You might also use them yourself, for example to post your Videos.

They belong to their providers, not to us, and they come with their own terms, fees, limits, and privacy practices. We're not responsible for them, or for outages, data loss, or security incidents they cause.

Open-source software is governed by its own licence. Where these Terms conflict with an open-source licence, that licence wins for that software.

Disputes with other people

Whatever happens between you and your customers, your audience, or a Third-Party Service provider is between you and them. We're not obliged to get involved. As far as the law allows, you release Cutleap and its Affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from claims and damages of every kind arising out of those disputes.

If you're in California, you're also waiving California Civil Code section 1542, which says a general release doesn't cover claims you didn't know about at the time and which would have changed your mind had you known. You waive equivalent rules elsewhere too. None of this releases a claim that can't legally be released, and none of it releases claims against us for something we ourselves did.

9. Paying for Cutleap

Cutleap is free during early access. If and when paid plans start, prices, included usage, billing intervals, and the rest will be on the pricing or checkout page, and these Terms apply to them.

When you buy something, you're agreeing to:

Fees are in US dollars ($) unless shown otherwise. Prices shown to consumers include VAT. Prices quoted to business customers exclude VAT and any other applicable tax, which we add at the rate in force. Taxes on our own income are ours. Tax on your own activity is yours.

Renewals

Unless checkout says otherwise, subscriptions renew automatically for the same length of period, at the price in effect at the time, and we charge your payment method each time — until you cancel. To cancel, email info@localgroup.software — we'll action it and confirm. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you've paid for, and we won't ask you to justify it or route you through a retention call. California residents: see Section 18 for extra notices.

Refunds

Unless the law says otherwise, fees aren't refundable. Unused credits have no cash value, can't be transferred, and expire when we say they do or when your account ends. Section 4 gives you a limited refund right if we cut a paid feature.

If you're a consumer, you have a statutory right to cancel within 14 days of buying, without giving a reason. But if you ask us to start providing the Service straight away — which is what happens when you send us footage — you're acknowledging that you lose that right once we've fully performed, and that you'll pay for what you've used up to the point you cancel. Email info@localgroup.software to cancel. This paragraph doesn't limit any stronger right your local law gives you.

Price changes, and what happens if you don't pay

We can change prices going forward. For subscriptions, you'll get at least 30 days' notice of an increase, and the new price kicks in at the renewal after that.

If a payment is late or fails, we may limit or suspend paid features or the account — with notice where that's practical. Overdue amounts can accrue interest at the lower of 1.5% a month and the maximum the law allows.

10. Who owns what

Apart from your Customer Material, your Videos, and third-party material, Cutleap and its licensors own the Service: the software, the design, the branding, the documentation, and the intellectual-property rights in all of it.

We give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable right to use the Service for your own business.

Our name, logos, and product names are trademarks. These Terms don't give you the right to use them, other than to describe your own use of Cutleap accurately.

If you provide suggestions, ideas, or feedback, we get a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use it however we like, with no compensation owed. That doesn't give us any rights in your Customer Material or Videos.

11. Reporting content

Telling us about a problem

Anyone can report material on Cutleap they believe is illegal or breaks these Terms. Email info@localgroup.software with where the material is, why you think there's a problem, and how to reach you. We'll confirm we got it and handle it promptly, objectively, and without being arbitrary about it.

Report suspected infringement the same way, and tell us: what work you say was infringed, where the infringing material is in enough detail that we can find it, your contact details, that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorised, and that you're the owner or authorised to act for them.

We haven't registered a designated agent under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act and don't run a formal DMCA notice-and-counter-notice programme. We do take these reports seriously — we'll investigate, remove or disable material that appears to infringe, and close the accounts of repeat infringers where that's appropriate. We'll also reject reports that are fraudulent, abusive, or seriously misleading.

Why we did what we did

When we remove material, refuse a request, restrict a feature, or suspend or terminate an account over content or conduct, we'll tell the affected user: what we did, how broad it is and how long it lasts, the facts behind it, which part of these Terms we relied on, whether automation was involved, and how to challenge it.

The exception is where telling you would itself be unlawful, would get in the way of a criminal investigation, or where the material is manifestly illegal and serious.

Disagreeing with a decision

If you think we got a decision wrong, write to info@localgroup.software and say why. We'll look at it again, ask either side for more if we need it, and put things back where we agree we were wrong. Your right to take the matter to court under Section 17 is unaffected.

Point of contact

For regulators, authorities, and communications under this Section, use info@localgroup.software. You can write in English.

12. Privacy and data protection

Our Privacy Policy covers what we do with personal data when we're the controller — your sign-up, billing, and support data.

Personal data in your footage

When your footage includes other people, you're the controller of that personal data under the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR (the "business," under US state privacy laws) and we're your processor. We process it on your documented instructions, as needed to make your Videos and secure the Service, and as required by applicable law.

Data you shouldn't send us

Don't send us protected health information, payment card data, biometric identifiers, government ID numbers, children's data covered by COPPA, or other special-category or regulated data — unless we've got a written agreement with you covering it.

13. Security

We keep reasonable technical and organisational measures in place to protect the Service. No service is perfectly secure, though, and we can't promise nobody will ever get past them.

If we find out about a breach that destroys, loses, alters, or exposes Customer Material or personal data we process for you, we'll tell you without undue delay and within 72 hours of becoming aware of it. We'll give you what we've got so you can meet your own notification obligations.

Keep your own account details and contact channels secure, and tell us at info@localgroup.software if you spot a security problem in the Service.

14. Stopping, suspension, and termination

You can walk away whenever you want. Email info@localgroup.software to cancel a paid Service or delete your account, and we'll action it.

We can suspend, limit, or terminate your access if:

Where it's practical we'll tell you first and give you a chance to fix the problem, and we'll keep any suspension as narrow and as short as it reasonably can be. In an emergency we may act immediately. Section 11 covers the explanation you get and how to challenge it.

After it ends

Your right to use the Service stops. We'll keep your Customer Material and Videos recoverable for 30 days after termination or deletion so you can export them, then delete them within another 60 days. Copies in backups, logs, or records survive that where the law requires it or where we reasonably need them to resolve a dispute or enforce an agreement, and backups age out on our normal cycle, currently 90 days.

We may delete material immediately, with no retention window, where keeping it would be unlawful or where it's manifestly illegal content.

Sections that ought to survive the end of this agreement do survive it, including Sections 2, 5 (ownership and Usage Data), 9 (money you already owe), 10, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 20.

15. What we don't promise

Nothing here strips out warranties or rights that can't legally be excluded, including under consumer-protection law.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." CUTLEAP AND ITS SUPPLIERS AND LICENSORS DISCLAIM ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR FREE FROM HARMFUL COMPONENTS; THAT CUSTOMER MATERIAL WILL NOT BE LOST; OR THAT ANY VIDEO WILL ACHIEVE ANY PARTICULAR RESULT, REACH OR PERFORMANCE.

Some places don't allow these exclusions, so parts of this Section may not apply to you.

16. Limits on what we owe you, and when you cover us

Our liability

Nothing here limits liability where the law says it can't be limited — fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, gross negligence, willful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or anything protected by consumer law.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER CUTLEAP NOR ITS AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, LICENSORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, OR AGENTS WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, GOODWILL, USE, OR DATA, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF CUTLEAP AND THE PARTIES LISTED ABOVE FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO CUTLEAP FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) US$100.

That cap is the total across all claims, not a fresh cap for each one. It applies whatever the legal theory, and it still applies even if some other remedy in these Terms turns out to be worthless. Both of us are treating this as a deliberate split of risk and part of the deal.

Neither of us is liable for loss the other could reasonably have avoided or reduced. Section 5 asks you to keep your own copies of your footage: we aren't liable for loss you would have avoided by doing that, or for loss you could have limited by telling us about a problem sooner.

Some places don't allow these limits, so parts of this Section may not apply to you.

When you cover us

As far as the law allows, you'll defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Cutleap and its Affiliates, suppliers, licensors, officers, employees, contractors, and agents against third-party claims, damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, settlements, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising out of:

We'll tell you about a covered claim within a reasonable time. If we're late, that only lets you off the hook to the extent it actually hurt your position. We keep control of the defence and any settlement, though we may let you take over the defence with counsel we're comfortable with. You can't settle anything in a way that admits fault for us, puts an obligation or a payment on us, or restricts what we can do, without our written consent. We'll expect reasonable cooperation from you, at your cost.

This paragraph doesn't apply where consumer law says it can't, and it doesn't cover claims arising from our own gross negligence or willful misconduct.

17. If we end up in a dispute

17.1 Which law applies

These Terms, and any dispute or non-contractual obligation arising out of them or out of the Service, are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

If you're a consumer, this doesn't take away the protection of any mandatory rules of the law of the country where you habitually live. Whatever this Section says, you keep every right your own consumer law gives you that can't be signed away.

17.2 Talk to us first

Before either of us starts formal proceedings, we both agree to spend 30 days trying to sort it out informally, starting when one of us writes to the other. Say what the dispute is, what you want, and how to reach you, and include the email address on your account.

Write to us at info@localgroup.software, or at Local Group Software, Corp., 1968 S. Coast Highway, #3447, Laguna Beach, California 92651, United States. We'll write to the address on your account. Either of us can ask for a call, and we'll both participate in good faith.

This step doesn't stop you going to court if you need to protect a deadline, and it doesn't stop either of us seeking an urgent injunction under Section 17.4.

17.3 Where a dispute gets heard

The state and federal courts located in Delaware have jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of these Terms or the Service.

If you're a consumer, you may bring proceedings in Delaware or in the courts where you live where mandatory consumer law permits, and we'll bring proceedings against you only where applicable law permits.

If you're a business customer — acting wholly or mainly for purposes related to your trade, business, craft, or profession — the state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction, and each party consents to their personal jurisdiction and venue.

17.4 Injunctions and small claims

Either of us can go to court at any time for an injunction or other urgent relief to stop actual or threatened misuse of intellectual property, confidential information, or the Service, without waiting for Section 17.2.

Either of us can also bring a qualifying claim on the small claims track or an equivalent local procedure.

17.5 Time limit for business claims

If you're a business customer, any claim arising out of these Terms or the Service must be brought within one year of the date you became aware, or ought reasonably to have become aware, of the facts giving rise to it. This doesn't apply to consumers, whose statutory limitation periods are untouched.

17.6 Who else can rely on these Terms

Except as set out here, these Terms do not create rights for anyone other than you and us. Our Affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, and agents are intended third-party beneficiaries of Sections 15 and 16 and may enforce those Sections. We don't need anyone else's consent to vary or rescind these Terms.

18. If you're in California

We're a Delaware corporation, and Section 17 governs disputes. These two notices still apply to California residents who buy a subscription from us.

Automatic renewals. Before you buy a subscription that renews on its own, we'll show you the renewal terms clearly, take your active agreement to them, and send a confirmation covering those terms and how to cancel. To cancel, email info@localgroup.software. A single email is enough — we won't require a phone call or put you through a retention process, and we'll confirm once it's done. Where required, we'll warn you before a renewal and before a free trial converts to a paid rate.

Complaints. You can reach the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or on (800) 952-5210.

19. Changes to these Terms

These Terms will change as the Service and the law change. When a change is material, you'll get at least 30 days' notice by email, in the product, or some other sensible route.

The new version takes effect on the date in the notice. Changes don't apply retroactively unless the law requires it. If you don't like the new version, stop using the Service before it takes effect — keep using it afterwards and you've accepted it.

One carve-out: changes to Section 17 don't apply to a dispute either of us had already raised in writing before the change took effect.

20. The rest

The whole agreement

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, anything else expressly folded into them, and any order or written agreement between us are the complete agreement about the Service. They replace everything discussed beforehand. If two of them conflict, the order is: (1) a signed agreement between you and Cutleap; (2) these Terms; (3) the Privacy Policy and other referenced policies.

Assignment

You can't assign these Terms without our written consent, except to a successor in a merger or a sale of substantially all your assets — provided they're not a competitor of ours and they take on these Terms in writing. We can assign in a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, asset sale, or by operation of law.

Not enforcing something isn't giving it up

If we don't enforce a provision, we haven't waived our right to enforce it later.

If part of this fails

An unenforceable provision gets narrowed just enough to work, or dropped if that's impossible. Everything else stands.

We're not partners

These Terms don't make us agents, partners, joint venturers, employer and employee, or franchisor and franchisee.

Things outside our control

Neither of us is on the hook for delays or failures caused by things we can't reasonably control: natural disasters, war, terrorism, labour disputes, internet or utility failures, government action, and Third-Party Service failures. That doesn't excuse paying money you owe.

How we reach you

We'll send notices to the email on your account, through the Service, or by posting them on our website. They count as delivered when sent or posted. Keep your contact details current.

Language

These Terms are written in English. If we publish a translation and the two conflict, the English version governs, unless the law says otherwise.

Headings

Headings and the summary are there to help you find things. They don't change what the Terms mean.

21. How to reach us

Local Group Software, Corp.
1968 S. Coast Highway, #3447
Laguna Beach, California 92651
United States

info@localgroup.software

That email and mailing address reach us for support, legal notices, security, abuse reports, copyright, and privacy.