Terms of Service

1. About these terms

VodChamp is a service run by HMarquis LLC (“VodChamp”, “we”, “us”). It makes short clips from your streams and videos, and it brings your live chats into one view and one stream overlay.

These Terms of Service are a contract between you and HMarquis LLC. By making an account or using VodChamp, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use VodChamp.

These terms include our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Refund Policy, Copyright and DMCA Policy and the acceptable use policy in section 10.

If you use VodChamp for a company or a team, you agree to these terms for that company or team, and you confirm that you are allowed to do so.

2. Who can use VodChamp

You must be at least 13 years old to use VodChamp. VodChamp is not meant for children under 13.

If you are under 18, or under the age of legal adulthood where you live, you may only use VodChamp if a parent or legal guardian has read these terms and agreed to them for you. A parent or guardian who allows a minor to use VodChamp is responsible for that use, including any purchases.

You may not use VodChamp if we closed your account before for breaking these terms, or if the law where you live does not allow it.

3. Your account

You sign in with a code we send to your email, or through Google, Twitch, Kick or Discord. Use an email address that is yours, and give us correct details.

Anyone who can open your email or your sign-in provider account can get into VodChamp, so keep those safe. You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think someone else used it, tell us right away at hi@vodchamp.gg.

If you own a team, you decide who is on it, and you are responsible for what your teammates do in it. Teammates can see and use the team’s videos, clips, chat settings and credits.

4. The service

VodChamp does two main things. It turns a video you upload, or a stream link you give it, into short clips with captions, titles and a Hype score. And it shows the chats of the channels you connect in one place, with an overlay for your streaming software, a phone view, replies, and a “Clip that!” button that marks a moment.

What you can use depends on your plan. The pricing page lists what each plan includes.

We keep improving VodChamp, so features can change, and we may add or remove features.

We work to keep VodChamp running, but we do not promise that it will always be available or free of errors. See sections 16 and 17.

5. Credits

VodChamp counts usage in credits. One credit pays for one minute of source video.

• When you start a clip job, we hold one credit for each minute of the source video, rounded up to the next whole minute. If you do not have enough credits, the job does not start.
• When the job finishes, the held credits are used up.
• If the job fails, the held credits go back to your balance automatically. If only some of the clips fail our quality checks, you get a matching share of the credits back.
• Credits that expire soonest are used first.

How long credits last:

• Free plan: the Free plan is for the chat tools. It does not include credits.
• Trial: the 60 credits that come with the trial (section 6) expire one month after they are given. They do not carry over.
• Paid plans: unused credits carry over for 2 more months after the month they were given for. After that they expire.
• Extra credit packs: credits from a pack you buy on top of a paid plan expire 12 months after you buy the pack.

Credits are not money. They have no cash value, they cannot be traded, sold or moved to another account, and we do not pay out unused credits, except where our Refund Policy or the law says otherwise.

6. Plans, prices and payment

Prices are in US dollars. The price and the plan details shown at checkout are the ones that apply to your purchase. Sales tax, VAT or similar taxes may be added where the law requires it; checkout shows them before you pay.

Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.

A new account gets a 7-day trial of Pro features without giving a card. The trial comes with 60 credits. The trial is given once per person and once per device. When the trial ends, the account stays on the Free plan unless you choose a paid plan. The Free plan does not include credits, so making more clips after the trial credits are gone needs a paid plan. We do not charge you for the trial, and it does not turn into a paid plan by itself.

Clips made on the Free plan carry a small VodChamp mark.

If we change the price of a plan you are on, we will tell you by email before the change. The new price starts at your next renewal after that notice, and you can cancel before then if you do not want it.

7. Subscriptions, renewal and cancelling

Paid plans are subscriptions. Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period, monthly or yearly, and we charge your payment method the then-current price each time, until you cancel.

• You can cancel at any time. Open Billing in the app and go to the billing portal.
• When you cancel, your plan stays active until the end of the period you already paid for. Then your account moves to the Free plan. We do not charge you again.
• Cancelling does not by itself refund a payment already made. Refunds follow our Refund Policy.
• If you move to a bigger plan or add packs, the change and the extra credits apply right away, and you pay the difference for the rest of the period. If you move to a smaller plan, the change applies at the end of the current period.
• If a payment fails, we tell you by email and you have 7 days to fix it. If it is still unpaid after that, your account moves to the Free plan.

After a move to the Free plan, the Free plan’s limits apply, including how long clips are stored. Our Privacy Policy explains the storage times. The Free plan gives no new credits; credits you already have stay usable until they expire.

8. Refunds

Our full Refund Policy is part of these terms. In short: subscription fees are not refunded once credits have been used. If you have used no credits, you can ask for a full refund within 7 days of the payment. Clip jobs that fail give their credits back automatically.

9. Your content

“Your content” means the videos you upload or import, the clips, titles, captions and transcripts made from them, your chat and overlay settings, the fonts and brand settings you add, and the messages you send through VodChamp.

You own your content. We do not claim ownership of your videos or of the clips VodChamp makes from them.

To run the service for you, we need your permission to handle your content. You give HMarquis LLC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, transcribe, analyse, cut, edit, format and display your content, only as needed to provide VodChamp to you and your team, to keep it safe, and to fix problems. This includes passing it to the service providers listed in our Privacy Policy, who work on it for us.

This licence ends when your content is deleted from our systems. Our Privacy Policy explains when that happens.

We do not sell your content, and we do not use your videos, clips or chats to train AI models.

You promise that:

• You own your content, or you have all the rights and permissions needed to use it with VodChamp, including for any music, game footage, images and people that appear in it.
• When you import a video by link, it is your own stream or video, or you have the owner’s permission.
• Your content, and what you do with your clips, does not break the law, these terms or anyone else’s rights.

You are responsible for your content and for where you post your clips. We can remove content that breaks these terms or the law.

If you send us ideas or feedback about VodChamp, we may use them freely, without owing you anything.

10. Acceptable use policy

These rules cover everything you do with VodChamp: the videos you upload or import, the clips you make, the chat tools, and the service itself. Your teammates must follow them too.

Do not use VodChamp to upload, import, make, store or share:

• Videos, music, images or other material that you do not own and do not have permission to use.
• Sexual content that involves anyone under 18, in any form. We remove it, close the account and report it where the law requires.
• Intimate or sexual images of a person shared without that person’s consent.
• Threats, harassment, bullying, or content that encourages violence or self-harm.
• Content that attacks people because of who they are, such as their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or serious illness.
• Other people’s private details, such as a home address, phone number or ID, shared without their consent.
• Clips that are cut or labelled to mislead people about what someone really said or did, or that pretend to be another person or brand.
• Anything that breaks the law or helps someone else break it.

Only add music, pictures and fonts to your files that you have the right to use; VodChamp does not add official TikTok or Instagram audio to the files you export.

Do not misuse the service itself. You must not:

• Break into, probe or test the security of VodChamp, or get around sign-in, plan limits, credit counts, storage limits or rate limits.
• Open more than one account to collect extra free credits or extra free trials.
• Resell VodChamp, rent it out, or share one account among people who are not on your team.
• Use bots, scrapers or other automated tools on VodChamp, unless we gave you written permission.
• Copy, decompile or reverse engineer the software, except where the law says you may.
• Send viruses or harmful code, or put an unreasonable load on our systems.
• Use the chat tools to send spam, to flood a chat, or to get around a ban, a timeout or another moderation action on any platform.
• Use VodChamp in a way that breaks the rules of Twitch, Kick, YouTube, Rumble or another platform you connect.

If you break these rules, we may remove the content, pause the features involved, or suspend or close your account. For serious cases, such as content that sexualises minors or a real threat of harm, we act at once and without warning.

To report content or an account that breaks these rules, write to legal@vodchamp.gg. For copyright complaints, use the copyright and DMCA page.

11. AI-made results

VodChamp uses automated systems, including AI models run by other companies, to turn speech into text, to study your video, and to pick, cut, caption, title and score clips.

• AI makes mistakes. Clips, titles, captions and Hype scores can be wrong, incomplete or badly timed. Captions can misquote what was said. A clip can leave out context.
• A Hype score is an estimate. It is not a promise of views, followers or income.
• Always watch and read a clip before you post it. You decide what gets published, and you are responsible for it.
• Results can differ from one run to the next, and other people may get similar results from similar videos.

12. Twitch, Kick, YouTube, Rumble and other services

VodChamp works with services run by other companies. When you connect a channel, import a video by link, or post a clip, you must also follow that service’s own terms and rules:

• Twitch Terms of Service
• Kick Terms of Service
• YouTube Terms of Service
• Rumble Terms and Conditions

VodChamp uses YouTube API Services to find your live broadcasts and to read and send live chat messages for the YouTube channel you connect. By using those features, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service.

When you send a chat reply from VodChamp, it is sent from your own account on that platform, and that platform’s rules apply to it.

VodChamp is not owned by, sponsored by or endorsed by Twitch, Kick, YouTube, Google, Rumble, Discord, 7TV, BetterTTV or FrankerFaceZ. Their names and marks belong to them.

These services can change, limit or switch off the access VodChamp depends on. If that happens, a feature may work differently or stop working, and we are not responsible for that. You can disconnect a channel in VodChamp at any time.

13. Copyright complaints

We respect copyright and expect you to do the same. Our Copyright and DMCA Policy explains how to report content, how to answer a report, and that we close the accounts of people who infringe repeatedly.

14. Our software and brand

VodChamp, including its software, design, name, logo and mascot, belongs to HMarquis LLC or its licensors. While you follow these terms, you may use VodChamp for your own channels and business. This is a personal permission to use the service. It does not give you ownership of any part of it, and it ends when your account ends.

15. Pausing and closing accounts

You can stop using VodChamp at any time. You can delete your account in Settings. If you have a paid plan on a team you own, deleting your account cancels that plan at once, with no refund for the time left, unless the Refund Policy gives you one.

We may suspend or close your account, or remove content, if you break these terms or the acceptable use policy, if you do not pay, if the law requires it, or if your use puts VodChamp, its users or others at risk. Where it is reasonable and allowed, we will tell you why.

When an account is closed, your access ends, unused credits are lost, and your content is deleted as our Privacy Policy describes. Any refund follows the Refund Policy.

Sections that by their nature should continue after an account ends, such as sections 9, 16, 17 and 18, continue to apply.

16. No guarantees

We provide VodChamp “as is” and “as available”. As far as the law allows, we make no promises or warranties about it, whether stated or implied, including that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or fit for a particular purpose, or that clips will be accurate or will perform well.

Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not fully apply to you. Nothing in these terms takes away rights that the law does not let you give up.

17. Limits on our liability

As far as the law allows:

• HMarquis LLC is not liable for lost profits, lost income, lost views, followers or sponsorships, lost data, or any indirect, special, incidental or consequential loss that comes from your use of VodChamp, or from not being able to use it.
• We are not liable for what other services do, including Twitch, Kick, YouTube, Rumble and payment or hosting providers, or for content that users create or post.
• Our total liability to you for all claims about VodChamp is limited to the larger of two amounts: what you paid us for VodChamp in the 12 months before the event that caused the claim, or 100 US dollars.

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot be limited by law, such as liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. If you are a consumer, you keep the rights the law gives you where you live.

18. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, USA, without regard to its rules on conflicts of law.

If you have a problem with VodChamp, please write to us first at legal@vodchamp.gg. Most problems can be solved that way.

If a dispute goes to court, it must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Arizona, USA, and you and we both accept the authority of those courts.

If you are a consumer and the law of the country or state where you live gives you protections that cannot be removed by contract, including the right to bring a claim in your local courts, you keep those protections.

19. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when the product, our prices or the law change. The version number and the “last updated” date at the top of this page show which version you are reading.

If a change is important, we will tell you by email or in the app before it takes effect. If you keep using VodChamp after the new terms take effect, you accept them. If you do not agree with a change, you can stop using VodChamp and delete your account.

20. Other terms

1. These terms, with the policies listed in section 1, are the whole agreement between you and us about VodChamp. A separate written contract that we both signed comes first where it says something different.
2. If a court finds part of these terms invalid, the rest still applies.
3. If we do not enforce a part of these terms right away, we can still enforce it later.
4. You may not transfer your account or these terms to someone else without our written consent. We may transfer these terms as part of a merger, a sale of the business or a reorganisation, and your rights stay the same.

21. Contact

VodChamp is run by:

For help with the product, write to hi@vodchamp.gg.