Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you ("you", "your", or "User") and Limelit, operated by IE Artem Zemtsovskii ("Limelit", "we", "us", or "our"), governing your access to and use of the Limelit website, applications, and services (collectively, the "Service"). By creating an account, purchasing a subscription, or otherwise using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Overview of the Service

Limelit provides tools that help authors generate short-form promotional video content for their own written works, including but not limited to books, stories, and manuscripts, using automated and AI-assisted processes.

The Service is intended primarily for individual authors promoting their own content. Use of the Service to create promotional materials for works owned by third parties (including publishers, agencies, or marketing firms) may require a separate commercial agreement.

2. Definitions

In these Terms, the following capitalized terms have the meanings set out below:

• User Content — any content you upload, submit, or provide to the Service, including manuscripts, text excerpts, titles, book metadata, images, and other materials.
• Generated Content — videos, slideshows, images, audio, captions, scripts, and other media or text produced by the Service from your inputs using automated and AI-assisted processes.
• Plan — a subscription tier (for example, Starter, Pro, Studio, or Enterprise) with an associated price, set of features, and any applicable usage limits, as described at the point of purchase and in the Service.
• Subscription — a recurring paid arrangement for access to a Plan, billed monthly or annually.
• Merchant of Record or MoR — the third-party payment provider that acts as the reseller and seller of record for your purchase, as described in Section 9.
• Discretionary Benefit — any promotional price, discount, additional feature, extended entitlement, or other offer we choose to provide to some or all Users on a case-by-case basis, as described in Section 6.

3. Eligibility and Accounts

To use Limelit, you must:

• Be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction;
• Provide accurate, current, and complete account information; and
• Maintain the security of your account credentials.

You are solely responsible for all activity that occurs under your account. You must notify us promptly of any unauthorized use of your account. We may refuse, suspend, or terminate accounts at our discretion as described in Section 22.

4. Subscriptions, Plans, Fees, and Billing

4.1 Plans and Pricing

Certain features of the Service require a paid Subscription. The price, billing cycle, features, and any applicable usage limits of each Plan are those described in the Service and presented to you at the point of purchase. The description presented at the point of purchase, together with these Terms, governs your Subscription. Some features, including certain AI-assisted features, may be subject to usage allotments or fair-use limits as described in the Service.

4.2 Billing and Automatic Renewal

Subscriptions are billed in advance on a recurring basis (monthly or annually, as selected) and renew automatically at the then-current price for your Plan until cancelled. By purchasing a Subscription, you authorize us and our Merchant of Record to charge your payment method on each renewal date. You are responsible for keeping a valid payment method on file.

4.3 Taxes

Prices may be exclusive of applicable taxes (such as VAT, GST, or sales tax). Where the Merchant of Record collects and remits such taxes, they will be calculated and displayed at checkout and added to your total.

4.4 Price Changes

We may change the price of any Plan. For existing Subscriptions, a price change will apply only to renewals occurring after we provide reasonable advance notice (at least 30 days) by email to the address associated with your account or through a prominent notice in the Service. If you do not agree to a price change, you may cancel before the change takes effect; continuing your Subscription after the change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the new price.

5. Changes to the Service, Plans, and Pricing

We are continually developing the Service. We reserve the right, at any time and in our sole discretion, to add, modify, suspend, discontinue, or remove any part of the Service, any Plan, any feature, or any usage limit, and to introduce, establish, restructure, rename, combine, split, or change Plans, features, allotments, limits, availability, and pricing — including introducing new usage-based or metered models in the future.

Where a change would materially and adversely affect a feature, limit, or entitlement included in your active paid Subscription, we will provide reasonable advance notice (at least 30 days) by email or through a prominent notice in the Service, and the change will take effect for your Subscription from the start of your next renewal term, so that you may cancel before it takes effect if you do not agree. Changes that are neutral or beneficial to you, or that are required for legal, security, operational, or technical reasons, may take effect immediately. Your continued use of the Service, or renewal of your Subscription, after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the change.

6. Promotional Offers and Discretionary Benefits

We may, at our sole discretion, provide promotional pricing, discounts, additional or extended features, higher or unlimited usage allowances, early-adopter or loyalty benefits, or other offers (each a "Discretionary Benefit") to some or all Users, on a case-by-case basis. A Discretionary Benefit may include allowing certain Users to retain entitlements from a prior Plan — including features previously described as "unlimited."

Unless we expressly agree otherwise in writing as part of your Subscription terms, a Discretionary Benefit is a voluntary benefit only: we are under no obligation to offer the same benefit to any other User, to continue it, or to renew it, and we may modify or withdraw it at any time. We will, however, honor a benefit that forms part of a paid Subscription term you have already purchased for the remainder of that term, and any change we make to a Plan you are actively subscribed to remains subject to the notice protections in Section 5. Discretionary Benefits are personal to the account, non-transferable, and carry no cash value.

7. Cancellation

You may cancel your Subscription at any time through your account settings or by contacting support. Cancellation stops future renewals. Your paid access, including any Discretionary Benefit granted for the current term, remains available until the end of the current billing period, after which it ends. We do not provide prorated credit for the unused portion of a billing period except where required by law.

8. Refunds

No obligation to refund. Except where required by applicable mandatory consumer-protection law, or where granted at our discretion or the discretion of our Merchant of Record, all fees are non-refundable, including for partially used billing periods or features you did not use. There is no general money-back guarantee.

Statutory rights. Nothing in these Terms limits any non-waivable statutory right you may have. Where you are a consumer entitled to a statutory right of withdrawal or cancellation (for example, the 14-day right of withdrawal under EU/UK law), that right applies as provided by law. Because the Service provides digital content and services with immediate access, you expressly request that we begin providing the Service immediately upon purchase and acknowledge that, to the extent permitted by law, you lose any right of withdrawal once performance has begun and, for digital content, once download or generation has started.

Discretionary refunds. We and our Merchant of Record may, but are not required to, grant refunds on a case-by-case basis. Refunds may be refused in cases of suspected fraud, refund abuse, chargeback abuse, or manipulative behavior.

How refunds are processed. Purchases are processed by our Merchant of Record (see Section 9), which acts as the seller of record. Any refund is subject to the Merchant of Record's applicable buyer terms and is returned to the original payment method. To request a refund or raise a billing question, contact support@limelit.io before initiating a payment dispute.

9. Merchant of Record

Purchases of Subscriptions are sold and processed through one or more third-party Merchant of Record providers, which may include Paddle, Dodo Payments, and PayPal, depending on your region and the checkout you use. The applicable Merchant of Record acts as the reseller and merchant of record for your purchase, and is responsible for processing payment, collecting and remitting applicable taxes, and handling billing and refunds in accordance with its own buyer terms.

Your purchase may therefore also be subject to the terms and privacy policy of the applicable Merchant of Record. The name that appears on your payment statement may be that of the Merchant of Record rather than Limelit. Nothing in this Section limits your rights against Limelit under these Terms.

10. Your Content and Uploads

10.1 Ownership of Your Content

You retain full ownership of all User Content you upload to Limelit. Subject to these Terms, all Generated Content produced by the Service from your User Content is owned by you, to the extent such content is capable of ownership and does not infringe the rights of others.

10.2 License to Operate the Service

You grant Limelit a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, process, reproduce, and adapt your User Content and Generated Content solely as necessary to operate, provide, secure, and support the Service for you. This license ends when you delete the relevant content or close your account, except for content already incorporated into Generated Content you have exported, backups retained for a limited period, and records we are required to keep by law.

10.3 Your Warranties

You represent and warrant that you own, or have all rights and permissions necessary to upload and use, your User Content, and that your User Content and its use through the Service do not infringe the intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights of any third party, and do not violate any law.

11. AI-Generated Content

The Service uses automated and AI-assisted systems, which may include third-party AI model providers, to produce Generated Content. You understand and agree that:

• Generated Content is produced algorithmically and may be inaccurate, incomplete, generic, or unsuitable for a particular purpose. You are responsible for reviewing Generated Content before using or publishing it.
• Given the nature of generative AI, similar or identical output may be generated for other users. We do not warrant that Generated Content is unique, original, or free from similarity to other content, and we make no representation that Generated Content is eligible for copyright or other protection.
• You are solely responsible for your use of Generated Content, including ensuring it is lawful, non-infringing, non-deceptive, and compliant with the policies of any platform on which you publish it.
• Certain features rely on third-party providers (for example, for text generation, voice synthesis, music, or imagery). Your use of those features may be subject to the providers' terms, and the availability, quality, or characteristics of such features may change if a provider changes or discontinues its service.

12. Use of Content and AI Systems

12.1 Purpose Limitation

User Content is processed solely for the purpose of providing the Service, including storage, analysis, and generation of promotional media.

12.2 No AI Training on Your Content

Limelit does not use your uploaded books, manuscripts, or private User Content to train, fine-tune, or improve its own or third parties' AI models.

12.3 Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect User Content from unauthorized access, loss, or disclosure. However, no system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

12.4 External Data Sources

AI components used by Limelit may rely on publicly available data sources obtained lawfully, including publicly accessible social media content.

12.5 Content Deletion

You may delete your uploaded content at any time through your account dashboard. Deleted content will no longer be accessible to you or processed by the Service, subject to limited backup retention and legal record-keeping.

13. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use Limelit:

• For unlawful, harmful, deceptive, or fraudulent activities;
• To infringe the intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights of others;
• To generate or publish content that is defamatory, harassing, hateful, sexually exploitative, or otherwise violates applicable platform rules or laws;
• To upload content you do not have the rights to use;
• To reverse engineer, scrape, overload, disrupt, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or its systems;
• To resell, sublicense, or provide the Service to third parties except as expressly permitted; or
• To circumvent usage limits, fair-use limits, or access controls, or to use the Service in a manner that places an unreasonable or disproportionate load on our infrastructure.

You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of Generated Content complies with all applicable laws and third-party platform policies.

14. Third-Party Platforms and Services

Limelit does not control and is not responsible for third-party platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or similar services. When publishing content generated using Limelit, you are responsible for complying with the terms, guidelines, and policies of those platforms.

14.1 TikTok Content Posting API

Limelit uses TikTok's official Content Posting API to publish videos to TikTok on your behalf when you request it. Our domain (limelit.io) is verified with TikTok for this purpose.

By using features that publish content to TikTok, you agree to:

• Comply with TikTok Terms of Service and Community Guidelines;
• Ensure that content you request to be published complies with TikTok's policies; and
• Not use the Service to publish content that violates TikTok's rules or applicable laws.

Limelit is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by TikTok. TikTok is a trademark of TikTok Inc. or its affiliates. Limelit reserves the right to refuse to publish content that we believe violates TikTok's policies or applicable laws.

15. Intellectual Property

All software, branding, interfaces, templates, workflows, and other platform materials provided by Limelit remain the exclusive property of Limelit and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. Except for the rights expressly granted to you in these Terms, no rights are granted to you in the Service or its underlying technology.

16. Content Moderation and DMCA

Limelit reserves the right to review, modify, or remove any content that violates these Terms or applicable laws.

16.1 DMCA Copyright Policy

If you believe that content generated using Limelit infringes your copyright, you may submit a DMCA takedown notice to our designated agent:

DMCA Agent:
Limelit
Email: support@limelit.io
Subject: DMCA Takedown Request

Your DMCA notice must include:

• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
• Identification of the allegedly infringing content and its location;
• Your contact information;
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized;
• A statement that the information is accurate and you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner; and
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We will respond to valid DMCA notices in accordance with applicable law.

17. Privacy and Data

Limelit collects personal information such as name, email address, and payment details in order to operate the Service. All personal data is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which forms an integral part of these Terms.

18. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service and all Generated Content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Limelit makes no warranties, express or implied, including as to availability, accuracy, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

Generated Content is provided for promotional use and does not guarantee audience reach, engagement, or commercial success. Limelit does not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free from viruses or other harmful components. Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or rights that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

19. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Limelit shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising out of or related to your use of the Service, including but not limited to loss of profits, data, goodwill, or business opportunities.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Limelit's total aggregate liability for any claims arising from or related to the Service shall not exceed the amount you paid to Limelit (or its Merchant of Record for the Service) in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you.

20. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Limelit and its operator, affiliates, and personnel from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your User Content; (b) your use of the Service or Generated Content; (c) your violation of these Terms; or (d) your violation of any law or third-party right, including any third-party platform's policies. This Section survives termination of your account.

21. Force Majeure

Limelit shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performance under these Terms due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of God, war, terrorism, pandemics, government actions, third-party provider or internet failures, or other force majeure events.

22. Term, Suspension, and Termination

These Terms apply while you use the Service. Limelit reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, if:

• You violate these Terms;
• Your use poses legal, technical, or operational risk;
• The Service is discontinued; or
• You engage in fraudulent, abusive, or manipulative behavior.

You may terminate your account at any time by contacting support or using account deletion features in the Service. Upon termination, your right to use the Service (including any Discretionary Benefit) will immediately cease. We will delete or anonymize your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy, except where we are required to retain it by law.

23. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Georgia, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Any disputes arising from or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Georgia. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union or another jurisdiction with mandatory consumer-protection rules, you retain the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and you may also have the right to bring proceedings there.

24. Dispute Resolution

Before initiating any legal proceedings, you agree to contact us at support@limelit.io to attempt to resolve any dispute amicably. If a dispute cannot be resolved through direct negotiation, you and Limelit agree to attempt to resolve it through good faith mediation before pursuing litigation. This Section does not limit any mandatory rights you have as a consumer.

25. Changes to These Terms and Consent

Limelit may update these Terms from time to time. The "Last Updated" date at the top indicates when they were last revised. For material changes, we will provide notice by email to the address associated with your account or through a prominent notice in the Service, and, where we consider it appropriate or where required by law, we may ask you to review and affirmatively accept the updated Terms in order to continue using the Service.

Unless we require affirmative acceptance, your continued use of the Service after updated Terms take effect constitutes acceptance of them. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service and may cancel your Subscription and terminate your account. Changes to these Terms do not retroactively reduce entitlements you have already paid for during a current Subscription term, except as permitted by Section 5 (with notice, effective at renewal) or as required by law.

26. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account without Limelit's prior written consent. Limelit may assign these Terms or any rights hereunder without your consent in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

27. Severability and Waiver

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect, and the invalid provision shall be replaced with a valid provision that most closely reflects the intent of the original. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

28. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any other policies referenced herein, constitute the entire agreement between you and Limelit regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements, understandings, or communications. Where you purchase through a Merchant of Record, its buyer terms also apply to the payment transaction as described in Section 9.

29. Contact and Company Information

Service Provider:
Limelit
Operated by: IE Artem Zemtsovskii
Registration Number / Tax ID: 306498206
Business Address:
Bukhaidze 2nd lane 22
Kutaisi
Georgia
Email: support@limelit.io
Website: https://limelit.io