Terms of Service

Filmo is a product of Everseed Ventures, operating from the Province of Alberta, Canada. References in these Terms to "Filmo" include both the Service itself and the Company that operates it.

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any additional terms that we present to you in-product (for example, paid event tiers, guest roll purchases, or beta features), form the entire agreement between you and the Company in respect of the Service. They replace any prior agreement on the same subject.

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, give notice in-product or by email to account holders. Your continued use of the Service after a change becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are between 13 and the age of majority in your jurisdiction (18 in Alberta), you may only use the Service with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf. The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13.

If you reside in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you must be at least 16, or the minimum age set by your country's data-protection law, whichever is higher.

There are two roles in the Service:

• Creators (also called hosts) create an event, set the rules of the roll, invite guests, and may pay for tiers above the free-for-five-guests level. Creators authenticate by email one-time code.
• Guests join an event through a Creator's QR code or link, authenticate by email one-time code, and use the in-browser camera to take photos that contribute to the shared roll.

You are responsible for everything that happens through your account, including all events you create or join and all content you upload. Keep access to your email inbox secure: anyone who can receive your one-time codes can act as you. Tell us immediately at team@everseedventures.com if you believe your account has been used without your authorisation.

You must use accurate information when joining or creating events, must not impersonate any person or organisation, and must not create accounts by automated means.

Filmo is a private, shared event-photography service inspired by a disposable camera. A Creator opens a roll, invites Guests via a QR code or link, and chooses a timer. Guests take a limited number of photos through the in-browser camera. No participant can preview the photos before the timer expires. When the timer expires, the album "develops" and becomes visible to everyone the Creator invited.

Some specifics you should understand before using the Service:

• Photos uploaded by Guests are stored on our cloud infrastructure (currently Supabase Storage, operated by Supabase Inc.) for the lifetime of the event and for a reasonable archival period thereafter, as described in our Privacy Policy.
• Photos are shared with every other participant in the same event, including the Creator. By joining, a Guest accepts this sharing.
• Until the album reveals, even the Creator cannot view photos. This is by design and is part of the reveal mechanic. Filmo's operators are likewise not in the habit of viewing event content; we will only access it where strictly necessary to operate the Service, prevent abuse, or comply with the law.
• Filmo is provided as a web application. It is not an app from any app store, and we cannot guarantee compatibility with every browser, device, or network. Camera capture requires browser permission and an HTTPS context.
• Filmo is not a backup service. We may delete events, albums, or photos after the retention period described in our Privacy Policy, after a Creator deletes their account, or as required to enforce these Terms. Download originals locally if you want to keep them forever.

We may add, change, or remove features at any time without prior notice. Some features may be released as beta, preview, or experimental, and we may modify or discontinue them on shorter notice than the rest of the Service.

"Your Content" means anything you submit, upload, or generate through the Service: photos you take or upload, event titles, cover images, guest names, optional captions, and any other text or media you provide.

Between you and the Company, you retain ownership of Your Content. We do not claim to own your photos, your events, or any other material you create through the Service.

By submitting Your Content to the Service, you grant the Company a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable (to our service providers only, and solely for the purposes described in these Terms) licence to host, store, copy, transmit, display, reformat, resize, generate thumbnails of, and otherwise process Your Content as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, improve, and support the Service. This licence ends when you delete Your Content, except that copies may persist in encrypted backups for a reasonable period and except as required for us to comply with our legal obligations or to enforce these Terms.

We do not use Your Content to train AI or machine-learning models, sell it to advertisers, or share it with anyone other than the participants of the event it belongs to and the service providers we use to run the Service. Our commercial model is per-event pricing — your photos are not the product.

You represent and warrant, for each item of Your Content you submit, that:

• You created it, or you have obtained from every rights holder the rights necessary to upload it to the Service and to grant us the licence above.
• You have obtained from every identifiable person depicted in the content the consent required by applicable law for the content to be uploaded, stored, processed, and shared with other participants of the event.
• Your Content does not infringe any third party's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights and does not violate any law, regulation, or contractual obligation.
• Your Content does not violate the Acceptable Use rules in section 6.

If you create an event, you are the host of the gathering reflected in that event. In addition to the general obligations in these Terms, you specifically agree that:

• You are responsible for who you invite. Only share the QR code, link, or PIN with people you are willing to have take photos at your event and see every other photo taken at it.
• You will inform attendees, before the event, that the gathering is being photographed through Filmo and that photos taken through the Service will be shared with all participants. This is your obligation under applicable privacy law, including Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) where applicable, and any other law that applies to your event.
• You will obtain any consents required to photograph identifiable individuals in the jurisdictions where your event takes place, including consents required to photograph minors.
• You are responsible for moderating the conduct of your guests within the event. You can remove guests from your event and delete photos from your event through the Creator dashboard.
• If you charge for an event, run a commercial brand activation, or use Filmo as part of a paid service to a third party, you are responsible for any additional consents, contracts, releases, or licences that activity requires.

You agree that you will not, and will not encourage or permit anyone else to, upload to or transmit through the Service, or use the Service to create, share, or store, any content or conduct that:

• Depicts nudity, sexual activity, sexually suggestive posing, or any other sexually explicit or pornographic material. Filmo is not a platform for adult content, regardless of consent between the depicted parties.
• Depicts, describes, promotes, glorifies, or facilitates the sexual exploitation, sexualisation, or abuse of any minor. This conduct is prohibited absolutely, will be reported to authorities, and content will be preserved as required by law before deletion.
• Depicts, threatens, glorifies, or incites violence, self-harm, suicide, terrorism, or any other physical harm to a person or group.
• Harasses, bullies, defames, dehumanises, or targets any person or group, including on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic.
• Constitutes hate speech or incites hatred or discrimination against a protected group.
• Violates the privacy of another person, including by photographing or recording them in a context where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy (changing rooms, bathrooms, hotel rooms not their own, private medical settings), or by sharing non-consensual intimate imagery.
• Infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other intellectual-property or proprietary right of any party.
• Is illegal in the jurisdiction where it was captured, where it is being uploaded, or where it will be viewed, including content prohibited under Canadian Criminal Code provisions on obscenity, voyeurism, intimate-image distribution, and child sexual exploitation.
• Promotes or facilitates the sale or distribution of regulated, dangerous, or illegal goods or services (firearms, controlled substances, prescription drugs, counterfeit goods, etc.).
• Contains malware, viruses, worms, or any other code designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorised access to a system or to circumvent security or access controls.
• Is spam, phishing, scams, fraudulent solicitations, or other deceptive content.
• Attempts to scrape, mirror, crawl, or systematically download content from the Service; reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service; or interfere with, probe, or test the vulnerability of any Filmo system except via a coordinated disclosure to team@everseedventures.com.
• Bypasses or attempts to bypass any technical limit of the Service, including shot limits, participant limits, paywalls, rate limits, or access controls.
• Uses the Service in a way that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure or that disrupts the integrity of the Service for other users.
• Violates any applicable law or regulation, anywhere the Service is accessed.

We may, but are not obligated to, monitor, review, or moderate content on the Service. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion and without prior notice, to remove or restrict access to any content we believe in good faith violates these Terms or applicable law, and to suspend or terminate any account associated with that content. We are not liable to you for any action taken to enforce this section.

If you see content on Filmo that you believe violates section 6, or that violates your rights (including your copyright, your privacy, or your right of publicity), please report it to team@everseedventures.com. To help us act quickly, include: a description of the content, the event link or URL where it appears, your contact information, and (for copyright complaints) a statement that you are the rights holder or authorised to act on their behalf and that the use is not authorised.

We honour Canadian Notice-and-Notice obligations under the Copyright Act and will forward copyright complaints to the alleged uploader. Where the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) applies, we follow the standard DMCA notice and counter-notice procedure; designated agent communications may be sent to team@everseedventures.com.

We may remove content, suspend the associated event, or terminate the associated accounts while we investigate. Repeat or material infringers will have their accounts terminated.

Knowingly submitting a false report is itself a violation of these Terms and may expose you to legal liability.

Some features of the Service require payment, including event tiers above the free-for-five-guests level and certain guest add-ons. Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. and its affiliates. By making a payment, you authorise us, through Stripe, to charge the payment method you provide. Stripe's terms and privacy notice apply to your payment data — we never receive your full card number.

Prices are shown in the currency presented at checkout (default USD). Taxes (including GST/HST and provincial sales tax in Canada, and any equivalent tax in your jurisdiction) may be added at checkout or invoiced separately.

Event payments are one-time charges; we do not currently auto-renew event tiers. Where we offer subscriptions in the future, the cancellation and renewal terms will be presented to you at checkout.

Refund policy:

• Before the event opens for shooting — if you paid for an event tier and the event has not yet been opened for guest joining or used for any photo capture, contact team@everseedventures.com within 14 days of payment for a full refund.
• After the event opens — once an event has been opened to guests or has accepted any photo, the payment is non-refundable except where a refund is required by mandatory consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction.
• Guest add-ons (extra shots, etc.) — these are consumable and non-refundable once delivered to the participant's roll.
• Account termination for breach — if we terminate your account for breach of these Terms, you forfeit any unused balance and pre-paid event tiers.

We reserve the right to change pricing, introduce new paid features, or replace the free tier. Pricing changes do not apply to events you have already paid for.

The Service, including the Filmo name, the Filmo wordmark and logos, the look and feel of the website and application, the underlying code, our brand illustrations, and all editorial content we publish (other than Your Content), is owned by the Company or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for its intended purpose. This licence does not include any right to copy, modify, redistribute, sell, or create derivative works of the Service or our content; to use our trademarks, logos, or trade dress in any way that suggests endorsement; or to use the Service to build a competing product.

Any feedback you choose to send us about the Service may be used by us for any purpose without restriction or compensation to you. Sending us feedback does not transfer ownership of Your Content.

The Service relies on third-party providers to deliver its functionality, including Supabase (authentication, database, file storage), Stripe (payments), Resend (transactional email), Vercel (hosting and content delivery), Google (optional sign-in, where enabled), and standard browser APIs (camera, storage). Their terms and privacy practices govern our relationship with them and, where they process your information on our behalf, are documented in our Privacy Policy.

We are not responsible for the conduct, content, terms, or practices of any third party. Outbound links to third-party websites or services are provided for convenience only.

You may stop using the Service at any time. You may close your account from the Creator dashboard or by writing to team@everseedventures.com.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Service, or any specific event, at any time, with or without prior notice, if we reasonably believe that you have violated these Terms or any applicable law, that your use of the Service is exposing the Company, our service providers, or other users to legal or operational risk, or that termination is necessary to protect the integrity of the Service. We may also stop offering the Service in whole or in part, on reasonable notice where practical.

On termination, sections of these Terms which by their nature should survive (including content licence for content you have not deleted, intellectual property, indemnity, disclaimers, limitation of liability, governing law, and dispute resolution) will continue in effect.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS, CONDITIONS, OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, MERCHANTABLE QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, DURABILITY, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Without limiting the previous paragraph, we do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of viruses or other harmful components; that any data you upload will be preserved indefinitely or recoverable in the event of loss; or that the Service will meet your requirements or produce particular results.

Some jurisdictions (including some Canadian provinces) do not allow the exclusion of certain implied warranties or conditions. To the extent such exclusion is not permitted, the disclaimers in this section apply to the maximum extent permitted by law and the duration of any implied warranty is limited to the minimum period required by law.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE COMPANY, ITS AFFILIATES, AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND CONTRACTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST BUSINESS, LOST GOODWILL, LOST DATA, LOSS OF USE OF DATA, OR LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO PHOTOGRAPHS, MEMORIES, OR EVENT CONTENT, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE COMPANY'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID THE COMPANY FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, AND (B) ONE HUNDRED CANADIAN DOLLARS (CAD $100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of certain damages. In those jurisdictions the limitations in this section apply to the maximum extent permitted by law, and nothing in these Terms is intended to limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited (including, in Canada, liability for fraud, intentional wrongdoing, or gross negligence).

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, and its officers, directors, employees, agents, and contractors from and against any claim, demand, action, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense (including reasonable legal fees and disbursements) arising out of or related to: (a) Your Content; (b) your use of or access to the Service; (c) your breach of these Terms or violation of any law; or (d) your violation of any right of a third party, including any intellectual-property, privacy, or publicity right.

We may, at our option, assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defence at your expense.

These Terms, and any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service (whether in contract, tort, statute, or otherwise), are governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada applicable in Alberta, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Subject to the dispute-resolution paragraph below, you and the Company submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in the City of Calgary, Province of Alberta, for the resolution of any dispute relating to these Terms or the Service, and each party waives any objection to that venue.

Before filing a claim against the Company, you agree to attempt informal resolution by writing to team@everseedventures.com with a description of the dispute and the relief you seek. We will attempt to resolve the dispute informally within 60 days of receiving your notice. Either party may proceed to court once that period has expired or the parties have agreed in writing that informal resolution has failed.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, any claim must be brought on an individual basis only; class actions, consolidated actions, and representative actions are not permitted. Nothing in this section limits any non-waivable right you have under the consumer-protection laws of your jurisdiction.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision will be severed or limited to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

No waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that provision or of any other right we have.

Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any of your rights under them without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms to an affiliate, to a successor in the context of a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganisation, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or to any other party where the assignment does not materially affect your rights under these Terms.

Force majeure

We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government action, pandemic, network or infrastructure failures of providers we depend on, or other force majeure events.

Notices

We may give you notice through the Service, by email to the address on file for your account, or by posting on filmo.cam. You may give us legal notice by email to team@everseedventures.com. A mailing address for service of legal process is available on written request to team@everseedventures.com.

Contact

Questions, complaints, legal notices, privacy requests, abuse reports, copyright complaints, security disclosures, billing issues — anything that touches these Terms or our handling of your information — go to team@everseedventures.com. General hello goes to hello@filmo.cam. A mailing address for service of legal process is available on written request.