Terms of Service

In these Terms:

• “Frame” means a still image from an existing film or other audiovisual work, indexed in our catalog as reference material. We do not own frames.
• “Content” means anything you create, upload, save, tag, note, or assemble on the Service — for example moodboards, libraries, canvases, and your own uploads.
• “Reference Use” means studying, discovering, referencing, and visually assembling frames for the human eye — research, education, criticism, and planning your own creative work — as opposed to treating a frame as an asset, a product, or a machine input.
• “AI System” (or “generative-AI system”) means any machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model, tool, or pipeline that generates, trains on, fine-tunes from, embeds, or otherwise ingests or transforms images, video, audio, or other media — including image and video generators, style-transfer, img2img, inpainting, ControlNet/adapter conditioning, and model-training or fine-tuning pipelines.

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. The Service contains frames from films across cinema, including mature themes, violence, nudity, and other adult imagery. By creating an account you confirm that you are 18 or older.

If you’re using the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

You create an account using your email address or a third-party login (e.g., Google).

You agree to:

• Provide accurate information when you sign up.
• Keep your credentials private. Anything done on your account is your responsibility.
• Notify us promptly if you suspect your account has been compromised.
• Maintain only one personal account. We may suspend accounts that share credentials, use bots, or otherwise circumvent our limits.

FrameThrower offers a free tier with limited usage and paid plans with more features. Current pricing and the features included in each tier are shown on our pricing page.

If you subscribe to a paid plan:

• Billing recurs on the schedule you select (typically monthly or annually) until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time from account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
• Refunds are at our discretion, except where required by law.
• We may change pricing with at least 30 days’ notice. Continued use after the change date means you accept the new pricing.
• Payments are processed by our payment provider; we don’t store full payment card details.
• Initiating a chargeback or payment dispute without first contacting us to resolve the issue may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account, in addition to any other remedy.

What FrameThrower is. The frames in the catalog are stills from existing films and other audiovisual works. We do not own them — copyright in each frame and the work it comes from belongs to the studios, filmmakers, and other rights holders. FrameThrower does not sell, license, or transfer any rights to those frames. What we provide is a tool to search, discover, and visualize them as reference material — indexing, surfacing, and arranging frames so you can study and reference cinematic craft. Any further use of a frame is yours to clear, and is your responsibility (see Sections 6, 7, and 12).

Reference for the human eye. Frames are provided solely for Reference Use— reference for the human eye. They are not provided, licensed, or endorsed as inputs to any AI System. The specific limits on AI use are set out in Section 6.

Within that, you can use the Service for:

• Personal and professional reference, research, and education.
• Building moodboards, pitch decks, treatments, and other creative assemblies for your own film, advertising, photography, design, or related creative work.
• Studying cinematography, lighting, color, composition, period detail, performance, and similar craft.
• Criticism, commentary, and educational discussion.

You may share assemblies of frames as part of your professional referencework — for example, a moodboard or pitch deck shown to a client or collaborator — provided you’re using the Service in good faith as a creative professional or researcher, the frames stay identifiable as reference material (not presented as assets you own or have licensed), and you don’t publish or distribute them as a finished commercial product. Clearing rights for any such downstream use is on you.

Our own AI features. Some parts of the Service use AI to help you — search, tagging, query understanding, and the studio/agent tools. These operate to help you find, understand, and organize references. They do not use catalog frames as generative image or video inputs, and using our AI features is part of the Service — not a use of frames as AI inputs under Section 6.

Access through integrations. Where FrameThrower is available inside other tools — for example via our API, an MCP server, or a partner application — that access is part of the Service: it is tied to your FrameThrower account, governed by these Terms, and subject to the same usage limits as the website. Frames surfaced through integrations are provided as reference material with attribution, and the rules in this section and the next apply to them in full.

You agree not to:

• Republish, redistribute, or resell frames as if they were yours.
• Use frames in any work where you claim ownership of the underlying imagery, or in any way that exceeds fair-use principles in your jurisdiction without rights clearance.
• Use a frame in any way that infringes the copyright, trademark, right of publicity, or likeness rights of any rights holder or any person depicted, without your own rights clearance. Frames may depict identifiable actors and individuals; clearing those rights for any use is your responsibility.
• Scrape, mirror, or bulk-download the catalog, or attempt to recreate the Service’s database in whole or in significant part.
• Use the Service or any frame obtained through it as an input to any AI System — including as training or fine-tuning data, a style reference, an image / img2img / inpainting / ControlNet input, an embedding, or any other machine ingestion or transformation. This applies at any volume, from a single frame upward. Frames are third-party copyrighted works provided for Reference Use by the human eye only; this is not a use we permit, license, or can grant, for anyone.
• Build or operate any pipeline, integration, bot, or product that feeds frames into, or supplies frames to, any AI System — or that redistributes frames to people without their own FrameThrower accounts.
• Remove or obscure attribution (film title, credits) from frames surfaced through our integrations.
• Reverse-engineer the Service or attempt to bypass technical limits, rate limits, paywalls, or access controls.
• Use bots, automated tools, or fake accounts.
• Use the Service to harass, abuse, defame, or harm any person or group.
• Share, create, or assemble any content depicting minors in a sexual or exploitative context.
• Use the Service to violate any law or regulation.

No endorsement of AI use. We do not endorse, encourage, enable, or accept any responsibility for the use of frames as inputs to an AI System. Where anyone does so, it is both a violation of these Terms and that person’s own copyright and rights-clearance problem — not ours.

No license. Nothing in these Terms, and no fee you pay, grants you any right, title, license, or interest in any frame — including any right to use a frame as an input to, or as training data for, any AI System.

Downloading is not a license. Downloading, exporting, or saving a frame does not grant you any license to it and does not convert it into an asset you own. A downloaded frame remains third-party reference material subject to these Terms.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules, and we may remove content from your library or moodboards in response to violations or rights-holder complaints.

FrameThrower hosts frames from films we do not own. The frames are stills of existing cinematic works, used as reference material under principles of fair use for research, criticism, education, and creative commentary. We do not claim ownership of any film, character, brand, or imagery depicted in the catalog. Rights remain with the respective studios, directors, cinematographers, and other rights holders.

Your content. Moodboards, libraries, notes, tags, comments, and any original assemblies you create on FrameThrower are yours. You retain all rights to your own content. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive license to host, display, store, and process your content solely to provide the Service to you and any people you explicitly share with.

Sharing. Some features let you share moodboards, canvases, or assemblies by link or with collaborators. Anything you share remains reference material — not a licensed or transferable asset — and you are responsible for what you publish or distribute and for clearing any rights required for that distribution. Do not present shared frames as assets you own or have licensed.

User uploads. If you upload your own imagery to a canvas or moodboard, you represent that you own that content or have the rights to use it on the Service, and you grant us the same limited license described above.

Our brand. The FrameThrower name, logo, design, and software are ours. You may not use them outside the Service without our permission.

Your privacy. We respect your privacy and the personal data you entrust to us. We use it only to operate the Service, never sell it, and give you the right to access, export, and completely delete it. How we handle your data is set out in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms.

We respect the rights of copyright holders and respond to notices submitted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). Our designated agent for copyright notices is:

Copyright Agent, FrameThrower
Email: copyright@framethrower.ai
(Registered with the U.S. Copyright Office Designated Agent Directory.)

Filing a notice. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to our agent that includes:

• A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
• The URL or specific location of the alleged infringement on FrameThrower.
• Your contact information (name, email, phone, address).
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act on their behalf.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We review notices promptly and in good faith, and we remove or disable access to content that we determine to be infringing. Where we remove content a user has saved or assembled, we notify that user and identify the notice that caused the removal.

Beyond the DMCA. We also honor good-faith requests from rights holders — including those outside the United States — to remove or restrict specific frames or works from the catalog, whether or not a request meets the formal requirements of a DMCA notice. We may remove or disable any frame at our discretion in response to such a request.

Counter-notification. If your content was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may send our agent a counter-notification containing: your contact information; identification of the removed material and its prior location; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake or misidentification; consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district (or, if outside the U.S., any judicial district in which we may be found); and your physical or electronic signature. Unless the original complainant files a court action, we may restore the material in 10–14 business days.

Repeat infringers. We have adopted and enforce a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

Misrepresentation. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that content is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages.

What we collect, why, and how we handle your data is described in our Privacy Policy.

In short: our systems store only what’s operationally required to run the Service — your account, your saved libraries and preferences, and the minimal activity our infrastructure needs to enforce plan limits, prevent abuse, and keep search working. This is a property of how the Service operates, not data we keep in order to review or monitor you. We don’t sell your data, and we use industry providers for hosting, email delivery, and (when applicable) payments, each under their own privacy and security commitments.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” We may:

• Add, change, or remove features.
• Add or remove content from the catalog (including in response to copyright complaints).
• Apply technical limits — rate limits, download or export caps, fair-use throttles, and so on.
• Temporarily or permanently discontinue the Service or parts of it.

We do not guarantee uptime, availability, or that the Service will be error-free or uninterrupted.

You can delete your account at any time from settings. Deletion removes your saved content from active use; we may retain backups or aggregated, de-identified data for a reasonable period as described in our Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or terminate your account if:

• You violate these Terms.
• We’re required to by law.
• The Service or a part of it is discontinued.

Before deleting your account, you can export your library, moodboards, and notes from settings.

The service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

You use FrameThrower at your own risk. You are responsible for your own use of frames obtained through the Service, including determining whether your use qualifies as fair use in your jurisdiction or requires separate rights clearance. If you’re considering using a frame in a published commercial work, consult a lawyer about clearances.

No rights, warranty, or indemnity for frame use. Because we do not own or license the frames, we grant you no rights in them, make no warranty that any frame is cleared for your use, and — as set out in Section 15 — we do not and cannot indemnify, defend, or hold you harmless for any claim arising from your use of a frame. Any use you make of a frame, especially commercial use, is solely your responsibility and at your own risk.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, FrameThrower and its directors, employees, contractors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost data, or business interruption.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or $100, whichever is greater.

We are not liable for any failure or delay in providing the Service caused by events beyond our reasonable control — including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, government action, network or power outages, and the failure, suspension, or change of terms of third-party providers we depend on (hosting, storage, payment, AI, or email). During such events our obligations are suspended for the duration of the disruption.

You agree to indemnify and hold FrameThrower harmless from any claims, damages, losses, or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of the Service, your content, or your violation of these Terms.

No indemnity from us. The reverse is not implied. Because the frames are third-party copyrighted works that we do not own or license, we do not and cannot indemnify, defend, or hold you harmless against any claim — including any copyright, trademark, publicity, or other rights claim — arising from your use of a frame or anything you create with the Service. That responsibility, and the cost of any such claim, is yours. Nothing in these Terms or your payment of any fee creates an indemnity, warranty, or rights clearance in your favor.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

Arbitration. Any dispute arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will be resolved through binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its commercial arbitration rules, conducted in English, in Wilmington, Delaware (or remotely by agreement). Either party may bring a qualifying small-claims-court action in their home jurisdiction in lieu of arbitration.

Class-action and class-arbitration waiver. You and FrameThrower each waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action or class-wide arbitration. Any dispute must be brought in your individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, or representative proceeding.

Coordinated or mass arbitrations. If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed by or with the coordination or assistance of the same or coordinated counsel, the parties agree the demands will be administered in staged batches to promote efficiency, and the AAA’s (or the arbitrator’s) mass-filing or batching procedures, where available, will apply. This does not waive the individual-capacity requirement above.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement (Arbitration, Coordinated or mass arbitrations, and the class-arbitration waiver) within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by emailing legal@framethrower.ai with your name, the email on your account, and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms, including the jury-trial and class-action waivers, which remain in effect.

Some parts of the Service — for example AI tools, the agent/studio, MCP or API access, and new builders — may be offered as beta or experimental. They are provided “as is,” may change, break, or be withdrawn at any time without notice, may carry their own limits, and may be less reliable than the rest of the Service. Use them at your own risk.

If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use and incorporate it without restriction, attribution, or obligation to you. We’re not required to use it or to keep it confidential.

You consent to receive communications, notices, agreements, and disclosures from us electronically — by email to the address on your account or by posting within the Service — and you agree these satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms, in whole or in part — for example in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets. These Terms bind and benefit each party’s permitted successors and assigns.

If any provision of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will stay in full force and effect. This applies in particular to the disclaimers, limitation of liability, no-indemnity, and arbitration provisions, each of which is intended to be enforced to the fullest extent the law allows.

Provisions that by their nature should survive the termination of your account or of these Terms will do so. This includes, without limitation, Definitions; the limits in “What you can’t do” (including the AI-input, no-endorsement, no-license, and download-is-not-a-license provisions); Intellectual property; Disclaimers; Limitation of liability; Indemnification (including the no-indemnity provision); Governing law and disputes; and this Survival section.

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any policies or limits posted in the Service, are the entire agreement between you and FrameThrower regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on that subject. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it, and no waiver is effective unless in writing from us.

You represent that you are not located in, or a national or resident of, any country or region subject to comprehensive government sanctions, that you are not on any restricted-party or denied-party list, and that you will not use the Service in violation of any applicable export-control, sanctions, or trade laws.

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we’ll notify you by email (to the address on your account) and post a notice in the Service or on this page. The “Last updated” date at the top reflects the most recent change. Continued use after the change date means you accept the updated Terms.

Questions, complaints, or feedback:

• General: hello@framethrower.ai
• Copyright: copyright@framethrower.ai
• Privacy: privacy@framethrower.ai
• Legal / arbitration opt-out: legal@framethrower.ai