Terms of Service
Take7 is a tool for actors. You upload a self-tape, it splits your takes, cleans the audio, and helps you rehearse. Some of it is social: you can post a finished take, and you can publish a scene you wrote for other people to perform. These terms explain what you are agreeing to, what you keep, and what we are allowed to do with your work. We have tried to write them in plain English.
1. Who you are contracting with
Take7 is operated by Take7 LLC, an Illinois limited liability company ("Take7", "we", "us"). When these terms say "you", they mean the person using the service. By creating an account or using Take7, you agree to these terms.
2. You must be 18 or older
Take7 is an adults-only service. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. When you sign up we ask you to confirm this, and that confirmation is the record we rely on. We do not collect your date of birth and we do not verify your age independently.
If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it and delete its content. If you believe a minor is using Take7, or that footage of a minor has been posted, please tell us at support@take7app.com and we will act on it.
3. Your account
You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email address. Keep access to that inbox secure; anyone who can read it can sign in as you. You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us at support@take7app.com if you think someone else has gained access.
4. Your content stays yours
You keep ownership of everything you upload or create on Take7: your recordings, your finished takes, and any scenes you write. Nothing in these terms transfers copyright in your work to us.
To actually run the service, we need your permission to handle that content. You grant Take7 a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, copy, transcode, process, and display your content for the purpose of operating and improving the service for you. In practice that means splitting your takes, cleaning your audio, generating a transcript, producing exports, and showing your content back to you and to the people you chose to share it with.
4.1 Content you post publicly
If you post a take to the public feed, you additionally allow us to feature that post in Take7's own promotion: on our website, in Take7's social media accounts, and in materials about the service. We may show your handle alongside it. We will not sell your content to anyone else, and we will not license it to a third party for their advertising.
4.2 Content you keep private
Content you do not post publicly, meaning your unposted tapes, your practice recordings, and anything shared only inside a private group, is covered by the operating license in section 4 only. We do not use private content in any promotion.
4.3 The license ends when you delete
When you delete a post, or delete your account, the licenses above end for any future use. Two honest caveats: copies may persist briefly in backups before they age out, and if a piece of promotional material was already published before you deleted, we may not be able to claw back every copy of it already in circulation. We will stop using it going forward.
5. Scenes published to the script library
Take7 lets writers publish scenes for other people to perform. This section covers what happens when you do that.
You keep copyright in a scene you write. When you publish it to the library, you grant every Take7 user a license to perform it inside Take7: to rehearse it, record themselves performing it, and post that performance on Take7. You will be credited as the writer. This license does not let anyone perform your scene outside Take7, sell it, or publish it as their own.
You can unpublish a scene at any time. That stops new users from taking it up, but performances already recorded and posted stay licensed, because we cannot un-ring that bell for people who relied on your permission in good faith.
6. What you promise about what you upload
This is the important one, so it is short and blunt.
You promise you have the right to upload what you upload. That means you either own it, or you have permission, or your use of it is otherwise lawful. It also means you have the permission of anyone who appears in your footage.
Sides you were sent for an audition are usually someone else's copyrighted work. Rehearsing with them privately is ordinary practice. Publishing them into the script library for anyone to take, or posting a performance publicly, is a different thing, and it is your call to make and your responsibility. Do not publish material you do not have the right to share.
You also agree not to use Take7 to:
- post footage of anyone who did not agree to be filmed or shared;
- post sexual content, graphic violence, hate speech, or harassment;
- impersonate someone else, or misrepresent who wrote a scene;
- break the law, or use the service to help someone else break it;
- scrape, overload, or attack the service or the people on it.
7. Copyright complaints (DMCA)
Take7 responds to copyright complaints under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe something on Take7 infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent:
DMCA Agent, Take7 LLC
dmca@take7app.com
Please include:
- your signature (electronic is fine);
- identification of the work you say was infringed;
- a link to, or clear description of, the material on Take7;
- your contact information;
- a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized; and
- a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for them.
We remove material that is the subject of a valid notice, and we tell the person who posted it. If you believe your material was removed by mistake, you can send a counter-notice to the same address. We close the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe.
8. Moderation and enforcement
Anyone can report a post from inside the app. We can remove content and suspend or close accounts that break these terms. We try to be proportionate, and we will generally tell you why, but we do not promise to review everything before it appears, and we do not promise to catch everything.
9. Automated processing features
Take7 uses software to transcribe your audio, detect where your takes start and end, clean up sound, adjust framing, and generate optional rehearsal voices and coaching notes. Some of these run on our own servers and some send your content to third-party providers to do the work. The Privacy Policy names them and says what gets sent where.
Coaching notes are an opinion generated by software, offered to be useful. They are not a professional assessment and Take7 does not produce a talent score.
10. The service is provided as is
Take7 is a young product and we are honest about that. The service is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not guarantee it will be available, that processing will always succeed, or that your files cannot be lost. Keep your own copy of anything you care about. Your original recording is your master; do not treat Take7 as your only copy.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Take7 LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, or lost data, arising from your use of the service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred United States dollars.
12. Indemnity
If someone brings a claim against Take7 because of content you uploaded or published, or because you broke these terms, you agree to cover the resulting costs, including reasonable legal fees. This is the practical consequence of the promise you made in section 6.
13. Ending your account
You can stop using Take7 and delete your account at any time; write to support@take7app.com and we will delete it and its content. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or if we stop operating the service. Sections 4.3, 6, 11, and 12 survive the end of your account.
14. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. If a change is material, we will ask you to accept the new version the next time you sign in, and we will update the date at the top. Continuing to use Take7 after a change means you accept it.
15. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict of law rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Illinois, and you and Take7 LLC each consent to their jurisdiction.
16. Contact
Copyright and legal notices: dmca@take7app.com
Everything else: support@take7app.com