Terms of Service

Effective September 24, 2026. Last updated November 5, 2026.

These Terms govern your use of The Engine, a service that turns a musician's show footage and songs into short lyric videos and long-form music videos, and posts them to the social accounts they connect. The Engine is operated by Maxwell Slater Totten ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using The Engine, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.

1. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 13, meet the minimum age of every platform you connect, and be able to enter a binding contract. If you use The Engine for a band, label or other organization, you confirm that you are authorized to accept these Terms on its behalf. You are responsible for keeping your sign-in secure and for everything that happens under your account.

2. Connecting platforms

When you connect TikTok, YouTube or Instagram, you authorize The Engine to publish the videos it makes from Your Content, with their captions, to that account on the schedule you choose. Each post appears in your feed before its time. Unless you cancel it there, it goes out automatically. A YouTube channel is the exception: a post goes out to it automatically only after you turn on automatic posting for that channel in Settings, and otherwise only when you choose Post now. You can revoke this authorization at any time by disconnecting the account in Settings or in the platform's own settings.

You must follow the terms and community guidelines of every platform you post to, including the YouTube Terms of Service, TikTok's Terms of Service and Instagram's Terms of Use. By using The Engine you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Those platforms are independent of us. We do not control whether a platform accepts, ranks, restricts or removes a post.

3. Your content

You keep ownership of everything you upload, including songs, audio, footage, lyrics and captions ("Your Content"). To run the service, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, process, edit, render and transmit Your Content. We use this license only to create your videos and post them to the accounts you connect. The license ends when you delete Your Content, or when we delete your account at your request, except for copies already posted to a platform and the poster frames, internal edits and post records our Privacy Policy says we keep.

You promise that you own, or have every license needed for, Your Content. That includes the master recording and composition rights to any music, and permission from anyone who appears in it. You also promise that posting Your Content does not infringe anyone's rights or break any law.

4. Acceptable use

You may not use The Engine to:

post content that is unlawful or infringing, or that breaks a connected platform's rules;
post spam, artificially inflate engagement, or run accounts you are not authorized to control;
interfere with or disrupt the service, probe its security, or get around its usage limits;
reverse-engineer the service, resell it, or use it to build a competing product.

We may remove content or suspend accounts that break these rules.

5. Subscriptions and billing

Paid plans are billed monthly in advance through Stripe, per artist. Your plan renews automatically until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from the Billing page in the app. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and we do not refund partial periods unless the law requires it. We may change prices by giving you at least 30 days' notice, and a new price takes effect at your next renewal. If a payment fails, we may pause scheduled posting until it succeeds.

6. Third-party services

The Engine relies on third-party services, including the social platforms, hosting, storage and video processing providers, and Stripe. We are not responsible for their availability, their changes, or their decisions about your account or content. If a platform changes or withdraws its API, some features may stop working.

7. Disclaimers

The Engine is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not guarantee any number of views, followers, streams or other results, and we do not guarantee that every scheduled post will publish on time or without errors.

8. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages. That includes lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, and account restrictions imposed by a platform. Our total liability for any claim relating to The Engine is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or US $50.

9. Indemnity

If a claim arises from Your Content, from your use of The Engine, or from your breach of these Terms or a platform's terms, you will defend us and hold us harmless against it.

10. Termination

You may stop using The Engine at any time. To delete your account, email us as described in our Privacy Policy. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms, if a platform requires it, or if we discontinue the service. If we discontinue the service, we will give reasonable notice and refund any prepaid fees for the unused period. Sections 3 (the promises about Your Content), 7, 8, 9 and 12 continue to apply after termination.

11. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If a change is significant, we will notify you by email or in the app at least 14 days before it takes effect. If you keep using The Engine after that date, you accept the updated Terms.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in California, unless the law where you live requires otherwise.

13. Copyright complaints

We respect intellectual property rights and expect you to do the same. If you believe content made or held through The Engine infringes your copyright, email maxtotten01@gmail.com with the subject "Copyright notice" and include:

your name and contact details, and your signature (a typed name is fine);
the work you say is infringed;
where the material is, such as a link to the post;
a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent or the law;
a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you own the rights or may act for the owner.

When we receive a complete notice, we will promptly remove the material from our storage, cancel any upcoming post that shows it, and tell the user who supplied it. That user may reply with a counter-notice explaining why the removal was a mistake, and we may restore the material if the law allows. We end the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe. We cannot remove a copy already published on a platform, so for those copies please also use that platform's own copyright process.

14. Contact

Maxwell Slater Totten, operator of The Engine
maxtotten01@gmail.com