Terms of service

These terms are an agreement between you and Kovar Digital LLC ("Kovar Digital," "we," "us"), which operates SportStudio. They cover the SportStudio website, app, templates, rendering, and support (together, the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these terms. Our privacy policy explains how we handle information.

If you use SportStudio for a school, team, conference, venue, or other organization, you agree on its behalf and confirm you have authority to do so. In that case "you" means the organization. If your organization has signed a separate order form or agreement with us, that document controls where it conflicts with these terms.

1. The Service

SportStudio lets you customize motion graphics templates for sports (for example crowd prompts, scoreboard content, and ribbon boards) with your own logos, colors, text, photos, and sponsors, preview them, and render finished videos and images. Renders are produced by our own rendering machines. We may change, add, or remove features over time.

2. Accounts

• Accounts and sign-in are provided through Outseta. You need to give accurate information and keep it up to date.
• Keep your sign-in details private. You are responsible for activity under your account, including by people you invite to it.
• Accounts are for adults acting for an organization. You must be at least 18 to create or use an account.
• Tell us right away at hello@sportstudio.io if you think your account has been accessed without permission.

3. Plans, pricing, and billing

Plans and pricing are quoted to each organization. Your plan determines which features you can use (for example sponsorship tools, custom board sizes, or ribbon boards). Subscriptions and invoices are managed through Outseta and its payment processor.

• Fees are due as stated in your quote or invoice. Fees do not include taxes, which you are responsible for.
• Plans are billed annually and renew automatically for another year unless you cancel before the renewal date. To cancel, email us at hello@sportstudio.io; cancelling stops the next renewal and you keep access until the end of the paid year.
• Refunds are available on request. Email us and we will work it out with you.
• We may change prices for a renewal term by telling you at least 30 days before the renewal date.
• If payment is overdue we may limit or suspend access after giving you at least 30 days' notice.

4. Your content

"Your content" means everything you or your users upload or enter: logos, brand colors, photos and headshots, rosters and other collections, sponsor names and artwork, fonts, text, and settings, and web pages you ask us to import from.

You keep ownership of your content. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, copy, process, modify (for example resizing images or removing backgrounds), and render your content, and to display it back to you and your users, only as needed to provide, secure, and support the Service. This includes sending it to the service providers listed in our privacy policy, and installing your fonts on our rendering machines for your renders.

Shared team library. If you link your brand kit to a team in our shared team library, you also give us a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to add the school details, colors, and logos you provide to that library, after our review, where other customers may use them (for example to show your team as an opponent). If you would rather not contribute, email us and we will turn it off for your account.

Showcasing your work. We will not use your content or your rendered videos in our marketing without your permission.

5. Rights you must have

You are responsible for your content and for having every right, license, and permission needed to use it with SportStudio and to use the resulting videos the way you do. That includes:

• Logos and trademarks: your own marks, and any league, conference, opponent, or event marks you include.
• Athletes' names, photos, and likenesses: permission from the athletes shown, consistent with your organization's policies and any name, image, and likeness rules that apply.
• Minors: where an athlete is under 18, the consent of a parent or guardian where required, or confirmation that your school or organization has the authority to use that student's name and image (for example under its directory information or media release policies).
• Student records: if you are subject to FERPA or state student-privacy laws, making sure that what you upload may be shared with us for this purpose. Our privacy policy explains how we handle student information, and we will sign a student data privacy agreement on request.
• Photos and artwork: rights from the photographer or designer.
• Fonts: a font license that allows you to use the font in videos and allows us to install it on our rendering machines for your renders.
• Imported web pages: the right to use the content of any page you ask us to import from.

Team logos and colors in our shared library are provided for convenience. We do not own those marks and we do not grant you any rights to them. You are responsible for confirming you may use another team's marks.

6. Sponsor content

If you add sponsor names, logos, or messages, you are responsible for your arrangements with those sponsors, for having their approval, and for making sure the content is accurate, lawful, and complies with any rules that apply to you (for example league, conference, school district, or advertising rules). We are not a party to your sponsorship agreements and do not verify sponsor content.

7. Our templates and software

We and our licensors own the Service, including the software, templates, designs, animations, After Effects projects, and documentation. These terms do not transfer any of that to you. You may not copy, resell, or redistribute the templates themselves, or try to extract the underlying template files. Templates are not exclusive: other customers can use the same templates with their own content.

8. Rendered videos

Subject to these terms and payment of your fees, you may use the videos and images you render with SportStudio for your organization's own purposes, such as in-venue video boards, broadcasts, streams, websites, and social media. Your content inside those videos remains yours. The template design inside them remains ours, licensed to you for these uses.

This license is perpetual for videos rendered while your account was in good standing: you may keep using them after your subscription ends. You may use renders for your organization and its sponsors, but you may not resell the templates, or offer rendering with SportStudio as a service to other organizations, unless we agree in writing.

Keep your own copies of anything important. We may remove preview clips automatically and may delete stored renders under the retention rules in our privacy policy. Final renders are kept while your account is active.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Upload content you do not have the right to use, or that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, sexually explicit, or discriminatory.
• Upload content that exploits or endangers minors in any way.
• Use the Service to infringe or misappropriate anyone's intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights.
• Upload malware, or try to probe, disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorized access to the Service or our rendering machines.
• Scrape, copy, or reverse engineer the Service, or use it to build a competing product.
• Share your account with people outside your organization, or resell access, unless we agree in writing.
• Use automated means to submit renders beyond normal use, or otherwise use the Service in a way that unreasonably burdens it.

We may remove content or suspend access if we reasonably believe these terms have been broken. If you believe content on SportStudio infringes your copyright, email us at hello@sportstudio.io with a description of the work, where it appears, and your contact details, and we will review it promptly.

10. Availability and support

We work to keep SportStudio available and renders fast, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted service or specific render times. Rendering depends on our machines and on third-party services, and may be delayed or fail. We may perform maintenance, and we will try to give notice of planned downtime when practical. Support is available by email and live chat.

11. Feedback

If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them without any obligation to you.

12. Ending your account

• You can stop using the Service at any time. To cancel, email us. See section 3 for renewals and refunds.
• We may suspend or end your access if you materially break these terms, fail to pay, or if we need to for legal reasons. Where reasonable we will give notice first.
• We may discontinue the Service with at least 30 days' notice, and will refund any prepaid fees for the unused period.
• After your account ends, you have 30 days to download your renders and content. After that we may delete it, and we delete it within 90 days.
• Sections that by their nature should continue (such as ownership, the team library license, disclaimers, limits of liability, and indemnity) survive after the account ends.

13. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not warrant that the Service will be error free, that renders will be exactly as previewed, or that team information in the shared library is accurate.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, neither party will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, or data, even if advised of the possibility. Our total liability for any claims relating to the Service is limited to the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. These limits do not apply to either party's indemnity obligations, or to amounts you owe for the Service.

15. Indemnity

You will defend and indemnify Kovar Digital against third-party claims arising from your content (including logos, athlete names and photos, sponsor content, and fonts), your videos as you use them, or your breach of these terms.

We will defend and indemnify you against third-party claims that our templates or software, as we provide them, infringe that party's intellectual property rights. This does not cover claims caused by your content, by changes you make, or by combining the Service with something we did not provide.

16. Public institutions

If you are a public school, university, or other government entity and the law that governs you prevents you from accepting any part of these terms (for example indemnity, governing law, or venue), that part applies to you only to the extent your law allows, and the rest of these terms stay in effect.

17. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, without regard to its conflict of law rules. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Minnesota, and both parties consent to that venue. Before going to court, each party agrees to first try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting the other and negotiating in good faith for at least 30 days.

18. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change is material we will let account holders know by email or in the app at least 30 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the updated terms.

19. General

These terms, together with any order form and our privacy policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Service. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Not enforcing a term is not a waiver. You may not assign these terms without our consent. We may assign them as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Neither party is liable for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

20. Contact

Kovar Digital LLC
5865 Neal Ave N #160
Stillwater, MN 55082
Email: hello@sportstudio.io