These terms govern your use of Raylight, the motion design video tool available at raylight.app (the "Service"), operated by Raylight ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy.
Eligibility and accounts
You must be at least 13 years old to use Raylight. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you need a parent or guardian's permission. You are responsible for your account credentials and for all activity under your account. Keep your login secure and tell us immediately if you suspect unauthorized access.
Your content
You own the content you create in Raylight: your projects, uploads, and exported videos. You can use your exports commercially with no attribution required, except that exports made on the free plan include a small "Made in Raylight" credit.
So we can operate the Service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, store, process, render, and display your content as needed to provide the Service, including rendering your exports on cloud infrastructure. This license exists only to run the product. We do not claim ownership of your work and we do not use it to train AI models.
You are responsible for the content you upload. You must have the rights to any media you bring into Raylight, and you must not upload content that infringes someone else's intellectual property, violates the law, or contains malware.
Sharing, publishing, and templates
If you publish a share link, embed, or community template, that content becomes publicly accessible to anyone with the link, and other users may remix templates you publish. Only publish what you are comfortable making public. You can unpublish shared content at any time, though copies others have already remixed remain theirs.
Template license
Templates come from two places: templates we publish, and templates published by other users. In both cases you get a license to use the template, not ownership of it.
Templates we publish. We grant you a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to remix a template into your own projects and to use the resulting video commercially, including in paid advertising and client work. The license covers the video you make from the template. It does not let you redistribute, resell, or sublicense the template itself, or a substantially unchanged copy of it, as a template, asset pack, or design file. It also does not cover using a template we publish to advertise or promote a product that competes with Raylight; if you are marketing a competing product, build your video from scratch or from your own assets.
Templates published by other users. The creator keeps ownership. By publishing, they grant every Raylight user the same license described above, and they grant us the right to host, display, and distribute the template through the Service. Paid templates carry the additional terms set at purchase.
This license is tied to your account and ends if your account is terminated for violating these terms. Videos you already exported and published in good faith before termination stay licensed.
Competing products
You may use Raylight to make videos about anything, including videos that promote products which compete with ours. That is your work and we do not restrict it, with one exception: templates we publish are licensed for everything except promoting a competing product, as described in Template license above.
What you may not do is use Raylight as an input to a competitor:
- Use the Service, its templates, or its outputs to develop, train, fine-tune, or evaluate a product or model that competes with Raylight
- Copy, adapt, or reproduce our templates, presets, or asset libraries into a competing product or library
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, or attempt to derive its source code, models, or underlying structure, except where that restriction is unenforceable under applicable law
- Access the Service in order to benchmark it or publish a comparative analysis of it without our prior written consent
Plan limits and the Raylight credit
Exports made on the free plan include a "Made in Raylight" credit. You may not remove, crop, obscure, or otherwise defeat that credit, and you may not circumvent plan limits, credit balances, or paywalls, whether through technical means, shared or automated accounts, or otherwise. Paid plans remove the credit; that is the supported way to get a clean export.
Subscriptions and billing
Paid plans are billed through Stripe on a monthly or annual basis and renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time, and your plan remains active through the end of the current billing period. Except where required by law, payments are non-refundable, though you can always reach out and we will try to be reasonable. We may change pricing or plan features with advance notice; changes take effect at your next renewal.
Publishing as a creator
This section applies if you publish templates or sound packs to the community marketplace. It is in addition to the rest of these terms.
You keep ownership. Your template stays yours. We do not claim ownership of it, we will not sell it as our own, and we will not license it outside the Service. Our rights are limited to hosting, displaying, and distributing it through Raylight so users can find and remix it, and to the marketing use described below.
Nothing is exclusive. Publishing on Raylight does not stop you from selling or publishing the same work anywhere else. We do not ask for exclusivity and we do not restrict where else you sell.
You are credited. Your creator name stays attached to your listing. Other users may remix your template into their own projects, but they may not republish it, resell it, or list a substantially unchanged copy of it as their own work. If someone does, email cyrus@raylight.app and we will investigate; remedies include delisting the copy and terminating the account, and repeat offenders are removed from the marketplace.
Marketing use. We may feature your published template in Raylight marketing, in the gallery, and in social posts, with credit to you. If you would rather we did not, email us and we will stop.
Unpublishing. You can unpublish or delete a listing at any time and we will remove it from the marketplace promptly. Copies that users already remixed before then remain theirs to use under the license they received, which we cannot claw back. Plan accordingly.
Removal and appeal. We may delist a template that violates these terms, infringes someone's rights, or is broken or misrepresented. Except where we are legally required to act immediately, we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond or fix it. If you think a removal was wrong, reply to that notice and a person will review it.
Selling paid templates
Paid templates run on your own store. You are the merchant of record, you set the price, you keep 100% of each sale, and the money never passes through us. Raylight's role is to host the listing and, after you confirm a sale, deliver the template to your buyer.
Because you are the merchant, you are responsible for your own checkout, refunds, chargebacks, customer support, and any sales or income tax on what you earn. We are not a party to your sales and are not liable for them. You are responsible for describing your template accurately and for honoring the terms you offer your buyers.
Delivery depends on your checkout staying configured correctly. If your store link breaks or your delivery setup is misconfigured, buyers may not receive their purchase, and resolving that is between you and your buyer. We will help where we can.
You must have the rights to everything in a template you sell, including fonts, images, video, and audio. Do not sell a template built on media you are not licensed to redistribute.
Referral program
Referral commissions and payouts are governed by the separate Referral Program Terms, which apply in addition to these terms if you participate. Those terms cover the referral commission only; paid template sales are covered by the section above.
AI features
Raylight includes AI-assisted features powered by third-party models. AI output can be inaccurate. You are responsible for reviewing anything the assistant produces before you use or publish it, and for ensuring your use of AI output complies with applicable law.
API and integrations
If we grant you API or MCP access, you may use it only for its intended purpose, within any rate or usage limits we set. Do not resell access or circumvent plan limits, and note that the restrictions in Competing products apply to API and MCP access as well. We may revoke API access at any time.
Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Break the law, infringe intellectual property, or violate the rights of others
- Upload or distribute content that is illegal, malicious, or intended to deceive or harass
- Probe, disrupt, or overload the Service, or attempt to access other users' accounts or data
- Republish, resell, or claim authorship of another user's template or sound pack, or list a substantially unchanged copy of one as your own
- Take a paid template you did not buy, or share a delivery link in order to bypass a creator's checkout
- Scrape the Service, resell it, or misrepresent your affiliation with Raylight
- Abuse free tiers, referrals, or promotions through fake accounts or automated signups
Our intellectual property
The Service itself, including its software, design, templates we provide, and branding, belongs to Raylight and its licensors. These terms do not grant you any rights to it beyond the licenses stated above. If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.
The Raylight name and logo are our trademarks. You may say your video was made in Raylight, and you may keep the credit we add to free exports. You may not use our name or logo as your own branding, in a way that suggests we endorse or are affiliated with you, or in the name or branding of a competing product.
Copyright complaints
We respond to valid copyright notices and remove infringing content. If you believe something on Raylight infringes your copyright, email cyrus@raylight.app with: the work you say is infringed, a link to the material on Raylight, your contact details, a statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorized, a statement under penalty of perjury that your notice is accurate and you are authorized to act for the owner, and your signature. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you can send a counter-notice to the same address. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
Termination and enforcement
You can stop using Raylight and request account deletion at any time. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, create risk for us or other users, or are required to be terminated by law. Where practical, we will give you notice and a chance to export your work. We may suspend immediately and without notice where a violation is ongoing and causing us harm.
You agree that breaching the license, competing products, credit, or trademark sections would cause us harm that money alone cannot fix, and that we may seek an injunction or other equitable relief for such a breach without having to post a bond or first prove monetary damages. This is in addition to any other remedy available to us. Choosing not to enforce a term on one occasion does not waive our right to enforce it later.
Disclaimers
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that content will never be lost. Keep copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Raylight will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, or data. Our total liability for any claim arising from the Service is limited to the greater of $100 or the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify Raylight against claims arising from your content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these terms.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to conflict of law principles. You and Raylight agree that any dispute arising from these terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Massachusetts, and both of us consent to personal jurisdiction there.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the product evolves. If we make material changes, we will update the date at the top of this page and, for significant changes, notify you by email or in the app. Continuing to use the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated terms.
Contact
Questions about these terms? Email cyrus@raylight.app.