1. Agreement
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Frederick Tubiermont, the independent developer trading under the LVE / Tubiermont name and identified as the seller of LVE on the Mac App Store (“Developer”, “we”, “us” or “our”). They apply to LVE — Lightweight Video Editor for macOS (the “App”), this website and related developer-provided documentation or support (together, the “Services”).
By downloading, installing, purchasing or using the Services, you agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Services. You must be legally capable of entering this agreement. If you use LVE for an organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it.
2. Purchase and licence
One-time purchase
LVE is offered as a paid App Store download at the price displayed by Apple for your storefront. Prices, taxes and currency conversion are controlled by Apple and may differ by territory. “One-time purchase” means LVE does not require a recurring LVE subscription for the feature set included in the version you purchase. It does not promise every future product, major paid upgrade, external service or third-party cost forever.
Limited licence
Subject to these Terms, the Apple Standard EULA and Apple’s Usage Rules, you receive a personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use LVE on Apple-branded devices you own or control and as Family Sharing or similar App Store rules permit. The App is licensed, not sold.
You may not rent, lease, sublicense, resell, redistribute or make the App available as a hosted service; bypass technical protections; or copy, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify or derive source code except to the limited extent such restriction is prohibited by law or permitted by an applicable open-source licence.
Billing and refunds
Apple is the merchant and platform provider for App Store transactions. Apple handles billing, delivery, refunds and purchase disputes under its policies and applicable law. Contact Apple for a refund request. Nothing in these Terms limits non-waivable consumer rights.
3. LVE ownership
The App, website, interface, branding, documentation and developer-created materials—including all intellectual property rights in them—belong to the Developer or its licensors. These Terms grant only the limited right to use LVE; they do not transfer ownership. Apple, Pexels, Hugging Face, Whisper and other third-party names and marks remain the property of their owners.
Open-source components remain governed by their respective licences. Where an open-source licence grants rights inconsistent with these Terms, that licence governs the relevant component.
4. Your content and projects
You retain ownership of video, images, audio, text, captions, project files and exports you create or bring into LVE (“Your Content”). LVE does not require you to grant the Developer a cloud-hosting or commercial-use licence because the Developer does not operate an LVE project cloud.
You are responsible for Your Content and how you use or publish it. You represent that you have all rights, permissions, releases and lawful bases needed to import, edit, combine, caption, export and distribute it. This includes copyright, performer, music, trademark, publicity, privacy, data-protection and contractual rights.
You are also responsible for checking captions, cuts, credits and exports before publication. Automated transcription can be inaccurate, and editing decisions may change meaning. Keep independent backups; LVE is not an archival service.
5. Pexels media
LVE can optionally display free stock video and photos supplied by Pexels using an API key you obtain from Pexels. Pexels media is not owned, licensed or warranted by the Developer. Your access and use are governed by the current Pexels Terms of Service and Pexels License, as well as any rights associated with people, property, trademarks or other material shown in an asset.
Among other restrictions, Pexels content must not be redistributed as a competing stock library, sold as a substantially unaltered standalone copy, used to imply endorsement, used unlawfully or used in a manner prohibited by Pexels. Pexels states that attribution is not generally required under its standard licence but is appreciated. LVE retains creator/source details where available to help you review and credit a result. You remain responsible for confirming that the then-current licence fits your use.
Your API key is personal to your Pexels developer account. Keep it confidential, respect request limits and Pexels’ API rules, and remove it from LVE if compromised. LVE may stop offering the integration if Pexels changes access, terms, technical requirements or availability.
6. Acceptable use
You must not use the Services to:
- violate law or the rights of another person;
- create, possess or distribute content that is unlawful, exploitative, abusive or infringing;
- circumvent safeguards, attack, probe or disrupt the App, website, Pexels or another service;
- scrape, bulk-download or compile Pexels content into a dataset, stock service or machine-learning resource;
- misrepresent ownership, affiliation, endorsement or the source of content;
- introduce malware or use the Services to facilitate fraud; or
- help another person do any of the above.
The Developer does not monitor local projects. These restrictions define permitted use and may be enforced when misuse becomes known through lawful means.
7. External services and internet access
Pexels search, model download, App Store licensing, external links and software updates depend on services not controlled by the Developer. You may need internet access and separate third-party terms or credentials. Charges from your network or third-party account are your responsibility.
The optional Whisper model is downloaded from Hugging Face and runs locally after installation. Model output may contain errors or bias and must be reviewed. The Developer does not guarantee third-party content, continued API access, result availability, model hosting or backward compatibility with every third-party change.
External links are provided for convenience and do not imply endorsement. Use third-party services at your own risk and under their terms.
8. Updates and compatibility
We may release fixes, improvements, compatibility updates or feature changes. Updates may be required for continued use with new macOS versions or third-party services. Apple controls App Store update delivery. We do not guarantee support for every hardware configuration, codec, malformed media file, future operating system or third-party format.
LVE currently requires the minimum macOS version stated on its App Store page. Before changing systems or undertaking critical work, verify compatibility and retain backups and source media.
9. Availability, support and changes
We aim to keep LVE fast and dependable, but the Services may be changed, interrupted or discontinued. Features that depend on external services may become unavailable without notice. Support is offered on a reasonable-efforts basis at [email protected]. No response or resolution time is guaranteed.
If we permanently discontinue a developer-operated feature, any remedy is limited to rights you have under mandatory consumer law and Apple’s applicable policies.
10. Disclaimers
Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty, guarantee or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded. Subject to that qualification, the Services are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Developer and licensors disclaim implied warranties and conditions, including merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, uninterrupted availability and freedom from errors.
We do not warrant that LVE will recover every unsaved change, transcribe speech accurately, preserve every codec characteristic, meet a broadcast or platform specification, find any particular stock result, or prevent data loss. Preview your final export and maintain backups.
11. Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, wilful misconduct, or any liability that applicable law does not permit us to limit.
Subject to that, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Developer and licensors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive or consequential loss; loss of profit, revenue, opportunity, goodwill or anticipated savings; business interruption; loss or corruption of content or data; or the cost of substitute services, arising from or related to the Services, even if advised that such loss was possible.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Services will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid for LVE during the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim or USD $25. This cap does not apply where prohibited by mandatory consumer law.
12. Responsibility for claims
If you use LVE for business purposes, you will indemnify and hold harmless the Developer from third-party claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from Your Content, your publication or commercial use, your breach of third-party rights or licences, or your material breach of these Terms, except to the extent caused by the Developer. This section does not apply to consumers where prohibited by law.
13. Suspension and termination
Your licence ends if you materially breach these Terms or the applicable App Store licence and fail to remedy the breach where a remedy period is required by law. On termination, stop using and delete the App. Provisions that by nature should survive—including ownership, disclaimers, limitations, accrued rights and governing law—will survive.
You may end the agreement at any time by deleting the App. Deletion does not automatically remove projects, exports, Portfolio files, models or Keychain items stored separately on your Mac.
14. Apple-specific terms
You acknowledge that these Terms are between you and the Developer, not Apple, and the Developer—not Apple—is responsible for the App except as the Apple Standard EULA states. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support. To the extent any warranty applies and LVE fails to conform, you may notify Apple and Apple may refund the purchase price under its rules; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation.
The Developer, not Apple, is responsible for addressing claims relating to the App, including product-liability, legal-compliance and consumer-protection claims, and for the investigation, defence and settlement of intellectual-property claims, subject to these Terms and applicable law. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce the Apple-specific provisions after your acceptance.
You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a United States government embargo or designated as supporting terrorism, and are not on a United States government prohibited or restricted-party list.
15. Governing law and consumers
The governing-law and forum provisions in Apple’s Standard EULA apply to your App licence. For matters not resolved by those provisions, the law applicable at the Developer’s place of establishment applies, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer, you also retain the benefit of mandatory protections and courts available under the law of your habitual residence. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
Before filing a claim, you and the Developer should attempt in good faith to resolve it through the App Support contact, unless urgent relief or mandatory law permits otherwise.
16. General
These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Apple Standard EULA and incorporated third-party terms are the agreement governing your use. If one provision is unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum necessary and the rest remains effective. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms except where mandatory law allows; the Developer may assign them as part of a business transfer, subject to applicable law. Headings are for convenience only.
We may update these Terms for legal, security, service or product changes. A new effective date will be posted. Material changes will be communicated where required. Continuing to use the Services after revised Terms take effect constitutes acceptance to the extent permitted by law; otherwise, stop using them.
17. Contact
Email [email protected] for legal and support correspondence. Include “LVE Terms” in the subject and enough detail to identify the issue. Do not send passwords, API keys or confidential media.