Legal

Acceptable use

Rooster runs on your Mac and your footage stays there, which means almost everything about how you use it is genuinely your own business. This page covers the small set of things it may not be used for, and is honest about what we can and cannot see.

Last updated: 24 August 2026

1. What this covers

This policy applies to the Rooster application and to anything you make with it. It forms part of the terms, and breaking it is a breach of them.

2. The general rules

Do not use Rooster to break the law, to infringe other people’s rights, or to record people where you have no right to. Recording consent is the one most easily overlooked: the rules differ by country and by whether a call, a workplace or a public space is involved, and they are yours to know. What you make is your responsibility.

3. Generating B-roll from a prompt

Rooster can generate short B-roll clips from a text prompt, using an API key you supply for a third-party provider. That provider’s own terms apply to what you generate, in addition to this policy. You may not use Rooster to generate:

• sexual, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive material of any kind;
• any material that depicts or sexualises a minor, under any circumstances;
• imagery of a real, identifiable person without their consent - including face-swaps, deepfakes and any other manipulation intended to make someone appear to have said or done something they did not;
• material intended to harass, threaten, defame or intimidate someone;
• material designed to deceive - impersonating a real organisation or person, fabricating a news event, or passing generated footage off as a genuine recording of something that happened;
• content that promotes violence, self-harm, terrorism, or the exploitation of anyone;
• anything that infringes another person’s copyright, trade mark or likeness rights.

4. What we can see

Nothing. This is worth stating plainly rather than leaving to inference: Rooster has no server that your work passes through. Your recordings, transcripts and edits stay on your Mac unless you deliberately connect a service of your own, and when you generate a clip the prompt goes from your machine directly to the provider whose key you supplied. We do not receive it, we could not screen it, and there is no queue or log of it on our side. The privacy policy lists every connection Rooster can make.

So this policy is not enforced by monitoring, because there is nothing to monitor. It sets out what the software may be used for, and the responsibility for staying inside it is yours. The provider whose key you use will apply its own controls to what it generates, and those are between you and them.

5. If this is broken

We may end a licence for a material breach of the terms, of which this policy forms part. Ending a licence stops you using the software; it does not reach your files, because we cannot reach them. Where we are required to report something to the authorities, we will.

6. Reporting a problem

If you believe Rooster is being used against this policy, write to support@rooster.cam with as much detail as you can give. We read every message and reply.