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Terms

These terms cover your use of the Rooster application and this website. The short version: the video you make is yours, the software is licensed rather than sold, and because Rooster runs on your Mac we cannot reach into your work or take it away from you.

Last updated: 16 August 2026

1. Who you are agreeing with

Rooster is operated from 25 Wilton Road, Pimlico, London SW1V 1LW, United Kingdom. Contact support@rooster.cam. By installing or using Rooster you accept these terms; if you do not accept them, do not use it.

2. Your work is yours

You keep every right you already had in the video, audio, transcripts and exports you create with Rooster. We claim no licence over them, and we could not exercise one if we did: your media never reaches us. You are responsible for having the rights to the material you bring into Rooster, including music, footage and the consent of people you record.

3. Your licence to use Rooster

Rooster is licensed, not sold. Subject to these terms you may install and use it on a limited number of Macs you own or control, as set out in the licence you buy. You may not resell it, rent it, or attempt to defeat its licensing. Where Rooster is obtained through the Mac App Store, Apple’s Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement also applies, and where it conflicts with these terms on a point Apple requires, Apple’s terms govern.

4. Buying, trials and refunds

Rooster is not on sale yet, and this section describes how buying it is planned to work. The direct download is sold through a merchant of record, which is the seller for that purchase: it takes the payment, issues the invoice, handles any sales tax or VAT and operates the refund process. We never receive or store your card details. A free trial requires a payment method, and becomes a paid subscription when the trial period ends unless you cancel before then. Subscriptions renew until cancelled, and can be cancelled at any time through the seller’s customer portal.

A lifetime licence is a single payment for a permanent licence to use Rooster, and it includes 12 months of updates from the date of purchase. After those 12 months, continued updates are an optional paid renewal; declining it removes nothing, and the version you already have goes on working. The lifetime licence is sold on the direct download only.

Where Rooster is obtained through the Mac App Store, Apple takes that payment instead and Apple’s refund process applies; we cannot issue a refund for a purchase we did not process. If something has gone wrong with any purchase, still write to us and we will help you sort it out.

5. Open source and third-party models

Rooster is built on open source work by others, credited with its full licence texts on the licences page. Those components remain under their own licences. Transcription models you download or supply yourself are covered by whatever licence you obtained them under, not by these terms.

6. Services you choose to connect

Rooster can transcribe using an API key you supply for a third-party service, and can generate B-roll clips using a fal.ai key you supply. If you do either, your agreement is with that provider and their terms and pricing apply to that use - fal.ai bills your account for each clip you generate, and Rooster meters nothing. We are not responsible for their service, their availability or what they do with what you send them.

7. Acceptable use

Do not use Rooster to break the law, to infringe other people’s rights, or to record people where you have no right to. What you make is your responsibility.

Where you generate B-roll from a prompt through a key you supply, you may not generate sexual, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive material, anything depicting or sexualising a minor, imagery of a real identifiable person without their consent - including face-swaps and deepfakes - or material intended to harass, defame or deceive. The acceptable use policy sets out the full list and forms part of these terms.

8. Warranties and liability

Rooster is provided as it is, without any warranty that it will be uninterrupted or error free, or that it will suit a particular purpose. Video work is unforgiving of lost data, so keep your own backups of anything you cannot afford to lose. Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. Subject to that, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid for Rooster in the twelve months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profits, revenue or data.

If you are a consumer, you have statutory rights that these terms do not affect.

9. Ending it

You may stop using Rooster at any time by deleting it; your projects and exports are your own files and remain on your Mac. We may end your licence if you materially breach these terms.

10. Changes and governing law

We may update these terms, and will change the date above when we do. They are governed by the law of England and Wales, whose courts have exclusive jurisdiction, though if you are a consumer you may bring proceedings where you live.