Terms of Service

1. Agreement and Operator

CorkBoard Studio ("CorkBoard," "we," "us," or "our") is operated by Jack Allen. These Terms form a contract between you and CorkBoard. If you use CorkBoard for an employer, production company, school, district, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to accept these Terms for that organization.

If a written enterprise, school, district, data-processing, or license agreement conflicts with these Terms, the written agreement controls for the conflicting subject.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to create an individual account. A person under 13 may use CorkBoard only through a school or organization under a separate written agreement that allocates responsibility for required notice, consent, account creation, supervision, and deletion. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, a parent, guardian, or authorized school must permit your use.

The services are not directed to children under 13 for independent consumer registration. Contact us immediately if you believe a child under 13 created an account without an authorized arrangement.

3. Accounts and Security

• Provide accurate registration information and keep it current.
• Protect your credentials and devices. You are responsible for activity under your account except to the extent caused by our breach of these Terms or applicable law.
• Notify us promptly of unauthorized access.
• Do not share authentication credentials or circumvent account, approval, role, or access controls.
• We may require identity, age, school, or authority verification where reasonably necessary.

4. Your Content

"User Content" includes scripts, project data, files, graphics, images, contacts, call sheets, educational submissions, comments, messages, and other material you or your collaborators submit.

You retain ownership

As between you and CorkBoard, you retain your rights in User Content. You are responsible for having the rights and permissions needed to upload, share, edit, export, broadcast, or direct us to process it.

Limited service license

You grant CorkBoard a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, process, display, transmit, back up, format, and otherwise use User Content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, support, troubleshoot, and improve the services; comply with your instructions; enforce these Terms; and meet legal obligations. This license ends when the content is deleted from active systems, subject to reasonable backup, security, dispute, and legal-retention periods.

We do not acquire ownership of your screenplay, production, student submission, or uploaded graphic. CorkBoard does not use private User Content to train a CorkBoard-owned generative model unless we first provide separate notice and obtain any consent required by law or contract.

Public sharing

If you intentionally publish or share content with a team, class, public link, hardware output, or third-party service, recipients may access or copy it according to your settings and their own rights. Review permissions before sharing confidential production information.

5. Teams, Collaborators, and Schools

Project owners and administrators control invitations, roles, and access. They are responsible for inviting the correct people, assigning appropriate permissions, and removing access when it is no longer required. Collaborators must use project information only for the authorized project or educational purpose.

For school-managed accounts, the school determines educational use, authorized users, access to education records, and retention instructions. CorkBoard acts as a service provider under the applicable written school agreement. Schools must not upload student records or provision children under 13 until an appropriate agreement and any required consent process are in place.

Unless a written agreement says otherwise, the organization controls organization-managed accounts and may access, export, restrict, or delete their content.

6. Acceptable Use

You may not:

• Upload or use material that infringes intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or other rights.
• Use CorkBoard to harass, exploit, threaten, deceive, discriminate unlawfully, distribute malware, or facilitate illegal activity.
• Attempt to access another account, project, school record, system, API, or device without authorization.
• Probe, scan, disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, or bypass security or usage controls except where applicable law expressly permits it.
• Use automated extraction or scraping that materially burdens the service or builds a competing dataset or product.
• Transmit sensitive personal information that is unnecessary for a legitimate production or educational purpose.
• Use broadcast, safety, weather, routing, budgeting, legal, medical, or educational output as a substitute for qualified human review.

7. Artificial Intelligence Features

Optional AI features may send selected content to a configured third-party provider or customer-controlled proxy. You decide whether to invoke those features and are responsible for the provider account, API key, permissions, and terms. Do not submit confidential, regulated, or third-party material unless you are authorized to do so.

AI output may be incomplete, inaccurate, biased, non-unique, or unsuitable. Review and verify every output before relying on it. AI output is not professional, safety, legal, medical, financial, academic-integrity, or clearance advice. Rights in AI-assisted output may depend on law, human authorship, provider terms, and third-party rights.

8. Third-Party Services and Hardware

CorkBoard may interoperate with authentication providers, Firebase/Google services, map, route and weather services, email clients, AI providers, Blackmagic Design devices and SDKs, MOS systems, OBS, vMix, and other services or hardware. Third parties operate under their own terms and privacy practices. We do not control their availability, accuracy, security, certification, or changes.

You are responsible for device access, network configuration, licenses, credentials, broadcast authorization, and verifying outputs before going on air. Product and company names may be trademarks of their respective owners; integration does not imply sponsorship or endorsement.

9. Education, Credentials, and Production Decisions

CorkBoard University and related materials are educational resources. Unless expressly stated in a separate written agreement and supported by applicable authorization, they do not constitute an accredited degree, professional license, guaranteed transfer credit, employment guarantee, or official certification from a third party.

Production tools assist planning; they do not replace a producer, attorney, accountant, safety professional, medical professional, licensed technician, weather authority, or broadcaster. You remain responsible for permits, releases, labor compliance, clearances, safety plans, emergency decisions, budgets, schedules, technical checks, and broadcast content.

10. Beta and Paid Services

Some features may be beta, preview, experimental, free, or subject to limits. Beta features may change, fail, or be discontinued and should not be the sole copy of critical production or school data.

Prices, billing periods, included features, renewal terms, taxes, and cancellation options are disclosed at purchase. Unless the checkout terms or applicable law provide otherwise, fees already paid are nonrefundable. You authorize the applicable payment processor to charge the selected payment method. We do not require you to send full payment-card data through project fields or support messages.

11. CorkBoard Intellectual Property

The services, software, interface, documentation, curriculum, books, original graphics, and branding are owned by CorkBoard or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the limited right to use the service under these Terms, no rights are granted.

You may provide feedback. You grant CorkBoard a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use feedback without restriction or compensation, provided we do not publicly identify you as its source without permission.

Copyright concerns

Send notices describing the protected work, the challenged material and location, your contact information, a good-faith statement, an accuracy/authority statement under penalty of perjury, and your physical or electronic signature to support@corkboardstudio.com. We may remove material or restrict repeat infringers where appropriate. This contact statement does not represent that a statutory DMCA agent designation has been filed.

12. Suspension, Termination, and Export

You may stop using the service at any time. Contact support for account deletion where an in-product control is unavailable. Export important projects before closing an account.

We may suspend or terminate access for material breach, security risk, unlawful conduct, nonpayment, or to protect users and systems. Where reasonable, we will provide notice and an opportunity to export content, but immediate action may be necessary for security, legal, or abuse reasons. Provisions that by their nature should survive will survive, including ownership, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, and dispute terms.

13. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." CORKBOARD DISCLAIMS IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES, EXPORTS, SYNCHRONIZATION, AI OUTPUT, WEATHER DATA, ROUTES, HARDWARE COMMANDS, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, OR BROADCAST OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so some of the above may not apply to you.

14. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CORKBOARD AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, AND PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, PRODUCTION TIME, AIR TIME, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING FROM THE SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID CORKBOARD FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY OR (B) US$100. These limits do not apply where prohibited by law or to liability that cannot legally be limited.

15. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend and indemnify CorkBoard from third-party claims, damages, and reasonable costs arising from your User Content, your unlawful or unauthorized use, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of another person's rights. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim was caused by CorkBoard's own conduct. Public schools and government entities are subject only to obligations they may lawfully accept.

16. Governing Law and General Terms

These Terms are governed by Illinois law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where your local law requires otherwise. Subject to mandatory law, disputes must be brought in state or federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois, and each party consents to their jurisdiction.

If a provision is unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder will continue. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization, financing, merger, acquisition, or transfer of the service. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the EULA where applicable, and any signed order or institutional agreement are the entire agreement concerning the services.

We may update these Terms. We will post the updated date and provide additional notice of material changes where required. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.

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