Terms of Use

Version . These terms apply to everyone who uses VUEMesh: people who host events, people who join them with a camera or microphone, and people who watch.

1. Beta software

VUEMesh (“VUEMesh”, “we”, “us”) is an early, experimental project. Features may be incomplete, unreliable, unavailable, or removed. Recordings can fail to sync, fail to transfer, fail to publish, or be lost. Devices, browsers, networks, streaming services, and other systems may fail or behave unexpectedly. Do not rely on VUEMesh as the only way to record, preserve, broadcast, or distribute an event that matters to you. By using VUEMesh you accept these terms; if you don't accept them, don't use it.

VUEMesh is not a backup service. You are responsible for maintaining independent copies of recordings and other material you care about.

2. Who can use it

You must be at least 18 years old, or have permission from a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these terms for you. Hosts must be 18 or older. You may not use VUEMesh where doing so is against the law or violates the rules of the place or event where you use it.

3. What VUEMesh is

VUEMesh is a technology platform that helps users connect cameras, microphones, viewers, and event computers to create, synchronize, edit, stream, publish, and share event video. Unless VUEMesh expressly identifies itself as an event organizer, producer, photographer, videographer, venue, sponsor, or publisher for a particular event, VUEMesh is not any of those things.

The person who creates or operates an event is responsible for the event and for decisions about who may participate, what is recorded, what is published, and who may access the resulting material. VUEMesh does not supervise, direct, or control user events, and providing the technology does not make VUEMesh a partner, agent, joint venturer, fiduciary, employer, or representative of any user.

4. Your responsibilities

• Consent and recording laws. You are responsible for having every permission, consent, release, license, and authorization required to record, transmit, display, livestream, edit, publish, or otherwise use the people, voices, likenesses, places, performances, communications, and other material you capture. This includes complying with applicable federal, state, local, venue, workplace, school, and event rules. Some jurisdictions require consent from all parties before recording audio or communications.
• Minors. You are responsible for obtaining any permission required to record, transmit, display, livestream, edit, publish, or otherwise use recordings containing minors. Do not use VUEMesh to knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.
• Copyright and other rights. Do not record, transmit, publish, or share music, performances, broadcasts, artwork, trademarks, confidential information, or other material unless you have the rights or permissions necessary to do so. You are responsible for obtaining licenses for music and other copyrighted material when required.
• Privacy and publicity. Do not use VUEMesh to invade another person's privacy, violate a person's publicity or likeness rights, record private communications without required consent, or expose confidential or sensitive information without authorization.
• Illegal or harmful conduct. Don't use VUEMesh to harass, stalk, surveil, threaten, defame, exploit, or harm anyone; to facilitate unlawful activity; to record anything illegal; or to interfere with the service or other people's devices.
• Unauthorized access. Don't attempt to access events, recordings, devices, accounts, systems, or data that you are not authorized to access, or bypass security or access controls.
• Your devices. You are responsible for your phone, computer, camera, microphone, network, data plan, storage, power, battery, browser, operating system, and any costs or damage associated with using them.
• Your copies. You are responsible for maintaining your own copies of recordings and other material that matters to you.

5. Event hosts

If you create or operate an event, you are responsible for the event and for the people who participate in it. You are responsible for determining whether recording is permitted and for providing any notices, disclosures, releases, permissions, or other consent mechanisms required for your event.

You are responsible for informing attendees and participants when recording, livestreaming, or publication is occurring when notice or consent is required. You are also responsible for determining whether minors may participate and for obtaining any required parental or guardian permissions.

You are responsible for deciding who may access your event and its recordings, what material is published, and whether publication is appropriate. VUEMesh does not independently verify that an event host has obtained these rights or permissions.

6. Camera and microphone contributors

If you join an event with a camera or microphone, you represent that you have the right and authority to provide the recordings and other material you contribute to that event. You understand that your contribution may be transmitted to the event host's computer, incorporated into an event film or live program, displayed to viewers, or published according to the event's settings and terms shown when you join.

You are responsible for what your camera and microphone capture. VUEMesh does not guarantee that a recording will be private merely because you did not intend to record a particular person or conversation.

7. Your recordings

You keep ownership of what you record. When you join an event, you agree to the event's own terms shown on the join screen, which may permit the host and other authorized event participants to use your clips in that event's films, live programs, or other event outputs. VUEMesh does not claim ownership of your recordings.

Raw clips travel directly from your phone to the host's computer over the local network when the event is configured that way; VUEMesh does not necessarily receive or store those raw clips. If film publishing is turned on, a published film may be stored for no more than 30 days unless a different retention period is expressly stated for the applicable feature.

8. License to VUEMesh

You retain ownership of your recordings and other content. By submitting, transmitting, displaying, or otherwise making content available through VUEMesh, you grant VUEMesh a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, transmit, reproduce, process, synchronize, technically modify, display, perform, distribute, and otherwise use that content solely as reasonably necessary to provide, maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the VUEMesh service and the features you choose to use.

This license does not give VUEMesh ownership of your content and does not authorize VUEMesh to sell your recordings as its own. VUEMesh may retain or disclose content when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to legal process, enforce these terms, investigate abuse, protect users or the service, or prevent fraud or security threats.

You represent that you have the rights necessary to grant this license and that VUEMesh's exercise of it as described above will not violate another person's rights or your agreements with others.

9. What we store

We keep the minimum needed to connect devices at an event: the event's name, type and settings; a location rounded to about a kilometer, only if the host lists the event publicly; and short-lived connection records used to relay the handshake between devices. There are no accounts, no tracking cookies, no advertising trackers, and no third-party analytics. Your device keeps its own settings, keys, and clips in its browser storage, which you can clear at any time. Everything we store about an event is deleted automatically 30 days after the event is created, and may be deleted sooner.

Anonymous usage counts. To see how VUEMesh is used and growing, we keep a set of totals for each day: how many events were created (and of what type) and run, how many cameras, microphones and viewers joined, how many recordings were made, the hours of footage, live cut and live streaming, and how many films were published. The host's studio sends its event's running totals (counts and durations only) for this. So that a phone that rejoins is counted only once per event, we store a one-way code made from that phone's camera ID for the event; it is kept with the event and deleted with it. The daily totals contain no names, devices, locations, event names or codes, recordings, or anything else that identifies a person or an event. They are not deleted after 30 days, and we may share them, for example with investors, service providers, or partners.

Our handling of information is also subject to any privacy policy or other privacy disclosures we publish for the service.

10. Credits and revenue

“Shot by” credits, screen-time percentages, revenue-share percentages, estimates, balances, and other amounts shown in VUEMesh are informational unless VUEMesh expressly states otherwise. They are not a promise that anyone will be paid. Any payment to contributors requires a separate written agreement or applicable payment terms.

VUEMesh does not guarantee that an event will generate revenue, that a host will fund a revenue pool, that a third party will pay a promised amount, or that any displayed calculation is free from technical or timing errors. Taxes and reporting obligations relating to payments received through or in connection with VUEMesh are the recipient's responsibility. Disputes between hosts and contributors concerning payments or credits are primarily between those parties unless VUEMesh has expressly assumed a payment obligation.

11. Third-party services

VUEMesh may depend on or interact with third-party services, networks, browsers, operating systems, hosting providers, payment processors, streaming platforms, communication services, and other infrastructure. Those services may change, become unavailable, impose limits, or fail. VUEMesh is not responsible for third-party services or for losses caused by their acts, omissions, policies, outages, restrictions, or changes.

Your use of a third-party service may be subject to that service's separate terms and policies. You are responsible for complying with them.

12. No warranty

VUEMesh is provided “as is” and “as available”, with all faults and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, availability, accuracy, security, reliability, uninterrupted operation, or that recordings or other content will be captured, synchronized, transferred, streamed, stored, published, preserved, or recoverable.

We do not warrant that VUEMesh will meet your requirements, operate on every device or network, remain available, be secure or error-free, or produce any particular creative, technical, financial, or commercial result.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, VUEMesh and its owners, operators, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, service providers, and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of recordings, data, privacy, profits, revenue, business opportunities, goodwill, reputation, or anticipated savings, arising from or related to your use of, or inability to use, VUEMesh, your participation in an event, any user content, or any third-party service, however caused and under any theory of liability, even if advised of the possibility.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the aggregate liability of VUEMesh and the people and entities listed above for all claims arising out of or relating to VUEMesh or these terms is limited to zero dollars (US $0) if you have not paid VUEMesh any fees. If you have paid VUEMesh fees, the aggregate liability is limited to the amount you paid VUEMesh during the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. This limitation applies regardless of the legal theory asserted.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations of liability. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions and limitations above apply only to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

14. Release

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you release and discharge VUEMesh and its owners, operators, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, service providers, and affiliates from claims, demands, damages, liabilities, and expenses arising out of or relating to your use of VUEMesh, your participation in an event, your interactions with other users, user-generated content, recordings made by you or others, or the acts or omissions of event hosts, contributors, viewers, venues, or other third parties.

This release does not apply to liability that cannot lawfully be released or waived under applicable law.

15. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless VUEMesh and its owners, operators, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, service providers, affiliates, successors, and assigns from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, proceedings, liabilities, damages, judgments, settlements, losses, penalties, fines, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs) arising out of or relating to:

• your use of VUEMesh;
• your event or your role in an event;
• anything you record, transmit, upload, publish, stream, display, or otherwise make available;
• your violation of any person's privacy, publicity, likeness, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, confidentiality, or other rights;
• your failure to obtain a required consent, release, license, permission, authorization, or notice;
• your recording or transmission of a person, conversation, performance, venue, minor, or other subject;
• your violation of these terms or applicable law;
• your fraud, negligence, willful misconduct, or unlawful conduct;
• your interactions or disputes with another user, venue, event participant, or third party; or
• any claim that your content or use of VUEMesh caused injury, damage, loss, infringement, privacy violation, defamation, or other harm.

VUEMesh may participate in the defense of an indemnified claim with counsel of its choosing. You may not settle an indemnified claim in a way that admits fault by, imposes obligations on, restricts the rights of, or requires payment from VUEMesh without VUEMesh's prior written consent.

16. Removal and changes

We may remove, disable, restrict, or refuse any event, recording, content, feature, account, connection, or access, or suspend or shut down the service, at any time and for any reason, including suspected violations of these terms, legal requirements, security concerns, abuse, or operational reasons. We do not have an obligation to monitor user content or events, but we may review, preserve, remove, restrict, or disclose content when we choose or when we believe it is necessary.

We may change these terms at any time. The version date above will change when we publish a revised version. Continued use of VUEMesh after a revised version becomes effective means you accept the revised terms. If a change materially affects your rights, we may provide notice through the service or by other reasonable means when appropriate.

17. Disputes and arbitration

To the fullest extent permitted by law, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to VUEMesh or these terms will be resolved by binding individual arbitration rather than in court, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if the claim qualifies for that court and may seek temporary or injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction when necessary to protect intellectual property, confidential information, security, or prevent unauthorized access or use.

You and VUEMesh agree that disputes will be brought only on an individual basis and not as a plaintiff or class member in a class, collective, consolidated, representative, or private-attorney-general action, to the extent such a waiver is enforceable under applicable law. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief that a court could award. If any part of this arbitration or class-action waiver is found unenforceable, the remaining portions will remain in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

Before starting a formal proceeding, the parties should make a good-faith effort to resolve the dispute by contacting VUEMesh at the contact address provided below.

18. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except to the extent federal law or mandatory law of another jurisdiction applies. To the extent a dispute is permitted to proceed in court, you consent to personal jurisdiction in the state and federal courts located in Ohio, subject to any mandatory jurisdictional rules.

19. General terms

Severability. If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable where legally permitted.

Entire agreement. These terms, together with any event-specific terms, privacy disclosures, and other terms expressly incorporated by reference, are the agreement between you and VUEMesh concerning your use of the service.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, financing, or transfer of the VUEMesh business.

Survival. Provisions concerning ownership, licenses, payments, disclaimers, limitations of liability, release, indemnification, dispute resolution, governing law, and any other provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive termination or cessation of your use of VUEMesh.

20. Contact

Questions, legal notices, or removal requests: contact us.