SlateX and Services

Understand the basic terms of the service we provide — clear and transparent — so you can use SlateX with confidence.

Acceptance of the Agreement and Electronic Signature

This End User License Agreement (EULA) and these Terms of Service (referred to below as “this Agreement”) apply to the legal relationship established between you and us in respect of the SlateX application and the related services; SlateX is the product name of this App, and it and the other apps in our series belong to the same company; the party to this Agreement is the publisher of this App, and its registered identity and published information are as shown in the signature of the business entity at the bottom of the official website page you visit and in the filing information required by the applicable legal jurisdiction.

This Agreement applies to your downloading, installation and use of SlateX. On first launch we provide an entry point to the Privacy Policy and an “Agree and Continue” button; that button expresses your agreement to the Privacy Policy, it does not by itself express that you have agreed to this Agreement, and it does not require you to create an account or submit any identity information. The contractual binding force of this Agreement is judged under the rules of applicable law on adequate notice and on the formation of and consent to electronic contracts; mandatory statutory rights and the obligations we bear under the law are unaffected.

If you agree to this Agreement on behalf of an entity (such as a company or a production company), you represent and warrant that you have the legal authority to bind that entity to this Agreement. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, you must stop using the Software and delete it from your device.

Accounts, Data, and Privacy

Project Data & Storage

Your scripts, take records and on-set materials are saved on the device you use by default; after that device is allowed to put new projects into iCloud and an iCloud account is available on it, eligible projects can sync to your iCloud private database. Please keep an independent exported copy of important projects and allow time for syncing between devices; the time a sync arrives is affected jointly by the network, the device and the status of Apple’s services. Responsibility for the related data loss is borne by each party according to the actual cause, the agreement and applicable law.

Device failure, iCloud sync conflicts, operational error or force majeure can cause records to be lost, damaged or temporarily inaccessible. Apart from the features expressly provided, we do not separately provide independent backup or manual recovery; the obligations of recovery and liability for compensation are determined by the actual cause, this Agreement and applicable law; liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law is unaffected.

SlateX is intended for users working in film and television production; an account user must meet the minimum age required by the law of their location and by Apple’s platform rules, generally thirteen years of age or above. Where records involve minor actors or crew members, you or the production company you represent should confirm, according to actual responsibilities, applicable law and the relevant contracts, the processing basis, authorizations and guardian consent required; each party’s responsibility is determined by its actual processing conduct and the law.

Data Synchronization and Cloud Storage

This app uses the iCloud (CloudKit) service provided by Apple to pass script data, shooting records, script reports and the image data of on-set photos between the devices under your same Apple Account; this happens after this device has allowed projects to go into iCloud and an iCloud account is available on it, and projects created from then on enter your own iCloud private database accordingly. Without that allowance, or when no iCloud account is available on this device, newly created projects stay only on this device. A project that has already gone into iCloud stays in your own iCloud private database as it is when you turn the allowance off; it is not moved back to this device automatically. Video is saved only on this device and does not go into iCloud with the project.

Service dependence: iCloud sync requires an appropriate account status, a network connection, available storage space and support from Apple’s services, and data updates between different devices may be delayed. When several devices modify data while offline and then sync again, version conflicts may occur and some recent records may be overwritten. If syncing goes wrong, each party’s responsibility is determined by the actual cause and applicable law; liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law is not affected by this clause.

On-site data preservation mechanism

Your slate data is written to the device’s local storage after you record it. Only when iCloud sync is allowed on this device are new projects written into your own iCloud private database; if this device does not have that allowance, or has no Apple iCloud account available on it, new projects stay on this device and do not enter your own iCloud private database. A project that has already gone into iCloud stays in your own iCloud private database as it is when you turn the allowance off; it is not moved back to this device automatically.

On a sudden power loss, a forced shutdown by the system, an abnormal termination of the app, or insufficient memory resources, recent records not yet saved to persistent storage may be lost. To the extent permitted by law, we make no commitment to recover such temporary records; liability is determined by the actual cause and applicable law, and liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law is unaffected.

Local Storage and Caching

To improve loading speed, this app creates a local database on your device and keeps an image cache file for the account photo it shows for you. The app may occupy a certain amount of the device’s storage space (depending on the number of your scripts, on-set photos and shooting records).

The system may automatically clear these cache files when storage space runs low; the next time they are shown, this App regenerates them on this device, with no need to retrieve them over a network, and the originals of your scripts, photos and videos are not among them. This is normal operating system behavior, not an app malfunction.

Delete Account and Its Data

You have the right to delete your account at any time and to delete the data associated with your current account that is within the control of this App. Files you exported previously, copies on other devices that have not yet synced, and backups not managed by SlateX will not be deleted automatically by this account deletion. Deleting your SlateX account does not automatically cancel a subscription you purchased through Apple. If you do not want the subscription to renew, cancel it separately through the subscription management provided by Apple.

Deleting your account starts, on this device, the deletion process for the scripts, take records, preferences and related iCloud projects under the current account; deletions of items that have entered iCloud propagate through Apple’s sync mechanism, and older copies on other devices or in backups may not disappear at the same time. On-set photos, the original video files and the files you exported earlier still need to be managed by you separately according to where they are stored. For losses caused by operational error or a sync anomaly, each party’s responsibility is determined by the actual cause and applicable law; liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law is not affected by this clause.

Relationship with the Apple authorization: deleting your account removes the account content on your device and in your iCloud private database, but it does not revoke the “Sign in with Apple” authorization on Apple’s side; that authorization is provided and managed by Apple, and you can manage or stop it yourself in the device’s system settings — SlateX cannot do it for you. Deleting the account also clears the identifier that the App stores in the system Keychain in order to distinguish accounts; if that identifier has already been synced to other devices through iCloud Keychain, its removal follows the system’s own sync mechanism, at a time that is not controlled by SlateX.

Access boundaries of the iCloud private database and privacy protection

You can use SlateX to view, modify or delete projects on your device and within the authorized sync scope; write authority for a project may belong only to the device responsible for recording that project, and on other devices the project appears as a Read-Only Copy. You should ensure that you hold the necessary rights to use the material you enter and a lawful basis for processing it; rights and responsibilities over the related content are determined by the actual conduct and applicable law.

Shared and Rental Device Liability

Given the nature of the film and television production industry, you may sign in to SlateX on rented, shared, or public devices. You should delete your account first, before returning or transferring a device; deleting your account clears the records associated with the current account, while the photos, videos and exported files you shot or exported on this device do not disappear because your account was deleted, so please delete them yourself, or run the system’s Erase All Content and Settings first and hand the device over only after that. Liability for data leakage, script disclosure, or unauthorized third-party access resulting from a failure to properly delete your account on a shared device is determined in accordance with applicable law and the actual circumstances.

Scope of License

SlateX grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use the Service on Apple-branded products that you own or control. The purpose of the license is primarily limited to supporting professional production workflows for film, television, or other media content.

Except as expressly permitted by applicable law, you may not (and may not permit any third party to): (i) reverse engineer, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code of the Service; (ii) modify or create derivative works of the Service; or (iii) use automated scripts or crawlers to interfere with the Service’s operation or intended use.

Fees, Billing, and Cancellation Policy

Transactions Through Apple

You acknowledge and agree that SlateX does not process your payments and does not come into contact with any of your payment information. Subscriptions, in-app purchases and the related transactions are handled by Apple through its App Store transaction arrangements: in most distribution regions Apple Inc. acts as the record merchant (Merchant of Record) responsible for collecting payment, issuing invoices and handling refunds, while in certain individual distribution regions, under Apple’s distribution arrangements, another affiliated entity may take that role. Your transactions are governed by the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.

Free trial

Subscription trial, promotional and purchase prices are determined by the information shown on the App Store subscription page or the purchase page at that time. If you do not cancel, in the applicable way Apple provides, before the renewal or before the trial converts to a paid subscription, subsequent charges are handled under the conditions confirmed at purchase. You can cancel through Apple’s subscription management; how cancellation affects a period you have already paid for and your statutory refund rights is determined by Apple’s transaction arrangements and applicable law. Whether Family Sharing is provided with this subscription is decided by Apple’s applicable procedures; this App does not separately grant or enable that arrangement. As to the statutory right of withdrawal (Right of Withdrawal) that your jurisdiction grants to consumers: for digital content or services that legally fall within an exception to the right of withdrawal, that exception applies only when the conditions required by applicable law are satisfied; where those conditions are not satisfied, the right of withdrawal you hold under the law is unaffected. This clause does not exclude any statutory right that cannot be excluded by contract.

Refunds and platform transactions

For subscriptions taken out through the App Store, the purchase, renewal, cancellation and any refund request to the platform are handled in accordance with the corresponding App Store transaction arrangements. You may request a refund through the channels provided by Apple. This Agreement does not limit your right to assert, against the responsible party and under the governing law, a refund, contractual remedies or other consumer rights that cannot be waived.

The billing information of your Apple ID (order and refund records) is held by Apple, and whether a refund is approved and how it is processed are also decided by Apple under its policies; you can submit a refund request directly to Apple support, and this App does not carry it out on your behalf.

Automatic Renewal and Price Changes

The cycle, billing time, amount and applicable price-change arrangements of automatic renewal are determined by the information you obtain in Apple’s purchase flow and on the subscription management page. We may adjust future subscription prices; where the law requires advance notice, consent or a right to cancel, this is carried out according to the law of your location and Apple’s transaction arrangements. You can cancel subsequent renewals through Apple’s subscription management; this clause does not limit the notice, revocation or other remedy rights you obtain under the law.

Subscription scope and data after expiry

The paywall in this Service stands at only two points: creating a new record and continuing to record. Without a subscription you can still view, edit, delete and export the content that has already been recorded. SlateX offers an on-device free recording period of two weeks (14 days); that period starts the first time you actually create a new record or continue to record in one of your own projects on this device, is timed by the recording feature of this App, and is not an App Store subscription trial period; the sample projects preinstalled in this App are examples, so creating a new record or continuing to record in them neither starts that period nor requires a subscription. Devices under the same Apple Account can converge on one and the same start through iCloud Keychain; the actual result is affected by Keychain sync status, device protection status, offline conditions and the time zone you are in, and this App does not guarantee that the devices behave consistently at any point in time. Once the period has run out, creating a new record and continuing to record require an active subscription. These 14 days do not go through Apple’s billing and give rise to no charge, and they are a separate matter from the App Store free trial described above; nor are they added to or combined with the promotional trial days shown on the App Store subscription page. Export does not require a subscription: within the current version, exporting script reports in PDF, ALE and CSV format and script files in FDX format, and shooting and reviewing photos and videos, syncing between devices and Bluetooth timecode connections are not restricted by subscription status (we may adjust how newly added capabilities are provided in future versions, but such adjustments do not retroactively restrict the files you have already exported or the rights and interests you have already obtained, and do not reduce the capabilities you already enjoy within your current subscription period). After your subscription expires or you cancel it, the files you exported previously are unaffected; the scripts, shooting records and slate data in the App are not deleted either, and you can continue to view, edit, sync and export them — you simply cannot create a new record or continue recording until you subscribe again. Your rights under applicable law to access, copy, transfer and delete your personal information are not restricted by your subscription status.

Consumers in the European Union and the United Kingdom have the right of withdrawal and the related remedies provided for by the governing law. For digital content or services that legally fall within an exception to the right of withdrawal, the exception applies only where the conditions required by the governing law are met. Cancelling a subscription and exercising the statutory right of withdrawal or of refund are separate matters, and specific rights are not excluded by this Agreement.

Immediate delivery and the right of withdrawal: the digital content and purchased entitlements you buy may begin to be provided, as agreed in the purchase flow, once the transaction is confirmed, without waiting for the withdrawal period to expire. Consumers in the European Union and the United Kingdom generally have the fourteen (14)-day right of withdrawal provided by applicable law; the corresponding exception to that right applies only where the conditions are met, namely prior explicit consent, explicit acknowledgement that the right may be lost, performance having actually begun and the confirmation the law requires. Cancelling a subscription, the statutory right of withdrawal, refunds and quality remedies are separate matters; this clause does not limit the rights that applicable law protects compulsorily, nor does it affect refunds approved by Apple under its own procedures.

Rules for Using the Service and Content

Your use of the Service must comply with this Agreement and all applicable laws. You may use the Service only for professional script supervision, film and television production, or related lawful purposes.

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for any unlawful, fraudulent, or malicious purpose, or in any manner contrary to public order, good morals, or the ethics of the film industry.
• Attempt to crack, decompile, reverse engineer, or modify this App’s proprietary algorithms or core functionality.
• Abuse, interfere with, or disrupt the normal operation of the Service on set.
• Export or exploit, without authorization, the proprietary script content or trade secrets of others in projects to which you have been invited.
• Use any automated means (such as bots or crawlers) to interfere with the Service’s interactive interface.

Relying on the Bluetooth timecode functionality of this application in extreme environments (such as strong magnetic field interference or live broadcasting with ultra-low latency requirements)

If you commit a material breach of this Agreement, we may, to the extent permitted by law, terminate the software licence and restrict the online or subsequent provision that we are actually able to control. The installed App and the material on your device are controlled by your device; purchased entitlements and the statutory rights and obligations that have already arisen between the parties are handled under applicable law.

Once the licence is terminated, you must stop using and delete this software. Termination of the licence does not affect files you have already exported to a third party.

Some features require you to grant additional system permissions: Bluetooth (to connect third-party Bluetooth timecode generators), the camera, the microphone, the photo library, and the local network (syncing between devices). You can revoke any of these permissions at any time in the system settings; if a permission has not been granted, the features that depend on it are unavailable, while the other features are unaffected.

Authorization and Warranties for User Content

By providing the software, SlateX does not acquire the copyright or other intellectual property rights in content that you enter, shoot or import. The ownership of rights in the relevant content and the scope of its use are determined by the governing law, production contracts and valid authorisations. You must ensure that you have the necessary lawful basis for collecting, storing, syncing, exporting and subsequently using the relevant material, and comply with applicable requirements regarding personal information, portrait rights, copyright and confidentiality.

Your records also contain the names, photographs and images of third-party natural persons (actors, stand-ins, crew members). As to this personal data, you or the production company you represent should determine the corresponding processing roles and lawful bases on the basis of actual responsibilities, the working relationships involved and applicable law, and, where the law requires, obtain valid authorisation or consent; SlateX does not acquire ownership of the professional content you enter by providing this software, and each participating party bears corresponding responsibility according to its actual processing activities and applicable law.

Audiovisual production material and confidentiality responsibilities

SlateX can be used to record unreleased screenplays, actor looks, scenes, shooting schedules and other material that has commercial value or is subject to confidentiality requirements. On the basis of the authorisation of the production company, non-disclosure agreements and the governing law, you should decide which content may be entered, accessed, synced, exported or shown to others, and properly manage the devices and related accounts used with this App. When using shared devices, rented devices or on-set syncing features that involve several people, confirm that the devices and the persons concerned have appropriate permission to use them. As regards the subsequent sharing, retention and delivery of material, each party bears responsibility in accordance with the acts in which it actually participated and the governing law. By providing this software, SlateX does not acquire ownership of the relevant production material or any authorisation to disclose it externally.

Responsibility for Physical Environment Security

SlateX provides general protection that depends on your device lock screen and on iCloud encryption. When using this App in public places, on shared devices or in uncontrolled physical environments, you should take appropriate physical security measures to prevent prying eyes, loss or theft of the device. The allocation of relevant liability is determined by the governing law and the actual circumstances.

Third-Party Rights and Image Rights Compliance

This app allows you to photograph people (such as actors and stand-ins) to support continuity work. You represent and warrant that your collection, storage and use of these images complies with the applicable employment contracts, industry union rules and local privacy laws. Portrait-right or privacy disputes arising from your breach of those rules are borne by you under applicable law, and you shall compensate SlateX for the losses it actually incurs and that are reasonable as a result.

SlateX does not assert any ownership or intellectual property rights in your user content.

Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy

SlateX respects the intellectual property of others and expects its users to do the same.

You must ensure that you hold the necessary rights or authorisations for material that is entered, stored, processed and delivered through SlateX. SlateX does not acquire ownership of user content by providing the software; in a particular infringement dispute, each party bears responsibility in accordance with the acts in which it actually participated and the governing law. If a rightsholder believes that material processed by a user infringes that person’s rights, the rightsholder may, under the governing law, assert a claim directly against the person who carried out the act.

If you believe that materials we actually control and publish — for example the app itself, bundled assets, or promotional content — infringe your intellectual property rights, please send a complaint to support@slateprotocol.com describing the material you claim is infringed, your rights claim, and your contact details. We will verify and handle the complaint under applicable law, within the scope of the processing authority we actually hold, including carrying out exact deletion of the content we provide.

Automated Analysis and Algorithmic Restrictions

On-device intelligent processing

The continuity comparison and image recognition features included in this Service perform their analysis locally on your device using Apple’s Vision framework; reading script files uses the standard parsing capability built into the system and performs format parsing only. You understand and agree that all of the features above carry out the statistical comparison locally on your device and do not generate new synthetic content: the script report, PDF, ALE, CSV and FDX files that you export are simply the data you have already entered laid out again in the existing formats, and they do not constitute content generated or synthesized by artificial intelligence. Your image data are compared locally on the device in use only, and are not sent to any third party; when you sync between your own devices, the data are transmitted either over a local network connection in which encryption is enforced or via Apple’s iCloud private database.

Uncertainty and Probabilistic Risks

Users acknowledge that machine-learning-based technology is inherently non-deterministic. SlateX does not guarantee that the same input produces an exactly identical output, nor does it guarantee that all continuity errors can be identified. Owing to the inherent characteristics of computer vision, analysis results may contain false positives or false negatives, so any shooting decision should be based on independent verification by the professionals on set.

Duty of Human Review and Liability Exemption for Production Decisions

SlateX’s continuity prompts and script analysis serve only to assist professional judgment. Important shooting decisions should be verified by the appropriate personnel on set, against the original footage and the actual circumstances. Reshoots, delays or additional costs arising from the use of this information are determined by each party’s actual cause, the Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability clause of this Agreement and applicable law; liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law is unaffected.

Non-Professional Substitutes and Final Decision-Making Authority

SlateX is provided only as a data-organising and reference-support tool. You expressly acknowledge and agree that: (i) this App is in no way intended to replace the professional judgment of a Script Supervisor, a script clerk or any other professional; (ii) any continuity analysis, timecode calculation or script report generation provided by this App is a suggestion rather than an instruction; (iii) before any data generated by this App enters the production pipeline (including but not limited to editing, visual effects and film finishing), it must be independently verified by human professionals. To the extent permitted by applicable law, SlateX bears no liability for compensation for production errors, reshoot costs, cast and crew overtime, post-production repair costs or distribution delays resulting from reliance on the data of this App.

Data Security

All processing such as script parsing, continuity comparison, image recognition and slate statistics is performed on this device, and we do not receive this content. When you choose to turn on syncing, your data goes only into your own CloudKit private database, and the access control and storage security measures are provided by Apple under its own terms, and we make no commitment on its behalf. The availability of these features therefore depends mainly on the hardware performance of this device itself; creating a new record and continuing to record also require a valid subscription entitlement, which is determined by Apple.

Hardware Dependency

Automated features such as continuity comparison depend on Apple’s Vision framework and on device hardware performance. As the system is updated, model performance may change. We do not guarantee that this feature performs on older devices or older system versions as it does on the latest devices.

Non-Professional Advice and Nature as a Tool

Continuity analysis compares the similarity of image features; it does not replace professional judgment of story, camera language or artistic continuity. Before a formal shooting decision you should have appropriate personnel verify it independently; related losses are borne by each party according to the actual cause, this Agreement and applicable law, and liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law is unaffected.

Non-Professional Guarantee and High-Risk Waiver

SlateX is provided to assist on-set recording and judgment; software failure, data corruption or insufficient device resources can interrupt shooting and cause reshoots and additional expense. Please keep an independent copy of important records. For the related losses the Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability clause of this Agreement applies, but liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law and mandatory consumer rights are unaffected.

Bluetooth Hardware and Timecode Synchronization

Non-Broadcast Grade Transmission Protocol Statement

This Service supports connection to third-party Bluetooth timecode generators. You expressly acknowledge that Bluetooth is a consumer-grade wireless communication standard and not a broadcast-grade dedicated wired timecode connection. The timecode data obtained through this Service may therefore be affected by radio interference, packet loss or system latency.

Limitations on the interpretation of UI indicators

The timecode connection indicator in the App’s interface has only three states: green means connected, red means the connection has been lost (in which case the timecode is shown with a strikethrough), and gray means that connection path is not in use yet. It reflects the handshake state of one Bluetooth timecode source only, and it is not a timecode health indicator for the App as a whole; the timecode values themselves have a different source. It therefore neither covers the connection status of other timecode sources nor constitutes a guarantee of the frame accuracy of the timecode.

A green light only indicates that a connection has been established; it does not indicate that the timecode is in sync with the main camera or the sound recorder without latency. You are obliged to carry out conventional audio-video sync verification with a clapperboard on set before each time shooting starts.

Post-production cost disclaimer

Bluetooth timecode may drift or fall out of sync because of radio interference, packet loss, device configuration or system latency; please carry out the audio-video sync verification needed before formal shooting. The related costs and losses are determined by the actual cause, the Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability clause of this Agreement and applicable law; liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law is unaffected.

Third-party hardware compatibility

We do not manufacture, sell or maintain any timecode hardware. SlateX can connect to certain third-party Bluetooth timecode generators. Connection and data performance may vary with the device model, firmware, operating system, wireless environment and actual configuration. SlateX does not guarantee ongoing compatibility with all third-party devices or with their future versions. Where a failure involves third-party hardware and this software, liability is determined according to the actual cause and the governing law.

Third-Party Names and Exchange Formats

Ownership of Names and Formats

When this app exchanges data with external systems, it uses several file formats common in the industry: FDX is a script file format used by script-editing software such as Final Draft, ALE (Avid Log Exchange) is a media log format read by Avid editing systems, and PDF and CSV are general document and spreadsheet formats. These names are mentioned only to explain which systems this app can exchange data with, which is an indicative use; the relevant names, logos, and formats belong to their respective rights holders, no relationship of authorization, sponsorship, or endorsement exists between SlateX and those holders, and this app does not claim to have received the approval of any of them.

Independent Implementation and Interoperability Verification

The reading and writing of the above formats in this app is implemented by us independently. To check whether the files this app writes fall within the boundaries defined by the format itself, we use publicly available structural descriptions and the sample files we actually received, and we organize the results of that check into functional-level specifications before writing; the artifacts of this app contain no source code, interface assets, icons, or proprietary documentation of any third-party application. Fields not registered in the format descriptions are written as this app’s own custom fields, and we do not claim that any third-party script, editing, or color-grading software will recognize them as semantic fields; the result of importing a file in third-party software varies with that software’s version, configuration, and runtime environment and is determined by that software, and this app does not promise ongoing compatibility with any specific third-party software or with its future versions.

Slate Fields and Ways of Working Common to the Industry

The fields recorded in this app’s script reports — Scene Number, Shot Number, Camera ID, Card and Reel, In Timecode and Timecode Mode, Shot Size, Actors and Roles, Props and continuity notes — together with the way of working, that is organizing records by scene, filing them by shooting day, and handing the daily report to the editing room, are all record-keeping items and workflows long common to the film and television production industry, and are subject matter and expressive material used in common by practitioners in that industry; this app’s interface presentation, program implementation, and documentation are all written by us independently.

Intellectual Property

We or the relevant rights holders hold the corresponding intellectual property rights in SlateX’s code, interface expression, icons, trademarks and other assets protected under the law. Conduct infringing these rights may not be carried out without authorization; this clause does not restrict uses expressly permitted by law or by an applicable open-source licence.

Trade Secret and Confidentiality Agreement

As a local-first app, SlateX stores data on your device and in your personal iCloud. The confidentiality requirements of the production company, the non-disclosure agreements between you and the other parties concerned, and liability arising from loss of a device or unauthorised access, are determined in accordance with the governing law and the corresponding contractual arrangements.

Unsolicited Feedback

If you voluntarily submit to SlateX suggestions for improving the Service, ideas, concepts or feedback (together, “Feedback”), you retain the rights you have in the Feedback itself under applicable law, and you grant SlateX a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable and transferable licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, develop, distribute and commercialise that Feedback for the purposes of improving, operating or promoting SlateX. That licence does not cover media content, personal information or third-party material that you have not submitted as Feedback, and it does not require SlateX to adopt or respond to the Feedback or to pay you anything; rights that cannot be waived or assigned under applicable law are not affected by this clause.

Apple’s Role and Third-Party Beneficiaries

Apple Has No Liability

You acknowledge that this Agreement is concluded between you and us, and not between you and Apple. The maintenance and support that this App is to provide under this Agreement and applicable law are our responsibility; Apple Inc. bears no maintenance or support obligation for this App. To protect important files, you may use on your own the backup and export methods provided by your device or by Apple to keep appropriate copies; this clause does not exclude the liabilities we bear under law.

Third-Party Beneficiaries

You acknowledge and agree that Apple, and Apple’s subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement. Upon your download of this program from the App Store and your acceptance of this Agreement, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce this Agreement against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

Exceptions to Statutory Liability

Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by SlateX’s negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for willful misconduct, for gross negligence where the applicable law provides that liability may not be limited, for product liability where the law provides that it may not be limited, or for the statutory remedies you have under applicable law in respect of digital content or the Service — such as the quality requirement, repair, replacement, price reduction and refund — that cannot be waived by contract, and nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Any provision excluding liability, excluding a category of damage or capping an amount takes effect only to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Disclaimer

The continuity analysis and script supervision documents SlateX provides are meant to assist film and television work; they do not replace verification by a professional script clerk, a DIT or a Script Supervisor. You should check the results before a formal production decision. Losses arising from erroneous output or a parsing anomaly are determined under the Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability clause of this Agreement and applicable law; liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law is unaffected.

Independent Verification by Professional Personnel

Continuity comparison and log generation provide supporting information; formal production decisions should be verified by the personnel you arrange who hold the relevant responsibilities. Our App does not replace the on-set review procedures of a production company; for losses arising from reliance on the output, the Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability clause applies together with the provisions preserving liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law.

Data Integrity and Backup Responsibility

You acknowledge that SlateX is a local-first application: device-local storage is the default working location. Only after this device has allowed projects to go into iCloud and an iCloud account is available on it are projects created from then on also stored in your own iCloud private database and passed between devices; other projects continue to be managed in the storage location where they currently are. The copy produced by syncing does not replace the delivery backup you keep separately for yourself, and the availability of iCloud and whether a sync completes are likewise determined by Apple’s service. To the extent permitted by applicable law, SlateX bears no duty of recovery for data loss caused by a system update, a data-model migration, device damage or an iCloud sync conflict; liability that cannot be excluded or limited under the law is unaffected.

Production incident disclaimer

Continuity false positives and false negatives, the loss of take records or erroneous output can cause reshoots, production delays and additional costs. We do not guarantee that these events will not occur; liability for damages arising from them is governed by the Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability clause of this Agreement and by applicable law; liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law is unaffected.

Limitation of Liability

On-Set Safety

When you use SlateX on set, please mind the ground, the equipment and the people around you, so that distraction does not lead to a collision or a fall. Liability for the related personal injury or damage to equipment is determined by the actual cause and applicable law; liability that may not be excluded or limited under the law is unaffected.

Your Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, where a third party brings a claim against SlateX and its affiliates, senior officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and service providers (together, the “Indemnitees”) for any of the following reasons, you bear, only to the extent attributable to you under the law, the losses, costs and expenses actually incurred and reasonable on the part of the Indemnitees as a result of that claim (including reasonable attorneys’ fees); the portion caused by SlateX’s own conduct or by comparative fault is not borne by you:

(a) your use or misuse of the Service, including any content you submit, post, transmit, or otherwise make available through the Service;

(b) you breach any provision of this Agreement;

(c) your infringement of any third-party rights, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, privacy rights, rights of reputation, or other personality rights;

(d) you have violated any applicable laws, regulations, or rules;

(e) any willful misconduct or gross negligence by you in your use of the Services.

This indemnification obligation will survive the termination of this Agreement. SlateX reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, and you agree to cooperate with SlateX’s defense of any claims.

Global Trade Compliance and Export Controls

Trade compliance: this application and your use of it are governed by the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the sanctions regulations of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the law of the place where you are located. You undertake to use this Service in compliance with those laws.

Sanctioned Regions and Blacklisted Entities

You represent and warrant that: (i) you do not access or use the Service within any scope prohibited by the applicable export control or economic sanctions laws; (ii) you do not make the Service available to any individual, entity, territory or end use that is restricted under the law; the relevant restrictions are those of the applicable law in force at the time and of the lists published by the competent authorities.

Prohibited Uses

You represent and warrant that you will not use this Service for any controlled end use such as the development, design, manufacture or use of nuclear weapons, missiles or chemical and biological weapons, and that you will not supply or transfer this Service to a restricted region or a restricted entity in any manner that violates the governing law.

Adjustment or Discontinuation Due to Legal Restrictions

If continuing to provide the Service to you could cause SlateX to violate the applicable export control or sanctions laws, we will terminate the licence granted to you under this Agreement. The treatment of fees already paid follows Apple’s applicable refund procedures and applicable law.

Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

Governing Law

This Agreement, and the contractual rights and obligations under it, are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio, United States, without application of its conflict-of-laws rules.

If you are a consumer under the law, the choice of Ohio law made in this clause does not deprive you of the protection afforded by the law that would have applied in the absence of that choice of law, and that cannot be excluded or limited by contract. Where the governing law requires that other mandatory provisions apply to particular matters, those provisions apply to the extent the law requires.

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to this Agreement.

Dispute Resolution

If a dispute arises out of or in connection with this Agreement or the Service, the parties may first attempt to resolve it in good faith through negotiation, using the contact email address set out in this Agreement.

If consultation does not resolve the dispute, or if either party is entitled under the law to bring a claim directly, either party may, in accordance with the governing law, submit the claim to a court of competent jurisdiction or to another body authorised by law to deal with the dispute.

This Agreement does not designate any court as having exclusive jurisdiction, and does not require disputes to be resolved by mandatory arbitration. If you are a consumer under the law, this clause does not limit your right to bring proceedings under the law, the statutory remedies available to you, or any other procedural rights that cannot be excluded or waived by contract.

General Provisions

Modification of Terms

We may update this Agreement because of legal or regulatory requirements, security, technical compatibility, feature adjustments or the operational needs of the Service. Updates take effect only prospectively and do not retroactively reduce the rights and interests you have already obtained or paid for. For changes that may materially and adversely affect your rights or your use of the Service, the full updated text and its “Last updated” date will be shown on this page together with the app update and published at the same time on the terms page of our official website; where applicable law requires a valid reason, notice on a durable medium, express consent, or a right of withdrawal or termination, we act in accordance with that law. Only to the extent permitted by applicable law will your continued use of the Service after a change takes effect be regarded as acceptance of the update.

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between us regarding our Service and supersedes and replaces any prior agreements we might have had between us regarding the Service.

If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, unlawful or unenforceable in particular circumstances, that provision has no effect only in those circumstances and to the extent necessary. The remaining provisions continue in force, except where the governing law requires that the Agreement as a whole cease to remain in effect.

No provision may be interpreted as excluding or limiting rights provided by the governing law that cannot be excluded or limited by contract.

SlateX’s failure to enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of that or any other provision.

For delay or non-performance directly caused by an event beyond SlateX’s reasonable control that still cannot be avoided or overcome despite reasonable efforts (such as a force majeure event, a natural disaster, war, a terrorist attack or a cyberattack), SlateX bears no corresponding liability for breach within the scope and for the period in which that event actually had an effect; liability that may not be excluded under the law is not affected, and your rights of termination and the remedies available to you under applicable law are not affected.

You agree to comply with all local, state/provincial, federal, and national laws, statutes, decrees, and ordinances applicable to your use of the Service.

Except as permitted by law, by valid company authorization, or by a written agreement we have separately made, the individual oral statements of an employee or agent do not constitute a modification of this Agreement; the rights applicable law grants you and the responsibilities we bear under the law are unaffected.

We may transfer our rights and obligations under this Agreement as a whole to a successor in connection with a merger, an acquisition, a sale of assets or a reorganization of the business, without needing your further consent; the transfer does not diminish the rights and interests you have already obtained or increase your obligations, and the assignee assumes our obligations under this Agreement in full. We will publish the transfer, before it takes effect, on the page for this clause on our official website, and the clause page within the App will be updated in sync with future versions; where applicable law grants you a right to object or to terminate, we act in accordance with applicable law. You may not transfer your rights or obligations under this Agreement without our written consent, except as otherwise provided by applicable law.

Special Provisions for International Users

Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits the mandatory rights you have under the consumer law of your jurisdiction that cannot be waived by contract. If a provision of this Agreement is found unenforceable in your jurisdiction, that provision does not apply in that jurisdiction, the matter concerned is determined by the mandatory legal rules of that jurisdiction, and the remaining provisions of this Agreement continue in force.

Contact Us

The licensor and distributor of this App is Axiom One LLC (a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Ohio), with the postal address 6545 Market Ave. N, Ste 100, Canton, OH 44721, U.S.A. For matters concerning your use of this App, support, complaints and related claims, you can contact us by email at support@slateprotocol.com.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding these Terms of Service, you can contact us via the email address listed earlier in this section; you may also submit feedback through the App Store or this App’s official communication channels.

Emails sent through Get Support in the App carry this device’s on-device diagnostic records as an attachment. That attachment first goes into your own email draft: you can see it and delete it, and it reaches us only when you press send. How we handle and retain what we receive with your message is set out in the corresponding disclosure in the Privacy Policy.

We will reply as soon as possible after receiving your request. Where applicable law sets a deadline for replying to your request, we will reply within that deadline; if your request is complex or you submit a large number of requests and we need more time, we will tell you the reason and the new deadline.

Last updated: October 29, 2026