DIRECTORS ASSISTANT – TERMS OF SERVICE (USERS)

Last Updated: August 19, 2026

1. INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Directors Assistant ("Platform", "Service"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Directors Assistant platform, operated by Hive Studios International Pty Ltd and its affiliates ("Company", "we", "us", "our").

By accessing or using the Platform, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, you must not use the Platform.

2. DEFINITIONS

3. ELIGIBILITY

You must be at least 18 years old and capable of entering a legally binding agreement. By using the Platform, you represent and warrant that you meet these requirements.

4. ACCOUNT REGISTRATION

You agree to:

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.

5. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

Directors Assistant provides AI-assisted tools for film and content production, including but not limited to:

The Platform may evolve, and features may be added, removed, or modified at any time.

6. USER CONTENT

6.1 Ownership

You retain all ownership rights in your Content.

6.2 License to Company

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, and display your Content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, maintain, and support the Services, comply with your instructions, and meet our legal obligations. This license does not permit us to use your Content to train artificial intelligence or machine-learning models.

6.3 Responsibility

You are solely responsible for your Content and must ensure it does not:

  • Infringe intellectual property rights
  • Contain unlawful, defamatory, or harmful material

7. GENERATED CONTENT & AI USAGE

7.1 Nature of AI Outputs

The Platform uses artificial intelligence systems to generate content. Outputs:

  • May not be unique
  • May contain inaccuracies
  • Should not be relied upon as professional advice
7.2 Ownership of Generated Content

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you own the Generated Content created from your inputs.

7.3 Responsibility for Use

You are solely responsible for how you use Generated Content, including:

  • Legal compliance
  • Copyright clearance
  • Production decisions

8. PROHIBITED USES

You agree not to:

9. SUBSCRIPTIONS & PAYMENTS

9.1 Fees

Certain features require paid subscriptions or credits. All fees are:

  • Non-refundable unless required by law
  • Subject to change with notice
9.2 Billing

You authorize us to charge your selected payment method.

9.3 Credits
  • Credits may be required for certain AI functions
  • Credits are non-transferable and non-refundable
  • Expiry terms may apply

10. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

10.1 Company Ownership

All rights, title, and interest in and to the Platform (excluding User Content and permitted Generated Content) are owned by the Company, including but not limited to:

  • Software, code, and architecture
  • AI systems, models, and workflows
  • Design, layout, and user interface
  • Branding, trademarks, and logos
  • Databases and underlying technology

Nothing in these Terms grants you ownership of any part of the Platform or its intellectual property.

10.2 User Ownership of Output

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and any applicable Actor Agreements, you own the Generated Content you create using the Platform.

This ownership is limited to the specific outputs generated from your inputs and does not include any rights to:

  • The Platform itself
  • The underlying AI models or systems
  • Any proprietary processes, templates, or structures used to generate outputs
10.3 License Restrictions

You may not:

  • Copy, reproduce, or replicate the Platform or its functionality
  • Extract or reverse engineer workflows, prompts, or systems
  • Use the Platform or its outputs to build or train competing products
10.4 Reservation of Rights

All rights not expressly granted to you are reserved by the Company.

All rights in the Platform (excluding User Content) are owned by the Company, including:

You may not use our intellectual property without permission.

11. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

The Platform may integrate third-party services (e.g., AI providers, payment processors). We are not responsible for their performance or terms.

11A. THIRD-PARTY OPEN-SOURCE AND OPEN-WEIGHT MODELS

The Platform may make available, or allow you to download and run on your own hardware, machine-learning models created and licensed by third parties ("Third-Party Models"). Third-Party Models are not our products. They are licensed to you directly by their respective licensors under those licensors' own licence terms, which are presented to you before download and which you must accept.

THIRD-PARTY MODELS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. We make no representation that any Third-Party Model is suitable for your purpose, will produce any particular result, is free of defects or bias, or is fit for professional, commercial, or production use.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever for Third-Party Models or for their download, installation, configuration, operation, output, performance, resource consumption, security, or effect on your systems or data. You install and run Third-Party Models entirely at your own risk and on your own equipment.

You take full and sole responsibility for your use of Third-Party Models, including: (a) reading, accepting, and complying with the applicable third-party licence in its entirety; (b) complying with all use-based restrictions and acceptable use policies imposed by the licensor, which are incorporated into these Terms and are binding on you as an enforceable provision of your agreement with us; (c) determining whether your use is permitted for commercial purposes and obtaining any paid or commercial licence the licensor requires, including where a licensor imposes revenue thresholds; (d) any content you generate with a Third-Party Model and any rights, clearances, or consents required for that content; and (e) any breach by you of a third-party licence.

Without limiting the foregoing, you must not use any Third-Party Model for military, warfare, or weapons development purposes, or for any other purpose prohibited by the applicable licence or by applicable law. Certain licensors, including Lightricks Ltd. in respect of the LTX-2.x models, prohibit such uses outright.

You indemnify us in accordance with Section 17 against any claim, demand, loss, or expense arising from your use of a Third-Party Model or your breach of a third-party licence. We may suspend or withdraw access to any Third-Party Model at any time, including where a licensor changes or withdraws its terms. Where a third-party licence conflicts with these Terms in respect of that Third-Party Model, the third-party licence prevails as between you and the licensor.

12. DATA & PRIVACY

This section explains how we handle personal information, User Content, and Generated Content (together, "User Data"). We handle personal information in accordance with applicable privacy laws, including the Australian Privacy Principles where they apply.

12.1 Information We Collect

We may collect and hold:

  • Account and contact information, such as your name and email address
  • Subscription, transaction, and billing records
  • User Content and Generated Content
  • Technical, device, usage, security, and support information
12.2 How We Use User Data

We use User Data only as reasonably necessary to provide and administer the Services, authenticate users, process payments, respond to support requests, maintain security, prevent fraud or misuse, comply with law, and improve the reliability and performance of the Platform.

We do not use User Data or User Content to train, retrain, fine-tune, or otherwise develop our artificial intelligence or machine-learning models, and we do not permit our service providers to use it to train their general-purpose or foundation models.

We may use aggregated or de-identified service metrics that cannot reasonably identify you or reconstruct your Content to understand usage and improve the Platform.

12.3 Disclosure and Confidentiality

We do not sell, rent, publicly release, or disclose User Data to third parties for their advertising, marketing, or independent commercial purposes. We disclose User Data only:

  • To hosting, storage, payment, analytics, security, support, and AI service providers where reasonably necessary to provide the Services
  • At your direction or with your consent, including when you share or export Content
  • Where reasonably necessary to comply with law, legal process, or enforceable government requests, or to protect rights, safety, security, and the integrity of the Services
  • In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganisation, or sale of assets, subject to appropriate confidentiality and privacy protections

Service providers may process User Data only to perform services for us and must handle it under applicable contractual, confidentiality, and data-protection obligations.

12.4 International Processing

User Data may be stored or processed in Australia and other countries where we or our service providers operate. Where required, we take reasonable steps to ensure overseas recipients handle personal information consistently with applicable privacy law.

12.5 Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect User Data from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure. No system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

12.6 Retention and Deletion

We retain User Data only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Services and fulfil the purposes described in these Terms, or as required for legal, accounting, security, backup, or dispute-resolution purposes. When personal information is no longer required, we take reasonable steps to delete or de-identify it, subject to applicable law and ordinary backup cycles.

12.7 Your Privacy Rights

You may request access to or correction of personal information we hold about you, request deletion where applicable, or make a privacy inquiry or complaint by contacting us at matt@directorsassistant.app. We will respond within a reasonable period and in accordance with applicable law.

13. AVAILABILITY & MODIFICATIONS

We do not guarantee uninterrupted access.

We may:

14. TERMINATION

We may suspend or terminate your access if you:

You may stop using the Platform at any time.

15. DISCLAIMERS

The Platform is provided "as is" and "as available".

We disclaim all warranties, including:

16. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

17. INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims arising from:

18. GOVERNING LAW

These Terms are governed by the laws of Tasmania, Australia.

Any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Tasmania.

19. CHANGES TO TERMS

We may update these Terms at any time. Continued use constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

20. CONTACT

For questions, contact:

matt@directorsassistant.app

21A. ACTOR LIKENESS, RIGHTS & USAGE RESTRICTIONS

21A.1 Actor Protection Framework

The Platform incorporates actor likeness, performance data, and identity-related materials under separate Actor Agreements. These materials are protected and strictly governed.

21A.2 Permitted Use Only

Users may only use actor likeness, identity, voice, performance data, or related outputs ("Actor Materials") where:

  • The User has obtained the appropriate access or license through the Platform; and
  • The use strictly complies with the terms of the applicable Actor Agreement and any specific engagement terms.
21A.3 Prohibited Use

Users must not:

  • Use any Actor Materials without proper authorization
  • Reproduce, modify, generate, or simulate an actor’s likeness outside permitted workflows
  • Use Actor Materials for training external AI systems
  • Export, redistribute, or commercialize Actor Materials beyond agreed usage rights
  • Misrepresent or imply endorsement by the actor
21A.4 Scope of Rights

Any rights granted to Users are:

  • Limited
  • Non-transferable
  • Non-exclusive
  • Restricted to the specific project, duration, and usage defined in the Actor Agreement

No ownership rights in actor likeness or identity are transferred to the User.

21A.5 Responsibility & Indemnity

Users are solely responsible for ensuring their use of Actor Materials complies with all applicable agreements and laws.

The User agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and the relevant actors from any claims arising from misuse of Actor Materials.

21A.6 Enforcement

We reserve the right to:

  • Monitor usage of Actor Materials
  • Restrict or revoke access where misuse is suspected
  • Suspend or terminate accounts for violations

21. SPECIAL PROVISIONS – CREATIVE USE

21.1 No Creative Guarantee

The Platform does not guarantee creative success, commercial viability, or production outcomes.

21.2 Professional Judgment

All creative and production decisions remain solely with the User.

21.3 Industry Use

You acknowledge the Platform is a tool to assist—not replace—human creative professionals.

22. PLATFORM POSITIONING

Directors Assistant is a professional tool designed to enhance production workflows.

It is not:

END OF TERMS