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FRCTL is operated by FRCTL SYSTEMS, an assumed business name of MINDLAB AI LLC.

Last updated: October 30, 2026

These Terms & Conditions ("Terms") govern your access to and use of FRCTL, including the FRCTL website, editor, and related services (the "Service"), operated by FRCTL SYSTEMS, an assumed business name of MINDLAB AI LLC ("FRCTL SYSTEMS," "we," "us," or "our"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

If you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and "you" refers to that organization.

You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age required in your jurisdiction) and able to form a binding contract to use the Service. You may not use the Service if you are barred from doing so under applicable law.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity under your account. Notify us promptly at the contact email below if you believe your account has been compromised.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, create security risks, or abuse the Service.

Paid plans, usage limits, export capabilities, and feature access are described on our pricing page and may change over time. Subscriptions renew automatically according to the billing interval you select unless canceled through the billing portal or as otherwise stated at checkout.

Payments are processed by third-party payment providers. Taxes may apply based on your location. Except where required by law, fees are non-refundable once a billing period has started.

Creator and Pro plans include optional cloud backup of the media in your saved projects, up to 10 GB on Creator and 50 GB on Pro. It is off until you turn it on. If your plan ends, your cloud copies stay available read-only for 30 days and are then deleted. Cloud backup is a convenience copy so your projects open on another device, not an archive or a guarantee against loss: keep your original files.

This section covers subscriptions. Lifetime preorders are covered under "Lifetime licence preorders", and one-off marketplace purchases under "Buying in the marketplace".

A Lifetime preorder is a one-time payment of $333, plus any applicable tax, for a licence to FRCTL Lifetime: a version of FRCTL you pay for once instead of by subscription. It is a preorder. The Lifetime edition is not available yet, and we will deliver it to the account you ordered with when it launches. We are targeting January 2027. That is our good-faith estimate, not a guaranteed date.

From launch, a Lifetime licence gives you a personal, perpetual, non-transferable licence to use FRCTL Lifetime on devices you own or control, with the creative and export features of the Pro plan as they stand at launch, including commercial use of your exports as described under "Using what you make". It does not expire and needs no subscription, and the version you have keeps working for as long as you use it.

A preorder includes one year of updates to the Lifetime edition, starting when it is delivered to you. After that, updates are optional. You can keep using the version you have indefinitely, or buy a further year of updates for $111. As a preorder buyer, that $111 annual price is locked for the life of your licence, including if you skip a year. Updates do not include hosted services or anything we sell separately.

Lifetime runs on your own machine. Your media, projects, and exports stay on your device, and a Lifetime licence does not include hosted services such as cloud storage or backup of your media. If we offer hosted services, they are sold separately.

Every preorder includes access to the Pro plan from when your payment completes until Lifetime is delivered to you, so you can use FRCTL while you wait. It ends when Lifetime is delivered, or on June 30, 2027 if Lifetime has not been delivered by then, and nothing is charged when it ends. It is a separate, temporary benefit: it does not renew and does not become part of the Lifetime licence. If you already pay for a subscription, that subscription keeps billing as normal, and you can cancel it from your account.

Preorders are final sale and are not refundable, including if you change your mind or do not use the Pro access. There are three exceptions. If FRCTL Lifetime has not been delivered by June 30, 2027, you may ask for a full refund at any time until it is delivered. If we decide not to launch Lifetime at all, we will refund every preorder in full. And where the law gives you a right to cancel or to a refund that cannot be waived, including the right of consumers in the EU and UK to withdraw within 14 days, nothing in this section takes that away.

If a preorder is refunded, the licence and any remaining days of the Pro benefit end at the same time. Each account can hold one Lifetime licence, and it cannot be transferred, resold, or moved to another account.

Your content

You retain ownership of content you upload, import, or create using the Service ("User Content"). You grant FRCTL SYSTEMS a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, process, transmit, and display User Content only as needed to operate the Service, provide support, and enforce these Terms.

You represent that you have all rights necessary to use and share your User Content through the Service and that your User Content does not infringe or violate the rights of others or applicable law.

You own what you make with FRCTL. We claim no rights in your exports, and nothing in these Terms gives us a licence to your finished work beyond what is described under "Your content".

What your plan covers is how that work may be used. The Free plan covers personal and unpaid work: your own posts, your own sets, your own practice, and sharing any of it. Work you are paid for, and work made for a client, an employer, or a business — including your own — needs an active Creator or Pro subscription, or a delivered Lifetime licence, on the account that made it.

The licence attaches to a file at the moment you export it. Work you exported while subscribed stays licensed for commercial use afterwards, including if you later cancel or downgrade. You do not lose the right to keep using something you have already delivered.

Items you buy in the marketplace are separate and are not affected by your plan. A purchase carries its own licence, described under "Buying in the marketplace", and that licence already includes commercial use.

We do not inspect your work, scan your exports, or police any of this. We ask once, in the app, and we take your answer. You can change it at any time in your account settings.

FRCTL includes a marketplace where creators share presets and preset packs for free and sell video packs. When you buy one, you are buying from FRCTL SYSTEMS: we are the seller of record and the payment is processed on our account, even though a creator supplied the item and receives a share of the price.

Purchases are digital goods delivered to your account as soon as payment completes. Because delivery is immediate, all sales are final and purchases are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise. We may still grant a refund at our discretion, for example if an item is materially not as described or does not work.

If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, you have a statutory right to withdraw from a purchase within 14 days. By completing checkout you ask us to supply the item immediately and acknowledge that you lose that right once delivery begins.

What you buy stays yours. If a creator later unpublishes or removes a listing, your access to anything you already purchased continues.

A purchase gives you a personal, worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual licence to use the item in your own work, including commercially — for example in live performance, client work, or published video. You may not resell, redistribute, sublicense, or publish the item itself, whether on its own or repackaged as part of another preset or pack.

Selling is open to every account, on every plan. A paid listing needs a connected payout account with our payment provider, which has its own terms and identity checks, and your agreement to our commission. Free listings need neither.

You may list presets, preset packs, and video packs. Presets and preset packs are always free. Only video packs can carry a price, within the range shown in the listing editor. Preset listings must use built-in effects only, and user-authored custom effects cannot be listed.

You keep ownership of everything you list. You grant FRCTL SYSTEMS a worldwide, non-exclusive licence to host, reproduce, display, promote, and distribute your listing to buyers for as long as it is listed, and to continue supplying it to anyone who has already bought it after you unpublish. You separately grant each buyer the licence described above under "Buying in the marketplace".

You are responsible for having every right needed to sell what you list, including rights to any footage, imagery, or audio it contains. Do not list anything you did not create or are not licensed to sell.

You set out to be paid by us, not by buyers. We may remove or hide a listing at any time if we believe it infringes someone's rights, breaches these Terms, or exposes us or our users to legal risk.

FRCTL SYSTEMS retains a commission on each sale. The rate that applies to you is shown under Library → Selling, and you agree to it there before you can set a price; a reduced rate may apply to some creators. The rate is fixed at the moment a sale completes, so any change we make affects only later sales. Card processing fees are paid out of our commission, not deducted from your share on top of it, unless the rate shown to you says card fees are passed through. On those terms we take no commission and hold back only an estimate of the card processing fee at our payment provider's standard rate, which is shown with the rate before you agree. Free listings carry no commission.

Your share is transferred to your connected payout account automatically as part of each sale. Payout timing, minimums, holds, and currency conversion are handled by our payment provider on its schedule, not by us — we do not hold your funds. You can see and manage your payouts in the provider's dashboard.

You are responsible for your own taxes on what you earn, including any income, sales, VAT, or GST obligations. We do not withhold tax on your behalf. Our payment provider may issue tax forms to you where required by law.

If a buyer is refunded or a payment is charged back after you have been paid, we may recover the corresponding amount from your future payouts.

If you believe something on FRCTL infringes your copyright, email aven.frctl@gmail.com with the subject line "Copyright notice". This address is our designated agent for copyright complaints.

Please include: identification of the work you say is infringed; a link to the specific listing, post, or comment; your contact details; a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the rights holder or the law; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them; and your physical or electronic signature.

We review complaints and, where we consider a notice valid, remove or hide the material and notify the person who posted it. We handle notices manually rather than through an automated system, and we aim to respond promptly.

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address including your contact details, identification of what was removed and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe it was removed by mistake, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the courts described in these Terms. Where the law provides for it, we may restore the material unless the complainant notifies us that they have filed a court action.

We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. Knowingly sending a false notice or counter-notice can make you liable for damages.

You agree not to:

  • Use the Service for unlawful, harmful, harassing, or deceptive purposes.
  • Upload malware, attempt unauthorized access, or interfere with the Service or its infrastructure.
  • Reverse engineer, scrape, or resell the Service except as expressly permitted by law.
  • Circumvent plan limits, licensing, or technical restrictions.
  • Use Free-plan exports commercially without an active paid plan, as described under "Using what you make".
  • Use the Service to generate or distribute content that violates intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights.

The Service, including the FRCTL name, software, visual design, trademarks, documentation, and preset formats, is owned by FRCTL SYSTEMS or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. These Terms do not grant you any right to use FRCTL or FRCTL SYSTEMS branding except as allowed by applicable law or written permission.

The Service may integrate with or link to third-party tools, media libraries, or payment systems. Your use of those services is subject to their terms and privacy policies. FRCTL SYSTEMS is not responsible for third-party services.

FRCTL includes open-source and third-party software components. Those components are licensed to you by their respective copyright holders under their own licences, which are listed in our Third-Party Notices at /notices. Where any such licence grants you rights that conflict with these Terms, that licence governs for that component.

Some components are distributed under licences that entitle you to their source code. The Third-Party Notices page contains a written offer describing how to request it.

Nothing in these Terms restricts rights granted to you under an open-source licence covering a component of the Service.

Subject to these Terms and your active subscription or Lifetime licence, FRCTL SYSTEMS grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the FRCTL desktop application on devices you own or control. You may not redistribute, sell, rent, sublicense, or reverse engineer the application, except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by applicable law or permitted by an open-source licence covering a component of it.

The desktop application can publish live video to other software on your machine or over your local network using the Spout and NDI® technologies. Live output is available on paid plans as described on our pricing page.

NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt Group. Your use of the NDI features of the desktop application is additionally governed by the NDI SDK Licence Agreement published by Vizrt Group at https://ndi.video, the terms of which are incorporated into these Terms by reference and which you accept by enabling NDI output. The NDI runtime library is redistributed within the application folder only, and is not installed into your system path. Vizrt Group is not a party to these Terms, provides no warranty for the NDI components, and has no liability to you in connection with them.

Live output transmits the video you are producing to other applications and, in the case of NDI®, to devices on the network you are connected to. You are responsible for choosing where and when to enable it, and for any rights clearance required for the material you transmit.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FRCTL SYSTEMS AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (USD $100).

You will defend and indemnify FRCTL SYSTEMS against claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your User Content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or applicable law.

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms or if we discontinue the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and indemnity.

These Terms are a contract between you and FRCTL SYSTEMS and are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where mandatory consumer protection laws in your jurisdiction provide otherwise.

Disputes should first be raised with FRCTL SYSTEMS at the contact email below. If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, it will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, unless applicable law requires a different forum.

We may modify these Terms from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date. Continued use of the Service after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

Questions about these Terms can be sent to FRCTL SYSTEMS at aven.frctl@gmail.com.