Terms of Service

1. What FaceStar AI does

FaceStar AI checks the video and images you upload for faces that resemble public figures. It samples frames from video, compares each face it finds with a reference set of public figures, and produces results and a PDF report that list each match with a similarity score, a risk grade and the frames involved, and for video the times where the face appears. Video, and images that look illustrated, may also be compared with references for anime and game characters and for costumes. Reports include a general reference section on likeness and portrait rights in the United States, the European Union, China and Japan; it is background information, not an analysis of your work.

It has limits you should know. It finds only people in its reference set of public figures; it does not recognize private people. Character and costume comparisons cover only the references in its set. It does not check logos or voices. Like any recognition system, it can miss a resemblance or report one that a person would not see.

2. Reports are not legal advice

Reports are advisory. They are not legal advice, not a legal opinion and not a certificate that a work is cleared or lawful. Whether a use of someone's likeness is lawful depends on facts and law that FaceStar AI does not assess. You are responsible for your decisions about your works; ask qualified counsel.

3. Accounts

You must be at least 18 years old. Give accurate details, keep your sign-in details safe, and tell us if you think someone else has used your account. You are responsible for what happens under your account.

New accounts receive 10 trial credits. Trial credits are for evaluating the service, one trial per person or company.

4. Your media and your responsibilities

You keep all rights in the media you upload. You give us permission to store, copy and process it, and to send it to our service providers, only to provide the service to you.

Before you upload, you confirm that you have the rights to the media and to have the faces in it compared with a reference set of public figures, and that you have given any notices and obtained any consents the law requires for that, including laws on biometric information where they apply.

We do not use your media or your results to train models.

5. Acceptable use

• Use FaceStar AI to review creative and commercial works, such as films, series, short dramas, trailers, ad creatives and artwork.
• Do not use it to identify, locate, track or profile people, including for surveillance, law enforcement, employment, credit or insurance decisions.
• Do not upload media you have no right to use, sexual content involving minors, or content gathered to harass or harm anyone.
• Do not try to get around credits or limits, open repeated trial accounts, reverse engineer the service, overload it or test its security without our written permission. Scraping, AI training and copying are covered in section 6.
• Do not resell the service or its reports as your own product without a written agreement with us.

6. Automated access, AI and copying

1. Everything on FaceStar AI (text, data, images, video, audio, page design and layout, code, and the FaceStar AI name and logo) belongs to OpenDrama or its licensors and is protected by copyright and other laws. Except as these Terms allow, you may not copy, reproduce, republish or adapt it. The media you upload stays yours (section 4), and you may use the reports made for you for your own works.
2. Without our written permission, you may not:
   1. scrape, crawl, harvest or bulk-download the site or its data with bots, scripts or other automated tools. Search engines that index pages to show them in search results are allowed, and so is any automated access that our robots.txt expressly allows, on the terms stated there;
   2. use any part of the site to train, fine-tune or evaluate an AI or machine-learning model, or to build a dataset;
   3. use AI or any other tool to clone, replicate or imitate the site, or make a site, app or service that copies or closely imitates its content, design, structure, features or brand;
   4. remove or change copyright notices, credits or watermarks.
3. You may link to our pages and quote short extracts with a link to the source.
4. We reserve all rights to text and data mining of this site under Article 4(3) of EU Directive 2019/790. This reservation is also stated in machine-readable form (robots.txt and /.well-known/tdmrep.json).
5. To report infringement, write to info@opendrama.ai. We remove infringing material promptly.
6. If you break this section, we may block your access, suspend your account and take legal action, including asking a court to stop the use and to award damages.

7. Credits, payments and refunds

• One credit covers one image, or one minute of video (each video is rounded up to the next whole minute). Credits are used when a check starts.
• A plan adds its credits to your balance each time a plan invoice is paid: a monthly plan adds a month's credits with each monthly payment, and an annual plan adds twelve months' credits with each yearly payment. Credits stay in your balance while your account is open. Credits have no cash value and cannot be transferred or exchanged for money.
• Plans renew automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel. You can cancel at any time in the billing portal.
• Payments are processed by Stripe. Prices are shown before you pay. If we change the price of a plan, the new price applies from your next renewal after we tell you.
• Payments are not refundable, except where the law requires a refund or we agree to one in writing. If a payment is refunded or disputed, the credits it bought are removed from your balance in proportion to the amount refunded or disputed, up to the credits you still have.
• Volume and enterprise customers may have a separate written agreement; where it differs from these Terms, it applies.

8. How long we keep your files

Uploaded files are deleted about 12 hours after upload. PDF reports are deleted 30 days after they are made. Download the reports you need to keep; we cannot restore them after deletion. The results of a check stay in your dashboard until you delete the check or your account. The Privacy Notice says how long other data is kept.

9. Availability and changes to the service

We work to keep FaceStar AI available but do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and there is no service-level agreement unless one is in a separate written agreement. We may change, pause or stop features, for example when we change the detection models or the reference set.

10. Disclaimers and limits on liability

FaceStar AI and its reports are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, including that a report is complete or accurate or that a work is free of third-party rights, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data or goodwill.

Our total liability for claims relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and 100 US dollars. Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

You will compensate us for claims by third parties that arise from media you uploaded without the rights or consents described in section 4.

11. Ending the agreement

You can stop using FaceStar AI and ask us to delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these Terms or creates risk for others, or where the law requires it. Sections that by their nature should survive the end of the agreement survive.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will tell account holders by email or on the site before it applies. Using FaceStar AI after a change takes effect means you accept it.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Courts in California have jurisdiction, except where the law of your country gives you the right to bring a claim locally.