Terms

Who you're dealing with

V3KTR is run by Patrick John Martin (ABN 77 516 147 302), a sole trader based in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, trading under the registered business name V3KTR2173. In these terms, “we”, “us” and “V3KTR” mean that business, and “you” means you.

It’s one person, not a company — we’d rather say that plainly here than have you work it out later. You can reach us any time at patrick@v3ktr.com.

What V3KTR is

V3KTR makes browser-based FX apps for images and video. They run on your device, in your browser. We host the apps and serve updates; your images, clips and work stay on your machine. Using the site or the app means you accept these terms.

Your images are yours

You keep all rights to the images you bring in and everything you make with V3KTR. We claim nothing over your input or your output, we don’t licence it, and we never see it — processing happens entirely on your device. Nothing you make here trains anything.

You’re responsible for having the rights to the images you use, and for what you make with them.

What we own

We keep all rights in V3KTR itself — the app, its code, the effect implementations and shaders, the interface, the name and the branding. Your licence lets you use it. It doesn’t transfer any of that to you.

V3KTR includes third-party open-source components, which are covered by their own licences and credited on our Acknowledgements page.

What it costs

Nothing, right now. V3KTR is in open beta, and during the beta every effect and every feature — generating, masking, motion, full-resolution export, no watermark — is free, commercial work included, with no account needed.

Personal, non-commercial use stays free after the beta. It isn’t a beta perk and it doesn’t expire.

What counts as commercial. Using V3KTR, or anything you make with it, to earn money or to promote a business. That includes client and agency work, work you sell (prints, covers, merch, stock), content that is monetised or sponsored (ad revenue, brand deals, paid memberships and subscriptions), and marketing for any business, your own included. If no money is involved, it’s personal: posting your experiments is personal use.

Content creators: if your content earns, it counts as commercial — but talk to us. We work out creator deals, either a rate or a promotion arrangement, rather than a one-size licence. Get in touch.

When the beta ends, commercial use will need a paid licence (or a creator deal): Individual, for one person, or Studio, per seat with a bulk discount for teams. One licence covers every V3KTR app, paid once, with no subscription. The price isn’t set yet. We won’t do it as a bait-and-switch: it’s announced on v3ktr.com first, with notice, and anything you’ve already exported and your saved .v3ktr files are unaffected.

If you’d rather settle it now, you can buy the optional Founder licence during the beta. You don’t have to: the beta stays free for everyone, commercial work included.

The Founder licence

The Founder licence is an optional, early purchase of the commercial licence. Buying it is a separate agreement on top of these terms, and it only applies if you buy it.

• What it covers. Commercial use, as defined under “What it costs”, of every V3KTR app and of what you make with them, by the one person named on the receipt. It covers the open beta and the time after it.
• Paid once. One payment, no subscription and no renewal fee. The price is shown at checkout before you pay.
• After the beta. Your Founder licence stands as the Individual commercial licence. You won’t be asked to pay again for the same use.
• One person. It covers the person who bought it, not a team. Two people earning with V3KTR need two licences, or a Studio licence per seat. You can’t transfer it or share it without our okay (see “The boring but necessary bits”).
• What it doesn’t change. The beta is free either way. Personal use stays free either way. Creator deals are a separate arrangement and are not part of this licence.
• Proof of licence. Your receipt from Polar, tied to the email you bought with. There’s no account. Keep the receipt; if you lose it, email us from the same address and we’ll resend it.
• Payment. Polar processes the payment and sends your receipt. We don’t see your card details. Polar’s own terms apply to the payment itself; this licence is granted by us.
• Refunds. You can ask for a refund within 14 days of buying, no questions asked: email us from the address you bought with. Your rights under the Australian Consumer Law apply whatever the window says.
• Founder pricing. The price may change when the beta ends. A later price change doesn’t affect a licence you’ve already bought.
• If we breach or wind down. The “If you break these terms” and “If V3KTR winds down” sections apply to the Founder licence too.

Your Looks stay on your device

There are no accounts. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to, and nothing of yours held on our side — the Looks you save live in the browser you saved them in.

The trade is honest and worth knowing: they don’t follow you between devices, and clearing your browser data clears them. See Privacy for the short list of what we do see.

Fair use

Don’t:

• try to bypass licensing, or share a licence beyond what it covers;
• redistribute, resell or reverse-engineer the app;
• attack the service or the people using it;
• use it to break the law.

That’s the whole list.

If you break these terms

If you seriously or repeatedly breach the section above, we may suspend or cancel your licence. Before we do, we’ll tell you what the problem is and give you a reasonable chance to fix it — unless the breach is deliberate, or waiting would cause real harm.

During the open beta there is nothing to cancel and nothing to refund — V3KTR is free — unless you’ve bought a Founder licence, which has its own refund terms above. You can stop using it whenever you like, and we can stop your access if you break these terms.

If V3KTR winds down

This is the fair question to ask of a small operation, so here’s a real answer rather than silence.

If we decide to stop running V3KTR, we’ll give you at least 90 days’ notice by email and on the site, and we’ll keep the app available for that whole period so you can finish what you’re working on and export it. Your images and looks are on your machine, not locked in our servers, so they don’t disappear with us.

Short outages, maintenance and the occasional broken deploy aren’t a wind-down — this clause is about stopping for good.

What we promise, and what we don't

We work hard to keep V3KTR fast, stable and served, and we fix things quickly. But it’s software running on your hardware in your browser: we can’t promise it will be error-free, available without interruption, or that it will do something we haven’t said it does. Beyond the guarantees below, it’s provided as-is.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law that can’t be excluded. Those rights are automatic and they sit above anything written here. During the open beta V3KTR is free, so there is no payment to refund — but a consumer guarantee does not depend on a price being paid.

Liability

Where the law lets us limit our liability, we limit it — to resupplying the app, at your election where the law gives you that choice. Where the law doesn’t let us limit it, we don’t.

To the extent permitted by law, we’re not liable for indirect or consequential loss — lost profits, lost work, lost time. Keep your own copies of anything you care about; V3KTR is not a backup service and doesn’t claim to be.

Changes to V3KTR and to these terms

V3KTR changes constantly — effects are added, sharpened, occasionally reworked or retired. That’s the product working as intended, and the posts on Looks are the record of it.

We may update these terms. Minor changes — clarity, typos, a new third-party service named in Privacy — take effect when posted, and the date at the top changes. For anything material, especially anything that would reduce what the app does, we’ll say so on the feed and give reasonable notice first. We’re not going to quietly rewrite the deal and call your continued use agreement.

The boring but necessary bits

• Governing law. These terms are governed by the laws of the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, and its courts. If you’re a consumer somewhere else, this doesn’t take away the protections of your local law or your right to bring a claim there.
• Severability. If a clause turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands.
• Assignment. If V3KTR is ever sold or transferred, these terms and your licence transfer with it, and we’ll tell you. You can’t transfer your licence to someone else without our okay.
• Entire agreement. These terms and Privacy are the agreement between us.
• Things outside our control. We’re not liable for failures caused by things genuinely beyond our control — but if the app is gone for good, the wind-down clause above still applies.

Questions about this page? patrick@v3ktr.com. If something here is unclear or reads as unfair, say so — that’s useful and it gets fixed.