Terms of Use

1. Your account

You sign in with your phone number and a one-time code. You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping access to your phone secure. You must be at least 17 years old to use the Service. One person, one account. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

2. Footage you upload

You keep ownership of the footage you upload. You grant Verified Footage a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, process, verify, reproduce, and distribute that footage as part of operating the Service, including through our search, public feed, API, and partner and AI tools. This license lets us deliver downloads and integrations to others under the clip’s license (see License).

You confirm that, for everything you upload:

• You captured it or otherwise have the right to share and license it.
• It does not infringe anyone’s copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights.
• You have any permissions needed for people, places, or property shown in it.

This license continues for footage that others have already downloaded or used while it was available. If you remove footage or delete your account, we stop distributing it going forward, but copies already downloaded cannot be recalled.

3. What you may not upload

The Service is for genuine footage of real places and scenes. Do not upload:

• Content you do not have the right to share.
• Sexual, explicit, violent, or otherwise unsafe content.
• Content that targets, harasses, or exposes a private individual.
• Footage that is not what it claims to be, or is staged to misrepresent a place or moment.
• Anything unlawful, infringing, deceptive, or harmful.

We screen uploads automatically and do not guarantee that every upload is published. Footage that does not fit may stay in your private library instead of entering the public feed and search.

4. Zero tolerance for objectionable content and abuse

There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behavior on Verified Footage. That includes anything sexual, violent, hateful, harassing, or otherwise harmful, and any user who targets or abuses others.

Anyone signed in can report a clip or block a contributor from the clip’s details. We review every report and remove content that breaks these terms, and we will eject users who post objectionable material or behave abusively. We act on reports of objectionable content within 24 hours: removing the content and, where warranted, suspending or terminating the account. A clip is also automatically pulled from the public feed and search once enough people report it, pending review. Blocking a contributor hides all of their footage from you. We may remove content or close accounts at any time for violations.

5. Footage you download

Footage you download or access through the Service is governed by that clip’s license. Most clips are cleared for commercial use; some are marked editorial only. You are responsible for using each clip within its license and for clearing any additional rights your specific use requires. See the License page for details.

6. Verification is best effort

Each clip carries a classification describing how it was captured and verified. We work to make these labels accurate, but they are provided as is and are not a warranty. You should apply your own judgment before relying on any clip for a high-stakes use.

7. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and how we use it. In short: we use your phone number and capture metadata to run the Service, and footage location is shown publicly only at a place level, never your exact coordinates.

8. Ending your use

You can delete your account at any time from Settings. Deleting your account permanently removes your profile, saved clips, search history, and the footage you uploaded. Anything already downloaded or used elsewhere cannot be recalled.

9. Disclaimers and liability

The Service is provided as is, without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Bleecker Studios is not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service, and our total liability is limited to the amount you paid us, if any, in the twelve months before the claim.

10. Changes

We may update these terms as the Service evolves. If we make a material change, we will update the date above and, where appropriate, ask you to review and accept the new terms.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to help@verifiedfootage.com, or visit Support.