Terms of service
Last updated 9 September 2026
These terms cover your use of Clippings. By creating an account you agree to them.
Who you are dealing with
Clippings is operated by Folding Distance Inc., a corporation based in Ontario, Canada. “We”, “us” and “our” in these terms mean Folding Distance Inc. carrying on business as Clippings.
Written notice to us goes to contact@clippingsapp.xyz, or by post to:
Folding Distance Inc.
570 Hood Rd, Unit 14 # 4013
Markham, ON L3R 4G7
Canada
What Clippings does
Clippings turns short videos and photo carousels you choose — from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, X and Facebook — into text transcripts, adds the note you write, and delivers the result to a destination of your own: a NotebookLM inbox Doc, a Notion workspace, or an Obsidian vault. You can use it through the website, the app for iPhone, or the Obsidian plugin; they are the same account and the same clips. It is a tool for personal research and note-taking.
Your account
You sign in through WorkOS, with Google or with an email address and password. Keep your credentials to yourself; you are responsible for what happens under your account. Give us an email address you actually control — we use it to verify your account and to reach you about your subscription. One account per person. You need to be at least 16, and old enough to enter into a contract where you live, to hold an account; Clippings is not built for children and we do not knowingly sign them up.
What you may save
You are solely responsible for everything you put through Clippings and for everything you do with what comes out. Save only content you have the lawful right to access and to make a personal copy of.
You must not use Clippings to submit:
- content behind a login, paywall, subscription or privacy setting you are not authorised to be behind, or that you reached using anyone else’s credentials;
- content protected by a technological protection measure, where putting it through Clippings would circumvent that measure;
- confidential, private or sensitive information, whether it is yours or somebody else’s;
- personal information about other people that you have no right to hand to us;
- content that is unlawful, or whose possession or distribution is unlawful; or
- content you intend to redistribute, republish, resell, syndicate, or use to train or evaluate a machine-learning model.
Transcripts are for your own reference and nothing more. The words belong to whoever spoke them and the video belongs to whoever made it; nothing Clippings does moves any right in either to you. Having a transcript is not permission to use it. Whether a particular use is lawful where you live is your judgement to make and your risk to carry, not ours — and if you are not confident you have the right to save something, do not save it.
Copyright complaints
If you own the rights to something and believe it has been saved through Clippings without permission, email contact@clippingsapp.xyz and tell us what the work is, where it is in Clippings, how to reach you, and that you believe in good faith the use was not authorised and that what you have told us is accurate. We read every notice we get. Where a complaint is good we remove the material, and where the same account keeps attracting them we close it.
If we take something down and you think we got it wrong, write to the same address and say why. If the complaint is not made good, we put it back.
Acceptable use
You must not:
- scrape in bulk, or use Clippings to assemble a dataset, corpus or archive of other people’s content;
- resell, sublicense or share access to your account, or let anyone else use it;
- work around a quota, a plan limit or any other technical restriction, including by holding more than one account;
- reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise try to derive the source code, prompts or models behind the service;
- probe, scan, penetration-test, overload, disrupt or interfere with the service or the infrastructure it runs on, or reach any part of it you were not granted access to;
- drive the website by automated means — the connector described in Settings exists for that and is the only supported route;
- use the service to harass, stalk, monitor or build a profile of any person; or
- use the service for any unlawful purpose, or help anyone else do anything on this list.
Breaking any of this entitles us to suspend or close your account under the section below, keeps you liable under “Your responsibility to us”, and — where a platform, a rights holder or a regulator comes to us about it — means we may pass on what we hold about the account in question.
Plans and payment
The free plan costs nothing and needs no card: it carries a starting allowance of clips and then a smaller recurring weekly one, both shown on your dashboard. Annual plans start with a 3-day free trial: cancel before it ends and you are not charged. Monthly plans have no trial and are charged when you subscribe. Paid plans carry a monthly allowance of clips, also shown on your dashboard, which resets each billing month. Videos and photo carousels are metered separately on every plan. Subscriptions are billed through Stripe, in advance, monthly or annually as you choose. Cancel any time from the billing portal: your plan stays active until the end of the period you have paid for, and is not renewed. We do not refund part-periods. If prices change we will tell you before it affects a renewal.
If you are a consumer in Ontario
Ontario's Consumer Protection Act covers agreements like this one, made over the internet. Before you subscribe we show you what you are getting and what it costs, and after you do we send you a copy of the agreement — if we ever fail to do either, the Act gives you a right to cancel, and we will honour it rather than argue about it. Cancelling works the way it does everywhere else on this page: the billing portal, any time. Nothing in these terms waives a right the Act gives you, and any part of them that tried to would simply not apply.
If you are a consumer somewhere else
We sell from Ontario and do not direct Clippings at the United Kingdom or the European Union. But if you are a consumer somewhere whose law gives you a cancellation right — 14 days from purchase, in much of Europe — we will honour it rather than argue about where we are established. Email contact@clippingsapp.xyz within that window and we will refund what you paid, less a proportionate amount for any part of the period you actually used.
More generally: nothing in these terms removes a right the consumer law where you live gives you, including the right to a service carried out with reasonable care and skill. Where anything here conflicts with such a right, the right wins, and the “we do not refund part-periods” line above is subject to this section.
Limits and best-effort extraction
Getting text out of somebody else's video platform is inherently unreliable — platforms change, some videos are private, some have no usable audio, and Instagram and Facebook are particularly inconsistent. Extraction is best-effort and some clips will fail. Failed clips do not count against your quota. Long videos are rejected: Clippings is built for short-form.
Third-party services
NotebookLM, Google Drive, Notion and Obsidian are not ours. You need your own account or installation, you are bound by their terms, and we cannot promise they will stay available or keep working the way they do today. If one of them changes something that breaks delivery, we will do our best to adapt, but that is outside our control. The Clippings plugin for Obsidian is ours and these terms cover it; Obsidian itself is not.
Your content
Your notes, notebooks and saved clips remain yours. You grant us only the permission needed to run the service — to process, store and deliver that content to the destinations you choose. We do not use it to train models and we do not sell it. Documents already written into your Drive or Notion are yours and stay there regardless of what happens to your Clippings account.
Availability and our liability
Clippings is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, conditions and representations of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory — including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, or non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free; that any particular video, carousel or link will extract, or extract correctly; that a transcript or takeaway will be accurate, complete, or fit for whatever you intend to do with it; or that any third-party service we deliver into will stay available or keep behaving as it does today. Transcripts are generated automatically from someone else’s media and will contain errors. Do not rely on one for anything that matters without checking it yourself, and keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.
You are responsible for your own compliance with the terms of every platform you take content from and every service you connect. We are not liable for any consequence of you breaching them, including a platform restricting, suspending or terminating your account with it.
In no event will we be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any lost profit, lost revenue, lost business, lost opportunity, lost goodwill, or lost, corrupted or undelivered content or data, or wasted expenditure — however caused, on any theory of liability, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or otherwise, and whether or not we were told such loss was possible.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to these terms or the service, taken together and however many claims there are, will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) CAD $100.
These limits are part of the bargain rather than an afterthought: Clippings is priced on the basis that our exposure is bounded, and it would not be offered at these prices otherwise.
Nothing here excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for our own fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, and, if you are a consumer, any right or remedy the Consumer Protection Act (Ontario) or the consumer law where you live gives you. If a court finds any part of this section unenforceable, every other part of it continues to apply.
Your responsibility to us
You will defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from and against every claim, demand, action, investigation or proceeding brought by anyone else, and every loss, liability, damage, judgment, award, fine, penalty, cost and expense arising out of it — including reasonable legal fees — to the extent it relates to:
- content you saved, stored, generated or delivered through Clippings, including any allegation that it infringes copyright, moral rights, trade-mark, privacy, publicity or any other right of anyone;
- what you did with a transcript, takeaway or note after we delivered it;
- your breach of these terms, or of the terms of any platform or third-party service you used Clippings with;
- your breach of any law; or
- use of the service under your account, including by anyone you allowed in.
We will tell you about any such claim within a reasonable time of learning of it. We may take control of its defence and settlement using counsel of our choosing, at your cost, and you will cooperate with us at your own expense. You may not settle anything in a way that admits fault on our part, imposes any obligation on us, or affects our rights, without our written consent. A delay in notifying you does not release you from this section except so far as the delay actually prejudiced you.
If you are a consumer, this section reaches only claims arising from something you did deliberately or negligently, and only as far as the law allows — it asks nothing of a consumer that Ontario law does not permit.
This section survives the closing of your account.
Suspension and closure
We may suspend your account immediately and without notice where we reasonably believe that:
- you have breached “What you may save” or “Acceptable use”;
- the account is being used unlawfully, or in a way that exposes us or anyone else to legal risk;
- the security or integrity of the service is at risk, including from activity under your account;
- payment has failed and is still outstanding after we have asked you to put it right; or
- a platform, rights holder, regulator or law-enforcement body requires us to.
When we suspend an account we will tell you why as soon as it is safe and practical to do so, and say what would need to change. Put it right and we will restore it. Do not, or breach us badly enough that we would rather not continue, and we may close it for good. Where we close an account for any of the reasons above, money already paid for the current period is not refunded.
Closing for any other reason is different. If we stop offering Clippings to you for a reason that is not your fault — including discontinuing the service altogether — we will give you at least 30 days’ notice and refund the unused part of anything you have paid, pro rata, as an exception to “we do not refund part-periods” above. Use that notice period to download the clips you want to keep.
You can close your account at any time by emailing contact@clippingsapp.xyz, and we will action it within 30 days. Closing removes your clips, notes and notebooks; the billing records we are required to keep are described in the privacy policy. Documents already written into your Google Drive, Notion or an Obsidian vault are yours and are untouched by any of this.
Closing an account does not release either of us from anything owed before it closed. “Your responsibility to us”, “Availability and our liability”, and “Governing law and disputes” all survive it.
Changes to Clippings, and to these terms
We may add, change or remove features as the product develops, and we may change or withdraw the free plan. If a change takes away something material that you are paying for, we will tell you before it takes effect, and you can cancel and have back the unused part of what you have paid.
If we change prices we will give you at least 30 days’ notice before it affects a renewal. A period you have already paid for is never repriced.
We may update these terms as the product develops. If a change materially affects you we will tell you before it takes effect, and continuing to use Clippings after that means you accept it. If you would rather not, cancel before it takes effect.
Governing law and disputes
These terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of them, are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ontario — non-exclusive, so that neither of us is forced to travel to make a small point.
If you are a consumer, none of that takes away the protection of the mandatory law where you live, and you may bring proceedings in your own local courts. Consumers in Ontario keep every right the Consumer Protection Act gives them, including the right to have a dispute heard here.
Before any of that, please email us. Almost everything is quicker to fix that way.
General
If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest of them still stand. If we do not enforce something straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later. You may not transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else; we may transfer ours if the business changes hands, and we will tell you if that happens. These terms and the privacy policy are the whole of what is agreed between us about Clippings. Neither of us is liable for a failure caused by something genuinely outside our control.