Terms & Conditions

These Terms form an agreement between you and Online Timelapse ("we", "us") covering your use of onlinetimelapse.com and everything on it. By using the service — including without an account — you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal information we handle and forms part of these Terms.

Online Timelapse turns photographs you upload into timelapse videos. Some features work without an account. Others — including higher resolutions, soundtracks and removing our watermark — require an account and available credits.

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account, and at least 18 to buy credits. If you are under 18, you may only use the service with the involvement of a parent or guardian who accepts these Terms on your behalf. We may suspend accounts where we reasonably believe this is not met.

You are responsible for the accuracy of your account details, for keeping your credentials confidential, and for activity carried out under your account. Tell us promptly if you believe it has been accessed without your permission.

You keep ownership of every photograph, soundtrack, watermark and video you upload or create ("Your Content"). We claim no ownership of it.

To operate the service, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, copy, resize, encode, transmit and display Your Content strictly for the purpose of providing the service to you — for example generating derivatives, rendering a video, and delivering it to you or to people you share it with. This licence exists only so the software can function, and ends when the content is deleted, apart from copies kept temporarily in backups or as the law requires.

We do not use Your Content to train machine-learning models, and we do not sell it or license it to anyone else.

If you make a timelapse public (see section 8), you additionally allow us to display it on public parts of the site, which may include the home page. You can make it private at any time, which ends that permission going forward.

You warrant that, for everything you upload:

• you own it, or you have every right and permission needed to upload it and to have us process it;
• you have the consent of any identifiable person appearing in it, where consent is required;
• it does not infringe anyone’s copyright, trade marks, privacy, or other rights; and
• it is lawful in your country and in Australia.

You are solely responsible for Your Content. We do not review, verify, moderate or pre-screen what is uploaded, and we are not responsible or liable for its nature, legality or accuracy. The service is automated: photographs are processed by software, not inspected by people.

You must not upload, create or share content that:

• sexualises or exploits a minor in any way, or depicts child sexual abuse material;
• is non-consensual intimate imagery, or was obtained by covert or unlawful recording;
• depicts or promotes terrorism, extreme violence, or abhorrent violent conduct;
• harasses, threatens, defames, or incites hatred or violence against any person or group;
• infringes copyright, trade marks or any other right;
• contains malware, or is used to breach anyone’s privacy or security; or
• is otherwise unlawful under Australian law or the law where you are.

You must also not misuse the service itself: no attempting to breach or test our security, no automated scraping or bulk access outside published interfaces, no reselling access, no circumventing credit charges or usage limits, and nothing that degrades availability for others.

We may remove content, suspend or terminate an account, and preserve and disclose material to law enforcement, without notice, where we reasonably believe this section has been breached or the law requires it. We have no obligation to monitor content, and choosing to act in one case does not oblige us to act in another. If you find content that breaks these rules, report it through our Contact page and we will review it.

Timelapses created without an account are public by default, and are not protected behind a login. Anyone with the link can view them, and they may be shown on public parts of the site, including featured examples on the home page. Do not create a timelapse without an account if it contains anything you would not want to be public.

When you claim a timelapse into an account it becomes private. Timelapses created while signed in are private unless you choose to make them public.

Share links can be withdrawn: making a video private, or claiming it into an account, invalidates the previous link. Because anyone who already had access may have downloaded or copied a public video, we cannot guarantee that copies already made cease to exist.

Paid features consume credits. Credits are a prepaid means of accessing features of this service. They are not money, not a stored-value facility, and cannot be exchanged for cash, transferred between accounts, or redeemed anywhere else.

Credits you have already bought remain yours at the number of credits you bought. If we change the price of a credit pack, that change applies to future purchases only — it never retrospectively reduces a balance you already hold.

We may change how many credits a particular feature costs. Changes of that kind apply from the date they take effect, and the exact cost of a render is always shown to you before you confirm it, so no credits are ever spent without the price being displayed first. We will give reasonable advance notice of any change that materially increases the cost of a feature.

Credits expire. The expiry period is shown when you buy or receive them, and your balance and next expiry date are always visible on your plan page. Promotional or complimentary credits may have a shorter life than purchased ones. Expired credits are not refundable and cannot be reinstated.

Payments are handled by Stripe. We do not receive or store your card details. Prices are shown in the currency displayed at checkout and include any taxes we are required to charge.

Because credits give immediate access to a digital service, purchases are not generally refundable once made. We will refund or restore credits where a render fails through a fault on our side, or where a technical fault on our side caused you to be charged incorrectly. Failed renders normally return their credits to your balance automatically.

We do not refund because you changed your mind, because you are unhappy with a result produced from settings you chose, or because credits were allowed to expire.

Your legal rights are unaffected — see section 15.

We aim to keep the service running but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability. We may change, suspend or discontinue features, and may impose or adjust limits, at any time. Where a change is significant and adverse to you, we will give reasonable notice where practical.

Rendering is automated and can fail. We do not guarantee that any particular render will succeed, or complete within any particular time.

The service is not a backup or archive. Keep your own copies of original photographs and of any finished video that matters to you. We may delete content associated with closed, inactive or terminated accounts, and we are not liable for content that is lost, deleted or unavailable.

The platform, its software, branding, design and related materials are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. These Terms grant you no right to use our name, logo or branding.

Videos we produce may carry our watermark unless you have paid to remove it. You must not remove, obscure or alter that watermark by other means.

We rely on third parties to operate — including payment processing, cloud hosting and storage, email delivery, and sign-in with Google. How they handle information is described in our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for third-party services we do not control.

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law, or under any other law, that cannot lawfully be excluded. Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law.

Where we are permitted to limit our liability for breach of a consumer guarantee, we limit it — at our option — to resupplying the service, or paying the cost of having it resupplied.

If you are a consumer elsewhere, you may have rights under your local law that likewise cannot be excluded, and nothing here is intended to remove them.

Subject to section 15, the service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Subject to section 15, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for loss of profits, data, content, goodwill or business opportunity, however caused.

Subject to section 15, our total liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or AUD 100.

You indemnify us against claims, losses, liabilities and reasonable costs arising from Your Content, from your breach of these Terms, or from your infringement of anyone's rights — except to the extent caused by our own breach or negligence. This survives termination.

You may stop using the service at any time, and may ask us to close your account through our Contact page.

We may suspend or terminate access where these Terms are breached, where the law requires it, or where we reasonably believe it is necessary to protect the service or other users. Where the breach is serious — including anything in section 7 — we may act immediately and without notice.

Unused credits are forfeited if we terminate your account for breach of these Terms. If you close your account voluntarily, unused credits are also forfeited. If we discontinue the service, we will give reasonable notice so you can use your remaining balance.

These Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and you and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that state. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory laws of your own country.

If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. A delay in enforcing these Terms is not a waiver of them. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms; we may transfer ours to a successor of our business. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the service.

We may update these Terms. When we do, we will change the date at the top of this page, and where the change is material we will give reasonable notice through the service or by email. Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect means you accept the revised Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the service and you may ask us to close your account.

Questions, complaints, and reports about content can be sent through our Contact page.