Terms of Use

Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your use of Velocity, a live video platform provided by Kevin Klein, Gronau (Westfalen), Germany ("Velocity", "we", "our", or "us"). Full provider details are available in the Imprint. By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

What Velocity is

Velocity offers three modes for going live: Interactive Sessions, Live Streaming, and Interactive Live Streaming. Around them is a workspace that can include Cloud storage, a Whiteboard, a Workspace, and an in-browser IDE. Velocity is actively maintained, and features may change as the service improves.

Velocity Lab is not part of the production service and is provided for demonstration and testing only.

Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract to use Velocity. By using the service, you confirm that you meet these requirements. Velocity is not intended for, and may not be used by, anyone under 18.

Your account

When you create an account, you agree to:

• provide accurate information and keep it up to date;
• keep your password confidential and your account secure;
• take responsibility for activity that happens under your account; and
• notify us promptly at support@velocitystreaming.io of any unauthorised use.

Prohibited content and conduct

Velocity is a platform for legitimate live video. The following are strictly prohibited in any session, stream, recording, upload, chat, or other content on Velocity, whether public or private.

Sexual content and exploitation:

• adult sexual content, pornography, and sexual live streams;
• explicit nudity or sexual acts;
• sexual solicitation, sexual services, or content offering them;
• fetish or similar content intended for sexual arousal;
• non-consensual intimate content, and hidden-camera or secretly recorded intimate content.

Illegal, hateful, and harmful content:

• any content or activity that is illegal under applicable law;
• hate speech, extremist, or terrorist content;
• harassment, threats, doxxing, or stalking;
• graphic violence, cruelty, or gore;
• encouragement of self-harm or suicide.

Fraud and security:

• scams, fraud, or phishing;
• malware, viruses, or other harmful code;
• attempts to breach security, access controls, or usage limits, or to disrupt the service.

Rights of others:

• infringement of copyright, trademarks, or other intellectual property;
• unlawful recording, streaming, or publication of any person.

Zero tolerance: protection of minors

Velocity has zero tolerance for any content that sexualises, exploits, or endangers minors. The following are strictly prohibited and are never permitted under any circumstances:

• any sexual or sexualised content involving a minor, or any person who is or appears to be a minor, or whose age is uncertain;
• child sexual abuse material of any kind;
• grooming, exploiting, endangering, or abusing minors, or attempting to do so.

We report such content and conduct to law enforcement, terminate the accounts involved, and preserve and disclose relevant information to the competent authorities.

Recording and streaming rules

The Host controls recording and streaming. If you are a Host, you must not:

• secretly record people, or record or stream them without a lawful basis or the permissions required by law;
• record or stream private conversations unlawfully;
• send a stream to a third-party destination unless you have the rights and permissions to do so; or
• use Velocity to evade the law, another platform's rules, or applicable consent requirements.

See the Recording & Streaming Notice for how recording and streaming work.

Reporting

If you become aware of prohibited or illegal content on Velocity, report it to legal@velocitystreaming.io. We review reports and take appropriate action, including the enforcement steps below.

Enforcement

To enforce these Terms and protect people, we may, at our discretion and where lawful:

• remove or restrict access to content;
• disable a recording or stream;
• restrict, suspend, or terminate accounts or features;
• preserve information where necessary; and
• disclose information where required by law or where reasonably needed to protect people, Velocity, or third parties.

We act proportionately and, where appropriate, give notice.

Suspension and termination

You can stop using Velocity at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms, misuse the service, create legal or security risk, or where required by law. We will act proportionately and, where appropriate, give notice unless urgent action is required.

Host responsibilities

The Host of a session or stream controls it. If you are a Host, you are responsible for:

• informing Guests, Viewers, and Listeners when a session is recorded or streamed, and obtaining any consent or permissions required by law;
• the content of your sessions, streams, and recordings, and your use of any third-party destination you configure; and
• your role as controller for the personal data of the people you bring into a session, as described in our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Agreement.

Business and professional users

If you use Velocity for business or professional purposes (for example with your guests, customers, students, or team members), you are responsible for your own legal basis, notices, consents, and data protection obligations towards those people, and for their conduct in your sessions. Where we process personal data on your behalf, the Data Processing Agreement applies.

Guests, Viewers, and Listeners

If you join a session or watch a stream, you agree to behave lawfully and respectfully and to follow the Host's reasonable instructions. Sessions may be recorded or streamed by the Host. If you do not agree to the Host's recording or streaming setup, do not join, or leave the session.

Your content

You keep ownership of the content you create, stream, upload, or share through Velocity. You grant us the limited rights needed to host, process, transmit, and deliver your content for the purpose of providing the service (for example storing a recording, delivering a live stream, or saving a file you upload). You are responsible for your content and for having the rights needed to use it.

Third-party platforms

If you restream to a third-party platform (for example via a destination you configure), that platform is controlled by you and governed by its own terms and policies. We are not responsible for third-party platforms.

Plans and payment

Velocity does not currently charge for the service. There is no active paid checkout, and no subscription is created or renewed today. Paid plans will only apply after explicit signup and checkout terms are presented to you and you accept them; those terms will then form part of these Terms.

Availability

We work to keep the service available and reliable, but we do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation and do not offer a specific uptime or service-level guarantee. As the service is actively maintained, we may change, suspend, or discontinue features. We will give reasonable notice of significant changes where we can.

Disclaimer and liability

To the extent permitted by law, the service is provided "as is" and "as available". Our liability is governed by the following, which apply in addition to your statutory rights:

• We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, and for damages arising from injury to life, body, or health.
• For slight negligence, we are liable only where we breach an essential contractual obligation (an obligation whose fulfilment makes proper performance of the contract possible and on which you may reasonably rely), and then only for foreseeable damage typical of this kind of contract.
• Liability under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) and under any guarantee we expressly give remains unaffected.
• Any further liability is excluded.

Indemnity (business users)

If you use Velocity for business or professional purposes, you agree to hold us harmless from third-party claims arising from your content or your breach of these Terms or applicable law, to the extent you are responsible for them.

Data protection

Our handling of personal data is described in the Privacy Policy. Where we process personal data on your behalf as a processor, the Data Processing Agreement applies.

Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection granted by mandatory provisions of the law of your country of habitual residence. We are neither obligated nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms as the service develops. We will post the updated version on this page and change the "Last updated" date. For material changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify you and, where required by law, ask for renewed acceptance.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: legal@velocitystreaming.io.