Terms of Service

Last updated: 16 October 2026.

These Terms of Service govern your use of the DashShorts website (dashshorts.io) and app (app.dashshorts.io), operated by ERH Capital Partners LLC. By creating an account or using DashShorts, you agree to them. They follow the licenses of the services we use. They are not a warranty that a video is free of every third-party right.

Accounts and eligibility

You must be at least 13 to use DashShorts, and 18, or have a parent's or guardian's permission, to buy a plan or credits. One person per account. Do not create extra accounts to collect free allowances. Keep access to your email inbox secure, because anyone who can read your sign-in codes can open your account. You are responsible for activity in your account.

Pricing

Current plans and the credit cost of each feature are shown on the Plans page in the app and before you confirm a render. See "Credits, plans, refunds and cancellation" below.

Credits, plans, refunds and cancellation

Credits. Credits are a prepaid license to use DashShorts features. They have no cash value, cannot be transferred or sold, and cannot be exchanged for money, except where the law requires. Credit prices and the cost of each feature are shown in the app before you confirm. They may change for future purchases.

Which credits expire.

• Plan credits are added with each paid plan invoice and are used first. Unused plan credits expire when the next paid invoice adds new plan credits, and when the subscription ends.
• Pack credits already bought stay valid and never expire.
• Free, promotional or bonus credits may be changed or withdrawn at any time.

Credits are non-refundable, except as follows:

1. Failed generations. If a video fails to render because of a problem on our side, the credits held for that render are returned to your balance automatically, as credits. For AI video, credits for clips already sent to the AI provider are not returned if you cancel or the render fails after that point.
2. Cancelled renders. If you stop a render before it finishes, the held credits are returned, subject to the AI-video rule above.
3. Where the law requires a refund.
4. Billing errors. At our discretion, for example after a duplicate charge or a clear billing error, we may refund the money to your original payment method.

Subscriptions. Starter, Creator, and Pro are monthly subscriptions. They renew automatically each month at the price shown when you subscribed until you cancel. We will tell you before any price change, and the new price applies from your next billing period. You can cancel at any time in Account › Billing, through the Stripe billing portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period. Cancelling keeps your access and your plan credits through that paid period, and you won't be charged again. We don't give partial refunds for unused time in a period unless required by law.

Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, your plan may be marked past due. We may pause plan credits until payment succeeds, or end the plan.

Refunds and chargebacks. If a payment is refunded or you dispute a charge with your bank, we may remove the credits bought with that payment, and we may suspend the account while a dispute is open.

Taxes. Prices do not include applicable sales tax. Where tax applies, Stripe calculates it at checkout.

Card statement. Charges appear on your card statement as DASHSHORTS.

Videos you make

If you make a video while you have an active Pro subscription, you own the finished video and you may use it commercially. Commercial use means YouTube monetization, ads and client work. While your Pro subscription is active, every video you make is covered for commercial use, whichever credits pay for it. Videos made while a Pro subscription is active keep their commercial license after Pro ends.

Commercial use is included only with an active Pro subscription. Without an active Pro subscription, videos made with Starter or Creator plan credits, with pack credits already bought, or with free, bonus or promotional credits, are for personal, non-commercial use only.

You own the finished video as a whole. A license that still applies to stock footage, a voice or a generated clip still applies. Similar prompts can produce similar results for someone else.

Remixes. When you remix a linked video and its narration is available, the remix script starts from the original creator's words, copied from that video. You are responsible for rewriting those words in your own words before you publish, and for having the rights to everything you publish. DashShorts doesn't check your rewording or rights. Remix visuals are newly made or chosen stock; the original creator's footage is never reused.

Stock footage

Clips from Pexels and Pixabay stay under the Pexels license and the Pixabay Content License. You may use them commercially, including inside a finished video, and you do not have to credit the clip. You may not sell or redistribute the raw clip on its own, including on another stock site. A clip that shows a trademark, a logo or a recognizable person can still need permission from that person or brand. That check is yours.

Voiceovers

Voiceovers in videos you make with DashShorts come from ElevenLabs. You may use those voiceovers in those videos, including commercially, subject to these Terms. You do not own the underlying voice. ElevenLabs keeps its voice models. Your use has to follow ElevenLabs' terms, including its prohibited-use rules. If you upload a voice, you must have the rights to it. Audio from an ElevenLabs beta service is not for commercial use.

Music

Background music in the DashShorts music library is instrumental music generated by AI (Stable Audio 2.5, through fal.ai). It was not written or performed by people.

You may use library music as background in videos you make with DashShorts, including monetized posts on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and similar platforms. That follows the same plan rules as the rest of the video. Commercial use is included only with an active Pro subscription. Without an active Pro subscription, including videos made with Starter or Creator plan credits, pack credits already bought, or free credits, it is for personal, non-commercial use only.

You may not extract, download, sell or redistribute a library track on its own, or use it outside a video made with DashShorts. You may not register the music, or a video as a way of claiming the music, with YouTube Content ID or any similar fingerprinting, rights-management or music distribution service. Other DashShorts users can use the same tracks, so no one owns them exclusively.

Library music is provided as-is. We do not promise that a platform will never flag or claim a video that uses it. If that happens, tell us at [email protected]. We may change or remove tracks at any time.

AI video and AI pictures

AI pictures are made through the OpenAI API. Under the OpenAI Services Agreement, as between the customer and OpenAI, the customer owns the output, and OpenAI assigns any right it has in that output. Copyright in the picture exists only where the law says it does. The output may not be unique. You are responsible for the prompt and for how you use the picture.

AI video uses the MiniMax H3 model, minimax/h3/image-to-video, through fal.ai. fal lists that model's license type as commercial use. fal's terms leave intellectual property in the generated file to the model license. They do not promise that the file is original or non-infringing.

MiniMax's H3 community license says MiniMax claims no rights in the outputs. The same license does not authorize use of the model or its outputs in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom or South Korea. A commercial product that uses H3 must display the name MiniMax H3. A business whose commercial products and services bring in more than 20 million US dollars a year needs MiniMax's written permission first. MiniMax's Q&A says the hosted API is available worldwide, and that the territory limit is for the open weights. Commercial use of that AI video in the United States stays unresolved until those two MiniMax sources are reconciled.

The MiniMax consumer app is for personal, non-commercial use. DashShorts does not use that app. It calls the model through fal.ai.

What you provide

You are responsible for your prompts and for anything you upload. You must have the rights to it. Do not upload or prompt for something that infringes someone else's rights.

Personal-use videos

Commercial use is included only with an active Pro subscription. Without an active Pro subscription, videos made with Starter or Creator plan credits, with pack credits already bought, or with free, bonus or promotional credits, are for your personal, non-commercial use only. While your Pro subscription is active, every video you make is covered for commercial use, whichever credits pay for it, subject to the sections above. Videos made while a Pro subscription is active keep their commercial license after Pro ends.

Acceptable use

Do not misuse DashShorts. Do not use it for illegal content, hate, harassment, sexual content involving minors, sexual content of real people, deceptive impersonation or deepfakes of real people, infringement, or spam. Do not try to get around credit limits, rate limits or the abuse controls. Do not scrape or reverse engineer the service, and do not resell access. We may refuse a request that breaks these rules. That check happens before credits are taken.

Copyright and DMCA notices

We respect intellectual property rights. If you believe content made with or shown on DashShorts infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent: Copyright Agent, ERH Capital Partners LLC, email [email protected].

Your notice must include:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the copyrighted work;
3. identification of the infringing material and where it is located (for example, the video link);
4. your contact information;
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and
6. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

Counter-notice. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you can send a counter-notice to the same address with the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3).

Repeat infringers. We will terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

Account closure and termination

By you. You can delete your account at any time under Account › Delete account. Your videos, scripts and settings are erased within 30 days. Any remaining credits, including pack credits, are lost and are not refunded. Download anything you want to keep first. Payment records are kept as long as tax law requires.

By us. We may suspend or close your account, or remove content, if you break these Terms or our content rules, misuse free allowances, create risk or legal exposure for us or others, or don't pay. Where practical we will give notice and a chance to download your videos. If we close your account for a breach, unused credits are forfeited.

Discontinuing features. We may change, suspend or discontinue any feature or AI model. If an AI model becomes unavailable, we may substitute a comparable one.

Survival. Sections that by their nature should survive termination do survive, including ownership, licenses already granted, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity and governing law.

Disclaimer of warranties

DASHSHORTS, INCLUDING THE SITE, THE APP, AI OUTPUT, STOCK MEDIA, VOICES AND MUSIC, IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. AI output can be inaccurate, unexpected, similar to other people's output, or flagged by platforms. We do not promise that any video will be accepted, monetized, or free of third-party claims on any platform, that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that a particular AI model will stay available. You are responsible for reviewing a video before you publish it, and for labeling it as AI-generated where a platform or law requires.

Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ERH CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL OR CHANNEL MONETIZATION, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO DASHSHORTS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATED TO DASHSHORTS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM AND (B) US $50.

Some jurisdictions don't allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you.

Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless ERH Capital Partners LLC and its members, managers and employees from any third-party claims, losses, liabilities and costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from (a) your prompts, scripts and other content you provide; (b) videos you publish or use; (c) your breach of these Terms or of a third-party license that applies to your video (including Pexels, Pixabay, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, fal or MiniMax terms); or (d) your violation of law or of someone else's rights.

Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be brought only in the state or federal courts located in Pennsylvania, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction. Before filing a claim, please email us at[email protected] and allow 30 days to try to resolve it informally.

The site

Pages can change. The scrolling examples on the homepage are real videos made with DashShorts. They are not customer videos.

General

These Terms, the Privacy Policy and the AI use page are the entire agreement. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms, but we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. An earlier waitlist signup does not reserve a price, feature or place. Changes: we may update these Terms. We will update the date at the top and, for material changes, notify account holders by email or in the app. Continuing to use DashShorts after the change means you accept it.

Who this is from

ERH Capital Partners LLC. Support: [email protected]. General questions: [email protected]. Copyright notices: [email protected].