Terms of use
Groundplay Sandbox · last updated 23 September 2026
Short version: these are unfinished builds, shared with people we invited. Use them on copies, tell us what breaks, and don’t pass them on.
1. Who this is for
Access is by invitation. Your email address is on an allowlist we maintain, and signing in with it is what lets you download builds. Don’t share your access, and don’t sign in with an address that isn’t yours. We can remove an address at any time, which ends access immediately.
2. The software is pre-release
Everything here is alpha or beta. It may lose data, produce wrong output, or stop working. It is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose. To the fullest extent the law allows, Groundplay Studio is not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of it — including lost footage, lost work, or lost time.
Keep backups. Work on copies. Don’t put a beta build in the path of a paid client deliverable until you have tested it on material you can afford to lose.
3. What you may do with it
You may install and use the builds on machines you control, for your own evaluation and production testing, for as long as you remain on the allowlist. That’s a licence to use, not a transfer of ownership: Groundplay Studio keeps all rights in the software.
4. What you may not do
- Redistribute the builds, or upload them anywhere else.
- Sell, rent or sublicense them.
- Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble them, except where the law says you may.
- Remove or alter any notices in them.
5. Keep it to yourself
Some of what you see here is unannounced. Screenshots, feature lists, roadmaps and the builds themselves are confidential until we publish them. Please don’t post them publicly or show them to people who aren’t on the list.
6. Feedback
If you send us a bug report, a suggestion or a feature request, we may use it to improve the software without owing you anything for it. You keep the rights to your own work; we just need to be able to act on what you tell us.
7. Your files
These tools run on your machine and read your footage where it sits. Your media, catalogs and projects stay with you — we don’t collect them and they are never uploaded to us.
8. What we do collect
The email address you sign in with, the fact that it signed in, and roughly when. We keep sign-in records for 90 days. We use them to know who is running which build and to reach you about it — nothing else, and no marketing list. Ask us and we’ll delete your address and your records.
9. Third-party software
Some builds need other software to work — Python, ffmpeg, Adobe Premiere Pro. Those come with their own licences and are nothing to do with us.
10. Changes and endings
We may change these terms, the builds, or the site at any time, and we may stop offering any of it. If we change these terms materially we’ll update the date at the top. Carrying on using the builds after that means you accept the change.
11. Law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, and the courts there have exclusive jurisdiction.
12. Contact
These terms were drafted in plain language and have not been reviewed by a lawyer. If anything here matters commercially, have counsel check it before you rely on it.