Terms of Use

The short version

Vercast helps a church or ministry run a live service: a leader casts a song, a Bible verse or a slide, and everyone in the room follows on their own device. The free tier runs a complete service. Paid plans raise the limits for a whole organization.

Use it for what it is for, don't abuse it, and don't upload things you have no right to. If you subscribe, it renews until you cancel — and you cancel it yourself, in your Apple ID settings or in the web console.

Who these terms are between

These terms are between you and O2 Global, the maker of Vercast, and they cover the Vercast app, the Vercast Studio app, the Vercast TV apps for Apple TV, Android TV and Roku, and the web console at vercast.app — together, "the service".

By creating an account or using the service you accept these terms. If you are accepting on behalf of a church, ministry or other organization, you confirm you are authorised to bind it.

The app licence

The Vercast, Vercast Studio and Vercast TV apps are licensed, not sold, to you. Apps obtained from the App Store are licensed under Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement, which applies in addition to these terms. Apps obtained from Google Play are subject to the Google Play Terms of Service, and apps obtained from the Roku Streaming Store to Roku's own terms — each applies in addition to these terms for the app you got from that store.

Your licence is personal, non-transferable, and limited to using the apps on devices you own or control, as permitted by the App Store's usage rules. You may not resell the apps, rent them out, or reverse-engineer them except where the law says you may regardless.

Apple, Google and Roku are not parties to these terms and have no obligation to provide support for the apps. Support is ours — see the contact link at the end of this page.

The TV apps

Vercast TV turns a television into the screen your service runs on. It is a display and nothing more: it shows what an operator casts to it from Vercast Studio, and it cannot be used on its own.

It needs no account. You do not sign in on the TV, and there is nothing to buy inside it — a subscription is held by an organization and managed in the Vercast app or the web console, never on the television.

The TV and the controlling iPad connect directly on your own local network, by scanning a code shown on the screen. Anyone who can scan that code from inside your network can put a slide on that screen, so treat the code, and the network, the way you would treat the keys to the building.

The TV apps hold no content of their own. If the iPad driving a screen disconnects, the screen returns to its pairing code — nothing is lost, and scanning again picks the service back up.

Your account

You need an account to join an organization, follow a live event or run one. Keep your sign-in details to yourself — you are responsible for what happens under your account.

You must be old enough to hold an account under the law where you live, and at least 13. Vercast is not directed at children under 13.

You can delete your account at any time, from Settings → Account in the app or from the web console. Deleting it removes your sign-in credential and your personal records. Work you contributed to an organization — its events, songs and songbooks — stays with that organization, with your name detached from it, because deleting it would break things the organization still depends on.

Deleting your account does not cancel an App Store subscription. Only the Apple ID that bought it can cancel it, in Apple ID settings. Cancel first, then delete.

Organizations and roles

An organization is a church or ministry. It owns its members, songbooks and events, and its administrators decide who can do what. If you administer one, you are responsible for the members you approve and the content your organization publishes.

An organization must keep at least one administrator. If you are the only one, you will be asked to promote someone else or delete the organization before you can delete your own account — so that a church is never left with nobody able to manage it.

Content

The song and Bible corpus we distribute is public domain: the Berean Standard Bible, other public-domain translations, and traditional hymns whose copyright has expired. We add licensed material only where we hold the licence.

What you contribute — songs, chords, translations, transliterations, slides, images — stays yours. By submitting it you give us the permission we need to store it, review it, and show it to the people you are casting to, and, if you submit it to the public library, to publish it there and keep it in published library versions.

Only submit content you have the right to submit. Do not upload copyrighted lyrics, translations or images you do not have permission to use. We remove infringing material when we are told about it, and we will remove your name from a published contribution on request.

Acceptable use

Don't use Vercast to harass anyone, to publish unlawful or hateful material, to impersonate an organization you have nothing to do with, or to break into anything. Don't try to circumvent plan limits, resell access, or hammer our servers.

We can suspend or close an account or an organization that does these things. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will say why first.

Subscriptions, billing and renewal

Paid plans are subscriptions bought by an organization, not by a person. They raise that organization's limits — members, concurrent attendees and live pushes — and every member of the organization gets the benefit. The free tier remains available and runs a complete service.

Prices are shown in your local currency, inclusive of tax where required, on the plan screen before you buy. The plan screen is the authority on the current price and billing period.

• Plans are offered on a monthly or an annual period. The period you pick is shown on the plan before you confirm.
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period, at the then-current price for your plan, unless cancelled.
• Payment is charged at confirmation of purchase, and each renewal is charged within 24 hours before the current period ends.
• A subscription must be cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period to stop the next renewal.
• Cancelling stops future renewals. The plan keeps working until the end of the period already paid for.

A subscription bought inside Vercast Studio is charged to your Apple ID and managed there: cancel or change it in Settings → your name → Subscriptions on your device. We cannot cancel an App Store subscription for you, and neither can Apple Support be asked to on our behalf.

A subscription bought in the web console is handled by Stripe and managed from the organization's billing page. Card details never reach our servers.

The two routes are separate. If an organization is already subscribed through one, subscribe through the other and it will be billed twice — cancel the first before switching.

Refunds

Purchases made through the App Store are refunded by Apple under its own policy, not by us — request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. We have no ability to issue or refuse an App Store refund.

For subscriptions bought in the web console, contact us and we will deal with it fairly and in line with the consumer law that applies to you.

Changes to the service and to these terms

Vercast is actively developed. Features change, and occasionally one is retired. We won't remove something a paid plan is built around without notice and a reasonable alternative.

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we will say so in the app and update the date at the top. If a change affects the price of a subscription you already hold, you will be told before it takes effect and can cancel rather than accept it.

Availability and warranties

We work hard to keep the service up, particularly during a live service, but we cannot promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. Songs and Bibles are cached on your device precisely so a service can run when the network cannot.

Except where the law gives you rights that cannot be excluded, the service is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind.

Liability

Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited — including your rights as a consumer, which these terms do not take away.

Otherwise, our total liability to you for any claim relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty Canadian dollars. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of Ontario have jurisdiction — without depriving you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country you live in.