Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of the BenchStream mobile application and the website at bench-stream.com (together, "BenchStream"). BenchStream is operated by K. Jones, trading as BenchStream, of [POSTAL ADDRESS], United Kingdom ("we", "us", "our").

Please read these terms carefully. If you do not agree, please do not use BenchStream.

1. Acceptance

By downloading, installing, or using BenchStream you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you are using BenchStream on behalf of an organisation (for example a club or school), you confirm that you have authority to bind that organisation to these terms.

2. What BenchStream is

BenchStream is a mobile streaming client. It captures video and audio from your phone, encodes it on the device, and sends it directly to YouTube Live or to a streaming destination you configure yourself (RTMP, HLS, or SRT).

BenchStream does not host, transcode, store, or rebroadcast your video. Streaming reliability depends on factors outside our control, including your network connection, your device hardware, YouTube's services, and any third-party destination you have configured.

3. Eligibility

BenchStream is intended for users aged 18 or over. By using BenchStream you confirm that you are at least 18. The app is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly allow children to create accounts on the third-party services BenchStream connects to.

4. Sign-in and your YouTube account

BenchStream signs in using Google OAuth. We never see your Google password. You are responsible for keeping your Google account secure, for any activity that takes place on your YouTube channel through BenchStream, and for complying with Google's and YouTube's own terms.

You can revoke BenchStream's access to your Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to use BenchStream to stream, transmit, or facilitate any content that:

• Violates the YouTube Community Guidelines, the YouTube Terms of Service, or the terms of any other destination you configure.
• Infringes anyone else's intellectual property, privacy, data-protection, image, or publicity rights.
• Films or broadcasts people, venues, leagues, schools, clubs, music, or events unless you have the permissions, notices, licences, and consents required for your situation, including parental or school permissions where children may be involved.
• Is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, fraudulent, hateful, or designed to harm or exploit minors.
• Attempts to interfere with, reverse-engineer, or circumvent the security of BenchStream, the YouTube API, or any third-party destination.

BenchStream is an encoder, not a content host: we do not see your streams and have no ability to moderate them. Content moderation for material sent to YouTube is governed by YouTube's Community Guidelines and reporting flow. To report a concern about BenchStream itself, email [email protected].

We reserve the right, but assume no obligation, to refuse service to users found in egregious breach of these terms.

6. Your content

You retain all rights in the video, audio, scoreboard configurations, team logos, thumbnails, and broadcast metadata you create or configure through BenchStream ("Your Content"). We claim no licence in Your Content beyond the limited rights needed for the app to process, encode, overlay, and transmit Your Content at your direction. Because BenchStream does not pass Your Content through our servers, we do not have a copy of it on our servers.

You are solely responsible for Your Content and for the rights to stream it.

7. Our intellectual property

The BenchStream app, website, name, logo, and the bundled scoreboard presets and sport thumbnails are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by copyright and trademark laws. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the BenchStream app on devices you own or control, for personal or internal organisational use, in accordance with these terms.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, sublicense, or create derivative works based on BenchStream, except as permitted by law (for example, statutory rights that cannot be excluded).

8. Third-party services

BenchStream connects to third-party services to do its job — primarily Google (for sign-in and the YouTube Data API) and YouTube (as the streaming destination). Those services have their own terms, which you accept by using BenchStream alongside them. We are not responsible for the operation, availability, or content of third-party services.

If you configure a manual streaming destination (a third-party RTMP, HLS, or SRT server), you accept that destination's terms with its operator. Your video, audio, stream keys, credentials, and metadata may be sent to that destination, and its operator is responsible for how it handles them.

9. App store terms

If you obtained BenchStream from Apple's App Store or Google Play, the store's own terms also apply to your download and installation of the app. Where those terms conflict with these terms in relation to the download itself, the store's terms take precedence.

For Apple App Store downloads, Apple is not responsible for BenchStream or for providing support for it. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms for App Store downloads and may enforce them against you.

10. Price

BenchStream has two tiers. Free is free to use and includes 480p streaming with no time limits. Pro adds HD streaming up to 4K, the scoreboard overlay, and custom thumbnails, and is offered as a recurring subscription — monthly or annual, with a 7-day free trial — at the prices shown in the app and on our pricing page.

Pro subscriptions are billed and managed through Apple's App Store or Google Play's billing systems. The price, payment, renewal, and refund terms of your subscription are governed by the store's terms alongside these terms. You can cancel anytime through your store account settings.

11. No warranty

To the maximum extent permitted by law, BenchStream is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied — including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, or that the service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

We do not guarantee that your stream will reach YouTube, that it will be of a particular quality, that any specific feature will be available, or that bugs will be fixed within any particular time.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for: lost or interrupted streams, lost footage, lost viewership, lost revenue, lost data, business interruption, or any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from your use of (or inability to use) BenchStream.

Where liability cannot be excluded by law, our total aggregate liability to you in connection with BenchStream is limited to the greater of (a) £50 or (b) the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the liability.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded under UK law (including, for consumers, your statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015).

13. Indemnity

If you use BenchStream on behalf of an organisation, or if a third-party claim arises from your unlawful use of BenchStream, your breach of these terms, or your violation of someone else's rights, you agree to indemnify us against the resulting claims, damages, and reasonable legal costs. This clause does not limit any non-waivable rights you have as a consumer.

14. Termination

You can terminate these terms at any time by uninstalling BenchStream and revoking its access in your Google account. We can suspend or terminate your ability to use BenchStream if you breach these terms, or if we are required to do so by law. Because BenchStream does not require a BenchStream-hosted account, suspension may include removing access to future app versions, app-store distribution, support, or any online feature we control. On termination, the licence in section 7 ends; sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 18 survive for past use and unresolved claims.

15. Changes

We may update these terms from time to time. If we make material changes we will update the "Last updated" date at the top and surface an in-app notice on next launch. Where practical, we will give at least 30 days' notice before material changes take effect. Continuing to use BenchStream after the notice period means you accept the updated terms. If you do not agree, please stop using BenchStream.

16. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, subject to your non-waivable rights as a consumer to bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you live.

17. General

If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest of the terms will remain in effect. We are not responsible for failure or delay caused by events outside our reasonable control, including network outages, device failures, app store issues, YouTube or Google service problems, power failures, strikes, extreme weather, or changes in law. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any app-store terms that apply to your download, form the agreement between you and us for BenchStream.

18. Contact

For legal notices, support, or privacy questions, email [email protected].