Terms of service

AfterPreach is operated by ND Strupler, sole trader, acting as an individual, of Cambodia. Full details are in the legal notice.

These terms apply from the moment you create an account. By creating one you confirm you are at least 18, that you are authorised to act for the church or organisation you name, and that you accept these terms and the privacy policy.

You give the service a YouTube link, your preaching notes, or both. It sends that material to a large language model, which writes social media copy from it, and renders that copy into image and video files using a fixed set of templates. You download the files and post them yourself. The service does not post anything on your behalf and holds no access to your social media accounts.

The number of creations a week, the number of assets in each, and how many past creations stay in your dashboard are set by your plan and shown on the pricing page. Those limits are enforced by the service, not merely advertised.

This is the most important clause in this document. Every headline, summary, reflection question and Scripture quotation the service produces is generated by a language model. Language models make mistakes. They misattribute quotations, they state things with confidence that are not so, and they can put words into a preacher's mouth that the preacher did not say.

Read everything before you post it. Check every Scripture reference and quotation against your own translation. Check that the summary reflects what was actually preached. You are the publisher of anything you download and post, and you carry responsibility for it in front of your congregation and in law. The operator does not review what the service produces and cannot vouch for it.

The service is a drafting tool. It is not theological, pastoral, legal or professional advice of any kind.

The copy and the rendered files that come out of your creations are yours to use, including commercially, for as long as you like. The operator claims no ownership of them and no licence to reuse your preaching notes or your finished assets for its own purposes.

Two things inside those files are not the operator's to give away, so they carry their own conditions:

Photographs. Backgrounds come from Unsplash and are used under the Unsplash licence, which permits commercial use without payment but does not permit selling the photograph itself, on its own or in a competing stock service. The studio shows a credit line for each photograph. The licence does not require you to publish it, but photographers are owed it and posting it is the decent thing.

Video thumbnails. Where an asset uses the thumbnail of a YouTube video, that image belongs to whoever owns the video. Use it only for videos your church owns or has permission to use.

A photograph you upload yourself is a third, and it runs the other way: it is yours, and clearing it is yours too. Clause 7 says what that means.

The templates, the software and the AfterPreach name remain the operator's. You do not get a licence to copy the service or to resell access to it.

The default templates follow the ICF Corporate Design Manual, and the ICF name, marks and design system belong to the ICF Movement, not to the operator of this service. Using these templates does not give you any right in ICF's marks or make your material ICF material.

If your church is not part of the ICF Movement, set your own colors, typeface and logo in the church design editor before you publish anything, and do not present the output as ICF material.

You must not use the service to process or produce:

material you have no right to use, including someone else's sermon, book or recording; personal data about other people beyond the preacher's name, and in particular nothing a person shared with you in pastoral confidence; special category data, meaning anything revealing health, sexuality, religion of an identified person, or similar; material that is unlawful, defamatory, or that incites hatred or violence against any person or group; or material involving children in any way that would harm them.

You must not attempt to work around plan limits, share one account across churches that should each hold their own, probe the service for weaknesses without written permission, or use automated means to create accounts or generate content at volume.

The operator may suspend or close an account that breaches this clause, and will do so without refund where the breach is deliberate.

The studio lets you put your own photograph behind any post, story or invitation card, in place of the one the service picked. Those files stay yours, and so does the responsibility for them. By uploading one you confirm that you own it or have the photographer's permission to use it this way, and that everybody recognisable in it has agreed to appear on your church's social media. Agreeing to be photographed at a service is not the same as agreeing to be the background of a post, and a child needs the permission of whoever is responsible for them.

The operator does not look at what you upload, does not clear it for you, and gives you no rights in it. The service never posts a photograph anywhere: you download the asset and publish it yourself, the same as everything else here. If a photograph turns out not to have been yours to use, that is between you and whoever owns it, and clause 12 is the operator's side of it.

Where an uploaded photograph sits, plainly. It is stored with the creation you uploaded it to and served from a long address nobody can guess, which is not listed anywhere and not indexed. It is not behind a password, because the renderer has to be able to fetch it while it builds your asset. Treat it as unlisted rather than private, and do not upload anything you would mind a person holding the link seeing. It is deleted when the creation is, whether you delete that yourself or it falls off the end of what your plan keeps.

If someone tells the operator that a photograph here is theirs and should not be, it will be removed from the account that uploaded it and that account told why. Write to [email protected].

You are responsible for what happens under your account. Choose a password you do not use elsewhere and do not share it.

Your email address is the key to the account. A forgotten password is reset through a link sent to it, and an account can be handed to another person by sending a link to their address, on which the account, its creations and any subscription stay as they are and only the sign-in changes. Whoever controls the address controls the account, so keep it current. Email addresses are confirmed by a link before an account can make a creation, so an address typed wrongly at signup shows up at once rather than at the moment somebody needs to reach you.

Plans are billed monthly or yearly in advance at the prices shown on the pricing page, and renew automatically until you cancel. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it does not refund the period you are in. You keep the plan until the period ends.

Prices may change, but not for a period you have already paid for. You will be told before a change takes effect and may cancel instead.

Weekly allowances reset at midnight UTC on Monday and do not carry over. An unused week is not refundable and does not roll forward.

If you are a consumer in the EU, the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, you normally have fourteen days to withdraw from a distance contract. Because this service delivers digital content immediately, that right ends once you make your first creation, and by making one you ask for immediate performance and accept that. Until you have made a creation in the period you paid for, you may cancel within fourteen days for a full refund.

Outside that, the operator will refund a period in which the service was substantially unavailable, or where you were charged in error. Ask at [email protected].

A known billing limitation. Payment is confirmed when you return from the payment page. If you close the tab mid-checkout you may be charged without your plan being upgraded. If that happens, contact the operator and it will be corrected or refunded in full.

The service is provided as it is. No uptime is promised, and it may be changed or withdrawn. Rendering happens on request and can be slow or can fail.

Download anything you want to keep. Your plan keeps a fixed number of past creations, shown on your dashboard, and making a new one removes the oldest beyond that number. Stored creations are not a backup service and the operator does not undertake to be able to restore them.

Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited, including a consumer's statutory rights.

Subject to that, the operator is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profit, goodwill or congregation, or for anything arising from material you published without checking it. Total liability for any claim is limited to what you paid in the twelve months before it arose.

You may close your account at any time by asking the operator. Closing it deletes your account record, your saved creations and your church design, including any logo and any photographs you uploaded.

The operator may end the agreement on reasonable notice, or immediately for a breach of clause 6 or 7, and will refund the unused part of a paid period unless the account was closed for deliberate breach.

These terms may change. A material change will be notified before it takes effect, and continuing to use the service afterwards accepts it. Every version carries a number and a date at the top of this page.

This agreement is governed by the laws of the Kingdom of Cambodia, with the competent courts of Cambodia. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings in your own courts.

Talk to the operator first at [email protected]. Most things are settled that way.