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Website Terms of Use (Terms of Service) — Stafford Films

Effective Date: October 19, 2026

Last Updated: October 19, 2026

Welcome to stafford-films.com (the "Website"), owned and operated by Stafford Films ("Stafford Films," "we," "us," or "our").

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Website, including all multimedia content, video highlight reels, trailers, documentary excerpts, still images, inquiry forms, and related digital services made available through the Website.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE BROWSING OR USING THE WEBSITE. BY ACCESSING, BROWSING, OR SUBMITTING AN INQUIRY THROUGH THE WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND OUR PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY DISCONTINUE USE OF THIS WEBSITE.

1. Scope & Relationship to Client Production Contracts

These Terms govern general website visitors, prospective clients submitting inquiries, and anyone accessing our digital media.

Important Notice Regarding Wedding Videography Bookings:

These Terms do not constitute a wedding videography production agreement. Booking Stafford Films for an event, date reservations, deliverables, pricing, turnaround schedules, payment milestones, and specific media licenses are governed exclusively by our formal, countersigned Wedding Videography Client Agreement. In the event of any direct conflict between these Website Terms of Use and a signed Client Agreement, the terms of the signed Client Agreement shall strictly supersede and govern.

2. Intellectual Property, Copyright & Anti-Scraping Protections

A. Exclusive Ownership of Creative Assets

The Website and its entire contents—including, but not limited to, all cinematic wedding films, teaser reels, highlight videos, documentary edits, ceremony cuts, drone/aerial footage, still frames, audio recordings, soundtracks, visual designs, color grades, text copy, graphic assets, logos, brand names, and software code—are the exclusive intellectual property of Stafford Films and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, trade dress, and intellectual property laws.

B. Limited Personal Viewing License

Stafford Films grants you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable license to access and view the Website and its embedded media solely for your personal, non-commercial evaluation of our wedding videography services.

C. Strict Restrictions on Use, Downloading & Ripping

Except as expressly authorized in writing by Stafford Films, you must not:

Download, rip, screen-record, scrape, capture, reproduce, re-encode, or copy any video, audio, or visual element from the Website.

Distribute, publicly perform, broadcast, mirror, frame, license, sell, or exploit our footage or images for commercial or competitive purposes.

Remove, obscure, or alter any watermark, copyright notice, digital signature, or proprietary attribution displayed on our films or photographs.

Use our portfolio films, stills, or couple likenesses to promote another videographer, photography studio, venue, or commercial service without prior written licensing.

D. Prohibition on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Training & Data Mining

Stafford Films strictly reserves all rights under copyright law against automated text, data mining, and machine learning scraping:

You are strictly prohibited from using any video, still frame, audio track, or written text appearing on this Website to train, fine-tune, test, develop, or inform any artificial intelligence model, machine learning algorithm, neural network, computer vision system, or generative video/image platform (e.g., Sora, Runway, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or similar tools).

You may not deploy any automated robot, spider, crawler, scraper, or deep-link extraction tool to access, index, or harvest data from this Website.

3. Acceptable Use and Visitor Conduct

When accessing or interacting with stafford-films.com, you agree that you will not:

Interfere with Security: Attempt to probe, scan, breach, or compromise the security, vulnerability, or authentication mechanisms of the Website, hosting servers, or connected databases.

Malicious Code: Introduce or transmit any viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, keyloggers, or other malicious, destructive, or technologically harmful code.

Inquiry Form Abuse: Submit false, fraudulent, misleading, or spam inquiries through our contact or consultation booking forms, or harvest client or vendor email addresses.

Unauthorized Framing & Deep-Linking: Frame or mirror any portion of this Website on any other website or domain, or create a link suggesting any endorsement, partnership, or sponsorship by Stafford Films that does not exist.

Network Degradation: Engage in any activity (such as a Distributed Denial of Service attack) that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our web infrastructure or impairs real-time video playback for other users.

We reserve the right to immediately terminate or restrict access to the Website for any individual who violates these provisions and to refer egregious misconduct to law enforcement authorities.

4. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Safe Harbor & Takedown Policy

Stafford Films respects the intellectual property rights of others and adheres to the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (17 U.S.C. § 512).

If you are a copyright owner or an authorized agent and believe in good faith that any content, video clip, audio excerpt, or image hosted on stafford-films.com infringes your copyright, you may submit a formal notification pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) to our Designated DMCA Agent.

A. DMCA Takedown Notice Requirements

Your written notification must contain the following information:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, if multiple works at a single site are covered, a representative list).

3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, including the exact URL(s) or timestamp on ⁠stafford-films.com⁠ sufficient to permit us to locate the material.

4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, including your full legal name, physical mailing address, telephone number, and email address.

5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

B. Designated DMCA Agent Contact Information

Please send your formal DMCA notification to:

Stafford Films — Designated DMCA Agent

Attention: Copyright Compliance Department

Email: nick@stafford-films.com (with carbon copy to: nick@stafford-films.com)

Mailing Address: Stafford Films, [Insert Physical Street Address], Auburn, IN 46706, United States

Phone: [Insert Business Phone Number]

Note: Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability for damages, including court costs and attorneys' fees.

C. Counter-Notification Procedure

If you believe that your content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter-notification containing the statutory elements set forth in 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) to our Designated Agent.

5. Third-Party Links & Embedded Content

The Website contains links to external websites and embedded services not owned or operated by Stafford Films, including:

Embedded video hosting and streaming players (e.g., Vimeo, YouTube, Frame.io).

Studio management, client portals, and payment processors (e.g., HoneyBook, Dubsado, Stripe).

Social media platforms (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook).

Vendor and venue partner websites.

Stafford Films has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, terms of use, or practices of any third-party websites or services. Inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement. You access third-party links entirely at your own risk.

6. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE WEBSITE AND ALL CONTENT, VIDEOS, IMAGES, TEXT, AND FUNCTIONALITY PROVIDED HEREIN ARE DELIVERED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, STAFFORD FILMS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

GUARANTEES OF UNINTERRUPTED, DELAY-FREE, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE WEBSITE OPERATION OR STREAMING VIDEO PLAYBACK.

WARRANTIES REGARDING THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, OR SECURITY OF ANY INFORMATION PRESENTED ON THE WEBSITE.

WARRANTIES THAT DEFECTS OR SERVER BUGS WILL BE IMMEDIATELY CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SITE IS ENTIRELY FREE OF VIRUSES, MALWARE, OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

7. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL STAFFORD FILMS, ITS FOUNDERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, SECOND SHOOTERS, AGENTS, OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH:

YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE.

ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS, DEFECTS, OR DELAYS IN VIDEO STREAMING OR OPERATION.

ANY SYSTEM DOWNTIME, CORRUPTION OF DATA, VIRUSES, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO INQUIRY FORMS.

ANY THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE LINKS OR EXTERNAL EMBEDDED CONTENT.

THIS LIMITATION APPLIES REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF STAFFORD FILMS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

IF APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT PERMIT THE COMPLETE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, STAFFORD FILMS' TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($100.00 USD).

8. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Stafford Films, its owners, operators, contractors, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or resulting from:

1. Your breach or violation of these Terms of Use.

2. Your misuse of the Website, including unauthorized downloading, distribution, or scraping of video assets.

3. Your violation of any third party's intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights.

9. Governing Law, Jurisdiction & Dispute Resolution

A. Governing Law

These Terms and any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or related to your use of stafford-films.com shall be governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana, United States, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.

B. Venue and Jurisdiction

You agree that any legal action, suit, or proceeding arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Website shall be instituted exclusively in the state courts located in DeKalb County, Indiana, or the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (Fort Wayne Division). You hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consent and submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of said courts.

10. Modifications to These Terms

Stafford Films reserves the right to amend, update, or replace these Terms of Use at any time at our sole discretion. When modifications are made, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this document. Any changes become effective immediately upon posting to the Website. Your continued use of the Website after the posting of revised Terms constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms.

11. Severability & Entire Agreement

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that provision will be severed from these Terms and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any applicable written Client Agreement, constitute the entire legal understanding between you and Stafford Films regarding your use of the Website.

12. Contact Information

If you have questions, comments, or legal inquiries regarding these Terms of Use, please contact:

Stafford Films

Attention: Legal & Brand Protection

Website: stafford-films.com

Legal Inquiries: nick@stafford-films.com

General Inquiries: nick@stafford-films.com

Mailing Address: Stafford Films, 211 South Clark St. Auburn, IN. 46706

Phone: (260) 553-1997