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Terms of Service

Effective October 21, 2026

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are an agreement between you and Kavelight LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“Kavelight,” “we,” “us”). They govern KaveLight: the Mac application, its bundled content, the plans we sell for it, and the related services and website (together, the “Service”).

By creating an account, starting a trial, buying a plan, or installing or using KaveLight, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use KaveLight.

1. Plans and prices

Plans. KaveLight is sold as a Monthly plan ($24.95 a month), a Yearly plan ($249 a year) or a Perpetual License ($819, paid once; see Section 6). Every plan includes the full app and every update we publish for it. Prices are in US dollars unless the checkout shows another currency, and taxes are added at checkout where they are due.

Who you pay. Purchases run through Stripe using Stripe’s Managed Payments. That means Stripe, through its merchant-of-record entity (shown at checkout, on your receipts and on your card statement as Link), is the seller of record for the transaction: it takes your payment, calculates and remits sales tax, VAT and GST, screens for fraud, sends your receipts and invoices, and handles disputes and payment questions. Stripe’s purchase terms apply to the transaction itself. The KaveLight license you are buying still comes from Kavelight LLC under these Terms, and we remain responsible for the app and for your account.

Promotions. A promotional price for a first term (for example, the early-bird, student or creator’s price for a first year) renews at the regular price for that plan unless you cancel. A promotional purchase is paid for at checkout: a subscription plan’s first term starts that day, and a Perpetual License is active at once. The one exception: a subscription bought with a creator’s discount during your free trial starts, and is first charged at that discount, when the trial ends. One discount applies per purchase. Student pricing is for people currently enrolled at a school or university, and we may ask for proof.

2. Free trial

New accounts may start one 14-day free trial: one per verified email address and one per Mac. No card is needed. The trial starts the first time you open the app, signed in to your account, on or after October 19, 2026. A Mac that has already hosted a trial under another account does not get a second one, so an account that only ever signs in on such a Mac needs a plan to use it there. You get an in-app notice and an email 24 hours before the trial ends. When the trial ends, KaveLight stops opening project files until a plan is active. There is no read-only mode. Your project files, saved frames and exports stay exactly where they are on your Mac; we do not touch or delete anything, and your projects open again as soon as a plan is active. If you want your frames or shot lists outside KaveLight, export them before the trial ends.

3. Automatic renewal

Monthly and Yearly plans renew automatically at the end of each term, at the then-current price for your plan, until you cancel. Your card is charged on the renewal date. For a Yearly plan you get an email 30 days before each renewal with the amount, the date and a cancel link. A Monthly plan gets a receipt with every charge and at least one reminder a year. If a renewal charge fails, Stripe emails you and retries; if it still fails, your plan lapses (Section 17).

4. Cancelling

You can cancel any time, online, in one step: in KaveLight under Account → Manage Subscription → Cancel, through the cancel link in any billing email, or from your Link account at link.com. We never require a call or a chat to cancel. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid term: you keep access until then, and you are not charged again.

5. Refunds

All sales are final once paid, except where the law gives you a right we cannot take away; the free trial is there so you can try KaveLight before you pay. If you are a consumer in the EU, EEA or UK, you may withdraw from a purchase within 14 days; if you asked us to start the service immediately, you pay only for the days used. For the Perpetual License, if at checkout you ask for immediate delivery and acknowledge that you lose the right of withdrawal, no withdrawal right applies. Nothing here limits a refund the law requires, for example after a price increase in New York (Section 7). Because Stripe is the seller of record (Section 1), Stripe’s own purchase terms, shown at checkout and on your receipt, also apply to the transaction; where they give you a refund right, you ask Stripe directly from your receipt, and its decision applies to that purchase. Questions about a charge go to Stripe’s payment support (the link is in your receipt) or to us.

6. Perpetual License

The Perpetual License is a license, not a sale of the software: a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to install and use KaveLight on up to two Macs for as long as you comply with these Terms. It includes every update we publish for KaveLight, with no update or upgrade fees, ever. Like every plan, it needs an occasional online entitlement check (Section 16). If we ever stop publishing KaveLight, we will release a build that activates without our servers, so your license keeps working.

7. Price changes

We may change prices with at least 30 days’ email notice before the change applies to you. A change never applies in the middle of a Yearly term, and never to a Perpetual License you already hold. If you do not agree, cancel before the change takes effect and you will not be charged the new price. If you are a consumer in New York, you may also cancel within 14 days after the first increased charge for a pro-rata refund.

8. Your account

You must give us an accurate email address and keep your credentials secret. Your account is for one person (you) and may not be shared. You are responsible for activity under your account. You must be at least 18 (or the age of majority where you live) to create an account or buy a plan. We may give you notices by email to your account address or in the app, and you consent to receive them electronically; keep your address current.

9. Your license to use KaveLight

While your plan is active (or, for a Perpetual License, for as long as you comply with these Terms), we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use KaveLight on up to two Apple silicon Macs that you own or control, for your own previsualization work, commercial productions included. The app enforces two active Macs per plan; you can move a seat to another Mac from within the app (a cooldown applies). Plans may not be shared.

10. What you may not do

11. Bundled content and the AI and dataset restriction

KaveLight ships with built-in 3D content: digital-human characters, props, furniture, lighting-fixture models and data, materials, and textures (“Bundled Content”). Some Bundled Content is licensed to Kavelight by third parties. You may use Bundled Content only within KaveLight, as part of your projects and the images you render. You may not extract, export, copy out, or redistribute the Bundled Content itself, meaning the meshes, textures, or data files.

AI and dataset restriction. Our content licensors (including Epic Games, for the digital-human characters) require us to pass this through to you: you may not use the Bundled Content — including the digital-human characters and their meshes, textures, rigs, poses, expressions and animation data, and any images, video or renders made from them — to build or enhance any dataset or database, or to train, fine-tune, test or evaluate any artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, deep-learning, neural-network or similar system, and you may not permit anyone else to do so. Using an AI tool that merely operates on your own renders (for example to describe, annotate or upscale them) is allowed, provided the renders are not retained as training or testing data. If you connect KaveLight to an AI assistant, you are responsible for that account’s data-use settings.

12. Your content and your renders

Your work is yours. You own your project files, the assets you import (which you are responsible for having the rights to use), and the images you render, and you may use your renders for any lawful purpose (lookbooks, pitch decks, client presentations, production planning), subject only to the AI and dataset restriction in Section 11. When you send us feedback, including any diagnostics and logs you choose to include, you give us permission to store and use it to operate and improve KaveLight.

13. Community

Community lets you publish a KaveLight project for other KaveLight users to browse and download. Sharing is optional.

What you give us and other users. You keep ownership of what you share. By sharing a project, you give Kavelight a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, display, and distribute it, together with your name and profile picture as its author, so other KaveLight users can find and download it, and to show it (for example, its title and thumbnail) when we feature Community in the app or in our marketing. You also give every KaveLight user a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to download your project, open and change it in KaveLight, and use it, and the images they render from it, in their own work, commercial productions included. They may not sell or redistribute your project, or the files in it, on their own.

What you promise. You may share only what you have the right to share. By sharing a project, you promise that you own, or have permission to share, everything in it (including any imported models, textures, images, reference photos, and LUTs), and that sharing it does not infringe anyone’s copyright, trademark, privacy, or publicity rights, break the license you got any content under (many asset stores forbid redistribution), or break any law.

What is not allowed. Content that infringes others’ rights; unlawful, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, or violent content; personal information about other people without their consent; malware or anything designed to cause harm; spam or advertising; and impersonating someone else.

KaveLight’s own content. Bundled Content in a shared project, such as our characters, props, and fixtures, is not distributed as files: it loads from each user’s own copy of KaveLight under Section 11. Sharing a project gives no one any additional rights to Bundled Content.

Our role. We may review, decline, feature, or remove any shared project at any time, with or without notice. Projects marked KaveLight Sets are made by us. Featuring any other project means only that we checked it opens and works in KaveLight; it is not an endorsement, and not a statement that it is free of third-party rights. We are not responsible for projects other users share.

Taking a project down. You can take down your own projects at any time. They leave Community at once, but copies other users already downloaded stay with them under the license above. Email us if you also want a project’s files deleted from our servers; we do that within 30 days.

Copyright complaints. If you believe a shared project infringes your copyright, send a notice to support@kavelight.com with the subject “Copyright notice”, including: your physical or electronic signature; the work you claim is infringed; the project and where it appears in Community; your contact information; a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner. We remove material in response to valid notices, and when we remove a project in response to a notice we also delete its files from our servers. If your project was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notice with the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). We terminate the Community access, and may terminate the accounts, of users who are the subject of repeated valid infringement notices — as a rule, two within twelve months. We accommodate and do not interfere with standard technical measures copyright owners use to identify or protect their works. You can also report a project from within KaveLight.

Designated agent. Our agent for notices of claimed copyright infringement, registered with the U.S. Copyright Office under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2), is Sandeep Vadlamudi, Kavelight LLC, 1992 Lewis Turner Blvd, Suite 1067, PMB 282, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547, United States; phone +1 781-460-1300; email support@kavelight.com. Notices may be sent by email or by mail to that address.

14. Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions, or other feedback about KaveLight, we may use it without restriction or obligation to you. We genuinely read all of it.

15. Third-party services

Some parts of the Service are run by others. Sign-in is operated by Clerk, and payments by Stripe (Section 1). Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants you connect are provided by Anthropic, OpenAI or others under their own terms; they are not our agents, and what you send them is governed by your agreement with them. Changes an assistant makes in your project are yours to review (every one is an undo step).

16. Updates and connectivity

The app checks our servers for updates and installs them when you choose. Updates are included in every plan, including the Perpetual License, at no extra charge. We may set a minimum supported version, and older builds may stop working until updated, for example when an update fixes a security or data-integrity issue. The app periodically confirms your plan online and continues to work offline for a grace period (currently 14 days). Because macOS requires apps to be notarized by Apple, the app may stop launching if Apple revokes its notarization; we would publish a new build. Online services, such as Community, the AI connector and downloadable asset packs, may change or be discontinued with 90 days’ notice.

17. Term and termination

You may stop using KaveLight at any time, cancel under Section 4, and ask us to delete your account. Your plan ends when a cancelled term runs out or a renewal charge finally fails. When your plan ends, KaveLight stops opening project files until a plan is active again; your files stay on your Mac and nothing is deleted. We may suspend or end your access if you breach these Terms, if the law requires it, or if we discontinue KaveLight (Perpetual License holders keep the build described in Section 6). If we end your access for a reason other than your breach, we will refund the unused part of your current paid term (and, for a Perpetual License, a fair share of its price). Sections 5, 10 through 14, and 18 through 23 survive termination.

18. Planning estimates and disclaimers

KaveLight’s renders, meters, false color, exposure and photometric readouts are planning estimates derived from manufacturer data and a simulation. They are not a substitute for metering and testing on set, and we do not warrant that any result will match a real production. Back up your work.

KAVELIGHT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DATA WILL NOT BE LOST. If you are a consumer, you may have legal guarantees that these disclaimers do not take away.

19. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, KAVELIGHT WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS (US $50) OR THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you; in that case, the limitations apply to the fullest extent permitted. If you live in New Jersey, Sections 18, 19 and 20 apply to you except to the extent New Jersey law prohibits them.

20. Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify, and hold Kavelight harmless from claims arising out of content you import into KaveLight or share to Community, or out of your breach of these Terms.

21. Governing law, venue and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute relating to these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Florida, and you consent to their jurisdiction. If you are a consumer in the EU, EEA or UK, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live and may bring a claim in its courts.

Before filing a claim, email us and allow 30 days to resolve it informally. Either party may bring a qualifying claim in small-claims court. Both parties waive trial by jury.

22. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as KaveLight evolves. If we make a material change, we will tell you in the app or by email at least 30 days before it takes effect (a change required by law, or one that only covers a new feature, may take effect sooner), and the app will ask you to accept the new version. Price changes follow Section 7, and a change does not take away anything you have already paid for during a current term. If you do not agree to a change, cancel before it takes effect and stop using the Service.

23. Everything else

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Kavelight about the Service; your purchase is also subject to Stripe’s purchase terms (Section 1). If part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. Because a breach of Sections 10, 11 or 13 may cause harm money cannot repair, we may seek injunctive relief in addition to other remedies. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to a successor of the business. Open-source software included in KaveLight is listed in the app under Acknowledgements and is licensed under its own terms.

24. Contact

Kavelight LLC
1992 Lewis Turner Blvd, Suite 1067, PMB 282, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547, United States
support@kavelight.com · +1 781-460-1300