Terms of Service

1. The Service

SermonAmplifier turns recorded sermons into written, searchable, and distributable ministry material. With the Service your church can:

• upload sermon audio (MP3, M4A, WAV) or video (MP4, MOV), or paste public sermon broadcast links;
• get a transcript produced by automated speech recognition, with timestamps and speaker tags;
• run an automated review that highlights theological names and scriptures for human verification;
• generate pastoral derivative materials, including dual-view Small Group Study Guides (Leader and Participant editions), multi-day Devotionals, and social media kits;
• keep a searchable church archive ("Sermon Vault") indexed across your past teachings; and
• schedule approved social posts directly to your church’s connected social media accounts.

2. Accounts and church workspaces

You can sign up with an email address and password or with your Google account. You must give us accurate information and keep it up to date.

Every account belongs to one organization, which we call a church workspace. The person who creates the workspace is its first admin. Admins can invite other ministry members by sharing an invite link.

• Admins can manage workspace members, billing, subscriptions, model parameters, and sermon archives.
• Members can upload recordings, generate study guides, edit transcripts, and schedule posts.

An invite link works like a key to your workspace. Share it only with people you mean to invite, and revoke links you no longer need. You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for all activity conducted within your workspace.

3. Your sermons belong to your church

Sermons, transcripts, and generated material in a workspace belong exclusively to the church that owns the workspace, not to the individual who uploaded them.

When a pastor, staff member, or volunteer leaves or is removed, the sermons they added stay permanently in the church workspace. Admins decide who has access and what is deleted.

4. Your content and your rights to it

You keep all rights

Your church keeps all rights to the sermons you upload and to the transcripts, study guides, devotionals, and social materials produced from them ("Your Content"). We do not claim ownership of Your Content.

The limited license you give us

You give us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process, transcribe, transmit, and display Your Content only as needed to provide the Service to you.

We do not sell Your Content, publish it, or use it to advertise. The license ends when Your Content is deleted from the Service.

Zero royalties

You are free to publish, sell, print, distribute, or preach any material generated by the platform without paying fees or royalties to SermonAmplifier.

5. Automated transcripts and generated material

Transcripts are produced by automated speech recognition, and review suggestions, scripture references, and generated materials are produced by automated language processors.

Never rewriting the preacher

The Service is designed never to rewrite what the preacher said. The transcript records the words as they were recognized, and corrections or review notes are only proposed for you to accept or reject. Generated material is derived from the transcript and is not a substitute for human review.

Zero model training

Your sermons are not used to train anyone's models. Our processing channels are governed by strict commercial non-training and zero-retention covenants. We do not use your church's sermon recordings, transcripts, or profiles to train public models of our own.

Review responsibility

Automated systems can make mistakes: misheard words, wrong proper names, or misidentified scripture references. You are responsible for reviewing transcripts and generated material before you publish, print, preach, or broadcast them. They are tools for your ministry, not theological, pastoral, or legal advice.

Bible text copyrights

Verse text shown next to scripture references comes from public scripture sources, and each translation remains subject to its respective copyright holder's terms.

6. Media uploads and public links

You must have the right to upload it

Upload only content you have the right to use: your own sermons, your church's sermons, or recordings you have permission to process. Do not upload or link content that belongs to someone else without permission. You are responsible for any consent your local law requires to record and process the voices of people in a recording.

Public video and livestream links

When you provide a public link to a sermon hosted on third-party video platforms (such as YouTube), our system accesses the publicly available audio and basic media information solely on your church’s behalf to generate your transcript. You confirm that your church owns or possesses authorized rights to the broadcast being processed. Third-party platforms remain subject to their own terms and policies.

7. Storage lifecycle & the 60-day media retention policy

Audio and video files are the largest part of what we store. To keep the Service fast and affordable for churches:

• 60-day media retention: Raw audio and video files uploaded to cloud storage are kept in active, streamable storage for exactly 60 days from the upload date.
• Advance reminder notices: Our system sends courtesy email reminders to your workspace admins prior to cleanup (typically 7 days in advance), giving you time to download a local backup if desired.
• Permanent text transcripts and study guides: After 60 days, raw media files are permanently deleted from cloud storage. However, your clean text transcripts, sermon summaries, small group study guides, devotionals, and search indices remain stored indefinitely, so your library stays readable and searchable permanently.
• Ended subscriptions: If a paid subscription ends, your transcripts and generated materials remain in your account and stay downloadable.

8. Third-party social scheduling

When you connect your church’s social media accounts to our scheduling tools:

• you grant our dispatch system permission to publish approved posts to your connected accounts at your scheduled times;
• you agree to abide by the respective terms of service of each connected network; and
• we are not responsible for third-party platform outages, post rejections, or account actions taken by external networks.

9. Plans, billing and usage

Paid plans & subscriptions

Paid plans are billed in advance on a recurring monthly or annual basis. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel.

Fair-use generation

Automated generation is subject to fair-use allowances per billing cycle so the Service stays fast and reliable for all churches.

Payment processing

Payments are handled securely by authorized payment processors. Your payment card details go directly to the processor; we never see or store your full card number.

Refunds

Because computing resources are consumed immediately when transcribing audio and generating text, fees and credits are non-refundable once automated processing has commenced. If SermonAmplifier is not a fit for your ministry, contact support@sermonamplifier.ng within 14 days of your initial payment.

10. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• upload, link, or generate content that is illegal, defamatory, or infringes anyone’s copyright or rights;
• abuse or disrupt the Service, or probe its security without authorization;
• circumvent plan allowances, fair-use limits, or access controls;
• reverse engineer or copy the Service or its software; or
• resell the Service or share workspace accounts outside your ministry.

11. Limitation of liability

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, SermonAmplifier and its officers and service partners will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for loss of ministry records, goodwill, or church reputation.

Our total liability for all claims arising out of or related to the Service is limited to the amount your church paid us in the three (3) months before the event giving rise to the claim.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, without regard to conflict of laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms shall first be submitted to good-faith, informal mediation between church leadership and SermonAmplifier before resorting to arbitration in Lagos State, Nigeria.

13. Contact us

Questions about these Terms? Write to us:

SermonAmplifier Legal Team

Email: legal@sermonamplifier.ng

Support: support@sermonamplifier.ng