Terms and Conditions

1. Overview and acceptance

These Terms cover the Lumière app for Apple TV, Mac, iPhone, and iPad, the Lumière Server software, and the website at lumiere.artsvit.com. In these Terms, "Lumière" means all three. Lumière is developed by independent developer Artem Svitelskyi ("we").

If you download, install, or use Lumière, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use Lumière.

The app is licensed to you, not sold. Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies to the app. These Terms add to that agreement. If the two conflict for the app, Apple's agreement applies.

2. No media content is included

The Lumière app is only a player, and Lumière Server only serves the files that you put in its folders. We do not supply, host, sell, license, or recommend movies, TV shows, music, or streams. Lumière does not find or download media for you. We do not see or control what you connect or play.

You supply your own media and servers. You alone are responsible for having the rights to the content you access, and for following the law where you live.

3. Your servers and third-party services

Lumière connects to servers and shared folders that you choose, such as Lumière Server, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Kodi, and folders over SMB, NFS, FTP, or WebDAV. Those services have their own terms and privacy policies, and their owners or administrators control them.

Except for the Lumière Server software itself, we do not make, run, or support these services and are not responsible for their availability, content, security, or changes that affect compatibility.

Lumière is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Plex, Inc., the Jellyfin project, Emby LLC, the XBMC Foundation, Apple, Dolby, DTS, TMDB, OMDb, AcoustID, MusicBrainz, the MetaBrainz Foundation, the Cover Art Archive, Google, Docker, or Synology. Their names and trademarks belong to their owners and are used only to describe compatibility.

4. Your connections and security

You are responsible for your devices, accounts, passwords, and network. You should only connect to servers you trust and are allowed to use.

If you connect over plain HTTP, FTP, or another unencrypted connection, your password and media may be readable by others on that network. Lumière asks you to confirm HTTP connections. Use HTTPS or a private network when you can.

If you turn on Sync with iCloud, your saved servers and their sign-ins go to every device signed in to your iCloud account that also has sync on. Anyone who can use one of those devices can use your servers. A server that you remove on one of them is removed on all of them. Sync uses Apple's iCloud, so it can be delayed or unavailable, and it is not a backup of your server settings.

Lumière reads your media. It is not a backup tool. Keep your own copies of anything that matters to you.

5. Free plan, Lumière Plus, and purchases

Lumière is free to download. The two plans differ as follows:

• Free: one usable saved server, 20 library titles on that server, the standard player, the manual Skip Intro button, and two active devices per iCloud account. Moving your device slot is limited to once every 24 hours. The standard player plays your files in standard quality: at most 1080p, in standard colors (SDR), with stereo sound. A video above 1080p is scaled down, HDR is shown in standard colors, and surround sound is mixed to stereo. A few Dolby Vision videos cannot be shown in standard colors and need Lumière Plus.
• Lumière Plus: all saved servers, your whole library, the Lumière player with full quality where your device and files allow it (4K, HDR, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos), automatic intro skipping when your server provides markers, Picture in Picture, Audio Presets, additional app icons where available, and unlimited active devices.

Lumière Plus is sold by Apple through the App Store as a monthly or yearly subscription or a lifetime purchase. The price, currency, and billing period are shown before you buy. We do not receive your payment details.

Subscriptions renew automatically unless you turn off renewal in your Apple Account settings at least 24 hours before the current period ends. If you cancel, Plus stays active until the paid period ends. When Plus ends, the Free limits return. Your saved servers and favorites are kept, but some may be locked.

"Lifetime" means for as long as we offer and support the app on your platform and Apple keeps the purchase active. It does not guarantee support for every future device or operating system.

Apple handles all refunds under its own terms. Family Sharing is available where Apple permits it. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer law where you live.

6. Lumière Server

Lumière Server is free software that you install on a computer or NAS that you control. We give you a personal, non-exclusive license to install and use it at no charge, for as many servers as you want. It is licensed, not sold. You may not sell it, rent it, or offer it to others as a paid or hosted service.

You run the server, so you are responsible for it:

• Your files: add only media that you have the right to keep and play. The server does not check this.
• Your network: the server has no password of its own. Run it on a private network you trust. Do not open its port to the internet.
• Your data: the server can delete a title's files when someone asks it to in its web page or in the app. Keep backups of files that matter to you.
• Other people: if you let other people use your server, you are responsible for their use and for their data.

Some features use other services with keys that you supply yourself. Lumière Server includes no API keys, and we do not supply them. You get your own free key for your personal use. You are responsible for your key and for following the terms of the service that gave it. Posters, details, and ratings come from TMDB and OMDb. Without a TMDB key, the server uses free open sources instead. The data sources section lists each source and its license. This product uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB. Trailer links come from TMDB, and trailers play in YouTube's own player. Your use of these services is under their terms, and they can change or stop at any time. The server works without them.

Music. Lumière Server plays music files from your folders. It reads their tags and the names of the files. If a song has no tags, the server can name it by its sound. For this, the server makes a short audio fingerprint of the song with Chromaprint and sends it to AcoustID, with the length of the song and your own free AcoustID application key. AcoustID answers with the title, artist, and album from the MusicBrainz database. The server then loads the album cover from the Cover Art Archive. The server does not send the song file, its name, or its path. This feature is off until you add your key in the server Settings. You get the key at acoustid.org, and you use it for personal, non-commercial purposes under the AcoustID terms. Lumière Server is free, and we do not sell it or any paid service that uses these databases. The data from MusicBrainz is public domain. Cover images belong to their owners, and the server uses them only to show your own music to you. The server shows no cover when it finds none. The server works without all of this.

The apps do not use these services. The Lumière apps never contact AcoustID, MusicBrainz, or the Cover Art Archive. They talk only to the servers you choose. Song names, albums, and covers reach the apps from your server. Lumière Plus does not pay for any of these services.

We provide Lumière Server without charge and without a promise of support, updates, or availability. Lumière Plus is a purchase for the apps. It is not a payment for the server.

7. Data sources and licenses

Lumière Server finds names, descriptions, scores, and pictures for your files in these sources. The data belongs to each source and its contributors, under the license named here. The server shows it only to describe your own files to you.

• Your own files: first, the server reads .nfo files and pictures such as poster.jpg or fanart.jpg next to your videos. When it finds no picture, it shows a frame from the video. These files are yours.
• TMDB: posters, backdrops, details, and trailer links, with your own free key, under the TMDB API Terms of Use. This product uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.
• OMDb: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic scores, with your own free key. OMDb content is under CC BY-NC 4.0, for non-commercial use.
• Wikidata: names in each language, years, genres, people, running times, review scores, and the TMDB and IMDb identifiers of a title. Wikidata's structured data is in the public domain under CC0 1.0.
• Wikipedia: a short description of a film. The text is by Wikipedia's contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The server does not change it, and it shows the source and the license after the text. The full article and its authors are on Wikipedia.
• TVmaze: for shows, the description, seasons, episodes, ratings, and pictures. TVmaze API data is under CC BY-SA 4.0, and the server shows the source and the license after the text. Posters and episode pictures load from TVmaze and belong to their copyright owners.
• Wikimedia Commons: a film poster, only when the file is in the public domain or under CC0. The server leaves out every file that asks for credit.
• MusicBrainz, AcoustID, and the Cover Art Archive: song names and album covers, as described in section 6. MusicBrainz core data is under CC0. AcoustID is free for non-commercial use. Cover images belong to their copyright owners.

The open sources (Wikidata, Wikipedia, TVmaze, and Wikimedia Commons) need no key and work only while no TMDB key is set. Their data can be less complete or less accurate than TMDB, and many films have no poster there. When you add your own TMDB key, the server updates every title by itself.

The names of these services are used only to say where the data comes from. Lumière is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by TMDB, OMDb, IMDb, the Wikimedia Foundation, TVmaze, the MetaBrainz Foundation, or AcoustID. Their names and logos belong to their owners.

8. Open source components

The Lumière app is proprietary, but it includes open source software under its own licenses. These licenses take priority for those components:

• VLCKit 4.0.0a19 from VideoLAN, under the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later. Source: code.videolan.org/videolan/VLCKit.
• FFmpeg 9.0.2 libraries, under the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later. Source: ffmpeg.org.

The Lumière Server image for Docker includes separate programs under their own licenses. The server runs them as separate programs and does not change them:

• FFmpeg and Chromaprint (fpcalc), as packaged by Debian, under the GNU GPL version 2 or later and the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later. Source: sources.debian.org/src/ffmpeg and sources.debian.org/src/chromaprint.
• Python (PSF License), Flask (BSD 3-Clause), Waitress (ZPL 2.1), and tinytag (MIT), which reads the tags and covers of music files.
• Debian system packages, each under the license in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright inside the image.

Notices and license text for the app are in the app under Player licenses in Settings. The app's libraries are dynamically linked. You may request a copy of the corresponding source code at no charge by emailing a.svitelskyi@gmail.com.

Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under those licenses, including modifying these libraries and reverse engineering to debug such changes.

9. Acceptable use

Use Lumière only for lawful, personal purposes. You must not:

• use it to access, copy, or share content without the necessary rights, or to get around copy protection or access controls;
• connect to servers or accounts you are not allowed to use;
• copy, resell, or reverse engineer the proprietary parts of the app, except where the law or an open source license allows it;
• use it, or the website, to break any law or to harm others or their systems.

We do not host media, so we cannot remove files from your server or anyone else's. This includes every Lumière Server, because each one runs on its owner's own machine. Send copyright complaints about hosted files to the operator of that server. For questions about the app or website, email a.svitelskyi@gmail.com.

10. Availability and changes

We may change, suspend, or stop features, the app, Lumière Server, or the website, for example when Apple platforms or media servers change. Formats, picture, and sound depend on your device, audio system, network, server, and files, so features such as 4K, HDR, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos are not available in every case. Audio Presets other than Default process the sound on your device, so Dolby audio then plays as multichannel sound without Dolby Atmos.

We may update these Terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. If you keep using Lumière after an update, the new Terms apply, unless the law requires something different. If a change is significant, we will try to give notice in the app or on this website.

You can stop using Lumière at any time by deleting it. Your right to use it ends if you seriously break these Terms.

11. Warranties and liability

To the extent the law allows, the app, Lumière Server, and the website are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not promise uninterrupted or error-free playback, or compatibility with every file, device, or server.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data, lost or deleted files, lost profits, or the content you access. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of what you paid for Lumière Plus in the previous 12 months and US$50.

Some countries do not allow these limits. Nothing here excludes liability or rights that cannot be excluded by law, including mandatory consumer rights and liability for death, personal injury, fraud, or gross negligence.

12. Apple

This section applies to the app. These Terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app, its content, maintenance, support, or any claims about it, including product, legal compliance, consumer protection, or intellectual property claims. Where the app fails to meet an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple for a refund of the purchase price, if any. Apple has no other warranty obligation, to the extent the law allows.

Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you. You confirm you are not in a country under a US government embargo and are not on a US government list of restricted parties.

13. Governing law and contact

For the app, the governing law clause in Apple's agreement applies. For the website and Lumière Server, the law of the country where the developer is established applies. Either way, you keep the mandatory consumer rights and access to the courts of the country where you live.

If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Questions: a.svitelskyi@gmail.com.