Sermon Content License Grant

This Content License Grant (“License”) is between the church that connects its sermons to Rewind (the “Church”) and Rewind (“we,” “us”). It is accepted by a Church administrator when the Church is set up, and it governs how we may use the Church's sermon content. It does not transfer any ownership.

Ownership stays with the Church

The Church (and its speakers, as applicable) retains all right, title, and interest in its sermons — the audio, video, transcripts, and any other materials it connects to Rewind (the “Content”). Nothing here assigns or transfers copyright. We claim no ownership of the Content.

The license you grant us

So that Rewind can operate the product for the Church, the Church grants us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, revocable license to do the following with the Church's Content, solely to provide and improve the service for that Church:

1. Copy and store the Content — where we need our own copy in order to process a sermon (a direct upload, a file imported from cloud storage such as Google Drive or OneDrive, or audio we retrieve for transcription), take that copy into our storage and keep it while the Church uses Rewind. Everything below is done to that copy, never to the Church's original, which we do not modify or delete. Where the Church connects a video, we may extract its audio track and keep that instead of the video file.
2. Transcribe the Content — obtain or generate a text transcript of each sermon (from captions or by transcribing the Church's audio), and store it.
3. Generate derivative materials from the Content using automated and AI systems — including overviews, devotionals, group guides, homiletic breakdowns, topic and scripture labels, search embeddings, and answers to questions grounded in the transcript.
4. Reproduce and redistribute excerpts of the Content — create and share short clips and quoted passages (with attribution to the Church) through the sharing features the Church chooses to enable, including publicly shareable links when the Church has made its archive public.

This license extends to our subprocessors only as needed to perform these functions (for example, sending audio to a transcription provider), and to no other purpose. Every provider that stores or processes the Church's Content is named in the subprocessor list in the Data Processing Addendum, which covers Content as well as congregant data.

What we will not do

We will not sell the Church's Content, license it to unrelated third parties, or use it to train our own models. The providers we send Content to for AI processing — Anthropic, OpenAI and Deepgram, named in the DPA — are used under terms that exclude training on what we send them, and where a provider offers that as a setting rather than a default, we select it. Not every host that touches Content is ours to choose: where a sermon plays from the Church's own media host, or its logo loads from the Church's own site, those terms are between the Church and that host. We will not present AI-generated derivatives as the official statement of the Church or its speakers; generated material is labeled as AI-assisted.

The Church's assurances

The Church represents that it holds (or has permission to grant) the rights needed to connect its Content to Rewind and to allow the uses above, including any rights held by guest speakers, music, or third-party media appearing in a sermon. The Church is responsible for the Content it connects.

Term, revocation, and deletion

This License lasts while the Church uses Rewind. The Church may revoke it by deleting its account/tenant; on deletion we stop the licensed uses and remove the Church's Content and derivatives from active systems (subject to routine backups that age out, and to records we must keep by law). Revocation does not affect copies of excerpts the Church itself publicly shared before revocation.

No warranty on generated material

AI-generated derivatives can be wrong or incomplete. They are provided “as-is” to support study and preparation, not as an authoritative account of what was preached.

Version content-license.v2 · Last updated 2026-08-04.