Terms of Service

Who we are

VerseFlame is operated by Taylor Weisbeck, operating as VerseFlame, a sole proprietor based in Alberta, Canada. In these terms, “VerseFlame”, “we” and “us” mean Taylor Weisbeck, operating as VerseFlame. “You” means the church or ministry that holds the account, and anyone using it on the church’s behalf.

Accepting these terms

By creating an account or using VerseFlame, you agree to these terms. If you’re setting up VerseFlame for your church, you confirm you’re allowed to do so on its behalf.

What VerseFlame is

VerseFlame is browser-based church-presentation software: voice-activated scripture, song lyrics, media, and output to your projector, livestream overlay, and stage displays — driven from one operator console.

Your free trial

Every new account starts with a 30-day free trial of the full product, for one campus. No credit card is required to start, and nothing is charged unless you choose a paid plan.

When the 30 days are up, the trial ends on its own — there is no card on file, so nothing is charged. For 7 more days everything keeps working as it did, so a trial that ends on a Saturday never takes your screens away on Sunday morning. After that, starting a new service needs a paid plan. A service already running is never cut off, and nothing you set up is deleted: choose a plan and you pick up where you left off.

Service availability

We work hard to keep VerseFlame running reliably, but at this stage we don’t offer a guaranteed uptime commitment. VerseFlame is designed so that a service already in progress isn’t interrupted by billing or account changes — but we can’t promise the service will always be available, and you should have a fallback for critical moments.

Your content and who owns it

Your church owns the content it puts into VerseFlame — your songs, plans, and media references. You’re responsible for having the rights to the lyrics and media you use, such as your church’s own CCLI or equivalent license. We keep each church’s content private to that church; we never pool or share one church’s copyrighted lyrics with another.

Bible translations built into VerseFlame

Several Bible translations ship inside VerseFlame itself. Some are in the public domain and some are provided under open licences granted by their translators. Where a translation carries its own licence, we pass that licence on to you unchanged, and we identify it below.Of all these texts we have changed only the file format, removing the source files’ markup and invisible formatting characters — we do not alter the words. Where an edition prints cross-reference notes or another numbering inside a verse (such as “(Isa. 40:11)” or “[32:1]”), a section heading, or a label naming who is speaking, we show the verse without them.

In the public domain:the King James Version, the World English Bible, the American Standard Version, Young’s Literal Translation, the Reina-Valera 1909 (Santa Biblia, Reina-Valera 1909), the Kulish–Pulyui Ukrainian translation of 1905, the Russian Synodal translation of 1876 (Синодальный перевод), the Lutherbibel 1912, the French Louis Segond 1910, the Italian Riveduta of 1927 (Giovanni Luzzi), and La Biblia en Español Sencillo, 2nd edition (2026), AudioBiblia.org / Irma Flores, which its publisher has placed in the public domain (source: eBible.org). These carry no conditions and we claim no rights in them.

Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0): the Brazilian Portuguese Bíblia Livre, Textus Receptus edition (February 2018), copyright © 2018 Diego Santos, Mario Sérgio, e Marco Teles; source: eBible.org. The licence is at creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. It lets anyone share and adapt the text for any purpose, as long as the translators are credited and any change is pointed out. Besides the file format, we have changed it in one way, removing material printed beside the words of scripture rather than the words themselves: in 160 New Testament verses its source file prints the Old Testament reference a quotation comes from (such as “Isaías 7:14” after Matthew 1:23), and we show those verses without it. This change is ours; the translators have not reviewed or endorsed it. Its copyright notice, with a note of this change, is shown wherever its text appears. Any further translation we add under this licence will be listed here by name.

Under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0): the Indian Revised Version (IRV) Hindi, copyright © 2017, 2018, 2019 Bridge Connectivity Solutions; and the Biblica® Open Hindi Contemporary Version™, copyright © 1978, 2009, 2016, 2019 by Biblica, Inc.; source for both: eBible.org; and the Chinese Union Version of 1919 (官話和合譯本), whose 1919 text is in the public domain, in the copy published by Wikisource (zh.wikisource.org, 聖經 (和合本)) and made by its contributors, which we use under this licence. The licence is at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. ShareAlike adds one condition to attribution: if you adapt the text, you must share your adaptation under the same licence. Besides the file format, we have changed the Indian Revised Version in three ways, all removing material printed beside the words of scripture rather than the words themselves: we show its verses without their cross-reference notes; without the section headings its source file places inside 29 verses (21 between the stanzas of Psalm 119, each with its stanza’s Hebrew letter; 7 in the Song of Songs; 1 in John 16); and without the 27 speaker labels its source file places inside 26 verses of the Song of Songs, naming who is speaking (the bride, the groom, her friends, the bride’s brother). These changes are ours; Bridge Connectivity Solutions has not reviewed or endorsed them. The Hindi Contemporary Version is unaltered apart from its file format. We show the Chinese Union Version without its small-print notes and without the psalms’ titles, with “細拉” (Selah), which it prints in small type, in brackets, and without the dots it prints beside words the translators supplied; these changes are ours, and Wikisource and its contributors have not reviewed or endorsed them. Each translation’s copyright notice is shown wherever its text appears. Any further translation we add under this licence will be listed here by name.

About trade marks.A Creative Commons licence grants copyright permissions only; it does not grant trade mark rights. Some Bible translations are published under names that are registered trade marks of their publishers. Where that is the case we do not claim, and cannot pass on, any right to use those names. “Biblica” is a trademark registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc., and is used with permission; we use it only in that translation’s copyright notice, as its publisher requires, and nothing in VerseFlame implies that Biblica endorses us.

Nothing in these terms limits what you or anyone else may do with any of these translations under their own licences. If these terms and a translation’s own licence ever disagree about what you may do with that translation, its licence governs. Modern translations that VerseFlame serves under its own commercial licences are a separate matter: those stay subject to their publishers’ terms, and each one’s copyright notice is shown with the verse wherever it appears.

Acceptable use

Please don’t use VerseFlame for anything unlawful, don’t try to break, overload, or gain unauthorized access to the service, and don’t upload content you don’t have the rights to use.

Billing and taxes

Paid plans are billed through Stripe. Prices are shown in US dollars, plus any sales tax that applies where your church is. If your church claims tax-exempt status, you confirm that the status and registration number you provide are accurate and that you’re responsible for that attestation.

Automatic renewal

A paid plan is a subscription. It renews automatically at the end of each billing period — every month on a monthly plan, every year on an annual plan — and the card on file is charged for the next period, until you cancel. The price of your subscription doesn’t change while it stays active.

If a payment doesn’t go through, we’ll let you know by email and your services keep running while you update your card. After 14days, settings pause until it’s sorted; if the payment still can’t be collected, the subscription ends as if you had cancelled it.

Cancelling

You can cancel at any time from Billing, with no fee. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period you’ve already paid for: you keep full use of VerseFlame until then, and you aren’t charged again. After your subscription ends, your services keep running for 30 more days with settings paused; after that, starting a new service needs a subscription. You can resubscribe at any time.

Refunds

Payments aren’t refundable, including for the unused part of a month or year after you cancel — cancelling stops the next charge instead. We will refund a charge we made in error, and any refund the law where you are requires. If you think you’ve been charged wrongly, email privacy@verseflame.com.

Your data after you leave

After an account lapses, we keep your church’s account data — songs, plans, settings and displays — until you ask us to delete it. Some things are deleted automatically on a schedule whether or not you cancel: for example, what people send from their phones during a session is deleted within 48 hours of it ending. The Privacy Policy lists each of these and explains how to request deletion of the rest.

Disclaimers

VerseFlame is provided “as is,” without warranties of any kind. To the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of the service.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of Alberta have jurisdiction over any dispute about them.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms and will change the “last updated” date above when we do. If a change affects what you pay or how your subscription renews, we’ll email your church’s account owner at least 30 days before it applies to you.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Email privacy@verseflame.com.