The agreement between you and Stage Company™. Version 1.9, last updated 29 October 2026.
Stage Company™ is a private workspace for running a theatre production. Use it for that. Only upload things you have the right to upload — scripts, scores and recordings are almost always licensed, and those licences are yours to hold, not ours. If you break that, the consequences are yours, not ours.
One word does double duty in theatre, so these terms fix it:
Stage Company™ is operated by Stage Company Pty Ltd, ACN 703 178 143, ABN 83 703 178 143, in New South Wales, Australia (“we”, “us”). These terms apply to every person who uses it, and to each production company that runs a production in it.
You accept them by ticking to agree: when you join a production, when you set up a production company, and when you are asked to agree to a new version (see Changes). Each time, we keep a record of the version you agreed to, its exact words, when, and for which production.
A person who sets up a production company in Stage Company™ agrees to these terms on its behalf as well as their own, and confirms they are authorised to do so; the production company is then bound by them.
A parent or guardian who holds a child's place agrees to these terms for themselves and, as far as the law allows, on the child's behalf, and is responsible for how the child's place is used. If you are under 18 and hold an account of your own, please read these terms with a parent or guardian.
You keep ownership of everything you upload or write. You give us only the permission we need to run the service: to store, copy, display and transmit your content to the members of your own production, and to make the backups and derived files the app needs (thumbnails, watermarked previews, exports).
When you upload anything, you promise us that:
Consent given at sign-up. When a member joins a production they agree that photos, video and audio taken during it may be used for that production's purposes — rehearsal records, production archives and promoting the show — by your production company. For a member under 18, the parent or guardian who operates the account gives that agreement on the child's behalf when they join. That consent is recorded against the membership, and it covers your production company's own records as well as what appears inside the app.
It is not open-ended. It is limited to that production's purposes, it does not extend to selling images or licensing them to anyone else, and it can be withdrawn: a member — or a parent for their child — can ask the production team to take a particular image down, and we ask production companies to honour that. Consent given here is not a substitute for any separate release your venue, photographer or funding body requires.
Licensed performance material. Scripts, scores, libretti, orchestrations, backing tracks and cast recordings are normally licensed on terms that restrict copying and distribution — often including digital copies. Many perusal and hire materials forbid duplication outright. Holding the right licence, reading its terms, and deciding what may be uploaded is your production company's responsibility. Stage Company™ does not grant, replace, extend or police performance or reproduction rights, and uploading something here is not evidence that you are licensed to do so.
Stage Company™ — its software and code, design, screens, artwork, animations and words, and its name and logo — belongs to Stage Company Pty Ltd and is protected by copyright and trade mark law. You and your production company may use it to run your productions while these terms give you access. Nothing else passes to you.
You must not, or help anyone else to:
Doing any of these breaks these terms, and may also infringe our copyright or trade mark. We may end access straight away, and take legal action — including asking a court to stop it, and seeking damages and our legal costs.
Developing a product of your own independently, without using Stage Company™ or anything shown to you under an early access key, is not a breach of these terms.
Your ideas. If you send us an idea or suggestion about Stage Company™, you give us a free, permanent, worldwide and non-exclusive licence to use it, in Stage Company™ and in anything else we make, without owing you anything, and we may pass that licence on to anyone who takes over Stage Company™. You keep any rights you had in it. This covers what you suggest to us, not your content: a production's scripts, notes, designs and other material stay as Your content describes.
Early access. What we show you under an early access key that has not yet been released — its features, screens, designs and plans, and anything else marked confidential or confidential by its nature — is confidential until we release it to the public, including after you leave the production or the organisation that gave you access. Keep it to yourself and the others who have access to it; putting it into an outside artificial intelligence service counts as sharing it. This does not cover anything that is public other than through a breach of these terms, that you knew before we showed it to you, or that you develop independently without using it. You may share it in confidence with your own legal or financial advisers and, where the law requires you to disclose it, you should tell us first if the law allows.
These limits are about Stage Company™ itself — your content stays yours. They don't take away anything the law lets you do that can't be excluded, or anything an open-source licence lets you do with the parts listed on our Open-source notices page.
If someone else makes a claim against us because of content uploaded to a production, or because these terms were broken, the one responsible covers our reasonable losses, costs and legal fees from that claim (this is called an indemnity), to the extent the content or the breach caused them:
The indemnity does not cover any loss to the extent we caused or contributed to it. When a claim is made, we will tell the one responsible promptly, take reasonable steps to keep the loss down, let them take part in the defence, and not settle the claim at their cost without their agreement, which they must not unreasonably withhold.
This does not limit any rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded.
If you believe something in Stage Company™ infringes your copyright or other rights, tell us and we will act promptly. Email copyright@stagecompany.app with:
On a complete notice we will remove or disable access to the material promptly, tell the production that uploaded it, and give them a right of reply. Productions that repeatedly infringe will have their access ended. We keep a record of notices and what we did about them.
Don't use Stage Company™ to harass anyone, to store material unrelated to running a production, to attempt to reach another production's data, to probe or interfere with the service, or to break the law. Do not upload anything unlawful, or anything sexual or abusive involving a minor. We may suspend or end access where these terms are broken, and we will report conduct we are legally required to report.
Production teams control who joins their production and what roles they hold. How members treat each other inside a production is a matter for that company. A member may report a chat message or a Library item: a report goes to the production's owners and, where it concerns a risk to a child or sexual material involving a child, to us as well, and it always carries the name of the member who made it. Tell us if anything else needs our attention.
How we handle personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. In short: sensitive fields are encrypted, productions can export their records at any time, and you can delete your own account whenever you like, once any production or company only you can look after has been handed on or closed.
Stage Company™ is provided as it is. We work to keep it available and to keep your data safe, but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and it is not a substitute for your own records. Take your own exports of anything you cannot afford to lose — the app offers them, and an owner closing a production is prompted to take one first.
To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for anything arising out of Stage Company™ is limited to the greater of A$100 and the amount you have paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim. Where the Australian Consumer Law allows us to limit our liability for a failure to meet a consumer guarantee, it is limited to supplying the service again or paying the cost of having it supplied again. These limits do not apply to loss caused by our fraud or wilful misconduct, and nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including under the Australian Consumer Law.
Who pays. Plans are paid for by your production company, never by the people in its productions. They are sold by the operator named above. Every price is in Australian dollars, wherever your production company is based; for a production company in Australia, prices include GST. Every payment comes with a tax invoice.
The free fortnight. A company's first fortnight is free on the plan it chooses, Community or Pro. Choosing a plan takes a card, and nothing is charged before the fortnight ends. The first charge is taken when it ends or, for a plan chosen in the fortnight's last two days, two days after it is chosen, so that the owners' notice always comes first: we email the company's owners two days before the first charge, and if the plan is cancelled through Manage billing on the Account page before then, nothing is charged at all. The Account page shows the exact date and time of the first charge. The fortnight starts when the company's first production is set up. There is one free fortnight per person founding companies: a second company they found shares the first one's, and once it has ended, a plan is charged from the day it's chosen. There is also one free fortnight per card: a card that has already started a free fortnight doesn't start another. Its plan isn't started and nothing is charged; you can start it paid from that day — the amount is shown before you confirm — or choose it with a card that hasn't had one.
What a plan covers. A plan (Community or Pro, monthly or annual) covers the company with two productions running at once. Each further production running at the same time requires an extra production on the plan, at the extra-production price on the price sheet. On a monthly plan it is charged from the day it starts (or, inside the free fortnight, from the first charge), on the next invoice. On an annual plan the billing holder chooses either the remainder of the plan year, up to its renewal date, calculated by the day and charged when the production starts or is resumed (or, inside the free fortnight, a full year's extra-production price, charged with the first payment); or the monthly extra-production price, from the next invoice (or, inside the free fortnight, from the first charge). When a production is paused or archived, its extra production is removed from the next invoice. Amounts already paid are not refunded or credited: the extra production paid for remains available until the end of the period it was paid for, and a production started or resumed in that period uses it at no further charge. A paused production is locked until it is resumed: its rooms cannot be opened, and its records are kept unchanged in the meantime. Archived productions stay readable at no charge.
Paying and renewing. Cards are taken by our payment processor, Stripe; we never see or store card numbers. A plan is paid in advance. Its first payment is taken as The free fortnight describes or, where no free fortnight is running when the plan is chosen, on the day it is chosen. It renews automatically at the end of each month or year until it is cancelled.
Switching plans. A switch between Community and Pro, or between monthly and annual, happens straight away. The difference is charged to the card that day — or, when the new plan costs less, comes off the next invoices — and the exact amount is shown before you confirm. If the payment doesn't go through, nothing changes. Inside the free fortnight nothing is charged: the new plan's price is the first charge.
If a payment fails. We try the card once more three days later. While a payment is owed, the company's productions are locked: nothing is deleted, the owners can still take their records home, and everything reopens as soon as the payment goes through. If it's still owed 30 days after the first failed attempt, the plan ends and the unpaid amount is cancelled. Nothing is deleted, and choosing a plan again reopens everything.
Cancelling and refunds. The billing holder can cancel at any time through Manage billing on the Account page, which opens Stripe's secure page. The plan runs to the end of the period already paid for, then stops; the unused part of a period is not refunded. Nothing in these terms limits your rights under the Australian Consumer Law, including to a refund for a major failure.
Price changes. We give at least 30 days' notice by email before a price changes. A change never applies mid-term: it takes effect at your next renewal after the notice.
Education pricing. Education pricing is for productions run by a registered school, for its students. It is switched on from the Account page, by the billing holder of a company set up as a school, with the school's name and a school email address, and switching it on confirms the company qualifies. An Australian school may add its ABN for its tax invoices. We may ask for evidence that a company is a school, and switch education pricing off where it doesn't apply.
When the payer leaves. The card belongs to a person; the plan belongs to the company. If the owner whose card pays hands the company on or deletes their account, their card is not charged again: the plan ends at the close of the period already paid for, unless the next billing holder — the longest-standing of the remaining owners — puts their own card on first.
You may stop using Stage Company™ at any time and delete your account from your Account page, once any production or company only you can look after has been handed on or closed. If your card pays for a plan, deleting your account ends that plan at the close of the period you have paid for. Your production company may close its production, which removes it for everyone in it; its plan keeps running until it is cancelled through Manage billing on the Account page. We may end access where these terms are seriously or repeatedly broken, and we will tell you why unless the law prevents it.
What continues after you leave. Some of these terms continue to bind you after you stop using Stage Company™, however that happens: when you leave or are removed from a production, leave your production company or organisation, lose access, or delete your account. They are What belongs to us, including keeping confidential anything shown under an early access key and the licence for your ideas; the promises you gave about your content; If a claim is made; and Governing law. We may enforce them after that time as we could before it.
We may update these terms. When we make a material change, the version number above changes, you are shown what has changed in the app and asked to agree to the new version, and the owners of each production company are also told by email. You may put the question off for up to 14 days after the new version is published; in that time, your use continues under the version you last agreed to. After that, you need to agree to the new version to keep using Stage Company™. If you do not agree, you can stop using it and delete your account, and a billing holder can cancel the plan, which runs to the end of the period already paid for. A change never applies to anything that happened before it took effect. Prices change only as Price changes describes.
These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and the courts of New South Wales have jurisdiction.
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Safety concerns: safety@stagecompany.app