Terms of use

Last updated 11 September 2026

Who you are dealing with

Dancy Ants is operated by Mohamad Ghazal, a sole trader based in Lebanon (“we”, “us”). Contact: hello@dancyants.com.

By making an account or using the service, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use Dancy Ants.

What Dancy Ants is

A browser-based instrument that turns music into visuals for a projector, TV or screen. There is a free tier and there are paid tiers. Nothing is installed on your machine unless you choose to.

Photosensitivity — read this one

Dancy Ants can produce rapid flashing, strobing and high-contrast patterns. In a small number of people, including those who have never had a seizure before, these can trigger photosensitive epileptic seizures.

If you are showing these visuals to other people — at a party, an event, a venue — that responsibility is yours. Warn your audience, give people a way to avoid the room, and go easy on the strobe. If anyone watching feels dizzy, disoriented, or notices altered vision or twitching, stop immediately and get medical advice.

Do not use Dancy Ants where the law requires a warning you have not given, or where flashing effects are prohibited.

Your account

• You need a working email address, and you must be at least 13.
• Keep your password to yourself. Anything done through your account is treated as done by you.
• One account per person. Paid licences limit how many machines can be signed in at once — one for Party, three for Commercial. You can free up a machine yourself from the Account panel.
• Tell us at hello@dancyants.com if you think someone else is using your account.

What you may not do

• Break the law with it, or use it to harass, threaten, or harm anyone.
• Show content you have no right to show, or infringe anyone's copyright or trademarks.
• Attack the service — attempt to break in, overload it, or get around its limits, security, or plan restrictions.
• Resell, sublicense or rebrand Dancy Ants as your own product.
• Scrape it, or use it to build a competing product.

We can suspend or close an account that does these things. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will explain why first.

Your work belongs to you

Everything you create — your saved looks, your settings, shaders you write, video you record — remains yours. We claim no ownership and no licence to use it, show it, or train anything on it.

We store your work only to provide the service: to sync it between your machines and to give it back to you. Delete it and it is gone.

Shaders you import

Dancy Ants can import shaders from sources like Shadertoy. Those are written by other people and carry their own licences. Making sure you have the right to use a shader — especially in a commercial setting — is your responsibility, not ours.

What we own

The Dancy Ants name, logo, the pixel ant, the built-in scenes, the software and the design of this site are ours. Using the service does not give you rights to any of it beyond using the product as intended.

Paying, and not paying

The free tier

Free means free. No card, no time limit, no trial that turns into a charge. Free output carries a Dancy Ants watermark; that watermark is how the free tier pays for itself.

Paid plans

Party and Commercial are one-time purchases. You pay once and the licence is yours — there is no renewal, no expiry, and nothing to cancel. Prices are shown on the site before you buy.

Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com Market Ltd, acting as merchant of record. Paddle takes the payment, issues your receipt, and handles any sales tax or VAT owed in your country — so the price you see at checkout is the price, whatever it is made of. We never see or store your card details.

Refunds

Because Paddle sells you the licence, Paddle handles refunds. Their refund policy applies in full, and you can ask for one at paddle.net or by writing to us and we will start it for you.

Digital licences are not refundable as a matter of course. Two things sit on top of that, and both of them favour you:

• Your statutory rights. Consumers in the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland have 14 days to withdraw from the purchase and be refunded in full. Shorter periods apply elsewhere — 7 days in Canada, Brazil, China and South Korea, 5 in Singapore. These rights come from your own country's law and override anything written here.
• If it is broken. If Dancy Ants does not do what this site says it does, and we cannot put it right, write to us and you will get your money back. No one should keep payment for something that does not work.

A refunded licence ends with the refund. Your account and everything you have made stay exactly where they are; the paid features and the unmarked output stop.

Stopping

There is no subscription to cancel, so there is nothing to remember and nothing to forget. If you want the account and everything in it deleted, ask and it is done — though use Back up everything first, which writes a file you keep.

Things we cannot promise

Dancy Ants runs in your browser and depends on your hardware, your browser's WebGL support, your microphone and your machine's speed. We cannot guarantee it will work perfectly on every device, or that it will never go down.

The service is provided “as is”. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose — including any specific paid gig you have booked.

If you are being paid to perform with this, have a backup. That is not a legal dodge; it is what any working VJ would tell you about any tool, ours included.

Limits on liability

To the maximum extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses — lost profit, lost bookings, lost data, or damage to reputation — arising from your use of Dancy Ants.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to what you paid for your licence. If you are on the free tier, that amount is zero.

Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not permit to be limited. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.

Ending things

You can stop using Dancy Ants and delete your account at any time. We can suspend or end an account that breaks these terms, or if we stop running the service.

If we ever shut Dancy Ants down, we will give account holders at least 30 days' notice and a way to export their work before anything is deleted.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. For changes that meaningfully affect you, we will email account holders rather than quietly editing this page. Carrying on using the service after a change means you accept it.

Law

These terms are governed by the laws of Lebanon, and its courts have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, this does not deprive you of the protections of your own country's law.

If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands.

Questions about any of this? Write to hello@dancyants.com — a person reads it.