Last updated: August 26, 2026
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Inkwell doesn't claim ownership of your writing. We process it only to provide the features and safeguards you choose.
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The summary above is for convenience — the full text below is what governs.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Ink Inc. Creative Group, doing business as Inkwell ("Inkwell," "we," "us," or "our"), governing your access to and use of Inkwell, Plot, Canvas, our marketing site, AI-assisted writing features, collaboration tools, exports, APIs, previews, and related services (collectively, the "Services"). By accessing or using the Services, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
If you use the Services on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Services.
Some customers may have an order form, enterprise agreement, data processing addendum, security addendum, beta agreement, or other written agreement with Inkwell. If those agreements conflict with these Terms, the more specific written agreement controls for the covered workspace or feature. These Terms continue to apply to anything not addressed by the specific agreement.
You must be at least 13 years old to use Inkwell. If the law where you live requires a higher age to consent to online services, you must meet that higher age or use the Services only with consent from a parent or legal guardian.
You are responsible for keeping account credentials secure, maintaining accurate account information, and all activity under your account. Notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorized access. We may require additional verification for sensitive changes, billing actions, or privacy requests. You may not share login credentials, create accounts by automated means, or maintain more than one free account to evade usage, billing, or abuse controls.
You retain ownership of the screenplays, documents, notes, prompts, comments, uploaded files, project metadata, and other content you submit to the Services ("User Content"). Inkwell does not claim ownership of your work.
To provide the features you choose, you give Inkwell a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, display, process, back up, and create technical derivatives of User Content solely as needed to operate, secure, maintain, and support the Services; follow your instructions and sharing settings; comply with law; and enforce these Terms. We may sublicense those rights to service providers and collaborators only to the extent needed for those purposes. This license does not authorize Inkwell to use User Content—including content shared with collaborators or through a non-public share link—to develop, train, or improve foundation models, model datasets, or benchmarking corpora. This license ends when the content is deleted from our active systems, subject to reasonable backup, legal, security, fraud-prevention, and archival retention.
You represent that you have the rights needed to submit User Content and use it with the Services. You are responsible for releases, guild or employment obligations, source material rights, third-party rights, and any approvals needed for your projects. To the extent permitted by law, you waive against Inkwell any moral-rights or similar claims that would prevent us from operating the Services as described in these Terms; this waiver does not transfer ownership of your work.
We use reasonable safeguards designed to protect non-public User Content and limit its disclosure to what is permitted by these Terms, the Privacy Policy, an applicable written agreement, your product settings or instructions, or law. Confidentiality obligations do not apply to information that becomes public without our breach, was already lawfully known to us without restriction, is independently developed without use of your confidential information, or is lawfully received from another source without a confidentiality duty. These Terms do not create a fiduciary relationship. You are responsible for deciding which collaborators, reviewers, integrations, and export destinations may access confidential material.
Inkwell includes AI-assisted features that may analyze project context, respond to prompts, propose edits, summarize feedback, or run skills. You control whether to accept, reject, revise, export, or publish AI-assisted output.
As between you and Inkwell, and to the extent permitted by law, your prompts, selected context, and AI-assisted outputs are User Content. Inkwell does not claim ownership of them. This does not guarantee that an output is protected by copyright or other law, that you exclusively own it, or that similar output will not be generated for someone else. Rights in your human-authored contributions are not reduced by this section.
When Inkwell supplies the model connection ("Bundled AI"), we do not use or permit model providers acting for Inkwell to use User Content to train their foundation models unless you explicitly opt in to a clearly described program. This includes content shared with collaborators or through a non-public share link. When you connect your own provider account or API key ("Bring Your Own Key" or "BYOK"), requests are sent under your provider relationship; that provider's terms, settings, retention, and data-use rules govern its processing. Inkwell does not control or make promises for a provider acting under your own account.
AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, offensive, biased, non-unique, outdated, or similar to output generated for other users. AI features may hallucinate facts, invent citations, or propose text that resembles existing works. You are responsible for reviewing output before relying on it, confirming factual claims, clearing rights, and deciding how to credit or disclose AI assistance when contracts, guild rules, contest rules, platform policies, or law require it. The Services are not legal, financial, medical, or professional advice. Without limiting the disclaimers below, Inkwell does not warrant that AI output is original, non-infringing, fit for submission to a studio, guild, contest, marketplace, or school, or free of third-party rights.
You may not use AI features to generate or distribute unlawful content, impersonate people without proper disclosure, evade safety systems, create deceptive evidence of authorship, or violate the rights or policies of studios, guilds, schools, employers, marketplaces, contests, distributors, or other platforms that apply to your work. Where AI features call third-party model providers, your use must also comply with those providers' acceptable-use and content policies as applied through the Services.
You are responsible for the collaborators, reviewers, viewers, share links, permissions, comments, and exports you create or invite. Anyone with access to a project, export, or share link may be able to view, copy, download, comment on, or otherwise use the content according to the permissions you set and the technical limits of the sharing surface.
Organization and workspace owners may manage users, roles, billing, security settings, and workspace content. If you join an organization workspace, your use may also be subject to that organization's policies and administrator controls. We may treat instructions from a workspace administrator as authorized for that workspace, including access changes, retention settings, and content export or deletion.
You are responsible for maintaining independent copies of important work, especially before relying on beta features, destructive edits, imports, exports, or third-party integrations. We provide export and deletion tools where available, but we are not a substitute for your own professional backup workflow.
If we provide APIs, automation hooks, or integration credentials, you must protect tokens, respect rate limits, avoid bulk extraction that burdens the Services, and use exported data in compliance with law, third-party rights, and workspace permissions.
You agree not to misuse the Services, including by:
We may investigate, preserve evidence, remove or restrict content, limit features, and suspend or terminate access if we reasonably believe an account violates these Terms, creates security, legal, operational, or reputational risk, or exposes Inkwell or others to liability. We may cooperate with lawful investigations and disclose information as described in the Privacy Policy. We are not obligated to monitor all content, pre-screen output, provide an appeal except where law requires one, or act consistently across factually different cases. A decision not to act in one case is not a waiver of our right to act later.
You may not use the Services if you are barred under applicable sanctions, export-control, or trade-control laws, or if your use would cause Inkwell or its providers to violate those laws. You may not export, re-export, or transfer the Services or related technology except as authorized by applicable law.
Paid plans are billed in advance on the cadence shown at checkout. You authorize Inkwell and our payment processor to charge applicable fees, taxes, and overages to your selected payment method. You must keep billing information accurate and promptly resolve failed payments.
Plans may include limits on seats, projects, storage, AI usage, exports, collaboration, or other resources. We may enforce those limits technically. If overage billing is available, you will see the applicable terms before opting in. Unless required by law or stated otherwise at checkout, fees are non-refundable and cancellations stop future renewals at the end of the current billing period; deleting an account does not itself cancel charges already incurred.
We may change pricing or plan features prospectively with reasonable notice. Price changes for existing subscriptions take effect at renewal unless the notice says otherwise.
If you initiate a payment dispute or chargeback, we may suspend access while the dispute is pending and may permanently cancel the subscription if the dispute is lost or we reasonably determine the dispute was improper. Nothing in this section limits rights you may have under mandatory consumer-protection law.
We aim to keep the Services reliable, but unless a separate written agreement states otherwise, the Services are provided without a service-level agreement, uptime commitment, or credits for downtime, maintenance, or third-party outages.
We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue features as the product evolves. We will try to provide reasonable notice before materially reducing core paid functionality, but some changes may be necessary without advance notice for security, reliability, legal, or abuse prevention reasons.
Preview, beta, experimental, or early-access features are provided for evaluation and may be incomplete, changed, rate-limited, or discontinued at any time. Beta features may contain bugs, data-loss risks, or incomplete access controls. Do not rely on beta features for production-critical workflows without independent backups. Beta features are provided "as is" with no warranty or support commitment beyond what we expressly state for that preview.
The Services may interoperate with third-party AI providers, payment processors, hosting platforms, analytics tools, export formats, import sources, and integrations. Third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. Inkwell is not responsible for third-party services outside our control. Enabling an integration, provider account, or BYOK connection that you control may transmit User Content to that third party under your direction; you are responsible for the account, settings, permissions, charges, and terms that apply to that relationship.
Inkwell and its licensors own the Services, including software, design systems, interfaces, workflows, documentation, trademarks, logos, and other materials, excluding your User Content. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-exclusive right to use the Services for your personal or internal business writing workflows. No rights are granted by implication except as expressly stated.
If you send us suggestions, ideas, bug reports, or product feedback, you grant Inkwell a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use that feedback without restriction or compensation. Feedback does not include your private project content.
If you believe content hosted in the Services infringes your copyright or other intellectual-property rights, send a notice to legal@inkwell.software with: (1) identification of the protected work; (2) identification of the allegedly infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to locate it; (3) your contact information; (4) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the rights holder, its agent, or law; (5) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act; and (6) your physical or electronic signature. Notices that omit required information may be ineffective.
If your content was restricted because of a copyright notice and you believe that happened through mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address identifying the material and its prior location, stating under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed or disabled through mistake or misidentification, and providing your name, contact information, signature, consent to the jurisdiction required by applicable law, and agreement to accept service of process from the notifying party. We may provide the counter-notice to the claimant and restore material when permitted by law. We may terminate accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances and may restrict content while a dispute is pending. False or abusive notices may create liability.
You may stop using the Services at any time and may cancel your subscription through the available account or billing controls. We may suspend or terminate access, remove or disable content, or refuse transactions if you breach these Terms, fail to pay, create security or legal risk, or use the Services in a way that could harm Inkwell, other users, or third parties. Where reasonably practicable, we may give notice and an opportunity to cure, but we are not required to do so before acting for fraud, abuse, security, legal process, emergency risk, or repeated violations.
Upon termination, your right to use the Services ends. Canceling a paid subscription ends paid access at the end of the current billing period as described under "Subscriptions, billing, and usage limits," but does not by itself delete your account or User Content — export any work you need while your account remains open.
If you delete your account from account settings (or we delete it under the inactivity policy), the deletion workflow begins immediately and is designed to remove active copies of your account data and User Content promptly. Deletion is permanent and may not be reversible. Export your User Content before you delete; once deletion completes, export tools are no longer available. Residual copies in encrypted backups are scheduled to age out within 30 days after active copies are removed, and billing, legal, security, and fraud-prevention records may be retained as described in the Privacy Policy.
Sections that by their nature should survive will survive, including content ownership, payment obligations, confidentiality, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnity, dispute terms, and interpretation provisions.
If you have a free account and do not use the Services for an extended period, we may delete your account and its content so that we do not keep your personal data longer than needed. This applies only to free, non-paying accounts: as long as you have a paid subscription or another active billing relationship with Inkwell — including an unspent prepaid credit balance or an active auto-refill arrangement — your account is not subject to inactivity deletion. If you previously paid but no longer have an active billing relationship — for example, your subscription was cancelled, ended after failed payments, or you moved back to the free tier — your account counts as a free account from that point on and this policy applies to it, with the inactivity period running from your most recent activity.
Your account counts as active whenever you sign in or use the Services while signed in. Managing your subscription, including cancelling a paid plan, also counts as activity. If a free account stays inactive for 18 months, it becomes eligible for deletion.
Before deleting an inactive account, we will email the account's address at least three times over a notice period of at least 60 days. Each notice tells you the scheduled deletion date, how to keep your account, and how to download your data. Signing in at any time before the deletion date keeps your account and restarts the inactivity clock. You can also export your data at any time from account settings.
If warning emails cannot be sent for reasons on our side — for example, a problem with our email systems — we will pause the deletion for manual review rather than delete an account we could not warn. A manual review does not mean the account will be kept. If we cannot deliver warnings to the contact methods you provided — for example, because your email address no longer accepts mail — notice is considered given: you are responsible for keeping your contact information current, and the deletion may proceed on the scheduled date.
Deletion for inactivity is permanent. Once an inactive account is deleted, it cannot be restored, and deleted content cannot be recovered. The deletion workflow begins immediately and is designed to remove active copies promptly; residual copies in encrypted backups are scheduled to age out within 30 days, unless a legal hold or security obligation requires longer retention.
The Services are provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law, Inkwell disclaims warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, uninterrupted operation, error-free operation, and that content or AI output will be accurate, unique, original, copyrightable, secure, non-infringing, or suitable for your intended use. AI features are probabilistic tools; they do not replace professional judgment, rights clearance, or human-authorship review. Treating an output as User Content is not a warranty that protectable or exclusive rights in it exist.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Inkwell will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenues, goodwill, data, content, opportunities, or business interruption, including damages arising from reliance on AI output, similarity of outputs across users, model provider outages, or third-party integrations.
Except as stated below, Inkwell's aggregate liability for claims relating to the Services will not exceed the greater of amounts you paid to Inkwell for the Services in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or 100 USD. The exclusions and caps in this section apply whether the claim is based on contract, tort, statute, or any other theory, even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, gross negligence, or willful misconduct where such limitation is prohibited. If you are a consumer in a jurisdiction that grants mandatory protections, those protections apply to the extent required.
You will indemnify and hold harmless Inkwell and its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents from claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your User Content, your use of the Services, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of law or third-party rights. We will provide prompt notice of a covered claim, allow you to control the defense where permitted and commercially reasonable, and reasonably cooperate at your expense. You may not settle a claim that imposes an obligation on Inkwell or admits fault by Inkwell without our prior written consent.
Unauthorized use of the Services, disclosure of confidential User Content under our control, or infringement of Inkwell's intellectual property may cause irreparable harm for which monetary damages are inadequate. Inkwell may seek injunctive or other equitable relief without posting a bond beyond what a court requires, in addition to other remedies.
We may update these Terms from time to time. Revised Terms take effect when posted unless they state a later date. Where applicable law requires additional notice or consent, we will provide it. Your continued use of the Services after revised Terms take effect means you accept them. A dispute arising before an update remains governed by the Terms in effect when the events giving rise to it occurred. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Services and may cancel any paid subscription under the billing terms above.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction where Inkwell is organized, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, unless applicable consumer law requires otherwise. Before filing a claim, you agree to contact us at legal@inkwell.software and try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days. If we cannot resolve it, claims will be brought in the courts with jurisdiction over Inkwell, unless a different forum is required by applicable law or a separate written agreement. Either party may still seek temporary or injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property, confidential information, or account security.
You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets. We are not responsible for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including internet or cloud-provider outages, labor disputes, natural disasters, war, terrorism, epidemics, government actions, or failures of third-party AI providers. If any provision is unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the remaining provisions remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. Headings are for convenience only. Except as expressly stated, these Terms create no third-party beneficiary rights. Notices and transactions may be provided electronically. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any applicable written agreement, are the entire agreement for your use of the Services and supersede prior or contemporaneous agreements on the same subject.
Questions about these Terms? Contact us at legal@inkwell.software, or by mail at Ink Inc. Creative Group d/b/a Inkwell, 54 State Street, Ste 804 #347, Albany, New York 12207 US.
