Last updated: July 2026
Your work stays yours
You own everything you write. We only store and process it to run the service.
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Paid plans bill in advance and stop when you cancel — access runs to period end.
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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 Inkwell 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 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.
You grant 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 provide, secure, maintain, improve, and support the Services; comply with law; and enforce these Terms. This license ends when the content is deleted from our active systems, except for reasonable backup, legal, security, 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.
We will treat non-public User Content as confidential and will not disclose it except as described in these Terms, the Privacy Policy, an applicable written agreement, your product settings, your instructions, or as required by law. You are responsible for deciding which collaborators, reviewers, integrations, and export destinations may access your 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, your prompts, selected context, and outputs are your User Content. We do not use private User Content to develop, train, or improve Inkwell models, third-party foundation models, model datasets, or benchmarking corpora unless you explicitly opt in to a clearly described program.
AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, offensive, non-unique, or similar to output generated for other users. 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.
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.
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.
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 and remove content or suspend access if we reasonably believe an account violates these Terms, creates risk, or exposes Inkwell or others to liability.
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 take effect at the end of the current billing period.
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.
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. Do not rely on beta features for production-critical workflows without independent backups.
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, but we choose vendors with attention to the privacy and security needs of creative work.
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.
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 in the Services infringes your rights, contact us with enough detail to identify the work, the allegedly infringing material, your contact information, and the basis for your claim. We may remove or restrict access to content and accounts as appropriate under applicable law.
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 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.
Upon termination, your right to use the Services ends. 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. Deleted data is removed from our live systems immediately; residual copies in encrypted backups age out within 30 days.
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, secure, or suitable for your intended use.
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. 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.
You will indemnify and hold harmless Inkwell and its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents from claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses 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 may update these Terms from time to time. If changes are material, we will provide reasonable notice, such as by posting the updated Terms, updating the date above, or sending an account notice. Your continued use of the Services after changes become effective means you accept the updated Terms.
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 and try to resolve the dispute informally. 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.
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. If any provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any applicable written agreement, are the entire agreement for your use of the Services.
Questions about these Terms? Contact us at legal@inkwell.software.
