Terms of Service
Last updated: 2026-10-08. Version 2026-10-08. Draft — pending final legal review before public launch.
1. Acceptance
By creating an account or using Scribegrove (the "Service"), you agree to these Terms of Service. If you don't agree, don't use the Service. Account creation requires an explicit acknowledgment of these Terms; this acknowledgment, with the version of these Terms current at that time, is logged on your account.
2. Your content is yours
You retain 100% copyright and ownership of all content you create using Scribegrove — manuscripts, character profiles, world notes, outlines, generated text you accept and edit, generated images you commission and save. We claim no ownership of your work, ever.
To provide the Service, you grant us a limited license to process your content as needed for storage, sync, AI inference (subscription tiers only), and publishing artifact generation. This license is purely operational — we do not use your content to train AI models, sell it to third parties, or share it with anyone except as you direct.
3. Account responsibility
You're responsible for keeping your account credentials secure. If you lose your password, use the standard email-based password reset — no recovery code required. Your encrypted library remains intact through a password reset.
4. Free account, top-ups & subscription
Free account. Every new account receives a one-time grant of1,000,000 AI tokens at sign-up, plus a recurring free allowance of150,000 AI tokens every month. No credit card is required to create an account or to use the free allowance. The sign-up grant is issued once per account and does not refill; the monthly allowance refills each month. Unused monthly tokens carry over at 25% into the next month, are spent first, and expire at the end of that month. When your available free tokens are spent, AI generation pauses until the next monthly allowance or until you make a purchase. Your account, books, notes and manuscripts remain accessible and editable; nothing is deleted.
Top-ups. Token packs are one-time purchases with no recurring charge and no subscription requirement. Purchased tokens never expire. You may use top-ups indefinitely as your only form of payment — a subscription is never required.
Subscriptions. The Writer plan is the subscription: $14.99 per month, billed monthly in advance, cancel any time. It includes a monthly allowance of3,000,000 weighted AI tokens with exports and publishing submissions free, as described at scribegrove.com/tiers. Unused plan tokens carry over at 25% into the next month, are spent first, and expire at the end of that month (the stockpile cap); token packs are unaffected. Cancellation ends the current billing cycle; access continues until the paid period ends.
5. Export policy
Taking finished material out of Scribegrove costs tokens: manuscript export via Publishing Studio (EPUB / PDF / ONIX) and publishing submissions are 25,000 weighted tokens each on pay as you go, and free on The Writer plan; generated images cost 20,000 tokens each; the library archive ZIP, reviewer downloads and share-link creation follow the same meter. Writing, outlining, editing, Grove's editorial reviews and reading on your devices all draw from your available tokens and are never gated behind a purchase.
First extraction. A book's first extraction requires one lifetime purchase — a $5 token top-up qualifies, so a subscription is never required. The Writer plan counts as the purchase: subscribers extract free. After that first purchase, extraction steps are priced per the schedule above.
Every manuscript export is logged on your account server-side, with a timestamp and export type. This log is the source of truth for refund eligibility (see Section 6). You can review your own export history at any time from your account dashboard.
6. Refund policy
- 30-day money-back guarantee on subscription tiers: if you cancel within 30 days of your first paid charge AND you have not exported any manuscripts via Publishing Studio or the encrypted-archive ZIP, you receive a full refund.
- Exporting your work ends the refund window. Once a manuscript export event has been logged on your account (any of: EPUB, PDF, ONIX, encrypted-archive ZIP, manuscript DOCX), the subscription value has been delivered and the subscription is non-refundable. This is a hard rule with no case-by-case exceptions for exports. The server-side export log is the source of truth.
- Top-up packs: refundable within 7 days IF unused. Tokens consumed are non-refundable. Purchased token packs do not expire — unused tokens stay in your account indefinitely.
7. AI cost meter (subscription)
The Writer plan includes a monthly allowance of 3,000,000 weighted AI tokens. Unused plan tokens carry over at 25% into the next month, are spent first, and expire at the end of that month. Exceeding your available tokens pauses AI features until the next monthly allowance or until you purchase a top-up pack (which never expire). A daily hard cost ceiling protects you from runaway loops.
8. Acceptable use
Don't use Scribegrove to generate or distribute illegal content. Don't use the Service for content that violates upstream provider policies — Spice 4-5 explicit content routes only through model paths that support it contractually. Attempts to circumvent the export gate (for example, by routing chargebacks through third-party channels after exporting your work) constitute a violation of these Terms.
9. Service availability
We target 99.5% uptime for the Service (AI proxy, sync, web app). Planned maintenance windows are announced in advance on the changelog page.
10. Termination
You can cancel anytime. We may terminate accounts that violate these Terms after notice. On termination, your encrypted library is retained per the Privacy Policy's deletion schedule so you can return or request deletion.
11. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Scribegrove is provided "as is" without warranty. We're not liable for indirect damages, lost profits, or data loss beyond the subscription cost paid in the past 12 months.
12. AI assistance & originality
Scribegrove is an authoring tool — not a publisher, and not a guarantor of originality. AI-assisted drafting can, in rare cases, produce text that resembles existing material. You are responsible for the originality of your final manuscript and for clearing any third-party material (quotations, song lyrics, trademarks) you choose to include.
Our optional originality check compares your manuscript against your own other chapters to flag passages duplicated near word-for-word. It does notcompare your work against published books, the web, or any external database, and it is not a plagiarism clearance. A clean result is not a guarantee of originality. We make no warranty that AI output is free of third-party material; see Section 11.
13. Changes
We may update these Terms with 30 days' notice via email and the changelog page. The version date at the top of this document is the effective version; continued use after that date constitutes acceptance.
14. Contact
Questions: hello@scribegrove.com