Terms of Service

Account Creation

You must provide accurate, complete, and current information when creating an account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account.

Account Security

You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized access to or use of your account. We are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to protect your account information.

Account Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at any time for any reason, including violation of these Terms. You may cancel your account at any time through your account settings.

Your Content

You retain all ownership rights to the content you create, upload, or submit to Story Engine ("Your Content"). By using our service, you grant us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, store, and process Your Content solely to provide and improve our service.

AI-Generated Content

Content generated by our AI tools based on your inputs is provided to you under a license that allows you to use, modify, and distribute it. However, AI-generated content may not be unique, and similar content may be provided to other users based on similar inputs.

Our Intellectual Property

Story Engine and its original content, features, and functionality are owned by us and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. You may not use our trademarks, logos, or branding without our express written permission.

Content Responsibility

You are solely responsible for Your Content, for any content created with Story Engine that you choose to publish, send or use, and for any consequences of doing so. You represent that you have all necessary rights to Your Content and that it does not violate these Terms or any applicable laws.

Signed Consent Forms

When a person signs a consent form in Story Engine, we keep a copy of the signed form. We keep it even if the interview, the team, or an account is later deleted, so the person who signed can always get their copy. Signed consent forms cannot be edited or deleted. After a team is deleted, its former members can no longer view that team's signed forms in Story Engine.

Fees

Access to certain features of Story Engine requires payment of fees. All fees are stated in U.S. dollars and are non-refundable except as required by law or as expressly stated in these Terms.

Billing

For subscription services, you authorize us to charge your payment method on a recurring basis. Subscriptions automatically renew unless you cancel before the renewal date. We may change our fees with reasonable notice.

Cancellation

You may cancel your subscription at any time. Cancellation will be effective at the end of your current billing period. You will continue to have access to paid features until the end of the billing period.

Service Disclaimer

STORY ENGINE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR COMPLETELY SECURE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY CONTENT CREATED WITH THE SERVICE, INCLUDING AI-GENERATED CONTENT AND CONTENT REVIEWED OR EDITED BY OUR TEAM.

Review Before You Publish

Story Engine helps you create content. You decide what is published. You must review all content made with Story Engine before you publish, send or use it. This applies to content written or edited by AI, content that passed Story Engine's automated checks, and content reviewed or edited by the Story Engine team.

Content Can Be Wrong

AI-generated content can misstate facts, names, dates, numbers and quotes, or describe a person or organization inaccurately. Our automated checks and our human review service are aids. They do not guarantee that content is accurate, complete, lawful or right for your purpose.

Your Responsibility

You are solely responsible for:

• confirming that every fact, quote, name, number and claim is accurate and that you can support it;
• having the consent and the rights you need for every person, story, quote, photo, recording and other material you use;
• complying with the laws, regulations, platform rules and industry standards that apply to you, including those on advertising, endorsements and testimonials, fundraising and charitable solicitation, privacy and publicity, defamation and intellectual property; and
• deciding whether, where and how to publish.

Not Professional Advice

Story Engine does not provide legal, tax, financial, medical or other professional advice. No suggestion, check, flag or review in the service is a substitute for advice from a qualified professional.

Our Responsibility

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Story Engine is not liable for any claim, loss, penalty, cost or harm that results from content you publish, send or use, or from your decision to rely on content without reviewing it. This applies even if the content was generated by AI, passed our automated checks, or was reviewed or edited by our team.

Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, STORY ENGINE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUES, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY.

Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Where Disputes Are Heard

Any dispute arising from these Terms or your use of the service will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Indiana.