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Terms of Service

These terms are the agreement between you and Scriptopus for using scriptopus.com and app.scriptopus.com. They cover your account, your content, the AI features, and the responsibilities on both sides.

Last updated: 20 August 2026 · Applies during and after the beta
Your work is yours

You keep every right to what you write. We only get the narrow permission needed to run the service for you.

Beta software

Scriptopus is provided as-is while it grows. Features can change, break, or be removed.

Keep your own copies

Export and backup tools are built in. Your own exported copies are your safety net, so use them.

AI is a collaborator

AI suggestions are starting points, not guarantees. What you do with them, and clear, is up to you.

This summary is a convenience, not a substitute. The sections below are the agreement.

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Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Scriptopus ("Scriptopus", "we", "us") governing your access to and use of the websites at scriptopus.com and app.scriptopus.com, the Scriptopus desktop application, and every feature offered through them (together, the "Service").

By creating an account, or by accessing or using any part of the Service, you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into them. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of a company or another person, you confirm you have authority to bind them, and "you" includes them.

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Eligibility & your account

You must be at least 16 years old — and old enough to form a binding contract where you live — to use the Service. You may not use the Service if you have previously been suspended or removed from it.

  • Provide accurate registration information and keep it current.
  • Keep your password and any session on your devices confidential and secure.
  • You are responsible for all activity under your account, whether or not you authorized it, until you notify us of a compromise at hello@scriptopus.com.
  • Accounts are personal. Do not sell, transfer, or share an account.

We may refuse, reclaim, or disable any account name, and may decline registrations at our discretion (for example, while signups are closed during testing).

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The service & beta status

Scriptopus is a story-development and screenwriting workspace with AI-assisted features. It is currently offered as a beta: it is under active development and is provided so you can use it while it evolves.

What beta means

Features may be added, changed, capped, or removed at any time without notice. The Service may be interrupted, produce errors, or behave unexpectedly. Nothing in the Service — including any feature you rely on today — is guaranteed to remain available, free, or unchanged.

We may set and change usage limits (for example on AI generations, image creation, audio playback, storage, or file sizes) to keep the Service healthy and its costs sustainable. We are not obligated to provide support, updates, or any particular uptime.

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Fees

The Service is currently free to use during the beta, including its AI features. We may introduce paid plans, or move existing features into paid tiers, in the future. If we do, we will communicate the change before it takes effect, and nothing will silently start charging you. Free access during the beta does not create a right to free access later.

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Your content & our license

"Your Content" means everything you create, upload, or store in the Service: scripts, synopses, treatments, beats, notes, characters, uploaded files, images, and anything else that is yours.

Ownership

You retain all right, title, and interest in Your Content. These Terms do not transfer any ownership of your creative work to us, and we do not sell Your Content.

So that the Service can function, you grant Scriptopus a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, back up, transmit, process, display, and adapt Your Content solely as needed to operate, secure, maintain, and improve the Service for you — for example: syncing it between your devices, creating backups, rendering exports and PDFs, processing it through our infrastructure and AI providers when you invoke a feature, and delivering it to people you explicitly share it with. This license ends when you delete the relevant content or your account, except for (a) copies in routine backups for a limited period, and (b) content you shared with others that they have already received.

Your responsibility for Your Content

You represent and warrant that:

  • You own Your Content or have every right, license, and permission needed to use it in the Service and to grant the license above.
  • Your Content, and our processing of it as you direct, does not and will not infringe or misappropriate any third party's copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights, and does not violate any law or any confidentiality obligation you owe (for example under an option, shopping, collaboration, or work-for-hire agreement).

We do not review, verify, or endorse Your Content and have no obligation to do so, but we may remove or disable access to any content we reasonably believe violates these Terms or the law.

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AI features & outputs

Parts of the Service generate text, analysis, images, and audio using artificial-intelligence systems, including models operated by third-party providers ("Outputs"). Outputs are produced by automated systems from the material and instructions you provide.

To the extent we hold any rights in Outputs generated for you, we assign them to you. Your Content is not used to train AI models.

Understand what AI can and cannot promise

Outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, or misleading, and may resemble outputs generated for other users or material that exists elsewhere. AI-assisted analysis — scores, reports, notes, production estimates — is opinion-shaped software output, not professional, legal, financial, or industry advice. You are solely responsible for reviewing, editing, fact-checking, and rights-clearing any Output before you rely on it or publish it.

  • We make no promise that any Output is original, non-infringing, or protectable by copyright — the legal status of AI-assisted material varies by jurisdiction and continues to evolve.
  • You may not represent an Output as having been reviewed or endorsed by Scriptopus.
  • We may refuse, filter, or limit generations that violate law, these Terms, or the policies of the underlying providers.

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Acceptable use

Do not use the Service to:

  • violate any law, or infringe anyone's intellectual-property, privacy, or other rights;
  • upload or generate material that is unlawful, or that exploits or harms minors;
  • upload malware or anything designed to disrupt the Service or other users;
  • probe, scrape, crawl, or access the Service by any automated means, or interfere with its security or rate limits;
  • attempt to extract, discover, or reverse-engineer the Service's source code, prompts, configurations, or the identity or workings of its underlying model providers, except where law grants that right regardless of contract;
  • resell, sublicense, rent, or provide the Service to third parties as a service, or use it to build a competing product;
  • circumvent usage limits, share accounts to pool free usage, or misuse free access in a way that imposes unreasonable load or cost;
  • impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation.

We may investigate suspected violations and may suspend or terminate access (see Section 14) without prior notice where we reasonably believe it is necessary.

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Sharing & feedback features

The Service lets you share parts of a project with recipients you choose, who may view, comment on, or suggest edits to what you share — without needing their own account.

  • You control what you share and with whom. Sharing is at your own risk: once a recipient can view content, we cannot prevent them from copying or further distributing what they can see. Revoking access stops future viewing, not what already happened.
  • You are responsible for having the right to show shared material to your recipients.
  • Comments and suggested edits from your recipients are their statements, not ours. Suggestions never modify your work unless you accept them.
  • We may disable share links that are abused or that expose unlawful content.

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Data, backups & export: your safety net

Scriptopus stores your work locally on your device and mirrors it to our cloud, keeps automatic backups, and provides a version history. These mechanisms are provided as a convenience, not a guarantee.

Keep your own copies

No storage or sync system is immune to loss. Software defects, sync conflicts, infrastructure failures, account compromise, or beta-stage changes can result in data being lost or corrupted, and during the beta this risk is real. The Service gives you one-click exports (PDF, FDX, Fountain, Celtx) and full project backups (.zip). You are responsible for regularly exporting and keeping your own off-platform copies of anything you cannot afford to lose. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss of, damage to, or inability to access Your Content.

After an account is deleted — by you or under Section 14 — we may permanently delete its data and backups and have no obligation to retain or return them.

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Our intellectual property

The Service itself — its software, design, interface, text, graphics, logos, and the "Scriptopus" name and mark — is owned by Scriptopus or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service as intended by these Terms. No other rights are granted, by implication or otherwise. Templates, layouts, and design assets provided by the Service may be used in the materials you export, but not extracted for use outside the Service or to build a competing product.

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Suggestions you send us

If you send us ideas, feature requests, bug reports, or other feedback about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use it for any purpose without restriction or compensation. This covers feedback about the product — never Your Content itself.

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Third-party services

The Service is built on third-party infrastructure and AI-processing providers, and interoperates with third-party formats and tools. We choose our providers with care, but we do not control them: their availability, pricing, and policies can change, and a change on their side may affect or interrupt features on ours. Where you enable a third-party integration (for example, signing in with an identity provider), your use of that service is governed by its own terms.

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Suspension & termination

By you: stop using the Service at any time, and delete your account from account settings. Export what you want to keep first, because deletion is permanent.

By us: we may suspend or terminate your access, or any feature, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms or the law, if required by a provider, regulator, or court, to prevent harm to the Service or its users, or if we discontinue the Service or the beta in whole or in part. Where practical and lawful, we will aim to give you notice and a window to export your data before access ends — but we are not obligated to where a violation, risk, or legal requirement prevents it.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination do — including Sections 5 (representations), 9–11, and 15–20.

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Disclaimers

THE SERVICE, AND EVERYTHING PROVIDED THROUGH IT (INCLUDING ALL OUTPUTS, BACKUPS, EXPORTS, AND SHARED PAGES), IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied, or statutory — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that defects will be corrected; that any content or data will be preserved, accurate, or retrievable; or that the Service will meet your requirements. No advice or information obtained from us or through the Service creates any warranty not expressly stated here. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

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Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SCRIPTOPUS AND ITS OWNERS, OPERATORS, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS, AND PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA OR CONTENT, LOST PROFITS OR REVENUES, LOST BUSINESS OR CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES, LOSS OF GOODWILL, OR COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES — arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms, under any legal theory (contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise), even if we have been advised such damages were possible. This includes, without limitation, damages arising from loss or corruption of scripts or other work, reliance on any Output, unavailability of the Service, or unauthorized access to your account or content.

Our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) fifty (50) euros.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law — such as liability for willful misconduct or gross negligence, or mandatory consumer rights in your country of residence. In such cases, our liability is limited to the minimum extent the law allows.

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Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Scriptopus and its owners, operators, and contractors from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) Your Content, including any claim that it infringes or misappropriates a third party's rights; (b) your use of the Service or of any Output; (c) your violation of these Terms or of any law; or (d) content you shared and the actions of the recipients you shared it with. We may assume the exclusive defense of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate with us.

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Changes to the service or terms

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service or any part of it at any time. We may also revise these Terms as the product, law, or our business evolves. When we make material changes we will take reasonable steps to inform you — for example a notice in the app or an email — and the "Last updated" date above will change. Your continued use of the Service after revised Terms take effect constitutes acceptance of them. If you do not agree to a revision, stop using the Service and export your work.

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Governing law & disputes

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service, are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The courts and enforcement offices of Istanbul (Çağlayan) have exclusive jurisdiction, and each party consents to that venue.

If you use the Service as a consumer in a jurisdiction whose law grants you mandatory protections or a home venue that cannot be waived by contract, nothing in this section deprives you of them. Before starting any formal proceeding, please contact us at hello@scriptopus.com. Most issues can be resolved quickly and informally.

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General provisions

  • Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service, replacing any prior understanding.
  • Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and the rest remains in effect.
  • No waiver. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
  • Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of the Service, or to an affiliate.
  • Force majeure. We are not liable for failures or delays caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages of infrastructure or AI providers, natural disasters, war, labor disputes, or governmental action.
  • No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms create no rights for anyone other than you and us, except the protections extended to the parties listed in Sections 16–17.
  • Language. These Terms are drafted in English; any translation is provided for convenience and the English version prevails to the extent permitted by law.

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Contact

Questions about these Terms, copyright notices, or anything else: hello@scriptopus.com. We are a small team and we read everything.