Terms of Service

1. Agreement to These Terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and Story Notes LLC, a Utah limited liability company (“Story Notes,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), governing your use of the Story Notes website at storynotes.app and our screenplay analysis service (collectively, the “Service”).

By creating an account, uploading any material, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility

The Service is intended for adults aged 18 or older. By using it, you represent that you are at least 18 and have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms. The Service is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly permit anyone under 18 to use it.

3. Your Account

Sign-in uses a magic link delivered to your email. Because of this, control of your email is control of your account. You are responsible for the security of the email address associated with your account and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us promptly at [email protected] if you suspect unauthorized access.

You agree not to share your account, transfer it, or allow others to use it on your behalf. We may suspend or terminate your account as described in Section 14.

4. Your Content

“Your Content” means screenplays, text, and other material you upload to or submit through the Service. You retain all rights in Your Content. Uploading Your Content to the Service does not transfer ownership to us.

You grant Story Notes a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, transmit, display, and process Your Content solely to operate the Service and provide you with analysis, including by transmitting Your Content to the third-party service providers identified in Section 10 (for example, Anthropic for AI inference). This license terminates with respect to a piece of Your Content when you delete it or close your account, except for (a) de-identified or aggregate data that cannot reasonably be associated with you, and (b) retention required by law.

5. Your Representations About Your Content

Each time you upload material to the Service, you represent and warrant that:

• you are the author of the material, or you have all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to upload and process it through the Service;
• your material does not infringe or violate any third party’s rights, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, contract, or confidentiality rights;
• your material is not subject to any option, sale, license, non-disclosure agreement, or pending or threatened legal action that would restrict your right to submit it;
• your material does not contain content prohibited by Section 9.

These representations are the basis on which we accept your upload. You agree to indemnify Story Notes for breach of any of them (see Section 17).

6. AI-Generated Output

We process Your Content with AI (currently Anthropic’s commercial API) to generate analysis, feedback, scores, and related output (“AI Output”). To the extent AI Output is legally protectable, we assign to you all of our right, title, and interest, if any, in the AI Output. The qualifier “if any” reflects current U.S. Copyright Office guidance that purely AI-generated material may not be copyrightable absent meaningful human contribution.

AI Output may be similar to output other users receive on similar inputs. We make no guarantee of uniqueness, originality, or fitness for any particular purpose.

Important: AI Output is provided for informational purposes only. It is not, and is not intended as, (a) professional script coverage by an industry-standard reader, (b) legal, financial, business, or other professional advice, (c) representation by an agent, manager, attorney, or other professional, or (d) a guarantee of any artistic, commercial, or other outcome. AI systems can produce inaccurate, incomplete, or fabricated information. Treat AI Output as a craft tool and verify before relying on it.

7. No Training on Your Content

We do not use Your Content to train AI models. Our agreement with Anthropic prohibits Anthropic from using Your Content to train its models. We will not use Your Content to train, fine-tune, or improve any AI model, ours or anyone else’s, without your prior written consent.

8. Our Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, design, user interface, text, graphics, logos, marks, and trade dress, is owned by Story Notes LLC or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property and other laws. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal or internal business use.

You may not (a) copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the Service; (b) reverse engineer or attempt to extract source code; (c) use the Service or AI Output to develop, train, or improve a competing AI model or product; (d) scrape, crawl, or automate access to the Service except as expressly authorized; or (e) circumvent rate limits or any access controls.

9. Acceptable Use & Prohibited Content

You agree not to use the Service to:

• violate any law or third party’s rights;
• upload child sexual abuse material (we report such material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as required by 18 U.S.C. § 2258A);
• upload non-consensual intimate imagery;
• upload content that defames, harasses, or violates the privacy or publicity rights of any identifiable real person;
• upload material you are not authorized to submit (including material subject to confidentiality, NDA, or option/sale agreements);
• attempt to disrupt, overload, or compromise the security or integrity of the Service;
• misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or entity.

We may remove content that we reasonably believe violates this Section and may suspend or terminate accounts associated with violations.

10. Service Providers

We use the following providers to operate the Service. They process information only as necessary to deliver the Service and under our contractual terms:

• Anthropic — AI analysis (limited retention for trust & safety; not used for training)
• Stripe — payment processing
• Amazon Web Services (S3) — temporary encrypted file storage during analysis
• Vercel — application hosting and serverless compute
• Resend — transactional email delivery
• Upstash — job queue and short-lived performance caching

See our Privacy Policy for details. We may change providers consistent with our privacy commitments.

11. DMCA Notices & Repeat-Infringer Policy

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. § 512.

Designated Agent for DMCA Notices

Notice Requirements

To submit a notice under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), include all of the following:

• a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;
• identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed;
• identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material (e.g., URL);
• your contact information (address, telephone, email);
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (consistent with Lenz v. Universal Music, this should include consideration of fair use); and
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

Counter-Notice

If material you posted was removed and you believe the removal was in error, you may send a counter-notice meeting the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(g) to the address above. Counter-notices must include your consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the federal district in which your address is located (or, if outside the United States, where Story Notes is located).

Repeat-Infringer Policy

We terminate the accounts of users who are repeat infringers of copyright in appropriate circumstances.

12. Payment, Subscriptions & Refunds

Fees for paid features are stated at checkout and processed by Stripe; we do not store your full payment-card number.

Auto-Renewal (where applicable)

If you sign up for a recurring subscription, your subscription automatically renews at the stated price and frequency until you cancel. You may cancel at any time online through your account; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you retain access until then. We send a confirmation email after each charge that you can retain as an acknowledgment. We will give you advance notice (typically 7–30 business days) before any price increase to an existing subscription.

Refunds

Except where required by applicable law, fees are non-refundable. If you believe you were charged in error or have a billing question, contact us at [email protected] and we will work with you in good faith.

Chargebacks

You agree to contact us before initiating a chargeback or payment dispute so we can try to resolve the issue directly. Improper chargebacks may result in account suspension and collection of the disputed amount.

Taxes

Stated prices may exclude applicable taxes. You are responsible for any taxes associated with your purchase other than taxes on our net income.

13. Free Tier

We offer a free tier with usage limits. We may modify, limit, suspend, or discontinue the free tier, in whole or with respect to any user, at any time with or without notice. We will give reasonable notice before any change that materially reduces a paid tier you are currently using.

14. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, use the Service unlawfully, engage in fraud or abuse, or repeatedly violate third-party rights. We may also terminate the Service or your account for convenience with reasonable notice. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 4 last paragraph, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 22) will survive.

15. Disclaimers

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties; in those jurisdictions, the exclusions above apply only to the extent permitted by law.

16. Limitation of Liability

These limits apply to all claims, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or otherwise. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability; in those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law. The parties agree that these limits are essential elements of the basis of the bargain.

17. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Story Notes LLC and its officers, members, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to:

• Your Content, including any allegation that it infringes or violates a third party’s rights;
• your breach of any representation in Section 5;
• your violation of these Terms or any applicable law; or
• your misuse of AI Output.

We will give you prompt notice of any claim subject to indemnification, allow you to control the defense and settlement with counsel of your choice (subject to our reasonable approval), and cooperate with you at your expense.

18. Governing Law & Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any action arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Salt Lake County, Utah, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

Consumer-protection carve-out: nothing in this Section deprives you of the protection of any non-waivable provision of the consumer-protection laws of your home jurisdiction.

19. Dispute Resolution

Informal Resolution First

Before filing any lawsuit, you agree to send us a written description of the dispute at [email protected] and to attempt in good faith to resolve it with us for at least 60 days. The applicable statute of limitations is tolled during this 60-day period.

No Mandatory Arbitration

We do not require you to arbitrate disputes. You may bring a claim in court as described in Section 18.

Class Action Waiver

To the extent permitted by law, you and Story Notes agree to bring any dispute between us only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative action. If a court holds this class-action waiver unenforceable as to any claim, that claim must be severed and may proceed in court, while all other claims remain subject to this waiver.

Carve-Outs

Either party may bring an eligible claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property rights.

20. Modifications to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Last Updated” date at the top reflects the most recent version. For changes that materially affect your rights or obligations, we will provide at least 30 days’ advance notice (by email and/or in-product notification) and may require your affirmative acceptance before you can continue to use the Service. For non-material changes (typo fixes, clarifications, updates to subprocessor lists), the updated Terms take effect on posting.

21. Notices

Notices to Story Notes should be sent to [email protected] or by mail to Story Notes LLC, 7533 S Center View Ct Ste N, West Jordan, UT 84084, USA. Notices to you will be sent to the email address associated with your account and are effective when sent.

22. Miscellaneous

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any order forms or supplemental terms we present to you, are the entire agreement between you and Story Notes regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject. In any conflict, an order form controls over these Terms, and these Terms control over the Privacy Policy.

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.

Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or to an affiliate.

No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms do not create any third-party beneficiary rights.

Headings. Section headings are for convenience and do not affect interpretation.