Terms of Service

PenWriter is run by Penwriter. When these terms say “we” or “PenWriter”, that is who they mean, and by using PenWriter you agree to these terms with them.

These terms sit alongside the Privacy Policy, which says what happens to your information. Please read both.

• You need to be old enough to make a binding agreement where you live. Give a real name and an email address you can read; you can write under a different pen name.
• Keep your password to yourself. Whatever happens under your account is your responsibility until you tell us someone else has it. If you think that has happened, change your password in Settings, which also signs out every other browser.
• One account is for one person. You may not sell it, share it or hand it on.
• We use your email address to confirm that it is yours and to tell you about your account: a password reset, a changed password or address, a deleted account. We do not send marketing to it unless you ask us to.

What you write in PenWriter, and what PenWriter writes for you at your request, is yours. We do not claim any rights in it.

To run the service, you give PenWriter permission to store your writing, to show it back to you, to turn it into the files you ask for, and to send the parts you ask the AI to work on to the language model we use, for that purpose and no other. That permission lasts as long as the writing is in your account and ends when you delete it.

• We do not sell your writing or your information.
• We do not use your writing to train or improve a model.
• We do not read your manuscripts as part of running the service. We may look at your account only if you ask us to help with a problem, or where we must to keep the service secure or to obey the law.
• You can take a copy of everything at any time with Download my data in Settings, and delete it with Close your account.

You promise that you have the right to put into PenWriter what you put into it: that it is your own work, or that you have permission to use it, or that it is in the public domain.

PenWriter uses a language model, which we run on our own infrastructure, to draft chapters, build outlines, suggest edits, review a book and write listing text. When you press one of those buttons, the text needed for that task — for example the passage you are editing, the book's description and cast, a sample of your voice, your notes — is sent to that model and the answer comes back. It is not sent to a third-party AI company. The Privacy Policy says exactly what is sent.

• It can be wrong. The AI invents facts, repeats itself, contradicts earlier chapters and gets names, dates and places wrong. Read everything it writes before you rely on it or publish it.
• It can resemble other writing. PenWriter does not promise that anything it generates is original, is free of resemblance to existing work, or can be protected by copyright. How the law treats text produced with AI differs between countries and is still being settled; that question is yours to look into.
• You are the author. You choose what to keep, change or throw away, and you are responsible for the book you end up with.

PenWriter does not publish your book. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing offers no way for a tool like this to create a title for you, so PenWriter prepares the files and the words for the listing, and you create and submit the title in your own KDP account. PenWriter is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Amazon; “Amazon”, “Kindle” and “KDP” are Amazon's names.

That makes some things yours alone:

• Amazon's rules. Your KDP account is between you and Amazon. Read and follow Amazon's terms and content guidelines; PenWriter can check a few of their file limits, but a book that passes PenWriter's checks can still be refused by Amazon.
• Telling Amazon about AI. Amazon asks publishers to say when the text, images or translation of a book were generated with AI. How you answer that question, for each book, is your responsibility. PenWriter does not answer it for you.
• Rights and honesty. You must hold the rights to what you publish, describe it truthfully, and use only categories, keywords and a cover you are entitled to use. If you tell Amazon a work is in the public domain, make sure it is.
• Money and tax. Prices, royalty figures and delivery costs shown in PenWriter are guidance. Amazon decides what is paid. Taxes on what you earn are for you and your adviser.

• Use PenWriter to break the law, or to write or publish something that does.
• Put in material that infringes someone else's rights, or that you have no right to use.
• Try to get into anyone else's account or books, or to find out whether someone else has an account.
• Overload, probe or get around the service: automated sign-ups, bulk requests, scraping, or working around the limits PenWriter sets.
• Use PenWriter to produce spam, or to deceive readers about who made a book.

PenWriter is provided as it is. We work to keep it running and your writing safe, but we cannot promise that it will always be available, that it will be free of mistakes, or that the AI will give you what you hoped for. Features can change or go.

Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose. Download my data in Settings is there for exactly that.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost profits, lost sales, lost opportunities, or indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of PenWriter, and our total liability to you for anything that goes wrong is limited to the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before it happened. Nothing in these terms limits a liability that the law does not allow to be limited, and nothing here takes away rights you have as a consumer.

This text has a date, shown at the top, and that date is its version. If we change it in a way that matters, we change the date, and the next time you open PenWriter it asks you to read and accept the new version before you carry on. If you do not agree with a change, you can download your data and close your account instead.

• You can leave whenever you like. Close your account in Settings. It removes your account, your books and everything in them, your characters, reviews and listings, and any cover you uploaded. It cannot be undone. Books you have already published on Amazon are not affected; they live in your KDP account.
• We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts the service or other people at risk. Where we can, we will tell you why first, and give you the chance to download your data.
• Anything that is meant to carry on after the account ends — for example the limits on our liability — does.

Questions about these terms, or anything you think we have got wrong, to hello@penwriter.app.