Terms of Service

DRAFT — pending legal review. Not yet binding as published.

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of this platform, operated by Mitbolas GmbH, Asylstrasse 26, 8800 Thalwil, Switzerland ("we", "us"). The platform lets creators produce books with the assistance of artificial intelligence and lets readers subscribe to and read published works.

If you use the platform as a creator, the Creator Agreement applies in addition to these Terms. Where the two conflict, the Creator Agreement prevails for creator-specific matters.

By signing in or using the platform you accept these Terms.

2. Account and sign-in

• You sign in with a one-time email link ("magic link"). You are responsible for access to your email mailbox; anyone with access to it can access your account.
• You must provide a valid email address and keep it current.
• Accounts are personal and may not be shared or transferred.

3. Subscriptions, billing and trials

• Paid plans are offered as monthly or annual subscriptions and are processed by Stripe. Prices, included usage and any free-trial period are shown at checkout.
• Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time with effect from the end of the current billing period; access continues until then. No pro-rata refunds for the remainder of a period, except where required by mandatory law.
• A free trial, where offered, is available once per customer. Promotional coupons may carry their own conditions.
• If a payment fails or a subscription lapses, access to paid features ends.

4. Usage limits

Plans include defined allowances (for example a number of generation runs per calendar month and a number of project slots). Allowances that are used up do not refund or carry over — deleting a project does not restore generation runs already spent in that month.

5. Reading and personal use

• Access to books in the library is for your personal, non-commercial use. Plans may include reading limits.
• Chapter content delivered to you may carry an individual, account-specific watermark. You may not copy, redistribute, scrape, publicly perform or resell content from the library, in whole or in part, beyond what mandatory copyright law permits.

6. Acceptable use

You may not:

• circumvent technical limits, watermarks, read caps or access controls;
• use the platform to create or distribute content that is unlawful, infringes third-party rights, or violates the content standards in the Creator Agreement;
• interfere with the operation of the platform, probe or test its security without written authorisation, or access it by automated means except through interfaces we provide;
• misrepresent the origin of content obtained from the platform.

7. AI-generated content

Works on this platform are generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence under the direction and review of their creators. AI-generated text can contain errors, inaccuracies or unintended similarities to other works. Details, including how we label AI-generated content, are in the AI Transparency Declaration.

8. Intellectual property

• The platform, its software, design and branding remain our property or that of our licensors.
• Rights in books and creator content are allocated in the Creator Agreement. Readers receive only the personal-use access described in section 5.

9. Availability and changes

We provide the platform with reasonable skill and care but do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free availability. We may change or discontinue features with reasonable regard for your interests; if a change materially reduces a paid service, you may terminate from the date the change takes effect.

10. Liability

To the extent permitted by law, we are liable without limitation for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence, and for injury to life, body or health. Liability for slight negligence is excluded. Liability for auxiliary persons (Art. 101 of the Swiss Code of Obligations) is excluded to the extent permitted by law. Mandatory statutory liability — including under product liability law — remains unaffected. Nothing in these Terms limits rights that consumer protection law in your country of residence grants you and that cannot be waived by contract.

11. Termination and your data

• You may stop using the platform at any time and may delete your account in line with the Privacy Policy, which also describes how to export your data first.
• We may suspend or terminate accounts that materially or repeatedly breach these Terms, after warning where appropriate.
• What happens to creator content on account deletion is governed by the Creator Agreement and the Privacy Policy.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may amend these Terms with effect for the future. For material changes we will give reasonable advance notice on the platform or by email. If you do not agree to a material change, you may terminate before it takes effect; continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

13. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by Swiss substantive law, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The exclusive place of jurisdiction is Zurich, Switzerland — subject to mandatory consumer venues and mandatory consumer protection provisions of your country of habitual residence.

If any provision of these Terms is invalid, the remainder stays in force; the invalid provision is replaced by what comes closest to its economic intent.