Terms of Use
Effective October 2, 2026
1. Who we are and what these terms cover
Fictorial is a service run by Great Unknown LLC, a Georgia limited liability company (“we,” “us”). These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of fictorial.app and the Fictorial app (the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Service.
2. Eligibility and your account
You must be at least 18 years old to use Fictorial. You’re responsible for keeping the email address or Google account you sign in with secure, and for everything that happens under your account. Tell us promptly at ben@fictorial.app if you think someone else has accessed it. One person per account; please don’t share logins.
3. Your work stays yours
You keep all rights to the manuscripts, notes, and other material you upload or create in Fictorial (“Your Content”). We claim no ownership of it.
To run the Service, you give us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, copy, process, and display Your Content, and to send portions of it to our AI service providers, only as needed to provide the Service to you. This license ends when you delete Your Content or your account, except for copies in backups that expire on their normal schedule and anything we must keep by law.
We do not use Your Content to train AI models, and our AI providers’ business terms do not allow them to use it for training either. See the Privacy Policy for details.
You confirm that you have the rights to upload Your Content and that doing so doesn’t break any law or anyone else’s rights.
4. What Fictorial is, and what it isn’t
Fictorial uses artificial intelligence to help you discuss and examine your own manuscript. Please understand that:
- AI output can be wrong. Answers, summaries, quotes, and suggestions may be inaccurate, incomplete, or misattributed. Check anything that matters against your manuscript.
- It is not professional advice. Fictorial is not a substitute for an editor, agent, lawyer, or other professional, and we make no promise about how your book will be received, published, or sold.
- You make the decisions. You are solely responsible for what you change, keep, publish, or submit.
- Contest and publisher rules are your responsibility. Some contests, publishers, and organizations restrict the use of AI tools. Check their rules before you use Fictorial on work you plan to submit.
5. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- upload material you don’t have the right to use;
- use the Service for anything illegal, or to harass or harm anyone;
- try to break, overload, probe, or get around the Service’s security, limits, or access controls;
- scrape, copy, resell, or reverse-engineer the Service, or use it to build a competing product;
- use automated tools to access the Service except as we allow; or
- try to make the Service produce content that breaks our AI providers’ usage policies.
Dark, violent, or difficult subject matter in fiction is fine. This section is about how you use the Service, not what your book is about.
6. Free trial, subscription, and billing
New accounts get a free trial with usage limits we set and may change. No payment card is needed to start.
To keep using Fictorial past the trial, you’ll subscribe at the price shown at checkout (currently $20 per month, plus any applicable taxes). Subscriptions renew automatically each month until you cancel. By subscribing, you authorize us and our payment processor, Stripe, to charge your payment method each billing period.
You can cancel any time from your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period, and you keep access until then. Payments are non-refundable, including for partial months, except where the law requires otherwise.
Founding-member pricing. If you start a paid subscription by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 31, 2026, you lock in $20 per month for as long as your subscription stays continuously active. The locked price ends if you cancel, or if a failed payment isn’t fixed within 14 days; if you resubscribe later, the then-current price applies. The locked price covers the subscription plan as it exists; any new plans or add-ons we introduce later may be priced separately. It is personal to your account and can’t be transferred. It does not limit our right to change features (Section 7) or discontinue the Service (Section 8).
Apart from founding-member pricing, we may change prices for new and existing subscribers. We’ll give you at least 30 days’ notice by email before a new price applies to you, and you can cancel before it takes effect.
Subscriptions may include fair-use limits to keep the Service affordable. If your usage is far outside normal patterns, we may contact you or limit usage.
7. Changes to the Service
Fictorial is a young product. We may add, change, or remove features at any time. We’ll try to give notice of significant changes, but we can’t promise every feature will stay.
8. Suspension and termination
You can close your account at any time. We may suspend or close your account if you break these Terms, don’t pay, or create risk or legal exposure for us or others. We may also discontinue the Service entirely; if we do, we’ll give you at least 30 days’ notice where we reasonably can so you can export your notes.
After your account closes, we delete Your Content as described in the Privacy Policy. Sections 3 (the parts about your rights), 4, and 9 through 13 survive termination.
9. Disclaimer of warranties
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We don’t guarantee the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that AI output will be accurate. Keep your own copy of your manuscript. Fictorial is not a backup service.
10. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, GREAT UNKNOWN LLC AND ITS MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, AND CONTRACTORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR OPPORTUNITIES, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, OR (B) $50.
Some places don’t allow certain of these limits, so some may not apply to you.
11. Indemnity
If someone brings a claim against us because of Your Content or your breach of these Terms, you agree to cover our reasonable costs of dealing with it, including legal fees.
12. Disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Before filing any claim, please email us at ben@fictorial.app and give us 30 days to try to resolve it informally. Any dispute that isn’t resolved that way will be brought only in the state or federal courts located in Fulton County, Georgia, and you and we consent to those courts. Either party may bring a claim in small-claims court instead if it qualifies.
13. Other terms
If we update these Terms, we’ll post the new version with a new effective date and, for material changes, notify you by email or in the app at least 14 days before they apply. Continuing to use Fictorial after that means you accept the update. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a term isn’t a waiver of it. You can’t transfer your account or these Terms; we may transfer them as part of a sale or reorganization of the business.
14. Contact
Great Unknown LLC · 272 14th St. NE, Unit 20, Atlanta, GA 30309 · ben@fictorial.app
