Terms of service

Last updated 24 September 2026. Effective 24 September 2026.

These terms are the agreement between you and Recharge8 LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("Authrot", "we", "us"), for using Authrot: the website at authrot.app, the app, and everything they offer. Please read them. By creating an account or using Authrot you agree to them, to our privacy policy, which explains what we do with your data, and to our refund policy.

If you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you also keep every right your local consumer law gives you, and nothing in these terms takes those away.

1. What Authrot is

Authrot is a writing studio for long fiction. You write, alone or with collaborators; Authrot keeps a story bible of what your story establishes, and an AI assistant can read your work, answer questions, and propose changes. What each plan includes is on the pricing page. We keep improving Authrot, so features may change; if we remove something central to a plan you pay for, we will tell you in advance and you may cancel.

2. Your account

  • Age. You must be at least 18 to use Authrot.

  • Accurate details. Use an email address you control. It is how you sign in and how we reach you.

  • Keep it secure. You are responsible for what happens in your account, so keep your email account, passkeys and sign-in providers secure, and tell us at once at [email protected] if you think someone else has got in.

  • One person per account. Accounts are personal. To work with others, invite them to a project.

  • Where you can use it. You may not use Authrot if you are in a country under comprehensive US sanctions or on a US government restricted-parties list, or from a region our AI model provider does not serve.

3. Plans, trials, credits and cancelling

Plans and renewal

Paid plans are subscriptions, billed in US dollars, monthly or yearly, in advance, and they renew automatically at the end of each period at the then-current price until you cancel. The price, billing period and what you get are shown before you pay. Prices do not include taxes, which are added where the law requires. Payments are handled by Stripe; we never see your full card or bank details.

Trials

Some plans offer a free trial. A trial that asks for a card becomes a paid subscription when it ends, and your card is charged the plan's price then, unless you cancel before it ends. The trial's length, the date it ends and the price that follows are shown before you start, and we email you the day before it ends. Cancelling during a trial costs nothing. You can have one card trial per account and per card. Trials run on the economy model level and include a small number of credits. Trials from an invitation code need no card and simply end.

Cancelling

Cancel any time in Settings → Plan & credits, in a few clicks, without contacting us. Your plan then runs to the end of the period you have paid for and does not renew. We may show you an offer when you cancel; you can always decline it and finish cancelling straight away. We do not refund the unused part of a period, except as our refund policy or the law says.

Price changes

We may change our prices. We will email you at least 30 days before a new price applies to your subscription; it takes effect at your next renewal after that, and you may cancel before then. For yearly plans we also email you before each renewal with the price and how to cancel.

Credits

AI work on the models we host is paid for in credits. One credit is one US cent of usage at our rates, and each request costs credits in proportion to the model used and the amount of text it reads and writes. The cost is shown in the app.

  • Plan credits come with a subscription each month and are used first. Unused plan credits carry over to the next month up to one month's allowance; plan credits end when your subscription ends.

  • Purchased credits (credit packs) do not expire while your account exists.

  • When you run out, AI features stop until you add credits. Background work pauses when your balance falls below the level you set, and you can set a monthly spending cap.

  • On a Studio plan you may let collaborators use your credits, up to the monthly limit you set for each.

  • Credits have no cash value, are not transferable, and cannot be exchanged for money, except under our refund policy. If you delete your account, unused credits are lost.

If a payment fails, or a plan ends

If a renewal payment fails we will tell you and try again; if it keeps failing, the subscription ends. When a plan ends or you move to a smaller one, nothing is deleted: projects and collaborators beyond what your plan allows become read-only until you upgrade. Without a plan you can still read and export your projects, but cannot create projects or use AI features.

Refunds

See our refund policy. If you live in the EU or UK, you have a legal right to withdraw from a purchase within 14 days; because Authrot starts at once, if you withdraw from a subscription you pay only for the part you used, and credits you have already spent cannot be returned.

4. Your writing is yours

You own everything you write, import and create in Authrot, and you keep every right in it. We claim no ownership.

To run Authrot, you give us a limited permission to store, copy, process, display and transmit your content, and to send it to the service providers named in our privacy policy (including AI model providers), only to provide Authrot to you and the people you share with, to keep it secure, and as the law requires. This permission ends when your content is deleted, except for copies in backups until they are overwritten and anything we must keep by law.

We do not publish your work, show it to other users you have not invited, use it for marketing, or use it to train AI models, and neither do the model providers we host. We look at it only when you ask us to, or when we must to investigate abuse, a security problem or a legal request.

You are responsible for your content: you must have the right to upload what you import, and your writing must follow §7. Keep your own copies of anything important; you can export any project at any time.

5. The AI assistant

  • It is AI. Answers, suggestions, drafts and story-bible entries marked as coming from the assistant are generated by AI models, not by a person.

  • It can be wrong. AI output can be inaccurate, inconsistent, or resemble existing work. Review it before you rely on or publish it. The story bible and continuity checks are aids, not guarantees.

  • What changes on its own. Proposals in chat wait for you to accept them. Background passes, which build the story bible, record references and facts, and organise, reorder or retitle documents, apply their results automatically by default; they never rewrite your prose and delete only empty documents. You can have them sent for review instead in the project's settings. Every AI change is recorded in the project's history with a version saved before and after, so you can undo it.

  • Who owns output. As between you and us, output generated for you is yours, and we assign to you any rights we have in it. Be aware that in the US and elsewhere, material generated entirely by AI may not be protected by copyright; your own selection, arrangement and rewriting of it can be. If you register a copyright, you may need to disclose AI-generated material. The US Copyright Office has guidance.

  • Model rules apply. You must also follow the usage policy of the model provider serving your request, including Anthropic's Usage Policy for the models we host. A model may decline a request.

  • Your own keys. If you add a key for another provider, requests made with it go to that provider under your agreement with them, you pay them directly, and their terms decide how they handle your data. Using your own key costs no credits. Because background work on your own key still runs on our servers, it is limited per account.

6. Working with others

The owner of a project decides who can join it and in which role, from viewer to admin, and can remove members at any time. Everyone you add can read the project, and every member can export it, so share only with people you trust. Collaborators can change anything their role allows, and every change is kept in the project's history.

Work you add to someone else's project becomes part of their project: it stays there if you leave or delete your account, without your name on it. An owner can offer the project to another member, who becomes the owner if they accept.

7. Acceptable use

Fiction goes to dark places, and that is fine. What you may not do is use Authrot to:

  • break the law, or help someone else break it;

  • create, store or share sexual content involving minors, in any form, including fiction;

  • infringe someone else's copyright, trademark or other rights, or upload work you have no right to use;

  • harass, threaten, dox or defame real people, or create sexual content about real people without their consent;

  • get around the usage policies of the AI model providers, or try to extract other users' data from them;

  • send spam or malware, probe or attack our systems, or get around limits, credit metering or security;

  • scrape the service, or use automated access other than through features we provide;

  • resell, sublicense or share access to Authrot, create accounts to get extra trials or credits, or build a competing product from it.

8. Reports and our decisions

Report content that breaks the law or these terms to [email protected], with where it is and why you think it is unlawful or against the rules. We will review reports promptly and fairly and tell you what we decided.

Your projects are private, so we do not monitor them. We act when we receive a report or find a problem ourselves. If we restrict content or an account, we tell the person affected what we did, why, which rule or law it concerns, and how to challenge it, unless the law or safety prevents it. Reply to that notice to have a person review the decision. If you are in the EU, you may also use a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body.

Authorities in the EU and elsewhere can reach us at [email protected], in English.

9. Copyright complaints

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Send notices to our designated agent: Copyright Agent, Recharge8 LLC, P.O. Box 100, San Ygnacio, Texas 78067, United States, [email protected]. A notice must include:

  1. your physical or electronic signature;

  2. the copyrighted work you say is infringed;

  3. the material you say infringes it, and enough information for us to find it;

  4. your address, telephone number and email;

  5. a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law; and

  6. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.

If we remove material because of a notice, we tell the person who posted it. They may send a counter-notice to the same address with their signature, the material removed and where it was, a statement under penalty of perjury that they believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification, and their name, address and phone number with consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for their address (or any court where we may be found, if they are outside the US), and agreement to accept service from the person who sent the notice. We then restore the material in 10 to 14 business days unless the complainant tells us they have gone to court.

We close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe.

10. Suspension and ending the agreement

You can stop at any time by deleting your account in Settings → Account. That deletes your account and every project you own at once and cannot be undone, cancels your subscription immediately with no refund for the rest of the period, and forfeits unused credits. Export anything you want to keep first.

We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, that puts other users, our providers or Authrot at risk, or where the law requires it. Where we reasonably can, we warn you first and give you a chance to fix the problem and to export your work. If we close your account without a good reason under these terms, we refund the unused part of your subscription and your unused purchased credits. We may also end Authrot altogether; if we do, we give you at least 60 days' notice to export your work and refund unused subscription time and purchased credits.

Idle accounts. An account with no plan and no sign-in for twelve months is deleted, with its projects, after two email warnings, 30 days and 7 days before. Signing in stops it.

Sections that by their nature should continue after the agreement ends, such as ownership, disclaimers, liability and disputes, continue.

11. Disclaimers

We work hard to keep Authrot running and your work safe, but we provide Authrot "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we make no promises beyond those in these terms: in particular, we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that AI output will be accurate or original, or that it will meet a particular purpose. Features marked beta or preview are early and may change or go away. Nothing in this section affects rights you have as a consumer that the law says cannot be excluded.

12. Our liability

To the extent the law allows:

  • we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising from Authrot or these terms; and

  • our total liability to you for all claims is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or US$100.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law. If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, we are responsible for foreseeable loss caused by our breach of these terms or our failure to use reasonable care and skill, and the limits above apply only as far as your local law allows.

13. Your responsibility to us

If you are using Authrot for a business, you will cover our reasonable losses and costs from third-party claims that arise from your content or your breach of these terms. This does not apply to consumers.

14. The law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas and the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before going to court, write to [email protected] and give us 30 days to put things right; most problems are solved that way.

Any dispute that is not resolved goes to the state courts in Zapata County, Texas, or the US federal courts for the Southern District of Texas, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction. Either of us may bring a claim in small-claims court instead. If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, you may also bring a claim in the courts where you live, and the mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country still apply whatever these terms say.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when we add features, when the law changes, or to fix something unclear. When we make a change that matters, we email you at least 30 days before it applies and say so in the app. The change applies from that date and never to a dispute that arose before it. If you do not agree, you can cancel and delete your account before it takes effect; continuing to use Authrot after that means you accept it. Changes needed by law, or for security, may apply sooner.

16. The rest

  • These terms, the privacy policy and the refund policy are the whole agreement between us about Authrot.

  • If part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still applies.

  • If we do not enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later.

  • You may not transfer this agreement to anyone else. We may transfer it to a company that takes over Authrot, and will tell you if we do; your rights under it will not be reduced.

  • Neither of us is responsible for delays caused by things beyond reasonable control, such as outages at our providers, disasters or war.

  • Notices to you go to your account email. Notices to us go to [email protected].

17. Contact

Recharge8 LLC, P.O. Box 100, San Ygnacio, Texas 78067, United States. Help and billing: [email protected]. Privacy: [email protected].