Terms

The short version

• You own your work. We claim no rights to it.
• We never train AI on it.
• It comes with no warranty. One person runs it, and it is early software. Keep your own copy of anything you can't afford to lose.
• There is a Free plan and a paid plan, Pro. No feature is locked behind Pro. It renews until you cancel, and going back to Free deletes nothing.
• You can leave with everything. Export is never blocked, and you can have your data deleted.
• Don't use it to harm people or to break the service for others.

Who you are dealing with

The hosted version is run by Sudhan, an independent developer in India. There is no company. "We" on this page means Plotra and the person who runs it. Contact: sudhan@plotra.ink

Your account

• You need an account to write. Give a real email address: it is how invitations and important notices reach you.
• Keep your password to yourself. What happens under your account is your responsibility.
• You must be at least 18 years old.
• One person, one account. Don't create accounts in bulk to get around the limits.

Your work

Everything you write, upload or build in Plotra stays yours. You give us only the permission needed to run the service for you: to store your work, sync it between you and the people you share it with, back it up, and show it to the people you chose. That permission ends when you delete the work, apart from backups that have not yet rotated out.

We don't use your work to train AI, we don't sell it, and we don't read it except as the privacy page describes.

You are responsible for what you put in. Only upload or clip things you have the right to use. If you share a project, publish a wiki or turn on a read-only link, you decide who sees it.

The AI agent

The agent is optional. On either plan it can run on your own API key or a local model. When you run it that way, the text it needs goes to the provider you chose, under your agreement with them, and you pay that provider; Plotra charges nothing for those runs.

A workspace on Pro also has hosted AI: 1,500 credits each billing period, on a model Plotra provides, so nobody needs a key. One credit is 1,000 input tokens, and output tokens count five times. Credits reset when the period renews and don't roll over. On a hosted run, the text the agent needs goes to the model provider Plotra uses instead of one you chose.

What the agent writes into your project is yours to keep, change or throw away, and yours to check: it can be wrong. More on the privacy page.

Plans and limits

Every workspace starts on the Free plan, which costs nothing and includes every feature. It has limits: projects, storage, members and guests per workspace, file size, and how fast you can send invitations. Pro raises those limits and adds hosted AI. The limits and the price of each plan are on the pricing page.

Reaching a limit stops you adding more; it never deletes anything or blocks export. A workspace that goes from Pro back to Free keeps all its data, and can't add beyond the Free limits until it is under them.

Sponsoring the project is a gift. It buys no extra features, no higher limits and no support agreement.

Payments

• Pro is a subscription for one workspace, not for one person: $10 a month, or $96 a year. Tax may be added where it applies.
• Creem is the seller. Payments are handled by Creem (creem.io) as merchant of record. Creem takes the payment, works out and collects sales tax or VAT, and sends the invoice. Plotra never sees or stores your card details.
• It renews until cancelled. The subscription renews at the end of each month or year until someone cancels it.
• You can cancel at any time from Workspace settings, under Plan & billing. Cancelling stops the next renewal. The workspace keeps Pro until the end of the period already paid for, and then goes back to Free.
• When a subscription ends, for whatever reason, the workspace goes back to Free. Nothing is deleted.
• If a renewal payment fails, Creem tries the charge again over the following days and the workspace keeps Pro meanwhile. If the payment still can't be taken, the subscription ends and the workspace goes back to Free.
• Refunds. A first payment for Pro, monthly or yearly, is refunded in full if you ask within 14 days. So is a yearly renewal, and any charge made by mistake. The whole policy is on the refunds page.
• If the price of Pro changes, people paying for it will be told by email before their next renewal.

What you may not do

• Break the law, or use Plotra to store or share material that is illegal where you or we are.
• Harass, threaten or defame people, or publish someone's private information.
• Upload malware, or use shared and public pages for spam or phishing.
• Use the hosted version as general file storage, or run automated load against it. Everyone on it shares the same servers.
• Try to get into other people's projects or accounts, or get around the limits. If you find a way, please report it through the security policy instead.

Fiction is fiction. Dark themes, violence and villains in a story are not a breach of these rules. The rules are about real harm to real people.

Ending

• You can stop using Plotra at any time, export your work and have your account deleted. Cancel a Pro subscription first, so it doesn't renew.
• We can suspend or close an account that breaks the rules above. Unless it is urgent, for example to stop ongoing abuse, you will be told first and given the chance to export your work.
• The hosted version may change, and it may one day close. If it closes, people with an account will be told by email at least 30 days ahead, so they can export. The software stays open source, so you can keep running it yourself.

No warranty

The hosted version is provided as it is, by one person, on the Free plan and on Pro alike. It is early software. It may be unavailable, it may have bugs, and although every care is taken with your writing (version history, backups), we can't promise that nothing will ever be lost. Keep your own copy of work that matters to you.

As far as the law allows, we make no warranties about the service and are not liable for loss of data, loss of income or any other loss that comes from using it or not being able to use it. Some places don't allow some of these limits; where that is so, they apply only as far as the law permits.

The software has its own, separate disclaimer of warranty in its licence.

Which law applies

These terms are governed by the laws of India. If you use Plotra as a consumer, the consumer protection law of the country you live in still protects you where it says it must. If something goes wrong, write to sudhan@plotra.ink first: most things can be sorted out that way.

The software

Plotra's source code is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or later. You may use, study, change and share it under that licence. If you run a changed version as a service for other people, the licence requires you to offer them its source. These terms don't add to or take away from the licence.

The icons are from the Solar icon set by 480 Design, used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. The other work Plotra is built on is credited in the repository.

Changes to these terms

This page lives in the public repository, so every change to it is on record. If something important changes, people with an account will be told by email before it takes effect. If you keep using the hosted version after that, the new terms apply.

Questions

Write to sudhan@plotra.ink, or open an issue for anything that isn't private.