Terms of use

1. These terms

WritersBox for School (the "Service") is run by WritersBox ("we", "us"). These terms are an agreement between you and us about using the Service. By pressing Agree, or by using the Service, you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.

If WritersBox changes hands, these terms and your account move with it, and your rights under them stay the same.

2. Early access

The Service is in early access: it is new, it is changing, and it has not been tested in every situation. It is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not promise that it will always be available, free of errors, secure, or that anything stored in it will be kept.

3. Free for this term, then a licence

Access is free until the end of the current school term. After that, continuing to use the Service will need a paid licence, at the price shown when it is offered. We will tell you before the free period ends.

Nothing is charged automatically. You pay only if you choose to buy a licence.

If you do not buy a licence, we may limit what you can do in the Service after the free period, but your work stays yours and stays accessible to you: you can still open it and download it.

4. Your work

You keep all rights in what you write and upload. We claim no ownership of it.

You allow us to store, copy, display and send your work only as needed to run the Service, for example showing a script to your class when you put it on the table, or to a teacher when you hand it in.

You are responsible for having the right to upload what you upload.

5. No AI in the app

AI tools were used, alongside the founder, to help build WritersBox. There is no AI anywhere in the app itself.

No AI reads, studies or learns from your work, and none is trained on it. Your work is stored on the servers that run WritersBox, and nobody looks at it except you and the people you share it with: your class, a teacher, co-writers, or someone you send it to. We do not look at it ourselves unless you ask us to, to help with a problem.

6. Classes and shared work

Your teacher and classmates can see what you share in a class. Teachers can edit, remove or hide anything posted in their class.

When you co-write, or put work on the table, other people can change it. The Service keeps earlier versions in some places, but we do not promise that every change can be undone.

A team studio is a studio shared by a group. The owner of a team studio decides who is in it, and everybody in it can read and change everything in it. Work made in a team studio belongs with the team studio: it stays with the team studio when somebody leaves, is removed or deletes their account.

7. Keep your own copies

You are responsible for keeping copies of your work. Export anything important regularly (Final Draft .fdx, PDF or Word) and keep it somewhere of your own.

8. Limits on our responsibility

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss, corruption, change or deletion of your work or data, however it happens, including through other people in your class, or for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or lost profits.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim about the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the claim and CAD $50.

Some places do not allow some of these limits. Where that is so, they apply only as far as the law there allows.

9. Using the Service fairly

Do not use the Service to break the law, to harass or harm anyone, to share someone else's private information without their permission, or to upload anything you have no right to share. Do not try to get into accounts or classes that are not yours, or to break or overload the Service. We may suspend or close an account that does any of these.

Anyone can report a problem, something a person posted or sent, or a copy of their own work posted without permission, from Report a problem in Settings or by writing to the contact below. We may remove anything that breaks these terms or someone else's rights, and suspend the account that posted it.

10. Age

You must be 18 or older, or have the permission of a parent or guardian who has read and accepts these terms for you.

11. Your information

To run the Service we keep your name, email address, picture if you add one, and what you create and share in it. We use it only to run the Service. We do not sell it, and we do not share it with anyone outside the Service.

One thing can reach outside it, and only if you choose: your Showcase page. It is seen by nobody unless you open it, to your classes or to anyone holding its link. It shows only the projects and details you pick, never your email address, and you can close the link or take the page down at any time.

What is kept, who sees it and your rights are set out in the privacy policy at /privacy, which is part of these terms. You can ask for a copy of everything we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account and your work, by writing to the contact below. We answer within 30 days.

12. Changes and ending

We may change these terms. If a change is significant, we will ask you to agree again before you carry on using the Service.

You can stop using the Service at any time. We may change, suspend or end the Service, or close an account that breaks section 9. If we ever end the Service, we will give notice and a chance to download your work first.

13. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms: lbrander16@gmail.com.