Terms and Conditions of Service

Summary of Plans, Credits & Commercial Licensing

1. Service Operator, Eligibility & Acceptance of Terms

ArteBook Studio is owned and operated by Arte Soft EOOD, a limited liability company registered in the Republic of Bulgaria, European Union (website: https://arte-soft.com/, official legal and support contact: [email protected]).

By accessing the website, opening a guest or registered workspace, inviting or joining as a collaborator, redeeming a promotional or bonus code, purchasing a subscription or credit pack, or exporting any document, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must discontinue use of ArteBook Studio immediately.

You must be at least eighteen (18) years old—or at least sixteen (16) years old acting with the verifiable consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian—to create an account or use the service. If you register or purchase on behalf of a company, university, agency, or publishing house, you represent and warrant that you have full legal authority to bind that entity.

2. Accounts, Guest Workspaces & 6-Digit Email Verification

ArteBook Studio allows visitors to explore interactive features through temporary browser-bound guest sessions. Guest workspaces are strictly intended for short-term evaluation: they may be cleared automatically if browser cookies are cleared or during routine maintenance. Arte Soft EOOD bears no responsibility or liability for loss of unverified guest manuscripts. To preserve manuscripts, redeem bonus codes, or purchase credits, you must register an account and complete 6-digit email verification.

You are solely responsible for safeguarding your account password, verification codes, and session credentials, as well as any activity performed under your account. Creating multiple accounts to repeatedly claim one-time promotional or bonus credit codes ("promo farming"), sharing paid single-user credentials outside built-in collaborator seats, or automating account creation is strictly prohibited and grounds for immediate suspension without refund.

3. Subscriptions, AI Studio Credits, Taxes & Refund Policy

All paid subscriptions ("Creator", "Author Pro", "Publisher Team") and one-time Credit Top-Up Packs are processed securely by our payment partner, Stripe. Displayed prices are stated in United States Dollars (USD) exclusive of applicable Value Added Tax (VAT), GST, or local sales taxes, which are calculated automatically at checkout based on your billing jurisdiction.

AI Studio Credits are metered digital usage units used exclusively within ArteBook Studio to run AI outlining, chapter drafting, rewriting, translation, voice transcription, live voice co-authoring, and cover or chapter illustration generation. Manual typing, formatting, collaborative editing, inline comments, Track Changes, and mathematical or diagram authoring do not consume AI credits. Credits have no monetary or cash value, are non-transferable between accounts, and do not constitute stored value or electronic money.

Upfront Credit Estimates: Credit range badges displayed on buttons inside the interface (for example, estimated credits per chapter, edit, or voice minute) are good-faith pre-execution estimates based on typical document lengths. Actual credit deductions are calculated deterministically from the real volume of processed input text, uploaded file excerpts, audio duration, image resolution, and generated output, and are recorded transparently in your account Credit Ledger.

Subscription Renewal & Cancellation: Monthly subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each monthly billing period unless cancelled prior to the renewal timestamp through the self-service Stripe Billing Portal accessible inside your account. Following cancellation, your plan remains active through the end of the paid billing cycle and will not charge again. Monthly plan credit allowances apply to the active billing cycle and do not roll over indefinitely unless expressly stated at checkout.

Immediate Digital Performance & Refund Policy (EU Consumer Rights Protection): Because AI studio credits, bonus codes, and software capabilities are made available for immediate digital execution upon purchase or redemption, by completing checkout or triggering an AI or export action you expressly request immediate performance and acknowledge that—pursuant to Article 16(m) of Directive 2011/83/EU (EU Consumer Rights Directive) and applicable international digital-goods laws—you waive your statutory 14-day withdrawal right once digital credit provisioning or AI/export execution has begun. Consumed AI credits, partially used billing periods, and redeemed bonus codes are non-refundable. If a technical fault solely attributable to ArteBook Studio deducts credits without delivering output, contact [email protected] within fourteen (14) days and we will verify the ledger entry and restore the affected credits. Initiating fraudulent payment chargebacks results in immediate account termination and revocation of commercial licenses granted under that transaction.

4. Manuscript Ownership, Uploaded Files & Commercial Publishing License

Your Original Content: As between you and Arte Soft EOOD, you retain 100% ownership of all original text, outlines, research notes, PDFs, Word documents, XML files, and images that you write or upload into ArteBook Studio ("User Content"). Arte Soft EOOD claims zero royalties, zero revenue share, and zero literary ownership over your books.

Commercial Publishing Rights: Subject to your compliance with these Terms and payment of applicable fees on commercial tiers (or authorized top-up packs), Arte Soft EOOD assigns and grants to you, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable copyright law, all rights, title, and commercial usage rights in the AI-assisted text and studio illustrations generated for your account, permitting you to publish, distribute, print, and monetize exported EPUB 3.0, Print PDF, Word DOCX, and XML editions across Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Apple Books, IngramSpark, Kobo, Etsy, Gumroad, academic journals, corporate training, and direct client engagements. Note that under current copyright laws in certain jurisdictions, purely machine-generated material without human authorship may have limited exclusive copyright registrability against third parties.

Limited Operational License to Arte Soft: You grant Arte Soft EOOD a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free technical license solely to store, encrypt, synchronize in real time across collaborators you invite, render previews, transmit user-initiated prompts/uploads to AI and document-compilation services, and generate temporary 30-day download archives on your behalf. We never sell your manuscripts or publish your private books.

Your Warranties on Uploaded Material: When you attach PDFs, Microsoft Word files, XML manuscripts, or images, or insert external text, you represent and warrant that you own or hold all necessary copyrights, licenses, and personal-data consents required to process and incorporate that material, and that doing so does not infringe any third party's intellectual property, confidentiality, or privacy rights.

5. AI Output Disclaimers, Citations & Sole Publisher Responsibility

Probabilistic Nature of AI & Automated Tools: Generative AI writing, voice dictation transcription, translations across 59 languages, cover illustrations, and automated scholarly citation searches operate probabilistically. Generated output may contain factual errors, outdated statistics, misattributed or incomplete citations/DOIs, translation nuances, typographic imperfections, or unintentional resemblance to existing phrasing or imagery.

Mandatory Human Verification: ArteBook Studio is an authoring and production tool—not a substitute for human editorial judgment. You are the sole Author and Publisher of Record for every manuscript you export or distribute. Before publishing, selling, submitting to peer review, or sharing any work, you agree to independently review and verify: (a) every factual claim, quotation, formula, table, and citation/DOI; (b) cover and interior formatting, margins, spine width, and print bleed (including ordering a physical proof copy where appropriate); (c) trademark and copyright clearance of titles, pen names, and illustrations; and (d) compliance with third-party platform rules, including Amazon KDP's mandatory AI-Generated vs. AI-Assisted content disclosure requirements, Apple Books guidelines, Etsy seller policies, and academic journal authorship policies.

No Professional, Medical, Legal, or Financial Advice: Nothing generated, suggested, or published through ArteBook Studio—including clinical, nutritional, legal, tax, financial, engineering, or compliance templates—constitutes professional advice or creates a professional-client relationship. Arte Soft EOOD expressly disclaims all liability for reliance by you or your readers on any book content created using the platform.

No Guarantee of Retailer Approval or Earnings: Examples of book pricing, KDP royalty calculations, or creator case studies are illustrative only. Arte Soft EOOD makes no representation or guarantee that any manuscript will be accepted by Amazon KDP, Apple Books, IngramSpark, Etsy, or any academic publisher, or that you will achieve any sales, traffic, or financial return.

6. Multi-Author Collaboration, Invites & 30-Day Cloud Export Retention

Collaborative Sharing & Co-Author Disputes: Book owners decide whom to invite via email or collaboration link and which role ("Editor", "Reviewer", "Commenter", "Viewer") or section locks to assign. Anyone granted edit or review access can view and modify permitted manuscript sections according to their assigned role. Arte Soft EOOD is not a party to any co-authoring contract, ghostwriting agreement, or royalty split between collaborators, and bears zero liability for unauthorized edits, deletions, or leaks caused by collaborators you invite.

30-Day Cloud Export Storage & Backup Duty: When you export a book to PDF, EPUB 3.0, DOCX, or XML, ArteBook Studio stores the compiled artifact in private encrypted cloud storage and may email a signed download link valid for up to thirty (30) days. After 30 days, exported build artifacts are automatically and permanently deleted by cloud lifecycle rules. ArteBook Studio is not a permanent archival vault: you are responsible for downloading and maintaining independent local backups of your exported files and manuscripts.

7. Acceptable Use Policy & Copyright Takedown Notices

You agree not to use ArteBook Studio to generate, upload, store, or distribute: (a) child sexual exploitation or abuse material (CSAM) or non-consensual intimate content; (b) unlawful defamation, doxxing, harassment, hate speech, terrorism, or incitement to violence; (c) pirated books, plagiarized copyrighted works, or counterfeit trademarked editions; (d) fraudulent medical cures, illegal financial schemes, malware, or phishing documents; or (e) automated scraping, reverse engineering, rate-limit circumvention, API key extraction, or credit-metering manipulation.

We reserve the right (without obligation to pre-screen private manuscripts) to suspend or terminate accounts that violate this Acceptable Use Policy, pose security or legal risks to our infrastructure or third-party providers, or trigger abuse reports.

Copyright Infringement Notices: If you believe material hosted via a shared ArteBook Studio link infringes your copyright, send a written notice to [email protected] containing: identification of the copyrighted work, the exact URL at issue, your contact details, a good-faith statement of unauthorized use, and a statement under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act for the rights holder.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties, Limitation of Liability & Indemnification

Disclaimer of Warranties: TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ARTEBOOK STUDIO AND ALL GENERATED OUTPUTS, TEMPLATES, CALCULATORS, AND EXPORTS ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, UNINTERRUPTED AVAILABILITY, OR ERROR-FREE TYPESETTING.

Limitation of Liability: TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE EUROPEAN UNION AND BULGARIAN LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL ARTE SOFT EOOD, ITS DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, OR INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES—INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, ROYALTIES, KDP OR MARKETPLACE ACCOUNT SUSPENSION, REJECTED PRINT RUNS, REPUTATIONAL HARM, OR LOSS OF DATA/MANUSCRIPTS—ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE ARTEBOOK STUDIO, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS IN ANY TWELVE (12) MONTH PERIOD SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF: (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU TO ARTE SOFT EOOD FOR ARTEBOOK STUDIO DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, OR (B) FIFTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS (USD $50.00). Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded under mandatory law (such as death or personal injury caused by gross negligence or willful misconduct).

Indemnification: You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Arte Soft EOOD and its officers and affiliates from and against any third-party claims, damages, liabilities, regulatory fines, and reasonable legal fees arising out of: (i) manuscripts, books, covers, or files you upload, publish, or sell; (ii) your breach of these Terms or violation of any third-party copyright, trademark, privacy, or defamation law; or (iii) disputes with your co-authors, clients, buyers, or publishing marketplaces.

9. Governing Law, Dispute Resolution, Changes & Contact

Governing Law & Jurisdiction: These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to ArteBook Studio are governed by the laws of the Republic of Bulgaria and directly applicable laws of the European Union, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Before filing formal proceedings, both parties agree to attempt good-faith informal resolution for thirty (30) days by written notice to [email protected]. Subject to mandatory consumer jurisdiction rules for EU residents, exclusive venue for unresolved disputes shall lie with the competent courts in the Republic of Bulgaria.

Severability & Updates: If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force. We may update these Terms periodically to reflect new features, legal requirements, or pricing changes for future billing cycles; updated Terms take effect upon posting at https://artebook.arte-soft.com/terms/ with an updated effective date.

Official Contact: For legal notices, billing assistance, copyright inquiries, or general questions regarding these Terms, contact Arte Soft EOOD at [email protected].