Terms of use

1. What Pendraic is today

Pendraic is a writing tool for long-form fiction, operated by its authors as a closed-development preview. Access is by invitation. Features, interfaces, availability, and pricing may change while the product is being built. If you are using Pendraic right now, you are using a pre-release product. Expect rough edges, occasional downtime, and changes that could affect saved work.

2. Ownership of your work

You own what you write. The manuscripts, outlines, notes, indexes, characters, prompts, and custom configuration you create in Pendraic belong to you. We do not claim any copyright, license, or other intellectual-property interest in your work beyond the narrow operational license we need to display your own files back to you, store them, back them up, and process them on your behalf when you ask us to run generation, retrieval, or export passes.

When you delete content, we delete it. When you delete your account, we delete your content within 30 days, excluding records we are legally required to retain (for example, billing receipts). Back-ups rotate out on the schedule documented in our privacy page.

3. Model training and your manuscripts

We do not train any model on your manuscripts, indexes, or personal work. Ever. It is not a setting you have to opt into. When you bring your own provider key, your content flows from our application to the model vendor you chose. We use the standard API terms from those vendors, which exclude training on your content. If a vendor changes those defaults we will update this page and notify account holders before the change takes effect.

4. Acceptable use

Pendraic is a tool for writing long-form fiction and related creative work. You agree not to use the service to generate content that is illegal, that depicts the sexual abuse or exploitation of minors, that is used for targeted harassment of a real identified person, or that attempts to bypass the safety systems of the underlying model vendors. You are responsible for making sure your usage of the underlying model APIs conforms to those vendors’ own usage policies.

5. Availability and changes

During closed development we make no uptime guarantee. We may change, pause, or reset features as we build. We will not change the ownership, privacy, or training commitments above without explicit notice. Any material change to those commitments will be announced to the email on your account at least 14 days before taking effect.

6. Contact

Questions, corrections, or concerns: help@pendraic.com.