Terms, privacy and disclosures.

I Write Mines is a service operated by I Write Mines LLC, a limited liability company organised under the laws of the State of Georgia, United States, trading as "I Write Mines" and founded by Alander Pulliam. In these documents "we", "us", "our" and "the Company" mean I Write Mines LLC, and "you" means the individual or organisation using the Service. When you use the Service or buy a plan, you are contracting with I Write Mines LLC.

Definitions. "Service" means the I Write Mines website at iwritemines.com and www.iwritemines.com, its subdomains, applications, tools, lessons, exports, coaching features and supporting infrastructure. "Your Content" means anything you create, type, upload, record or import into the Service, including manuscripts, lyrics, outlines, scripts, notes, instrumentals and audio. "AI Output" means feedback, questions, diagnostics, grades, briefs, storyboards, narration and artwork returned by the Service's automated features. "Plan" means the free Beta tier or a paid Pro or Premium subscription. "Stripe" means Stripe, Inc. and its affiliates.

Our order process is conducted by our payment provider Stripe. Stripe is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Stripe provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns.

These documents together — Terms of Use, Ownership & License, AI Disclosure, Privacy Policy, Cookie Notice, Copyright & DMCA Policy, Acceptable Use, Payments & Refunds and the General Provisions — form the entire agreement between you and I Write Mines LLC regarding the Service, and supersede any prior understanding on the same subject. Where these terms conflict with the Stripe consumer terms on a payment matter, the Stripe consumer terms govern that payment matter.

Notices to us must be sent to support@iwritemines.com. Notices to you will be sent to the email address on your account or posted inside the Service, and are treated as received on the day sent.

2.1 Acceptance. By accessing, browsing or using the Service you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. Continued use after we post an updated version means you accept the update.

2.2 Eligibility and authority. You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service and at least 18 years old — or the age of majority where you live — to enter into any paid arrangement. If you are between 13 and 18, use the Service only with the involvement and consent of a parent or guardian, who accepts these terms on your behalf. If you accept these terms for a company, label, production or school, you confirm you have authority to bind that organisation and that it is bound.

2.3 Your account. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information on your account, for keeping your password, one-time codes, QR sign-in links and recovery answers confidential, and for all activity that occurs under your account. Tell us immediately at support@iwritemines.com if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission. We are not liable for loss arising from your failure to secure your credentials.

2.4 Licence to you. Subject to these terms and to payment of any applicable fees, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to access and use the Service for your own creative work — personal or commercial — within the limits of your Plan.

2.5 Restrictions. You will not, and will not permit anyone else to: use the Service unlawfully; commit fraud; send spam; break, overload, probe, penetration-test, scrape or reverse-engineer the platform; bypass rate limits, quotas, paywalls or authentication; upload malware; resell, sublicense, white-label or redistribute the Service or its lessons; remove proprietary notices; use automated agents to extract our lessons, rubrics or prompts; or use the Service to build a competing product.

2.6 Our intellectual property. I Write Mines LLC retains all right, title and interest in the Service and everything we supply with it — the software, lessons, curricula, rubrics, grading frameworks, guides, prompts, documentation, templates, trade dress and branding. No rights are granted to you except those expressly stated here. "I Write Mines", "Mr AP" and our logos are our marks; other marks named in lessons belong to their owners and are used for identification only.

2.7 Feedback. If you send us suggestions, bug reports or feature ideas, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use them without obligation or compensation. This does not apply to Your Content, which remains yours under section 3.

2.8 Changes to the Service. The Service is provided on an ongoing basis and evolves. Features may be added, altered, limited or withdrawn, and beta features may be unstable. We do not guarantee uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free performance, and we do not guarantee that AI features will always be available at a given quality or speed.

2.9 Payments. Payment, billing, tax, invoicing, cancellation and refund mechanics are handled by our payment provider and Merchant of Record, Stripe, and are also governed by the Stripe consumer terms at stripe.com/legal/consumer. See section 11 for plan and refund detail.

2.10 Suspension and termination. We may suspend or terminate access, with notice where practicable, for material breach of these terms, non-payment, credible security or fraud risk, legal requirement, or repeated or serious policy violations. Where the risk is urgent we may act first and notify afterwards. You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your account from your portal.

2.11 Effect of termination. On termination your licence ends and access to paid features stops. Export your work before you go — the export tools are always available while your account is open. We will delete or anonymise stored content in line with the retention terms in section 6, save for records we must keep for legal, tax or security reasons. Sections that by their nature should survive — ownership, disclaimers, liability, indemnity, dispute resolution and general provisions — survive termination.

3.1 You own your work. Every manuscript, lyric, outline, script, note, cover, storyboard and recording you create or upload remains yours. Ownership of Your Content is not transferred to I Write Mines LLC, to Alander Pulliam, or to any affiliate, at any point, on any plan, including the free tier.

3.2 The licence you give us. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, revocable licence to host, store, transmit, reproduce, process, analyse and display Your Content strictly to operate the Service for you — for example saving a draft, syncing it to your account, rendering an export, running a grading sweep, or generating narration or artwork you requested. This licence exists only for as long as we need it to deliver those functions and ends when you delete the content or your account.

3.3 What we will not do. We do not sell your work. We do not publish it. We do not license it to third parties. We do not use your writing, audio or uploads to train AI models, and we instruct our model providers not to train on your submissions. We do not claim authorship credit, royalties, publishing splits, master rights or any participation in your work.

3.4 Your representations. You represent and warrant that you own or have all necessary rights to Your Content and to any instrumental, sample, image, quotation or third-party material you upload, and that its use through the Service does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy or contractual rights.

3.5 AI Output. As between you and us, we do not claim ownership of AI Output returned to you. AI Output is coaching material — direction, questions, structure, diagnostics — and may be similar to output given to other users on similar inputs, so it is not guaranteed to be unique or protectable. Copyright in AI-generated material is unsettled in several jurisdictions; you are responsible for confirming that anything you publish or register is your own authorship.

3.6 Deletion. You may delete your work at any time. Deleting a project removes it from your library; deleting your account removes stored projects, lesson progress, notes and grading reports. Backups and logs may retain copies for a short operational window before being overwritten.

3.7 Uploads. Instrumentals, manuscripts and other files you upload are processed only to produce the coaching output you requested. They are not retained as a public library, not redistributed, and not made available to other users unless you deliberately share them through a room or share link you created.

3.8 Collaboration. In a Writers Room or shared session, content you contribute is visible to other participants you invited or joined. Splits sheets, waivers and consents recorded in a room are records of what participants entered — they are not legal instruments prepared by us, and we do not verify identity, authority or the accuracy of any split.

4.1 Coaching, not ghostwriting. I Write Mines uses artificial intelligence to coach, analyse, question, diagnose and grade. By design it does not write your book, your lyrics, your script or your plan for you. Every tool is built to return direction, structure, questions and craft observations — not finished prose you can paste in as your own.

4.2 How the tools behave. The Revision Lab demonstrates editing moves on sentences you already wrote. The Beat Studio reads an instrumental's tone, tempo and pocket and returns angles and section jobs. Mr AP and the Tutor ask questions and push back. Graders score against published rubrics. None of these produce original creative text on your behalf.

4.3 Accuracy. AI Output can be wrong, incomplete, outdated, biased or generic. Grades and scores are directional teaching signals, not objective measures of quality or of commercial prospects. Treat all AI Output as a second opinion from a collaborator, not as fact, and not as legal, financial, medical or other professional advice. Verify anything that matters before you act on it.

4.4 Third-party model providers. AI features are powered by third-party model providers. Content you submit to an AI tool is transmitted to those providers to generate a response and is processed under their security terms. Do not paste confidential material, trade secrets, personal data about other people, or anything under a non-disclosure obligation.

4.5 Generated media. Where you ask the Service to generate narration, cover artwork, storyboards or concept video, that media is produced by automated systems on your instruction and may reflect the limits and biases of those systems. You are responsible for reviewing generated media before you publish it, for confirming it does not depict a real identifiable person without consent, and for confirming it does not infringe third-party rights.

4.6 Prohibited AI uses. You must not use the AI features to generate unlawful content, to impersonate a real person, to produce deepfakes or synthetic voice of anyone without their written consent, to create sexual content involving minors, to generate harassment or hate material, or to jailbreak, prompt-inject or otherwise circumvent the coaching-only design.

4.7 Moderation. We may filter, refuse, limit or remove AI requests and outputs, and may suspend accounts that repeatedly attempt prohibited uses.

4.8 AI never decides anything about you. No feature of the Service uses AI to make, or to automatically execute, a decision about a person. See section 4A.

4A.1 The rule. I Write Mines does not use artificial intelligence to make, or to materially influence, any decision that affects a person's rights, money, access, standing or opportunities. AI in this Service analyses creative work and returns craft feedback. It has no authority over accounts, people or funds.

4A.2 Decisions reserved to humans. Every one of the following is made by a named member of I Write Mines staff, on the whole file, using their own judgment: account approval, suspension, lockout or closure; password, email and account-recovery outcomes; identity verification and the verified check; fraud and abuse outcomes; content moderation and removal; Earn programme acceptance, awards, payouts and card issuance, limits or freezes; refunds and billing exceptions; membership, university admission, placement and youth or guardian access. Staff may read AI-assisted notes as one input among many; they are free to disregard them, and no AI note is required to reach an outcome.

4A.3 What automated checks actually do. Deterministic safety checks (for example duplicate-device or burst-sign-up signals) and AI summaries only route an item into a human queue and highlight what to look at. They cannot approve, deny, suspend, pay, charge, verify or rank a person, and nothing is executed automatically on their output.

4A.4 Grades, scores and placements are teaching aids. Grades on a manuscript, script, song or track, and any suggested study track, timetable or 'drive profile', are directional coaching signals about a piece of work or a self-assessment you filled in yourself. They are not measures of a person, are not used to grant or withhold access, money or opportunity, and can be ignored, retaken or overridden by you at any time.

4A.5 No profiling for eligibility. We do not profile you to price the Service, to decide whether you may buy it, to set credit or spending limits, or to judge your suitability for anything. We do not use AI to assess employment, credit, housing, insurance, education admission or legal outcomes for any person.

4A.6 Tell us and we will look again. If you believe an outcome was wrong, open Human re-review in your account portal (iwritemines.com/reviews) or email support@iwritemines.com. The portal shows each stage of the review — filed, picked up by a named staff member, and the written decision with its reason. A human who was not involved in the original outcome will review it, and you may submit your own explanation and supporting information. We aim to respond within 5 business days. This route is available to you whether or not any automated processing was involved, and nothing in these terms removes rights you hold under Article 22 GDPR or comparable law.

4A.7 Records. Staff decisions on accounts, funds and access are logged with the acting person and the reason, so any outcome can be traced back to the human who made it.

5.1 Controller. I Write Mines LLC (Georgia, United States) is the data controller for personal data processed through the Service and decides why and how that data is used. Contact us at support@iwritemines.com. This notice applies to the Service and not to any third-party site we link to.

5.2 What we collect. Account data (email address, display and artist name, account number, profile fields your sign-in provider returns, optional phone number for SMS codes). Content data (projects, drafts, notes, uploads and grading reports, if you choose to sync them). Usage data (lesson progress, placement result, feature usage, streaks). Support data (tickets, feedback, recovery answers). Technical data (browser and device type, IP address, timestamps, error and security logs). Communications data (email and SMS delivery status).

5.3 What we do not collect. Payment card numbers and billing addresses — those go directly to Stripe and are never stored by us — and special-category data such as health, biometric, religious or political information. Please do not enter sensitive personal information about yourself or others into the writing tools.

5.4 Sources. We collect data directly from you, automatically from your use of the Service, and from your sign-in provider when you choose social sign-in.

5.5 Local-first storage. By default your projects, placement result, theme preference and lesson progress are stored in your own browser. Cloud sync is opt-in and only runs when you sign in and trigger it.

5.6 Purposes and legal bases. To create and operate your account, save and restore your work, and deliver your Plan — performance of our contract with you. To keep the platform secure, detect fraud and abuse, debug faults, and improve the product in aggregate — our legitimate interests, balanced against your rights. To send marketing email, verification SMS or optional notifications — your consent, withdrawable at any time. To meet tax, accounting and legal obligations — legal obligation.

5.7 Automated processing. Grading and coaching features analyse the work you submit to return craft feedback, and safety checks may route an account into a human review queue. We do not carry out automated decision-making, including profiling, that produces legal or similarly significant effects on you: every decision about an account, identity, money, access or standing is made by a member of staff, as set out in section 4A, and you can ask for a fresh human review from Human re-review in your account portal (iwritemines.com/reviews) or at support@iwritemines.com.

5.8 Sharing — categories of recipients. (a) Infrastructure providers required to run the Service (hosting, database, authentication, storage). (b) AI model providers described in section 4, for the content you submit to an AI tool. (c) Stripe, Inc., our payment provider and Merchant of Record, which acts as an independent controller for the sale of our products and processes your name, email, billing address, payment details and transaction history to take payment, manage subscriptions, calculate and remit tax, issue invoices and handle refunds and billing support — see stripe.com/privacy. (d) Communications providers for transactional email and SMS delivery. (e) Professional advisers such as lawyers and accountants, under confidentiality. (f) Authorities, where required by law or to protect rights and safety. (g) An acquirer, in the event of a merger, acquisition or asset sale, subject to this notice. We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

5.9 International transfers. Our providers, including Stripe, may process data outside your country, including in the United States. Where data leaves the UK or EEA it is transferred under appropriate safeguards such as the UK Addendum, Standard Contractual Clauses, or an adequacy decision. You can ask us for a summary of the safeguards in place.

5.10 Your rights. You can request access to, correction of, export of, or deletion of your personal data. If you are in the EEA or UK you also have rights to object, to restrict processing, to data portability, to withdraw consent without affecting prior processing, and to complain to your supervisory authority under the GDPR. If you are in California you have rights of access, deletion, correction, portability and to know under the CCPA/CPRA, and a right against discrimination for exercising them — we do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined there. Residents of other US states with comparable laws have equivalent rights. To exercise any right, email support@iwritemines.com from the address on your account; we verify identity before acting and respond within 30 days, or 45 days where the law permits an extension. You may use an authorised agent where the law allows.

5.11 Security. We use appropriate technical and organisational measures including encryption in transit, hashed credentials, access controls on our database, row-level security scoping records to your account, audit logging of administrative actions, and optional two-factor and SMS verification. No system is perfectly secure; we do not guarantee absolute security, and you should keep your own copies of important work.

5.12 Breach. If a personal data breach is likely to result in a risk to your rights, we will notify the relevant supervisory authority and, where required, affected users without undue delay.

5.13 Retention. Synced projects and account data are kept until you delete them or close your account. Support tickets and moderation records are kept up to 24 months. Security, sign-in and error logs are kept for a limited operational period, generally up to 12 months. Order and tax records held by Stripe are retained by Stripe under its own policy and applicable tax law. After those periods data is deleted or anonymised.

5.14 Children. The Service is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child under 13 has given us data, contact us and we will delete it.

5.15 Do Not Track. Browsers send Do Not Track signals inconsistently and there is no common standard; because we do not run cross-site tracking or advertising, our behaviour does not change based on that signal. We honour recognised opt-out preference signals where the law requires.

6.1 Strictly necessary. If you sign in, an authentication cookie or token is stored so your session persists. Security and anti-abuse cookies protect the sign-in flow. These cannot be turned off without breaking the Service, and they rely on our legitimate interest in delivering a functioning, secure site.

6.2 Functional local storage. We use your browser's local storage to hold drafts, placement result, chosen theme and typography, onboarding state and lesson playback position. This is what makes the Service work offline-first. It is stored on your device, not read for advertising, and cleared when you clear site data.

6.3 What we do not use. We do not run third-party advertising cookies, cross-site tracking pixels, data brokers, or ad-network retargeting.

6.4 Managing it. You can clear cookies and site data in your browser settings at any time. Clearing storage will remove unsynced local drafts — sync first if you want to keep them. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent sign-in.

7.1 We respect intellectual property rights and expect users to do the same. Do not upload instrumentals, text, audio or artwork you do not have the right to use.

7.2 Notices. If you believe material on the Service infringes your copyright, send a written notice to support@iwritemines.com marked "DMCA Notice" that includes: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; identification of the material claimed to be infringing and enough detail to locate it; your name, address, telephone number and email; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.

7.3 Our response. We will remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a valid notice and will notify the affected user where we can. Knowingly making a material misrepresentation in a notice or counter-notice may expose you to liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

7.4 Counter-notice. A user whose material is removed may submit a counter-notice containing their signature, identification of the removed material and its former location, a statement under penalty of perjury that the removal was the result of mistake or misidentification, their contact details, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for their district (or, if outside the United States, any district in which we may be found).

7.5 Repeat infringers. We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

8.1 As is. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service and all AI Output are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy and non-infringement. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here limits rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived.

8.2 No professional advice. Industry material on this site — including label, publishing, split-sheet, sync, submission, registration, copyright and contract guidance — is educational commentary drawn from experience in the music and entertainment business. It is not legal, financial, tax or accounting advice, no attorney-client relationship is created, and it is not a substitute for a qualified professional in your jurisdiction. Consult an attorney before signing anything or registering rights.

8.3 No outcome guarantee. Nothing here promises publication, a record deal, placement, representation, sales, royalties, streams, followers or income. Results depend on your work, your market, and factors outside anyone's control. Any example, sample report or figure shown is illustrative only.

8.4 Third-party material and services. Lessons may reference or embed third-party videos, sites, platforms and resources. We do not control, endorse or take responsibility for that content, its availability, or the terms of the platforms named in our lessons.

8.5 Limitation of liability. To the maximum extent permitted by law, I Write Mines LLC, Alander Pulliam, and our officers, members, employees, contractors and affiliates are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost goodwill, lost data or lost creative work, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, and whether or not we were advised of the possibility.

8.6 Liability cap. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service or these terms is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars (US$100).

8.7 Carve-outs. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

8.8 Back up your work. While we take care with storage, you are solely responsible for keeping your own copies of Your Content — use the export tools regularly.

8.9 Basis of the bargain. The disclaimers and limits in this section are a fundamental part of the agreement between us and reflect the allocation of risk that makes the Service, including the free tier, available at these prices.

9.1 Do not use the Service to create, upload or distribute material that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful, that incites violence, that sexualises minors, or that discloses another person's private information without consent.

9.2 Do not attempt to make the AI tools produce finished creative work in place of your own authorship, or to circumvent the coaching-only design, quotas, plan limits or safety filters.

9.3 Do not impersonate another person, misrepresent your affiliation, forge headers, or use another member's account, invitation code or QR sign-in link.

9.4 Do not scrape, resell, sublicense, white-label or republish the Service, its lessons, rubrics or industry material without our written permission.

9.5 Do not interfere with the Service or other members: no denial-of-service, no automated flooding, no probing or scanning, no bypassing authentication, no uploading of malware, and no disruption of a Writers Room session.

9.6 In collaborative rooms, follow the room's stated rules, respect recording consent, and do not record or redistribute another participant's audio, video or work without their agreement.

9.7 Enforcement. We may warn, mute, limit, remove content, suspend or terminate accounts for violations, and may report unlawful activity to the authorities. Where a violation is minor and fixable we will normally warn first.

9.8 Reporting. Report abuse, security issues or vulnerabilities to support@iwritemines.com. Please give us reasonable time to fix a reported vulnerability before disclosing it publicly, and do not access other members' data while testing.

10.1 Plans and prices. Plans and prices are published openly on our pricing page before you create an account or check out. The free Beta plan covers the whole workshop with up to 10 minutes of concept trailer per month; Pro is US$12 per month for up to 60 minutes; Premium is US$25 per month for up to 2 hours. Prices are in US dollars and exclude tax, which is calculated and shown at checkout.

10.2 Merchant of Record. Our order process is conducted by our payment provider Stripe. Stripe is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Stripe provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns. Card details go to Stripe and are never stored by I Write Mines LLC.

10.3 Billing cycle and renewal. Paid plans are billed monthly in advance from the date of purchase and renew automatically at the then-current price until cancelled. Your renewal date and plan status are shown on your Billing page inside the app.

10.4 Usage allowances. Concept-trailer minutes are a monthly allowance, enforced server-side. Minutes produced in a month count against that month's allowance and do not roll over to the next month. Upgrading raises your ceiling immediately on checkout clearing; minutes already produced in the current month remain counted. Downgrading takes effect at the next renewal and lowers the ceiling from that date.

10.5 Cancellation. You may cancel at any time from Billing or through Stripe. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; you keep paid access until then and are not charged again.

10.6 Refunds — 30-day money-back guarantee. If you are not satisfied with your purchase you can request a full refund within 30 days of your order date, for any reason. Refunds are processed by Stripe, our Merchant of Record. To request one, open the Stripe billing portal from your account, or email support@iwritemines.com and we will raise it with Stripe for you. Refunds are also handled under the Refund Policy at iwritemines.com/refunds. Refunds are normally returned to the original payment method within 5-10 business days of approval.

10.7 Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe will retry under its dunning schedule. Paid features may be limited while a payment is outstanding, and the subscription may be cancelled if payment ultimately fails. Restoring payment restores access.

10.8 Price changes. We may change prices for future billing periods. Existing subscribers will be notified by email at least 14 days before a price change takes effect, and may cancel before it applies.

10.9 Taxes. Stripe calculates, collects and remits sales tax, VAT and GST where applicable, based on your billing location. Invoices are available from the Stripe billing portal in your account.

10.10 Chargebacks. If you dispute a charge with your bank rather than requesting a refund, we may suspend the account pending resolution. Please contact us first — a refund is faster.

10.11 Beta pricing. The Service is in beta. Free-tier limits and paid allowances may change with notice; we will not reduce an allowance you have already paid for during a period you have paid for.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless I Write Mines LLC, Alander Pulliam and our officers, members, employees, contractors and affiliates from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, fine, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) Your Content, including any claim that it infringes or misappropriates a third party's rights; (b) your use or misuse of the Service or of AI Output; (c) your breach of these terms or of any applicable law; (d) anything you publish, register, submit or distribute using material prepared here; or (e) a dispute between you and a collaborator over authorship, splits or credit.

We will notify you of any claim we seek indemnity for, give you reasonable control over its defence with counsel reasonably acceptable to us, and cooperate at your expense. You may not settle a claim in a way that admits fault on our behalf or imposes obligations on us without our written consent.

12.1 Governing law. These terms and any dispute arising out of them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

12.2 Talk to us first. Before filing anything, send a written description of the dispute and the relief you want to support@iwritemines.com. We will try in good faith to resolve it informally within 30 days. This step is a condition of filing, except for claims seeking urgent injunctive relief.

12.3 Venue. If informal resolution fails, the state and federal courts located in the State of Georgia have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there. Either party may bring a qualifying claim in small-claims court instead.

12.4 No class actions. To the extent permitted by law, disputes will be brought only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective or representative proceeding.

12.5 Consumers. If you are a consumer resident in the EEA, the UK or another jurisdiction whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts or to rely on mandatory local consumer protections, nothing in this section removes that right.

12.6 Time limit. Any claim arising out of the Service must be brought within one year after it arises, except where a longer period is required by law.

13.1 Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure or delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including outages of hosting, network, model or payment providers, natural events, war, civil unrest, labour action, or government action.

13.2 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these terms or your account without our written consent. We may assign these terms to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, on notice to you.

13.3 Severability. If a provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the remaining provisions stay in force.

13.4 No waiver. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it or of any other provision.

13.5 No third-party beneficiaries. These terms do not create rights for anyone other than you and us, except that our affiliates and personnel may rely on the disclaimer, liability and indemnity sections.

13.6 Relationship. Nothing here creates a partnership, joint venture, employment, agency or fiduciary relationship between us.

13.7 Export and sanctions. You confirm you are not located in, and will not use the Service from, a country or region subject to comprehensive US sanctions, and that you are not on a restricted-party list.

13.8 US government users. The Service is commercial computer software; any use by a US government entity is subject to the restrictions in FAR 12.212 and DFARS 227.7202.

13.9 Language and headings. These terms are written in English; any translation is for convenience. Headings are for reference only and do not affect interpretation.

13.10 Accessibility. We aim to keep the Service usable with keyboard navigation, readable contrast and screen-reader labels. If something on the site blocks you, email support@iwritemines.com and we will work with you on an alternative route to the same feature.

We may update these documents as the Service changes, as we add features or providers, or as the law requires. The effective date at the top of this page shows the current version.

For material changes — those that meaningfully reduce your rights or increase your obligations — we will give notice at least 14 days before they take effect, by email to the address on your account or by an in-app notice, unless a change must take effect sooner for legal or security reasons.

Continued use of the Service after an update takes effect means you accept the updated documents. If you do not accept them, stop using the Service and cancel any paid plan before the effective date; where you have prepaid for a period you may request a pro-rated refund through Stripe.

15.1 Transactional messages. Account and security email — sign-in alerts, verification, password resets, one-time codes, invitations, receipts and account notices — is transactional and is sent to the address on your account so we can operate and protect the Service. You cannot opt out of transactional security email while your account is open.

15.2 Confidentiality notice. Every message we send carries a confidentiality notice: it is intended only for the named recipient and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you receive one in error, delete it and notify support@iwritemines.com. Review, copying, forwarding or use by anyone other than the intended recipient is not authorised.

15.3 What we never do. We do not sell your personal information and we never include your drafts, lyrics, manuscripts or scripts in marketing. We will never ask for your password, one-time code or account-recovery answers by email, text or phone. Treat any message that does as a phishing attempt and report it to us.

15.4 SMS. SMS verification and updates are optional and opt-in. Message frequency varies, message and data rates may apply, and some carriers may incur charges. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help. You can turn SMS off at any time in your portal security panel.

15.5 Marketing. Marketing and newsletter email is separate, opt-in, and every message includes a one-click unsubscribe. Opting out of marketing does not stop transactional security email.

16.1 Educational purpose. I Write Mines University is educational. Lessons, walkthroughs, grading reports, rubrics, drills and coaching are teaching materials — they are not legal, financial, tax, agency or career advice, and no outcome, sale, placement, deal or income is promised or implied.

16.2 What the publishing support is. Publishing and distribution support is guided instruction plus file and metadata preparation. I Write Mines is not a publisher, literary agent, manager, label, aggregator, PRO or retailer, does not take a cut of your income, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Target, Google, Spotify, BMI, ASCAP, SESAC or any other organisation named in our lessons.

16.3 Third-party platform decisions. Acceptance, listing, pricing, royalties, payouts, takedowns and removal are decided solely by those platforms under their own terms. You are responsible for your account with each platform, for the accuracy of your metadata and rights claims, and for any fees they charge. All marks named are the property of their owners and are referenced for identification only.

16.4 Rights registration. Copyright, PRO and split-registration walkthroughs describe general processes that change over time and differ by country. Confirm current requirements with the relevant office or organisation, and with your own attorney, before filing.

16.5 Free features. Where the Service is offered free of charge, it is provided as-is under section 8, and features may change or be withdrawn.

The Service is operated by I Write Mines LLC, a Georgia limited liability company trading as "I Write Mines", founded by Alander Pulliam, drawing on over two decades in the music and entertainment business.

General support, privacy requests, copyright notices, security reports and legal questions: support@iwritemines.com — or use the feedback control inside the app or the support desk. We aim to acknowledge within 5 business days and to respond to privacy and copyright requests within 30 days.

Billing, invoices, payment methods, cancellations and refunds: our Merchant of Record Stripe, through the billing portal in your account — or email us and we will pass it on.

Postal notices may be requested at support@iwritemines.com and will be provided for formal legal correspondence.