Terms of Service

1. Who we are

REBEL AF Books is a UK-based business owned and operated by JoJo Miracle Patience, trading as a sole trader registered for tax in the United Kingdom. Contact: jojo@rebelafbooks.com. A postal address for formal correspondence is available on request.

2. Eligibility

You must:

• be at least 18 years old;
• have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement;
• provide accurate and up-to-date information when creating an account.

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for all activity carried out through your account. Tell us immediately if you believe your account has been compromised.

3. Our service

REBEL AF Books is an AI-assisted book writing platform. It helps you capture ideas, record your voice, identify themes, create outlines, generate chapter drafts and develop your manuscript.

The platform assists your writing process. It does not replace professional editorial, legal, financial or publishing advice. We do not guarantee publication, bestseller status, commercial success, acceptance by any publisher or retailer (including Amazon), copyright protection, or the factual accuracy of AI-generated content. We help you write a book; we do not publish, market or sell it for you.

4. Your content and what it does not include

You retain ownership of your content: your notes, uploaded material, writing samples, themes, outlines, chapter drafts, edits, transcripts and the finished manuscript ("Your Content").

Your Content does not include, and you acquire no rights in:

• the REBEL AF Books software, application, website and source code;
• our branding, name, logos, design and marketing materials;
• our prompts, prompt templates, system instructions, workflows, methodology and editorial frameworks;
• our databases, data models, analytics and aggregated or anonymised statistics;
• any AI models, tools or third-party technology used to deliver the service.

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, transmit, process, display and back up Your Content solely to operate, maintain and secure the services we provide to you. This licence ends when your content is permanently deleted from our systems, except where we must retain limited records by law.

5. Your licence to use the platform

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the platform for your own book projects for as long as your account is in good standing and any applicable fees are paid. In practice this means you may:

• use the platform's features to create, edit and export your own manuscripts;
• use the exported output commercially, including publishing and selling your book.

It does not permit you to:

• resell, sublicense, rent or share account access with others;
• use the platform to operate a competing or white-labelled writing service for third parties;
• copy, adapt, decompile or reverse engineer the platform, or extract our prompts or workflows;
• use automated tools to scrape, crawl or bulk-extract data from the platform.

6. Artificial intelligence

Our platform uses artificial intelligence to generate suggestions, themes, outlines, transcripts and chapter drafts. Relevant content is processed by trusted providers including Google and OpenAI through our infrastructure. We do not use your manuscripts, transcripts or personal data to train AI models, and we do not sell your content for AI training.

AI-generated content:

• may contain factual errors, invented details or outdated information;
• may be incomplete or omit important context;
• may not be unique, and may resemble output generated for other users or existing published material;
• may reflect bias present in underlying models;
• must not be relied on as legal, financial, medical or other professional advice;
• should always be reviewed, fact-checked and edited by you before publication.

You are solely responsible for verifying and for everything you publish or distribute, including ensuring it does not infringe third-party rights. Full detail is in our AI Transparency & Acceptable Use Policy.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• upload content you do not have the right to use, or that infringes another person's intellectual property rights;
• upload malicious software or harmful code, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to our systems or other users' accounts;
• interfere with, disrupt or place unreasonable load on the platform or its security;
• scrape, copy, crawl, decompile or reverse engineer the service except where permitted by law;
• circumvent usage limits, paywalls, rate limits or access controls;
• share, resell or transfer account access;
• create unlawful, defamatory, harassing, fraudulent, abusive, obscene, hateful or otherwise harmful content;
• generate content that sexualises minors or promotes violence, self-harm or illegal activity;
• impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation with anyone;
• use the platform in breach of applicable laws, sanctions or export controls.

We may investigate suspected breaches and may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these Terms.

8. Intellectual property

All intellectual property rights in the platform, including our software, website, branding, logos, graphics, workflows, prompts, databases and underlying technology, remain our property or that of our licensors. These Terms do not transfer ownership of any of our intellectual property to you.

9. Fees, subscriptions and payment failures

• Subscription fees are payable in advance and are processed securely through Stripe.
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current price unless cancelled before the renewal date.
• Prices are shown inclusive of any tax we are required to charge; where tax applies it will be shown at checkout.
• If a payment fails, Stripe may retry it. We may suspend access to paid features while payment is outstanding, and may terminate the subscription if payment remains unpaid.
• You are responsible for keeping your payment details current.
• If you raise a chargeback or payment dispute instead of contacting us, we may suspend your account while the dispute is investigated, and may recover reasonable costs where the dispute is resolved in our favour.
• We may change prices. We will give reasonable notice before a price change affects an existing subscription, and you may cancel before it takes effect. Any launch or promotional price applies only for the period stated at purchase.

10. Free trials

Where a free trial is offered:

• no payment is taken until the trial ends;
• you may cancel at any time before the trial ends and you will not be charged;
• if you do not cancel before the trial expires, the subscription automatically converts to a paid subscription at the price shown at sign-up.

11. Cancellation and refunds

You may cancel a subscription at any time. Cancellation stops future renewals and you keep access until the end of the current paid period.

Because we supply digital services immediately, activation affects your statutory 14-day cancellation right. In practice: you have 14 days from purchase to request a full refund provided you have not used any AI feature. "Activation" happens the first time you run an AI generation (theme extraction, outline creation, chapter draft, polish or style check, transcription, or any other AI-powered feature). By starting a generation within the 14-day period, you request that we begin supplying the service immediately and acknowledge that you lose the right to cancel once the service has been performed.

Full detail, including how to request a refund and the exceptional cases where we refund after activation, is in our Refunds & Cancellation Policy, which forms part of these Terms. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you have under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 or other applicable consumer legislation. Where you buy as a business, consumer cancellation rights do not apply.

12. Availability of the service

We aim to provide a reliable service but cannot guarantee uninterrupted availability. The platform may be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance, software updates, technical issues, security incidents or failures affecting third-party providers. We will try to carry out planned maintenance outside peak hours and give notice where reasonably practicable.

We rely on third-party infrastructure and AI providers. We may change, replace or discontinue a provider, model or feature where reasonably necessary — for example if a provider withdraws a service, changes its terms or ceases trading. Doing so is not a breach of these Terms, provided the core functionality of paid services is maintained. Where a change materially affects paid functionality, we will give reasonable notice unless the change is required urgently for security or legal reasons.

13. Suspension and termination

You may close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your account or access where:

• you breach these Terms or our Acceptable Use requirements;
• payment is overdue or a chargeback is raised;
• your use presents a security, legal or reputational risk;
• we reasonably believe unlawful or fraudulent activity has occurred;
• continued access could harm other users, our providers or the platform.

Where appropriate and lawful we will give reasonable notice and an opportunity to remedy the issue. On termination you may request an export of your content for 30 days, after which it may be deleted.

14. Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including natural disasters, epidemics, war, terrorism, internet or power outages, cyber attacks, industrial disputes, government action, or the failure or withdrawal of third-party infrastructure or AI providers.

15. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where it would be unlawful to do so, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any rights that cannot be excluded under UK law. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected.

Subject to the above:

• the service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis;
• we do not guarantee uninterrupted, secure or error-free operation, or that AI output will be accurate, original or fit for a particular purpose;
• we are not responsible for losses arising from your reliance on AI-generated content, or from your decision to publish, distribute or sell any content;
• we are not responsible for loss of content where you have not kept your own copies, beyond our obligation to take reasonable care of data we hold;
• we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profits, revenue, business, anticipated savings, opportunity or goodwill;
• we are not liable for third-party claims relating to content you publish.

Our total aggregate liability arising from or in connection with the service shall not exceed the total amount you paid us in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim.

16. Data protection

We process personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. By using our services you acknowledge that your personal data will be handled as described in those policies.

17. Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, AI Transparency & Acceptable Use Policy and Refunds & Cancellation Policy, form the entire agreement between us and replace any previous statements, promises, representations or discussions, whether spoken, written, on a call, in a webinar or on social media. You confirm you are not relying on any statement that is not set out in these documents. This does not exclude liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

18. Severability, waiver and assignment

If any provision of these Terms is found unlawful or unenforceable, it shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary or removed, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. We may transfer our rights and obligations as part of a business sale, merger or restructuring; you may not transfer yours without our prior written consent.

19. Third-party rights

Accounts are personal to you. You may not share or transfer access, and anyone using the platform through your account does so as your responsibility — you remain liable for their activity and for their compliance with these Terms. Except as stated, no person who is not a party to these Terms has any right to enforce them under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

20. Complaints

If something goes wrong, email jojo@rebelafbooks.com with "Complaint" in the subject line and a description of the issue. We will acknowledge within 3 working days and aim to give a substantive response within 14 days. If we cannot resolve it, you may be able to refer the matter to an alternative dispute resolution provider or the courts.

21. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except where mandatory consumer protection law provides otherwise.

22. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Where changes are material we will give reasonable notice by email or in the platform before they take effect. The latest version will always be available here.