Terms of Service

1. Who you're dealing with

Markbound is operated by Generative Studio, the Netherlands. Contact: ataakillioglu@generative-studio.nl.

2. Early access

Markbound is in active early access. Features may change, break, or be removed. We aim for stability but do not guarantee it. You use the service "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind to the maximum extent permitted by law.

3. Your account

• You must be 16 or older.
• One account per person; keep your credentials secret.
• You are responsible for everything that happens under your account.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use Markbound to generate or store illegal content, content that sexualises minors, or content that incites violence against real people.
• Attempt to bypass usage caps, scrape the AI gateway, or resell access.
• Reverse-engineer, attack, or disrupt the service.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules.

5. Subscriptions and payment

• Paid tiers are billed monthly via Stripe.
• Allowances reset on your billing anniversary (e.g. buy on the 30th, the next batch unlocks on the 30th of next month).
• Cancel any time from your account page; access continues until the end of the paid period.
• Prices are shown in EUR and may include VAT where applicable.

Refunds

Under EU consumer law you have a 14-day right of withdrawal for digital services. By starting to use AI narration immediately after subscribing, you expressly waive this right for the consumed portion of the service. We will refund any unused portion at our discretion — email us.

6. Your content

Your characters, sagas and journal entries are yours. You grant us a limited licence to store and process them solely to run the service (including sending the relevant slice to AI model providers when you request a Narrator response — see our AI Disclosure). We will not sell your content or use it to train models.

7. Our content

The Markbound app, branding and original code are © Generative Studio. This work is based on Ironsworn, created by Shawn Tomkin, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Oracle tables, moves, and character options in Markbound are original text inspired by the Ironsworn rules system. Markbound is a fan-made companion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Shawn Tomkin.

8. AI output

Narrator responses are produced by third-party AI models. Output may be inaccurate, repetitive, or unsuitable. You are responsible for what you do with it. Dice and oracle outcomes are generated client-side with crypto-grade randomness and are authoritative — the AI only narrates what the dice already produced.

9. Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim arising from your use of Markbound is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim. We are not liable for lost profits, lost data or indirect damages.

10. Termination

You can delete your account at any time from your account settings, or by emailing us at ataakillioglu@generative-studio.nl. We may terminate or suspend the service, or your account, with reasonable notice — or immediately for serious breaches of these terms.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands. Disputes will be resolved by the competent courts of the Netherlands, without prejudice to mandatory consumer-protection rights you have in your country of residence.

12. Changes

We may update these terms. Material changes will be announced by email or in-app at least 14 days before they take effect.