Terms of Service

These terms are the agreement between you and Istiaq Ahmed (sole trader), who operates BookArc from Bangladesh. Using the service means you accept them. If you do not, do not use it — the free plan included.

You must be 18 or older to have an account, and you must give us an email address that reaches you.

BookArc takes a description of a book, plans it, and writes it chapter by chapter using AI models, drawing a cover to go with it. On a paid plan you can export the result as files.

The service is provided as it is, and it changes. Models are replaced, features are added and occasionally removed. We will not remove your ability to get your finished books out of the service without telling you first.

Keep your sign-in details to yourself; anything done from your account is treated as done by you. One person per account, and accounts are not to be shared or resold.

You can stop using BookArc whenever you like, and ask us to delete the account at support@bookarc.ai.

To say it in the language a publishing platform will ask for: as between you and us, you own the output, and to the extent we hold any rights in it at all, we assign them to you. You do not need our permission to sell it, and you do not need to credit us.

Two honest limits on that, both true of every AI writing tool and neither of them in the small print anywhere else:

• We cannot promise it is unique. AI models produce similar text for similar prompts. Somebody else asking for a similar book may receive something that resembles yours, and neither of you has a claim against the other.
• Copyright in machine-written text is unsettled. Several countries limit or refuse copyright protection for work produced without meaningful human authorship. We are not able to guarantee that a book written here is protectable, anywhere. Your own edits and additions are your own work in the ordinary way.

What you type in stays yours too. You give us permission to store it, send it to the AI provider that writes the book, and show it back to you — and nothing else. We do not use your books to train anything, and we do not let anyone else do so.

Everything BookArc produces is written by a machine, and nobody reads it before you do. That has consequences worth being blunt about:

• It can be wrong. Facts, dates, names, quotes and citations can all be invented while reading as though they are certain.
• It is not advice. Nothing it writes about health, law, money, safety or any other regulated subject is professional advice, and it must not be published as though it were.
• It can repeat existing work. Check anything that looks like a quotation, a lyric or a passage from a known book before you publish it.
• It is your name on the cover. Read what you are about to sell — you are responsible for it once it leaves here.

Some shops require you to declare AI-assisted work when you upload it. Amazon KDP does. Following those rules is your job, and we would rather you knew that before the upload than after it.

Do not use BookArc to make:

• anything illegal where you are, or where you intend to sell it;
• sexual content involving children, in any form, at all;
• material that harasses, threatens, or incites violence or hatred against people;
• content that impersonates a real person or organisation, or is presented as their work;
• deliberate disinformation, fake reviews, fake credentials, or medical, legal or financial claims dressed up as expert guidance;
• work that infringes somebody else’s copyright or trade mark, including continuing a copyrighted series as though authorised.

And do not attack the service itself:

• no automated scraping, resale of generations, or reselling access to your account;
• no attempts to break the credit system, the export limits or anybody else’s account;
• no probing, load-testing or reverse-engineering the service without asking us first.

Everything BookArc does is paid for in credits: planning a book, writing each chapter, and drawing a cover. What a book costs depends on its format and length, and the price is shown before you spend anything.

• The free plan grants 30 credits once, when you sign up. There is no refill on it and no card is needed.
• A paid plan grants its credits at the start of each billing period. Unused credits do not carry over — each period starts at the plan’s allowance, not on top of what was left.
• There is no overage billing on any plan. When the balance will not cover the next step, the work stops and asks you what to do — it never quietly runs up a bill.
• A $15 top-up adds 100 credits to a paid account straight away. Top-up credits are spent like any others and do not survive a renewal.
• Credits are not money, are not transferable between accounts, and cannot be cashed out.

If a generation fails on our side, the credits for it go back to your balance automatically. You do not have to ask.

Payments are taken by Polar, who are the merchant of record for every sale. Prices are in US dollars and shown before you pay. Any sales tax or VAT is added by Polar according to where you are.

A subscription renews automatically on the same day each month until you cancel it, which you can do at any time. Cancelling stops the next payment; it does not end the period you have already paid for.

When money comes back is set out in the refund policy, which is part of these terms.

You can leave whenever you want. Cancel from your billing page, or ask us to delete the account entirely.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks section 6, that is being used to defraud us or a payment provider, or that we are required to close by law. Where it is not one of those, you will get a warning and a chance to fix it first. If we close your account without cause, we refund the unused part of the period you paid for.

Give us reasonable notice and we will help you get your books out before an account closes.

BookArc is provided without warranties of any kind. We do not promise it will be uninterrupted, that a model will always be available, or that what it writes will be accurate, original, or fit for what you have in mind.

We are not liable for lost profits, lost sales, lost data, or any indirect or consequential loss. For anything else, our total liability to you is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim — and if you are on the free plan, that is nothing, which is the trade you accepted by not paying.

None of this limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected by anything here.

If somebody makes a claim against us because of what you published, you cover us for it.

These terms are governed by the law of Bangladesh, and disputes go to the courts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. If you are a consumer somewhere else, this does not take away the protection of the mandatory laws of the country you live in.

Before any of that: write to support@bookarc.ai. Almost everything is a misunderstanding about credits, and almost everything gets sorted out by email in a day.

We will update these as the product changes. The date at the top always says when. If a change materially affects what you get or what you pay, we will email you before it takes effect, and using BookArc afterwards means you accept the new version.