Terms & Conditions

Welcome to Plot Matrix (“Plot Matrix,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), an online tool for structuring and tracking storylines and characters across chapters and scenes. These Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Plot Matrix website and application (the “Service”), operated by Ngine Dynamics, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company, doing business as Plot Matrix (“Company”).

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Plot Matrix is offered on a subscription basis. Current plans and pricing are listed at plotmatrix.app/pricing.

Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each applicable billing period unless you cancel your subscription before the renewal date through your account settings or by contacting Company. By subscribing, you authorize Company or its designated payment processor to charge the applicable subscription fees, taxes, and other disclosed charges to your selected payment method on each renewal date. You are responsible for ensuring that your payment information remains accurate and that sufficient funds are available to process recurring charges. Subscription fees are generally non-refundable, and Company does not provide refunds or credits for partially used billing periods, unused features, or failure to access or use the Service, except where a refund is expressly offered by Company or required by applicable law. If Company offers a free trial, promotional period, or discounted introductory subscription, the applicable terms, including when billing will begin, will be disclosed at the time of enrollment.

If a payment is declined, reversed, or otherwise cannot be processed, Company may notify you and provide an opportunity to update your payment information. Company may suspend or restrict access to paid features until payment is successfully received. Company may also terminate the account if an outstanding balance remains unpaid after reasonable notice.

Company may change subscription prices, plan features, or billing terms from time to time. We will provide advance notice of any price increase — at least 30 days before it applies to your next renewal. Unless otherwise required by law, the new pricing will take effect beginning with your next applicable renewal period. Your continued use of the Service after the new pricing becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the revised pricing, subject to your right to cancel before renewal. You are responsible for all applicable sales, use, value-added, or similar taxes associated with your subscription, except taxes imposed on Company’s net income.

• You may cancel at any time through your account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you will retain access until then.
• Failure to pay may result in suspension or termination of your access to paid features.

“User Content” means the storylines, character data, plot structures, notes, and other material you create, upload, or store using the Service.

• You own your User Content. You retain all right, title, and interest in and to your User Content, including all storylines, characters, plots, concepts, ideas, notes, manuscripts, creative works, and other materials that you create, upload, enter, or store through the Service, together with any intellectual property rights you may have in such materials. Company does not claim ownership of your User Content and does not acquire any ownership interest in your User Content merely because you use the Service to create, upload, organize, store, or process it. Nothing in these Terms transfers or assigns to Company any copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights in your User Content. To the extent any idea, concept, or other material does not qualify as legally protectable intellectual property, Company nevertheless will not claim ownership of or commercialize such material solely because you submitted it to or stored it through the Service.
• License to us: By using the Service, you grant Company a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, and display your User Content solely as necessary to operate, maintain, and improve the Service (for example, rendering your grid, syncing across your devices, or backing up your data). This license ends when you delete the content or close your account, except for residual copies retained temporarily in backups.
• Company will not sell, license, disclose, or otherwise provide your User Content to any third party for the purpose of training, fine-tuning, developing, testing, or improving any artificial intelligence or machine-learning model or system without your separate, express, and affirmative consent. Company will not use your User Content to train, fine-tune, or develop its own artificial intelligence or machine-learning models without such consent. Any consent to such use must be separate from your acceptance of these Terms and may not be implied solely by your use of the Service. This restriction does not prevent Company from using automated technologies to process User Content to the limited extent reasonably necessary to provide, maintain, secure, troubleshoot, or operate features of the Service requested or enabled by you.
• You are solely responsible for your User Content and confirm you have the rights necessary to store and use it through the Service.
• You are responsible for maintaining your own copies of your work. While we take reasonable steps to protect and back up data, we recommend periodically exporting your content.

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for unlawful purposes or to infringe others’ intellectual property or privacy rights.
• Upload malicious code, attempt to breach security, or interfere with the Service’s operation.
• Reverse-engineer, scrape, or resell the Service without our written permission.
• Use automated means to access the Service outside of any provided API.

Company may, in its reasonable discretion, suspend, restrict, limit, or terminate your access to all or any portion of the Service where reasonably necessary to address or prevent security threats, suspected or actual unlawful activity, fraud, abuse, misuse of the Service, violations of these Terms, nonpayment, or conduct that materially interferes with the operation of the Service or the rights, security, or experience of Company or other users. Company may take such action immediately where reasonably necessary to protect the Service, its systems, or users, or to comply with applicable law or legal obligations. To the extent reasonably practicable, Company will provide notice of the suspension and an opportunity to remedy the underlying issue. Company will not be liable for losses resulting from a suspension or restriction taken in accordance with this Section, except to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not guarantee the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, and we do not warrant the accuracy or persistence of any data stored.

The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any express or implied uptime, availability, continuity, or service-level guarantee. Company does not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, continuously available, error-free, secure, or accessible at any particular time. The Service may be temporarily unavailable or degraded due to scheduled or emergency maintenance, updates, technical failures, software or hardware problems, internet or telecommunications failures, cybersecurity incidents, third-party hosting or infrastructure failures, or other circumstances beyond Company’s reasonable control.

The Service is not intended to function as a backup, archival, or permanent storage solution. Company does not guarantee that User Content or other data will be preserved, backed up, complete, accurate, secure, recoverable, or continuously available, and Company is not responsible for the loss, corruption, deletion, alteration, or inability to recover User Content, except to the extent liability cannot legally be excluded. You are solely responsible for maintaining independent and current backup copies of your User Content and other materials that are important to you.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Company and its officers, directors, employees, affiliates, contractors, and service providers shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business opportunities, goodwill, data, User Content, creative work, or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to your access to or use of, or inability to access or use, the Service, including losses resulting from service interruptions, outages, data loss, data corruption, or failure to preserve or recover User Content, regardless of the legal theory on which the claim is based and even if Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Company’s total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms shall not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you actually paid to Company for the Service during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).

Nothing in these Terms shall exclude or limit liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under applicable law.

• You may close your account at any time.
• We may suspend or terminate your account for violation of these Terms, nonpayment, or as needed to comply with law.

Following termination or cancellation of your account, Company may provide you with a period of approximately thirty (30) days to access and export your User Content, unless a different period is expressly stated by Company. You are solely responsible for exporting and maintaining independent copies of your User Content before the expiration of this period. After the applicable export period expires, Company may permanently delete your User Content from its active systems without further notice or obligation to retain or provide access to such content. Company may retain residual copies of User Content for a limited period in routine backups, disaster-recovery systems, or archives, which will be deleted or overwritten in accordance with Company’s ordinary retention practices. Company may also delete or restrict access to User Content immediately where reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect the security of the Service, prevent abuse or fraud, or protect the rights or safety of Company, its users, or third parties.