Terms of service

These terms cover the Writality website, desktop app, and any optional online services I make available. Writality is made by Bara Konateh, based in the United Kingdom/Spain/Netherlands. You can contact me at bara@writality.com.

By using Writality, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please stop using it. Any separate licence supplied with the app or its third-party components still applies. These terms do not take away rights those licences give you.

The privacy policy explains how personal information is handled. Agreeing to these terms does not subscribe you to marketing or give blanket consent to collect your writing.

Your writing belongs to you. Using Writality does not transfer ownership of your manuscripts, concepts, notes, images, or other project material to me.

You are responsible for the material you add and for having the permissions you need to use it. The app’s name, website, and other Writality material remain the property of their respective owners, subject to any applicable licences.

You can use the desktop app for local writing without publishing your work. Optional sharing is your choice.

Use it lawfully, do not abuse the site, and do not make a nuisance of yourself. Please.

Do not use online services to distribute malware, send spam, harass people, publish material you have no right to share, or expose someone else’s private information without a lawful reason. Do not try to access other people’s hosted content without permission or interfere with the service’s security or availability.

Fiction can deal with difficult subjects. These rules concern unlawful use and abuse of the service; they do not give me access to, or editorial control over, your private local projects.

Shareable pages and related email validation are planned and are not available on this website yet. When offered, you will need an email address you control to validate access and manage your hosted content.

Keep verification links and access credentials private. If someone else gains access, or you receive a verification email you did not request, contact me. Verification messages and essential service notices are separate from the optional newsletter.

If you cannot legally agree to these terms on your own, involve a parent or guardian before using optional online services.

When sharing becomes available, you will choose what to upload and confirm the audience or link access before it is published. Permission to host selected material is not permission to upload the rest of your project.

By asking me to host content, you give me a limited, non-exclusive permission to store, copy, transmit, and display that content only as needed to provide the service you request. Service providers helping deliver it may do the same for that purpose. You keep ownership. This permission does not let me sell your work, advertise with it, or train AI models on it.

That permission lasts while you ask me to provide the service and for any limited period needed to remove backups or meet legal obligations, as explained in the privacy policy and the feature’s published retention details.

A link can be forwarded. A public page can be copied or indexed by search engines. Only publish material you are comfortable making available to the audience shown. I cannot promise that someone will forget or delete a copy because you later take the page down.

You will be able to request removal by contacting me. The available access, expiry, and deletion controls will be described before the feature launches. A hosted page is not a backup service; keep a local copy.

The app is provided as-is. I am trying to make it good, but I am not pretending software has never broken in human history.

I cannot guarantee uninterrupted online access, that every bug will be fixed immediately, or that the software will meet every particular need. Keep backups of important work and check exported files before relying on them.

Nothing here takes away your statutory rights, including any rights to digital content that matches its description or services provided with reasonable care and skill. I do not exclude or limit liability for fraud, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or anything else the law does not allow me to exclude or limit.

I may restrict access to hosted content or online services where necessary to address a breach of these terms, a security risk, or a legal requirement. Where reasonably possible and lawful, I will explain the reason and give you a way to contact me about a mistake. Urgent action may be needed first.

If an online feature is discontinued, I will give reasonable notice where practicable so you can retrieve the material you need. Removing an online page or ending an online service does not delete your local desktop project.

You can stop using Writality at any time. To ask for personal information or hosted content to be deleted, email me; the privacy policy explains the relevant rights and limits.

Links to other websites and services are there for convenience. Those services have their own terms and privacy practices. Their availability is outside my control. Any payment or subscription you choose on a third-party platform is also subject to that platform’s terms.

If something changes in a serious way, I will update this page. I reserve the right to improve the app without first convening a constitutional assembly :P.

The date above shows when these terms were last updated. Material changes affecting an online service will be brought to your attention before they take effect, with your agreement where the law requires it. New features may have additional terms shown before you choose to use them.

If you want something deleted, changed, or clarified, send me an email and I will deal with it like a reasonable person.

You can reach me at bara@writality.com. If there is a problem, please start there so I can try to resolve it. Nothing in these terms removes any mandatory protections or rights to bring a claim that apply where you live.