Terms of Service

1. Agreement to these terms

By creating an account or using xDots, you agree to these terms. If you are using xDots on behalf of a company or other organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and “you” means that organisation.

If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the service.

2. Accounts and eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use xDots, and old enough to form a binding contract where you live. If you are under 18, you may use xDots only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

Accounts are created through Google or GitHub. You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping access to the provider account you sign in with secure. Tell us at privacy@xdots.app if you believe your account has been used without your permission.

One person or organisation per account. Do not share credentials, and do not create accounts by automated means.

3. The service

xDots lets you write briefs, plan stories and storyboards, and generate images and video through third-party AI models. The service changes frequently. We may add, alter or remove features, and we may change or discontinue models we route to, without notice.

xDots is provided as a tool for producing creative work. It is not a content archive and not a backup service. Keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.

4. Your content

Your content stays yours.“Your content” means everything you put into xDots — briefs, prompts, uploaded images and video, notes, project structure — and everything the service generates for you from it.

You are responsible for your content. You represent that you have the rights necessary to submit it, and that submitting it does not infringe anyone’s intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights. Do not upload material you do not have the right to use, including images of people who have not agreed to appear.

5. The licence you grant us

To run the service, we need permission to handle your content. You grant dot ai, Inc. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, transmit, transcode, resize and display your content, and to transmit it to the model providers listed in the privacy policy, for the sole purpose of operating, securing and supporting the service for you.

In plain terms: this licence exists so we can put your image in a bucket, resize it for a thumbnail, send your prompt to a model, and show the result back to you. It is not a licence to publish your work, market with it, or train on it. It ends when you delete the content or close your account, except for copies in backups that are already scheduled for deletion.

If you choose to share a project through a share link, or publish it to a public surface in the product, you additionally grant us permission to display that content to the people you have shared it with, for as long as the share remains active.

6. Generated output

As between you and us, you own the output xDots generates for you, to the extent it is capable of being owned. Three things you should understand about that:

• Output is not unique. Other users submitting similar prompts may receive similar or identical results. We make no claim of exclusivity in output.
• Copyright in AI output is unsettled. In several jurisdictions, including the United States, purely machine-generated material may not attract copyright protection. We do not warrant that output is protectable or that it is free of third-party rights.
• Model providers set their own terms.Output is produced by the third-party models listed in our privacy policy, and those providers’ terms apply to how their models may be used.

You are responsible for reviewing output before you publish or rely on it, and for making sure your use of it is lawful.

7. Acceptable use

You may not use xDots to create, upload or distribute:

• Sexual content involving minors, or any material that sexualises a minor, in any form.
• Non-consensual intimate imagery, or sexual content depicting a real identifiable person without their consent.
• Content that impersonates a real person or organisation in order to deceive, including synthetic depictions of real people presented as genuine.
• Content that harasses, threatens or incites violence against a person or group, or that promotes self-harm.
• Material that infringes someone else’s copyright, trademark, privacy or publicity rights.
• Content designed to defraud, including fake documents, fake endorsements and fabricated records.
• Malware, or anything intended to disrupt or gain unauthorised access to any system.

You also may not:

• Reverse-engineer, scrape or systematically extract the service, its prompts or its models.
• Resell, sublicense or provide the service to third parties as your own, or use it to build a competing model or product.
• Circumvent rate limits, credit limits, safety filters or access controls.

We may remove content and suspend accounts that break these rules. Where we are legally required to report material — child sexual abuse material in particular — we will.

8. Credits and plans

Generations consume credits. Credits are a licence to use the service, not currency, not property, and not redeemable for cash. They have no value outside xDots and cannot be transferred between accounts.

Credits are consumed when a generation is submitted. A generation that fails for a reason on our side is refunded to your balance; output you simply do not like is not, because the compute has been spent either way.

We may change credit prices and allowances. If we do so in a way that materially disadvantages you on a paid plan, we will give notice before the change takes effect.

9. Third-party services

xDots depends on third parties for authentication, storage, delivery and model inference. They are named in the sub-processor table. Their availability, their terms and their content policies are outside our control, and an interruption at any of them may interrupt xDots.

10. Our intellectual property

The service itself — the software, the interface, the xDots name and marks, and everything we produce that is not your content — belongs to dot ai, Inc. and its licensors. These terms grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable right to use the service, and nothing more.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without obligation or compensation to you.

11. Suspension and termination

You may stop using xDots and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms, if we are required to by law, or if your use creates risk or legal exposure for us or other users. Where circumstances allow, we will tell you why.

On termination, your right to use the service ends. We will delete your content in line with the retention section. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — content ownership, disclaimers, liability, indemnity, governing law — do.

12. Disclaimers

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, that output will be accurate or suitable for any purpose, or that defects will be corrected.

AI models produce output that can be wrong, biased, or that resembles existing work. You are responsible for reviewing output before you use it.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, dot ai, Inc. and its officers, employees and suppliers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or business interruption, arising out of or relating to the service, whether or not we were advised such damages were possible.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or relating to the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred US dollars (US$100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages. Where that is the case, the exclusions and limitations above apply only to the extent permitted, and nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

14. Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold harmless dot ai, Inc. against claims, damages, losses and reasonable legal costs arising out of your content, your use of the service, or your breach of these terms — except to the extent the claim arises from our own breach or negligence.

15. Changes

We may update these terms. When we make a material change, we will update the date at the top of this page and give notice in the product or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use xDots after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.

16. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of these terms, and you and we consent to that jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, nothing here deprives you of the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence, or of your right to bring proceedings there.

Before filing a claim, please contact us at privacy@xdots.app. Most disputes are resolved faster that way.