Terms of Service

FireForge is a creative platform designed to help writers and creators develop, publish, distribute, and experience fiction and other creative works.

Depending on the features available to you, FireForge may allow you to:

• Create and manage stories and manuscripts
• Write and edit chapters
• Upload or generate artwork and covers
• Use AI-assisted writing and editorial tools
• Generate narration or audio versions of content
• Translate content
• Publish works for readers
• Discover and read works created by other users
• Purchase chapters, books, subscriptions, or digital credits
• Participate in community features
• Earn revenue from eligible published works
• Export or otherwise use your creative work

Certain features may be unavailable in some countries, on some devices, or to certain account types.

Age requirements

You must be at least 13 years old to use FireForge.

If you are under the age of majority in your country, you may use FireForge only where permitted by applicable law and with any required involvement or authorization of a parent or legal guardian.

Some features, including certain monetization, payment, or creator functions, may have additional age or eligibility requirements.

Creating an account

You agree to provide accurate information when creating your account and to keep your information reasonably up to date.

You are responsible for:

• Maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials
• All activity occurring through your account
• Using a secure password
• Not sharing your account credentials with others
• Not allowing unauthorized access to your account

If you believe your account has been compromised, you should notify FireForge promptly.

One account per person

Unless FireForge expressly permits otherwise, you should not create accounts for deceptive, fraudulent, abusive, or circumvention purposes.

You may not impersonate another person, organization, creator, or FireForge representative.

You receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use FireForge for its intended purposes, subject to these Terms.

You agree not to:

• Break or circumvent FireForge's security controls
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, or data
• Reverse engineer or decompile the Service except where applicable law expressly permits it
• Scrape or systematically collect information from FireForge without authorization
• Interfere with the operation of the Service
• Introduce malicious code, malware, or harmful software
• Circumvent usage limits, subscriptions, credits, or access controls
• Use automated systems to abuse or overload the Service
• Attempt to manipulate rankings, reviews, recommendations, readership, engagement, or monetization
• Use another person's account without authorization
• Misrepresent your identity or affiliation
• Use FireForge to violate applicable law
• Use FireForge to facilitate fraud, harassment, abuse, or other harmful activity

We may impose reasonable technical or usage limits to protect FireForge and its users.

FireForge allows you to submit, upload, create, store, publish, and otherwise provide content through the Service.

"Your Content" means content that you submit or create through FireForge, including:

• Stories
• Manuscripts
• Chapters
• Drafts
• Characters
• Outlines
• Notes
• Artwork
• Covers
• Audio
• Prompts
• Descriptions
• Comments
• Reviews
• Other creative or informational material you provide

You retain ownership

You retain ownership of your original intellectual property in Your Content.

Using FireForge does not transfer ownership of your stories, manuscripts, characters, artwork, or other intellectual property to FireForge.

Nothing in these Terms prevents you from continuing to use, publish, license, sell, or otherwise exploit your Content outside FireForge, subject to any separate agreement you may have entered into with FireForge.

Your responsibility

You are responsible for Your Content. You represent that:

• You own or have the necessary rights to submit the Content;
• Your Content does not knowingly infringe another person's intellectual-property rights;
• You have obtained required permissions for material belonging to others;
• Your Content complies with these Terms and applicable law.

You should maintain your own backups of important creative work.

Although FireForge is designed to store and protect your work, we do not guarantee that Content will never be lost, corrupted, deleted, or become temporarily inaccessible.

FireForge needs certain rights to your Content in order to operate the Service.

When you submit Content to FireForge, you grant FireForge a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, display, perform, format, modify, adapt, and otherwise use that Content only as reasonably necessary to:

• Provide the FireForge Service;
• Store and synchronize your Content;
• Display your Content according to your settings;
• Process your Content through features you choose to use;
• Generate requested exports, translations, narration, or other outputs;
• Publish and distribute works when you instruct FireForge to do so;
• Maintain backups and system infrastructure;
• Secure and protect the Service;
• Improve the operation and reliability of FireForge;
• Enforce these Terms and protect our legal rights.

This license does not give FireForge ownership of Your Content.

AI processing

Where you voluntarily use an AI-powered feature, the license above also permits FireForge to transmit the relevant input to the third-party provider required to perform that feature.

The AI processing of Your Content is further described in the AI & Content Policy and Privacy Policy.

Public content

If you choose to publish Content publicly, you authorize FireForge to make that Content available to readers and other users according to the publishing and distribution features you select.

FireForge may allow you to publish works for other users to discover and read.

When you publish a work, you understand that:

• The work may become publicly accessible;
• Readers may view, interact with, or review the work;
• Information associated with the work may be publicly displayed;
• Publicly available Content may be copied or shared by others;
• Removing a work may not remove copies that other users have independently retained or shared.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have the necessary rights to publish the work.

FireForge does not guarantee that publication will result in a particular number of readers, views, followers, sales, or earnings.

FireForge may provide AI-powered functionality, including:

• Writing assistance
• Editing and editorial assistance
• Brainstorming
• Translation
• Summarization
• Text-to-speech narration
• Cover or artwork generation
• Other AI-assisted creative tools

AI features may use third-party technology providers.

AI outputs

AI-generated or AI-assisted output may be inaccurate, incomplete, repetitive, inappropriate, or similar to material generated for other users.

You are responsible for reviewing AI output before using, publishing, selling, distributing, or relying upon it.

FireForge does not guarantee that AI output:

• Is accurate;
• Is original;
• Does not resemble existing works;
• Is suitable for publication;
• Is legally protectable by copyright;
• Is free from errors.

No exclusive ownership guarantee

Where AI is used to generate or substantially transform content, FireForge does not guarantee that you will receive exclusive intellectual-property rights in the resulting output.

You are responsible for determining whether an AI-generated work can legally be protected, published, or commercially exploited in your jurisdiction.

AI provider processing

Depending on the feature you use, information may be processed by third-party AI providers. Examples may include:

• Anthropic for certain editorial and writing functionality;
• OpenAI for narration, text-to-speech, translation, or other enabled functionality;
• fal.ai for AI image generation.

See the AI & Content Policy and Privacy Policy for additional information.

You may not use FireForge to create, upload, publish, distribute, or promote content or conduct that:

• Violates applicable law;
• Infringes copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights;
• Fraudulently impersonates another person;
• Facilitates fraud or financial deception;
• Contains malicious software or harmful code;
• Attempts to exploit or endanger children;
• Promotes terrorism or violent extremist activity;
• Encourages serious real-world violence or criminal activity;
• Deliberately facilitates exploitation, trafficking, or abuse;
• Attempts to compromise FireForge or another person's account;
• Circumvents FireForge's access, payment, credit, or security systems.

FireForge may also restrict categories of content that are technically, operationally, commercially, or legally incompatible with the platform.

Fiction and fictional violence

FireForge is a fiction platform. Fictional depictions of violence, conflict, crime, horror, supernatural activity, or other mature themes may be permitted depending on the applicable FireForge content rules.

The fact that content is fictional does not exempt it from our prohibited-content requirements.

Additional rules may apply to mature or age-restricted content.

FireForge respects intellectual-property rights.

If you believe that Content available through FireForge infringes your copyright or other intellectual-property rights, you may contact us with sufficient information to identify:

• The protected work;
• The allegedly infringing material;
• Your ownership or authorization;
• How the material infringes your rights;
• Your contact information;
• Any other information reasonably necessary for us to investigate the complaint.

We may remove or restrict access to Content while investigating a complaint.

We may also terminate or restrict accounts that repeatedly infringe intellectual-property rights.

FireForge may offer paid services including:

• Subscriptions
• Digital credits or coins
• Individual chapter or book purchases
• Premium features
• Creator services
• Other paid products or services

Prices, features, limits, and billing periods will be presented at the time of purchase.

Subscriptions

If you purchase a recurring subscription, you authorize the applicable payment provider to charge the selected payment method according to the subscription terms presented at purchase.

Unless otherwise stated, subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled.

You can cancel future renewals through the applicable account or payment-management mechanism.

Cancellation generally prevents future charges but does not automatically create a refund for a period already paid for, except where required by law or expressly stated by FireForge.

Digital credits

FireForge may provide digital credits, coins, tokens, or similar virtual units. Unless expressly stated otherwise:

• Credits are not cash;
• Credits are not legal tender;
• Credits cannot be redeemed for cash;
• Credits cannot be transferred between users;
• Credits cannot be resold;
• Credits do not represent a deposit or financial instrument;
• Credits may only be used for eligible FireForge services.

Credits may expire, be restricted, or become unavailable where permitted by applicable law and the terms presented when purchased.

Purchases

A purchase may be subject to additional terms displayed at the time of purchase.

Payment processing may be handled by third parties such as Paystack, Apple, Google, or other payment providers.

FireForge does not store your full payment-card information.

Refunds

Refund eligibility depends on the product purchased, the payment platform used, applicable law, and any specific refund terms presented at purchase.

Where a purchase was made through Apple, Google, or another third-party marketplace, refund requests may need to be handled through that marketplace.

Nothing in these Terms removes any mandatory consumer refund rights provided by applicable law.

FireForge may allow eligible creators to earn money from their published works.

Where creator monetization is available, additional rules may apply, including:

• Eligibility requirements
• Revenue-sharing arrangements
• Minimum payout thresholds
• Payment schedules
• Tax requirements
• Identity or account verification
• Fraud-prevention requirements
• Content eligibility requirements
• Chargeback and refund adjustments

The specific commercial terms applicable to a creator will be presented separately or through the relevant FireForge creator program.

Revenue is not guaranteed

FireForge does not guarantee that a creator will earn a particular amount of money.

Revenue may depend on factors including readership, purchases, subscriptions, platform policies, refunds, taxes, payment processing, and applicable revenue-sharing arrangements.

Payout restrictions

We may delay, withhold, or reverse payouts where reasonably necessary to:

• Investigate suspected fraud;
• Resolve chargebacks;
• Address payment disputes;
• Investigate policy violations;
• Comply with legal obligations;
• Correct accounting errors.

We will not use this provision to unlawfully withhold money that is owed to you.

FireForge may integrate with third-party services, including payment processors, AI providers, app stores, analytics providers, hosting providers, email providers, and other infrastructure providers.

Third-party services may have their own terms and privacy policies.

FireForge is not responsible for the independent actions, availability, policies, or practices of third-party services.

Your use of third-party services may be subject to their own agreements.

We work to keep FireForge available and reliable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability.

The Service may occasionally be:

• Temporarily unavailable;
• Delayed;
• Modified;
• Restricted;
• Suspended;
• Under maintenance;
• Affected by technical failures or events outside our control.

We may add, modify, suspend, or discontinue features.

Where reasonably practical, we may provide notice of significant changes.

We may suspend or terminate your account if:

• You materially violate these Terms;
• You violate applicable law;
• You infringe another person's rights;
• You engage in fraud or abuse;
• You attempt to compromise FireForge;
• You circumvent payment or access controls;
• Your account creates a significant security, legal, or operational risk;
• We are legally required to do so.

Where appropriate, we may provide notice and an opportunity to address the issue before terminating an account.

However, we may act immediately where necessary to protect users, FireForge, third parties, or the integrity of the Service.

Appeals

Where FireForge provides an appeal process for moderation or account actions, you may use that process to request a review.

We may consider the circumstances, available evidence, and applicable policies when reviewing an appeal.

You may delete your FireForge account through the account-management tools provided by FireForge or by contacting us where necessary.

After deletion:

• Your account may no longer be accessible;
• Your public profile may be removed or deactivated;
• Your unpublished Content may be deleted subject to our retention practices;
• Certain information may be retained where required or permitted by law;
• Financial, fraud-prevention, security, dispute, or accounting records may be retained as necessary;
• Backups may take additional time to be overwritten;
• Content previously distributed to other users may not be recoverable.

Our Privacy Policy explains how personal information is handled after account deletion.

FireForge is provided on an "as available" and "as is" basis to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

We do not guarantee that:

• FireForge will always be available;
• The Service will be error-free;
• Content will never be lost;
• AI output will be accurate or suitable;
• AI-generated content will be legally protectable;
• Your work will receive readers or commercial success;
• Published content will remain available indefinitely;
• FireForge will meet every particular creative or business requirement.

FireForge is a platform and does not act as your literary agent, publisher, lawyer, accountant, tax adviser, or business adviser unless we expressly agree otherwise in writing.

You are responsible for making your own decisions regarding your Content and its publication or commercial use.

Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or warranties that cannot legally be excluded under applicable law.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, FireForge and its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to your use of the Service.

This may include loss of:

• Profits;
• Revenue;
• Business opportunities;
• Data;
• Reputation;
• Expected savings;
• Creative opportunities.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our total liability arising from the Service will be limited to the greater of:

• The amount you paid to FireForge for the Service during the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim; or
• US$100.

This limitation does not apply to liability that cannot legally be limited or excluded under applicable law.

Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude liability for fraud, intentional misconduct, or other liability that applicable law does not permit us to exclude.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless FireForge and its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, and service providers from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses arising from:

• Your violation of these Terms;
• Your unlawful use of the Service;
• Your Content;
• Your infringement of another person's rights;
• Your fraudulent or abusive activity;
• Your violation of applicable law.

We may assume control of the defense of a claim for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to reasonably cooperate with that defense.

FireForge is operated by Netgrawl Limited, a company based in Abuja, Nigeria. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Before bringing a formal legal claim, we encourage you to contact FireForge so that we can attempt to resolve the issue informally. Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Abuja, Nigeria.

Nothing in this section prevents you from exercising mandatory consumer, privacy, employment, or other statutory rights that cannot legally be waived.

We may update these Terms from time to time.

When we make changes, we will update the Last updated date.

If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice where appropriate or required by law.

Your continued use of FireForge after the effective date of updated Terms means that you accept the updated Terms, except where applicable law requires a different form of consent.

If you do not agree to updated Terms, you should stop using the Service and may delete your account.

Entire agreement

These Terms, together with policies and agreements expressly incorporated into them, form the agreement between you and FireForge regarding your use of the Service.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

No waiver

Our failure to enforce a provision of these Terms does not constitute a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Assignment

You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent, except where permitted by law.

FireForge may transfer its rights and obligations as part of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar transaction.

Relationship

These Terms do not create a partnership, agency, employment, franchise, or joint-venture relationship between you and FireForge.

Language

If these Terms are translated into another language, the English version will control to the extent permitted by applicable law.

If you have questions about these Terms, your FireForge account, or the Service, please contact us through our Contact Us page.

Related policies

These Terms should be read together with the other policies governing FireForge:

• Privacy Policy — explains how FireForge collects and processes personal information. See Privacy Policy.
• AI & Content Policy — explains FireForge's AI features, content standards, AI processing, and related responsibilities. See AI & Content Policy.
• Community Guidelines — where applicable, establishes additional standards for reader and creator interactions.
• Cookie Policy — where applicable, explains FireForge's use of cookies and similar technologies.

Where these documents address different subjects, each applies to the subject it specifically governs.