Terms of Service

These Terms are an agreement between you and Zenblis, LLC, doing business as Mythener ("Mythener", "we", "us"). They cover your use of mythener.com, the Mythener workspace, the reader portal and every related service (together, the "Service").

By creating an account, joining a reading round or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.

If you use Mythener on behalf of a company, such as a publishing house, you confirm that you can bind that company to these Terms. "You" then means both you and that company.

1. Who can use Mythener

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. You must give accurate account details and keep them current. You are responsible for everything that happens under your account, so keep access to your email account secure: you sign in with a link sent to it, with your Google account or with a password, and a forgotten password is reset through it.

We send service emails to the address on your account. Notices addressed to you, such as being added to a book or a publisher or a decision on your submission, are part of the Service and can't be turned off. Emails about activity, such as a submission arriving for your publisher, carry a link that stops them. Our Privacy Policy says more.

2. What Mythener is

Mythener is a workspace for novelists. It helps you build worlds, plan stories, write and revise manuscripts, run beta and advance reading rounds, review continuity, and prepare files for publication.

You write the words. Mythener does not write your book. Its tools suggest, check and organise; you decide what to keep.

3. Your work stays yours

You own your content. This means your manuscripts, worlds, plans, notes, images, profile and everything else you put into Mythener ("Your Content"). We claim no ownership of it.

To run the Service, you give us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, process, transmit and display Your Content. This licence is only for providing the Service to you and the people you choose to share with. Examples are saving your drafts, showing a chapter to a reader you invited, running a review you asked for, and making backups. It ends when Your Content is deleted from our systems, as described in our Privacy Policy.

We will never:

• sell Your Content;
• use it to advertise anything;
• publish it without your instruction; or
• use it, or let anyone else use it, to train artificial intelligence models. This is true of every part of Mythener: the Delphi Engine's AI and the ordinary code that runs everything else.

How Mythener gets better for you. We use Your Content to run the Service and to make its tools work better for you. When you accept, dismiss or change something a tool suggested, such as a name it found or a word it flagged, the tool remembers that choice for your books, so it stops asking about what you have already answered and finds more of what you want. That learning stays with your account and changes only your own workspace.

How Mythener gets better for everyone. We also improve the tools from how all authors use them, through statistics that contain no text: what kind of suggestion it was, what was done with it, counts such as how often a word appeared and in how many chapters, and the day. These statistics never include your writing, the names in it or your titles, and aren't linked to your account. They're part of how the Service works, so there's no setting to turn them off. Our Privacy Policy lists exactly what they hold.

You confirm that you have the rights to Your Content and that storing and sharing it through Mythener doesn't break any law or anyone else's rights.

4. AI-assisted features

The Delphi Engine is the only part of Mythener that uses artificial intelligence. It reviews your work, for example by checking continuity, world rules and timelines across a series.

• When AI is used. Your text is sent for AI processing only when you run a Delphi review, or turn on an automatic Delphi feature that says it does. The feature tells you what it will send.
• Where it goes. Delphi runs exclusively on Cloudflare Workers AI, using AI models hosted by Cloudflare. We choose the model based on how thorough the review is. We use only models whose terms don't allow training on your content. Your text isn't sent to any other AI provider.
• AI makes mistakes. AI output can be incomplete or wrong. It is a suggestion, not a fact or professional advice. Check it before you rely on it. You decide what becomes canon in your story.
• You own the output. As between you and us, you own the review notes and suggestions generated for your work. To the extent the law allows, we give you any rights we have in them.

5. Sharing with readers, editors and publishers

You can invite beta readers and advance readers, add editors to a book, and share a book with a publisher.

• You choose who sees what. Readers see only the editions and chapters you grant them, for as long as you allow. Editors and a publisher's staff see the book you add them to or share with them, as described under Editors and Publishers below.
• Reading protections help but aren't perfect. The protected reader blocks copying, printing and downloading, blurs when the reader looks away, and watermarks each page with that reader's identity. These measures discourage leaks and help trace them. They cannot stop every leak, for example someone photographing a screen. We don't guarantee that shared content will never be copied. The protected reader is for reading rounds. Editors and a publisher's staff read your book in the workspace, without these protections.
• We tell the people you add. When you add an editor to a book, or add a member to a publisher you manage, we email that person to tell them, naming you and the book or publisher.
• Reading conditions. You can ask readers to accept your own confidentiality terms before they read. Those terms are between you and your readers. We aren't a party to them and don't enforce them, though we keep a record of who accepted them and when.

If you are a reader: the author sees your name, email, feedback, reading progress, survey answers and anything you upload, such as review receipts. Other readers can't see your notes. You own your feedback. You give the author a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free licence to use it to improve their work, and you give us the licence in section 3 to provide the Service.

Editors

• Adding an editor. You add an editor to a book by their email address. A series is added whole, with all its books. Your plan sets how many editors you can have across your books. Editors don't use a seat and don't need a plan of their own.
• Nothing is copied. The editor signs in with that address and works in your own book. They can read it: its text and saved versions, its plan, its world and story notes, and its reviews. They can't export it, change your text or your plan, freeze or share the book, add other editors, or open your other books, your reading rounds or your billing.
• Editors suggest; you decide. What an editor would change is saved with the chapter's review as a suggestion, marked with their email address. Your text changes only when you accept a suggestion, which saves a new version of the chapter. You can reject it instead.
• Removing an editor. You can remove an editor at any time, and their access ends at once. Suggestions they have already made stay in your reviews for you to accept or reject. An editor's access also stops while your own account can't write, for example while it is limited to reading and exporting, and returns when it can.
• Your book stays yours. Adding an editor doesn't change who owns the book: it stays Your Content under section 3. Mythener keeps an editor's suggestions with your book, shows them to you and to anyone else who can open the book's reviews, and deletes them with the book. What you and your editor have agreed between yourselves is up to the two of you. We aren't a party to it.
• Earlier editing copies. Editors used to receive a copy of the book in their own account. No new copies can be made. A copy made then is still in that editor's account.

If you are an editor: you work in the author's book, not in a copy. The author sees your email address on every suggestion you make, and so does anyone else who can open that book's reviews. You can withdraw a suggestion of your own while it is open. Only the author can remove you from a book. When they do, or when their account is closed or deleted, your access ends and your suggestions stay with their book.

Publishers

A publisher on Mythener is a group of members with its own plan, such as a press. Some of what follows is being introduced in stages and may not be available to you yet.

• Setting one up. You can set up a publisher when you choose a publisher plan, and you become its first admin. We can also set one up and name its first admin. A publisher always has at least one admin.
• Members and roles. A member is an author, an editor or neither, and any member can also be an admin. Admins add members by email address, change their roles and remove them. Where a publisher uses an invitation link, someone new to Mythener who follows it and signs up joins as one of its authors, if the publisher has a seat free. Only an admin can remove a member. Removing a member ends what they could reach through the publisher at once. It doesn't stop the sharing of books that member shared; only their author does that.
• Sharing a book. If you are a member, you can share a book of your own, or a whole series, with that publisher. A book is shared with one publisher at a time. Nothing is copied or moved. You can stop sharing at any time, and the publisher's access ends at once. The one exception is a book frozen by agreement, described below.
• What the publisher can see and do. In a shared book, the publisher's editors can read the book and suggest changes exactly as an editor you added yourself can, and its admins can read it. Its other authors can't open it, though every member can see its title and your name in the publisher's list of shared books. Where the publisher uses the dashboard, its admins and editors also see figures about the book and about your activity, which our Privacy Policy lists. Admins can record a word target, a due date, a stage and the staff working on the book. Those are the publisher's own records and change nothing in your book.
• Freezing. A frozen book's text and chapter list can't be changed. Freezing a shared book takes both sides: you or one of the publisher's admins proposes it, and the other accepts. Unfreezing takes both sides too, and the book stays shared with that publisher until then. A book you froze on your own stays yours to unfreeze.
• Submissions. Where a publisher takes submissions, you can send it novels of your own, with a note. While the submission waits, the publisher's admins and editors can read those novels as they stand: the plan and the text of the chapters, without the book's history, reviews or world. If an admin accepts, the novels are shared with the publisher as described above, and you become one of its authors if you weren't a member, which uses one of its seats. If the publisher declines, or you withdraw, its reading ends and nothing is shared.
• A publisher's plan. A publisher pays for its own plan under section 8, and its admins manage the billing. Only authors use its seats: editors and admins don't, and an author who is also an admin uses one. Adding an author beyond the plan's included seats adds a seat to the publisher's bill, pro-rated. An invitation link never adds one. While the publisher's plan is active, an author member has full use of a book they share with it, whatever their own plan, can start a book for the publisher, and that book's Delphi scans count against the publisher's allowance.
• If a publisher's plan ends. You keep your books and can always read and export them. A shared book then follows your own plan. Until the publisher has a plan again it can't accept submissions, and nobody can join by its link or start a book for it. Sharing doesn't end by itself: the publisher's admins and editors can still read a shared book until its author stops sharing it.
• Your book stays yours. Sharing or submitting a book doesn't change who owns it. It stays Your Content under section 3, and the licence there covers showing it to the publisher you chose. Mythener is not a party to any agreement between an author and a publisher, such as a publishing contract, and doesn't enforce one. What sharing, a freeze, an acceptance or a due date means between the two of you is for your own agreement.

Messages

Where messages are switched on, you can write to Mythener and to the people you already work with here.

• Who you can write to. Mythener's team, at any time. An author and the editors on their books can write to each other. So can the members of a publisher, except two members who are both only authors there. So can a publisher's admins and editors and an author whose submission to it is waiting or was accepted. An author and a reader who has accepted an invitation to one of that author's reading rounds can write to each other, and so can that reader and the admins and editors of a publisher the book is shared with. Readers of the same book can't write to each other. There is no way to write to someone you don't work with.
• When working together ends. When an editor is removed, a member leaves a publisher, a submission is declined or withdrawn, or a reader's access to a round is removed, the conversation closes to new messages. Both of you can still read it.
• What a message is. Plain text that you typed. The other person sees your name, not your email address. You can delete a message you sent; it then reads "Message deleted" for both of you.
• Blocking. You can block someone. That stops messages between the two of you, in both directions, until you undo it. They aren't told. Mythener can't be blocked.
• Reporting. You can report a conversation to Mythener and say why. Mythener's team reads a conversation between two people only when one of them has reported it, and only while that report is open. The other person isn't told about the report.
• Writing to Mythener. Your conversation with Mythener is read and answered by Mythener's team, and we may write to you there.
• Limits. We limit how many messages, new conversations and reports one person can send in a day.

Section 7 applies to what you write in a message. Mythener is not a party to anything you agree with someone in a message.

6. Publishing files

Mythener can produce EPUB, DOCX and print-ready PDF files. Mythener prepares files; it doesn't submit them to any retailer, printer or distributor.

We build files to match published store requirements as we understand them. Stores change their rules, though, and we can't promise any store will accept a file. Review proofs and check each store's current requirements before you publish. You are responsible for your ISBNs, metadata, pricing, rights and store agreements.

7. Acceptable use

Don't use the Service to:

• break any law, or infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights;
• upload malware, or try to get into accounts, data or systems that aren't yours;
• probe, scan, overload or disrupt the Service, or get around its security, reading protections or usage limits;
• scrape, copy or resell the Service, or use it to build a competing product;
• share login access, or invite readers in a way designed to get around seat limits;
• harass, threaten or exploit anyone; or
• upload sexual content involving minors, content that promotes terrorism, or other content that is illegal to possess or distribute.

Fiction often explores dark subjects, and that's fine. These rules are about conduct and illegal material, not about themes in your story.

8. Plans, seats and payment

• Plans and seats. A paid plan gives you a licence for a set number of seats, meaning the people who can use author features under that plan, plus the usage allowances described on our pricing page. An example is the Delphi Engine's monthly word or review allowance. Seats are for named individuals and can't be shared. A publisher's plan has its own seats, used only by its authors; section 5 says more.
• Billing. Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your full card details. Prices are as shown at checkout, plus any applicable taxes, which Stripe calculates.
• Renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically, monthly, yearly or every two years, until you cancel. You can cancel anytime from your account's billing page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current paid period. You keep full access until then, and you won't be charged again.
• Overage. If you go beyond your plan's included usage and choose to continue, we charge the overage rates shown on the pricing page.
• Refunds. Payments are non-refundable, including for partly used periods, except where the law requires a refund. If you are a consumer in a country that gives you a right to cancel or withdraw, such as the EU or UK, we honour that right as the law sets it out.
• Price changes. We'll give you at least 30 days' notice of a price change. It applies from your next renewal after the notice period. If you don't agree, cancel before then.
• Failed payments. If a payment fails, we'll let you know. We may limit paid features if it isn't resolved, but you'll keep the ability to read and export your work.

9. Testing (beta) access

While Mythener is in testing, we may offer free access, sometimes for a limited period such as 90 days, which we may extend. Testing features are provided as they are. They may change, break or be removed, and may be less reliable than the finished Service.

We'll give you reasonable notice before testing access ends. Your work stays yours to export when it does.

10. Your data, export and deletion

You can export your projects and series at any time, including after you cancel a paid plan.

You can ask us to delete your account and Your Content by writing to privacy@mythener.com. We describe what happens and how long it takes in our Privacy Policy. Deletion is permanent. Readers you invited, editors you added and any publisher you shared a book with also lose access to anything you shared.

We can't complete a deletion while you are the only admin of a publisher, or while one of your books is frozen by agreement with a publisher. Make someone else an admin, or agree with the publisher to unfreeze the book, first.

11. Suspension and termination

You can stop using Mythener at any time.

We may suspend or end your access if:

• you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms;
• you don't pay;
• the law requires it; or
• your use puts the Service, other users or us at risk.

Unless the law or the risk makes it inappropriate, we'll tell you first and give you a reasonable chance to export Your Content.

If we ever discontinue the Service, we'll give you at least 60 days' notice to export your work, and a pro-rated refund of any prepaid period that hasn't been used.

Sections 3 (the licence ends as described there), 5 (reader feedback licence), 8 (amounts owed), 12, 13, 14 and 16 survive termination.

12. Disclaimers

We work hard to keep Mythener reliable and your work safe. Even so, to the fullest extent the law allows, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available". We give no warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don't promise the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that AI output will be accurate, or that protections will prevent every leak.

Keep your own copies of important work. Mythener's export exists for exactly that reason.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows:

• Neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill.
• Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or US $100.

These limits don't apply to liability that the law doesn't allow us to limit, such as for fraud, gross negligence, or death or personal injury caused by negligence. If you are a consumer, they don't affect rights you have under consumer law that can't be waived.

14. Indemnity

If you use Mythener for a business, you agree to cover our reasonable costs, including legal fees, from third-party claims arising from Your Content or your breach of these Terms. This section doesn't apply to consumers where the law doesn't allow it.

15. Copyright complaints

If you believe something on Mythener infringes your copyright, email support@mythener.com. Include what the work is, where the infringing material is, and how to contact you. We'll review the report and act where appropriate, which may include removing access to the material.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be heard in the state or federal courts located in Travis County, Texas, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer living in the EU, UK or another country whose law gives you the right to bring claims in your local courts, or under your local law, these Terms don't take that right away.

Before going to court, please contact us at support@mythener.com so we can try to resolve the problem informally.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes, we'll tell you by email or in the app at least 30 days before they take effect, unless the change is required by law or is needed urgently for security. If you keep using Mythener after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you don't agree, you can cancel and export your work.

18. General

• Whole agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Service.
• Severability. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest still applies.
• No waiver. If we don't enforce a term, we haven't waived it.
• Assignment. You may not transfer these Terms without our consent. We may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, provided your rights under them continue.
• Events beyond our control. Neither party is responsible for delays caused by events outside its reasonable control.

19. Contact

Zenblis, LLC d/b/a Mythener
5900 Balcones Dr. Ste 100
Austin, TX 78731, USA
support@mythener.com