Acceptable use policy

This policy starts from three principles:

1. The writer is the author. You are responsible for what you generate and what you do with it. CineForge is the apprentice; the choices and the consequences are yours.
2. Cultural specificity is not a license for harm. We support storytelling across global traditions because those traditions deserve serious treatment, not because cultural framing excuses content that would otherwise be unacceptable.
3. Generative tools have unusual harms. We are specific about AI-related prohibitions because the abstractions don’t fit neatly inside conventional acceptable-use rules.

You may use CineForge to:

• Develop original story bibles, character profiles, scenes, and related creative materials for your own projects.
• Adapt public-domain works (subject to all relevant copyright law in your jurisdiction).
• Use generated content for any commercial or non-commercial purpose, including pitching to networks, studios, agents, or publishers. You own what you generate; see the Terms.
• Share generated content with collaborators, agents, lawyers, and other parties involved in the development of your work.
• Export and download your own content at any time.

You may not use CineForge to generate, develop, or distribute:

• Content that sexualises minors in any form, whether the minor is real or fictional. There are no exceptions to this. Attempted use will result in immediate termination and, where required by law, referral to the appropriate authorities.
• Content that promotes, glorifies, or facilitates violence against identifiable individuals or groups defined by race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or similar protected characteristic.
• Content that defames a real, identifiable person — including living people, recently deceased people whose families could bring a claim, and identifiable businesses. Fiction inspired by real events is permitted; fiction making specific false factual claims about real named individuals is not.
• Content that infringes someone else’s intellectual property. Do not generate stories using copyrighted characters, plots, or settings you do not have the right to use. “Inspired by” is fine; recreating a Marvel character scene-for-scene under a different name is not.
• Content intended to harass, stalk, or threaten specific individuals — including fictional framings whose clear purpose is to target a real person.
• Misleading or deceptive material designed to be passed off as something it is not — for example, a fake news article presented as journalism, a fake court document, a fake quote attributed to a real person, or material designed to impersonate a real organisation.

Because CineForge is a generative tool, some prohibitions apply specifically to how you interact with the AI itself. You may not:

• Attempt to extract, reverse-engineer, or replicate our underlying prompts, cinema profiles, audience profiles, or DNA library content. These are our intellectual property; see section 5.
• Use CineForge’s outputs as training data for any other AI model, dataset, or machine-learning system. This includes scraping outputs to fine-tune another model, publishing outputs as part of a training corpus, or feeding outputs into a competing service.
• Attempt to bypass the cultural-review system, the content policies described above, or any safety measures we have in place. This includes prompt injection, jailbreaking, or otherwise attempting to make the system generate content it has been instructed to refuse.
• Generate content at industrial scale through automated means beyond the limits of your subscription tier. Programmatic API access (if and when it becomes available) is governed by separate API terms.
• Misrepresent CineForge’s outputs as having been generated by a different system, or misrepresent your own work as having been generated by CineForge.

The CineForge platform — including the cinema profiles, audience profiles, prompt templates, DNA library content, cultural review checklist, and all underlying systems — is the intellectual property of Core Media Group Ltd. You receive a limited license to use it through your subscription; you do not acquire any ownership interest in it.

The specific outputs you generate (story bibles, scenes, characters, etc.) belong to you, per the Terms. The platform that generates them does not.

We use a graduated response to violations. Minor or first-time violations typically result in a warning. Repeated, deliberate, or severe violations result in suspension and may result in termination of your account without refund.

Some violations — content sexualising minors, credible threats of violence, organised harassment — result in immediate termination with no warning and may result in referral to law enforcement.

Where we suspend or terminate an account, we will tell you why, and you may appeal to hello@cineforge.co.uk. We aim to respond to appeals within 14 days.

If you believe someone is using CineForge in violation of this policy, email hello@cineforge.co.uk with as much detail as you can share. We take reports seriously and we follow up on every one. We do not share the identity of the reporter with the reported account.

If you believe content generated by CineForge infringes your copyright, see the takedown process described in section 5 of the Terms of Service.