Operator: Anton Gurevich, an individual based in the United Kingdom ("DraftHarbor," "we," "us").
Governing law: England and Wales. DraftHarbor is offered globally, with users primarily in the UK, US, and EU.
Minimum age: 16.
Contact: anton@odysseymapper.com
DraftHarbor is an account-based, local-first writing application. You must sign in to use the application, while your manuscript and project data are stored on your own device by default. Optional encrypted cloud backup lets you restore or sync a project across devices.
An account (email/password or Google sign-in) is required to use DraftHarbor. You're responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for all activity under your account. Tell us at the contact above if you suspect unauthorized access.
You retain full ownership of everything you write in DraftHarbor. We claim no license or rights to your manuscripts, notes, or other content beyond what's technically necessary to provide features you request. Story Intelligence is opt-in: when you explicitly invoke an AI tool, relevant manuscript or research text is sent through DraftHarbor's service to OpenAI using DraftHarbor's provider account. DraftHarbor does not automatically submit your writing and does not use your writing to train AI models. OpenAI's processing is governed by its applicable business/API data terms.
You must not use DraftHarbor to store, distribute, or facilitate content that is unlawful, infringes another person's rights, or depicts or promotes child sexual abuse or exploitation. You must not attempt to probe, disable, bypass, or interfere with the service's security controls, quotas, or abuse-response systems, or use the service in a way that could damage, disable, or impair it.
DraftHarbor currently offers free use of the local-first application. If and when paid subscription plans are introduced:
Pricing and plan features will be stated clearly before you subscribe. Cancellation right: if you're a consumer in the UK or EU, you have a statutory right to cancel a digital-content subscription within 14 days without giving a reason, under the UK Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 / EU Consumer Rights Directive — unless you expressly ask to start using the paid service immediately and acknowledge that doing so ends your cancellation right once the service has been fully provided. Where that applies, we will ask for that explicit acknowledgement before activating a paid plan. Outside that statutory window, subscriptions are billed in advance and are non-refundable for the remainder of the current billing period, except where required by law or at our discretion for genuine service failures on our part. You can cancel a subscription at any time to stop future billing; cancellation does not itself entitle you to a refund of the current period. Chargebacks/payment disputes filed without first contacting us at the address above may result in account suspension while the dispute is investigated.
Your project data lives primarily on your device (browser storage, and any files you export). We strongly recommend keeping your own backups (the built-in .draftharbor export, or a linked disk-backup file). DraftHarbor is not liable for data loss from browser storage being cleared, device failure, or similar causes outside our control.
When cloud backup is enabled for your account, DraftHarbor stores encrypted project revisions and associated image assets so you can restore a project on another device. Both your manuscript text and any image assets are encrypted on your device before upload — DraftHarbor has no technical ability to read either. Availability is not guaranteed, and cloud backup is not a substitute for your own local exports.
You are responsible for retaining the passphrase or recovery key needed to decrypt your project. DraftHarbor cannot recover encrypted content without one of those secrets — this is by design (end-to-end encryption), not a limitation we can lift on request.
Because we have no technical ability to inspect what you back up, we cannot proactively detect prohibited content in cloud backups the way a service that reviews uploads could. We may still restrict or suspend cloud backup, preserve relevant account/technical records where legally permitted or required, and report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), the UK's CSEA Industry Reporting Portal, or other competent authority when required by law — but this is necessarily limited to what we actually hold, which does not include readable content.
The DraftHarbor name, logo, and the software itself (excluding your content) are our property or that of our licensors. Nothing in these Terms grants you rights to our trademarks or source code beyond what's needed to use the service as intended.
The service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. To the maximum extent permitted by law: we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost data, lost profits, or business interruption. Our total liability for any claim arising from these Terms or the service is limited to the greater of £50 or the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited (for example, liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud).
You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, damages, and reasonable legal costs arising from your violation of these Terms or your misuse of the service, except to the extent caused by our own breach or negligence.
We may suspend or terminate your account for violating these Terms, including the prohibited-content rules in §4. Where practicable, we'll give you the opportunity to export your data first (via the built-in .draftharbor export) before deletion. You may stop using the service and delete your account at any time.
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be noted with an updated date; continued use of the service after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
These Terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you're a consumer resident elsewhere (including the EU or US), mandatory consumer-protection laws of your own country of residence may also apply and are not overridden by this clause. We encourage contacting us directly at the address above to resolve any dispute before pursuing formal action.
Suspected abuse or illegal content, account complaints, and general questions about these Terms can be sent to anton@odysseymapper.com. As a solo-operated service there's no guaranteed response time, but reports are treated as a priority. Do not attach or forward suspected illegal material when reporting — describe it instead.
This is the standard, common-practice approach used by most small, self-funded software projects — a comprehensive but plain-English ToS covering content ownership, acceptable use, refunds, liability limits, and termination. It is not a substitute for jurisdiction-specific legal advice.