Terms of Service

Version 1.1.0 - Effective July 2, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Mother ("Mother", "we", "us", or "our"). They govern your use of the Mother suite of creative tools: Storyboard (storyyy.app), Midnight, and SlideKit (together, the "Service"). One Mother account covers all three products.

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Acceptable Use Policy, which is part of these Terms. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data.

Questions? Email us at support@motherrr.app.

1. Accounts and eligibility

• You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service, or at least 16 years old if you live in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom.
• If you are under 18, you may only use the Service with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf.
• You agree to provide accurate account information and to keep your login credentials secure. You are responsible for all activity under your account.
• One account per person. Do not share your account, sell access to it, or use someone else's account without permission.

2. Plan, credits, storage, and billing

Billing is simple: one Mother account, one credit wallet, and an optional Mother Studio membership. Everything in this section applies across Storyboard, Midnight, and SlideKit.

How credits work

• 1 credit = $0.01 USD of generation value. Each AI model shows its per-run credit price before you run it.
• Each model's credit price is set at two times the underlying provider's cost for that run, and that provider cost is published on our rate card so you can see the math.
• Credits are prepaid service fees. You buy them up front and spend them as you generate. Credits are non-refundable and cannot be redeemed for cash (except where the law requires a refund, and except for the auto-refunds described below), have no cash value, and are not transferable between accounts.
• We recognize credits as revenue when they are consumed, not when they are purchased. Because purchased credits do not expire, we do not book unused credits as breakage.
• Per-model credit pricing can change. Because each price tracks its provider's cost, a change in the provider's price changes our published price. We give notice of pricing changes in the app or on the rate card before they take effect.

Credit packs

You add credits by buying one-time credit packs. Purchased credits never expire.

| Pack | Price | Effective rate | |------|-------|----------------| | 1,000 credits | $10 | $0.0100 / credit | | 5,000 credits | $45 | $0.0090 / credit | | 18,800 credits | $160 | ~$0.0085 / credit |

Larger packs carry a better effective rate, shown at checkout. Credit packs are the only way to add spendable credits; the Studio membership does not include any credits and does not discount credit prices.

The Free tier and starter credits

• The Free tier costs $0 and includes a one-time grant of 500 starter credits and 2 GB of storage.
• Starter credits expire 60 days after they are granted. This is the only credit balance that expires. Credits you buy in a pack never expire.
• The Free tier does not include Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK) or team features.

Mother Studio membership

Mother Studio is $49 per month or $490 per year. It is a capability membership, not a credit plan: it unlocks features and raises your storage allowance, but it includes no credits and does not discount credit prices. Studio includes:

• Teams and shared team credit pooling.
• Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK) for supported providers (see Section 3).
• 250 GB of pooled storage for the membership.
• 5 included member seats. You may add more seats at $10 per member per month, up to a maximum of 15 members.

Studio renews automatically (monthly or annually, as you choose). Credits are still purchased separately in packs.

Storage and your storage allowance

• Your plan includes a storage allowance: 2 GB on the Free tier, 250 GB on a Studio membership.
• Storage used beyond your allowance is metered at 10 credits per GB-month and debited from your wallet.
• If your wallet cannot cover metered storage, the unpaid amount accrues as "storage due" (an arrears balance). The next credits you purchase settle any outstanding storage due first, and only the remainder becomes spendable credits.

If storage due goes unpaid: the collections ladder

Unpaid storage due, and only unpaid storage due, can trigger a graduated collections process. A low or empty credit balance, or a failed generation, never triggers it. The ladder is:

1. Days 1 to 14: full access continues while the balance is outstanding.
2. Read-only: after that, your library becomes read-only, and a one-click export of all your media stays available the entire time.
3. 60 days of warnings: we send repeated notices and keep export available.
4. Archive, then delete: only after all of the above may over-allowance media be archived and then deleted.

Delete-to-zero: you can always return to $0

You are never locked in by storage costs. You may empty your library and pay nothing. If you delete media so that your usage drops back within your allowance, any unpaid storage due for that overage is written off. You can leave at any time and owe $0 for storage.

Refunds: no result, no charge

• If a generation does not produce a result, you are not charged for it.
• Failed runs are refunded to your wallet automatically. Each refund is idempotent (a given run is refunded at most once). To prevent abuse, automatic refunds are capped at 20 per day per account; beyond that, further refunds are handled by support review.
• We run moderation before dispatch, so requests blocked by our safety checks are stopped before they spend credits.
• Except as described here, and except where the law requires, credits and fees are non-refundable.

Commercial usage rights follow funded accounts

Commercial rights to your outputs attach to any funded account, not to a particular subscription tier. An account becomes "funded" once it has purchased at least one credit pack. You do not need a Studio membership to hold commercial rights; buying credits is enough. See Section 4 for what "you own your outputs" does and does not mean.

Billing mechanics

• Credit-pack purchases and Studio memberships are charged through Stripe, our payment processor. Your card details are handled by Stripe and never touch our servers.
• Studio memberships renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel anytime in your account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and we do not provide prorated refunds for partial periods except where the law requires.
• If we change the Studio price, we will give you at least 30 days' notice, and the new price applies from your next renewal.
• If a membership renewal payment fails, we may retry it. If it keeps failing, we may drop the account to the Free tier (and its 2 GB allowance) until payment is resolved. Your purchased credits remain yours.

3. Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK, Studio membership)

With a Studio membership you may connect your own API keys for supported AI providers:

• Your keys are stored encrypted at rest (AES) and are used only to run the generation requests you make. We do not use your keys for anything else and we never share them.
• BYOK generations are billed by the provider directly to you. You are responsible for all provider fees incurred through your keys and for complying with each provider's terms of service.
• BYOK runs debit zero Mother credits.
• We may disable a connected key if the provider requires it or if it is being used in violation of these Terms or the provider's terms.

4. Your content

• You own your content. You retain all rights you have in the prompts, media, and other material you upload ("inputs") and, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and the terms of the AI providers involved, you own the material the Service generates for you ("outputs"). Copyright law in some jurisdictions may limit or deny protection for AI-generated material, and some provider terms may affect output rights. We claim no ownership of your outputs, and we pass through to you everything we are able to. Commercial usage rights attach to funded accounts as described in Section 2.
• Limited license to us. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, store, process, transmit, and display your content solely as needed to operate and provide the Service, for example sending a prompt and its input media to the AI provider you selected, generating previews and thumbnails, or displaying your work to people you choose to share it with. This license ends when the content is deleted, except for short-lived backup copies.
• No training by Mother. Mother does not use your content to train AI models, and we do not sell your content. When you run a generation, your prompt and input media are sent to the third-party AI provider you selected so it can produce your result. Each provider processes that data under its own terms, and those terms vary: some do not train on customer inputs or outputs, while others reserve the right to use them to improve or train their models. We summarize what we know about each provider we call in our Privacy Policy and on our rate card, but we do not control and cannot speak for a provider's own terms. You choose which model, and therefore which provider, to run.
• You are responsible for ensuring you have the necessary rights to the content you upload and that your content and your use of outputs comply with the law and with our Acceptable Use Policy.

5. AI outputs, important disclaimer

Generative AI is probabilistic. You acknowledge that:

• Outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading, and should not be relied on as factual, legal, medical, financial, or other professional advice.
• Outputs may be similar to outputs generated for other users; similar prompts can produce similar results, and we cannot guarantee uniqueness.
• You are responsible for how you use outputs, including reviewing them before use and clearing any rights needed for your intended use.

6. Acceptable use

Your use of the Service must comply with our Acceptable Use Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Violations may result in warnings, suspension, or termination of your account as described there and in Section 9.

7. Third-party services

The Service depends on third-party providers, including AI model providers, Stripe for payments, and our hosting and infrastructure vendors. We are not responsible for third-party services, and your use of an AI provider through the Service may also be subject to that provider's terms and content policies. Generations may be refused or filtered by a provider's safety systems.

8. Copyright complaints

We respond to copyright infringement notices as described in our DMCA & Copyright Policy. Send notices to support@motherrr.app.

9. Suspension and termination

• By you: You may stop using the Service or delete your account at any time. Deleting your account does not entitle you to a refund of fees already paid or of purchased credits, except where the law requires. You may also empty your library and settle any storage due to $0 at any time (see Section 2).
• By us: We may suspend or terminate your account, or restrict features, if you breach these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, if a payment fails and is not resolved, if required by law, or if your use creates risk or legal exposure for us or other users. Where reasonable, we will warn you first; for serious violations (for example, the zero-tolerance items in the AUP) we may terminate immediately.
• On termination, your license from us ends and we will delete or de-identify your data as described in the Privacy Policy. Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive (including Sections 4 to 5 and 10 to 16) survive termination.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that outputs will meet your requirements. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

• Neither we nor our suppliers will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenues, data, or goodwill, arising out of or related to the Service.
• Our total liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service is capped at the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so these limits apply only to the maximum extent permitted where you live.

12. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Mother from claims, damages, and reasonable expenses (including attorneys' fees) arising out of your content, your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law, or your violation of any third party's rights.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you, by email or an in-app notice, before the changes take effect, and we may ask you to re-accept the updated Terms in the app before continuing to use the Service. Your continued use of the Service after updated Terms take effect constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, stop using the Service and cancel your membership.

14. Governing law, venue, and dispute resolution

• These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
• Talk to us first. Before filing any claim, you agree to email support@motherrr.app with a description of the dispute and give us 30 days to work with you in good faith to resolve it informally. Most issues can be sorted out this way.
• If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, it must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in California, USA, and both parties consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there. Nothing in this section prevents either party from bringing an eligible claim in small-claims court or limits rights you have under mandatory consumer-protection law where you live.

15. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force.

16. Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Acceptable Use Policy, the DMCA & Copyright Policy, and the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Mother regarding the Service, and supersede any prior agreements on that subject. We may not be bound by informal statements made outside these documents.

Contact

Mother support@motherrr.app