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TERMS OF SERVICE

Last updated: May 9, 2026

Welcome to FableHatch. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and FableHatch, Inc., a Texas corporation (“FableHatch,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By accessing or using our website, applications, or services (collectively, the “Service”), you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use the Service.

1. Who can use FableHatch

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you must have permission from a parent or legal guardian. If we reasonably believe an account is being used by someone underage, we may suspend it.

2. Your account

You are responsible for what happens under your account, including keeping your password safe. Notify us immediately if you think your account has been accessed without your permission. One person per account; characters and pen-names are welcome and expected.

3. Your content

You keep ownership of the stories, characters, posts, comments, messages, images, audio, video, and other material you submit (your “Content”). By posting Content to the Service, you grant FableHatch a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to host, store, cache, reproduce, modify (only to the extent technically necessary, e.g. resizing, transcoding, focal-point cropping), publish, distribute, create thumbnails and previews of, publicly perform, and publicly display your Content for the purpose of operating, providing, promoting, and improving the Service. This license also covers promotional surfaces (e.g. share-card images, email digests, recommendation panels) where your Content appears alongside attribution.

This license ends when you delete the Content from the Service, with two narrow exceptions: (a) we may retain backup or archival copies for a reasonable period as required for our normal operations, and (b) Content that other users have already shared, embedded, downloaded, or interacted with in good faith may persist on those surfaces in line with this license.

4. Your representations and warranties about your Content

You are solely responsible for your Content and for any consequences of posting it. Each time you submit Content to the Service, you represent and warrant to us that:

  • Ownership and rights. You either created the Content yourself or you have obtained all licenses, releases, consents, and permissions necessary to grant the license in Section 3 — including any rights held by collaborators, employers, models, performers, or rights-holders depicted in the Content.
  • No infringement.Your Content does not and will not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any third party’s copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent, moral rights, right of publicity, right of privacy, contractual rights, or any other intellectual-property or proprietary right.
  • Real people.If your Content depicts a recognizable real person (including their face, voice, likeness, name, or distinctive style), you have obtained that person’s consent for the depiction and for the use you are making of it on the Service.
  • AI-generated content.If you used artificial intelligence, machine-learning models, or automated tools to create or modify your Content (in whole or in part), you have the right to use those outputs commercially under the terms of the tool you used, the underlying training data does not create a third-party claim against the Content, and any outputs that depict an identifiable real person comply with the “Real people” clause above.
  • Truthfulness. Your Content is not false, misleading, defamatory, libelous, or fraudulent.
  • Lawfulness. Your Content does not violate any applicable law, regulation, or court order, and does not promote or facilitate illegal activity.
  • Acceptable use. Your Content complies with Section 6 (Acceptable use) and our Community Guidelines.

These representations and warranties survive termination of your account. If any of them turns out to be wrong with respect to Content you submitted, you remain responsible.

5. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless FableHatch and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, successors, and assigns from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, investigations, liabilities, damages, losses, judgments, settlements, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and court costs) arising out of or in any way connected with:

  • your Content;
  • your use or misuse of the Service;
  • your breach of these Terms or any representation, warranty, or covenant in them — including any breach of Section 4;
  • your violation of any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right (including any intellectual-property right, right of publicity, or right of privacy); and
  • any dispute between you and another user of the Service that arises from Content you posted.

We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defense of the claim. You will not settle any claim that affects FableHatch without our prior written consent.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to use FableHatch to:

  • Harass, threaten, stalk, or harm other people.
  • Post hate speech, incitement to violence, or content that targets people based on identity (race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, or similar protected characteristics).
  • Post sexually explicit content involving minors. This is never allowed and will be reported to authorities.
  • Impersonate other real people or organizations, or create accounts to deceive other users.
  • Spam, scrape, scrape behind authentication, mass-download Content, or otherwise abuse the platform or other users.
  • Distribute malware, exploit security vulnerabilities, attempt to disrupt the Service, or interfere with its infrastructure.
  • Violate intellectual-property rights or applicable law (see Section 4).
  • Use the Service to train machine-learning models on other users’ Content without their explicit permission.

See our Community Guidelines for the long version.

7. Moderation

We may, at our discretion and without notice, remove Content, restrict accounts, suspend or terminate access to the Service, and refer matters to law enforcement when we believe you have violated these Terms or our Community Guidelines, or when we believe doing so is necessary to protect the Service, our users, or third parties. We try to be fair and consistent, but we are not obligated to keep any Content online.

8. Reporting and DMCA

If you see something that violates these Terms, please use the in-product report flow. For copyright concerns under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, send a notice to legal@fablehatch.com including all of the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3): your physical or electronic signature; identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and where it is located on the Service; your contact information; a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

We respond to DMCA notices and may remove or disable access to allegedly infringing Content. We will terminate accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. If you believe your Content was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notification to the same address.

9. Termination

You may delete your account at any time from your settings. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, create risk or possible legal exposure for FableHatch or other users, or for any other reason in our sole discretion. Sections 3 (Your content) (with respect to Content others have already interacted with), 4 (Representations and warranties), 5 (Indemnification), 10 (Disclaimers), 11 (Limitation of liability), 12 (Governing law), and any other provision that by its nature should survive termination, will survive.

10. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH IT ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FABLEHATCH DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free; that defects will be corrected; or that the Service or the servers that make it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. We do not endorse, control, or assume responsibility for any Content posted by users; any opinions or statements expressed by users are theirs alone, not ours.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL FABLEHATCH OR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT FABLEHATCH HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (a) $100 USD AND (b) THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID FABLEHATCH IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THESE LIMITATIONS APPLY EVEN IF A REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of liability for certain damages. To that extent, parts of Sections 10 and 11 may not apply to you, and our liability will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

12. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. The exclusive jurisdiction and venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be the state or federal courts located in San Francisco County, California, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

13. General

These Terms (together with our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines) constitute the entire agreement between you and FableHatch regarding the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect. Our failure to enforce any right is not a waiver of that right. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our consent; we may assign them without restriction.

14. Changes

We may update these Terms over time. Material changes will be announced in-product or by email at least 7 days before they take effect, and we may require you to re-accept the updated Terms before continuing to use the Service. Continued use after a change means you accept the new Terms.

15. Contact

Questions? Email hello@fablehatch.com. Legal notices (including DMCA notices) should go to legal@fablehatch.com.