Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of Cherry, a screenplay writing tool operated by Cherry Draft, Inc. (“Cherry,” “we,” “us”). By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these terms.

We’ve tried to write this in plain English. Where it sounds like lawyer-speak, that’s usually because the law makes us say it that way. If something here is unclear or seems wrong, email hello@cherrydraft.com and we’ll do our best to help.

The short version

• You write screenplays. We help. The screenplays are yours.
• Don’t use Cherry to harass anyone, write child sexual abuse material, generate malware, or do other things that would land you in jail.
• We charge a monthly or annual subscription. Cancel anytime; refunds available within 30 days (see our refund policy).
• Your writing belongs to you, not us. We don’t train AI on it.
• If something goes sideways, we have to limit our liability or we can’t afford to operate. Standard SaaS terms apply.

Your account

You need an account to use Cherry. You’re responsible for keeping your password safe and for everything that happens under your account. If someone else uses your login — whether with permission or by stealing it — you’re responsible for what they do with your account until you regain control of it.

You must be at least 13 years old to use Cherry. If you’re under 18, you need a parent or guardian to agree to these terms on your behalf.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, attempt to harm Cherry or its users, or are used for activity that exposes us to legal risk. We’ll try to give notice when practical, but in cases of clear abuse we may act first and notify after.

Your writing belongs to you

Anything you write in Cherry — screenplays, character notes, scene work, the prose you feed into our prose-to-screenplay tool, the AI-suggested rewrites you accept — is yours. Cherry claims no ownership. Period.

We need a limited license to operate the service: to display your work back to you, store it on our servers, send it through Anthropic’s API when you invoke an AI tool, and back it up for disaster recovery. This license ends when you delete the work or close your account.

We do not use your screenplays to train AI models. Anthropic’s commercial API does not train on submitted content by default, and we have not opted into any program that would change that.

AI-generated content

Cherry’s AI tools generate suggestions, rewrites, analyses, and other content based on your writing and prompts. This output is yours to use, modify, or discard. We make no claim of ownership over AI-generated suggestions you accept into your script.

Two caveats worth understanding:

• AI output isn’t guaranteed unique. Two writers working on similar scenes might receive similar suggestions. We can’t prevent that. If originality matters to your project, treat AI suggestions as raw material to rework, not finished dialogue to copy verbatim.
• You’re responsible for what you publish. If you accept an AI suggestion that turns out to infringe someone else’s copyright, parrot a line from a known film, or contain factually wrong information you present as true, that’s on you, not us. AI tools make mistakes. Treat their output the way you’d treat a fast intern’s first draft.

Acceptable use

Don’t use Cherry to:

• Write or generate sexual content involving minors. Zero tolerance. We will report violations to law enforcement.
• Harass, threaten, or impersonate specific real people in ways designed to harm them.
• Generate code or instructions for malware, weapons, or self-harm; circumvent our safety guardrails to do so.
• Train competing AI models using outputs from our service. The API terms with Anthropic prohibit this and so do we.
• Resell, sublicense, or share access to your account with parties who haven’t paid for their own.
• Reverse-engineer the service, scrape it at industrial scale, or attack our infrastructure.

Violations may result in immediate termination, forfeiture of any remaining subscription period, and legal action where warranted.

Subscription, billing, and cancellation

Cherry is a paid subscription service with three tiers (Starter, Writer, Studio) billed monthly or annually. Pricing is shown on our pricing page and may change with reasonable notice (typically 30 days for existing customers).

Every new customer gets a 14-day free trial. We collect your payment method at signup but charge nothing until the trial ends. You can cancel anytime during the trial without being charged.

After the trial, your subscription auto-renews at the end of each billing period (monthly or annual) unless you cancel. To cancel, use the “Manage billing” link in your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current period — you keep access until then.

Refunds are handled per our refund policy: full refund within 30 days, no questions asked.

We use Stripe to process payments. Your card details are stored with Stripe, not us. Stripe is PCI-DSS Level 1 certified.

Service availability

Cherry runs on cloud infrastructure that is generally reliable but not perfect. We aim for high availability but don’t promise zero downtime. The AI tools depend on Anthropic’s API; if that’s down, the AI features are too. Writing and exporting your screenplays continues to work in those cases.

We may take the service offline for maintenance, security patches, or to address abuse. Where reasonable, we’ll notify you ahead of planned downtime.

Changes to the service

Cherry is a young product. We’ll add features, change features, and occasionally remove features. Breaking changes that materially affect your subscription tier (like removing access to a tool you signed up for) come with at least 30 days’ notice and the option to cancel for a pro-rated refund.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent allowed by law, Cherry’s total liability to you for any claim arising from these terms or your use of the service is limited to the amount you’ve paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. We’re not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages.

Specifically, we are not liable for:

• Lost screenplays, lost edits, or data corruption (we run backups, but you should also back up your work locally)
• Lost income, lost opportunities, or lost contracts that stem from problems with the service
• Mistakes the AI tools make in their suggestions or analysis
• Acts of third-party services we depend on (Anthropic, Stripe, Supabase, Vercel, Resend) when they’re outside our control

Some jurisdictions don’t allow limitations like these. If you live in one of those, the limitations apply only to the extent permitted by your local law.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify Cherry against claims, damages, and expenses arising from your use of the service, your screenplays and other content, your violation of these terms, or your infringement of third-party rights. In plain English: if you do something that gets us sued, you cover our legal costs.

Disputes

We’d much rather work things out directly than involve lawyers. If you’re upset about something, email hello@cherrydraft.com and give us a chance to make it right.

If we can’t resolve a dispute informally within 60 days, any claim arising from these terms or your use of the service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association, with the seat in Arkansas. You waive the right to participate in class actions or collective proceedings against Cherry.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arkansas, without regard to conflict of laws principles. Where arbitration does not apply, the federal and state courts located in Washington County, Arkansas have exclusive jurisdiction.

Changes to these terms

We’ll update these terms from time to time. Material changes come with at least 30 days’ notice via email. Continued use after changes take effect means you accept them. If you don’t, cancel before the effective date.

Contact

Email hello@cherrydraft.com with any questions about these terms or how Cherry works.

These terms are provided as a starting point. They are not legal advice and have not been reviewed by a lawyer for your specific jurisdiction. Cherry recommends consulting a qualified attorney before relying on these terms in a dispute.