Terms of Service

The agreement between you and FilmMakerStudio when you use the studio.

Last updated 7 October 2026

1. About these terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of FilmMakerStudio, its website, its web app and its Chrome extension (together, the “Service”), provided from India by an individual, Arun Kumar Mohanan, trading as FilmMakerStudio as a sole proprietor (“we”, “us”). FilmMakerStudio is a trading name, not a registered company. By using the Service you agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy and our Refund & Cancellation Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility and accounts

• You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract under Indian law to create an account or buy a plan.
• You sign in with a Google account. You are responsible for keeping that account secure and for everything done through your account.
• An account is for one person. Your active session is used on one device at a time; signing in elsewhere may pause sync on the other device.
• If you use the Service on behalf of a company or production, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these Terms on its behalf.

3. Invite-only access

The Service is currently available by invitation. You may enter with a valid invite code, request an invite with your Google account, or buy a paid plan, which admits your account without a code. We decide invite requests at our discretion and may decline one without giving a reason. Invite codes are personal; do not sell or publish them. We may withdraw a code or a membership that is misused.

4. Plans and payments

• Free and paid plans. Plans differ in their cloud limits (such as synced projects, share links, collaborators and team seats), the features they include and access to the Chrome extension. The current plans, features and prices are shown in the app before you buy. Work kept on your own device is not limited by plan.
• One-time purchase. A paid plan is bought with a single payment and gives access to that plan for as long as the Service is offered. It is not a subscription: nothing renews automatically and you will not be charged again unless you choose to upgrade.
• Prices and taxes. Prices are in Indian Rupees (INR) and include any applicable taxes unless stated otherwise. GSTIN: [OWNER: GSTIN, if registered]. We may change prices for future purchases; a change never affects a plan you have already bought.
• Payment processing. Payments are processed by Razorpay under its own terms. We do not see or store your card, UPI or bank details. Your invoice or receipt is sent by Razorpay.
• Upgrades. You may upgrade to a higher plan at any time by paying the price shown in the app for that plan.
• Organisations. A plan applies to the organisation (team account) that bought it, and its members share that plan’s limits.

5. Refunds and cancellation

A plan is a one-time purchase and purchases are final and not refundable, with three exceptions: a duplicate or erroneous charge for the same order is refunded in full; a payment taken where the plan was never activated is refunded or the plan activated, as you choose; and a refund is given wherever the law of India requires one. The details, and how to ask, are in our Refund & Cancellation Policy, which forms part of these Terms. If a refund is issued, the plan it paid for ends and your account returns to the free plan.

6. Your content

• Ownership. You keep all rights in the scripts, notes, images and other material you create or upload (“Your Content”).
• Licence to operate the Service. When you sync, share or back up Your Content, you give us a limited, non-exclusive permission to store, copy and display it only as needed to provide those features to you and the people you share it with. This permission ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies held for a short time in backups or where the law requires otherwise.
• Where it lives. Your Content is saved in your browser first. It is copied to our cloud database only if you sign in and sync it, and to Google Drive only if you connect Drive. You are responsible for keeping backups; we cannot recover work that exists only in a browser that has deleted it.
• Sharing. You decide who you share a project with, and you are responsible for that choice and for the content collaborators add.
• Your responsibility. You confirm that you have the rights to Your Content and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights.

7. AI features

AI tools work only with an API key you supply for Anthropic or Google Gemini. Requests go directly from your browser to that provider, are billed to your account with them, and are governed by their terms. AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete or similar to existing material. Review it before you rely on it; you are responsible for how you use it.

8. Third-party services

The Service relies on providers including Supabase, Google, Razorpay and our hosting providers, and links to services such as Google Drive. Your use of those services is also subject to their terms. We are not responsible for their outages or actions, though we will work to restore the Service when they affect it.

9. Reference material is not professional advice

The studio includes rate cards, festival deadlines, case studies, budget estimates and a sample project. They are compiled in good faith as a starting point. Rates and deadlines change, and the sample project’s production paperwork is invented for demonstration. Always confirm figures and dates with vendors, crew and festivals. Nothing in the Service is legal, financial, tax or other professional advice.

10. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• break any law, or use the Service to store or share unlawful, defamatory, obscene or infringing material;
• try to access another person’s projects or account, or probe, disrupt or overload the Service;
• reverse-engineer, resell, sublicense or commercially redistribute the Service or its content, except as the law allows;
• share, sell or publish invite codes or account access; or
• use automated means to scrape the Service.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these rules. Where reasonable, we will tell you first and give you a chance to export your data.

11. Our content

The Service’s software, design, text and reference material belong to us or our licensors. You may use them to make your films; you may not copy them into a competing product.

12. Availability and changes to the Service

We work to keep the Service available but do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may add, change or remove features. If we ever discontinue the Service, we will give members reasonable notice and a way to export their synced data.

13. Disclaimer

To the extent the law allows, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

14. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for loss of data, profits, revenue, opportunities or deadlines, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability to you for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or INR 1,000 if you have paid nothing. Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot be limited under Indian law, including your rights under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

15. Indemnity

You agree to compensate us for reasonable losses and costs arising from Your Content or from your breach of these Terms or of the law.

16. Ending your use

You may stop using the Service at any time and ask us to delete your account (see the Privacy Policy). We may suspend or end your access if you seriously or repeatedly breach these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive — such as ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability and governing law — continue after your access ends.

17. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. We will try to resolve any dispute with you informally first — please write to us. If we cannot, the courts at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, will have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to any right you have as a consumer to approach a consumer commission where you live.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change is significant, we will tell signed-in members in the app or by e-mail before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the updated Terms.

19. Contact

Questions about these Terms, or a complaint about the Service: support@filmmakerstudio.in.

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