Terms of Service

AnvilGen (“the Service”) is operated under the trading name AnvilWorks (“we”, “us”) by Marks Tarasovs, a sole trader based in the Republic of Latvia, in the European Union. We are not currently a registered company. If the business is transferred to a company, we will update this section and notify you (see sections 21 and 22). You can reach us at AnvilWorksYT@protonmail.com; this address is our single point of contact for customers and authorities. A postal address is available on request. We are VAT-registered in Latvia; our VAT number is available on request.

Stripe is the merchant of record. These Terms govern your use of the Service and your relationship with us. The payment itself is completed with Stripe, which acts as merchant of record: Stripe’s name appears on your card statement and receipt, Stripe calculates, collects, and remits any VAT, GST, or sales tax due in your country, and refunds and chargebacks are processed by Stripe. Stripe’s terms for buyers apply to the payment transaction alongside these Terms. Prices in the app are shown in US dollars before tax; the tax for your country is shown at checkout before you confirm.

The Service helps you create YouTube video assets (scripts, thumbnails, AI-presenter videos, and publishing metadata) using artificial intelligence, with your review and approval at each step. These Terms are a contract between you and us. They apply when you create an account, buy credits or a plan, or run a job. By doing any of those you agree to them.

If you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms removes rights you have under the law of your country that cannot be waived. Any clause that cannot lawfully apply to a consumer does not apply to you.

You must provide accurate information and be at least 18 years old. Accounts are personal: do not share login credentials. You are responsible for activity on your account.

Keep your password, sign-in codes and links, and any API keys you connect confidential. Anything done through your session or your keys is treated as done by you. If you suspect someone else has access to your account, tell us immediately and change your password.

A credit-pack purchase is complete when Stripe confirms payment and the credits appear on your account. A subscription starts when the first payment is taken and the plan credits are added.

Subscriptions renew automatically each month until you cancel. If the price of your plan changes, we give you at least 14 days’ notice before the new price applies to a renewal. You can cancel at any time from the billing page (this opens Stripe’s billing portal). Canceling stops the next renewal; your plan stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for. We do not charge you for jobs individually: running a job spends credits you already hold.

If a renewal payment fails, no plan credits are added for that period. Stripe may retry your card; if payment still does not succeed, the subscription ends. Credits you already hold are unaffected.

Paid features are metered in credits. The credit cost of each step is shown before you run it. Credits are a non-transferable, non-monetary allowance that can only be spent inside the Service: they have no cash value, cannot be sold or moved between accounts, and cannot be redeemed for money except where these Terms or the law say otherwise.

• Credits do not expire while your account is open. Plan credits are added every billing cycle and unused ones carry over.
• Failed jobs are re-credited automatically: you never spend platform credits on a generation that did not complete. If you connected your own provider account (section 9), that provider’s own usage rules apply to what it consumed.
• Credit prices for steps can change; we give at least 14 days’ notice before a change affects you.
• Credits granted as a promotion, bonus, or goodwill may carry their own conditions, which we state when we grant them.

Credits are digital content delivered the moment payment is confirmed. Once you spend any credit from a purchase, you agree that performance of that purchase has begun with your consent, and the statutory right of withdrawal no longer applies to it. Until then, the 14-day right below applies. Subscriptions are paid in advance for the period and are not refunded in full or in part when you cancel; the plan simply does not renew.

If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA or UK: you have 14 days from a purchase to change your mind. If none of the credits from that purchase have been used, email us within those 14 days and we will refund it to the original payment method within 14 days of your request. You do not have to give a reason. A message along the lines of “I withdraw from my purchase of [pack or plan] made on [date], account [email]” is enough. Once any credits from the purchase have been spent, it is not refundable, except as set out below.

Not reasons for a refund: changing your mind after using credits, not using the Service, disliking an AI output (review gates exist so you can regenerate before spending more), switching plans, or a competitor’s pricing.

When we will refund: if you were charged in error, charged twice, or we failed to provide the Service with reasonable care and skill, contact us and we will put it right, with credits or with a refund to the original payment method. Refunds are issued through Stripe.

Chargebacks: please contact us before disputing a charge with your bank; we resolve almost everything directly. If you dispute a charge that matches these Terms, the credits that specific purchase bought are revoked, and the account may be paused while the dispute is resolved. Credits from other purchases are not affected.

You own what you make, to the extent the law allows: the scripts, thumbnails, videos, and metadata generated on your account are yours to use commercially and to monetize, and we claim no rights in them. Two limits apply. Stock presenters, library voices, and stock footage are licensed to you for use inside your videos under the relevant provider’s terms, not transferred to you outright. And in some countries purely AI-generated material gets limited or no copyright protection; that is a feature of the law, not something we can change.

You are responsible for what you do with your outputs, including complying with YouTube’s policies, copyright law, and any rules applying to your topic (financial, medical, or legal content in particular).

AI disclosure is your responsibility. Everything the Service produces is AI-generated or AI-assisted. When you publish it you must label or disclose that as your platform and the law require: for example YouTube’s altered/synthetic-content label, the U.S. FTC’s rules against deceptive advertising and fake endorsements, and, in the European Union, the AI Act’s duty to disclose that a video depicting a realistic person, place, or event is artificially generated. Do not present AI-generated presenters, voices, or statements as real, unpaid testimonials or as genuine footage of real events, and do not use the Service to make health, financial, or legal claims you cannot substantiate. We do not label or publish your videos for you.

You grant us the limited rights needed to operate the Service: storing, copying, processing, and displaying your content back to you, providing you with support, and passing it to the providers in section 11 for the steps you run. We do not publish your content anywhere ourselves, we do not sell it, and we do not use it to train AI models. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for backup copies, which age out within 30 days.

You are responsible for your content. AnvilGen is a neutral production tool. You choose the topics, prompts, and inputs, and you decide what to do with the output; we do not pre-screen, endorse, or monitor it. As between you and us, you are solely responsible and liable for the content you generate, upload, or publish.

You must own, or have written permission for, every face and every voice you bring into the Service. This is the most important rule on this page. When you upload a photograph to create a presenter, or connect a voice from your own provider account, you confirm that the person is you, or that they have given you explicit written permission for their likeness or voice to be animated and made to speak words they did not say.

Never anyone under 18, with or without permission. And you may not upload, without written permission from the person:

• public figures, politicians, celebrities, or influencers;
• colleagues, clients, ex-partners, or anyone else who has not agreed in writing;
• stock models, images found online, press photos, or social-media profile pictures;
• deceased persons (permission from their estate is required).

A stock license, a press photo, a public profile picture, or a podcast clip is not permission. Keep the written permission for as long as the presenter exists on your account and produce it if we ask. If you cannot, we will suspend the presenter and may close the account. The same rules apply to any other material you supply as input, including images, logos, and brands. If you are in a place with a biometric-privacy law (for example Illinois, Texas, or Washington), written consent from the person is required by that law before their face is used, and obtaining it is your responsibility.

Presenters generated by the Service from a description, and stock presenters offered by our avatar provider, are licensed for your use under the provider’s terms and do not depict a specific real person.

If you connect your own third-party API keys or accounts (for example HeyGen), you authorize us to use them solely to run the jobs you approve. Usage is billed by those providers to you under their terms. Keep your provider accounts in good standing; we are not responsible for third-party charges, limits, or outages.

You agree not to use the Service to create or distribute:

• content that impersonates a real person or organization in a way that could mislead, including fake endorsements, fake news, or fake customer testimonials;
• political campaigning, election material, or content designed to influence a vote or suppress turnout;
• sexual or nude content;
• content made for or directed at children, or that depicts or features minors;
• harassment, bullying, threats, or hate speech directed at a person or group;
• medical, legal, financial, or safety advice presented as coming from a licensed professional when the presenter holds no such license, or claims of credentials that are not real;
• scams, phishing, pump-and-dump or other fraudulent investment pitches, fake giveaways, or other deceptive schemes;
• deliberately false content presented as fact, or content that violates the law or the policies of the platforms you publish to;
• malware, spam, or attempts to abuse, probe, overload, or reverse-engineer the Service.

You also agree not to access the Service with bots or scrapers, or to resell raw access to it as if it were your own product without our written agreement. We may refuse, throttle, or remove workloads that break these rules.

AnvilGen is built on third-party providers: HeyGen for avatar rendering, Anthropic for text generation, Google for image generation and sign-in, OpenAI for transcription, ElevenLabs for voices where you connect them, Pexels for stock footage, Stripe for payments, Supabase, Vercel, and Railway for hosting and storage, and Anchor Browser and Steel for the cloud browser used when you connect a HeyGen subscription through the site. We can add, change, or remove features, and we can change providers. If a provider changes its service, pricing, or rules, or stops operating, the Service may change with it.

If a change we make materially worsens the Service for you, you may close your account and ask us to refund the unused credits from your purchases. We will do so within 14 days.

We provide the Service with reasonable care and skill. We do not promise a creative result. AI-generated content can be wrong, incomplete, or unsuitable: a script may need rewriting, a presenter may not look the way you hoped, a thumbnail may miss, and a render can fail outright. The review gates exist precisely so you can check every output before spending more. Beyond what these Terms and the law require, outputs are provided as they are.

Render times shown in the app are estimates, not deadlines. We aim for high availability but do not guarantee the Service will be available at any given time, and we may pause it for maintenance. We do not guarantee views, revenue, monetization, channel growth, or that outputs will suit any particular purpose of yours.

If you are a consumer in the EU or UK, you have a legal guarantee that digital content and services conform to the contract. Nothing in this section reduces that guarantee.

We can refuse a presenter, script, or job, stop a render, or remove a video if we reasonably suspect it breaks section 8 or 10, or if a provider refuses to process it. Credits reserved for a job we stop are returned automatically. When we restrict something, we tell you what was restricted and why, unless the law prevents us, and you can appeal by emailing us.

We can suspend or close your account for a serious or repeated breach of these Terms, with notice where practical. If we close your account for a breach involving fraud, unlawful content, or a likeness uploaded without permission, remaining credits are forfeited. If we close your account for any other reason, we refund the unused credits from your purchases within 14 days.

You can delete your account at any time from Account settings. This permanently deletes your content and remaining credits, cancels any subscription, and is not reversible. Unused credits are not refunded on deletion except where section 6, 11, or 21 gives you a refund; if you are claiming one of those, email us before you delete the account so we can process it.

We are responsible for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these Terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for loss that was not foreseeable; for loss of profit, business, contracts, or goodwill; for platform actions such as demonetization or channel termination affecting content you publish; for any consequence of how you use or publish a video; or for a claim by a person whose face or voice you uploaded without permission.

Our total liability to you for everything connected with the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or USD 100.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for breach of your statutory consumer rights, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

If a third party brings a claim against us because of material you uploaded, content you created or published, or a breach of these Terms by you (including claims from a person whose face or voice you used, a rights holder, a regulator, or a platform), you agree to cover our reasonable costs and damages arising from that claim, including legal fees, provided we tell you promptly and do not settle without your consent. To the extent this would be unfair to a consumer under applicable law, it does not apply.

AnvilGen is a production tool, not an income program. Any earnings figures shown in our marketing describe specific results by specific creators and are not typical, promised, or guaranteed. YouTube outcomes depend on your topics, consistency, quality decisions, and platform factors outside anyone’s control. Assume you may earn nothing.

If you believe content processed through the Service infringes your copyright, or is otherwise illegal, email AnvilWorksYT@protonmail.com with the specifics: what the content is, where it is, why it is infringing or illegal, and, for copyright, proof of your rights. We review promptly, remove or disable material where warranted, and tell both you and the account holder what we decided and why. We may close the accounts of repeat infringers.

How we handle your personal data, including any photographs you upload, is described in our Privacy Policy, which applies alongside these Terms.

Talk to us first. If you have a problem, email AnvilWorksYT@protonmail.com with your account email and what happened. We aim to reply within five business days and to settle complaints without formality. We both agree to try in good faith to settle any dispute informally for at least 30 days before starting a formal proceeding; if you are a consumer, this does not delay or limit your right to go to court at any time.

If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA or UK, nothing here removes your right to bring a claim in the courts of your country of residence, or to use an approved alternative dispute resolution body in your country. In Latvia that is the Consumer Dispute Resolution Commission (Patērētāju strīdu risināšanas komisija), which operates under the Consumer Rights Protection Centre at ptac.gov.lv. Arbitration is never imposed on EU/EEA or UK consumers.

If you are in the United States, and only where enforceable, any dispute that is not resolved informally will be settled by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court, and you and we waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing us within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. Either party may still bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek an injunction to protect intellectual property.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Latvia and applicable European Union law. Mandatory consumer protections of your country of residence are unaffected.

We may update these Terms as the Service evolves. If a change is material we will email the address on your account at least 14 days before it takes effect, and the date at the top of this page will change. If you do not want to accept a material change, you can stop using the Service before it takes effect and ask us to refund the unused credits from your purchases. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept it.

These Terms and the prices shown in the app are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. If any part of them is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a right straight away, we can still enforce it later. You may not transfer your account or these Terms to anyone else; we may transfer them to a successor of the business, with notice to you. Sections 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, and 20 survive the end of your account to the extent they concern things that happened before it ended.

We are not a law firm. Nothing on this page is legal advice about your own use of the Service. Whether you have the right to use a particular face or voice, and how you must disclose synthetic content where you publish, are questions for you and, if needed, your own adviser.