1. Acceptance of These Terms
By accessing or using Everlight Storyworks, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use the website or related services.
2. About Everlight Storyworks
Everlight Storyworks is an independent creative project producing original animated stories, music, artwork, development materials, fictional archives, interactive content, and related entertainment experiences.
Certain areas of the website may include fictional organizations, documents, terminology, characters, or interfaces presented as part of the Everlight storytelling universe. These materials are provided for entertainment purposes.
3. Eligibility
You must be legally permitted to use this website under the laws that apply to you. If you are under the age required to enter into a binding agreement in your location, you may use the website only with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian.
4. Accounts
Some areas of the website may require you to create an account or sign in through a third-party service.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login information and for activity performed through your account. You agree to provide accurate information and to notify us if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, interfere with the website, misuse protected content, or create a risk to other users or the service.
5. Memberships and Paid Access
Some content may be available only to supporting members, patrons, subscribers, or users with an active qualifying pledge.
Payments may be processed through third-party platforms such as Patreon or another payment provider. Your transactions may also be governed by the terms and policies of those providers.
Access to membership content may depend on the current status of your pledge, subscription, or account. If a payment is canceled, refunded, declined, disputed, or allowed to expire, access to protected material may be removed.
Unless otherwise stated, payments are for access to the available benefits and content associated with the selected membership level. They do not represent an investment, ownership interest, or guarantee that any particular project will be completed or released by a specific date.
6. Creative Projects and Release Plans
Everlight Storyworks is an independent production effort. Development plans, release dates, project descriptions, features, rewards, stories, characters, and availability may change during production.
Any previews, schedules, progress estimates, development notes, or future-project descriptions are provided for informational purposes and are not guarantees.
7. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, all content made available through Everlight Storyworks is owned by or licensed to Everlight Storyworks.
This includes, without limitation:
- Films and animation
- Characters and fictional organizations
- Stories, scripts, dialogue, and lore
- Music, lyrics, recordings, and sound design
- Artwork, logos, graphics, and photographs
- Website designs and interactive experiences
- Development logs, archives, and bonus materials
You may access this content for personal, noncommercial use. You may not reproduce, redistribute, sell, publicly display, upload, scrape, republish, modify, or create derivative commercial works from protected content without prior written permission.
8. Sharing and Commentary
You may share links to publicly accessible pages and discuss, review, or comment on Everlight Storyworks projects.
Limited screenshots, brief excerpts, or short clips may be used where permitted by applicable law, including legitimate commentary, criticism, news reporting, or review. Nothing in these terms grants permission to repost complete works, distribute membership-only content, or publish substantial portions of protected material.
9. Restricted and Member-Only Content
Content marked as private, restricted, confidential, classified, members-only, patron-only, or otherwise protected may not be shared outside the audience for which it was made available.
You may not attempt to bypass access controls, guess private URLs, extract protected files, share login credentials, or otherwise obtain content you are not authorized to access.
10. User Conduct
You agree not to:
- Use the website for unlawful or fraudulent purposes
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts or systems
- Disrupt, overload, damage, or interfere with the website
- Upload malicious code, automated scripts, or harmful files
- Harass, threaten, impersonate, or deceive another person
- Scrape or systematically collect protected content or data
- Use the website to distribute spam or unauthorized advertising
- Violate the intellectual property or privacy rights of others
11. User Submissions
If you submit comments, messages, feedback, suggestions, or other material, you retain ownership of your original content.
By submitting material to Everlight Storyworks, you grant us permission to receive, store, display, and use that material as reasonably necessary to operate the website, respond to you, moderate discussions, or provide the applicable service.
Please do not submit confidential information, unsolicited scripts, story concepts, character ideas, or other creative materials that you expect to remain private or that you expect Everlight Storyworks to review, develop, or compensate.
12. Email Communications
If you subscribe to email updates, you consent to receive messages related to Everlight Storyworks, including project announcements, production updates, new releases, music, bonus content, and related news.
You may unsubscribe using the link included in an email or by contacting us.
13. Third-Party Services and Links
The website may link to or integrate with third-party services, including video platforms, social networks, membership providers, payment processors, analytics services, and external websites.
Everlight Storyworks does not control those services and is not responsible for their content, availability, security, or privacy practices. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that service's own terms and policies.
14. Availability of the Website
We may change, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the website or its content at any time. We do not guarantee that the website will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, or free from errors.
15. Disclaimer of Warranties
The website and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Everlight Storyworks makes no guarantee regarding the accuracy, availability, reliability, completeness, or suitability of the website or its content for any particular purpose.
16. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Everlight Storyworks and its owner, contributors, contractors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of or inability to use the website.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so portions of this section may not apply to you.
17. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Everlight Storyworks from claims, losses, liabilities, and expenses arising from your violation of these terms, misuse of the website, or infringement of the rights of another person.
18. Termination
We may suspend or terminate your access to the website if you violate these terms, misuse protected content, interfere with the service, or create a legal or security risk.
Provisions concerning intellectual property, disclaimers, limitations of liability, and other terms that logically survive termination will remain in effect.
19. Changes to These Terms
These Terms of Service may be updated from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
Your continued use of the website after updated terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.
20. Governing Law
These terms will be governed by the laws applicable in the jurisdiction where Everlight Storyworks operates, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
21. Severability
If any provision of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect.