Limnforge

Limnforge End User Licence Agreement

Version 2026-09-09.3 · Revised: 9 September 2026

This agreement is between you and Whitehand Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia, for use of Limnforge Studio (the ‘Software’). Please read it before accepting. If you act for an organisation, you must have authority to accept for it. Your mandatory consumer rights remain unaffected.

1. Your software licence

Subject to this agreement, Whitehand Publishing grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Software for lawful personal, professional, educational and commercial creative projects, according to the licence type purchased or granted and the disclosed device limit. Transfers require our written permission except where applicable law permits transfer. Limnforge is licensed, not sold outright. A permanent Studio licence allows continued use of the entitled installed software; expiry or cancellation of Support & Updates alone does not terminate that licence. The purchase includes the initial Support & Updates period shown at checkout. Any optional renewal price, term and automatic-renewal arrangements must be disclosed and agreed separately at checkout. This agreement does not itself authorise a subscription charge.

2. What Limnforge provides

Limnforge provides local planning, prompt assembly, reference management, layout, lettering and export tools, with an integrated OpenAI image-generation connection. It does not provide legal clearance or certify content for publication. Whitehand Publishing retains its rights in the Software and its documentation. We do not acquire ownership of your original content merely because you use the Software. Rights in third-party materials and generated outputs remain subject to applicable law and the relevant agreements. Permitted activities include creating and storing local projects and reference materials, connecting supported user-supplied AI APIs, generating and refining artwork, placing text and exporting production files. Your project materials may include prompts, manuscripts, notes, uploaded images, style and character references, generated outputs, text overlays, cover designs and exports.

3. Your OpenAI account and separate charges

To generate images you must provide an authorised API key for your own OpenAI account. OpenAI API usage is billed separately by OpenAI and is not included in the Limnforge licence or a ChatGPT subscription. Requests send the relevant prompts and reference images directly from your device to OpenAI for processing under your account, applicable provider terms and data practices. Generation depends on account access, funds, connectivity, model availability and provider policies. GPT-Image-2 is the preferred default; supported OpenAI fallback routes may be used. A generation request may involve more than one provider request. You are responsible for managing your account credentials and permitted usage. Do not bypass provider safeguards or use credentials without authority. Nothing here excludes responsibility that applicable law places on us for our own software or representations.

4. Rights and permissions for your materials

Before importing, submitting or using manuscripts, images, photographs, character designs, fonts, reference material or other content, you must have the rights, licences, permissions or other lawful basis required for the particular use, including transmission to and processing by a connected service where applicable. Purchasing material or obtaining permission to view or download it does not necessarily include permission to submit it to an AI provider or use it commercially. For identifiable people or personal information, obtain the necessary permissions or other lawful basis. Do not submit confidential or sensitive information where you lack authority to disclose it. Keep reasonable evidence of permissions relevant to your project. These obligations recognise lawful exceptions and do not require ownership where a valid licence or legal exception permits the use.

5. Acceptable use

You must not use Limnforge to infringe intellectual-property, privacy or other rights; knowingly direct the Software to produce unauthorised reproductions of protected works or characters; create or distribute unlawful sexual exploitation material, non-consensual intimate imagery, unlawful threats or harmful deceptive impersonations; or evade connected-service restrictions. Do not represent outputs as legally cleared by Whitehand Publishing or by the merchant of record for your purchase. Except where applicable law permits the activity, do not resell, redistribute, sublicense, rent, lease or offer the Software as a hosted service without our written permission; reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble protected parts of the Software; bypass or interfere with security or licence controls; or remove copyright, trademark, licence or ownership notices. These restrictions do not treat every artistic influence, stylistic similarity or lawful quotation as infringement.

6. Your decisions and review before publication

You are responsible for the materials you choose to submit, the generation instructions you provide, and your decisions to select, modify, combine, publish or distribute resulting material. Before publishing, distributing or commercially using output, review the content and its intended use, obtain necessary permissions and comply with applicable laws, client obligations and publisher/platform disclosure rules, including applicable AI-disclosure requirements. Review recognisable characters, copied expression, branding, likenesses and reference rights where relevant. A service accepting a request or returning an image, or the Software displaying, saving, approving or exporting material, does not constitute our approval or verification of ownership, permissions, originality, copyright protection or legal clearance. Provider moderation is not a comprehensive rights check. AI-generated elements may not attract copyright protection; qualifying human-authored text, arrangements and modifications may be protected. Outputs may resemble other material. Seek suitable advice when a rights question cannot reasonably be resolved. These responsibilities do not exclude obligations that applicable law places on us for our own software, statements or conduct.

7. Co-Pilot and external tools

Co-Pilot Work Orders assemble project-context text locally for you to preview and copy. Copying alone does not submit it to an AI service. If you paste that text or other project material into an external service, you choose what to disclose and must comply with that service's terms and relevant permissions. Limnforge does not guarantee the accuracy or rights status of material returned by external tools.

8. Complaints, enforcement and termination

Report suspected misuse or infringement to support@limnforge.com with enough information to identify the material, the rights or issue involved and your contact details. Do not send API keys, unnecessary personal information or illegal imagery. We may request reasonably necessary information, consider the customer's response and cooperate with the provider, merchant of record or authorities where lawful and appropriate. You must cooperate reasonably with a specific rights complaint by providing relevant information or permission evidence reasonably available to you, where lawful and proportionate. This does not require unrestricted access to your private projects, unrelated confidential material or a waiver of legal privilege. A report is not proof of wrongdoing. For a substantiated material breach we may require the prohibited use to stop and, where justified, suspend affected services or terminate the licence. We will normally explain the reason and allow a reasonable opportunity to respond or remedy the issue; urgent action may be necessary for serious harm, security or legal obligations. Any action must respect applicable law and be proportionate. You may challenge a decision through support. We do not automatically access or delete local project files. Termination does not authorise us to erase your work or remove any refund/remedy required by law. A material breach may include prohibited use, infringement of Whitehand Publishing's rights, or failure to pay an undisputed amount properly due for the affected licence after notice and a reasonable opportunity to resolve it. Non-renewal or non-payment of optional Support & Updates does not terminate a fully paid permanent Studio licence. Exercising a statutory refund, cancellation or dispute right is not itself a breach. On lawful termination of the Software licence, you must stop using the Software and uninstall the affected copies, except to the extent continued use or retention is required or permitted by law. You may retain your own project materials and exported content; termination does not transfer ownership of them to us. Your responsibility for your use and distribution of those materials continues, as do accrued rights and obligations that by their nature survive termination. No remote deletion or automatic enforcement functionality is created by this clause.

9. Purchases, support and refunds

The merchant of record—the seller identified at checkout and on your receipt—handles payment processing and applicable transaction taxes under its terms of sale. Contact that merchant of record for payment or invoice issues, or support@limnforge.com for help identifying the right route and for product support. Neither this agreement nor a reference to third-party services removes remedies for software that fails to meet applicable legal requirements. OpenAI charges arise under your separate provider relationship; a refund of the Limnforge purchase does not automatically refund those charges. The refund policy and mandatory consumer law apply. Your acceptance here is not consent to immediate digital supply or waiver of a cancellation right; any such consent must be handled separately where lawful and required. Product support is provided within the scope and period disclosed at purchase or renewal, together with any support or remedy required by law. Support does not promise that every generation will succeed, that independent services will remain available, or that every project will become commercially publishable.

10. Privacy and acceptance records

Projects are stored locally. The Software encrypts a saved API key using the operating system's secure-storage facility; this does not encrypt your entire project. Prompts and relevant images leave the device when sent to OpenAI, which may retain information under its own policies. The Software records agreement acceptance locally with the agreement version, exact document hash, time, Software version and an installation identifier; it retains the accepted text. This local record is not automatically transmitted to Whitehand Publishing or the merchant of record and is not a verified personal signature. A separate checkout acceptance record may be retained by the merchant of record under its privacy notice. See https://limnforge.com/privacy.html. Do not provide personal information or rights evidence beyond what is reasonably necessary for support or a complaint.

11. Your mandatory rights and our responsibilities

Nothing in this agreement excludes, restricts or waives rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded, or liability that cannot lawfully be limited. This includes applicable consumer protections in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, South Africa, the EU/EEA and other markets. Local protections may apply regardless of the contract's language. References to customer responsibilities or provider dependencies do not transfer liability for our own breach, negligence, misleading statements or other conduct where law makes us responsible. This agreement imposes no blanket obligation on consumers to indemnify us or the merchant of record for third-party claims. Any liability and remedies are determined under applicable law.

12. Changes and disputes

A material revision will identify its version and be presented for acceptance before access to the affected AI-generation feature under the revised agreement. We do not use a revision to retrospectively change completed purchases or remove mandatory rights. If you decline, the Software allows access to existing local projects; AI generation requiring the new agreement remains unavailable. Contact support@limnforge.com to discuss continued use under an earlier agreement or any remedy available for the change. We will try to resolve complaints fairly. This agreement does not impose mandatory arbitration, a class-action waiver or an exclusive foreign court, and does not restrict access to a competent court, regulator or statutory dispute process.

13. Whitehand Publishing intellectual property

Whitehand Publishing retains its rights in Limnforge and its underlying systems, including the Software, interface, visual design, workflow design, Style Preset System, Book Style DNA system, style anchor workflow, Prompt Compiler, character library logic, refinement and continuity workflows, export tooling, proprietary documentation, brand assets and system logic. This agreement grants permission to use the Software, not ownership of those assets. Third-party and open-source components remain subject to their respective ownership and licence terms; this agreement does not restrict rights those licences grant you. These reservations do not claim ownership of your original content, third-party materials or general ideas and methods that applicable law does not protect. Your rights in generated outputs remain subject to section 6 and the applicable provider terms.

14. Updates and versions

Whitehand Publishing may provide updates, fixes, new versions or changes to functionality. We will honour the update and support entitlements, product descriptions and express commitments applicable to your purchase, and any updates or remedies required by law. Beyond those commitments, the timing and scope of additional releases are at our discretion. An update may require acceptance of revised terms under section 12. Future features, compatibility or additional AI-provider integrations are not guaranteed merely because they are discussed as plans; an express binding commitment remains binding. We will not use an update or revised agreement to retrospectively remove purchased rights or mandatory remedies. Expiry of Support & Updates does not by itself remove the right to continue using an entitled installed version under a permanent licence. Independent provider changes may affect generation even on an older version. Material adverse changes remain subject to applicable notice, cancellation, refund and other legal requirements. Keep backups of your projects before updating; this advice does not exclude responsibility for loss we cause.

15. Disclaimers

Subject to section 11 and any express commitments we make, the Software and generated outputs are provided on an as-is and as-available basis only to the extent permitted by applicable law. We do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation, compatibility with every system, indefinite availability of independent APIs, or suitability for every publication or commercial purpose. We do not guarantee the originality, non-infringement, artistic quality, publication suitability, platform acceptance, commercial performance or legal safety of generated outputs. You remain responsible for review and clearance under section 6. We do not control independent providers' downtime, pricing, model or policy changes, moderation decisions, output behaviour, billing, account-access decisions or discontinuation of services. Those dependencies do not excuse a breach by Whitehand Publishing of its own obligations or representations. No disclaimer removes an express warranty, mandatory implied warranty, consumer guarantee, digital-content standard or other right that applicable law protects. Where a disclaimer is prohibited, it does not apply.

16. Limitation of liability

This section is subject to section 11. Nothing limits or excludes liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, wilful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability that applicable law does not permit us to limit or exclude. Mandatory consumer guarantees, statutory remedies and compensation rights remain available. To the extent applicable law permits, Whitehand Publishing is not liable for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable as a result of its breach when the agreement was made. For business use, and only where lawful and fair, Whitehand Publishing excludes liability for indirect, consequential or special loss and loss of business profits, business revenue or business opportunity arising from use of the Software, independent AI services, generated outputs or publication decisions. A business-use label does not remove any consumer or small-business protections that apply to the purchaser. These exclusions do not remove liability for direct loss caused by our breach, recoverable loss of project data, or any remedy or compensation that applicable law requires. A loss is not excluded merely because it involves API downtime, platform rejection, an infringing reference or a publication decision; responsibility depends on the cause and applicable law. No fixed monetary liability cap or customer indemnity is imposed by this agreement. If an exclusion is prohibited or unenforceable in your jurisdiction, it does not apply to you.

17. Governing law

This agreement is governed by the laws of Australia, including the laws of the Australian state or territory applicable to Whitehand Publishing Pty Ltd, subject to mandatory choice-of-law and consumer-protection rules. This choice does not deprive you of protections that cannot be excluded under the law that would otherwise apply, including applicable protections where you habitually reside. It does not require you to bring proceedings exclusively in Australia or prevent you from using a competent local court, regulator or statutory dispute process. Section 12's protections concerning disputes also apply.

18. Entire agreement and related terms

This EULA, the purchase or licence terms properly presented and agreed at checkout, and any separate written agreement with you form the agreement for the Software and the relevant purchase. The website Terms apply to website and related services, and the Privacy Policy describes applicable information practices. Read those documents together with this EULA; their inclusion does not turn a privacy notice into consent to processing that requires separate consent. As between Whitehand Publishing's documents, this EULA governs Software use and specific agreed purchase terms govern price, licence scope and Support & Updates entitlements. A separate written agreement may expressly vary the relevant terms. The merchant of record's terms govern its sale and do not extinguish Whitehand Publishing's obligations under this EULA. This clause does not exclude binding pre-contract statements, product descriptions, express promises, liability for misrepresentation or mandatory rights. Future website revisions do not automatically rewrite a completed purchase. If a provision is unenforceable, it is inapplicable to that extent and the remaining provisions continue only where they can lawfully operate without it.

19. Contact

For questions about the Software, this agreement, support, rights complaints or available remedies, contact Whitehand Publishing Pty Ltd at support@limnforge.com. For payment or invoice matters, use the merchant-of-record contact identified on your receipt, or ask us to help identify the correct route.