Terms of Service

1. About these Terms

These Terms govern your use of the website, application, and services operated by THE PRELIST LTD ("we", "us", "The PreList"), a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16946050) with registered address at 124 City Road, London, United Kingdom, EC1V 2NX.

By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

These Terms sit alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your data, and our Refund Policy, which expands on section 7 below. Where any of those documents differ from these Terms, these Terms take precedence.

2. The service

The PreList is a workspace for screenwriters. It provides AI-assisted screenplay analysis, AI persona feedback, a screenplay editor, draft comparison, pitch and export tools, competition research tools, an optional public writer portfolio, and optional features for sharing work with other writers, together with related tools and features that we may add or remove from time to time.

We may modify, add, or discontinue features at our discretion. We will give reasonable notice of material changes that adversely affect paying users.

3. Your account

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs on your account. Tell us promptly at enquiries@teamprelist.com if you suspect unauthorised access.

You agree to provide accurate, current information when registering and to keep it up to date.

An account is for one person. Do not share your login with others or use one account to serve multiple writers.

4. Plans, allowances and fair use

The service is offered on a free Starter plan and a paid Pro plan. Each plan includes a monthly allowance of the features that cost us money to run, such as script analyses, persona reviews, persona chat messages, report exports, and the number of scripts you can store. The current allowances for each plan are set out on our pricing page and in the app.

Allowances reset at the start of each monthly billing period. Unused allowance does not roll over, and allowances have no cash value. Some features are available only on the Pro plan.

We may change plan allowances. Where a change reduces what a paying Pro subscriber receives, we will give reasonable notice before it takes effect, and you may cancel before your next renewal if you do not accept it.

Fair use. Allowances are set for one writer working on their own material. We may contact you, apply limits, or suspend access where use is plainly outside that, including automated or bulk submission, running one account on behalf of several people, creating multiple accounts to obtain extra allowance or repeated free trials, or working around a limit by technical means.

5. Subscriptions and billing

The Starter plan is free. The Pro plan is a paid subscription billed monthly or annually in advance. Prices are shown on the pricing page. We offer pricing in pounds sterling, US dollars, and euros; the currency you are charged in is the one shown at checkout.

The PreList Ltd is not currently registered for VAT, and no VAT or sales tax is added at checkout. The price shown is the price you pay. If that changes, we will update these Terms and show any tax separately before you pay.

Payment is processed by Stripe. By subscribing, you authorise us to charge your selected payment method on a recurring basis until you cancel. If a payment fails, we may suspend access until payment is received.

We may change prices on notice. Changes take effect at your next renewal; you can cancel before renewal if you do not accept a new price.

6. Free trial

The Pro plan includes a 30-day free trial when you start a new subscription. A valid payment method is required at sign-up. You will not be charged during the trial. If you do not cancel before the trial ends, your subscription will start automatically and you will be billed at the Pro rate.

Trials are limited to one per customer and payment card and may not be combined or repeated. We check eligibility before activating trial access. If a card is not eligible, the trial is cancelled without a charge.

7. Cancellation and refunds

You may cancel your subscription at any time from your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; you retain access until then.

Under UK consumer law, you have the right to cancel a new digital subscription within 14 days of purchase for a refund, provided you have not begun using paid features. By starting to use paid features (including running an analysis or a persona review during a paid period), you consent to immediate performance and waive the 14-day right of withdrawal.

Outside the statutory cooling-off period, paid subscriptions are non-refundable except where required by law or where we choose to offer a refund at our discretion.

Our Refund Policy sets out how to ask for a refund and how we handle common situations.

8. Referrals and promotional offers

We sometimes run a referral programme and other promotional offers, such as bonus trial days, additional monthly allowance, or discounted pricing for an early cohort. The terms of each offer are described where the offer is presented.

Rewards have no cash value, cannot be exchanged for money, and are not transferable. We may vary, suspend, or withdraw a referral programme or a promotional offer for new participants at any time. Doing so does not remove a reward you have already earned.

We may refuse, reverse, or reclaim a reward where we reasonably believe it was obtained through abuse, including self-referral, referring accounts you control, or accounts created for the purpose of earning rewards. Repeated abuse may result in suspension.

Where a promotional price is described as continuing for as long as you remain subscribed, it applies while your subscription stays continuously active on the plan it was granted for. If you cancel, the same offer may no longer be available.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Upload content you do not own or have the right to use, or which infringes third-party rights.
• Upload unlawful, defamatory, harassing, or abusive material.
• Attempt to reverse engineer, scrape, or otherwise extract data from the service in bulk.
• Resell, sublicense, or rent access to the service.
• Interfere with the service's operation, including by sending malware, attempting to overload our systems, or probing for security weaknesses without authorisation.
• Use the service to train, fine-tune, or evaluate competing AI models.
• Harass, threaten, impersonate, or send unsolicited promotional messages to other users.
• Copy, circulate, or make any use of another writer's work that they shared with you, beyond reading it and responding to them.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these rules, and may remove content that does.

10. Sharing, messaging and community

The service includes optional features for connecting with other writers: you can send and receive messages, share a script with someone you are connected to, and leave notes on a script that has been shared. These features are off until you use them.

Sharing a script gives that person permission to read it. They will be able to open the script you shared and see the notes left on it, and so will you. Once someone has read your work, we cannot take that back. Share only with people you trust, and treat sharing as a conversation rather than a form of protection for your material.

You can stop sharing a script at any time. That removes their access going forward. It does not undo reading, and it does not reach any copy or note they made outside the service.

Messages and shared work are between you and the other person. We are not a party to them, and we are not responsible for what another user says, does, or shares with you. If someone misuses your work or behaves abusively, report it to us at enquiries@teamprelist.com.

We do not routinely read your messages. We may access them where it is necessary to investigate a report of abuse or a security incident, or where we are required to by law.

11. Your public portfolio

You may choose to publish a writer portfolio at a public web address. This is off by default and nothing in this section applies unless you turn it on.

When you publish a portfolio, the details you have chosen to include become publicly visible. That can include your display name, photo, headline, biography, job title, location, credits, education, awards and laurels, links to your social profiles, and the scripts you have marked as public, along with their title, format, genre, page count, logline, synopsis, cover image, and, if you opt in for that script, its score.

Your script files are never published. A visitor can send you a request to read a script, and you decide whether to respond.

A published portfolio can be viewed by anyone who has the link. We ask search engines not to index it, but that is a request to them, not a guarantee, and a link you share can be passed on by others. Treat a published portfolio as public.

You are responsible for what you put on your portfolio, including having the right to claim any credit, award, or affiliation you list. You can unpublish at any time. Unpublishing removes the page from our service; it cannot reach copies, caches, or screenshots made by others while it was live.

12. Your content and intellectual property

You own your scripts. All screenplays, drafts, notes, and other content you upload or write in the service, including work created in the PreList Editor, remain your intellectual property. We claim no ownership.

By uploading or creating content, you grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, transmit, and process the content solely to provide the service to you. Where you choose to share content with another user or publish it on your portfolio, that licence extends only as far as is needed to deliver what you asked for. This licence ends when you delete the content or close your account, subject to the retention periods set out in our Privacy Policy.

We do not use your scripts to train AI models. We have configured our third-party AI providers to exclude customer data from training.

Feedback and suggestions. If you send us ideas, suggestions, bug reports, or comments about the product, we may use them to improve the service without owing you payment or attribution. This does not give us any right to your screenplays or other creative work, and it does not let us quote you publicly. We will only publish something you said, or attribute it to you, if we have asked and you have agreed.

13. AI feedback and accuracy

The PreList provides AI-generated analysis and persona feedback as informational tools to help you develop your screenplay. AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, or inconsistent. Scores and assessments are an opinion produced by software, and running the same script twice can produce different results.

AI feedback is not professional script consulting, legal advice, business advice, or a guarantee of competition success or sale. You are responsible for evaluating and applying any feedback you receive.

14. Directories, research and editorial content

We publish free directories of screenwriting competitions and of agencies, management companies, and production companies, together with research based on measured features of produced screenplays. This material is editorial and is provided for information only.

We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for any organisation we list. Inclusion is our editorial decision. Organisations do not pay to appear, and paying us cannot get an organisation listed or change what we say about it.

Verdicts, assessments, and any description of how open an organisation is to new writers are our opinion, formed from publicly available information at the time we checked. They are not statements of fact about that organisation, and reasonable people may disagree with them.

Details change, and ours can go out of date. Deadlines, fees, eligibility rules, submission windows, and contact routes must be confirmed with the organisation itself before you rely on them, submit anything, or pay anything. We show when an entry was last checked. We do not warrant that any entry is current, complete, or accurate, and we are not liable for a loss arising from relying on it.

We are not a party to anything between you and an organisation we list. We do not submit your work, represent you, or take any fee or commission from either side.

Our published research describes the screenplays in our research corpus. It is not a prediction about your script or about the industry. Our public research never includes user scripts or user data.

If you represent an organisation we list and something is wrong, or you would like the entry removed, email enquiries@teamprelist.com and we will review it.

15. Connecting third-party accounts

You may choose to connect a third-party account, such as Google Drive, to import a script or send work back out. Connecting is optional, and you can disconnect at any time from your profile.

Your use of that third-party service is governed by your agreement with the provider, not by these Terms. We are not responsible for their availability, their pricing, changes they make, or content you lose there. What we can access and what we store is set out in section 11 of our Privacy Policy.

16. Our intellectual property

The service, software, design, branding, analysis methodology, and our directory and research content are owned by The PreList Ltd and are protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the service for its intended purpose during the term of your subscription.

17. Service availability and beta features

We aim to keep the service available and reliable but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. The service may be unavailable for maintenance, upgrades, or due to events outside our control.

We do not offer a contractual uptime guarantee on the Starter or Pro plans.

Some features are offered as beta or early access and are labelled as such. They are provided as they are, may be less reliable, and may change or be withdrawn without notice. Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose.

18. Termination

You may close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your account for breach of these Terms, non-payment, suspected fraud, or where required by law. We will give reasonable notice where it is practicable to do so.

On termination, your right to use the service ends, any published portfolio is taken down, and access you had granted to other users ends. Your data is retained and deleted in line with our Privacy Policy.

19. Liability

Nothing in these Terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be limited under English law.

Subject to that, our total liability arising out of or in connection with the service in any 12-month period is limited to the greater of: (a) the amount you paid us for the service in that period; or (b) £100.

We are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, loss of profits, loss of business, loss of opportunity, or loss of data (beyond our obligations under data protection law).

20. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against losses, costs, and claims arising from your breach of these Terms, your unlawful use of the service, or content you upload, share, or publish that infringes third-party rights.

21. Changes to the service or Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by email or in-app notification at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued use of the service after the change date constitutes acceptance.

22. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the service, except that we may bring proceedings in any jurisdiction where you reside or do business.

If you are a consumer ordinarily resident in another part of the UK, you may benefit from any mandatory protections of the law of that part.

23. Contact us

For any question about these Terms, email enquiries@teamprelist.com or write to: