Terms of Use & License

By purchasing, accessing or using Cluevora you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use Cluevora.

Paid access is for the person who purchased it, and is linked to the email address used for the purchase. Access to the Cluevora Trial is granted to the person who signed up for it with their own email address. You are responsible for everything done through your access, and for keeping your sign-in links and login details to yourself.

You must be old enough to enter a binding contract where you live, and you must be permitted to use Cluevora under the laws that apply to you.

While your paid access is valid, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to use Cluevora to create puzzle content.

This is a licence to use the software. It is not a sale of the software and it transfers no ownership in it.

Cluevora is sold as one-time purchases. There is no subscription: paid access does not renew, has no billing period and is not charged again. It remains valid unless it is revoked under these terms — after a refund, a reversed, disputed or charged-back payment, fraud, or a material breach — or Cluevora is discontinued (clause 12).

Cluevora is sold as three one-time purchases: Cluevora Core; the Publisher Pro upgrade, offered to Core purchasers; and the Expansion Vault, an add-on offered to Publisher Pro purchasers. The Expansion Vault is a single purchase that includes three tools: Kids Mystery Edition, Book Cover Studio and Customize Cast. They are not sold separately.

Upgrades and add-ons depend on the purchases beneath them. Publisher Pro is an upgrade to Cluevora Core, and the Expansion Vault is an add-on to Publisher Pro. An upgrade or add-on works only while every purchase it depends on is active for the same email address: Publisher Pro needs an active Core purchase, and the Expansion Vault needs an active Publisher Pro upgrade on an active Core purchase. If a purchase it depends on is refunded, reversed, disputed or charged back, the upgrade or add-on stops working for as long as that purchase is not active, even though our records still show that you bought it. It works again if the missing purchase is made again. Buying an upgrade or add-on does not grant the purchases it depends on.

The Expansion Vault tools are available to you once they are released and while your access to them is valid under these terms. Your rights under Core and Publisher Pro are unchanged by whether you buy the Expansion Vault.

If you use the Cluevora Trial, the same licence applies while your Trial access lasts, for the purpose of evaluating Cluevora.

Every paid Cluevora plan includes commercial-use rights for the output you generate. There is no separate “commercial licence” tier, and no extra fee, to publish and sell what you make.

Using output you validly generated while your paid access was valid, you may:

• create puzzle books, activity books and printable books;
• sell those books, in print or digital form;
• publish them on Amazon KDP and on other publishing platforms and marketplaces;
• include them in printed physical products you sell;
• modify, arrange, brand and typeset them as part of your own product.

The same commercial-use rights apply to what you create with the Expansion Vault tools — Kids Mystery Edition books, covers made in Book Cover Studio for your own books, and cases made with Customize Cast — while your Expansion Vault is usable under clause 3, on the same conditions and with the same limits as everything else in these terms (including clauses 7, 10, 11 and 14).

We claim no ownership share in the finished books and other end products you create, and we take no share of your sales. You keep whatever rights you have in your own selection, arrangement, branding and presentation, in material you add, and in your finished product. The generated cases, artwork and other shared elements inside it are not exclusive to you (clause 10).

The Cluevora Trial is the exception. Commercial-use rights apply to eligible paid Cluevora access. Content generated under the Cluevora Trial is provided for evaluation only and is not licensed for commercial use. You may generate, view and evaluate Trial content, and use your Trial PDF to evaluate Cluevora. You may not publish Trial content on Amazon KDP or any other platform, sell it, redistribute it commercially, include it in a paid product, or claim commercial-use rights from the Trial. Trial PDFs carry a CLUEVORA TRIAL watermark; Trial content is not licensed for commercial use with or without it.

If a Trial user upgrades to eligible paid Cluevora access, content previously generated under that Trial becomes eligible for commercial use under the same commercial-use rights that apply to the user’s active paid access. Those rights begin when the paid access is activated; use of Trial content before then remains evaluation only. Upgrading does not authorise, after the fact, any commercial use that happened before activation. From activation, that content is treated as output generated under the paid access, including under clause 14.

Your paid Cluevora licence permits you to use eligible output you generate to create commercial books for Amazon KDP and other publishing or marketplace platforms.

We do not guarantee that any marketplace will accept your book. You are responsible for complying with each platform’s content policies, metadata and disclosure rules, intellectual-property rules, and any rules that apply to generated or assisted content.

Cluevora is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Amazon or any other marketplace. Marketplace names are used only to describe where you may publish.

Cluevora — the software, the puzzle engine, the page designs, the name and the branding — remains ours, and so does the Cluevora artwork library supplied with it (clause 7). Nothing in these terms transfers any of it to you.

The Cluevora artwork library — suspect portraits, evidence and landmark objects, floor textures and symbols, the Kids Mystery Edition props and characters, and the Book Cover Studio shapes and illustrations — is proprietary product content supplied with Cluevora. It was produced for Cluevora with the assistance of image-generation tools. It is not licensed as open-source or standalone asset content.

You may use that artwork as it appears inside pages you generate, and sell the resulting books, exactly as described in clause 4. That is ordinary book production and it is permitted. The same applies to Book Cover Studio shapes and illustrations placed on a cover you create for your own book.

You may not, however:

• extract the artwork and sell, licence or give it away as standalone image files;
• assemble it into an asset pack, clip-art set or template library;
• redistribute it other than as part of a finished end product you created;
• use it to build or train a competing product or asset collection.

In short: the artwork travels inside your books. It does not travel on its own.

The fonts supplied with Cluevora, including the Book Cover Studio title fonts, are made available by their authors under the licences listed in our Third-Party Notices. They may appear in the pages and covers you export as part of your design. These terms give you no separate right to the font files themselves; any use of the font files is governed by their own licences.

Your project — the cases you generate and the book you assemble — is stored in your own browser under the current version, and you can back it up to a project file at any time from the Studio. We claim no ownership of your projects.

Project files are for your own use: backup, moving between your own computers, and recovery. A project file contains our bundled content, so sharing or selling project files as a way of distributing that content to other people is not permitted. Sharing a finished book you created is.

The Expansion Vault tools also keep your work in your own browser. Kids Mystery Edition books, Book Cover Studio covers, and the images and fonts you add to Book Cover Studio are stored only in the browser you use, and these two tools do not currently offer a project backup file. Portraits you upload in Customize Cast are saved with your book in your browser and included in its project file. If you clear your browser data, or use a different browser or device, work stored only in a browser will not be there and we cannot recover it. Export your finished files and keep your own copies.

You may not:

• resell, rent, lease, sublicense or redistribute Cluevora;
• share your access, login details or licence with anyone else;
• provide shared or group access to people who have not purchased;
• copy, sell or publish the Cluevora source code;
• clone, white-label or rebrand Cluevora as your own product;
• circumvent access controls, or use automated means to extract the software, its content libraries or its engine;
• use Cluevora unlawfully, or to produce unlawful material.

Cluevora builds each case procedurally from shared systems, shared artwork and shared name libraries. Cases are generated from a seed, so the same settings and seed reproduce the same case.

We therefore do not promise that any generated case, layout, name, clue or combination is unique to you worldwide, and another customer may receive similar elements. We grant no exclusivity over the underlying systems, templates, artwork or mechanics.

What you contribute is yours to the extent the law allows: the book you build and publish, and your selection, arrangement, branding and presentation of it.

You are responsible for reviewing anything you publish. That includes checking the puzzle reads as you intend, that the artwork and wording suit your audience, and that your book meets the rules of wherever you sell it.

If you add your own material — covers, titles, artwork, text, portraits you upload in Customize Cast, images and fonts you add in Book Cover Studio, or fonts you add to any project — you are responsible for having the rights to use it, including the right to publish and sell it in your books. Uploading it gives us no rights in it, and gives you no rights you did not already have.

Book Cover Studio creates full-wrap paperback covers and exports them as PDF and PNG files. It sizes a cover from the trim size, page count and paper you choose. It does not produce hardcover or e-book covers, or PDF/X files, and it needs a desktop or laptop browser window at least 1200 pixels wide. Check every cover against the current requirements of your printer or publishing platform before you publish it; we do not guarantee that a cover, or any other file, will pass a platform’s checks.

We may update, change or discontinue features, or discontinue Cluevora. We may need to interrupt access for maintenance or for reasons outside our control. We do not promise uninterrupted availability.

We may suspend or end your access if you materially breach these terms — for example by sharing access or redistributing the software or its artwork — or if a payment for your access is reversed, disputed or charged back.

This is the important distinction, and we want it to be unambiguous.

Your access to the Cluevora software lasts while your paid access remains valid. It has no renewal date (clause 3). If it ends — because it is revoked under these terms, or because Cluevora is discontinued — you stop being able to use the Studio.

Your commercial rights to output you validly generated while your paid access was valid do not expire. Books you already created remain yours to keep selling. Losing access for any other reason does not make books you have already published unlawful, and does not require you to withdraw them.

The exception is output generated under access that was not validly held: if the purchase or payment for your access is refunded, reversed, charged back, fraudulent or otherwise invalidated, commercial rights in output generated under that access do not survive. The same applies to output obtained through unauthorised access or a material breach of these terms.

Cluevora is sold as one-time purchases, with no subscription and nothing that renews. Purchases are handled by a third-party checkout platform, which has its own terms and its own record of your transaction.

Cluevora is a digital product and access is delivered immediately after purchase. All sales are final once access has been granted, and we do not offer change-of-mind refunds, except where a refund is required by applicable law or by the rules of the payment or checkout platform used for your purchase. We do not offer partial or pro-rata refunds. This applies to every Cluevora product — Core, the Publisher Pro upgrade, and any add-on, including the Expansion Vault — unless a particular offer states otherwise in writing at the point of sale. See our Refund Policy.

When a refund is made, the access it paid for ends, and clause 14 applies to output generated under it. Upgrades and add-ons that depend on the refunded purchase stop working while it is not active (clause 3).

Nothing here removes rights you have that cannot legally be waived.

A payment dispute or chargeback is not the same as asking us for a refund, and it is decided by your bank or payment provider rather than by us.

If a payment for your access is reversed, disputed or charged back, we may end your access to Cluevora, and commercial rights in output generated under that access do not survive (clause 14). Because Publisher Pro depends on Core, and the Expansion Vault depends on both, reversing, disputing or charging back the payment for Core or Publisher Pro also stops the upgrades and add-ons that depend on it (clause 3). Please contact us first — most problems are quicker to solve directly.

Cluevora is provided “as is”. To the extent permitted by law, we make no warranties about fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted availability, or commercial results. We do not promise that any book or cover you create will be accepted by a marketplace, that it will sell, or that it will earn any income, royalties or ranking.

Nothing here excludes any warranty or right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

To the extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or relating to Cluevora is limited to the amount you paid us for access in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for lost profits, lost sales, lost data or indirect or consequential loss.

Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits. Where that is the case, they apply only so far as the law allows, and nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

We may update these terms. If a change is material, we will make the updated version available here with a new effective date. Continuing to use Cluevora after that means you accept the updated terms.

Anas Jaouhar
support@cluevora.com