License agreement

END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA) & TERMS OF SERVICE – LOUP FRÈRES

This End User License Agreement ("Agreement") is a binding legal contract between you ("User") and Patryk Kamil Przebieracz, operating under the trade name "Loup Frères" and the pseudonym "Saint Aurelius" ("Provider").

1. Definitional Isolation, Local-First Architecture, & Character Management

The software ("Application") is strictly defined as the localized user interface, local prompt-processing engine, and localized asset management system. It functions as a strictly local, text-generative narrative engine. It does not host, synchronize, or store your narratives, characters, or user logs on any central server.

The Application allows for the management, exportation, storage, and exchange of character cards and user logs. Because the Application is entirely local, any user-to-user exchange of these exported files occurs completely outside the Provider's infrastructure. The Provider claims no ownership of, and assumes no liability for, the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material or illegal content exchanged directly between users.

The Character Kitchen Exception: The Application includes an optional, in-app catalog named the Character Kitchen, through which users may voluntarily publish character and world files for other users to browse and download. Any adult user may publish, as a "Cook", after confirming in the Application that they are at least 18 years of age and have read the Character Kitchen rules; the Provider may designate certain publishers as "Chefs", whose work carries a mark and is listed first. Both are "Publishers" in this Agreement. A file a Publisher publishes to the Character Kitchen is the one exception to the local-only architecture described above: the file, together with the preview images and page text derived from it, is transmitted to and stored on infrastructure operated for the Provider by Cloudflare, Inc., and is distributed from there to other users of the Application. Nothing is published unless a Publisher chooses to publish it. Browsing and downloading from the Character Kitchen transmit none of your own narratives, characters, or user logs; what they do transmit is described in Section 3 of the Privacy Policy. A file downloaded from the Character Kitchen is provided for your personal use within the Application.

2. Perpetual Base License, Subscriptions, & Platform Variances

By downloading the Application, the Provider grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable perpetual license to use the specific version of the Application you downloaded (e.g., version 1.0.0) in its current state. You own this local copy indefinitely.

Patreon Subscriptions: Your Patreon subscription provides a License Key that functions strictly as an Update and Authentication Key. An active subscription entitles you to authenticate your devices and download future software updates. If your subscription is canceled, you retain the permanent right to use the specific version you previously downloaded or updated to, but your Key will be deactivated, and you will lose access to all future updates.

Third-Party Storefronts (e.g., Steam): If you acquire the Application through a third-party storefront, updates, device limits, and ownership verification are governed natively by that storefront's Terms of Service. Due to differing platform guidelines, the feature set of the Application may vary significantly depending on where it was acquired. The Provider is under no obligation to achieve feature parity between different storefront releases.

3. "Bring Your Own Key" (BYOK) Multi-Provider Architecture & Outage Protection

The Application acts solely as a localized narrative engine and inherently relies on a "Bring Your Own Key" (BYOK) architecture. The Application does not include, bundle, or supply any generative AI capacity of its own; it is a local front-end that connects to whichever third-party AI provider the User chooses to configure.

Supported Providers: The Application is provider-agnostic and supports connection to a range of third-party services, including but not limited to Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), OpenRouter, and NanoGPT, as well as user-defined custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints. You are strictly responsible for independently obtaining your own API key for each provider you elect to use, for covering any and all usage costs billed by that provider, and for reading and complying with each chosen provider's own Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Privacy Policy. Your relationship with each AI provider is solely between you and that provider; the Provider of this Application is not a party to it.

Custom and Self-Hosted Endpoints: The Application permits the User to direct generation to an arbitrary custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint of the User's own specification. The Provider does not vet, validate, control, or endorse any such endpoint, and assumes zero liability for data transmitted to, or content received from, a destination the User has chosen to configure. The User bears sole responsibility for the trustworthiness, legality, and security of any custom endpoint they enable.

Knowledge-Graph Embeddings: For the Application's local knowledge-graph and memory features, text embeddings are generated by an embedding model which the User selects independently of the model used for chat generation. Google Gemini is the default. The User may instead direct embeddings to any other supported provider, to a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint of their own specification, or to an embedding model served by the User's own local backend software (the Local LM Exception below applies to it in full). Use of a remote embedding provider requires a valid API key for that provider and is governed by that provider's terms in the same manner as any other provider; embedding generation through a remote provider transmits the embedded text to that provider. Embeddings produced by different models are not interchangeable: memories embedded under one model are not recalled under another until the User re-indexes them, which the Application performs only at the User's request and which, on a remote provider, consumes the User's own quota.

The Local LM Exception: A further exception to any reliance on remote providers is localized, offline generation via a Local Language Model (Local LM). To utilize this feature, the User must independently procure, install, and configure their own local backend software (e.g., Ollama, KoboldCPP) and legally obtain the necessary LLM weight files. Generation performed entirely through a local backend transmits no prompt data off the User's device.

Disclaimer of Local Liability: The Provider assumes zero liability for hardware degradation, system instability, or content generation resulting from the use of a Local LM. The User is entirely responsible for ensuring their hardware can safely run said models, and must comply with the respective Terms of Service, end-user licenses, and copyright restrictions of their chosen backend provider and downloaded LLM files.

Failure to Procure is Not a Defect: You are strictly responsible for registering, providing, and maintaining a valid API key for at least one supported provider (or a correctly configured local backend), as well as covering any associated usage costs billed by that provider. Your failure, refusal, or inability to procure, configure, or maintain a valid key or backend does not constitute a "lack of conformity" or a defect of the Application, and the Provider assumes no liability for an inoperable state resulting from a missing, invalid, expired, or misconfigured key or endpoint. The Application is delivered in conformity as a front-end; supplying the generative capacity to power it remains the User's sole responsibility.

Disclaimer of Third-Party Liability: The Provider exercises absolutely zero control over any third-party AI provider the User may select. You explicitly acknowledge that if a provider alters its API architecture, changes its pricing, revokes your personal access, experiences server outages, or ceases operations, the generative features of this Application that depend on that provider will cease to function. Under Directive (EU) 2019/770, the Provider is not liable for the failure of extrinsic, third-party digital environments. Any third-party API outage, deprecation, model retirement, or token exhaustion constitutes an external environmental failure entirely outside the scope of this sales contract, and does not constitute a "lack of conformity" or a defect of the Application. Therefore, third-party API failures do not grant the User the statutory right to demand a refund or terminate this Agreement.

4. Device Limits & Breach of Contract

Your License Key is strictly personal property and authorizes you to authenticate updates on a maximum of three (3) of your personal devices. You are explicitly prohibited from sharing, reselling, or publicly posting your License Key, and from redistributing the Application binaries.

Reinstallation and Hardware Changes: The Provider recognizes that legitimate hardware formatting or software reinstallations may cause a Device UUID to reset. Users who reach their device limit due to standard hardware changes or formatting may contact customer support to request a manual reset of their active device count.

However, any evidence of unauthorized sharing and redistribution constitutes a direct breach of this Agreement. In the event of an abusive breach, the Provider reserves the right to immediately and irreversibly invalidate your License Key and issue a permanent ban without a refund. You will retain your software in the exact state it was prior to the termination.

Publishing Identity: Publishing to the Character Kitchen requires an identity the Provider can act on: your License Key; or, where you have none, a sign-in with a Patreon account as described in Section 3 of the Privacy Policy; or, for as long as the Provider allows it, the keyed hash of your Device UUID described in Section 3 of the Privacy Policy. The Provider may at any time require Publishers who publish under a Device UUID to sign in with a Patreon account before publishing again; the Application tells you when that is so, and signing in from the same device keeps your public name and your published files. The Provider may withdraw the right to publish from a publishing identity under Section 7. Such a withdrawal applies to every identity the Provider knows to belong to the same person, and does not affect your license to use the Application.

5. Eligibility and Age Requirement

By downloading the Application, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age, and you confirm it again in the Application before you publish to the Character Kitchen. The major third-party AI providers compatible with this Application generally prohibit the use of their API services by minors. Use of this Application by anyone under the age of 18 is a direct violation of this Agreement and of the applicable third-party terms. Because of the nature of third-party AI dependencies, we do not recognize "parental consent" as a valid workaround. If we have reason to believe you are under the age of 18, we will immediately revoke your License Key without a refund and withdraw any right to publish to the Character Kitchen.

6. Waiver of the Right of Withdrawal

Within the European Union, consumers generally possess a 14-day statutory right of withdrawal to cancel a distance contract. However, by accepting this Agreement and initiating the download of the digital Application, you provide your express prior consent to begin the performance of the digital delivery and explicitly acknowledge the permanent loss of your right of withdrawal.

In accordance with Polish consumer protection amendments mandating the implementation of a "Withdraw from contract here" button by June 19, 2026, this interface element may be present on our distribution platforms. However, any attempt to execute a withdrawal for the digital content via this button after the aforementioned waiver has been executed will be legally voided and rejected.

Third-Party Storefront Exemption: Where the Application is purchased or licensed via a third-party storefront (e.g., Steam), the statutory refund, withdrawal, and return policies natively mandated by that specific storefront shall completely supersede this Section.

7. Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) for Text-Based Generation

The Application must not be used to generate or facilitate illegal or severely harmful text-based content. Based on standard AI provider regulations, the User is strictly prohibited from utilizing the Application's generative capabilities for the following:

The generation of text-based Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), grooming materials, underaged sexual or violent content, or content promoting self-harm.

The synthesis of malicious code, malware, adware, trojans, or automated phishing and social engineering scripts.

The generation of mass disinformation or the fabrication of fake product reviews.

Reactive Enforcement: Because the Application is entirely local and unmonitored by the Provider, enforcement of this Acceptable Use Policy is strictly reactive. The Provider does not proactively monitor, log, or intercept your private generations. License revocation under this AUP will solely occur upon: (a) receipt of substantiated third-party reports regarding the User's public distribution of prohibited content, (b) the User publicly sharing or broadcasting the prohibited content, or (c) any AI provider independently revoking the User's API key for violations of that provider's respective Terms of Service.

Character Kitchen Content Policy: A file published to the Character Kitchen is public distribution. In addition to the prohibitions above, a Publisher must not publish: sexual content involving minors, including fictional characters who are minors, are described as minors, or are presented as minors, whatever age is claimed for them; sexual content depicting a real, identifiable person without that person's consent; content that infringes another party's intellectual property or that the Publisher has no right to distribute; content that is unlawful in the Republic of Poland or in the European Union; or adult content that is not marked 18+, which marking must cover the whole of the file, including every image it carries. The Application shows these rules to every Publisher before they first publish and asks them to confirm, for every file they publish, that the file complies.

Review and notices: The Provider does not review files before they are published. Moderators appointed by the Provider may review any published file at any time, and do look over what Cooks publish after it goes up. Every page in the Character Kitchen carries a Report control through which any user may notify the Provider of content they believe violates this Section; notices may also be sent to the contact address in the Privacy Policy. On receiving a notice, or on its own review, the Provider may hide or remove the content. In one case content is hidden automatically: a Cook's file that receives several reports for sexual content involving minors or for illegal content from users who downloaded it is hidden until a moderator reviews it, after which the moderator's decision stands and the file is never hidden automatically again.

Statement of reasons and contesting a decision: A Publisher whose content is hidden or removed, or whose right to publish is withdrawn, is informed of the reason through the Application. A Publisher who believes a decision is mistaken may write to the contact address in the Privacy Policy; a person will review the decision and reply.

Withdrawal of the right to publish: A removal under this Section may be counted against a Cook. A removal for sexual content involving minors or for illegal content withdraws the right to publish at once; three removals counted for any other reason withdraw it too. The Provider may also withdraw it, permanently or for a stated time, for any other serious or repeated breach of this Section. Withdrawal hides everything the Publisher has published, ends their Character Kitchen sign-ins, and applies to every publishing identity the Provider knows to belong to the same person. Content already hidden or removed under this Section is not restored by the Publisher unlisting or deleting their profile. A serious or repeated violation of this Section is a breach of this Agreement under Section 4. The Provider may report content it believes to constitute a criminal offence to the competent authorities and provide them with the information it holds about the Publisher.

8. EU AI Act Transparency Obligations

Under Article 50 of the EU AI Act, transparency obligations dictate that natural persons must be informed when they are interacting with an AI system. If the User chooses to export, publish, distribute, or broadcast the synthetic text generated by the Application, the User bears the sole statutory responsibility for disclosing its artificial nature to third parties.

9. Intellectual Property and Copyright

Under current European Union law, including established jurisprudence from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), works generated fully autonomously by artificial intelligence without sufficient human intellectual input are generally excluded from copyright protection. The Provider makes no warranties regarding the copyrightability of any text or narratives generated. The User assumes total, indemnified liability for any intellectual property infringement resulting from their specific prompts.

Character Kitchen License Grant: By publishing a file to the Character Kitchen, a Publisher grants the Provider a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, generate preview images and page text from, display, and distribute that file and the previews derived from it to users of the Application, for as long as the file remains published. The Publisher retains whatever rights they hold in the content. The Publisher may end this license at any time by unlisting or deleting the entry within the Application, after which the Provider ceases distribution, save for copies other users have already downloaded. The Publisher represents and warrants that they hold all rights necessary to grant this license, that the file complies with Section 7, and that its 18+ marking accurately describes the whole of its contents. Users who download a Publisher's file receive it for personal use within the Application and acquire no further rights in it from the Provider.

10. Reverse Engineering and Interoperability

The User shall not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or derive the source code of the Application. However, users residing in the European Economic Area (EEA) retain the statutory right to decompile the software strictly to the extent necessary to achieve interoperability with an independently created computer program. Before commencing any decompilation for this purpose, the User is legally required to submit a formal written request to the Provider to supply the necessary interface information.

11. Limitation of Liability & Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the total cumulative liability of the Provider shall be strictly limited to the amount actually paid by the User for the Application. However, in compliance with Article 473 of the Polish Civil Code, nothing in this Agreement shall limit, exclude, or restrict the Provider's liability for intentional misconduct or gross negligence.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Provider from any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your use of the Application, your violation of this Agreement, or your violation of any third-party rights (including any AI provider's Terms of Service regarding API usage).

12. Right to Modify Terms

The Provider reserves the right to modify or amend this Agreement at any time to reflect changes in our software, third-party dependencies, or legal obligations. When updates are made, we will provide reasonable notice. Your continued downloading of subsequent software updates after such modifications have been published constitutes your explicit acceptance of the revised EULA.

13. Severability & Entire Agreement

If any provision of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that the remainder of this Agreement shall otherwise remain in full force and effect. This Agreement, alongside the Privacy Policy, constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Provider regarding the Application.

14. Dispute Resolution and Jurisdiction

Any disputes arising from this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of Poland.

B2C Consumers: In accordance with Article 18(1) of the Brussels I bis Regulation, consumers may bring proceedings against the other party in the courts for the place where the consumer is domiciled.

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR): The Provider explicitly declares that it does not consent to, and is not obligated to participate in, out-of-court alternative dispute resolution proceedings to resolve consumer disputes unless mandated by statutory law.