Terms of Service

SameGROUND Author, by Sameground Limited. Version 1.9, November 2026.

1. Who you are contracting with

These terms are between you and Sameground Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 17302709, registered office 1 Cricklade Court, Old Town, Swindon SN1 3EY. We refer to ourselves as "we" or "SameGround", and to you as "you".

By creating an account you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not create an account.

2. Who can use SameGROUND Author

SameGROUND Author is for adults. You must be 18 or over to create an account. By creating one you confirm that you are.

We do not knowingly provide the service to anyone under 18. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18 we will close it and delete the data held under it.

3. Your account

• Keep your sign-in details to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account.
• Give us an email address that works. We use it for service messages, receipts and anything we are required to tell you.
• Tell us promptly if you think someone else has access to your account.
• One account per person. Accounts are not transferable.

4. What SameGROUND Author does, and what it does not

SameGROUND Author reads your writing against a profile of your voice and returns observations, comparisons and suggested revisions. It is a tool to support your judgement, not a substitute for it.

We do not promise that any output is accurate, complete or suitable for a particular purpose. You decide what to do with what it returns. You remain the author of your work.

Some features give a reading of the passages in a text that sound like AI, including the forensic examiner, which reviews a text for someone else. A reading is an observation about the writing, for a person to weigh. It is not a finding about who wrote the text or about any person, and it must not be used as the only basis for a decision about someone.

We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. We may change, suspend or withdraw features, and we will give reasonable notice of anything significant unless we have to act immediately for security or legal reasons.

5. Your writing

Your work is yours. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of it to us.

You grant us a limited licence to store, copy and process your writing only so far as is needed to run the service for you, and to send it to the providers named in our privacy notice for the same purpose. That licence ends when the work is erased: when you delete it, or when we erase your data after you delete your account or at the end of the time we keep it, as our privacy notice sets out.

Drafts the product writes for you are yours too. As between you and us, we claim no rights in them, and to the extent any rights in them are ours, we assign them to you. You can copy any draft, and download a whole book as a Word document, plain text or Markdown, at any time.

The product keeps notes on what its reviews of your writing found and changed, so that it can review your later writing with them. These notes are used for your account only. They are never applied to anyone else's writing, and they are never used to train an artificial intelligence model, ours or anyone else's. Our privacy notice explains this in detail.

You confirm that you have the right to submit the writing you submit, including anyone else's writing you submit for a reading, and that doing so does not infringe anyone else's rights.

6. Acceptable use

You must not:

• submit material that is unlawful, or that you do not have the right to submit
• use the service to produce material that harasses, defames or incites violence against anyone
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the service, another account, or any system behind it
• scrape, resell, or provide the service to third parties as if it were your own
• interfere with the operation of the service, including by automated or excessive use
• open more than one account, or use more than one email address, to get more than one free trial
• use the service to reproduce or closely paraphrase another writer's text, or to present what it produces as the work of a named writer

We may suspend or close an account that breaches this section. Where we can, we will tell you first and give you a chance to put it right.

Writing in the manner of other writers. No one owns a style. SameGROUND Author reads and writes towards a voice you choose: your own writing, writers whose work is out of copyright, or writers who have agreed to share their own work with you. Naming a living writer gives you no rights in their work. You must not use SameGROUND Author to reproduce or closely paraphrase their text, or to present what it produces as theirs, and what you do with what it produces is your responsibility.

If you think something copies your work. If you are a writer, publisher or other rights holder and believe that material held in SameGROUND Author copies your work or otherwise infringes your rights, email support@sameground.com. Tell us who you are, which work is affected, and enough about the material for us to find it. We will acknowledge your message, look into it promptly, remove or disable any material we hold that infringes, and act on the account involved under this section.

7. Price and payment

Prices are shown on the site before you subscribe and include VAT where it applies.

A monthly subscription is billed in advance on the 1st of each month. An annual subscription is paid for the year in advance on the day you join, and then once a year on that date. Both renew automatically until you cancel. Usage is metered in words, not credits, and your allowance and its terms are set out on the pricing page at the time you subscribe.

On a monthly plan, your plan's words start again on the 1st. When your subscription starts, your first payment covers only the rest of that month, and gives you the same share of that month's words; from then on you pay the full price on the 1st. On an annual plan, your plan's words come in full on the day you join, and then on that same day of each month. If a month does not have that day, they come on the last day of that month: for example, if you joined on the 31st, your words come on 30 April. Plan words you have not used end when your next plan words come (on the 1st on a monthly plan, and on your next monthly date on an annual plan), except on the Pro plan, as below.

You pay for the finished words you receive and for the readings you ask for. A reading counts half the words read, and never fewer than 200; Check my writing and the forensic examiner count never fewer than 400. A re-voice or a fresh take counts the words rewritten, and never fewer than 300, plus a reading of what it reads (the passages, or the whole draft where the draft is reviewed again); a Punchier or Quieter take is kept whenever one comes back; if no usable take comes back, or a re-voice or Closer to the voice comes back no closer to your voice, your text is left as it is and the run counts as a reading of the passages you chose; if nothing changed only because our own copy check stopped every rewrite, the run is free, for the first three such runs in any 24 hours, and after that each counts as a reading of the passages you chose. Cleaning a draft counts the words of the cleaned draft, and never more than the words of your draft; if nothing in it changes, it counts as a reading of your draft, and still never more than its words. The planning steps of Guided start (the directions, the comparison of two outlines and the plan) each count half the words they show, and never more than 1,500. Reading a whole book counts 5% of its words (5 words in every 100), rounded up, and never fewer than 200. From 1 December 2026 it counts 600 words plus 10% of its words (10 words in every 100), rounded up. A reading started before 1 December 2026 counts at the earlier rate. A book can be read whole if it has up to 200,000 words; a longer book can still be brought in and written in, but it cannot be read whole. The record a whole-book reading makes is kept with the project; if you ask for an unchanged book to be read again, we ask you first, and that reading counts too. Examining a piece against several voices counts it once for each voice. Setting up your voice, or saving another voice from samples, counts words in proportion to the samples you give, shown before you start; setting up the voice you already use again counts none, and saving another voice from named writers is free. Every charge is shown before you choose. Apart from the readings above, which are charged as stated, you never pay for our own checks, retries or failures.

On the Pro plan, words you have not used carry over for up to three months while you stay on Pro. Words you buy as top-ups do not expire.

The free trial. There is one free trial per person, and one per email address. Its words are given once, when you sign up, and do not start again. If you choose a plan before they run out, what is left is added to your first month.

Who you pay. SameGROUND Author is sold to you through Link, the checkout service of Stripe, which acts as our reseller and merchant of record. When you pay, Link takes the payment, sends your receipts and invoices, and appears as LINK.COM* on your bank or card statement. Link's own purchase terms, shown at checkout, apply to the payment. These terms still govern your use of SameGROUND Author and what we owe you under them. If a payment fails we may suspend access until it succeeds.

Tax. Published prices include any VAT or sales tax due where you live. Link works out that tax, collects it as part of your payment and pays it to the tax authority. The price you see at checkout is the price you pay. SameGROUND Author can be bought from most countries, but not from countries where Stripe does not sell.

Price changes. We may change our prices. We will give you at least 30 days' notice by email before a change affects you, and you can cancel before it takes effect.

8. Cancelling

Your 14-day right to cancel. Because SameGROUND Author is digital content supplied online, you normally have 14 days from subscribing to cancel and receive a refund, under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013.

If you ask us to start supplying the service immediately, and you acknowledge that doing so means you lose that right, then you lose the right to cancel once supply has begun. When you subscribe, we ask you to tick two separate boxes: one to agree to these terms, and one to ask us to start supplying SameGROUND Author straight away and to acknowledge that you then lose your 14-day right to cancel. You need to tick both to subscribe. When your subscription starts, we email you a confirmation of each.

The same applies to a top-up. When you buy one, we ask you to tick the same two boxes: one to agree to these terms, and one to ask us to add the words to your account straight away and to acknowledge that, once they are added, you lose your 14-day right to cancel that top-up. When the words are added, we email you a confirmation of each.

Cancelling after that. You can cancel at any time from your account page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have paid for. We do not refund part months unless the law requires it or we have got something wrong. Link can also refund a payment where its purchase terms or the law require it.

Cancelling and deleting are different. Cancelling your subscription ends it at the end of the period you have paid for. We keep your work for six months after that, so you can come back to it, and we email you before it is deleted. Your first drafts, which you never see, are deleted when you cancel.

Deleting your account is different. You can do it at any time from your account page, and we ask you to confirm on screen. Your account closes at once, any subscription is set to end at the end of the period you have paid for, and your data is erased 30 days later. If you sign in before then, the deletion is cancelled, and you can keep your subscription by resuming it from your account page before that period ends. Our privacy notice sets out what we keep and for how long.

9. If something goes wrong

Nothing in these terms limits your rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Digital content must be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described. If it is not, you are entitled to a repair, a replacement, or a price reduction.

We do not exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

Otherwise, and to the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business, or loss of data where that loss was not reasonably foreseeable, and our total liability to you in any twelve month period is limited to the amount you paid us in that period.

Keep your own copies of your work. SameGROUND Author is not a backup service.

10. Ending the agreement

You can end this agreement at any time by deleting your account (see section 8). We can end it by giving you 30 days' notice, or immediately if you seriously breach these terms or if we are required to by law. If we end it without you having breached, we will refund any period you have paid for and not received.

11. Complaints

If something is wrong, tell us at support@sameground.com and we will try to sort it out. If your complaint is about how we have handled your personal data, our data protection complaints procedure sets out what happens and when.

12. Other terms

• We may update these terms. We will give at least 30 days' notice of a significant change, and you can cancel before it takes effect.
• If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
• You may not transfer your rights under these terms. We may transfer ours if the business is sold, and your rights will not be reduced.
• These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you live elsewhere in the UK you may bring proceedings in your own country.

Version 1.9, November 2026.