Platform Terms of Service

The Service and Relationship with Other Documents

1.1 The Service

The “Service” includes:

• the WB web application, dashboard, APIs, plugins, and integrations;
• tools to generate content fingerprints, hashes, and embeddings;
• logging of certain technical records to supported blockchains (currently Base);
• web and AI/LLM-output monitoring and incident detection;
• evidence reports and dossiers;
• workflows to configure and send payment requests;
• non-custodial wallet functionality via Web3Auth; and
• related support and documentation.

1.2 Other documents

Your use of the Service is also governed by:

• our Website Terms;
• our Privacy Policy;
• our Acceptable Use Policy;
• any plan, pricing, subscription, or billing terms shown at sign-up;
• any order form, pilot agreement, data processing agreement, or enterprise agreement we sign with you.

These are incorporated by reference. In case of conflict, these Platform Terms prevail, except where an enterprise agreement or mandatory law says otherwise.

1.3 Enterprise agreements

For some customers, we may sign a separate written enterprise agreement or order form (“Enterprise Agreement”). Where there is a conflict, the Enterprise Agreement prevails for that customer.

Professional Use and Account Registration

2.1 Professional use

The platform is intended for professional and business use.

It is designed for publishers, independent publishers, newsrooms, agencies, rights-holders, professional journalists, creators with monetised audiences, and others using the platform in a business, trade, publishing, rights-management, or professional capacity.

By using the platform, you confirm that:

• you are at least 18;
• you are acting in a professional or business capacity;
• you are not using the platform primarily for personal, household, or consumer purposes;
• you have authority to accept these terms;
• if you act for an organisation, you have authority to bind that organisation;
• all information you provide is accurate and up to date.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits mandatory consumer rights that may apply under law.

2.2 What the platform does

Writers’ Bloc provides software tools that help users record, monitor, and manage the use of written content.

The platform may allow you to:

• verify control of a domain, website, CMS, newsletter account, publication account, API connection, or other publishing channel;
• generate technical fingerprints for selected content;
• log fingerprint records to a supported blockchain;
• monitor the web, search results, AI outputs, LLM outputs, crawler activity, bot activity, and other sources for potential matches;
• generate alerts, scores, screenshots, snippets, reports, exports, and dossiers;
• organise potential incidents into cases;
• send user-directed payment requests;
• configure or receive supported x402-related payments;
• view wallet-related balances and transaction history;
• initiate user-directed off-ramp or payout workflows through third-party providers.

WB provides software. We do not provide legal, financial, tax, regulatory, payment, custody, debt collection, or copyright enforcement services.

2.3 What WB does not do

WB does not:

• verify legal ownership of content;
• confirm whether a result is legally actionable;
• determine whether copyright infringement has occurred;
• provide legal advice;
• represent you;
• negotiate or settle claims for you;
• act as your legal agent;
• act as a debt collector;
• guarantee payment, recovery, settlement, licensing revenue, or enforcement;
• hold, pool, safeguard, or manage your funds or crypto-assets;
• convert crypto-assets to fiat currency;
• perform regulated payment, e-money, investment, exchange, or custody services;
• control third-party providers including but not limited to x402, payment processors, wallet providers, cloud service providers, analytics providers, blockchain infrastructure providers, and/or other platform-related providers.

2.4 Accounts and authority

You must provide accurate account information and keep it up to date. You are responsible for all actions taken using your account.

You must:

• keep login credentials secure;
• protect connected publishing accounts, API keys, CMS credentials, wallet access, and authentication methods;
• ensure that authorised users comply with these terms;
• remove access when someone is no longer authorised;
• notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access or misuse.

If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to bind that organisation, and “you” includes both you and that organisation.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access where we reasonably believe there is a security risk, legal risk, fraud risk, breach, or misuse.

Domain, Publication, and Platform Verification

WB may require you to verify control of a domain, publication, website, CMS, newsletter account, API integration, or other publishing channel before using certain features.

Verification is a technical access-control measure. It does not prove copyright ownership, authorship, exclusive licence rights, contributor consent, enforcement rights, or chain of title.

You are solely responsible for ensuring that you have the legal right to submit, fingerprint, monitor, analyse, and request payment for content.

If someone gains unauthorised access to your domain, CMS, backend, publishing platform, API keys, or account, you are responsible for addressing that security issue. WB is not responsible for policing your internal access controls.

User Content, IP, and Licence

4.1 User Content and ownership

“User Content” includes content, data, and material you submit or process via the Service (e.g. articles, excerpts, URLs, metadata, fingerprints, hashes, embeddings, reports). You retain ownership of your User Content.

WB does not acquire ownership of your articles, posts, newsletters, copyright, publication rights, or other intellectual property because you use the platform.

4.2 Your rights warranty

You represent and warrant that, for all content you submit, connect, fingerprint, monitor, analyse, or use through WB:

• you own the relevant rights or are authorised by the relevant rights-holder;
• you have permission to process the content through WB;
• you have permission to generate fingerprints, hashes, embeddings, screenshots, snippets, reports, and blockchain records;
• you have permission to send or initiate any payment request;
• your use of the platform will not infringe third-party rights;
• your use of the platform will not breach any law, contract, licence, assignment, contributor agreement, employment agreement, platform term, or confidentiality duty.

You must not submit, fingerprint, monitor, claim, or request payment for content you do not own, control, or have authority to use.

We own the Service, software, algorithms, scoring systems, models, UI/UX, templates, analytics, documentation, branding, and other platform IP.

4.3 Licence to Writers’ Bloc

You grant WB a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to access, use, store, copy, process, analyse, transmit, display, and create technical records from your User Content and platform data for the purposes of:

• providing the platform;
• verifying domains and integrations;
• generating fingerprints, hashes, embeddings, scores, alerts, reports, and dossiers;
• logging supported records to blockchain;
• monitoring web sources, search results, AI outputs, LLM outputs, crawler activity, bot activity, and other supported sources;
• operating payment-request workflows;
• operating wallet, x402, and third-party integrations;
• providing support;
• debugging, securing, testing, and improving the platform;
• training, tuning, benchmarking, and improving WB’s scoring systems, classifiers, detection systems, analytics, and product features;
• creating aggregated, anonymised, or de-identified insights;
• complying with law and enforcing these terms.

We may use derived technical data and aggregated/anonymised data (that does not identify you) for analytics, benchmarking, research, and product improvement.

We do not obtain any general right to commercially exploit your full content (e.g. to license it to third parties) without a separate agreement.

WB will not sell your full articles as standalone content. WB will not claim ownership of your content. WB will not use your content for unrelated commercial exploitation outside the purposes described above.

4.4 Technical data and product improvement

WB may generate, store, and use technical data, including:

• articles;
• excerpts;
• snippets;
• titles;
• URLs;
• author names;
• publication names;
• metadata;
• fingerprints;
• hashes;
• embeddings;
• screenshots;
• comparison snippets;
• search-result data;
• AI-output data;
• similarity scores;
• risk scores;
• monitoring logs;
• transaction records;
• incident records;
• dossiers;
• support records;
• system logs.

WB may use aggregated, anonymised, or de-identified data to improve the platform, build benchmarks, publish insights, support research, and develop new features, provided the data does not identify you or any individual.

Blockchain, Wallets, and Crypto-Related Features

5.1 Blockchain records

WB may generate some technical records (e.g. fingerprints, hashes, metadata) and these may be written to public or semi-public blockchains for provenance and timestamping purposes.

Blockchain logging is intended to create a timestamped technical record that may support provenance, record-keeping, content control, and rights-management workflows.

A blockchain record is not:

• copyright registration;
• government registration;
• legal title registration;
• conclusive proof of ownership;
• conclusive proof of authorship;
• legal advice;
• a guarantee of enforceability;
• a guarantee of admissibility in legal proceedings.

Blockchain records may be public, persistent, immutable, irreversible, and difficult or impossible to delete, modify, redact, or remove.

Do not submit for on-chain logging any personal data, confidential information, sensitive information, or information you do not wish to be associated with a blockchain record unless the relevant feature clearly supports that use, you have a lawful basis, and you understand the risk.

5.2 Web3Auth and non-custodial wallets

WB may use third-party, supported providers to provision or facilitate a non-custodial wallet for you.

The wallet may be used for blockchain logging, receiving supported on-chain payments, x402-related flows, transaction reporting, and other supported platform features.

Unless we expressly state otherwise:

• the wallet is intended to be controlled by you;
• WB does not own your wallet;
• WB does not hold your crypto-assets;
• WB does not receive your crypto-assets into a WB-controlled wallet;
• WB does not pool your assets with assets of WB or other users;
• WB does not export, store, or control your private keys;
• WB does not have unilateral authority to transfer assets from your wallet;
• WB does not trigger withdrawals without your explicit authorisation.

You are responsible for wallet access, authentication methods, recovery options, transaction review, and wallet security.

5.3 x402, on-chain, and agentic payments

The platform may support x402-related payment flows, USDC stablecoin payments, or other on-chain payments.

Our role is to provide software tools and integrations that may allow you to configure, request, receive, observe, report, or reconcile supported payments.

Unless expressly stated otherwise:

• payments are made by third parties directly to your wallet or account;
• WB does not receive those funds into a WB-controlled account;
• WB does not custody, pool, safeguard, or manage your crypto-assets;
• WB does not guarantee that bots, crawlers, agents, AI systems, or third parties will pay;
• WB may change supported protocols, tokens, chains, providers, thresholds, and integrations.

You are responsible for tax, accounting, legal, and regulatory treatment of amounts received.

We do not guarantee any particular volume of payments or revenue.

5.4 Crypto risks

Crypto-assets and blockchain networks involve risk.

You acknowledge that:

• crypto-asset values may fluctuate;
• stablecoins may de-peg or fail;
• blockchain transactions may be irreversible;
• networks may suffer congestion, downtime, forks, attacks, exploits, or increased fees;
• smart contracts and protocols may contain bugs;
• incorrect addresses, wrong networks, lost keys, compromised credentials, or user error may result in permanent loss;
• regulatory treatment may change.

WB does not provide investment, financial, legal, regulatory, accounting, or tax advice.

5.5 Gas fees and blockchain costs

WB may sponsor gas fees for certain features, such as wallet creation or fingerprint logging.

WB may change, limit, or stop gas sponsorship at any time.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, you are responsible for all other blockchain-related fees, including transfer fees, network fees, congestion costs, off-ramp fees, conversion fees, and third-party provider fees.

5.6 Off-ramp providers

WB may provide interface features that allow you to initiate a crypto-to-fiat off-ramp or withdrawal flow through a third-party supported provider.

The third-party provider, not WB, performs supported crypto-to-fiat conversion and fiat payout.

We:

• may provide an interface that pre-fills transaction details;
• allow you to initiate and sign wallet transfers; and
• receive status webhooks for reporting.

Those providers:

• perform exchange and payout;
• run KYC/AML and compliance checks; and
• determine eligibility, fees, and timing.

You must instruct and authorise any transaction. Providers may require KYC, AML, sanctions, tax, business, or identity checks.

WB does not control third-party provider’s decisions, fees, exchange rates, spreads, payout times, compliance checks, account restrictions, or service availability.

WB does not convert crypto to fiat, receive fiat funds on your behalf, or remit fiat funds to you.

5.7 Stripe and fiat payment-request workflows

WB may provide tools that allow you to create, configure, pre-fill, send, track, or manage payment requests using a supported payment-processing provider.

The third-party provider, not WB, processes supported payment collection, settlement, chargeback handling, and payout functions.

You are responsible for reviewing the amount, recipient, wording, basis, and legality of each payment request.

The payment processor may require onboarding, KYC, AML, tax, sanctions, risk, or compliance checks. WB does not control the provider’s decisions, holds, reserves, chargebacks, account restrictions, payouts, or service availability.

Any payment link, invoice, email, notice, template, or request generated through WB is your communication, not WB’s legal claim.

5.8 No regulated financial services

Writers’ Bloc is not a bank, payment institution, e-money institution, crypto exchange, custodian, escrow, or legal/tax adviser.

We provide software and integrations only. Regulated payment, exchange, onboarding, settlement, and payout functions are performed by third-party providers.

5.9 Third-party services

The platform depends on third-party services, including payment processors, hosting providers, cloud services providers, analytics providers, monitoring providers, search providers, AI infrastructure providers, security providers, email providers, blockchain infrastructure providers, wallet-as-a-service providers, publishing platforms, newsletter platforms, and CMS providers.

Third-party services are governed by their own terms and policies.

WB is not responsible for third-party availability, outages, errors, delays, pricing, eligibility decisions, API changes, model changes, search-index changes, compliance checks, account restrictions, or failures.

You must comply with applicable third-party terms. Breach of those terms may result in loss or restriction of WB functionality.

5.10 KYC, AML, sanctions, and eligibility

Third-party providers may require identity verification, business verification, KYC, AML, sanctions screening, tax documentation, bank-account verification, wallet verification, or other compliance checks.

You are responsible for completing those checks and providing accurate information.

WB is not responsible if a third-party provider rejects, delays, suspends, restricts, blocks, or removes you.

WB may suspend, restrict, or terminate access where required by law, provider rules, or where we reasonably believe there is legal, sanctions, fraud, financial-crime, regulatory, or security risk.

Monitoring, Detection, and Evidence

6.1 Probabilistic detection & infringements

Monitoring and detection are probabilistic. Outputs (scores, matches, reports, etc.) are signals, not legal determinations.

All monitoring, scoring, matching, search, AI-output analysis, and incident-detection features are best-effort, probabilistic, automated, and analytical tools.

WB does not guarantee that:

• all uses of your content will be detected;
• all unauthorised uses will be detected;
• all infringements will be detected;
• any flagged incident is unlawful;
• any flagged incident is copyright infringement;
• any score is accurate;
• any match is legally meaningful;
• any report is complete;
• any dossier is legally sufficient;
• any evidence will be admissible;
• any AI output proves training-data use;
• any payment will be recovered;
• the absence of a flagged incident means no infringement, copying, scraping, training, or misuse has occurred.

The platform may produce false positives and false negatives. You must independently review all results before relying on them.

6.2 AI and web monitoring

WB may use web search, search APIs, crawling tools, AI systems, LLMs, embeddings, prompts, classifiers, and model providers.

Web monitoring may miss content that is not indexed, paywalled, private, blocked, deleted, geofenced, dynamically generated, hidden behind logins, restricted by robots.txt, or otherwise inaccessible.

AI and LLM outputs may vary depending on prompt, model, version, account, location, settings, retrieval tools, provider policies, safety filters, and time.

Similarity between your content and AI output does not necessarily prove infringement or training-data ingestion.

AI monitoring results should be treated as investigative leads unless reviewed by qualified advisers.

6.3 Evidence dossiers and exports

WB may package incidents into dossiers or case files.

A dossier may include fingerprints, hashes, blockchain references, timestamps, URLs, screenshots, excerpts, snippets, metadata, similarity scores, risk scores, AI-output data, search-result data, contact data, transaction records, payment-request records, notes, and exports.

Dossiers are tools for review, record-keeping, internal analysis, and use with your legal or professional advisers.

WB does not certify that any dossier is legally sufficient, admissible, complete, accurate, persuasive, enforceable, or suitable for any particular claim, negotiation, demand, settlement, or proceeding.

6.4 Payment requests and templates

WB may provide templates, pre-populated wording, payment links, workflow prompts, API calls, protocol interactions, or other tools to help you communicate with third parties.

These tools are generic and provided for convenience only. They are not legal advice and are not tailored to your jurisdiction, facts, legal rights, litigation strategy, counterparty, or claim.

You are solely responsible for:

• deciding whether to send a communication;
• reviewing and editing all wording;
• choosing the recipient;
• choosing the amount;
• ensuring the communication is accurate and lawful;
• ensuring you have rights to make the request;
• complying with defamation, unfair competition, consumer, platform, harassment, privacy, data-protection, IP, and other laws;
• obtaining legal advice where needed.

WB may suspend or terminate access if you use the platform to send false, abusive, misleading, unlawful, harassing, bad-faith, extortionate, or fraudulent communications.

6.5 No legal advice

WB is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.

You should consult your own legal counsel or professional adviser before asserting infringement, sending formal notices, demanding payment, threatening legal action, accepting settlement, granting licences, relying on blockchain records, or using dossiers in legal proceedings.

Fees, Plans, Refunds, and Taxes

7.1 Subscriptions and fee payments

We offer free and paid subscription plans as described on our website or in your order. Paid plans are billed in advance on a monthly or annual basis via our payment providers.

You are responsible for:

• subscription fees;
• third-party fees (e.g. Stripe, MoonPay, blockchain fees); and
• taxes on amounts you pay or receive.

7.2 Refunds and guarantee

You may be entitled to a 90-day refund of subscription fees paid to WB, as described in our refund policy. This refund does not cover third-party fees or taxes and may be refused in cases of abuse or breach.

7.3 Future fees

WB may introduce transaction-based fees, revenue-sharing fees, recovery fees, success fees, or other commercial models in the future.

WB will provide notice before such fees apply. No new fees will be deducted directly from your wallet without your explicit consent.

WB will not deduct WB revenue directly from your crypto balance or stablecoin payout without your explicit consent and a clearly disclosed fee arrangement.

7.4 Taxes

You are responsible for determining, reporting, collecting, withholding, and paying taxes arising from your use of the platform, subscriptions, payments received, crypto-assets, USDC, x402-related payments, fiat payouts, licensing revenue, settlements, refunds, and chargebacks.

WB does not provide tax advice.

Acceptable Use and Sanctions

8.1 Compliance with Terms and Policies.

You must comply with our Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these Platform Terms.

You represent that you are not subject to sanctions or located in restricted jurisdictions and will not use the Service in violation of sanctions or export-control laws.

You must not use the platform to submit false ownership claims, harass third parties, send abusive payment demands, reverse engineer the platform, bypass security controls, misuse third-party integrations, or violate law.

We may suspend or terminate access for breach of the Acceptable Use Policy, and/or where we reasonably believe use of the Service would be illegal, abusive, or high-risk (including under our providers’ rules).

8.2 Rights disputes and misuse reports

If a third party claims that you submitted, fingerprinted, monitored, claimed, or requested payment for content without authority, WB may review the matter.

WB may request information, request evidence of rights, suspend affected features, restrict access to records, suspend or terminate your account, preserve records, notify relevant parties, comply with legal requests, or take other appropriate platform-level action.

WB may not be able to remove or modify blockchain records.

Misuse reports may be sent to:

WB does not act as a court or legal adjudicator. Platform-level action does not decide the underlying legal dispute.

Data Protection and Privacy

9.1 Privacy policy

WB processes personal data in accordance with its Privacy Policy.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share personal data, including account data, content-related data, diagnostic data, and data shared with third-party providers.

Where required, the parties may enter into a data processing agreement. Depending on the context, we may act as controller or processor. For enterprise customers, we may sign a separate DPA where required by GDPR.

You must ensure that you have a lawful basis and all required rights, notices, consents, and permissions to provide personal data to WB or to process personal data through the platform.

9.2 Confidentiality

Each party may receive confidential information from the other.

Confidential information includes non-public business information, technical information, pricing, product plans, dashboard data, dossiers, incident records, unpublished features, security information, API keys, credentials, customer lists, and information that should reasonably be understood as confidential.

The receiving party must use confidential information only for purposes connected with the platform, protect it using reasonable care, and not disclose it except to people or providers who need to know it and are subject to confidentiality duties.

Confidential information does not include information that is public, lawfully known, independently developed, received without confidentiality restriction, aggregated/anonymised, or recorded on a public blockchain.

WB intellectual property

WB and its licensors own the platform, including software, source code, APIs, plugins, dashboards, workflows, templates, scoring methods, classifiers, monitoring systems, AI systems, models, analytics, benchmarks, documentation, branding, trademarks, product names, and know-how.

Subject to these terms and your plan, WB grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use the platform for your internal professional or business purposes.

You must not copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, resell, sublicense, scrape, or create derivative works from the platform except as expressly allowed by law or by WB in writing.

Feedback

If you provide feedback, suggestions, ideas, bug reports, or recommendations, WB may use them without restriction or compensation.

Disclaimers, Warranties, Limitation of Liability, and Indemnity

12.1 Disclaimers

The platform is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis to the fullest extent permitted by law.

WB does not warrant or guarantee that:

• the platform will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, complete, or always available;
• all unauthorised uses or infringements will be detected;
• any incident is legally actionable;
• any dossier is accurate, complete, admissible, sufficient, or persuasive;
• any fingerprint or blockchain record proves ownership, authorship, title, or infringement;
• any payment request will result in payment, settlement, licence, or response;
• any third-party service will remain available or approve you;
• any crypto-asset will retain value or be convertible;
• the platform will meet your specific needs;
• any platform output may be relied on without independent review.

12.2 Limitation of liability

Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

Subject to that, WB will not be liable for indirect loss, consequential loss, loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of opportunity, reputational harm, business interruption, loss or corruption of data, failed enforcement, failed recovery, failed settlement, failed licensing, payment delays, chargebacks, third-party failures, crypto losses, wallet losses, blockchain failures, model-output inaccuracies, search-result inaccuracies, user legal strategy, or user enforcement decisions.

Subject to the exclusions above, WB’s total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the platform or these terms will not exceed the greater of:

• the fees paid by you to WB in the 12 months before the event giving rise to liability; or
• €100, where you used only a free plan.

12.3 Indemnity

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you will indemnify WB and its directors, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, licensors, and service providers from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses arising from:

• your content;
• your use of the platform;
• your breach of these terms;
• your breach of law;
• your breach of third-party terms;
• infringement or alleged infringement of third-party rights;
• false or misleading ownership claims;
• unauthorised fingerprinting or monitoring;
• unauthorised payment requests;
• notices, emails, demands, payment links, or communications you send or initiate through WB;
• disputes with alleged infringers, counterparties, contributors, publishers, platforms, payment providers, wallet providers, or third-party services;
• tax, payment, settlement, chargeback, or refund disputes.

Suspension and termination

WB may suspend, restrict, downgrade, or terminate your access immediately or on notice where we reasonably believe:

• you breached these terms;
• you failed to pay fees;
• you misused the platform;
• you submitted or claimed content without authority;
• you sent false, misleading, abusive, or unlawful payment requests;
• your account creates security, legal, regulatory, sanctions, fraud, or financial-crime risk;
• a third-party provider requires restriction;
• we are required to do so by law, court order, regulator, or provider requirement;
• continued service is commercially, technically, legally, or operationally impractical.

You may cancel your account or subscription as described above.

On termination, your right to access the platform ends. Certain clauses will continue, including ownership, licences, confidentiality, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability, indemnity, data retention, dispute resolution, and governing law.

Changes

WB may update these terms from time to time.

If changes are material, WB will take reasonable steps to notify you, such as by email, dashboard notice, website notice, or in-product notification.

Your continued use of the platform after updated terms take effect means you accept the updated terms.

If you do not agree, you must stop using the platform and cancel your subscription.

Force majeure

WB will not be liable for failure or delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including internet outages, hosting failures, cyberattacks, blockchain failures, protocol failures, third-party service failures, payment-network failures, banking failures, regulatory action, government action, war, civil unrest, labour disputes, natural disasters, power failures, or changes in law.

Governing Law, Jurisdiction, and Miscellaneous

These Platform Terms are governed by Irish law. Subject to mandatory consumer rights, disputes will be resolved by the Irish courts.

These Platform Terms, together with the Website Terms, Privacy Policy, AUP, and any applicable Enterprise Agreement, form the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.

You may not assign your rights or obligations without our consent. We may assign or transfer these Platform Terms in connection with a corporate transaction.

Nothing in these terms limits your consumer rights where they apply.