Last updated: 27 April 2026
Introduction
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Tolstoy Compose writing application, the Tolstoy Compose website, and related services (together, the "Service"). The Service is operated by Bhavesh Prabhakar, an individual based in England. You can contact us at hello@tolstoyworkspace.com.
By accessing or using the Service, creating an account, starting a paid plan, installing Compose, or using account-linked features, you agree to these Terms.
Statutory and consumer rights
Nothing in these Terms affects any statutory rights you have as a consumer, including any rights that digital content or services must be as described, of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose, and provided with reasonable care and skill where applicable.
If a term in these Terms is not enforceable against you under applicable consumer law, the rest of the Terms will continue to apply as far as legally permitted.
Eligibility
Direct consumer paid plans, purchases, and Teams administration are intended for adults aged 18 or over, or for authorised organisations acting through adults.
If you are aged 13 to 17, you may use Compose only with permission from a parent, guardian, school, organisation, or other responsible adult where required. You should not buy a paid plan or administer a Teams workspace yourself unless you are legally able to enter into the contract and have any required permission. Compose is not directed at children under 13.
What Compose provides
Compose is a local-first professional writing workspace for drafting, reviewing, versioning, citing, exporting, and publishing documents. Some features are available without an account. Paid or account-linked features may require sign-in, subscription checks, active-device management, third-party integrations, or server-side processing needed to provide the feature.
Feature availability may depend on your plan, browser, device, operating system, region, third-party providers, and whether you are using Compose as a browser app or installed progressive web app.
Local-first storage and backups
Compose is local-first. The ordinary drafting workspace is designed to store documents in your browser on your device. It is not a general cloud document-hosting service, and we do not promise to keep a server-side copy of documents that remain only in your browser.
You are responsible for exporting, backing up, and preserving documents you need to keep. Clearing browser site data, changing browser profile, using private browsing, replacing a device, disabling storage, or browser or operating-system failure may remove local documents, recovery records, version milestones, clipboard history, preferences, sessions, and offline cache.
Some requested features may send content outside your device, including support, cloud-file integrations, publishing, sharing, export workflows, and temporary publishing bridges.
Accounts, devices, and security
You are responsible for keeping your account, email, device, browser profile, passkeys, passwords, connected-service accounts, and exported files secure. You must not share account credentials or bypass device limits, billing checks, access controls, or security systems.
Paid plans may include active-device limits. Compose may identify, count, and revoke devices to enforce plan access, prevent abuse, and protect accounts.
Paid plans, renewals, and checkout
Current plan features, prices, billing periods, seat quantities, and taxes are shown on the website, in the app, at checkout, or in the billing portal. Paid plans may renew automatically unless cancelled before renewal.
Payments and billing management are processed through Stripe. Stripe may provide receipts, checkout confirmation, customer portal access, and billing records. You are responsible for ensuring that billing details and authorised payment methods are accurate and current.
Cancellation rights and refunds
You can cancel a paid plan through the billing portal where available, through the relevant in-app billing controls, or by contacting hello@tolstoyworkspace.com. Cancellation normally stops future renewals but does not automatically delete local documents stored in your browser.
If you are a UK consumer buying online, you may have a statutory 14-day cancellation right. Where the law allows, checkout may ask you to request immediate access to digital content or digital services and to acknowledge how this affects your cancellation rights. If statutory cancellation rights apply, we will honour them.
Compose also offers a 31-day refund window for paid plans unless a different refund term is expressly shown at checkout or required by law. This 31-day window is additional to any mandatory rights you have. Refunds, if approved, are returned through the original payment processor where possible.
To cancel using a written notice, email hello@tolstoyworkspace.com with your account email, plan, and a clear statement that you wish to cancel. You may use this model wording: "I hereby give notice that I cancel my contract for Compose. Ordered on: [date]. Account email: [email]. Name: [name]."
Teams and organisations
Teams plans provide managed Pro seats for a workspace. Team owners and administrators may manage seats, invites, roles, billing, and workspace settings, but Teams does not automatically give administrators access to local documents stored only in a member's browser.
Teams customers are responsible for making sure their users are authorised to use the Service and that their use complies with their own policies, laws, and obligations. Where we process personal data on behalf of a Teams customer as a processor, appropriate data-processing terms will apply. Teams customers should contact hello@tolstoyworkspace.com before using Compose for regulated, client, student, employee, or other third-party personal data if they require a data processing agreement.
Your content
You keep ownership of the documents, text, files, citations, sources, notes, comments, suggestions, exports, and other content you create or import into Compose ("Your Content").
You grant us the limited rights needed to provide the features you choose, such as displaying content in the app, processing support requests, exporting files, connecting cloud-file services, publishing to selected destinations, and using temporary delivery bridges where required by a provider.
You are responsible for Your Content, including its accuracy, legality, confidentiality, permissions, intellectual-property rights, citations, and publication or submission consequences.
Imports, exports, sharing, and publishing
When you import, export, download, share, or publish content, you are responsible for checking the output before relying on it. Export formatting, document conversion, citations, footnotes, endnotes, linked services, and publishing destinations may behave differently across browsers, devices, and third-party systems.
Once you send, export, publish, share, or upload content to another person, application, device, website, or service, that recipient or service may process it under its own terms and privacy policy.
Third-party services and connectors
Compose may integrate with services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft SharePoint, WordPress, Ghost, Blogger, LinkedIn, Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, MailerLite, Stripe, Supabase, Cloudflare, and Resend.
Third-party services are not controlled by us. They may change, suspend, rate-limit, reject, delete, reformat, or fail to process content. You are responsible for complying with their terms and maintaining your own accounts, credentials, API keys, permissions, and provider settings.
Temporary publishing bridge
Some publishing providers require content to be available from a temporary URL. For Campaign Monitor, Compose may temporarily store prepared title, HTML, plain text, metadata, and a signed content key so Campaign Monitor can retrieve the content for the publishing action you requested.
This bridge is not general document hosting and is designed to expire after a short period, normally up to 48 hours.
Acceptable use
You must not use the Service to break the law, infringe rights, distribute malware, attempt unauthorised access, interfere with security or availability, abuse infrastructure, misrepresent your identity, send spam, harass others, commit fraud, or publish or distribute content where you do not have the required rights or permissions.
We may suspend or restrict access where reasonably necessary to protect users, the Service, third-party providers, security, legal obligations, or payment integrity.
Intellectual property
The Tolstoy Compose application, source code, design, interface, visual elements, name, branding, documentation, and associated materials, together with the Tolstoy Compose name and brand, are owned by Bhavesh Prabhakar or licensed to us and are protected by copyright, trade mark, database, and other intellectual property laws.
Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of our intellectual property to you. You receive only a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service in accordance with these Terms.
Support
Free users may receive limited or no individual support. Paid plans may include paid support as described on the website, inside the application, or at checkout. We do not guarantee any particular response time unless this is expressly stated in writing.
No professional advice
Compose is a writing tool. It does not provide legal, financial, medical, academic, publishing, compliance, or other professional advice. You are responsible for reviewing and validating your own documents before relying on them, submitting them, publishing them, or sending them to others.
Availability and service changes
We may update, modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue parts of the Service. For material adverse changes to paid features, we will try to provide reasonable notice where practical and legally required. You may cancel your paid plan if you do not want to continue after a change.
We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, error-free operation, compatibility with every browser or device, permanent preservation of local data, or that exports or publishing destinations will always behave exactly as expected.
Disclaimers
The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, subject to the consumer and statutory rights section above. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim implied warranties and conditions that may otherwise apply.
Limitation of liability
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or breach of any mandatory consumer right.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive losses, or for loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill, opportunities, or anticipated savings arising from use of the Service.
We are not responsible for loss of local browser data caused by clearing site data, private browsing, device loss, browser failure, operating-system failure, user-controlled storage settings, or third-party provider failures, except where the law says we are responsible.
For business, professional, institutional, and Teams use, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service is limited, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to the amount paid for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.
Force majeure
We will not be liable for delay or failure to perform where that delay or failure results from circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including infrastructure outages, third-party provider failures, cyberattacks, illness, legal or regulatory changes, natural disasters, or other events outside our control.
Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the date at the top of these Terms. Continued use of the Service after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms. For material changes affecting paid plans, we will try to provide reasonable notice where practical.
Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction, except where applicable consumer law gives you the right to bring proceedings elsewhere.
Contact
If you have questions about these Terms, billing, refunds, or the Service, contact hello@tolstoyworkspace.com.