Terms

Setter Books is run by NSG LLC, Minnesota, USA. By making an account or ordering a book you agree to these terms. They are written to be read.

Who can use it

You must be 18 or older. One person, one account; keep your sign-in to yourself. If you connect an AI assistant to your account, what it does there is done as you, under these terms.

What you upload

• Only upload photos and details you have the right to use. For photos of a child, you must be the child's parent or guardian or have their permission. For photos of any other person, you must have that person's permission.
• No unlawful, sexual, hateful or violent material, and nothing that infringes someone else's copyright or trademark (for example, characters from films or other books).
• You keep ownership of everything you upload. You give NSG LLC permission to use it only for your book: to have it written, painted, printed and delivered.
• You can share your characters, photos and details included, with people you choose, so they can use them in books of their own. Share only with people the characters' photos may be shown to; you can stop at any time, and they can stop receiving your characters. A book they have already made with a character keeps its pictures and the character's name.

How the books are made

The stories and pictures are generated with AI from what you provide. We work hard to keep characters consistent and the writing good, but AI output varies, and a likeness is an illustration, not a photograph. That is why every book starts with a free preview: read it, change the words, repaint what you like, and only order if you are happy with it.

What won't be made

These are picture books for families. Strange, silly, spooky and sad are all welcome. Nothing sexual, graphic, hateful or meant to harm is made, and never anything that puts a child in that light. What you write and the photos you add are checked automatically, and what crosses that line is refused. We may close an account that keeps trying, and we report what the law requires us to report.

Your book is yours

Once you have paid, the finished book is yours to keep, print and share for personal, non-commercial use. Because the pictures are AI-generated, copyright law in your country may limit how far they can be protected. You may not resell our service or use it to mass-produce books for sale without our written agreement.

Previews

A preview is free and includes the whole story, the cover and the first 2 painted spreads, with watermarked, reduced pictures. An unpaid preview stays open for 14 days after its last edit. Nothing is lost after that; ordering brings it back. We limit how many previews an account can start so the service stays available to everyone.

Orders and payment

• Prices are shown before you pay. Shipping is charged at what the printer charges us, rounded to the dollar. Taxes or import duties, if any, are your responsibility.
• For a printed book, your card is authorized at checkout and only charged once the printer has accepted the book for printing. If the printer cannot take the job, the hold is released and you pay nothing.
• Payment is handled by Stripe. Printing and delivery are handled by Lulu. Delivery dates are estimates from the printer and carrier, not guarantees.

Cancellations, reprints and refunds

• Each book is printed specially for you, so once it has gone to print it cannot be canceled or returned simply because you changed your mind.
• If your book arrives damaged, misprinted or defective, write to us within 30 days with a photo and we will reprint it free or refund you, whichever you prefer.
• If a parcel is lost in transit, we will reprint and resend it.
• A PDF order can be refunded within 14 days if the files cannot be delivered; once you have downloaded the files it is final.
• A promo code from us finishes a book as a digital edition (the PDF and the Apple Books edition) at no charge. It does not cover a printed book, has no cash value, and we may withdraw an unused code.
• Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer law where you live.

Fair use of the service

Do not try to break, overload, scrape or get around the limits of the service, or use it to make books you do not intend to order in order to extract free artwork. We may suspend an account that does.

If something goes wrong

We provide the service as it is and will always try to put a problem right. To the extent the law allows, our total liability for any order is limited to what you paid for it, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses. Some places do not allow these limits, in which case they apply only as far as the law permits.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, USA, without affecting any consumer protections you are entitled to where you live.

Privacy, changes and contact

How we handle your information is set out on the privacy page. If we change these terms in a way that matters, we will email account holders first. Questions: hello@setterbooks.com.