AI Usage Notice

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One-page summary

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When AI is called

External AI is called only when you take one of these actions:

• Typing a request into the AI dock and sending it.
• Asking for an image in the AI dock's Image mode — a new one, or an edit of the image you selected.
• Opening the form to put a work on the Stage — AI suggests categories and tags for it and drafts a description in the empty description box. You edit or delete what it filled in before you put the work on the Stage. The form says so in one line, and choosing “Turn off” on that line stops the suggestions in that browser. A work that already has categories or tags is not sent for suggestions.
• Pressing Create in the “Create with AI” box on the Studio home or in the new project window: the outline of the project (its scenes) is made once, and when the editor opens each scene's design is requested in turn. Scenes left when you stop are not requested.

Routine editing — moving objects, changing colours, saving — never invokes AI.

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What data is sent

We send the minimum data needed to fulfil your request. Every request travels through SSHOW's server to the provider — your browser never calls a provider directly. Per feature:

• “AI edit” — your prompt, plus the layout of the document you're editing (object names, positions, text, styles), your current selection, and the last few completed turns of your conversation in that document (kept only in your browser, never stored on our server).
• “Image generation / editing” — your prompt and, when editing, a downscaled copy of the selected image.
• “Stage category, tag and description suggestions” — the work's title, scene names, the text on its scenes (up to 1,500 characters), its canvas size, whether it moves or responds to the viewer, the last saved thumbnail of its first scene, and the Stage's lists of categories and tags.
• “Create with AI” — what you typed, the guideline of the style you picked (it may be one another user wrote for a work on the Stage) with the colours and font names read from its sample work, or the style guideline you wrote yourself, and, for each scene, the outline and the list of elements in the scene before it (names, positions, colours). Nothing else from the project and no images are sent.

Direct identifiers like your username or email are not transmitted. Note, however, that text or images you author may themselves contain personal information.

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Training and retention

• We do not train any model on your content.
• Calls to upstream providers run only over commercial API paths whose terms prohibit training on your content.
• We keep the prompts you write and usage records (feature, counts, token counts, cost, time, request id) for up to 400 days (about 13 months) to improve quality, bill accurately, and prevent abuse; they are deleted automatically after that. These records never include your document, your images, or the AI's output.
• Stored prompts are read only by authorised staff and only when necessary — for example to investigate abuse — and every access is written to an audit log.
• Some providers retain a short safety-monitoring log (typically 30 days). See the linked provider policies in §8.
• For “Create with AI”, the usage record keeps only the first 300 characters of what you typed.
• While a project is being made with “Create with AI”, what you typed, the guideline, the outline and the scene designs are stored with the project so it can go on later. Once every scene is made, only who made it, the style (its name and Stage work), the model used, the number of scenes made and of those filled with the basic layout, and when it finished stay. A style guideline you wrote yourself also stays with the project, to fill the guideline field when you upload the project to the Stage, and goes when the project is deleted. A project left stopped keeps them until it is finished.

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Limits of AI output and its marking

AI output may be inaccurate or biased. We recommend:

• Treat AI output as a draft — you make the final decision.
• Do not rely on AI output for medical, legal, or financial decisions.
• Verify any AI-generated content for possible IP or trademark conflicts before reuse.

We mark what is made with AI:

• A project made with “Create with AI” carries the “Made with AI” mark when it goes on the Stage, and the mark cannot be turned off.
• For a work made with AI in other ways (for example an external AI app), you turn on “Made with AI” in the Stage form yourself.

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Your rights & opt-out

• You can stop using AI features at any time. Core SSHOW (editing, playback, sharing) keeps working.
• A single switch under Settings → Privacy & AI (post-beta) disables all AI calls for your account.
• Stage category, tag and description suggestions can be turned off with “Turn off” in the Stage form. You can still pick the categories and tags and write the description yourself and put the work on the Stage.
• The first time you use an AI feature we show what is sent and this notice and ask for your consent. It is recorded on your account with the time, the notice version and where you gave it (web, desktop app, tablet app), and asked again when this notice gets a new version. Without it, only AI features stay off; everything else keeps working.
• You can stop “Create with AI” at any time while it runs.
• We do not make decisions that significantly affect you based solely on automated processing.

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Minors

SSHOW is not directed at children under 14 (or under 13 in the US under COPPA), and the same threshold applies to AI features. Users between 14 and 19 see additional safety guidance around AI output.

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Model providers

This list may change. We update this page and announce changes at least 7 days before they take effect.

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External AI apps you connect

You can connect an external AI app (for example claude.ai) to your SSHOW account yourself (the MCP connector). Such a connection is created only when you explicitly allow it while signed in, and the app you allowed can then read the contents of the projects you have open in an editor at that moment (scenes, objects, text, screenshots) and edit them as you. Your account username and the names of those open projects are sent along with it. The full list of what is disclosed is tabulated in §5 of our Privacy Policy.

• Data that flows to a connected app is governed by that app provider's own terms and privacy policy. It is a third party separate from our model providers (Section 8), and we do not control how it stores the data or whether it trains on it.
• We only relay tool calls to your editor and do not store project contents for this feature. What remains is the grant record shown in your profile — the app's name, the scopes you granted, when you granted it and when it was last used — and a security record (audit log) noting that you allowed or revoked it.
• You can disconnect an app at any time under Profile → Connected AI apps, and its access ends immediately. Deleting your account removes every connection with it.

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Changes

• v1.6 — announced and effective 2026-10-11 — New Create with AI: when it is called (Section 2), what is sent (Section 3), retention (Section 4), marking AI output (Section 5), first-use consent and stopping (Section 6), and the providers' uses (Section 8).
• v1.5 — announced 2026-10-02 / effective 2026-10-09 — New Stage category, tag and description suggestions: when they are requested (Section 2), what is sent (Section 3), how to turn them off (Section 6), and the providers' uses (Section 8). The summary (Section 1) now says AI is called when you use an AI feature.
• v1.4 — 2026-09-04 — Section 9 now spells out what is disclosed (including your username and the names of open projects) and which records remain, and links to the table in Privacy Policy §5.
• v1.3 — 2026-09-04 — New section on external AI apps you connect (MCP connector): the contents of open projects may be sent to a third-party app under your explicit permission.
• v1.2 — 2026-09-03 — AI dock: edit requests now include the document's recent conversation turns (kept in the browser, not stored server-side).
• v1.1 — 2026-08-31 — Switched to the server gateway: transmission path, per-feature data items, prompt and usage-record retention (up to 400 days), and the provider table updated.
• v1.0 — 2026-04-25 — Initial version.