Terms of Service

The service

GrokCine is an educational catalog of original cinematography technique pages, prompts and shot cards. Some sample cards are free. GrokCine Pro and GrokCine Lifetime unlock every prompt and shot card on the web. Content is digital; nothing physical is shipped. Access to a paid plan starts as soon as payment is confirmed. GrokCine is not an AI generator: it does not generate images or video for you. You use the prompts and cards in the tools you already have.

Current plan prices are on the pricing page.

Using content

Prompts, shot cards and technique pages are licensed for use in your own work, including work for your clients. You may use them, and anything you generate with them, in personal and commercial projects. That licence is personal to your account: it is not a right to resell or redistribute the cards, prompts or catalog itself.

You may not:

• resell, republish, redistribute or sublicense the shot cards, prompts, technique pages, or any substantial copy of them;
• share your account, login, or paid access with others;
• scrape, harvest or bulk-extract the catalog beyond your own authorised use;
• circumvent access controls or payment;
• use the Service for anything illegal, including malware, phishing, or sexual content involving minors.

We may suspend or terminate an account that does; see Suspension and termination.

Plans and payments

• GrokCine Pro ($12 a month, or $59 a year — launch price; regular $79) gives access to every prompt and shot card on the web while the subscription is active, including cards released during it.
• GrokCine Lifetime ($149 — launch price; regular $199, paid once) gives the same access with nothing to renew, for as long as GrokCine offers Pro features.
• Prices are in US dollars. New purchases are processed by Stripe. Existing subscriptions may continue to be billed by Creem (creem.io) as merchant of record. The payment processor takes the payment, issues the invoice and adds sales tax or VAT where it applies. GrokCine never receives or stores your card details.

Renewal and cancellation

• Pro Monthly includes one 7-day trial when you put a card on file at checkout. You are charged the monthly price when the trial ends unless you cancel before then. Cancel during the trial and you pay $0. The trial is not offered again after you have used one, or after you have had a subscription. Pro Yearly and Lifetime have no trial and are charged at checkout.
• By subscribing you authorise the payment processor that owns your subscription (Stripe or Creem) to charge the recurring fee until you cancel.
• GrokCine Pro renews automatically at the end of each billing period, at the price you subscribed at, until you cancel. You will be told before a price change applies to your renewal. A Pro Monthly trial renews into the monthly price when the 7 days end, unless you canceled during the trial.
• Cancel at any time from your account page or through the link in your receipt. Cancelling stops the next renewal; Pro stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for. Cancelling during a Pro Monthly trial, before it ends, costs $0.
• Switch between monthly and yearly billing, update your card or download invoices from the same place (or via the payment processor's portal linked from your Stripe or Creem receipt).

Refunds

Payments for GrokCine Pro (monthly or yearly) can be refunded. GrokCine Lifetime is a one-time purchase and is not refundable, except for duplicate charges or charges caused by a billing or system error. Access to Pro content starts as soon as the payment goes through, or when a Pro Monthly trial starts with a card on file.

• After a refund on Pro Monthly or Pro Yearly, the access you have already paid for continues until the end of the current billing period; nothing renews after it.
• Lifetime is not refundable. If a Lifetime payment is nonetheless refunded or disputed, access ends when the refund or dispute is processed.
• Cancelling a subscription stops the next renewal; it does not refund the current paid period. Access continues until that period ends. Cancelling during a Pro Monthly trial, before any charge, costs $0.
• We also refund duplicate charges and charges caused by a billing or system error.
• A disputed payment ends the access it paid for.
• If you live in the EU or the UK, you may have a statutory right of withdrawal; we also offer subscription refunds as described above, with Pro access continuing through the end of the paid period where applicable.

Stripe or Creem, as the payment processor for that purchase, may also handle a refund or chargeback request under its own policy.

If you think a charge is wrong, write to support@grokcine.com before disputing it with your bank. We answer billing questions within two business days.

Suspension and termination

These terms apply while you use the Service. You may cancel a subscription at any time from your account; cancelling is not a refund, and access continues until the end of the period you have already paid for.

We may warn, suspend or terminate your account or access if you materially breach these terms (including the content rules above), we reasonably suspect fraud or card-network abuse, or the law requires it. Access can end immediately when we do.

How that meets the refund policy:

• A Pro Monthly or Pro Yearly refund, when we grant one and there is no breach, still leaves access until the end of the current billing period; nothing renews after it.
• If we end access for breach, a later subscription refund does not restore that access.
• Lifetime is not refundable. If a Lifetime payment is nonetheless refunded or disputed, access ends when the refund or dispute is processed.
• Termination for your breach does not create a refund right beyond the refunds section. Duplicate charges and billing or system errors are still refunded.
• If we stop offering the Service for a reason other than your breach, unused prepaid Pro Monthly or Pro Yearly time can be refunded under the refunds section.

Disclaimers and liability

The Service, including technique pages, prompts, shot cards and any output you produce with them, is provided AS IS and AS AVAILABLE, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted availability.

Outputs depend on your own agent, tools and inputs. You are responsible for reviewing what you produce before you rely on it. GrokCine content is educational, not legal, medical, financial or other professional advice.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, GrokCine is not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages. Our total liability for a claim is limited to the amount you paid for the Service in the 12 months before the claim arose.

Some places do not allow these limits; there, they apply only as far as the law allows.

The catalog and the previews

The public catalog is organized by craft: camera movement, camera angle, composition, lighting, focus and depth, framing, lenses, color, time and tempo, optical effects, editing, atmosphere, genre looks, and viral looks. A master entry is the definition of one technique. A variant changes one variable and keeps the mechanism. An alias is a second name with its own URL and the same definition.

Preview clips are examples made with third-party video models. They show one reading. They are not a warranty that any model will reproduce the frame. GrokCine does not generate images or video. The prompts and shot cards are for the tools you already use.

The free short prompt on a technique or style page is a starter. The shot card is the timed recipe. Three sample cards are free to read. Paid access is GrokCine Pro, billed monthly or yearly, or Lifetime, paid once. Prices and the current plans are on the pricing page.

Changes

We may update these terms. The effective date at the top of this page is the current version. Continued use after a change means you accept it.

Contact

Questions about your plan or these terms: write to support@grokcine.com. Receipts from Stripe or Creem explain how to reach that processor's payment support.

GrokCine is an independent site. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by xAI. It is not affiliated with Melies or any studio.

Shot cards and pricing