Community Guidelines

DRAFT. Prepared 2026-08-08 without external legal review. To compensate, every clause is deliberately drafted on the most consumer-protective setting available. Administrative actions required before this policy goes live are tracked in 00-OWNER-CHECKLIST.md.

Nocturnal Studios Founder Programme Effective date: 2026-08-12

Operator: Caglar (Charly) Tekin, sole proprietor, Altmannstrasse 16, 9012 St. Gallen, Switzerland, trading as Nocturnal Studios ("we", "us"). Reporting and contact: support@cyvril.com These Guidelines form part of the Terms of Service at https://nocturnalstudios.app/legal. Breaching them is a breach of the Terms of Service.

1. What this community is

1.1 Nocturnal Studios is a private, invite-only membership for creators working on AI music, music videos and YouTube channel development. It includes a community space, tutorials, live sessions, pre-public access to our web software, and an AI coaching assistant.

1.2 It is a working room, not a public forum. Everyone here paid to be here and is trying to build something. These Guidelines exist to keep it useful.

1.3 They apply everywhere the community operates: the community platform, live sessions, direct messages between Members arising from the community, shared documents, and any Programme-adjacent channel we designate.

2. Conduct

2.1 Be respectful. Disagree with the work, not the person. Direct criticism at output, technique and decisions.

2.2 No harassment. No targeted abuse, threats, intimidation, stalking, sexual harassment, unwanted persistent contact, or pile-ons. This includes conduct directed at Members, at us, and at third parties.

2.3 No hate. No content or conduct attacking or demeaning people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any comparable characteristic.

2.4 No NSFW dumping. Do not post sexually explicit material, gore, shock content, or graphic violence. Where a genuine creative project involves mature themes (dark visual work is within the scope of this community), keep explicit material out of general channels, post only in a designated channel where one exists, label it clearly, and never post sexual content involving or appearing to involve minors, which results in immediate permanent removal and, where applicable, a report to the authorities.

2.5 No illegal content or activity, and no content that promotes it.

2.6 No impersonation of us, of other Members, or of third parties, and no misrepresentation of your affiliation with anyone.

2.7 Keep it in good faith. Do not deliberately derail sessions, spread misinformation about the Programme, or use the community to run disputes that belong elsewhere.

3. Spam and self-promotion

3.1 No spam, mass unsolicited messaging, bulk tagging, or repeated posting of the same content.

3.2 No self-promotion without permission. Do not advertise your own products, services, courses, communities, affiliate links or paid offers in the community without our prior written permission. Sharing your own creative work for feedback, or linking your channel in a designated channel or thread, is encouraged and is not what this rule is about.

3.3 No recruiting or soliciting Members. Do not use the member list, the community, or direct messages arising from it to solicit Members for other paid programmes, agencies, services or investment.

3.4 No unsolicited direct messages selling anything. If a Member asks you to stop contacting them, stop.

4. Confidentiality

4.1 What is shared in the community stays in the community. This is the rule the whole community depends on, and it is enforced.

4.2 Confidential material includes: our workflows, prompts, prompt libraries, templates, checklists, pipelines, tooling, unreleased or pre-public software and features, roadmaps, pricing not yet public, session recordings, tutorial content, written materials, and anything shared by another Member about their work, results, channel, revenue or plans.

4.3 Do not share screenshots, screen recordings, transcripts, exports or copies of community discussions, live sessions, tutorials, prompts or software outside the community, publicly or privately. This includes posting them on social media, in other communities, in group chats, or sending them to a non-Member.

4.4 Do not resell, redistribute, republish, sublicense or leak any Programme content, in whole or in part, in any form, including reworded, summarised, translated, or repackaged form, and including as training data for a third-party model.

4.5 Do not use another Member's work, results or personal information outside the community without that Member's explicit permission.

4.6 Account sharing is prohibited. Your seat is personal to you. Do not share your login credentials, do not let anyone else use your access, and do not create an account on behalf of another person. One person, one seat. If you want a team member included, contact support@cyvril.com about additional seats.

4.7 Applying what you learn is expressly allowed. You may use everything you learn in your own commercial work, on your own channels, for your own clients. The prohibition is on redistributing our materials and on exposing what other Members share, not on using the knowledge. This is the wider reading and it wins: if the licence or intellectual property clauses in the Terms of Service could be read as narrower than this Section 4.7, this Section 4.7 prevails and you keep the freedom described here.

4.8 Duration, and its limits. These obligations are contractual and they continue after your membership ends, but not forever and not in the abstract:

(a) the obligation not to redistribute our materials lasts only for as long as the material in question is not public, and it ends for any material at the moment we publish it or it otherwise becomes public through no breach of yours;

(b) the obligation not to expose what another Member shared lasts for as long as that Member would reasonably expect it to, and ends if that Member makes the same information public themselves;

(c) nothing here stops you from saying that you were a Member, from describing your own experience of the Programme (including a critical one), from using your own work, or from reporting a concern to a regulator, a court or a lawyer.

4.9 No penalties. This Section carries no liquidated damages, no fixed penalty and no automatic forfeiture. If we ever need to enforce it, we ask a court for what that court considers proportionate, and nothing more.

5. Intellectual property and AI outputs

5.1 Our materials stay ours. All tutorials, prompts, templates, software and session content are licensed to you for your personal use as a Member under the Terms of Service. No ownership transfers to you.

5.2 Your work stays yours. Work you create and post remains yours. By posting it in the community you allow us and other Members to view and discuss it. Where we would like to feature your work publicly, we ask you first.

5.3 Respect third-party rights when using AI tools. Do not generate, post or publish material that infringes another person's copyright, trademark, likeness, name, voice or other rights. In particular: do not clone a real artist's voice without permission, do not pass AI output off as the work of a real named artist, do not use another artist's protected material as a source without a legal basis, and do not upload material to our tools that you do not have the right to use.

5.4 Follow the rules of the platforms you publish to. YouTube, distributors, stores and the AI providers we use each have their own policies on AI-generated content, disclosure, impersonation and monetization. Complying with them is your responsibility on your own channels, and complying with them inside our tools is a condition of using them.

5.5 Disclose AI use where a platform requires it. Several platforms require synthetic or altered media to be labelled. Label it.

5.6 Who carries what, if an output turns out to infringe. You are responsible for what you choose to generate, publish and monetize, and for the material you upload as a source. We are responsible for the tool we built and for our own choices of provider. We do not ask consumer Members for an indemnity: you do not agree to cover our legal costs or third-party claims, and any such wording elsewhere does not apply to you as a consumer. If a third party complains about an output you made with our software, tell us at support@cyvril.com and we will give you the generation records we hold, free, so you can answer it.

6. Software and beta access

6.1 Pre-public software provided to Members is under active development. Do not publish screenshots, feature lists, benchmarks or reviews of unreleased features outside the community (see Section 4.3).

6.2 Do not attempt to circumvent access controls, usage limits or credit accounting, do not automate or script access in ways not offered in the product, and do not probe, scan or stress-test the systems.

6.3 Report bugs and security issues to support@cyvril.com rather than posting exploitable detail in the community.

7. Reporting

7.1 Report any breach of these Guidelines, any harassment, or any content you believe is illegal, to support@cyvril.com. Mark urgent safety matters "Urgent" in the subject line.

7.2 We treat reports confidentially so far as we reasonably can while still investigating and acting on them.

7.3 Do not retaliate against anyone for making a report. Retaliation is itself a breach and is treated at the higher end of the enforcement ladder.

7.4 We acknowledge reports within 2 working days and tell the reporter the outcome, in general terms, when the matter is closed.

8. Enforcement

8.1 We enforce these Guidelines proportionately, normally in this order:

(a) Warning. A written notice identifying the conduct and what must change. Content may be removed.

(b) Timeout. Posting and session access suspended for a stated period (normally between 24 hours and 30 days). Access to tutorials and software normally continues.

8.2 We may skip steps. Serious breaches go straight to removal without a warning. These include, without limitation: sexual content involving minors, credible threats of violence, doxxing, targeted harassment, leaking or reselling Programme content or another Member's material, sharing an account, and unauthorised access to our systems.

8.3 We act on a stated reason, never on "sole discretion". Every enforcement step is taken because identified conduct broke an identified rule in these Guidelines. We do not reserve a right to remove you at will, and we do not act on taste, disagreement or criticism of us. Before any removal that is not covered by Section 8.2, you get written notice of what we say you did and at least 7 days to answer it.

8.4 Statement of reasons. Whenever we remove content, apply a timeout or end a membership, we send you a written statement of reasons. It says what we did, the specific rule and facts we relied on, whether a report or an automated signal triggered it, that you can appeal and how, and that you can go to a court or a consumer body instead. Content removed for a reason that turns out to be wrong is restored.

8.5 Appeals. If you believe an enforcement decision was wrong, write to support@cyvril.com within 14 days of being notified, setting out why. We answer every appeal in writing within 14 days of receiving it. The decision is reviewed against these Guidelines and not merely confirmed, and where we got it wrong we reverse it, restore your access and say so. Our answer is final only as between us: it takes away no right you have to go to a court, a consumer arbitration body or a supervisory authority.

8.6 Refunds on removal. Removal for a serious breach under Section 8.2 means no refund, beyond any statutory right you have that cannot be excluded (see the Refund and Withdrawal Policy at https://nocturnalstudios.app/legal). In every other case where we end a membership, and in every case where an appeal is decided against you but the breach was not a Section 8.2 breach, we refund the unused portion of what you paid, pro rata. If you are still inside the 14-day window in Section 2 of the Refund and Withdrawal Policy, you get the full refund promised there whatever the reason for removal.

8.7 Records. We keep records of warnings, timeouts, removals and the reports that led to them, for enforcement, appeal and legal-defence purposes. They are kept for 24 months from the decision, or until any appeal or claim about it is finally resolved if that is later, on the basis of our legitimate interests, as set out in the retention table in the Privacy Policy at https://nocturnalstudios.app/legal.

9. Changes

9.1 We may update these Guidelines. Material changes are notified by email and posted in the community at least 14 days before they take effect.

9.2 The current version always governs conduct from its effective date.

10. In short

Be decent. Do the work. Do not leak what happens here. Do not sell to the room. Respect other people's rights when you generate. Ask us if you are unsure: support@cyvril.com.