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Help & FAQ

Last updated: May 17, 2026

Looking for something specific? The most common questions: how to cancel, why a generation was blocked, credit refunds for failed generations, card declined / payment failed. Can't find your answer? Email support@cineflow.cam.

Contents

  • Credits & pricing
  • Subscriptions & billing
  • Generation & models
  • Team plans
  • Account & login
  • Privacy & data

Credits & pricing

How do credits work?

Each generation deducts credits from your balance. Images cost fewer credits than videos. Within video, longer durations and higher resolutions cost more. The exact credit cost is shown next to the Generate button before you commit, so there are no surprises.

Why did one generation cost more credits than another with the same model?

A few factors change the price: video length, output resolution, whether audio is generated, and the number of reference images attached. The pre-Generate cost label always reflects the final number for your current settings.

What happens to unused credits at the end of the month?

Monthly subscription credits reset to your plan's allowance on your renewal date and do not roll over. Credits from one-time Credit Packs do not expire and are used after your monthly credits are depleted.

What's the difference between Standard, Pro, Team, and Enterprise?

The plans differ in how many credits you get per month and whether the credit pool is shared across a team. See the Pricing page for a side-by-side comparison. Enterprise is custom — contact sales for a quote.

Subscriptions & billing

How do I cancel my subscription?

Open the Pricing page from the app header, then click Manage subscription in the top-right corner of that page. That takes you to our payment partner's billing portal (Polar), where you can cancel, change your card, or download invoices.

Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period. You keep access to paid features and any remaining subscription credits until that date.

How do I change plans (upgrade or downgrade)?

From the Pricing page, click Change Plan on the tier you want. Upgrades take effect immediately and are prorated against your current period. Downgrades take effect at the start of your next renewal — you keep the higher tier until then.

How do I see past invoices or update my payment method?

Both live in the Polar billing portal: Pricing → Manage subscription. Polar emails a receipt for every charge to the address on your account.

My card was declined or my payment failed. What now?

You'll see an in-app banner with a Fix payment button. Click it to open the Polar portal and update your card. Your subscription stays active during a short retry grace period; if the payment isn't fixed in time, the subscription lapses to the free tier and any subscription credits are paused.

When do you refund credits vs. money?

These are two separate things:

  • Credit refunds happen automatically and in-app — when a generation fails due to a provider error or content-safety block, the credits are returned to your balance. No action needed.
  • Monetary refunds are governed by our Refund Policy. The short version: subscriptions don't prorate, credit packs are refundable only if untouched within 14 days, and duplicate or erroneous charges are always refunded.

Generation & models

Why was my generation blocked or rejected?

Each AI model runs its own content-safety classifier. Common triggers:

  • photos of real, identifiable people (especially as a reference image);
  • well-known copyrighted characters, logos, or brand likenesses;
  • graphic violence, gore, or self-harm;
  • sexually explicit or suggestive content;
  • hate speech or discriminatory content;
  • depictions of minors in unsafe contexts.

What to try: reword the prompt to remove the triggering element, swap the reference image, or describe the subject as fictional/stylized. If a particular topic keeps failing across multiple rewordings, it may be outside what the model's safety policy permits.

Credits used on a blocked generation are refunded automatically to your balance.

Why did my generation use a different model than I selected?

When the model you picked is temporarily unavailable (provider outage, rate-limit, regional issue), we automatically route to the next best model for that mode (image or video) so your generation doesn't simply fail. The model actually used is shown on the result. You're charged the cost of the model that ran, not the one you originally picked.

Why is my generation taking so long?

Most images return in under a minute. Videos typically take 1–5 minutes depending on length and model. Occasionally a provider is under heavy load and a request can take longer or fail. If a job is still processing after about 10 minutes, refresh the page — the result will appear in your vault if it succeeded, or the credits will be refunded if it failed.

Can I download my generated images and videos?

Yes. Every item in the vault has a download button. Files are MP4 (video) or PNG/JPEG (image), and they're yours to use under the terms of our Terms of Service.

Team plans

How do I invite teammates?

As the team owner, open the account menu and click Manage Team. Enter a teammate's email address and send the invite. They sign up with that email and join the shared credit pool automatically.

Can team members upgrade, cancel, or change the plan?

No — only the team owner manages billing. Team members can generate, view the shared vault, and see the team's remaining credits, but they cannot change the plan, invite others, or update payment info.

What happens to a team member's generations if they leave or are removed?

Their access ends immediately. Anything they generated stays in the team vault and remains accessible to the rest of the team.

Is there a member limit?

Team plans support up to 100 members. If you need more, talk to sales about an Enterprise arrangement.

Account & login

I forgot my password.

On the login screen, click Forgot password. We'll email a reset link to the address on your account. The link expires after a short window — request a new one if needed.

Can I sign in with Google?

Yes. The login screen has a Sign in with Google button. If you originally signed up with email and want to switch to Google sign-in (using the same email address), just click the Google button — both sign-in methods work for the same account.

How do I change my display name or email?

Open the account menu and click Manage account. You can change your display name there. To change the email on your account, contact support@cineflow.cam.

How do I close my account?

Open the account menu (top-right avatar) and click Manage account. Scroll to the bottom and click Close account, then type CLOSE to confirm.

What happens immediately:

  • Your active subscription (if any) is cancelled with Polar.
  • Your projects, generated images and videos, reference uploads, AD chat history, display name, and login credentials are deleted.
  • Your Cognito account is removed — the same email can re-sign-up as a new account afterward.

What we retain (and why):

  • A pseudonymized payment record (no name, no email in cleartext — just one-way hashes salted with a server-side secret, plus the transaction amounts and dates). Retained for the period required by applicable tax and accounting law (typically up to 7 years). The record auto-deletes at the end of the retention period — no further action required.

If you're a Team plan owner, you'll need to transfer ownership to a teammate or disband the team first; you can't close an account that owns a team.

If you have generations currently running, wait for them to finish before closing the account.

For questions, see our Privacy Policy or email support@cineflow.cam.

Privacy & data

Where are my prompts and generations stored?

Prompts and the generated media are stored on Amazon Web Services in the region closest to your account location. Prompts are transmitted to the AI provider for the duration of generation; we do not use your prompts to train models. Full details in our Privacy Policy.

Who can see my generations?

Only you, unless you're on a Team plan — in which case your team's owner and members can see items in the shared team vault. No items are public by default; nothing is shown outside your account or team without an explicit action from you.

Do you train AI models on my data?

No. We do not use your prompts, reference images, or generated outputs to train models — ours or any third party's. Some AI providers we use may log prompts for their own abuse-prevention purposes per their terms; we minimise what we send to them.

Still need help?

Email support@cineflow.cam. We read every message. To help us respond faster, please include:

  • the email address on your account;
  • a brief description of what happened (what you were trying to do, what you saw);
  • for billing questions: the transaction ID or invoice number from your receipt;
  • for generation issues: the rough time the issue happened (so we can find the right logs).

We aim to respond within 1 business day on weekdays.

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