Terms of Service

1. Agreeing to these terms

By using SLD — the website, the Studio, or any of its practice modes — you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the service. If you're using SLD on behalf of a school, team, or company, you're agreeing for that organization too and confirming you're allowed to.

2. Who can use SLD

You must be at least 13 years old to use SLD. If you're under 18, you should have a parent's or guardian's permission. You're responsible for keeping your account credentials private and for everything that happens under your account.

3. What SLD is (and isn't)

• SLD is an AI-powered practice tool for public speaking: it transcribes what you say, measures things like pacing and filler words, and generates coaching-style feedback and conversation using artificial intelligence.
• AI output can be wrong, incomplete, or oddly phrased. Scores and feedback are estimates meant to guide practice — they are not objective measurements or guarantees.
• SLD is not professional advice. It isn't speech therapy, medical or psychological care, legal advice, or career counseling, and it isn't a substitute for a qualified human professional in any of those fields.

4. Your content

• Your recordings, transcripts, and saved sessions are yours. You give us the limited permission we need to process them (transcribe, score, generate feedback, store what you choose to save) so the service can work — and nothing more. See the Privacy Policy for exactly how data is handled, including that audio is deleted right after transcription and camera video never leaves your device.
• Don't record other people without their consent, and don't upload content you don't have the right to use.

5. Acceptable use

Don't use SLD to:

• break the law, harass anyone, or generate content that's hateful, threatening, or abusive;
• probe, overload, or disrupt the service (rate-limit evasion, scraping, reverse-engineering our systems, or trying to access other users' data);
• resell or rebrand the service without our written permission;
• circumvent usage limits or payment requirements.

We may suspend or close accounts that violate these rules.

6. Free and paid plans

• During early access, SLD's features are available for free. We may introduce paid plans (e.g. Pro and Teams) with expanded limits and features.
• If you subscribe to a paid plan, billing is handled by Stripe — we never see or store your card details. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled; you can cancel anytime through the billing portal, and cancellation stops future charges (your plan stays active until the end of the paid period).
• Prices and plan features may change; we'll show the current ones on the pricing page before you're charged anything.

7. Advertising

Some public pages of the site may show advertising served by Google AdSense, which helps keep the free tier free. Ads are clearly third-party content; we don't endorse what they promote. See the Privacy Policy for how ad cookies are handled.

8. Third-party services

SLD is built on services we don't control: OpenAI (transcription, coaching, live conversation), Supabase (accounts and storage), Stripe (payments, when live), and Google (advertising). Their availability affects ours, and their own terms govern their processing. If one of them has an outage, parts of SLD may stop working temporarily.

9. Availability and changes

SLD is provided "as is" and "as available." We're a small team actively building: features may change, be added, or be removed, and downtime happens (our free-tier server literally takes a nap when idle). We'll do our best, but we don't guarantee uninterrupted or error-free service.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, SLD and its team are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the service — including decisions you make based on AI-generated feedback. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim (which, during early access, is zero).

11. Termination

You can stop using SLD or delete your account at any time — deletion permanently removes your data as described in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, with notice where reasonable.

12. Changes to these terms

If we make material changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the changes take effect. Continuing to use SLD after that means you accept the updated terms.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms: speechlearningdevelopment@gmail.com (or reach any member of the SLD team).

These terms describe how the current version of SLD operates. Before a commercial launch, have them reviewed by a lawyer in your jurisdiction.