Terms of Service

1. Who We Are and What These Terms Cover

Bardo (the “service”) is operated by [To be confirmed before launch: legal name of the operator], [To be confirmed before launch: business address of the operator] (“we”, “us”). These Terms of Service (the “terms”) are the agreement between you and us for your use of the service.

The Privacy Policy explains how we handle information about you. The Billing page explains that nothing is charged during the beta.

By creating an account or using the service you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

2. The Service and Its Current Limits

Today the service is a Markdown workspace: you can create projects, folders and notes, your writing is saved automatically, earlier versions of a note are kept as version history that you can restore, and you can search your notes.

• Free beta. The service is a free beta, run as a personal, non-commercial project. Sign-up is by invitation only. Features may be added, changed or removed, things may break, and the beta may end.
• AI features are not currently offered. Bardo is being developed towards AI-assisted tabletop role-playing features (the “Storyteller”). Those features are not enabled in the service today. Section 7 applies only if and when we offer them.
• Usage limits. To keep the service fast and fair, an account has reasonable limits, for example on the number of projects it can hold, the size of a file, and how quickly it can create projects and change files. When a limit stops you, the service shows a message. We may adjust limits over time.
• Not a backup. The service is not a backup or archival service. Keep your own copies of anything important; you can copy your content out at any time while you have access.

3. Accounts and Eligibility

• Age. [To be confirmed before launch: minimum age, and whether people under 18 may use Bardo]
• Individuals. Accounts are for individuals. One person per account; do not share your sign-in details.
• Sign-in. Accounts and sign-in are provided through our authentication provider, Clerk. You may be able to sign in with a Google or Discord account; if you do, your use of that account is also subject to that provider’s own terms.
• Your responsibility. Give accurate information, keep your sign-in details secure, and tell us promptly if you believe someone else has used your account. You are responsible for activity under your account.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• use the service to break the law or to help anyone else do so;
• store or share content that is unlawful or that infringes or violates anyone else’s rights, including copyright, trade mark, privacy and publicity rights;
• access or try to access another person’s account or data, probe, scan or attack the service, or get around its limits, access controls or other protections;
• use scripts or other automated means to create accounts, projects or changes in bulk, or to place a load on the service that an individual person using it normally would not;
• interfere with or disrupt the service, or introduce malicious code;
• resell, sublicense or offer the service to others as your own service.

5. Your Content

• You own it. The projects, folders, notes and other material you create in or add to the service (“your content”) remain yours. These terms do not transfer ownership of your content to us.
• Limited licence to us. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, transmit and display your content, and to process it, solely as needed to provide, maintain and secure the service for you (for example, to save your notes, keep version history, run search and show your content back to you). The licence covers the service providers named in the Privacy Policy who host and process data for us, and it ends when your content is deleted from the service, except for copies that remain for a limited time in backups as that policy describes.
• Your responsibility. You are responsible for your content and for having all the rights needed to put it in the service.
• Deleting content. You can delete files and projects. Deletion is permanent: there is no trash, and a deleted file or project cannot be restored.
• Deleting your account. You can delete your account from Account → Billing → “Delete account” (/account/billing). That deletes your account with its projects, files and version history, and it cannot be undone. What is removed and what is kept is described in the Privacy Policy.

6. Intellectual Property and Third-Party Game Material

• Our rights. The service, including its software, design, text, artwork and the Bardo name and logo, belongs to us or our licensors. Subject to these terms, we give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the service. No other rights are granted.
• Published rulebooks and settings. Tabletop game rules, rulebooks, settings, adventures, artwork and similar material published by others belong to their owners. If you put any of that material into the service, you are responsible for having the right to do so, for example under the publisher’s licence or because the law allows your use.
• No licence to third-party game content. We do not grant, and nothing in the service implies, any licence to any third party’s game content, names or trade marks. Bardo is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any game publisher. Names of games and publishers that appear in the service are used only to identify them.
• Copyright complaints. If you believe content in the service infringes your copyright, contact us with enough detail for us to find it and assess the claim. We may remove content and suspend accounts in response to credible complaints. Notices should be sent to: [To be confirmed before launch: copyright (DMCA) agent and notice address]
• Feedback. If you send us suggestions about the service, we may use them without obligation to you.

7. AI Features, If and When Offered

This section does not describe the service as it is today. It applies only if and when we make AI features available to you.

• Output can be wrong. AI features generate and interpret text automatically. Output may be inaccurate, incomplete, repetitive, unexpected or unsuitable, and may misstate the rules of a game. Review output before you rely on it. AI output is not professional advice of any kind.
• Not unique. Similar or identical output may be generated for other people, and we make no promise that output is original or free of third-party rights.
• Processing. Providing AI features would require sending the text needed for a request to AI model providers. Before those features are offered we will update the Privacy Policy to name those providers and describe that processing.
• Availability and limits. AI features may be limited, metered, paused, changed or withdrawn, and may be subject to additional terms, which we will present before they apply.

8. No Charge During the Beta

The service is free during the beta. We do not take payments, no paid plan is offered, and no payment details are collected.

• If that changes. If a paid plan is introduced later, its price and terms will be shown to you first, and you will not be charged unless you choose to subscribe.
• Your content stays. Introducing a paid plan would not by itself delete your content. You would still be able to read it, copy it out and delete it.

More detail is on the Billing page.

9. Availability and Changes to the Service

We work to keep the service available and your work safe, but we do not promise that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or free of errors, or that content will never be lost. The service may be unavailable during maintenance or because of events outside our control, including failures of the third-party providers it depends on.

We may add, change, limit or remove features, and we may discontinue the service. If we decide to discontinue the service, we will try to give reasonable advance notice so that you can copy your content out.

10. Suspension and Termination

• By you. You may stop using the service at any time. You can delete your account, as described in section 5.
• By us. We may suspend or close an account, or remove content, if we reasonably believe that these terms have been broken, that the account puts the service or other people at risk, or that the law requires it. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will tell you why and give you an opportunity to copy your content out.
• Effect. When an account is closed, the right to use the service ends. Sections that by their nature should continue (including section 5, section 6, section 11, section 12 and section 14) continue to apply.

11. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will meet your requirements or that any content, including any AI output if AI features are offered, is accurate or reliable.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of data, content, profits, revenue or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the service or these terms, and our total liability for all claims relating to the service or these terms is limited to the amount you paid us for the service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, or takes away rights you have as a consumer under the law that applies to you.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the effective date above, and if a change is material we will give reasonable advance notice in the service or by email before it applies. If you continue to use the service after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms. If you do not agree, stop using the service; you may delete your account.

14. Governing Law and Disputes

[To be confirmed before launch: governing law and venue for disputes]

15. General

If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our consent. These terms are the entire agreement between you and us about the service.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms: [To be confirmed before launch: support contact email]