📄 Terms of Use
Swordspeak · swordspeak.com · last updated 23 October 2026
The game
Swordspeak is a language-learning role-playing game: you learn by speaking out loud. It's offered as it is, and it changes over time: places, lessons, limits and features may be added, changed or retired.
Who can play
You must be 13 or older. If you're under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms (and to any purchase). The game is PG-13 throughout: it has no adult content.
Your account
- An account is for one person. Keep your password to yourself; you're responsible for what happens on your account.
- Pick a username that isn't offensive, doesn't pretend to be someone else, and doesn't contain personal details such as your full name or phone number: your friends and duel opponents see it.
- You can delete your account at any time in ⚙️ → 👤 Account.
Playing fair
Don't use the game unlawfully, for fraud or spam, or to infringe anyone's rights; don't use bots or scripts against it, get around its limits (faking ads included), overload it, scrape it, interfere with its security, reverse-engineer its paid services, or use friends and duels to harass anyone. We may limit, suspend or close an account for a serious or repeated breach of these terms, non-payment, or a fraud or security risk.
The AI and the voices
Some of the game's explanations, scenes, grading and translations are written by AI (Anthropic's Claude: Claude Haiku in the free game, Claude Sonnet for Sylladin members), and some voices are synthetic. They are usually right but can be wrong, so treat them as a study aid, not as professional, medical, legal or travel advice. Don't share sensitive personal information in your answers, and don't try to make the AI produce unlawful, hateful or harmful content.
The free game: ads and ⚡ energy
- The game is free and paid for by ads: short ads at natural breaks (never in your first minutes of play and never in the middle of a question), and rewarded ads that are always your choice (an energy refill, getting back up after fainting in a fight, double rewards after a win, a 💡 hint against a boss).
- ⚡ Coaching energy pays for what costs us money: 🎯 detailed pronunciation scoring and the AI tutor. It refills over time (now 1 every 12 minutes, up to 30) and with rewarded ads (+10, up to 6 a day). Speaking and typing are always free: without energy, your browser's own speech recognition listens (in browsers that have it) and your answers still count. These numbers may change.
- Daily limits apply to every player, free or paying, to keep the game running.
⭐ Sylladin: the subscription
- Sylladin costs $2.99 a month, in US dollars; sales tax or VAT is added at checkout where it applies. It removes every ad and the ⚡ energy limit (fair-use daily limits still apply) and adds natural voices (where your language has them), answers from Claude Sonnet and the member extras on the pricing page. What it includes may change over time, but never the “no ads” part.
- 👑 Weekly items: each week's Sylladin item is yours once you claim it, and stays yours if you cancel. They're cosmetic: they change how your hero looks and nothing else. A picture you put on your hero stays on your device (we never receive it); GIFs come from GIPHY, under GIPHY's terms. Only you see your hero.
- It renews automatically every month, charged by Paddle, until you cancel. If the price ever changes, we'll tell you at least 30 days before your next payment.
- Cancelling: any time, from ⚙️ → ⭐ Sylladin → Manage (Paddle's customer portal) or from the link in Paddle's receipt email. Cancelling stops future payments; Sylladin lasts until the end of the month you've paid for. Deleting your account cancels it straight away.
- Payments are processed by Paddle, our reseller and Merchant of Record, under Paddle's buyer terms.
Refund policy
If you're not happy with Sylladin, you can ask for a full refund within 30 days of any payment, for any reason. Ask Paddle at paddle.net (find your order with the email you paid with) or reply to Paddle's receipt email; or write to us at support@swordspeak.com and we'll arrange it through Paddle. A refund also cancels the subscription, so it doesn't renew, and Sylladin ends when the refund is made. Your rights under consumer law come on top of this.
🎁 Lifetime ad-free passes and 💡 ideas
- Each day we may build one of the ideas players send from the game (⚙️ → 💡). Its author gets a free lifetime ad-free pass: no ads and double coaching energy, at no charge, for as long as the game is offered. It isn't Sylladin (its unlimited coaching, natural voices and Claude Sonnet stay part of the subscription, which a pass holder may still take). A pass is personal: it can't be transferred or exchanged for money, and it may be withdrawn from an account that breaks these terms.
- By sending an idea you let us use, change and build it (or not) freely, with no payment beyond a pass. Please send only ideas that are yours, and no personal information.
Ownership
The game, its world, characters, music and code belong to its developer. You may not copy or redistribute them. What you write in the game stays yours; you allow us to process it to run the game, as the privacy policy describes.
No warranty, limited liability
The game is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses, lost progress or data, or for more than what you paid us in the last 12 months. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer law that can't be limited.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, without taking away the protection of the consumer laws where you live.
Changes and contact
We may update these terms; if a change matters, we'll say so in the game before it takes effect. Questions, or anything about your account or a payment: support@swordspeak.com.