SpeakNow Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the websites, applications, and related services offered by SpeakNow (collectively, the “Service”). We refer to the operator of the Service as “SpeakNow,” “we,” “us,” or “the Company.” By accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference.

If you do not agree to these Terms or the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Service.

Contents

1. 1. SpeakNow’s business
2. 2. Acceptance of the Terms and eligibility
3. 3. Changes to the Terms
4. 4. Accessing the Service
5. 5. Accounts, sessions, and paid features
6. 6. User responsibilities
7. 7. User content and licenses
8. 8. Artificial intelligence, scoring, and practice guidance
9. 9. Microphone, camera, and device permissions
10. 10. Intellectual property
11. 11. Copyright infringement notices
12. 12. Trademarks and service marks
13. 13. Prohibited uses
14. 14. Third-party services and links
15. 15. Educational, school, and competition use
16. 16. Disclaimer of warranties
17. 17. Limitation of liability
18. 18. Indemnification
19. 19. Security
20. 20. Export, international use, and availability
21. 21. Termination
22. 22. General provisions

1. SpeakNow’s business

SpeakNow provides an online public-speaking and presentation practice platform. Through the Service, users may:

• Upload or paste a rubric, prompt, or event brief.
• Upload slides, notes, or other practice materials.
• Record a timed pitch or answer using a microphone, and optionally a camera.
• Receive transcription of spoken audio.
• Receive scored feedback from an AI “panel” of judges configured for different evaluation perspectives (for example, rubric fidelity, clarity, skepticism, impact, responsible AI, and timing).
• Practice follow-up questions and review a session report.

SpeakNow is a practice and rehearsal tool. It is not an official judging body, accreditation service, school of record, employer, or competition organizer. Scores, comments, and rankings generated by the Service are practice guidance only and do not constitute an official grade, contest result, employment decision, or professional opinion.

2. Acceptance of the Terms and eligibility

BY USING THE SERVICE, YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND OUR PRIVACY POLICY. If you do not want to agree to these Terms or the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Service.

Eligibility

• The Service is offered to individuals who are at least 13 years of age.
• If you are 13 or older but under 18 (or under the age of majority in your jurisdiction), you may use the Service only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf.
• If you are a parent or guardian, you are responsible for your child’s use of the Service, including any User Content they submit.
• We do not knowingly offer the Service to children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete it as described in the Privacy Policy.
• If you use the Service on behalf of a school, team, club, company, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms. In that case, “you” includes the organization and its authorized users.
• You represent that you are not barred from using the Service under the laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction, including export-control and sanctions laws.

Separate agreements

If you later enter into a separate written subscription, order form, or school/organization agreement with SpeakNow (a “Service Agreement”), that Service Agreement controls to the extent of any conflict with these Terms. These Terms still apply to any subject the Service Agreement does not address.

3. Changes to the Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time by posting an updated version on this page and updating the effective date. Changes are effective when posted, unless a later date is stated. Your continued use of the Service after revised Terms are posted means you accept the changes. You are expected to review this page periodically. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the Service.

For material changes that meaningfully reduce your rights, we will provide additional notice where reasonably practicable, such as a notice on the Service or, if we have an email address for you, by email.

4. Accessing the Service

Subject to these Terms, SpeakNow grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own lawful practice, educational, or internal organizational training purposes.

• SpeakNow and its licensors own and retain all intellectual property and other rights in the Service, including software, models, prompts, judge personas, scoring methods, user interface, documentation, and branding.
• We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice, including features, availability, scoring methods, and third-party processors.
• We may restrict access to some or all of the Service, including for maintenance, security, legal, or capacity reasons.
• We are not liable if the Service is unavailable, delayed, inaccurate, or interrupted for any period.
• To use certain features you may need a compatible browser, microphone, optional camera, and a stable internet connection. You are responsible for those arrangements and for any fees charged by your device, network, or school.
• Information you provide in connection with the Service must be accurate, current, and complete, and is governed by the Privacy Policy.

5. Accounts, sessions, and paid features

No account required for basic practice

In the current version of the Service, you may start a practice session without creating an account. Session materials may be stored locally in your browser (for example, in localStorage or similar browser storage) and processed by our servers and subprocessors as described in the Privacy Policy.

If accounts are offered

If we later offer accounts, logins, team seats, or saved cloud sessions:

• You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity under your account.
• You must notify us promptly of any unauthorized use or security incident involving your account.
• We may refuse, reclaim, or disable usernames that impersonate others or infringe rights.
• One natural person or authorized organization seat may not be shared in a way that circumvents seat, usage, or pricing limits.

Paid features

Some features may be free. Others may later require payment. If you purchase a paid plan:

• You authorize us or our payment processor to charge the fees and applicable taxes on a recurring basis until you cancel, unless the plan is a one-time purchase.
• You are responsible for applicable taxes; we will collect tax when required.
• You may cancel a paid plan at any time. Cancellation generally takes effect at the end of the then-current billing period unless otherwise stated at purchase or required by law.
• Refunds are provided only if required by applicable law or if we expressly offer them in writing.
• We may change prices with advance notice. Price changes apply to the next billing cycle after notice.
• We may suspend or terminate paid access, or revert you to a free version, if payment fails, is reversed, or is disputed without a valid basis.
• Unless a Service Agreement says otherwise, paid access is a license to use the Service, not a sale of software or of any AI model.

Trials and betas

We may offer trials, preview features, or beta tools. Those features are provided as-is, may change or disappear, and may be less accurate, less available, or less private than generally available features. We may end a trial at any time.

6. User responsibilities

Access

• You are responsible for obtaining devices, browsers, and network access needed to use the Service.
• You are responsible for ensuring that anyone who uses the Service through your device, account, classroom, or organization knows these Terms and complies with them.

User Content

You may input, upload, record, paste, or otherwise submit materials to the Service (“User Content”), including rubrics, prompts, slides, notes, names, audio, video, camera frames, transcripts, answers, and comments. You are not required to submit User Content, but many features will not work without it.

• You own your User Content, subject to SpeakNow’s ownership of the Service and of any SpeakNow materials mixed with or generated around that content.
• You will not receive compensation for User Content or for our permitted use of it under these Terms.
• You represent that you have all rights needed to submit User Content and to grant the licenses in Section 7, including rights in third-party materials, likenesses, voices, and student work.
• You will not submit content you do not have the right to use, including confidential employer materials, another person’s unpublished work, or recordings of people who have not consented.
• You are responsible for backing up any User Content you want to keep. Local browser storage can be lost if you clear site data, switch browsers, or use a different device.

Data hygiene

• You will take reasonable precautions so that files you upload are not intended to introduce malware, exploits, or other harmful code.
• You will not attempt to overload the Service or to probe it except as expressly authorized in writing.

License limits

You will not, and will not permit others to:

• Enable people who are not authorized users to access a paid or seat-limited version of the Service.
• Copy, modify, or create derivative works of the Service except as these Terms allow for ordinary use.
• Rent, lease, sell, sublicense, or otherwise transfer rights in the Service.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code, prompts, hidden system instructions, model weights, or scoring logic, except to the limited extent that applicable law prohibits this restriction.
• Remove proprietary notices.
• Use the Service in a way that infringes rights or violates law.

Security of access

• If passwords or access tokens are provided, you must keep them confidential.
• You must notify us promptly of unauthorized use or of any security issue you discover in good faith through ordinary use (not through unauthorized testing).

7. User content and licenses

You retain ownership of your User Content. To operate the Service, you grant SpeakNow a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, transmit, transcribe, analyze, display, and otherwise process User Content solely as needed to:

• Provide the session you requested, including transcription, judging, question generation, scoring, and report display.
• Maintain security, prevent abuse, debug failures, and comply with law.
• Improve reliability, latency, and quality of the Service, including evaluating whether transcription and scoring behaved as expected, using the minimum amount of content reasonably necessary.

This license lasts for as long as needed to provide the Service and to meet the purposes above, including short-lived processing by subprocessors. It is not a sale of your content. We do not claim ownership of your pitch, rubric, or slides.

What we do not do with User Content

• We do not sell your recordings, transcripts, or reports.
• We do not use your voice to build a public text-to-speech or voice-clone product.
• We do not publicly post your session unless you choose a sharing feature that we clearly offer and you enable.
• We do not treat generated scores as a public leaderboard unless you opt into such a feature.

Generated output

The Service may generate transcripts, scores, comments, questions, summaries, and reports (“Output”). As between you and SpeakNow, and subject to the rights of our licensors and of any third-party materials in your User Content, we grant you a license to use Output for your personal, educational, or internal organizational purposes. Output may be similar for different users. You should not treat Output as unique, confidential legal advice, or an official result.

Feedback

If you send ideas, bug reports, or suggestions, you grant SpeakNow a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use that feedback without restriction or compensation. Feedback is not User Content in the same sense as your pitch recordings.

8. Artificial intelligence, scoring, and practice guidance

The Service uses automated speech-to-text, large language models, and related systems to transcribe speech and to produce judge comments and scores. You acknowledge and agree that:

• Output can be inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, biased, or outdated.
• Transcription can mishear names, numbers, technical terms, and accents.
• Scores are estimates produced by software, not by human judges of record.
• Different runs of the same pitch can produce different comments or scores.
• The Service does not provide legal, medical, financial, immigration, or other professional advice.
• You must not rely on SpeakNow as the sole basis for a grade, contest ranking, hiring decision, disciplinary action, or official certification.
• You remain responsible for checking facts, citations, and claims in your own materials and in any Output you reuse.
• You will not represent SpeakNow Output as a human-authored official evaluation, as a guaranteed prediction of contest results, or as SpeakNow’s endorsement of you or your organization.
• We may change models, prompts, judge names, weighting (including the current default mix of rubric, panel, Q&A, and delivery), and processors without rewriting these Terms, so long as the Privacy Policy continues to describe the categories of processing.

Some marketing pages describe design goals such as not scoring accent, voice timbre, or personality. Those goals describe intended product behavior. They are not a warranty that every model output will be free of error or of indirect effects from how you speak.

9. Microphone, camera, and device permissions

• Certain features request access to your microphone so you can record a pitch or answers.
• Camera access is optional. If you enable it, the Service may capture video for on-screen preview and may compute on-device delivery signals such as head position or similar body-language metrics.
• You can refuse or later revoke browser permissions. Features that depend on those permissions will not work.
• You must not enable a microphone or camera in a setting where recording is unlawful or where other people have not consented, including some classrooms, workplaces, and public spaces.
• You are responsible for complying with school, workplace, and local recording laws.

Details about whether audio is sent to a transcription provider, whether video is stored, and how long materials persist are described in the Privacy Policy.

10. Intellectual property

The Service and its entire contents, features, and functionality, including software, text, graphics, logos, judge names and descriptions, layout, scoring presentation, and documentation, are owned by SpeakNow, its licensors, or other providers and are protected by United States and international intellectual property laws.

These Terms permit you to use the Service for your own practice, educational, and internal training purposes. You must not copy, republish, scrape, or redistribute the Service except as follows:

• Your device may store temporary copies incidental to browsing and using the Service.
• Your browser may cache files for display.
• You may print or save a reasonable number of pages or your own session report for personal, educational, or internal use, not for republication as a competing product.
• If we provide an application for download, you may install a copy for your own use, subject to any end-user license that accompanies it.

You must not modify copies of our materials, or delete copyright, trademark, or other notices. No title in the Service is transferred to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

11. Copyright infringement notices

If you believe User Content or other material on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice that includes:

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing, with information reasonably sufficient to locate it.
• Your contact information.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

Send copyright notices to the contact method listed in Section 22. We may remove alleged infringing material and, where accounts exist, terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. If you believe material was removed in error, you may send a counter-notice with corresponding information.

This Section is intended to comply with the notice-and-takedown process under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512, to the extent it applies.

12. Trademarks and service marks

The SpeakNow name, logo, wordmark, judge names used as product features, and related names, slogans, and designs are trademarks or service marks of SpeakNow or its licensors. You may not use them without prior written permission, except for truthful factual references to the Service.

Names of third-party events, schools, and organizations (including DECA, FBLA, TSA, and similar programs) are trademarks of their respective owners. SpeakNow is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by those organizations unless we expressly say so in writing. References to those programs describe practice use cases, not official partnerships.

13. Prohibited uses

You may use the Service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to:

• Violate any applicable law or regulation, including recording, privacy, export, and intellectual-property laws.
• Impersonate SpeakNow, a SpeakNow team member, another user, a judge, a school official, or any other person or entity.
• Harass, threaten, defame, or exploit any person, including minors.
• Upload sexual content involving minors, or any content that is unlawful, or that we reasonably determine is harmful to others’ use of the Service.
• Submit highly sensitive personal data that the Service does not need, including government ID numbers, payment card numbers, precise health records, or passwords for other services.
• Use the Service to cheat on an exam, contest, or graded assignment in violation of the applicable rules, or to generate work you will submit as if it were unaided original work where that is prohibited.
• Use, display, mirror, or frame the Service or any part of it without written consent.
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service, including by imposing an unreasonable load, introducing malware, or conducting a denial-of-service attack.
• Use robots, spiders, scrapers, or other automated means to access the Service for any purpose not expressly authorized, including harvesting Output at scale or building a competing dataset.
• Attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems, or to bypass authentication, except through a coordinated disclosure program we expressly publish.
• Attempt to extract, clone, or harvest our prompts, hidden instructions, judge configurations, or model behavior for the purpose of replicating the Service.
• Use Output to train a competing public-speaking, judging, or speech-scoring model except as allowed by a separate written agreement.
• Encourage or enable anyone else to do any of the foregoing.

14. Third-party services and links

Links

You may link to our public homepage in a fair, legal way that does not suggest endorsement. You must not frame the Service or use linking to damage our reputation.

The Service may link to third-party sites or resources. Those links are for convenience. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party content, goods, privacy practices, or terms. If you follow a third-party link, you do so at your own risk.

Processors and model providers

The Service depends on third-party infrastructure and AI providers to transcribe audio, generate judge feedback, host the application, and deliver the website. Your use of those features constitutes authorization for us to send necessary data to those providers as described in the Privacy Policy. Those providers’ own terms and privacy policies also apply to their processing.

15. Educational, school, and competition use

• If you are a teacher, coach, club advisor, or administrator, you are responsible for obtaining any parental consents, school approvals, and student-data authorizations required by your institution and by law before directing students to use the Service.
• You will not require students to submit content that your school policies forbid uploading to third-party tools.
• Practice for DECA, FBLA, TSA, hackathons, science fairs, interviews, and similar events is for rehearsal only. SpeakNow is not a substitute for official event rules, judges, or results.
• You must follow the actual rules of any contest or class. If those rules prohibit AI practice tools, recording, or outside feedback, do not use the Service for that event.

16. Disclaimer of warranties

You acknowledge that we cannot and do not guarantee that files or streams available through the internet or the Service will be free of viruses or other harmful code. You are responsible for your own anti-malware protections and for keeping copies of materials you cannot afford to lose.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY OUTPUT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT:

• The Service or Output will be accurate, complete, reliable, secure, timely, or error-free.
• Defects will be corrected.
• The Service will be uninterrupted or available at any particular time or location.
• Transcription, scores, or comments will match a human judge, teacher, interviewer, or contest panel.
• The Service will meet your requirements or improve any particular outcome.
• Servers or networks involved in providing the Service are free of harmful components.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES. IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS, OUR WARRANTIES ARE LIMITED TO THE MINIMUM SCOPE AND DURATION REQUIRED BY LAW.

17. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL SPEAKNOW, ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US $100) OR (B) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO SPEAKNOW FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM.

THE FOREGOING DOES NOT LIMIT LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR FRAUD, OR FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE WHERE SUCH LIMITATION IS PROHIBITED. THE LIMITATION DOES NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY RESULTING FROM OUR GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT WHERE APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THAT LIABILITY TO BE LIMITED.

These limitations apply regardless of the legal theory (contract, tort, statute, or otherwise) and are a fundamental part of the bargain. The Service would not be offered on the same terms without them.

18. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SpeakNow and its affiliates, licensors, and service providers, and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents, from and against any claims, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to:

• Your violation of these Terms.
• Your User Content, including claims that it infringes or misuses another person’s rights.
• Your use of the Service other than as expressly authorized.
• Your use of Output, including any decision you make based on scores or comments.
• Your recording of other people without required consent.
• Your violation of school, contest, employer, or applicable legal rules.

We may assume exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification. You will cooperate. You may not settle a claim that imposes an obligation on us without our prior written consent.

19. Security

We will maintain technical and organizational measures that are appropriate to the nature of the Service to protect personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction. “Personal Data” means information that identifies or can reasonably be linked to an individual, including name, contact details, device identifiers, and content that contains such information.

• No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
• You are responsible for the security of your own devices, browsers, and accounts.
• If we confirm a security incident that compromises your Personal Data, we will notify you and regulators as required by applicable law, with information then reasonably available about the nature of the incident, our investigation, and the categories of data involved.
• You should not treat in-product messages or social-media comments as legal notice to SpeakNow.

20. Export, international use, and availability

• The Service is operated from the United States and may be processed in the United States and other countries where our providers operate.
• We make no representation that the Service is appropriate or available in every location.
• You may not use or export the Service in violation of U.S. export or sanctions laws.
• If you access the Service from outside the United States, you are responsible for compliance with local law.
• Access from a territory where the Service or its AI features are prohibited is not permitted.

21. Termination

• You may stop using the Service at any time. You may delete locally stored sessions by clearing site data for the Service in your browser, and by using any in-product delete controls we provide.
• We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, if required by law, if your use creates risk or harm, or if we discontinue the Service.
• Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including ownership, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, and governing law.

22. General provisions

Governing law and venue

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or related to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of the dispute-resolution provisions below to the extent they apply. Subject to those provisions, exclusive venue for disputes that may be heard in court will be the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there. We may also bring an action for injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Informal resolution

Before filing a claim, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by emailing the contact below with a brief description of the issue and the relief you seek. We will attempt to resolve the dispute within 60 days.

Dispute resolution; class waiver

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you and SpeakNow agree that disputes will be resolved individually, and not as a class, collective, coordinated, or representative action. If a court or arbitrator finds this waiver unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim must be severed and litigated in court, and the remainder will proceed individually. Nothing in these Terms requires you to waive non-waivable consumer rights.

Comments and questions

Questions about these Terms and legal notices to SpeakNow may be sent to support@usespeaknow.com and are not effective if sent only through in-product chat, social media, or a practice-session transcript. If you submit comments, we may use them without restriction or compensation.

Entire agreement

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any Service Agreement between you and SpeakNow are the entire agreement regarding the Service and supersede prior understandings on that subject.

Severability

If a provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

Waiver

Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. Any waiver must be in writing to be effective, and a waiver of one breach is not a waiver of later breaches.

Assignment

You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or sale of assets, or by operation of law.

No third-party beneficiaries

These Terms do not create third-party beneficiary rights, except that our affiliates, licensors, and service providers may rely on the disclaimers and limitations of liability.

Force majeure

We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages at model providers, hosting failures, labor disputes, natural disasters, war, or changes in law.

Interpretation

Headings are for convenience only. “Including” means “including without limitation.” These Terms will not be construed against the drafter.

Reservation of rights

We reserve all rights not expressly granted. Except for the limited licenses in these Terms, we do not grant any intellectual-property right by implication, waiver, or estoppel.

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