Terms of use

These terms are an agreement between you and Daniel Grijuela, an individual developer based in Spain (“we”), for the Debatator apps and the website debatator.app (together, “Debatator”). By using Debatator you accept them. Our privacy policy explains how we handle your data.

1. Who can use Debatator

You must be at least 16 years old. Online debates require signing in with Apple or Google, and you are responsible for keeping that account secure. One person, one account.

2. What Debatator is

Debatator is a game for practising argument. You debate an AI opponent, and a separate AI judge scores both of you on the same rubric. Training drills work without an account.

• AI makes mistakes. Opponent replies, research summaries and judgments are generated automatically and can be wrong, incomplete or out of date. Research links to its sources so you can check them.
• It is not advice. Nothing in Debatator is legal, medical, financial, political or other professional advice, and a judgment is not a verdict on what is objectively true.
• The Audience Pulse is simulated. It is not a poll of real people and does not decide who wins.
• Opponents are fictional. Some opponents are caricatures inspired by public figures, under altered names. They are parody and commentary for teaching purposes. They do not speak for, quote or represent any real person, and no real person endorses Debatator.

3. Fair use and limits

Online debates are free and come with a daily allowance shown in the app. We may change allowances, pause new debates, or withdraw an opponent at any time to keep the service safe and affordable. An unfinished debate can be resumed for up to 30 days after your last move.

4. What you must not do

Heated arguments are part of debating, and the judge scores them through Composure. But you must not use Debatator to:

• break the law, or post content that is illegal where you live or in Spain;
• harass, threaten or defame a real person, or share someone else’s personal data;
• get around the daily limits, use several accounts to get more debates, or automate access;
• access our server other than through the official apps, probe it for vulnerabilities, or reverse engineer it;
• try to make the AI produce harmful content or reveal its hidden instructions.

We may suspend or close accounts that break these rules.

5. Your content

What you write stays yours. You give us permission to process it only to run your debates, generate replies and judgments, and keep the service safe, as described in the privacy policy. We do not publish your debates or use them to train AI models. You may use the AI replies and feedback from your own debates for any lawful purpose, as long as you don’t present them as statements by a real person.

6. Our content

The app, its design, characters, drills and text are ours or our licensors’ and are protected by copyright and other laws. You may use them only to play Debatator. The fonts are used under the SIL Open Font License.

7. Availability and changes

Debatator needs a connection for online debates, and we provide it “as is”. We work to keep it running but cannot promise it will always be available or error-free. We may change features or stop offering Debatator. If we stop, we will give notice in the app where we reasonably can, and your saved debates stay on your device.

8. Ending your use

You can stop using Debatator at any time and delete your account from the app.

9. Liability

Debatator is free. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses, or for decisions you make based on AI-generated content. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for intent, gross negligence, or death or personal injury caused by negligence, or your rights as a consumer.

10. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by Spanish law. If you are a consumer living in the EU, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country and can bring a claim in its courts. Before a formal dispute, please write to us at support@debatator.app; most problems can be fixed quickly.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will change the date above and, for significant changes, tell you in the app before they apply. If you keep using Debatator after that, the new terms apply.

12. Contact

Daniel Grijuela, Spain. support@debatator.app

Apple’s standard end-user licence agreement also applies to the iOS app, and Google Play’s terms apply to the Android app. If they conflict with these terms on matters they govern, they prevail.