Legal
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and [YOUR_COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME], [STREET_ADDRESS], [POSTAL_CODE] [CITY], Switzerland (“dojo”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), governing your access to and use of the dojo website, applications, and related services (collectively, the “Service”).
By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use the Service.
If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation, and “you” refers to that organisation.
dojo is a writing-practice tool for language learners. It uses automated, artificial-intelligence systems to grade text you submit, generate corrections, scores, feedback, and study summaries, and present that feedback through tutor personas. The Service is provided for personal, educational, self-study purposes only.
The Service is a practice aid. It is not a substitute for a qualified teacher, a professional translator, an interpreter, a proofreader, or any certified language assessment, and it must not be relied upon as such.
All grades, scores, corrections, explanations, translations, examples, and other feedback produced by the Service are generated automatically by artificial-intelligence language models. They are produced by machines, not by qualified human teachers or linguists, and they may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, misleading, or simply wrong.
AI language models can “hallucinate” — that is, produce confident-sounding output that is factually or grammatically incorrect. A correction may introduce an error, miss a real mistake, mark correct language as wrong, apply the wrong register or dialect, or give an explanation that does not reflect accepted usage. Scores are indicative only and have no official, certified, or standardised meaning.
The feedback does not constitute professional, educational, translation, certification, legal, or other expert advice. You must independently verify any output before relying on it, especially for academic, professional, official, commercial, or any other consequential use. You use AI-generated feedback entirely at your own risk, and you are solely responsible for any decision you make or action you take based on it.
Tutor personas are stylistic presentations only. The tone, personality, and “character” of a persona — including blunt, informal, or in-character remarks — do not change the fact that the underlying feedback is machine-generated and may be wrong, and do not represent the views of dojo.
You must be at least [16 / AGE] years old, or the age of digital consent in your country, to use the Service. By using the Service you represent that you meet this requirement and that the information you provide is accurate.
You sign in through Google. You are responsible for maintaining the security of the account you use to access the Service and for all activity that occurs under your account. You must notify us promptly at [YOUR_EMAIL] of any unauthorised use or suspected security breach. You may not share your account, or let anyone else use it, and you may not create an account by automated means.
AI grading is performed using your own Google Gemini API key, which you supply. When you submit text for grading, that text is sent to Google’s Gemini API using your key. Your use of Google’s services is governed by Google’s own terms, and your relationship with Google — including any usage charges, quotas, availability, and data handling on Google’s side — is solely between you and Google.
You are responsible for keeping your API key valid and within any quotas or spending limits set by Google, and for all charges Google may bill to you. We are not responsible or liable for any act, omission, outage, billing, content moderation, change, or discontinuation by Google or any other third-party provider, or for any loss arising from your use of such third-party services.
You agree that you will not, and will not attempt to:
We may, but are not obliged to, monitor use of the Service to enforce these Terms and to protect the Service, our users, and the public.
You retain ownership of the text and other content you submit to the Service (“Your Content”). You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, transmit, and display Your Content solely to operate, secure, and provide the Service to you — including transmitting it to the third-party AI provider for grading as described in these Terms and in the Privacy Policy.
You are solely responsible for Your Content and you represent that you have all rights necessary to submit it and to grant the above licence. We do not claim ownership of Your Content and do not use it to train our own models. AI-generated feedback returned to you is provided for your personal study use; given its nature (see Section 3) we make no representation that it is original, accurate, or free of third-party rights.
The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, logos, tutor personas, and the “dojo” name and branding, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for its intended purpose. No other rights are granted.
The Service is currently offered free of charge, except that you bear any charges Google applies to your own Gemini API key. We may introduce paid plans in the future. If we do, the applicable price, billing terms, and any additional conditions will be presented to you before you subscribe, and your use of a paid plan will be subject to those conditions in addition to these Terms.
The Service is provided on an “as available” basis. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, and we may modify, suspend, limit, or discontinue all or part of the Service, including any feature, persona, or model, at any time and without liability to you. We will use reasonable efforts to give notice of material adverse changes where practicable.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Service and all of its output are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties or guarantees of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory.
Without limiting the foregoing, we expressly disclaim all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranties arising from a course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that it will be available, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, that any defect will be corrected, or — as set out in Section 3 — that any AI-generated grade, correction, translation, or other output will be accurate, complete, reliable, current, or suitable for any purpose.
No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from us or through the Service, creates any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, dojo and its owners, directors, employees, and suppliers shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, study progress, or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of (or inability to use) the Service.
This includes, without limitation, any loss or damage arising from your reliance on AI-generated grades, corrections, translations, or other output, from any inaccuracy or error in that output, from any interruption or unavailability of the Service, from any act or omission of a third-party provider such as Google, or from any charges billed to your API key.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service shall not exceed the greater of (a) the total amounts you paid us, if any, for the Service in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) [CHF 100].
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under Swiss law — in particular liability for unlawful intent or gross negligence, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or any mandatory liability owed to consumers. Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, it is limited to the minimum extent permitted by law.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless dojo and its owners, directors, employees, and suppliers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and reasonable expenses (including legal fees) arising out of or related to Your Content, your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.
You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your account, and with it your data, from Settings.
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, in whole or in part, at any time and with immediate effect — including by disabling or deleting your account — if we reasonably believe that you have violated these Terms, that your use poses a security, legal, or operational risk, or that suspension or termination is required to comply with the law. Where reasonable and lawful, we will give you notice.
We may also discontinue the Service generally with reasonable notice. On termination for any reason, your right to use the Service ends immediately. Sections that by their nature should survive — including Sections 3, 7, 8, and 11 to 16 — survive termination. Deletion of your data on account closure is handled as described in our Privacy Policy.
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, notify you. Changes take effect when posted unless stated otherwise. Your continued use of the Service after a change means you accept the revised Terms; if you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and may delete your account.
These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the Service (including non-contractual disputes) are governed by the substantive laws of Switzerland, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
The exclusive place of jurisdiction for any dispute is the competent courts of [CITY], Switzerland. This does not deprive a consumer of the protection of any mandatory provisions, or of any mandatory place of jurisdiction, available to them under the law of their country of residence.
If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force, and the invalid provision will be replaced by a valid one that comes closest to its intended purpose. Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreement on that subject.
Questions about these Terms can be sent to [YOUR_EMAIL], or by post to [YOUR_COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME], [STREET_ADDRESS], [POSTAL_CODE] [CITY], Switzerland. See also our Imprint.
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