Terms of Service

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The short version: use Gaming AI to play games, don't abuse it, and don't expect it to be perfect. The long version is below, and it's written to be read. Two parts deserve your attention before you agree: section 18 limits what we owe you if something goes wrong, and section 20 means most disputes go to arbitration instead of a court, unless you opt out within 30 days.

1. Who we are

Gaming AI is operated by Sentinel Software LLC (“we”, “us”), and covers the website at gamingai.software, the Gaming AI desktop app, and the service the app connects to (together, the “service”). You can reach us at gamingai.support@gmail.com or in our Discord.

By installing the app, creating an account or buying Vigor, you agree to these terms, and to our Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, which form part of them. If you don't agree with them, don't use the service. If you're agreeing on behalf of a company or organisation, you're confirming you have authority to bind it.

2. What Gaming AI is

Gaming AI is a service that answers requests sent to it by game mods, and by features built into the Gaming AI app itself, such as the History tab. When a mod or the app asks for a line of dialogue, we route that request through infrastructure we operate to a large language model, and send the reply back. The models themselves are built and hosted by third parties; we select which ones the service uses and may change them at any time. The app is a small program that runs on your computer and passes those requests along. The app itself does not modify your games or your save files.

Most of the mods that work with Gaming AI are made by other people. We don't make, distribute or control them. The exception is Diplomacy AI, a mod for Hearts of Iron IV that we make and distribute ourselves (“our mod”). Like any mod, installing it changes how that game behaves. Where these terms say something about mods in general, the parts about third-party mods don't apply to Diplomacy AI, and section 4 and section 13 say what does.

We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Bethesda Softworks, Warner Bros. Games, Portkey Games, Paradox Interactive, TaleWorlds Entertainment, or the authors of Mantella, Sonorus, AI Influence or any other mod that isn't ours. Those names are used only to describe what our service is compatible with, and every one of them — along with the names of the games themselves — is the trademark of its respective owner. Nothing on this site is an official product of, or licensed by, any game publisher or any other mod author. Diplomacy AI is an unofficial mod; it is not made, endorsed or supported by Paradox Interactive.

3. Accounts and eligibility

The models we rely on come with their own age rules, and we have to apply whichever is strictest. That means:

• You must be at least 18 years old to create a Gaming AI account, hold a Vigor balance, or buy anything from us.
• Players aged 13 to 17 may use Gaming AI only through an account created and held by a parent or legal guardian, who agrees to these terms both for themselves and on the minor's behalf, and who remains responsible for everything done and every charge made under that account.
• Children under 13 may not use Gaming AI at all. We don't knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, email us and we'll delete it and its data.
• One account per person. Don't create a second account to get around a limit, a restriction or a ban — doing that is itself a breach of these terms.
• Keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for what happens under your account, and you must tell us promptly if you think it's been compromised.
• Give us an email address you can actually receive mail at; account recovery, purchase receipts and notices under these terms go there.
• You confirm you're not located in, or ordinarily resident in, a country subject to comprehensive US sanctions, that you're not on any US denied-party or restricted-party list, and that you won't use the service in breach of export control or sanctions law. Some models are unavailable in some countries, and you agree not to use a VPN, proxy or any other means to reach a model that isn't available to you.
• Gaming AI isn't available in the European Union, the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom. Don't create an account or buy anything from us if you're located there. If an account is being used from there, we may close it.

We may refuse service, and may suspend or close any account, where we reasonably believe these rules aren't being met.

4. The app, and your licence to use it

We grant you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and run the Gaming AI app on computers you control, for the sole purpose of using the service. That licence ends when your account does.

• Don't copy, publish, sell, rent, lend or redistribute the app, or make it available to anyone else.
• Don't modify, translate, decompile, disassemble or reverse-engineer it, or try to derive its source code, except to the extent the law expressly says you may despite this restriction.
• Don't remove or obscure any copyright, trademark or other notice in it.
• Don't interfere with or bypass its update, authentication, telemetry or metering mechanisms, and don't build a substitute client that talks to our service.
• The app checks for and installs updates automatically. Some updates are required for the service to keep working, and older versions may stop being supported without notice.

Diplomacy AI. The same kind of licence covers our mod: you may install it and use it with your own copy of Hearts of Iron IV, for the sole purpose of using the service. Don't re-upload, redistribute, sell or rent it, bundle it into a mod pack or collection, or present it, or anything built from it, as your own work, without our written permission. It talks only to our service; don't modify it to talk to anything else. Updates may be needed to keep it working with the service or with new versions of the game.

We own the app, the website, the service and everything in them, other than third-party material and your own content. Nothing in these terms transfers any of that to you, and all rights we don't expressly grant are reserved.

5. Vigor

Vigor is prepaid credit for using the service. It is not money, not a cryptocurrency, not a security and not an investment. It has no cash value, cannot be transferred between accounts, sold, or exchanged for anything other than use of the service. Buying Vigor is buying a licence to use the service, not property.

• Vigor is spent when a model generates a reply for you. Idle time costs nothing.
• Vigor does not expire. It stays on your account until you use it, for as long as your account is open and in good standing.
• How much a reply costs can vary by model and by length. We'll show current rates in the app.
• We may change future prices, but Vigor you have already bought keeps the value it had when you bought it.
• Metering is done by our systems, and our records of what your account spent are the ones we go by, absent clear evidence of an error.

6. Using Vigor as intended

Vigor buys you one thing: a single person playing games, or using the app's own features such as the History tab, through the Gaming AI app, at the pace a person actually plays. Buying Vigor does not buy you general-purpose model access, an API, or the right to point anything you like at our service. Misuse of Vigor is the fastest way to lose your account, and those bans are permanent.

The following count as misuse of Vigor:

• sharing an account, or letting anyone else spend Vigor from your balance;
• reselling Vigor, renting out access, or offering model access to other people using your balance;
• sending traffic from anything other than a supported game mod or a built-in feature of the Gaming AI app, running through the app — including scripts, bots, wrappers, proxies, chat front-ends, or your own software;
• automated, scripted or bulk consumption of Vigor, or running the app unattended to generate volume you aren't actually playing through;
• trying to get around metering, rate limits, per-account limits or pricing — including running multiple accounts to do it;
• obtaining Vigor through fraud, stolen cards, chargeback abuse, or exploiting a bug in the app or the store;
• attempting to reach, extract, intercept or reuse any credential, endpoint or key the app uses to talk to our service (see section 9).

Depending on what we find, we may rate-limit an account, suspend it while we look, or close it permanently. For anything in the list above we will usually go straight to a permanent ban. When an account is closed for misuse, unspent Vigor is forfeited and is not refunded, and we may refuse to serve future accounts created by the same person. We may suspend an account while we investigate, and we aren't liable to you for the loss of access during a suspension that turns out to be justified.

If you think you've been banned by mistake, email us. We'll look at it properly and we'll tell you what we found.

7. The supporter tier

The supporter tier is an optional subscription costing $9.99 per month. It is not required to use Gaming AI, and no part of the core service depends on it.

• It renews automatically each month at $9.99 until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time from your account, or by emailing us. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it doesn't end the period you've already paid for, and it doesn't entitle you to a refund of the current period.
• We'll tell you before any price change, and it won't apply until your next renewal after that notice.
• Subscribing does not affect your Vigor balance, and cancelling doesn't remove Vigor you've bought.
• Supporter perks are extras. We may change or retire individual perks; if we materially reduce what the tier offers, you can cancel.

8. Payment, refunds and chargebacks

Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card number — Stripe handles that, under their own terms and privacy policy. Prices are in US dollars and exclude any tax that applies where you live, which is added at checkout where required. You confirm you're authorised to use the payment method you give us.

Refunds are covered by our Refund Policy. Vigor that has already been spent can't be refunded, because the cost of generating those replies has already been incurred.

Talk to us before you talk to your bank. If you raise a chargeback or payment dispute without contacting us first, we may suspend your account while it's resolved, and where the dispute isn't made in good faith we may close the account permanently and forfeit any remaining Vigor. We'll almost always sort it out faster than your bank will.

9. Acceptable use

Use Gaming AI to play games. Don't use it to:

• generate content that is illegal, or that sexualises minors in any way — this is the one rule we will never give a second chance on, and we report what the law requires us to report;
• generate sexual content depicting real people, or content that harasses, threatens, defames or impersonates a real person;
• produce instructions for weapons, explosives, chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear harm, malware, or attacks on computer systems;
• generate spam, scams, disinformation campaigns, or content designed to defraud or manipulate people;
• infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy or publicity rights, or misappropriate anyone's trade secrets;
• resell, sublicense or offer the service to others as your own, or use it as a backend for another product;
• run automated or bulk traffic through the service, or use it for anything other than powering game mods and the app's own features;
• attempt to extract, copy, distil or reverse-engineer the models we run, or use their output to train, fine-tune or improve any model;
• conduct prompt injection, jailbreaking or other adversarial testing against the models, or attempt to defeat safety filters, system prompts or content controls;
• get around rate limits, account restrictions, geographic restrictions or payment;
• attempt to obtain, intercept, extract or reuse any API key, token, endpoint or other credential used by the app or the service, or to connect to our upstream infrastructure directly. The app is a client, not a key; there is no key on your machine to find, and looking for one is a bannable offence in itself;
• probe, scan or test the security of the service, or interfere with its operation or anyone else's use of it;
• help anyone else do any of the above.

We can suspend or close an account that does any of these. If we close your account for breaking these rules, unspent Vigor is not refunded. We don't monitor or pre-screen the content of your requests — we can't, because we don't keep it — but the providers we route to apply their own filters, and we act on reports from users and on notices from those providers. Where the law requires us to report unlawful activity, we will.

10. Models, upstream providers, and their rules

We don't build the models. We reach them through third-party model providers and infrastructure partners, and our ability to keep offering Gaming AI depends entirely on staying in good standing with them. Their terms, acceptable use policies and content rules apply to every request that passes through our service — including yours.

• You agree not to use Gaming AI in any way that would breach the acceptable use policy of the model providers or infrastructure partners we rely on, whether or not you know who they are. Section 9 is written to reflect those rules; where an upstream policy is stricter, the stricter rule applies, and we'll enforce it.
• We are answerable upstream for what our users do. That's why the rules in section 6 and section 9 are enforced strictly and why some bans are immediate and permanent.
• We can't see what you send. Requests pass through us to the provider and we keep no copy of them — our Privacy Policy sets out exactly what we do and don't hold. Content filtering is applied by the providers themselves, on their systems. What we can see is account-level activity: request volume, timing, which model was used, and payment history. We enforce these terms on that, on reports from users, and on notices from providers.
• Where a provider requires it, or where we're responding to a credible abuse report, we may share account details and usage records with the relevant provider, and we may suspend or close an account at a provider's request. If we later introduce screening of request content, we'll update our Privacy Policy and tell you before it starts.
• Providers can change their models, pricing, policies or availability at any time, and can withdraw a model entirely. We may have to change or remove models at short notice as a result, and that isn't a breach of these terms. We'll say so in the Discord when it happens.
• You get access to models only as an integrated part of Gaming AI. No API key, endpoint or direct account is granted to you, and nothing in these terms gives you a licence to the underlying models beyond using them through our app.
• The model providers and infrastructure partners we rely on are intended third-party beneficiaries of this section and of section 9, and may enforce them directly against you.

If you believe something generated through Gaming AI breaks these rules, or you've seen an account misusing the service, tell us at gamingai.support@gmail.com. We read every report and we act on them.

11. Your prompts, and what the models produce

“Inputs” are what a mod, or the app itself, sends us on your behalf — prompts, character and world context, conversation history. “Outputs” are what comes back.

• You keep whatever rights you have in your Inputs. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, transmit and display them for the purpose of running the service, sending requests to model providers, enforcing these terms, meeting our obligations to those providers, and complying with the law.
• You confirm you have the rights needed to send us your Inputs, and that they don't infringe anyone else's rights.
• As between you and us, you own the Outputs generated for your account, to the extent they can be owned at all, subject to these terms and to the model providers' terms. We don't claim them.
• Outputs are generated statistically. They can be wrong, made up, offensive, or out of character, and identical or similar text may be generated for other users. Outputs are not advice of any kind, and you're responsible for what you do with them.
• Model providers handle Inputs and Outputs under their own terms. We only route to models whose terms do not permit training on data sent through their API, and we re-check that when we add a model. We can't audit a provider's internal systems, so this rests on their contractual commitments rather than on anything we can verify ourselves. Our Privacy Policy has the detail.
• We don't store your prompts, we don't sell them, and we don't use them to train anything.
• If you send us feedback, ideas or suggestions — in the Discord or anywhere else — we can use them freely, with no obligation or payment to you.

12. Privacy

What we collect and why is set out in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. Using the service means your Inputs are transmitted to third-party model providers outside our systems, and in some cases outside your country. If you're not comfortable with that, don't use the service.

13. Mods and games

The games are never ours, and most of the mods that talk to Gaming AI aren't either: they're made by other people and given away for free. We test the combinations we recommend, but we can't guarantee any third-party mod works, keeps working after an update, or behaves the way its author intended.

Diplomacy AI is ours, and we'll try to keep it working with current versions of Hearts of Iron IV, but it's provided on the same terms as the rest of the service (section 14 and section 17). A game update can break it before we've caught up, and it may not work alongside other mods, particularly ones that change diplomacy or the game's interface. We may change it, or stop supporting it, at any time.

Whichever mod you use, modding your game is something you do at your own risk, and that includes backing up your saves and checking that what you're doing is allowed by the game publisher's own terms.

The same goes for anything else we link to or integrate with. We're not responsible for third-party software, services or content, and linking to something isn't an endorsement of it.

14. The service is new, and sometimes it will break

Gaming AI is provided as-is. We're two people. The service may go down, get slower at busy times, change which models it runs, or drop support for something. We'll tell you in the Discord when we know, and we'll be honest about it, but we don't promise uptime and there's no service-level agreement here.

Anything we label as beta, preview, early access or experimental is exactly that: it may be unstable, may change, and may disappear. We can add, change, suspend or remove features at any time. Where a change materially reduces what you've paid for, your remedy is to stop using the service and ask us about a refund of unspent Vigor.

15. Ending things

You can stop using Gaming AI and delete your account at any time by asking us.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, that we're required to act on by a model provider or by law, or that we reasonably believe is being used fraudulently. We can also wind the service down entirely — and if we ever shut down for good, we'll give reasonable notice and refund unspent Vigor to accounts in good standing, so far as we're solvent and legally able to. That refund does not apply to an account closed for misuse under section 6 or section 9.

When an account ends, your licence to the app ends with it and we may delete your data in line with our Privacy Policy. Sections 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 23 survive the end of your account, along with anything else that by its nature should.

16. Copyright complaints

If you believe something on our service infringes your copyright, email gamingai.support@gmail.com with enough detail to identify the work and the material, your contact details, a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorised, and a statement under penalty of perjury that your notice is accurate and you're authorised to act. We remove infringing material and close the accounts of repeat infringers.

17. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE, THE APP, DIPLOMACY AI AND ALL OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or trade usage.

We don't warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that it will work with any particular game, mod or hardware, that any Output will be accurate, appropriate or suitable for any purpose, or that defects will be fixed. No advice or information you get from us or through the service creates any warranty not expressly stated here.

Some jurisdictions don't allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. If you're a consumer, this doesn't affect statutory rights you have that can't be excluded.

18. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows:

• We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, save files, game installs, play time or other intangible losses — whether or not we were told such damages were possible, and whatever the legal theory.
• Our total liability to you for all claims, taken together, will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you actually paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty US dollars ($50).
• We are not liable for anything a third-party mod, a game, a model provider or any other third party does, or for anything a model generates.

These limits apply even if a remedy in these terms is found to have failed its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions don't allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that can't legally be limited. You and we agree that these limits are a fundamental part of the bargain between us, and that without them the service could not be offered at these prices.

19. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Sentinel Software LLC and its owners, employees and contractors from any claim, liability, damage, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or connected with: your use of the service; your Inputs; your breach of these terms; your breach of any model provider or infrastructure partner terms; your violation of any law or of anyone else's rights; or any dispute between you and a third party. We'll tell you about any such claim, and we may take over its defence at our own expense, in which case you'll cooperate with us.

20. Disputes: talk to us first, then arbitration

Please read this section carefully. It affects how disputes between us are resolved, and it limits your right to go to court or take part in a class action.

Talk to us first. Before starting any formal proceeding, email gamingai.support@gmail.com with a description of the problem and what you want. We'll do the same for you. Most things get fixed here. If it isn't resolved within 30 days, either of us can go on to arbitration.

Arbitration. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the service that isn't resolved informally will be settled by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator. The arbitration will be held in Arizona or, at your choice, by remote hearing or on documents only. The arbitrator decides all issues except that a court decides the enforceability of the class action waiver below. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

Exceptions. Either of us may bring a claim in small claims court if it qualifies, and either of us may ask a court for an injunction to stop misuse of intellectual property or unauthorised access to the service.

No class actions. Claims may only be brought individually, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, consolidated or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims. You and we both waive any right to a jury trial. If this paragraph is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim — and only that claim — goes to court, and the rest of this section still applies.

You can opt out. If you don't want to be bound by this arbitration section, email gamingai.support@gmail.com with the subject “Arbitration opt-out” and your account email within 30 days of first agreeing to these terms. Opting out costs you nothing and changes nothing else about your account.

Time limit. To the extent the law allows, any claim relating to the service must be brought within one year of when it arose, or it's permanently barred.

21. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects you we'll say so in the app and in the Discord before it takes effect, and we'll update the date at the top. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new version; if you don't, stop using the service and ask us about a refund of unspent Vigor. Changes we have to make quickly to comply with a model provider's rules or the law may take effect immediately; we'll still tell you. Changes to section 20 don't apply to disputes we already knew about.

22. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods doesn't apply. Subject to section 20, the state and federal courts located in Arizona have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to their jurisdiction and venue.

23. The general bits

• Whole agreement. These terms, with our Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the service, and replace anything said before.
• Severability. If any part of these terms is unenforceable, it's limited or removed only as far as necessary, and the rest stays in force.
• No waiver. If we don't enforce something straight away, we haven't given up the right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You can't transfer your account or these terms to anyone else. We can assign them to a successor in a merger, acquisition or sale of the business.
• No partnership. Nothing here makes either of us the other's agent, partner or employee.
• Events outside our control. We aren't liable for failures caused by things we can't reasonably control — outages at a provider, network failures, attacks, natural events, or changes in law.
• Notices. We'll contact you at your account email or through the app; that counts as written notice. You reach us at gamingai.support@gmail.com. You agree to receive communications from us electronically.
• Third parties. Other than the model providers and infrastructure partners named in section 10, and the people indemnified under section 19, nobody else has rights under these terms.
• Headings. Section titles are there to help you read; they don't change the meaning.

24. Contact

Questions about any of this: gamingai.support@gmail.com, or ask in the Discord.