Terms of Service

Last updated: September 2, 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account or using Bardic, you agree to these Terms of Service. These Terms work alongside Apple's Standard End User License Agreement (EULA) — linked from Settings and on the App Store listing — which also governs your use of the app. If you do not agree, do not use the app. We may update these terms from time to time. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

2. About Bardic

Bardic is a tabletop-campaign debrief app operated by Simena Digital LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. After a game session you record a short spoken debrief, or type one. Bardic uploads it, transcribes it using a third-party speech-to-text provider, and uses AI to write a spoiler-free recap for your players and a fuller one for you, and to build a campaign index of the people, places and threads in your story. You can export any session to PDF, Word, Markdown, or plain text, and share a recap as an image or as text.

3. Account Registration

You create an account using Sign in with Apple. Your account holds your subscription status so it can be restored on a new device — it does not hold your recordings, transcripts, or notes (see §5). You must provide accurate information and keep your credentials secure; you are responsible for all activity under your account. You must be at least 13 years old (or 16 in the EEA) to use Bardic.

4. Subscription & Payments

Bardic requires a Pro subscription to use its recording, transcription, and export features — there is no free tier. Purchases are billed through Apple In-App Purchase, and the exact price is shown in your local currency on the App Store subscription screen before you confirm a purchase.

Weekly plan: $5.99, billed once per week. No free trial.
Yearly plan: $49.99, billed once per year, and includes a 7-day free trial for first-time subscribers.
The Weekly and Yearly plans automatically renew at the end of each billing period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the renewal date.
You can manage or cancel your subscription in your iOS Settings under Subscriptions. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
Refunds are handled by Apple according to their refund policy — we do not process refunds directly.
Prices may vary by region and are displayed in your local currency in the App Store.
Restore Purchases is available on the paywall and in Settings, and reattaches your Apple ID's existing purchase to your account.

5. User Content

You own your debriefs, transcripts, recaps and campaign index. As described in our Privacy Policy, your debrief audio is uploaded so it can be transcribed and is then deleted from our servers, while your transcript, recaps and campaign index are stored there so they are available across your devices. You grant us only the licence needed to run those features for you — to transcribe, summarise, index and store your material, and to send it to the providers named in the Privacy Policy for exactly those purposes. We do not use your campaign to train anyone's model, and we claim no ownership of it. Exporting to PDF, Word, Markdown, or plain text happens on your device; where you send an exported file is your choice, made through iOS's own share sheet.

You are responsible for the content you record, including complying with any laws in your jurisdiction about recording other people's speech. You may delete any recording, or your entire account, at any time from Settings within the app (see §11).

6. Transcription and Content Accuracy

Transcripts are produced by a third-party speech-to-text provider and may contain errors, omissions, or misheard words — proper nouns invented at your table are especially prone to this. Recaps and the campaign index are written by an AI model from that transcript and may misstate what happened. Treat both as an aid to your memory, not a record of fact, and correct anything that matters: the campaign index is editable, and correcting a name there teaches Bardic that spelling for future sessions.

7. Third-Party Content and Services

Bardic integrates with the following third-party services:

Apple: Sign in with Apple for authentication, and In-App Purchase for billing.
RevenueCat: subscription billing and entitlement management.
Sentry: crash and error reporting.
Deepgram: speech-to-text — receives your debrief audio so it can be transcribed.
Anthropic: AI — receives your transcript so it can write your recaps and build your campaign index.

Each provider's own terms and privacy policy apply to those interactions. Bardic does not display third-party advertising and does not sell user data.

Bardic bundles no third-party text or content. Your campaign material is yours; see §8.

8. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

Use Bardic for any unlawful purpose
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems or other users' accounts
Interfere with or disrupt the service
Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app
Use automated means to access the service (bots, scrapers)
Impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity
Submit content designed to harm, harass, or threaten others
Upload malicious content or code

9. Intellectual Property

Bardic, including its design, code, features, and branding, is the intellectual property of Simena Digital LLC. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works based on Bardic without our written permission. What you record and what Bardic writes from it — your transcripts, recaps and campaign index — remain yours. We claim no ownership of your campaign.

10. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, Simena Digital LLC and its officers, employees, and agents shall not be liable for:

Any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of Bardic
Transcription errors, or inaccuracies in an AI-written recap or campaign index
Loss of a recording still held only on your phone, due to device failure, storage limits, or user error — we delete our copy of the audio once it has been transcribed (see §5), so we hold none to recover it from
Service interruptions, downtime, or data loss
Issues arising from third-party services integrated with Bardic

Bardic is provided "AS IS" without warranties of any kind, express or implied. Our total liability to you for any claims arising from or related to Bardic shall not exceed the amount you paid for the service in the 12 months preceding the claim.

11. Account Termination

You may delete your account at any time from Settings within the app. Deletion is soft-applied immediately — your active session is ended and your Apple refresh token is revoked — and finalized after 30 days. During this 30-day grace window you may restore your account by signing in again with the same Apple ID. After 30 days, your account record (name, email, and subscription status) is permanently and irreversibly deleted. Your transcripts, recaps and campaign index are deleted from our servers with the account. Your phone's own copies of your recordings are separate — delete them from the app, or delete the app, to remove them.

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, engage in abusive behavior, or pose a security risk to other users or the integrity of the service.

12. Governing Law

These terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any disputes arising from these terms or your use of Bardic shall be resolved through good-faith negotiation first, and if necessary, through binding arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

13. Severability

If any provision of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

14. Contact

If you have questions about these terms, contact us at:

Simena Digital LLC
1021 E Lincolnway, Suite 9026
Cheyenne, WY 82001, United States
Email: support@bardicnotes.app