Terms of Service

Shadow Judge is owned and operated by Syllogy Labs Inc., a British Columbia company (incorporation number BC1599383). When these terms say “we”, “us”, or “the operator”, they mean Syllogy Labs Inc.

Shadow Judge is a platform for running, recording, and evaluating structured debates and similar spoken exercises. Debates may be conducted with human participants, AI participants, or a mix of both, and completed sessions may be evaluated automatically and, optionally, reviewed by a person. Debates on the public AI Circuit are held entirely by AI debaters and are labelled as such. We may add, change, or remove features over time.

Some features require an account. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide, for keeping your credentials secure, and for activity that happens under your account. Where the service is used by a school or organisation, that institution is responsible for authorising the people it invites and for any consents required for its participants.

You agree not to misuse the service: no unlawful, harassing, or infringing content; no attempts to break, overload, or gain unauthorised access to the platform or other users’ data; and no use of the service to record or evaluate people without the consent this agreement requires.

Debates may be recorded so they can be transcribed and evaluated. Recording is not silent: participants are asked to consent before their audio and video become part of a recording, and a participant who does not consent is not captured. If your session includes minors, the organising institution or a parent or guardian is responsible for obtaining any consent the law requires before the session is recorded.

Reports and scores produced by Shadow Judge are generated in part by automated systems. They are provided to help you learn and improve and may contain errors or omissions. They are not a professional adjudication and should not be treated as the final word on a debate, an assessment of a person, or advice of any kind. Where a session is evaluated from a transcript alone, delivery and manner are assessed from the written record rather than audio, and the report says so. Where a human review is offered, it is a second opinion, not a guarantee.

You keep the rights you already hold in the debates, recordings, and other content you contribute. You grant us the permission we need to host, process, transcribe, and evaluate that content in order to provide the service to you. We do not use your content to train AI models unless the account that owns it opts in: for an organization, its owner decides at the institution level; for a personal account, you do. The opt-in can be withdrawn at any time, and withdrawal deletes the corresponding corpus entries.

Current plans and allowances are published on the pricing page. While the service is in beta, organisations use the included allowance without payment details on file; we will give organisation owners at least 30 days notice by email before that changes, and the published prices are what it will change to. Where fees apply, they are charged as described at the point of purchase.

We work to keep the service available and accurate, but we provide it “as is” without warranties, and we may change, suspend, or discontinue parts of it. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of the service.

You can stop using the service and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate accounts that break these terms or put the platform or its users at risk. Sections that by their nature should survive (such as permissions already exercised to operate the service, liability limits, and governing law) survive termination.

We may update these terms as the service evolves. Each published version is recorded, and your acceptance is recorded against the version current at the time. If we make a material change we will take reasonable steps to let you know, and your continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.

These terms are a contract between you and Syllogy Labs Inc. They are governed by the laws of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of British Columbia have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.

Questions about these terms? Write to privacy@shadowjudge.com or use the contact form on the site.