DebatePilot Terms of Use

1. Eligibility and Users Under 18

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account or use DebatePilot.

DebatePilot is not intended for children under 13, and children under 13 may not create an account or submit personal information through the Service.

If you are under 18 or otherwise under the age of legal majority where you live, a parent or legal guardian must review and agree to these Terms on your behalf before you use DebatePilot.

If you are a parent or legal guardian who permits a minor to use DebatePilot, you agree to these Terms on the minor's behalf and are responsible for supervising the minor's use of the Service.

2. What DebatePilot Is

DebatePilot is an educational and training platform designed primarily to help users practice and develop World Schools Debate skills.

The Service may include tools for:

• speech practice;
• role-specific feedback;
• rebuttal, weighing, case-building, and other debate drills;
• World Schools-aligned scoring and evaluation;
• full-round practice and adjudication;
• judge adaptation training;
• review and repair of debate responses; and
• other debate training features.

DebatePilot is designed to supplement coaching and debate practice, not replace coaches, teachers, tournament adjudicators, or official debate programs.

References to World Schools Debate describe the debate format and do not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation with any particular school, tournament, debate organization, league, or governing body unless expressly stated.

3. AI-Generated Feedback and Evaluations

DebatePilot uses artificial intelligence and other automated technologies to provide practice materials, assessments, scoring, feedback, and other training assistance.

AI-generated content may sometimes be incomplete, inaccurate, inconsistent, or inappropriate for a particular competitive context.

DebatePilot's evaluations and scores are training tools. They are not official tournament ballots, rankings, competitive results, or determinations by a human adjudicator.

You should use your own judgment and, when appropriate, discuss DebatePilot feedback with a coach, teacher, teammate, or other qualified person.

4. No Guarantee of Results

DebatePilot is designed to help users practice and develop debate skills, but we do not guarantee that use of the Service will produce any particular result.

We do not guarantee:

• improvement in debate performance or scores;
• tournament wins or advancement;
• team selection;
• rankings or awards;
• academic outcomes;
• recruiting or admissions outcomes; or
• any other competitive or educational result.

Individual results will vary.

5. Public Beta

DebatePilot may be offered as a public beta while we continue to test, improve, and develop the Service.

During the beta period:

• features may change;
• features may be added or removed;
• functionality may occasionally be unavailable;
• errors or interruptions may occur; and
• limits may be placed on certain features or usage.

We may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any beta feature when reasonably necessary to operate, protect, test, or improve the Service.

6. Your Account

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for activity occurring through your account.

You may not:

• share your account in a way that circumvents usage restrictions;
• access another person's account without permission;
• impersonate another person;
• provide false information intended to defeat security or eligibility requirements; or
• attempt to bypass authentication or account protections.

Please notify us if you believe your account has been compromised.

You may delete your DebatePilot account through the available account-deletion functionality. Our handling of account information and deletion is described further in our Privacy Policy.

7. Teams and Coach Mode

7.1 Teams and Coach Mode

DebatePilot allows users to create, join, and participate in teams. A user who creates or is designated as a coach for a team ("Coach") may invite students, manage team membership, create assignments, and review work that students submit through those assignments.

Students may join teams using an invitation code or direct invitation and may receive assignments from an authorized Coach. When a student completes work through an assignment, the Coach who issued the assignment may view the results, feedback, and progress information made available by Coach Mode.

Coach access is limited to assignment-linked work and the progress information currently exposed by Coach Mode. Independent practice, including practice speeches, drills, and other activities that a student completes outside of a team assignment, remains private to the student and is not visible to Coaches unless the student intentionally submits or shares it through a team assignment.

7.2 Coach Responsibilities

Coaches must only create or manage teams they are authorized to supervise. Coaches are responsible for obtaining any permissions required by their school, organization, parents, or guardians before inviting students or collecting student information.

Coaches must use student information only for legitimate debate instruction, feedback, team administration, and student development. Coaches must protect team information and must not improperly disclose, download, repurpose, or exploit student information. Coaches must comply with applicable school policies and laws.

7.3 Student Responsibilities

Students must use team invitations and assignments appropriately. Students must not join teams deceptively, misuse invitation codes, impersonate another person, interfere with assignments, or attempt to access another user's work.

7.4 Leaving or Removal from a Team

A student may leave a team at any time, and an authorized Coach may remove a student from a team. Leaving or removal stops future team access and future assignment activity for that student.

Historical assignment submissions, feedback, and related team records may remain available where necessary for educational continuity, recordkeeping, safety, dispute resolution, or legal compliance.

7.5 Platform Role

DebatePilot supports practice and instructional feedback. It does not replace the judgment, safeguarding responsibilities, or supervision of a qualified coach, school, parent, or guardian. We do not guarantee any particular outcome, competition result, uninterrupted availability, or error-free AI feedback.

8. Your Content

You may submit materials to DebatePilot, including speech recordings, transcripts, written responses, arguments, cases, motions, and other content ("User Content").

You retain ownership of the original User Content that you create.

By submitting User Content, you give Lexel LLC a limited, non-exclusive license to host, process, reproduce, transmit, and otherwise use that content only as reasonably necessary to operate and provide DebatePilot and as otherwise described in our Privacy Policy.

You represent that you have the right to submit the User Content you provide to DebatePilot.

Do not submit content that violates another person's intellectual property, privacy, or other legal rights.

9. Speech Recordings, Transcripts, and Privacy

DebatePilot may process speech recordings, transcripts, account information, training history, evaluation data, and other information necessary to provide the Service.

Our collection, use, retention, and deletion of personal information are described in the DebatePilot Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

The Privacy Policy explains, among other things, how DebatePilot handles speech recordings and transcripts and how users may delete their accounts and associated data.

10. Acceptable Use

You may use DebatePilot only for lawful educational, training, and related purposes.

You may not:

• use the Service to harass, threaten, exploit, or harm another person;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to DebatePilot, another user's account, databases, servers, APIs, or connected systems;
• scrape, crawl, automate, or systematically extract information from the Service without authorization;
• circumvent rate limits, usage limits, access controls, or security measures;
• intentionally generate excessive automated requests or otherwise interfere with Service availability;
• reverse engineer or attempt to discover protected source code except where applicable law expressly permits it;
• introduce malware or malicious code;
• use credentials, API keys, or other access mechanisms that do not belong to you;
• use the Service for unlawful purposes; or
• encourage or assist another person in doing any of the above.

We may implement technical limits necessary to prevent abuse, maintain security, control unreasonable resource consumption, or preserve availability for other users.

11. Intellectual Property

The DebatePilot platform, software, design, interfaces, graphics, branding, logos, training frameworks, original educational materials, and other content provided by Lexel LLC are owned by Lexel LLC or its licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

These Terms give you permission to use DebatePilot for its intended purposes. They do not transfer ownership of DebatePilot or its intellectual property to you.

You may not copy, sell, distribute, reproduce, or commercially exploit protected DebatePilot materials except as permitted by us or applicable law.

12. Third-Party Services

DebatePilot relies on third-party technology and service providers for functions such as artificial intelligence, hosting, databases, authentication, email, speech processing, and infrastructure.

Those services may occasionally experience outages, delays, errors, or changes outside of our control.

Use of DebatePilot may therefore depend in part on the availability and operation of third-party services.

13. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to DebatePilot if we reasonably believe that:

• these Terms have been violated;
• an account presents a security risk;
• the Service is being abused;
• usage threatens the availability or integrity of the Service;
• continued access could expose Lexel LLC or others to legal or security risk; or
• suspension is otherwise reasonably necessary to protect DebatePilot or its users.

Where appropriate, we may provide notice or an opportunity to address the issue, but we are not required to do so when immediate action is reasonably necessary for security, safety, legal compliance, or prevention of abuse.

14. Service Availability

We work to make DebatePilot reliable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability.

The Service may occasionally be unavailable because of maintenance, technical problems, third-party failures, security measures, usage limits, or changes to the Service.

We may modify or discontinue portions of the Service as DebatePilot develops.

15. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, DebatePilot is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

Lexel LLC does not make warranties that the Service will always be available, error-free, secure, or accurate, or that AI-generated feedback, scoring, recommendations, or other content will always be correct or appropriate.

Nothing in these Terms excludes any warranty or right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Lexel LLC and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from or related to use of or inability to use DebatePilot.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Lexel LLC's aggregate liability arising from or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of:

1. the amount you paid directly to Lexel LLC for DebatePilot during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or
2. $100.

These limitations do not apply where liability cannot legally be limited or excluded.

17. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms as DebatePilot develops or as legal, operational, or product requirements change.

If we make material changes, we will update the effective date and provide additional notice when reasonably appropriate.

Your continued use of DebatePilot after updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.

18. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles.

Any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or DebatePilot that is not otherwise resolved will be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in Georgia, except where applicable law gives you the right to bring a claim elsewhere.

19. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

20. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the DebatePilot Privacy Policy and any additional terms expressly presented for a particular feature, constitute the agreement between you and Lexel LLC concerning your use of DebatePilot.

21. Contact

Questions about these Terms or DebatePilot may be sent to:

debatepilot@gmail.com

DebatePilot is operated by Lexel LLC, a Georgia limited liability company.