Terms

Aftermate reads a chess game you provide, analyses it, and generates a written story from what it found. An account is required. There is no guarantee that the service will always be available, and features may change.

The free tier writes 1 story a day and costs nothing. Aftermate Plus raises that to 15 and adds custom universes, your own brief and longer stories.

Plus costs $5.99 a month, or $59.99 for a year, in US dollars. Payment is taken by Polar, who are the seller of record: your receipt and your card statement carry their name, and refunds and chargebacks are settled with them. Tax is added at checkout where your country charges it.

Write to hello@aftermate.app within 30 days of a payment. If you have not written stories on the paid plan, or have written only a few, it is refunded in full and you are not asked why.

If you have used it heavily we may refund part of it instead. Every story costs real money to write at the moment it is written, and that money has already left before a refund is asked for. Nobody is going to be argued with over one or two; somebody who has written fifty and then asked for everything back is asking us to pay for those fifty.

Stories you have already written stay in your library either way. They were made, and taking them back would punish the wrong thing.

Two things follow from Polar being the seller of record. They may refund a payment themselves, within sixty days, whatever this page says, because a chargeback costs everyone more than a refund does. And if you have already raised a dispute with your bank, ask them rather than us, since the payment is theirs to reverse.

Cancelling is separate from refunding. You can stop a subscription at any time from your account, and it runs to the end of the period you have paid for rather than stopping that day.

Chess moves are facts and nobody owns them. You keep whatever rights you have in the games you upload, and you grant us only the permission needed to store them, analyse them and generate stories for you.

The stories generated for you are yours to keep, publish and share. We make no claim of ownership over them. Because they are machine-generated, we cannot promise they are unique, and a similar game may produce a similar story.

Stories are fiction. The chess facts underneath them are computed by an engine and are as accurate as that engine is; the characters, dialogue, motives and events in the prose are invented and are not claims about anybody real.

Where a game involves named people, those names are taken from the game record you provided. Do not upload games with names you do not have the right to publish, and do not publish a story in a way that suggests a real person said or did what the fiction says they did.

• ·Do not use Aftermate to produce content that harasses, defames or impersonates anybody.
• ·Do not attempt to bypass the generation limits, or automate the service beyond ordinary use.
• ·Do not upload material you do not have the right to upload.
• ·Do not attempt to reach data belonging to other accounts.

We may suspend or remove an account that does these things, and we may remove a published story that does.

You can stop using Aftermate at any time, and delete your account yourself from the account page, as described in the privacy policy. We may close an account that breaks these terms, and we may discontinue the service, in which case we will give reasonable notice so you can take your stories with you.

Aftermate is provided as it is, without warranties. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from using it, and our total liability is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, and disputes go to the courts there.

Aftermate is run by Hanbyul Kang, one person rather than a company. Reach us at hello@aftermate.app. A reply comes from the same person who built it, which is slower than a support desk and better informed.