1. Who we are & what this is
Aphasia Studio (“Aphasia Studio,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is an online set of speech and language practice exercises for people living with aphasia and those who support them, available at aphasiastudio.com (the “Service”).
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Aphasia Studio. They cover your use of the Service, including the free and paid features. Please read them together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your information.
In plain words: Aphasia Studio is practice exercises for aphasia. These are the rules for using it. Read them with our Privacy Policy.
2. Accepting these Terms
By creating an account, subscribing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you’re using Aphasia Studio on behalf of someone else — for example, as a caregiver, family member, or clinician helping a person with aphasia — you agree to these Terms for both of you, and you confirm you’re allowed to do that.
If you don’t agree to these Terms, please don’t use the Service.
Important: These Terms include an arbitration agreement and a waiver of class actions (Section 17) that affect how disputes are resolved. Please read that section carefully. You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days.
In plain words: Using Aphasia Studio means you accept these rules — including how we handle disagreements (Section 17). You can opt out of arbitration within 30 days.
3. Who can use Aphasia Studio
You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. An adult may set up and manage an account to help a person with aphasia of any age use the exercises, but the adult is responsible for the account and for agreeing to these Terms.
The Service is intended for users in the United States.
In plain words: You need to be 18+ to make an account. An adult can run an account to help someone with aphasia. Built for U.S. users.
4. Your account
When you create an account, please give accurate information and keep your login details private. You’re responsible for activity that happens under your account. Tell us promptly at support@aphasiastudio.com if you think someone else has accessed it.
We use a magic-link sign-in and may keep you signed in on your device for convenience. You can sign out at any time.
5. Not medical advice
Aphasia Studio is an educational practice tool. It is not medical advice, therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and it is not a substitute for care from a licensed speech-language pathologist or physician.
The exercises are designed to support practice, but they don’t replace professional evaluation or a treatment plan. Always follow the guidance of your own clinician, and seek professional care for medical concerns. If you think you’re having a medical emergency, call your local emergency number.
Aphasia Studio does not create a clinician–patient relationship, and using it does not put us in the role of your healthcare provider.
In plain words: This is practice, not treatment. It doesn’t replace your speech therapist or doctor. For medical help, contact a professional.
6. Free & paid plans, billing, and renewal
Free features
Some features are free. We may change what’s included in the free plan over time.
Paid subscriptions
A paid subscription unlocks premium features. When you subscribe, you agree to the price and billing cycle shown at checkout. Payments are processed by our payment provider, Stripe, through MemberPress. We don’t store your full card number.
Automatic renewal
Your subscription renews automatically. Unless you cancel before the renewal date, we will charge your payment method the then-current price for each new billing period (for example, each month) until you cancel.
Before you subscribe, we show you the renewal amount, how often you’ll be billed, and how to cancel, and we send you a confirmation after you subscribe. If a free trial applies, we tell you the date it ends and the price you’ll be charged when it converts to a paid subscription. If we change subscription prices, we’ll give you advance notice, and the new price applies only to renewals after that notice.
In plain words: Paid plans renew on their own until you cancel. We show you the price, how often you’re billed, and how to cancel — before you pay. A free trial turns into a paid plan unless you cancel first.
7. Cancellation & refunds
You can cancel your subscription at any time from your account, or by emailing support@aphasiastudio.com. When you cancel, you keep premium access until the end of the period you already paid for, and you won’t be billed again after that.
Refunds. Subscription payments are non-refundable, except where a refund is required by law. Cancelling stops all future charges — you don’t need a refund to stop being billed.
One-time purchases. Workbooks and other one-time digital purchases are non-refundable once the files have been downloaded or accessed, except where required by law.
In plain words: Cancel anytime; you keep access until your paid period ends. We don’t give refunds for time already paid, but cancelling stops all future charges.
8. AI-generated content
Aphasia Studio uses artificial intelligence to help create practice materials — spoken audio is generated with a text-to-speech service (OpenAI), and definitions, example sentences, and images are drafted with AI tools (OpenAI and Anthropic’s Claude). This content is created ahead of time and stored in our library; you are not chatting with an AI when you practice, and your everyday exercise activity is not sent to these AI providers.
AI-generated content may contain errors or inaccuracies. It is educational material, not medical advice (see Section 5). Our team reviews and curates content under our Editorial Policy. If you spot something that seems wrong, please use the report control on the exercise.
In plain words: The audio, words, and pictures are made with AI and can be wrong. We review them, but they’re not medical advice. Tell us if you see a mistake.
9. Content you add (My Words and similar features)
This feature is currently turned off. The My Words upload feature is temporarily unavailable while we finalize the privacy and copyright pieces around user uploads. These terms describe how it will work when it returns.
Some features may let you add your own content — for example, uploading photos and adding your own words in “My Words.” When that’s available, the following applies.
It’s your content, and you’re responsible for it
You keep ownership of what you add, and you are solely responsible for it and for having the right to upload it.
You promise you have the rights
By adding content, you confirm that you own it or have permission to use it; that it doesn’t break the law or infringe anyone’s rights (including copyright, trademark, and privacy); and that if a photo shows another person, you have the right to upload it.
Permission you give us
So we can run the feature, you give Aphasia Studio a limited, non-exclusive permission to store, copy, and display your content back to you within your account, only as needed to provide the Service. We won’t use your uploaded photos or words for advertising or public display. This permission ends when you delete the content or close your account.
We can remove content
We don’t review everything users upload and aren’t obligated to, but we may remove content or suspend an account if we believe in good faith it breaks these Terms or the law.
In plain words: My Words is off for now. When it’s back: what you upload is yours and your responsibility; you promise you’re allowed to upload it; we only show it back to you; we can remove content that breaks the rules.
10. Acceptable use
Please use Aphasia Studio for its intended purpose. You agree not to:
- break the law or infringe anyone’s rights while using the Service;
- copy, resell, or redistribute our exercises, content, or software except as allowed;
- try to break, overload, hack, scrape, or reverse-engineer the Service;
- share your account in a way that gets around subscription limits; or
- upload anything harmful, unlawful, hateful, harassing, or that exploits a child, or that contains malware.
11. Our intellectual property
The Service — including our exercises, text, images, audio, software, design, and the Aphasia Studio name and logo — belongs to Aphasia Studio or our licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. We give you a limited, personal, non-transferable license to use the Service for your own practice (and, for premium features, while your subscription is active). You may not use our content or brand outside that license without our permission.
In plain words: The exercises and materials are ours. You can use them to practice, but not copy, sell, or reuse them elsewhere.
12. Copyright & DMCA
We respect copyright. If you believe material on the Service infringes a copyright you own, please contact us at support@aphasiastudio.com with details of the work and where it appears, and we will respond as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). We remove infringing material and, in appropriate cases, end the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe.
In plain words: If something here copies your work, email us and we’ll handle it under the DMCA.
13. Third-party services
We rely on trusted third parties to run the Service — for example, hosting (Kinsta), subscriptions and payments (MemberPress and Stripe), email delivery (Resend), analytics (Microsoft Clarity, WP Statistics), and AI content tools (OpenAI, Anthropic). Their handling of your information is described in our Privacy Policy. Payments are also governed by the payment provider’s own terms.
14. Disclaimers
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that content (including AI-generated content) will be accurate or complete.
Nothing in these Terms limits any warranty or protection that can’t be excluded under the law that applies to you.
15. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, Aphasia Studio and its owners will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data or profits, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or $100.
Some states don’t allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
In plain words: If something goes wrong, our legal responsibility is limited — generally to what you paid us. Some states give you extra rights this can’t take away.
16. Indemnification
If someone brings a claim against Aphasia Studio because you broke these Terms or the law, or (when My Words is available) because of content you uploaded, you agree to be responsible for that claim to the extent the law allows.
17. Dispute resolution & arbitration
Please read this section carefully — it affects your legal rights.
1. Let’s try to work it out first
If you have a problem, please contact us at support@aphasiastudio.com first, and give us 30 days to resolve it informally (we’ll do the same before bringing a claim against you).
2. Binding individual arbitration
If we can’t resolve it, you and Aphasia Studio agree that disputes relating to these Terms or the Service will be settled by binding arbitration, not in court, except as noted below. This means we both give up the right to a judge or jury trial. Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, and may take place in your county of residence, by phone, by video, or in writing. This agreement is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.
3. No class actions
You and Aphasia Studio agree to bring claims only on an individual basis. Neither of us will bring or take part in a class action or representative action, and the arbitrator may not combine more than one person’s claims.
4. Your right to opt out (30 days)
You can opt out of arbitration by emailing support@aphasiastudio.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, with your name and account email, saying you opt out. Opting out won’t affect anything else, and it won’t affect your use of the Service.
5. Exceptions
Either of us may bring a qualifying claim in small-claims court, and either of us may ask a court for an injunction to protect intellectual property. These aren’t covered by the arbitration requirement.
6. If part of this is unenforceable
If the class-action waiver in paragraph 3 is found unenforceable for a claim, that claim proceeds in court, but the rest of this section still applies to all other claims.
In plain words: If we disagree: email us first (30 days to fix it). After that, disputes go to individual arbitration, not court, and not as a class action — but you can opt out within 30 days, and small-claims court is still an option.
18. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we’ll take reasonable steps to let you know — for example, by posting the new Terms with an updated effective date and/or emailing you. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, that means you accept the updated Terms. If you don’t agree, please stop using the Service.
19. Termination
You can stop using Aphasia Studio and close your account at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms, if we’re required to by law, or if we stop offering the Service. If we end your paid subscription without cause, we’ll refund any prepaid amount for the unused part of your billing period. Sections that by their nature should survive — such as intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and arbitration — continue after your account ends.
20. General & contact
These Terms, and any dispute relating to them or the Service, are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. For any matter not subject to arbitration, you and Aphasia Studio agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in California.
If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our not enforcing a provision isn’t a waiver of it. These Terms are the entire agreement between you and Aphasia Studio about the Service and replace any earlier agreements on that subject. You can’t transfer your rights under these Terms; we may transfer ours in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale.
Contact: Aphasia Studio · support@aphasiastudio.com