Terms & Conditions

0. What's actually live today

Ludira is in open beta. These Terms describe how the Service is intended to work once accounts, subscriptions, and billing are fully live — not because all of that exists yet today. To be upfront about the gap:

• No user accounts exist yet. There's no signup, login, or password anywhere on ludira.io. The only thing available today is a free, zero-signup demo of five public-domain classic games — no account or personal information involved.
• No paid subscription or checkout is live. The prices and Credit allowances described below are real and decided, but nothing can actually be purchased yet.
• The Credit ledger doesn't exist yet. The system that would track and enforce the monthly Credit allowances described in this document hasn't been built.

Once accounts, subscriptions, and billing genuinely go live, this section will be replaced with a normal version history.

1. Who we are

Ludira ("Ludira," "we," "us," or "our") is a board-game design and playtesting platform, operated by Rekurzija DOOEL, a company organized under the laws of North Macedonia. ("DOOEL" is the North Macedonian single-member limited-liability company form — the rough equivalent of a single-member LLC.)

Registered details: full registered name Друштво за софтверски услуги РЕКУРЗИЈА ДООЕЛ Скопје ("Rekurzija DOOEL Skopje" — company for software services), registration number (матичен број) 7237880, tax number (ЕДБ) 4080017569285, registered address Адолф Циборовски 21/1-6, 1000 Skopje-Centar, North Macedonia.

Payments are handled by Paddle, not by us directly. When you subscribe to a paid Ludira plan, you're entering into that purchase with Paddle as the seller — not with Rekurzija DOOEL. Paddle is our payment processor and merchant of record, which means Paddle is legally the seller to you for that transaction: Paddle invoices you, collects and remits the applicable sales tax/VAT, and is the party responsible for billing, receipts, refunds, and payment disputes or chargebacks. Depending on where you're purchasing from, the contracting Paddle entity is Paddle.com Market Limited (England & Wales, for most of the world), Paddle.com Inc. (for US buyers), or Paddle.com (Canada) Ltd (for Canadian buyers) — Paddle's own Buyer Terms determine which entity applies to you and govern the payment transaction itself. We don't duplicate Paddle's Buyer Terms here; they'll be linked at checkout once it's live, and they control on anything about the payment transaction itself (billing, invoicing, refund mechanics, payment-method disputes). These Terms govern your use of the Ludira service.

2. The Service

Ludira turns a board game's written rules into a playable, rules-enforced digital prototype. A designer (a Creator) builds or describes their game's rules, with AI assistance available to generate and refine rules, talk through the design in a planning chat, and generate art. Anyone the Creator invites (a Player) can join and play the resulting game in a browser in real time.

Two things are foundational to how Ludira is priced, and are not expected to change:

• Playing is always free. A Player joining a game through a shared link never needs an account and is never charged, no matter what plan the Creator is on.
• The core rules engine isn't limited by plan. Real-time multiplayer sync and live hot-reload rule editing — a Creator can fix a rule mid-playtest and every connected Player's game updates instantly, without a reset — work the same way on every plan, including Free. What plans and Credits actually meter is AI usage: generating or refining rules, planning-chat conversations, and AI-generated art.

Plans. The current plans, prices, and Credit allowances (always confirm the current, canonical version at ludira.io/pricing, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference and controls if it ever differs from this table):

What Credits pay for. Credits are spent on AI-metered actions — generating or refining rules, planning-chat turns, and AI-generated art — at rates published on the Pricing page, which is always the current source. Uploading your own art and having Ludira auto-crop it is free and not metered by Credits on any plan (soft-capped at 50 uploads/month on Free to deter abuse; unmetered on Creator and Pro).

We may change plan prices, Credit allowances, or action costs prospectively, following the process in §11. A change won't retroactively re-price Credits you already hold or actions you've already taken.

3. Accounts and Subscriptions

3.1 Accounts don't exist yet

As stated in §0, Ludira has no signup or login system today. This section describes the terms intended to apply once account creation ships:

• You'll need an account to create a private project, hold a paid Subscription, or accumulate and spend Credits beyond whatever a signed-out visitor can already do for free.
• You're responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for activity that happens under your account.
• You agree to give accurate information when you sign up and to keep it reasonably up to date.
• You must be at least 16 years old to create a Ludira account.

3.2 Subscriptions and billing

• Paid plans (Creator, Pro) are billed monthly, in advance, through Paddle. There is currently no annual plan.
• You can cancel at any time. Cancelling stops future billing — you won't be charged again — and you keep paid access through the end of the period you already paid for, subject to Paddle's standard proration rules.
• Refunds, failed payments, payment disputes, and chargebacks concerning the payment itself are Paddle's responsibility under Paddle's own Buyer Terms, not ours directly — see §1. This section only covers what happens to your Ludira access around a cancellation or downgrade, not the payment mechanics.

3.3 What happens to Credits and private projects on downgrade or cancellation

Nothing existing is ever locked or forcibly deleted on downgrade — the only enforcement is on creating something new. This applies uniformly to both Credits and projects:

• Credits. Rollover is only available on Creator and Pro, capped at 2× the plan's monthly allowance. Downgrading to Free doesn't forcibly forfeit a banked balance — Credits are self-limiting by nature (you simply can't spend what you don't have), so no separate lock or deletion mechanic is needed; the balance just stops being topped up at the higher rate.
• Private projects and project count. Public/private visibility is not plan-gated — a Free-plan project can be private, same as a paid one. The actual free/paid boundary is project count: an account without an active paid Subscription can hold at most 1 project. Downgrading below Creator/Pro while holding 2+ projects doesn't lock or delete the extra ones — you keep full access to everything you already have; you just can't create a new project until you're back under the limit.

4. Your Content and Intellectual Property

4.1 You own what you make

Everything you create on Ludira — your game's rules, its text and names, art you upload, and any other original material you add to a project ("Your Content") — belongs to you. Ludira does not claim ownership of Your Content, on any plan, public or private.

4.2 The license you grant us

To actually run the Service, we need permission to do things with Your Content: store it, back it up, convert it between the internal representations the rules engine uses, display it to you and to the Players you invite, and — when you use an AI-assisted feature — transmit the relevant parts of it to third-party AI providers on your behalf (see §6).

You grant Ludira a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, and process Your Content, solely to operate, maintain, and improve the Service and to provide it to you and the Players you invite. This license ends when you delete Your Content or close your account, except for (a) residual copies that may persist briefly in routine backups, and (b) anything you made public, which other people may already have seen, saved, copied, or shared while it was public — we can't retroactively un-ring that bell.

4.3 AI-generated content — ownership

When you use Ludira's AI-assisted rule generation, planning chat, or art generation, our stated position is that the output belongs to you, the user who generated it — we don't claim any ownership interest in AI-generated output any more than we do in content you wrote or uploaded yourself.

Two things you should know about that position, stated honestly:

• That output is also subject to the terms of the underlying third-party AI provider(s) we use to generate it.
• Whether AI-generated content can be copyrighted at all — and, if so, who owns it — is a genuinely unsettled question that varies by jurisdiction and is actively changing. This paragraph states Ludira's intended platform position, not a guarantee about how any specific court or copyright office will treat any specific piece of AI-generated output.

4.4 Public vs. private content

Content you mark public is visible to anyone; content in a private project is visible only to you and the Players you specifically invite. Visibility itself is available on every plan, including Free — see §3.3 for the actual free/paid boundary, which is project count, not privacy.

4.5 Third-party rights and infringing content

You may not upload or generate, through Ludira, content that infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, or other rights — including by re-creating or closely cloning another publisher's commercial board game. As a general (not exhaustive) guide: a game's underlying mechanics are generally not protectable, but its specific rules text, names, art, and layout typically are. See §5 for how someone can report content they believe infringes their rights, and what we intend to do about it.

5. Acceptable Use, Third-Party Rights, and Reporting Infringement

In addition to not infringing anyone's rights (§4.5), using Ludira means agreeing not to:

• Impersonate another designer or publisher, or falsely claim authorship of a game you didn't create.
• Attempt to bypass server-side move validation, tamper with game state outside the rules engine, or otherwise cheat in a way that undermines the guarantee the product is actually built on — every move is validated server-side by the same rules engine for everyone at the table.
• Use automated tools or scripted accounts to abuse free-tier Credits, uploads, or account creation.
• Upload or generate illegal content, malware, or anything that violates applicable law.
• Harass, threaten, or abuse other users, including Players you've invited into your own game.
• Use Ludira's AI features as a general-purpose AI proxy for content unrelated to board game design or playtesting.
• Scrape, reverse-engineer, or attempt to extract the underlying rules engine, prompts, or AI models beyond what's reasonably necessary for your own permitted use of the Service.

We may remove content, suspend, or terminate an account for violating this section — see §9.

5.1 Content standards for published games

This subsection applies only to games you publish to the public Market/Arena — content visible and playable by other Ludira users, on any plan, free or paid. It does not restrict what you can put in a private project, which only you and the Players you specifically invite ever see.

Published games (their rules text, names, descriptions, and any art, AI-generated or uploaded) must not depict or promote: violence or gore, sexual content, or illegal drug use. Violating content is subject to §9's immediate-suspension carve-out.

5.2 Reporting infringing or abusive content

We designate a single point of contact for infringement and abuse reports (see §12) and intend to run a notice-and-action process modeled on DMCA notice-and-takedown practice and the EU Digital Services Act's notice-and-action requirements (Articles 16–18): a report comes in, we acknowledge it (target: within roughly 72 hours), a human reviews it, and we document the decision and the reason for it.

Stated precisely, because this is exactly the kind of claim that's easy to overstate: Rekurzija DOOEL is a North Macedonian company, not a US company, so the formal DMCA §512 "safe harbor" — which limits a host's liability for user-uploaded infringing content — is a US-law construct that doesn't automatically apply to us the way it would to a US-based host. We intend to register a DMCA designated agent with the US Copyright Office as a good-faith, low-cost step, but doing so is not the same thing as actually qualifying for US safe-harbor protection. Separately, because Ludira has EU users, the EU Digital Services Act's notice-and-action obligations apply to us regardless of where we're incorporated.

Stated honestly: the technical mechanism this clause describes — including covering content at an anonymous, pre-account draft URL, not just content inside a signed-in project — is still being built. Until it's fully automated, a report may currently be handled manually. If you need to report something, email us at abuse@ludira.io and we'll act on it.

5.3 Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Ludira harmless from third-party claims, damages, and reasonable costs arising from Your Content, your violation of this section, or your violation of someone else's rights.

6. AI-Generated Content: How It Works and Its Limits

6.1 No guarantee of quality

AI-generated rules, suggestions, and art are produced automatically and may be incomplete, unbalanced, unplayable, self-contradictory, or simply wrong. Review anything an AI feature produces before relying on it for a real playtest. Ludira's rules engine will faithfully enforce whatever rules exist in your project, including badly designed ones — the engine's job is to enforce the rules you have, not to judge whether they're good.

6.2 Credits and failed generations

Our intent is that Credits are spent only on AI actions that actually complete and produce a usable result — a generation that fails before completing (for example, because of a system error or an AI provider outage) is not meant to consume a Credit. Stated honestly: as covered in §0, the Credit ledger that would enforce this doesn't exist yet, so treat this as our intended policy rather than a guarantee until Credits are actually live.

6.3 Rate limits

We may throttle or queue AI requests to keep the Service available and within our own operating costs. This isn't intended as a penalty, and if it becomes a persistent limit rather than an occasional smoothing measure, we intend to disclose it on the Pricing page or in-product, not silently.

6.4 Third-party AI providers

Generating rules, chat responses, and art necessarily involves sending relevant parts of Your Content to third-party AI providers on your behalf. Exactly what's sent, and to whom, is described in our Privacy Policy. Whether, and how, those providers may use that data for their own purposes depends on our commercial agreement with them; we'll state that plainly once it's fully confirmed rather than assume either answer.

7. Privacy and Data Protection

Our Privacy Policy covers what personal data we collect, why, how long we keep it, who we share it with (including the AI providers in §6.4 and Paddle for payments), and your rights over it. We process personal data according to that Privacy Policy and applicable law, including the GDPR for users in the EU/EEA.

8. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

Ludira is under active development — the live site currently and honestly labels itself "open beta." Subject to what applicable law actually allows contracts to disclaim:

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE, OR THAT AI-GENERATED CONTENT WILL BE ACCURATE, BALANCED, OR PLAYABLE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, LUDIRA AND REKURZIJA DOOEL WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR €100 IF YOU HAVEN'T PAID US ANYTHING.

NOTHING IN THIS SECTION LIMITS ANY LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED OR EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW (FOR EXAMPLE, LIABILITY FOR DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR FRAUD, OR CONSUMER-PROTECTION RIGHTS THAT APPLY TO YOU REGARDLESS OF WHAT THIS DOCUMENT SAYS).

9. Term, Suspension, and Termination

By you. You can stop using Ludira and cancel any paid Subscription at any time (see §3.2).

By us. We may suspend or terminate your account if you violate §5 (Acceptable Use), fail to pay for a Subscription, or if we're required to by law.

Notice period: 30 days. For most violations, we commit to giving you at least 30 days' notice and a real opportunity to export Your Content before termination. A self-serve export feature doesn't exist yet — until it does, contact legal@ludira.io during that window and we'll help you get your content out manually.

Exception — immediate suspension without notice for content published to the public Market/Arena that violates §5.1's content standards or infringes someone else's trademark or other rights: because this content is actively visible and playable by other Ludira users while it stays up, we may take it down or suspend the account immediately, and give notice afterward rather than before. This exception is scoped to public Market/Arena content specifically — it does not apply to private projects, which by definition aren't exposed to other users.

10. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of North Macedonia, where Rekurzija DOOEL is incorporated, and disputes are handled in North Macedonian courts, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

If you're a consumer resident in the EU, the mandatory consumer-protection rules of your home country still apply regardless of this clause, and you generally keep the right to bring a claim in your own country's courts under EU consumer-protection law (Rome I / Brussels I Recast).

11. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we'll post the updated version here with a revised "last updated" date and make reasonable efforts to notify users of material changes (for example, by email or an in-product notice) before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. For material changes that adversely affect an existing paid Subscription, applicable consumer-protection law in your country may require your explicit consent rather than continued use, regardless of this section.

12. Contact

• General questions about these Terms: legal@ludira.io.
• Infringement / abuse reports (§5.2): abuse@ludira.io.
• Company: Rekurzija DOOEL Skopje (матичен број 7237880, ЕДБ 4080017569285), Адолф Циборовски 21/1-6, 1000 Skopje-Centar, North Macedonia.