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Terms of Use

Last updated: September 14, 2026

Spot the Cue is a practice tool for general education, self-improvement and entertainment. It is offered “as is”, it is not professional advice, and it does not promise any particular result. By using it, you agree to the terms below. The plain-English summary in each section is there to help; the full text is what governs.

1. Who we are, and your agreement with us

Spot the Cue (the website at spotthecue.com, the web app, the iPhone app and the Android app — together, the “service”) is operated by GasBuggy Media LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company doing business as Spot the Cue (“Spot the Cue”, “we”, “us”). Contact: support@spotthecue.com.

These Terms of Use, together with the Privacy Policy and the Refund Policy (both of which form part of these terms), are a binding agreement between you and GasBuggy Media LLC. You accept them by using the service, by requesting a sign-in link, or by making a purchase. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the service.

Age. You must be at least 13 years old to use Spot the Cue. If you are under 18 (or the age of majority where you live), you may use it only with the involvement of a parent or guardian, who agrees to these terms on your behalf and is responsible for your use. Teen mode is practice material written for ages 13–17; it is not a service directed at children under 13.

2. What the service is — and is not

Spot the Cue is a practice tool for recognising social cues such as tone, body language, subtext, group dynamics, conflict and pressure, plus out-loud rehearsal and a tone checker for written messages. It is provided for general educational, informational, self-improvement and entertainment purposes only.

Not professional advice. Nothing in the service is psychological, medical, clinical, therapeutic, legal, financial, security, human-resources or other professional advice, and nothing in it is a substitute for guidance from a qualified professional who knows your situation. The service does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition, and is not a clinical or diagnostic instrument — including for autism, social anxiety or any other condition. The reading tests and the placement quiz are practice exercises, not validated assessments. If social situations cause you real distress, please speak to a qualified professional.

No promised results. Skills, starting points and circumstances differ. We do not guarantee that using Spot the Cue will improve your ability to read people, your confidence, your relationships, your test scores, your job prospects or any other outcome. Any research described on the site is a general summary of published studies about training in general, not a claim about what the service will do for you.

Cues are probabilities, not verdicts. Every read the service offers — including the “correct” answers, the glossary, the tone checker, the Pressure & Deception track and the Blind Spots exercise — is a general tendency that can be wrong for a particular person, culture or moment. In particular: the Pressure & Deception track is not a lie-detection or fraud-detection tool and must not be relied on to decide whether a person, message, offer or transaction is genuine; the tone checker only sees words on a screen; and Blind Spots is a self-calibration exercise on fictional material — it is not an assessment of you or of anyone else and must not be used to make or support any employment, disciplinary, promotion, credit or other decision about a real person. Decisions you make in real life, including decisions about money, safety and relationships, are yours alone.

3. AI-generated content and AI features

Much of the service’s content — including images, video, audio, voices, scenarios and explanations — is generated or assisted by artificial intelligence, and some features (for example the optional “deeper AI read” in the tone checker, AI feedback on a draft, and any on-demand generated practice) produce responses from a third-party AI model at the moment you ask. AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, biased or simply wrong, and may not reflect how a real person would react. People shown in images, video or audio are synthetic and are not real individuals; any resemblance to a real person is coincidental.

We make no representation that any content is factually accurate, complete or suitable for any purpose, and you agree not to rely on it as such. You are responsible for how you use anything the service shows you. Where you provide text for an AI feature (for example a message pasted into the tone checker), please don’t include passwords, payment details, health information, or personal information about other people that you are not entitled to share.

4. Accounts

No account is needed to practise. On the website you may optionally create one, by email sign-in link, to sync progress across devices or restore a web purchase. You are responsible for the security of the email address you use, for the devices and browsers you use, and for everything that happens through your account. Tell us promptly at support@spotthecue.com if you think it has been accessed without your permission. We may suspend or close accounts that are used in breach of these terms. You can ask us to delete your account at any time.

5. Purchases, pricing and refunds

Spot the Cue has a free tier that stays free: Level 1 of all seven tracks, both reading tests, the cue glossary, the tone checker and three of the social stories — no account, no sign-up, no ads. Unlocking the rest (Levels 2–6 in every track, the learning paths and the remaining social stories) is a one-time payment, currently $19.99 USD. It is not a subscription, there is nothing to cancel, and it does not renew. If we ever offer any recurring or additional paid feature, its price, billing period and cancellation terms will be shown clearly before you buy it. We may change prices for future purchases at any time; a change never affects an unlock you have already bought.

Who you are buying from on the website. Web purchases are processed by Polar (Polar Software, Inc.), which acts as the merchant of record — meaning Polar, not Spot the Cue, is the seller for your transaction. Polar handles payment, applicable sales tax and VAT, and invoicing. The purchase terms Polar presents at checkout govern the sale itself, and “Polar” is what appears on your card or bank statement.

Buying in the iPhone or Android app. Purchases made through Apple’s in-app purchase or Google Play billing are handled by Apple or Google under their terms. Refunds for those purchases must be requested from Apple or Google, not from us or Polar.

Each purchase covers where you bought it. The web unlock, the App Store purchase and the Google Play purchase are separate products on separate systems, and one does not unlock another. This is stated on the pricing page and on every purchase screen; please buy where you will actually practise. If you buy the wrong one by mistake, email us and we will help.

Refunds. Full refund within 30 days of a web purchase, no reason needed. The details — how to request one, how app-store purchases differ, and how this sits alongside your statutory rights — are set out in the Refund Policy, which forms part of these terms.

What a purchase gets you. A personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the paid features for as long as we offer them, on the platform you bought them on. It is tied to the email address used at checkout (web) or to your Apple Account or Google account (apps). It does not include any promise of specific future features. If a refund or chargeback is issued, the unlock is withdrawn.

6. Acceptable use

Please don’t misuse the service. In particular, you agree not to:

  • use it for any unlawful purpose, or in a way that infringes anyone’s rights;
  • disrupt, overload, probe or attack the service or its infrastructure;
  • bypass, disable or interfere with any paywall, entitlement check, rate limit or other access control;
  • scrape, crawl, bulk-download or systematically extract content, or access the service by automated means other than ordinary search-engine indexing;
  • copy, reverse-engineer, decompile or create derivative works of the apps or their content except where the law expressly allows it;
  • use the service or its content to build or train a competing product, dataset or AI model;
  • submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, hateful, sexually explicit, or that contains someone else’s personal, confidential or health information without their permission;
  • use anything you learn here to deceive, manipulate, harass, discriminate against or harm another person; or
  • misrepresent your age, or let a child under 13 use the service.

We may suspend or terminate access, and remove content, for conduct that breaches these terms.

7. Content you submit

You keep ownership of anything you type or paste into the service (for example a message in the tone checker, a practice draft, a Blind Spots contribution, or feedback you send us). You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, process, transmit and display that content as needed to operate, secure and improve the service, including sending it to our AI provider when you ask for an AI feature. You promise you have the right to submit it and that it does not break the rules in section 6. Feedback and suggestions you send us may be used freely, without any obligation to you. We are not obliged to keep, monitor or return submitted content, though the Privacy Policy explains what we actually keep.

8. Intellectual property

The service — including its design, software, text, scenarios, explanations, glossary, stories, tests, trade marks and the selection and arrangement of its content — is owned by GasBuggy Media LLC or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trade mark and other laws. Images, video and audio are largely AI-generated and labelled as such; any remaining photographs or clips are used under stock licences (for example Pexels and Mixkit). “Spot the Cue” and the Spot the Cue logo are our trade marks.

We grant you a limited, personal, non-commercial, non-transferable licence to use the service for your own practice. Please don’t copy, republish, sell or redistribute the content, or present it as your own. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

9. Third-party services

The service relies on third parties — including Apple (App Store and in-app purchase), Google (Google Play, billing and Analytics), Polar (web checkout), Supabase (accounts and sync), Vercel (hosting), a third-party AI provider (AI features and generated content) and stock-media providers. Their own terms and privacy practices apply to those parts, and we are not responsible for their services. See the Privacy Policy for details on data.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. WE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY AND QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, COMPLETE, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT ANY CONTENT (INCLUDING AI-GENERATED CONTENT) IS CORRECT, OR THAT USING THE SERVICE WILL PRODUCE ANY PARTICULAR RESULT. WE MAY CHANGE, SUSPEND OR DISCONTINUE ALL OR PART OF THE SERVICE AT ANY TIME.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits any rights you have as a consumer that cannot be limited by contract.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, GASBUGGY MEDIA LLC AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL OR OPPORTUNITY, OR FOR ANY PERSONAL, RELATIONSHIP, EMPLOYMENT, FINANCIAL OR EMOTIONAL HARM, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, ITS CONTENT, OR ANY DECISION OR ACTION YOU TAKE IN RELIANCE ON IT — WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, AND (B) TWENTY US DOLLARS (US$20). THIS CAP APPLIES TO THE FREE TIER AS WELL AS TO PAID FEATURES.

These limitations are an essential part of the bargain between you and us, and the service would not be offered on these terms without them. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the greatest extent the law permits. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, such as for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

12. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless GasBuggy Media LLC and its members, managers, employees, contractors and service providers from any claims, liabilities, damages, losses and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) content you submit to the service; (b) your use or misuse of the service or its content, including any use in breach of section 6; (c) your violation of these terms or of any law; or (d) your violation of any right of another person. We may take over the defence of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate with us. This section does not apply to consumers to the extent local law makes such an obligation unenforceable.

13. Termination

You may stop using the service at any time and may ask us to delete your account. We may suspend or terminate your access, with or without notice, if you breach these terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the service. Sections 2, 3, 7, 8 and 10 to 16 survive termination.

14. Dispute resolution, governing law and class-action waiver

Talk to us first. Most problems can be solved by email. Before starting any formal proceeding, you agree to send a written description of the dispute to support@spotthecue.com and to give us 30 days to try to resolve it informally. We agree to do the same for any claim against you.

Governing law. These terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the service are governed by the laws of the State of New Mexico and the federal laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

Where disputes are heard. Any dispute that is not resolved informally will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, and you and we consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. As an exception, either of us may bring an individual claim in small-claims court in the county where you live, if it qualifies there.

Class-action and jury waiver. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU AND WE AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, AND THAT ANY CLAIM WILL BE TRIED BY A JUDGE AND NOT A JURY. If this waiver is found unenforceable for a particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) must proceed in the courts named above and the remainder of this section still applies.

Time limit. To the extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to the service must be filed within one year after it arose; otherwise it is permanently barred.

Consumers outside the United States. If you are a consumer in the European Union, the United Kingdom or another jurisdiction whose law gives you the right to bring claims in your home courts or under your home law, nothing in this section takes that right away.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. We will post the updated version here and change the “last updated” date; for material changes we will also give reasonable notice, for example by a notice in the app or an email to account holders. Changes take effect when posted (or on the date the notice states), and your continued use after that means you accept them. If you don’t agree to a change, stop using the service — and if the change materially reduces what a paid unlock gives you, you may ask for a pro-rated refund.

16. General

These terms, with the Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the service. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the extent permitted and the rest will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them to a successor or affiliate. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control. Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, employment or agency relationship. Headings and plain-English summaries are for convenience only.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms? Email support@spotthecue.com. GasBuggy Media LLC, doing business as Spot the Cue, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.