These terms
These terms are an agreement between you and withsilasogar, run by Silas Ogar ("we", "us"). They apply to the website at withsilasogar.com, our iOS and Android apps and our API (together, "the service"). By creating an account or using the service, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use the service.
Our privacy policy explains how we handle your personal data and is part of these terms.
Your account
- You sign in with Google or Apple. Keep that account secure: anything done through your withsilasogar account is your responsibility.
- You must be at least 13, or the minimum age to use online services without a parent's permission where you live if that is higher. If you're under 18, or under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you.
- One person, one account. Don't share your account or sell or transfer it.
- Give us accurate information, and tell us if you think someone else is using your account.
- You can delete your account at any time, in the app or on the web. It's immediate and permanent, and cancels an active Pro subscription. See withsilasogar.com/delete-account.
Community rules and acceptable use
Questions, answers, crews, community channels, showcase posts, bounties and reviews only work if people can trust each other. When you use the service, don't:
- harass, threaten, bully or demean anyone, or post hateful, sexually explicit or violent content;
- post spam, scams, advertising nobody asked for, or links to malware;
- share someone else's personal information without their permission;
- post content you don't have the right to share, including other people's code or course material;
- cheat: farm XP, use bots or scripts, run several accounts, or submit someone else's work for a quiz, boss fight, bounty or certificate;
- break the service: probe or attack it, get around access controls, encryption or download limits, or scrape it;
- use the service for anything illegal.
Our community guidelines spell these rules out. You can report any post, message, review or profile from its menu, and block people you don't want to hear from. We review reports within 24 hours and may remove content, reset XP or league results gained unfairly, or suspend accounts that break these rules.
Courses and your licence
When you enrol in a free course, buy a course or have Pro, we give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to watch and use that course for your own learning. You may not:
- share your access, or download, record, screen-capture, copy, resell, re-upload or publicly show course videos or materials;
- use course content to teach a competing course or to build a dataset, including for training AI models.
Code shown in lessons may be used in your own projects unless the instructor says otherwise.
Offline downloads
In our apps, you can download lessons to watch offline. Downloads are encrypted, can only be played inside the app on the device that downloaded them, and are limited to a set number of devices. They need to be renewed from time to time while you're online, and they stop playing when your access ends, for example after a refund, when Pro ends for a Pro course, or when you remove the device.
How long access lasts
Free courses and courses you buy have no time limit for as long as your account is active and the course is available on withsilasogar. Courses included in Pro are available while your Pro subscription is active. Courses can change: instructors update, reorder and occasionally retire lessons. If we have to withdraw a course you paid for, we'll tell you in advance.
Purchases, Pro and refunds
Purchases happen on the website and are processed by Stripe. Prices are shown at checkout, in the currency shown there, and may include taxes where they apply. We don't sell courses or Pro inside the iOS and Android apps.
Courses
Buying a course is a one-time payment. Paid courses come with a 14-day refund window: if a course isn't right for you, contact us within 14 days of purchase and we'll refund you in full. When a course is refunded, your access to it and its offline downloads end.
Pro
- Pro is a subscription, billed monthly or yearly, that unlocks every course marked Pro and a bigger daily AI tutor allowance. It renews automatically until you cancel.
- Cancel any time from Billing. You keep Pro until the end of the period you've paid for, then Pro courses lock again. Your progress, XP and certificates are kept.
- We don't refund the unused part of a monthly or yearly period, except where the law gives you a right to a refund.
- If a payment fails, Pro stays on for a 3-day grace period while you update your card. After that it pauses until payment goes through.
- If we change the price of Pro, we'll tell you before it applies to your next renewal, so you can cancel first.
Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under consumer law where you live, including any right to cancel a purchase.
Certificates
When you finish a course and beat its final boss, you earn a certificate with a public verification page. A certificate shows that you completed that course on withsilasogar. It isn't an accredited qualification or a licence to practise. If we find a certificate was earned by cheating or someone else's work, we may revoke it. Deleting your account also revokes your certificates.
The AI tutor
The AI tutor, Path Finder and lesson takeaways are generated by an AI model (Anthropic's Claude) from the lesson's material and your question. They're there to help you learn, and:
- they can be wrong, incomplete or out of date, even when they sound confident. Check anything important against the lesson, official documentation or a person you trust;
- they are not professional advice: not legal, financial, investment, tax, medical or security advice. Courses about money, Web3 or security are educational;
- you're responsible for what you do with an answer, including running code it suggests;
- there's a daily message allowance (10 a day on the free plan, 100 with Pro), and the tutor may be paused at times;
- don't use it to create content that breaks these terms.
What you post
You keep ownership of what you post: questions, answers, messages, showcase projects, bounty submissions and reviews. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, display and share it on the service, and to adapt it to fit the service (for example, resizing an image or linking an answer to a lesson). This licence ends when you delete the content. If you delete your account, posts in shared spaces stay so conversations still make sense, but they show "Deleted user" and no longer link to you. You confirm you have the right to post what you post.
Instructors and collaborators
If you teach on withsilasogar, as an instructor or as a collaborator on someone else's course:
- You keep ownership of your course content. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive licence to host, encrypt, stream, sell, include in Pro (if you choose to), make available for offline download in our apps, promote, and create transcripts, captions, AI tutor answers, takeaways and quiz drafts from it, for as long as the course is on the service and for a reasonable time after you remove it so existing learners can finish.
- You confirm you own or have permission to use everything in your course, and that it doesn't break anyone's rights or the law.
- Revenue shares are the ones shown in Studio when you set up or accept a collaboration. Sale shares become payable after the 14-day refund window, and refunds reverse shares that haven't been paid yet.
- The community rules apply to you too, and we may unpublish courses that break these terms.
- Before you can delete your account, transfer or unpublish the courses you own.
Our intellectual property
The withsilasogar name, logo, design, software, Skill Map, game mechanics and our own courses and films belong to us or our licensors. These terms don't give you any rights to them beyond using the service as intended. If you send us feedback or ideas, we may use them without owing you anything.
Suspension and termination
You can stop using the service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close your account, or remove content, if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, if the law requires it, or to protect other people or the service. Where we reasonably can, we'll tell you why and give you a chance to respond.
If we close your account for no fault of yours, we'll refund the unused part of any Pro period and courses you bought in the previous 14 days. Sections of these terms that by their nature should survive (such as licences you gave us for content already shared, disclaimers and limits of liability) continue after your account ends.
Disclaimers
We work hard to keep withsilasogar useful and running, but we provide the service "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we don't promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that courses will lead to a job, income or particular result, or that content from instructors, other learners or the AI tutor is accurate. Learning outcomes depend on you.
Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows:
- we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses, such as lost profits, lost data, or business interruption;
- our total liability to you for any claim related to the service is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or 100 US dollars.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that can't legally be limited, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and disputes will be handled by the courts of Nigeria. If you're a consumer living elsewhere, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country and can bring a claim in your local courts. Before going to court, please email us: most problems are solved faster that way.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the service changes. We'll change the date at the top, and if a change matters, we'll tell you in the app or by email at least 14 days before it takes effect. If you keep using the service after that, the new terms apply. If you don't agree, you can delete your account.
Contact
Questions about these terms, refunds or a report: hello@withsilasogar.com, or use the contact page.