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SoDa Book Terms of Service

Last updated: 11 November 2026 · Effective from: 12 November 2026

Hello! These Terms are an agreement between you and SoDa Book for using the SoDa Book interactive story app at sodabook.app. Please read them carefully, especially Section 5 (Responsibility for content) and Section 8 (S-Point, Pass and payments).

1. About these Terms

1.1. SoDa Book — "The Book You Play" is an interactive story service in which artificial intelligence (AI) continues the story based on your choices (the "Service").

1.2. The Service is operated by SoDa Book ("we", "us"). Contact: sodabooksupports@gmail.com. Once SoDa Book is registered as a business, its legal name, enterprise code and address will be added here.

1.3. By signing in to or using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

2. Definitions

  • Original Content: what SoDa Book creates and provides in advance, including characters, settings, story worlds, opening situations, pre-set ending milestones, images, audio, the interface, and the "SoDa Book" and "SoDa Book Originals" names and brand.
  • Your Input: the choices you tap and any text you type while playing (such as dialogue, actions or a direction you write yourself).
  • AI-Generated Content (or Output): story passages, dialogue, images or audio generated by AI while you play.
  • Turn: one time the AI continues the story after your choice.
  • S-Point: the service unit used inside SoDa Book (see Section 8).
  • Pass: a prepaid, time-limited usage package (see Section 8).

3. Eligibility and accounts

3.1. Age. You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. Some stories contain romance, scheming or psychological horror suitable for ages 16+.

3.2. Users under 18 may buy a Pass or S-Point only with the consent of a parent or legal guardian.

3.3. Account. You sign in with a Google account. You are responsible for keeping your account secure and for all activity under it. One account per person; accounts may not be sold, rented or transferred.

3.4. Beta. During the beta period, the Service may be invite-only, have turn limits, and may change, have errors or be paused without notice.

4. How the Service works

4.1. We provide the story frame; AI writes what happens. SoDa Book provides the Original Content (characters, settings, opening situations and some ending milestones). What happens in each turn is generated by AI based on your choices and Your Input, so each reader may get a different story.

4.2. AI-Generated Content is fiction. It may be wrong, repetitive, inconsistent, different from the story description, or not what you expected. It is not fact, not SoDa Book's opinion, and not advice (medical, legal, financial, psychological or otherwise). Any resemblance to real people or events is coincidental.

4.3. AI labelling. Content in the stories is created or edited with AI and is disclosed or labelled in the app as required by Vietnamese law on artificial intelligence.

4.4. Shared story paths. To keep stories consistent and costs down, passages the AI writes when you pick pre-set choices may be saved and shown in exactly the same form to other readers who take the same path. Passages that result from text you type yourself are not reused for other readers. Please do not put real personal information into stories.

5. Responsibility for content

5.1. Who is responsible for what.

  • SoDa Book is responsible for the Original Content we provide.
  • You are responsible for: (a) all your choices and Your Input; (b) AI-Generated Content produced in a direction you actively steer through your choices or Your Input; and (c) copying, posting, sharing or using AI-Generated Content outside the Service.

5.2. Do not steer the AI into prohibited content. You must not enter, request or deliberately steer the AI toward content listed in Section 6, and must not try to bypass the Service's filters or safety limits (for example "jailbreaks" or fake system instructions).

5.3. When you share outside the Service, you are the person publishing that information online and are legally responsible for it. Please make clear that it was created with AI on SoDa Book.

5.4. What we do. We take reasonable measures to limit prohibited content (story design, instructions to the AI, filters, topic limits), accept reports, and may refuse to generate, hide or remove content, or suspend accounts, when we find a violation or when a competent authority requires it. This does not mean we review all AI-Generated Content in advance.

5.5. Reporting. If you see inappropriate content, report it to sodabooksupports@gmail.com (with the story name, time and a screenshot if possible).

5.6. Nothing in this section excludes SoDa Book's liability where the law does not allow it to be excluded.

6. Rules of use

When using the Service, you must not:

a) enter, request or share content that opposes the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; distorts history; incites violence, terrorism, or ethnic, religious or gender hatred; insults or defames others; or offends public morals and customs;

b) create or request sexual content involving anyone under 18 in any form (including fiction), or pornographic or obscene content;

c) use the name, image or information of real people to create defamatory, impersonating or misleading content; or enter other people's personal information without permission;

d) request real-world instructions for self-harm, weapons, drugs, fraud or other crimes;

e) infringe others' intellectual property (for example pasting copyrighted novels into the input box);

f) use bots, automated tools, scraping, attacks, unauthorised security testing, interference with the system, or exploit bugs to obtain extra turns or S-Point;

g) copy, resell or commercially exploit the Service or the Original Content, or use the Service or its Output to train other AI models;

h) buy, sell or trade S-Point, Passes, accounts or invite codes outside the Service.

7. Intellectual property

7.1. Original Content belongs to SoDa Book or its licensors.

7.2. AI-Generated Content. To the extent the law recognises rights in it, rights in AI-Generated Content within the Service belong to SoDa Book, as it is developed from the Original Content. We grant you a personal, non-commercial, non-exclusive licence to read it, save it for reading, and share excerpts or screenshots on social media with credit to "SoDa Book" and a note that it was generated by AI. You may not sell, publish, adapt or commercially exploit AI-Generated Content without our written consent.

7.3. Your Input. You keep any rights you have in text you write yourself. You grant SoDa Book a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to store, process and display Your Input to operate, protect and improve the Service. Your data is used to train AI models only if you separately consent (see the Privacy Policy). You confirm that you have the right to submit Your Input.

7.4. Feedback. If you send ideas or feedback about the Service, we may use them without paying you.

7.5. Copyright complaints. If you believe content on the Service infringes your rights, email us with evidence of your rights and we will review and act on it.

8. S-Point, Pass and payments

8.1. S-Point is a service unit used only inside SoDa Book for reading turns and other features (such as illustrations or supporting a story). S-Point is not money, has no cash value, cannot be transferred to another account and cannot be bought or sold outside the Service.

8.2. Sources of S-Point. S-Point may come from purchases (paid S-Point), daily check-ins, check-in streaks, events or gifts (free S-Point). Free S-Point expires (currently 7 days for check-in S-Point). Any expiry period for paid S-Point is shown before you pay. Expired S-Point cannot be restored or refunded. The order in which S-Point is used is shown in the Wallet.

8.3. Pass is a 30-day prepaid package that does not renew automatically. A Pass includes a number of reading turns for its term, a daily turn limit and other benefits described at the time of purchase. Unused Pass turns expire when the Pass expires.

8.4. Prices and payment. Prices are shown in Vietnamese dong (đ). Payment is by bank transfer using a VietQR code (currently through the SePay service). Your Pass or S-Point is added after the system confirms the transaction; if you transfer the wrong amount or reference, contact us with your receipt. Price changes do not affect packages you have already bought.

8.5. Refunds. You may request a refund:

  • within 7 days of purchase, if you have not used any S-Point from that S-Point pack or any turn from that Pass;
  • if you were charged twice, or paid but did not receive your Pass or S-Point because of our error;
  • in other cases required by Vietnamese consumer protection law.

Turns deducted in error by a system fault will be returned as turns or S-Point. Refunds are sent to the bank account used for payment within 10 business days after the request is confirmed. Send requests to sodabooksupports@gmail.com with your account email and receipt.

8.6. If the Service closes, we will give at least 30 days' notice and refund the corresponding value of any unexpired Pass and unused paid S-Point.

9. Changes and interruptions

We may update, edit, add or remove stories, and change AI models, features or the interface to improve the Service. The Service may be interrupted for maintenance or for reasons beyond our control. We will try to give advance notice of changes that significantly affect you.

10. Suspension and termination

10.1. You may stop using the Service and ask us to delete your account at any time (on the Profile page or by email).

10.2. We may limit, suspend or terminate your account if you breach these Terms or the law, or if a competent authority requires it. We will tell you why unless the law does not allow it. You may respond if you think the decision is wrong.

10.3. S-Point or turns obtained through fraud or bug exploitation will be removed. If an account is terminated for a serious breach, unused paid balance is handled in accordance with the law.

11. Limitation of liability

11.1. The Service is provided "as is". We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that AI-Generated Content will always be accurate, consistent or what you wanted.

11.2. To the extent permitted by law, SoDa Book is not liable for indirect losses arising from your use or sharing of AI-Generated Content, and our total liability to you will not exceed the amount you paid for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

11.3. The limit in Section 11.2 does not apply to damage caused by our intentional fault, by breach of our personal data protection obligations, or where Vietnamese consumer protection law does not allow such a limit.

12. Indemnity

If you breach these Terms or the law (for example by sharing prohibited content or infringing others' rights) and this causes loss to, or a claim against, SoDa Book, you are responsible for compensating that loss in proportion to your fault, as provided by law.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes, we will notify you in the app or by email at least 7 days before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after the effective date, you are treated as accepting the update; if you do not agree, you may stop using the Service and request a refund under Section 8.5 (if eligible).

14. Governing law and disputes

14.1. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

14.2. If a dispute arises, both sides will first try to resolve it through negotiation. You can send a complaint to sodabooksupports@gmail.com and we will reply within 7 business days. If it cannot be resolved, you may request mediation, complain to the state authority for consumer protection, or bring a claim before a competent court in Vietnam.

15. Language and severability

15.1. These Terms are available in Vietnamese and English. If they differ, the Vietnamese version prevails.

15.2. If any provision is found invalid, the remaining provisions stay in effect.

16. Contact

SoDa Book · sodabooksupports@gmail.com · sodabook.app