Terms of service

Last updated 31 October 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and FOANA LLC, an Indiana limited liability company ("we", "us"), which makes Selkie. By creating an account or using Selkie, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use Selkie.

1. Who can use Selkie

You must be at least 18 years old. One account per person. Keep your sign-in safe; you're responsible for what happens on your account.

2. What Selkie is

Selkie is interactive fiction. The stories are written by artificial intelligence as you play, from your choices and the story's setting. They are fiction: they can be surprising, inconsistent or simply wrong. Don't rely on anything in a story as fact or advice.

3. Your writing and your stories

• You own what you write in Selkie: your premises, your own moves and your messages.
• You let us use what you write to run Selkie for you: to write your story, keep your saves and keep the service safe.
• You may keep, share and quote the stories from your own play for personal, non-commercial use. Our original stories, characters and settings remain ours.
• If you bring in your own book or world, you confirm it's your own writing, in the public domain, or that you have permission to use it.

4. What's not allowed

• Any sexual content involving anyone under 18, in any form.
• Explicit sexual content. Romance in Selkie stays behind a closed door.
• Sexual or demeaning content about real people.
• Using Selkie to plan or carry out harm in the real world.
• Trying to extract Selkie's instructions or systems, get around its safeguards, scrape it or use it with bots.
• Reselling Selkie or access to it.

A story may turn your request in another direction, or decline it. If you repeatedly break these rules, we may suspend or close your account.

5. Ink

• Ink is what you spend to play. It lets you use Selkie; it isn't money and has no cash value. You can't sell it, transfer it or swap it for cash, except as refunds described in our refund policy.
• The cost of each action is shown before you take it. Pack prices are shown in US dollars before you pay; taxes may be added at checkout.
• Ink you buy doesn't expire while your account is open. Free ink, such as the welcome gift, may expire as stated when you receive it.
• A turn that fails to write isn't charged, and rewinding your last choice is free.
• We may change prices for future purchases and actions. Changes never take away ink you already have.

6. Paying

Payments are processed by Stripe. Depending on where you live, your purchase may be sold through Link, Stripe's checkout service, and its checkout terms also apply to the payment.

If you live in the EU or UK: when you buy ink, you ask us to make it available straight away, and you accept that you lose your right to withdraw from the purchase for ink you then use. You can still get a refund for unused ink within 14 days.

7. Closing your account

You can close your account at any time by writing to us. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts other people or Selkie at risk. If we ever shut Selkie down, we'll tell you at least 30 days before.

8. Our responsibility

We work hard to keep Selkie running well, but we provide it "as is", without guarantees that it will always be available or free of errors. To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability to you is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or US$50. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer law that can't be limited.

9. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change matters, we'll tell you in Selkie or by email before it takes effect. If you keep using Selkie after that, the new terms apply.

10. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Indiana, USA. If you live outside the US, you keep any protections the consumer law of your country gives you.

11. Contact

Questions, complaints or copyright concerns: support@playselkie.com.