Terms of Use
Last updated: 2026-11-11 (version 2026-11-11)
This English translation is provided for convenience. The Portuguese version prevails.
These Terms of Use are the agreement between you and the party responsible for GameTale, a platform for reading and creating interactive visual-novel stories. They apply to the website, the reader, the editor and every other part of the service (together, the “Service”).
We have written them in plain language. Clauses that limit your rights, or that the law requires us to highlight, appear in bordered boxes in bold. Please read those with particular care.
1. Who we are
The Service is provided by Leonardo da Silva Lopes, a natural person (pessoa física) responsible for GameTale, registered under CPF number 489.788.068-80, with an address at Rua Ãtalo Valdomiro Gullo, 133. In these terms, “GameTale”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to that party.
Operator contact: support@gametale.app. For support, questions about these terms, privacy and legal requests, write to support@gametale.app.
2. Accepting these terms
When you create an account, you confirm that you have read and accept these terms. You can also read published stories without an account; when you use the Service that way, these terms apply to the extent relevant.
These terms are complemented by other documents, which form part of the same agreement:
- the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy, on how we handle your personal data;
- the Community Guidelines, on what may and may not be published;
- the Content Ratings and AI Disclosure page;
- the Subscription and Billing Terms and the Refund Policy, if you subscribe to a paid plan;
- the Revenue Share Program Terms, if you monetize a story;
- the Copyright Policy and the Minors and Parents page.
These terms are written in Brazilian Portuguese, and that version prevails. This English version is a courtesy translation.
3. Accounts and minimum age
- You must be at least 17 to create an account (Brazilian Law 15.211/2025, the Digital Statute of Children and Adolescents, art. 24). Reading published stories needs no account and is open to anyone. See Minors and Parents.
- You must be 18 or older to subscribe to a paid plan, make any payment or monetize your stories.
- We ask for your date of birth at sign-up. Once it is recorded, you cannot change it yourself: a correction is made only by support, with proof. This exists so that nobody changes their age to unlock payments or monetization.
- Your account details must be true and kept up to date. Each account is personal and belongs to a single person.
Accounts opened when the minimum age was 13 whose holder is not yet 17 are paused: nobody can sign in to them, the account is hidden from the public and nothing is deleted. The account starts working again automatically on the day its holder turns 17. If a paused account has a subscription, its renewal is cancelled automatically. If an account with a subscription belongs to someone under 18, paid reading features stop working and a refund is reviewed by the party responsible for GameTale. Both rules are set out in the Subscription and Billing Terms.
4. Account security
You are responsible for keeping your password secret and for what happens in your account while access is under your control. Do not share your account or your credentials.
If you notice any use you did not authorize, change your password and tell support at support@gametale.app as soon as you can. We will never ask for your password by email.
5. Your content
The stories, chapters, characters, images, sounds, comments and everything else you create or upload to the Service (“your content”) remain yours. These terms do not transfer to us ownership of anything you created.
5.1 The license you give us
So that the Service can work, you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce and display your content, and to adapt its format (for example image size, compression or on-screen layout) only for technical reasons and so that it works on different devices. We may also use excerpts, the cover and the title of your published works to promote the Service itself, on and off the Service.
This license exists only to operate, maintain and promote the Service. It ends when you unpublish or delete the work, with these exceptions:
- cached copies, which expire in the normal course of our systems’ operation;
- backup copies, kept for the retention period described in the Privacy Policy;
- what readers have already shared, such as quotes and links;
- cases where the law requires us to keep the content.
5.2 Drafts and other people’s works
Your drafts are yours alone. We never display, promote or use an unpublished draft, and drafts are not covered by the promotion license above.
You may not republish, remix or create derivative works from other users’ stories without the author’s authorization. If you believe someone has used your work without permission, see the Copyright Policy.
5.3 Moral rights and your warranties
Your moral rights as an author, such as the right to be credited as the author and to preserve the integrity of the work, are inalienable and cannot be waived (Brazilian Law 9.610/1998, arts. 24 and 27). Nothing in these terms sets them aside.
When you publish, you warrant that you hold the necessary rights to everything you publish, including third-party images, music and text, and that the content does not infringe anyone’s rights.
6. Content ratings and AI disclosure
Each story must carry the correct rating (General or Teen). No sexually explicit content is allowed on GameTale, at any rating. Our team may re-rate a story or remove it from the catalogue when its rating is wrong.
If an account, the text of a story, or a story's images or audio are generated by artificial intelligence, you must say so truthfully, so that the right label is shown: for a story, by checking “The text of this story was generated by AI” and/or “Images or audio were generated by AI” when you create it or in its details; for an account, by telling us. The labels are information for readers only and do not affect the story’s position in the catalogue. Misrepresenting them is a breach of these terms. Details in Content Ratings and AI Disclosure.
7. Paid features
GameTale sells subscriptions in Brazil only, in reais, by card or Pix. The plans, their features and prices are on the Pricing page and are confirmed at checkout, before you complete the purchase.
Subscriptions paid by card renew automatically until you cancel; a period paid by Pix does not renew by itself. The full rules on billing, the free trial, renewal, cancellation and withdrawal are in the Subscription and Billing Terms and the Refund Policy.
With an account, you can join the waitlist for paid plans and tick what interests you most. Joining has a single purpose: sending you one email when paid plans launch. You can change your answers or leave the list whenever you like, on the waitlist page itself, and your entry is also erased if you delete your account. See the Privacy Policy.
8. Author revenue share
For now, the program is not in force: no revenue is shared with authors. It takes effect when it is switched on, and we will tell you beforehand.
Once the program is active, authors aged 18 or older may monetize their stories and receive part of subscription revenue, under the Revenue Share Program Terms, which must be accepted separately. AI-generated accounts, and stories whose text is AI-generated, do not take part in the program. Only original works take part: fanfiction, and stories that use the characters or world of other works, do not, as the Copyright Policy explains. Misdeclaring AI-generated text is a violation of these terms: the story's unpaid earnings are held and reversed, its monetization is turned off, and repeated or serious cases can lead to exclusion from the program. We may review production-pattern signals and reports, ask for evidence of your writing process, and decide by human review; we send you the reasons, and you can appeal within 30 days.
9. Prohibited conduct
The Community Guidelines describe the rules in detail. In short, you may not:
- publish sexually explicit content, content that sexualizes minors, hate speech, threats or harassment;
- publish content that infringes copyright, trademarks, privacy or other third-party rights;
- impersonate another person, hide that content was generated by AI, or present AI-generated text as your own;
- inflate reads, create fake accounts or manipulate metrics, achievements or the revenue share;
- try to access other people’s accounts or data, get around technical limits, overload the Service or collect data by automated means without authorization;
- use the Service for any unlawful purpose.
10. Moderation, account suspension and termination
Anyone can report a story or a profile with the report button in the Service, and any content, comments included, by email. Moderation decisions are made by a person, not automatically. How to report, how we decide and how to appeal are described in Reporting, Moderation and Appeals.
If you breach these terms or the Community Guidelines, we may, depending on how serious the breach is, remove or re-rate content, remove it from the catalogue, suspend your account until a set date (at most 365 days; the suspension ends by itself) or ban it (a ban lasts until the team lifts it). While suspended or banned, you cannot sign in, and your profile, stories and comments are hidden, but not deleted. We email you the decision, the reason and the note written by whoever decided, unless the law forbids it or the notice would put other people at risk, and you may appeal within 30 days by writing to support@gametale.app. A ban ends an active subscription and refunds the unused paid days pro rata, except when the reason is payment fraud: in that case nothing is refunded. A suspension also ends an active subscription and refunds the unused paid days pro rata, except when the reason is payment fraud: in that case nothing is refunded.
We may also act to comply with the law or a court order, under the Brazilian Internet Civil Framework (Marco Civil da Internet, Law 12.965/2014).
10.1 Deleting your account
You can delete your account at any time in your profile settings. As a rule, deletion is immediate and final: it erases your account and your stories and immediately cancels an active subscription, with the automatic refund described in the Subscription and Billing Terms. If you have a payout in progress or revenue share earnings not yet settled, you choose between withdrawing first, waiving those amounts and deleting now, or deferring the deletion. If you defer, the account is hidden and locked at once and erased only after the payout is paid and the month is settled, which happens at the latest around the first day of the second month after your request; until then, everything is kept. A deletion interrupted after it started is completed automatically within about an hour. The rules on earnings are in the Revenue Share Program Terms.
When you delete your account or a story, achievements previously earned by other readers on your stories may be retained as anonymized, unlinked records, to preserve their personal reading progress.
11. Availability and liability
We work to keep the Service running well and without interruptions, but it depends on the internet, on infrastructure providers and on maintenance, so it may be unavailable for short periods; whenever possible, we will announce scheduled maintenance in advance. Content published by users is the responsibility of whoever published it, and we do not review it before it is published. We are liable for defects and failures of the Service itself under the Brazilian Consumer Defense Code (Código de Defesa do Consumidor), and nothing in these terms excludes, reduces or limits that liability. For content published by users, we are liable in the cases provided for in the Marco Civil da Internet, as interpreted by Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal, Themes 987 and 533), including when, having been notified of criminal or unlawful content, we fail to remove it diligently.
12. Third-party claims over your content
If a third party brings a claim against GameTale because of content you published, or a breach of these terms committed by you, we will tell you as soon as possible, so that you can respond and, if you wish, take part in the defence. If it is established, by a court decision or by a settlement you took part in, that the damage resulted from your own act, you are liable for the loss you caused, under civil law (Brazilian Civil Code, arts. 186 and 927). This clause does not apply to claims caused by a failure on our part, and it does not allow us to charge you any amount that does not result from your own act.
13. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms when the Service or the law changes. The date of the last update is shown on this page.
For material changes, we will give advance notice, where possible at least 30 days, by email or in the Service, and we will ask you to accept the new version the next time you sign in. If you do not agree, you can cancel your subscription and delete your account before the change takes effect.
14. Governing law and venue
These terms are governed by Brazilian law, including the Consumer Defense Code (Law 8.078/1990), the Marco Civil da Internet (Law 12.965/2014), the General Data Protection Law (LGPD, Law 13.709/2018) and Decree 7.962/2013.
If you are a consumer, you may bring any claim in the courts of your own domicile (Consumer Defense Code, art. 101, I). If you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of your country of residence.
15. General provisions and contact
If any clause of these terms is held invalid, the rest remain in force. If we do not enforce a rule, that does not mean we have waived it.
Questions, requests and complaints: support@gametale.app. Operator contact: support@gametale.app.
16. Current phase: a natural-person operator and transfer of the agreement
Today the Service is operated by a natural person, not by a company. The operator answers personally to you for the Service, under the Consumer Defence Code and the LGPD, and the details that identify the operator are in section 1.
In this phase there is no withdrawal: the balance credited to an author in the revenue share program is only recorded and accumulates, with no interest or adjustment, and is not paid out in money. Withdrawal will open only once a legal entity (pessoa jurídica) is responsible for GameTale. A recorded balance does not expire, and refunds and reversals keep reducing amounts as described in the Revenue Share Program Terms. This applies to authors resident in Brazil or abroad.
The operator may assign and transfer this agreement, the recorded balances and the data needed to the legal entity that succeeds it in running GameTale, with prior notice by email and without worsening your rights. The assignment does not change your balance, and you may close your account at any time, before or after it.