Terms of Service

Ilya Vaiman, a sole proprietor trading as Protocol15 operates the Protocol15 service. These Terms form an agreement between you and Ilya Vaiman for use of the Protocol15 website, host accounts, hosted sessions, participant access, and related service features.

Lemon Squeezy acts as Merchant of Record for self-serve purchases and handles the checkout and payment transaction under the terms shown at checkout. Lemon Squeezy does not operate the Protocol15 website, accounts, or hosted sessions.

Protocol15 is a SaaS-style web application for hosted survival-ranking exercises in live group sessions. Hosts create sessions, participants join by link or code, teams rank items, and the product provides scoring, reference comparisons, results, debrief materials, and related session outputs.

Paid session packs, when available, provide access to software features for hosts. Protocol15 does not sell coaching, consulting, advisory services, expert-community access, certification, exam preparation, contest entries, prizes, gambling, betting, or regulated professional services.

Protocol15 is a facilitation and game product. It is not an emergency, survival, medical, psychological, employment, legal, financial, or formal educational-assessment service.

Hosts must be able to enter into a binding agreement and are responsible for the sessions they create, configure, and invite others to join.

Protocol15 is not directed to children under 13. Hosts who use the service with minors, students, classrooms, or youth groups are responsible for required consent, supervision, school approvals, privacy obligations, and appropriate use.

Participants may join sessions without creating accounts, but they must follow these Terms and any reasonable instructions from the host.

Hosts are responsible for:

If you believe your account or session has been compromised, contact auth@protocol15.com.

Participants usually join a session using a room code, invite link, or facilitator-provided access flow. A room code or join link may allow access to the related session, so hosts should share it only with intended participants.

Protocol15 may remove stale participants, limit access, expire links, invalidate sessions, or apply other safeguards when needed to protect reliability, security, or the session experience.

You may not use Protocol15 for unlawful, harmful, deceptive, infringing, abusive, harassing, discriminatory, exploitative, or unsafe activity.

You may not use Protocol15 to:

You should not enter sensitive personal information, regulated data, confidential business information, payment card numbers, passwords, government IDs, health data, or information about children beyond what is strictly necessary for a session.

Hosts and participants are responsible for the content they provide, including names, nicknames, team names, rankings, messages, session configuration, and any other submitted information.

You grant Protocol15 a limited right to host, process, display, transmit, copy, store, secure, support, analyze, and use that content as needed to operate, maintain, improve, and enforce the service.

You retain ownership of content you submit, subject to the rights granted in these Terms.

Scenario materials, reference rankings, explanations, scores, comparisons, results, trajectory data, and completion PDFs are provided for game, learning, and facilitation purposes.

They may include fictional, simplified, adapted, or source-inspired material. They are not professional advice, safety instructions, training certification, credentials, exam results, proof of competence, or validated assessment output.

Hosts are responsible for how they present, interpret, discuss, export, or reuse session results with participants or organizations.

Protocol15 and/or its licensors own the website, application, software, interface, visual design, workflows, brand elements, scenario text, facilitator and guide content, item descriptions, images, illustrations, scoring presentation, generated pages, documentation, and related materials.

You may use Protocol15 only through the intended product experience. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, redistribute, modify, extract, scrape, download in bulk, use, or adapt Protocol15 content, visuals, scenario materials, item images, guide content, or related assets for another website, app, game, workshop, deck, training product, dataset, or commercial purpose without prior written permission from Protocol15.

Some third-party materials may be licensed for use within Protocol15 only. Access to the service does not grant you ownership of, or any separate license to reuse, those materials outside Protocol15.

These Terms do not transfer ownership of Protocol15, its content, or its materials to you.

Protocol15 may offer free, trial, paid, beta, session-credit, or enterprise features.

Free Demo is available now. Session packs are one-time purchases, not subscriptions. Self-serve paid access uses prepaid session credits, not subscriptions. Available packs include a Single Session, 5-Session Pack, and 20-Session Pack. Free Demo runs are limited to the rules shown in the product, and one paid credit lets a host start one full live Protocol15 session. Creating drafts, configuring teams, testing the lobby, and participant joining before live play do not consume demo runs or credits.

Lemon Squeezy processes self-serve checkout as Merchant of Record. Final prices, taxes, room limits, and refund terms are shown at checkout, in the product, or in a linked billing policy. Paid credits are valid for 12 months unless checkout, applicable law, or a separate written agreement says otherwise.

Unless the checkout flow, applicable law, or a separate written agreement says otherwise:

Protocol15 relies on third-party providers for infrastructure, hosting, authentication, analytics, email delivery, payments, storage, security, and other operations.

Third-party services may be governed by their own terms and privacy practices. Protocol15 is not responsible for third-party services outside its reasonable control.

Protocol15 may add, change, suspend, limit, or remove features, scenarios, packs, plans, limits, integrations, or content at any time.

Some features may be experimental, incomplete, unavailable, or subject to change. The service may be interrupted by maintenance, provider outages, network issues, browser behavior, security events, or other operational conditions.

Protocol15 is not required to maintain any specific feature, scenario, workflow, pack, plan, or integration indefinitely.

Protocol15 may suspend or terminate access, remove content, disable sessions, expire links, or refuse service when needed to protect the product, users, legal compliance, payment integrity, security, or these Terms.

You may stop using Protocol15 at any time.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination will continue to apply, including payment obligations, intellectual property, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, privacy, and dispute-related terms.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Protocol15 is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise.

Protocol15 does not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, accurate, complete, or available at all times. Protocol15 disclaims all warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, and reliability.

You are responsible for deciding whether Protocol15 is appropriate for your session, audience, organization, and use case.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Protocol15 and its owners, operators, affiliates, suppliers, and licensors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, punitive, or lost-profit damages.

This includes loss of data, goodwill, business, revenue, opportunities, expected outcomes, or claims arising from:

To the maximum extent permitted by law, total liability for all claims is limited to the greater of the amount paid to Protocol15 for the service in the three months before the claim or 100 USD.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Protocol15 and its owners, operators, affiliates, suppliers, and licensors from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from:

The Protocol15 Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, stored, and shared.

By using Protocol15, you acknowledge the Privacy Policy.

For privacy requests, contact support@protocol15.com.

Protocol15 may update these Terms as the product, providers, legal requirements, or business model change.

Updated Terms will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Continued use of Protocol15 after changes means you accept the updated Terms.

For questions about these Terms, contact support@protocol15.com.

For account access or authentication issues, contact auth@protocol15.com.

For privacy requests, contact support@protocol15.com.