Terms of use

Slate, a trading journal · Last changed: 18 October 2026

These terms are the agreement between you and Michael Wright, Stanmer Court, Brighton BN1 9PU, United Kingdom (“we”), who runs Slate. By creating an account you accept them. Please read them: they’re short.

Slate isn’t offered in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway yet, so accounts can’t be made from there for now. It is open in the UK, Switzerland and elsewhere.

1. What Slate is

Slate is a journal for your own trades: you log them or bring them in from your broker, and the app works out results and patterns from them. Its access to your broker is read-only: it can never place trades or move money, and it doesn’t hold money or connect to anything that can. If you log in to your broker through SnapTrade, SnapTrade keeps that read-only connection under its own terms, which you accept on its page; you can disconnect it in Settings at any time.

2. Not financial advice

Everything Slate shows describes your own past trades. None of it is financial, investment or tax advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Past results say nothing certain about the future. Your trading decisions are yours alone.

3. Your figures

The app’s figures are only as right as the trades in it. Imports read your broker’s records as the broker gives them, and some brokers and features are marked “still being tested”. A broker connected through SnapTrade is read once a day, so new trades usually appear the day after. Exchange rates are the European Central Bank’s reference rates for the day a trade opened. Check anything important against your broker’s own statements; for tax, always use those.

4. Your account

• You must be 18 or over, and the details you give must be true.
• Keep your password to yourself. You’re responsible for what happens in your account.
• Your journal belongs to you. You let us store and process it only to run the service for you (see the privacy policy).
• Don’t misuse the service: no attempts to reach other people’s data, overload it, or use it for anything unlawful.

5. Free trial and subscription

• A new account can use Slate free for 14 days, or 30 days when it’s made through a friend’s personal link.
• Starting the free trial needs a card. Nothing is charged during the trial. If you don’t cancel before it ends, your subscription starts and the first payment is taken on that day.
• After that, using it needs a subscription, at the price shown before you pay (currently $12 a month, or the amount shown in your own currency; any VAT or sales tax is shown at checkout).
• Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle handles the payment, VAT and receipts, and its buyer terms apply to the purchase.
• A subscription renews each month until you cancel. Cancel any time in Settings → Manage my plan; it then runs to the end of the month you’ve paid for. You can get a payment back within 30 days of making it: see the refund policy. This doesn’t limit your statutory rights.
• If we change the price, we tell you at least 30 days before, and you can cancel before it applies.
• Founding price. If you joined the waitlist before Slate opened and make your account with the same email address, your subscription stays at $12 a month for as long as it runs without a break, even if the price goes up. If you cancel and subscribe again later, the price at that time applies.
• Inviting friends. Each account has a personal link. When someone who made their account through your link first pays, you get a free month: your next payment moves a month later, or, if you haven’t subscribed yet, your free trial gets 30 more days. One free month per friend who pays, with no limit. Free months have no cash value and can’t be exchanged or transferred. Inviting yourself, or making accounts or payments only to earn free months, doesn’t count, and we may take back free months earned that way.
• If a subscription ends, your journal isn’t deleted: you can still sign in and download it.

6. Changes and availability

We work to keep Slate running and your data safe, but we can’t promise it will always be available or free of errors. We may change or improve features. If we ever stop the service, we’ll tell you at least 60 days ahead, so you can download your data.

7. Ending

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. We may close an account that seriously breaks these terms, after telling you why, except where the law or safety requires us to act at once.

8. Liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for trading losses or decisions made with the help of the app, or for indirect damage. Our total liability is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, for harm caused deliberately or by gross negligence, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any rights you have as a consumer that can’t be waived.

9. Law

The law of England and Wales applies. The courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction, unless consumer law gives you the right to go to court where you live.

10. Contact

[email protected], or Settings → Help and feedback in the app.