Terms of use
Slate, a trading journal · Last changed: 7 October 2026
Draft. This text describes how the service works today; it has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer.
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.
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”. 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, without a card.
- After that, using it needs a subscription, at the price shown before you pay (currently $9.99 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.
- 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.