Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and YIAN TANG (“Ashore”, “we”, “us”). They cover your use of Ashore, including the website and the Ashore mobile app. By creating an account or using Ashore, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use Ashore.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal information.

You may start anonymously, and use Apple, Google or an email verification code where those sign-in options are offered. Keep access to your sign-in method secure. Your account is personal; do not share it. Contact us if you suspect unauthorized access.

You must be at least 13. Users aged 13–17 need a parent or guardian’s permission and any additional authorization required by local law.

Free access and usage limits are shown in the service. Ashore Pro unlocks the paid features described at purchase. Do not assume that every feature or usage amount is unlimited.

Monthly: $19.99; every 3 months: $39.99.

Website prices are in US dollars (USD). IELTS® and TOEFL® test preparation subscriptions are purchased separately at the same price. Each amount is the subscription fee for one full billing period of one subscription. The price shown is the total you pay for each billing period; no tax is added at checkout. Your bank may charge currency conversion fees. iOS prices and available plans are shown by Apple before purchase.

Website purchases use Stripe; iOS purchases use Apple In-App Purchase. Both subscriptions renew automatically. The applicable platform shows its price, currency, taxes and duration before purchase. Price changes follow applicable notice and consent requirements.

Eligible redemption codes and invitation rewards may grant Pro days under their stated conditions. Granted days have no cash value and do not create an auto-renewing subscription by themselves. They do not automatically cancel or postpone an existing Apple renewal.

AP + SAT on tryashore.com: the starting check and its report are free. The free plan also includes one practice day every 7 days (24 hours, up to 3 new lessons and 60 practice questions). AP + SAT Pro costs $99 a month or $199 every 3 months. The season pass is one payment of $249 through December 31, 2026, then $299, good through June 5, 2027. It has no trial and does not renew. Monthly and 3-month plans start with a 7-day free trial: you add a card, nothing is charged when the trial starts, and the first payment is charged when it ends unless you cancel first. One trial per student.

Apple purchases are charged to your Apple Account when you confirm. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends; Apple may charge renewal within the 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Ashore. Access normally continues through the paid period. Apple handles refund requests under its refund policy at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Website subscriptions renew through Stripe until canceled. On tryashore.com go to Settings → Billing → Cancel subscription to stop automatic renewal. A normal cancellation stops future renewal and preserves access for the paid period. Contact support@tryashore.com for website billing or refund requests; applicable consumer rights remain in force.

Uninstalling the app does not cancel any subscription. Deleting your account cancels website subscriptions and removes access to the account; Apple subscriptions must be canceled separately. Do not buy a second subscription merely to recover access.

AP + SAT trials and subscriptions: cancel during the free trial and you are not charged. After the first payment, monthly and 3-month plans renew automatically at the same price until canceled, and you keep access to the end of the paid period. Students cancel in Settings → Plan & billing. A parent who paid cancels with Manage payment on the report page. Within 48 hours of the first charge, you can email support@tryashore.com for a full refund.

The SAT score guarantee on the season pass and the 3-month plan has its own conditions, listed on the guarantee page. Its 4 weeks count from the first payment, not from the start of the free trial.

When you use Ashore, you agree not to:

• misuse Ashore or interfere with how it runs, including trying to get around security, usage limits or payment;
• use bots, scripts or other automated means to access, scrape or attack Ashore;
• resell, rent or share access to Ashore, or use it to offer a competing service;
• copy, reverse engineer or redistribute Ashore’s software, questions or lessons, except where the law allows it;
• upload content that is unlawful or infringes other people’s rights, or record other people without their permission.

We may suspend or close accounts that break these rules.

The examiner is generative AI, and the examiner’s voice is synthesized speech. Ashore uses AI to transcribe speech and identify errors. Reports and scores are AI-generated practice estimates, not official IELTS® or TOEFL® test results. They may be wrong and do not guarantee test-day results. Do not use them to decide university applications or visa plans.

Ashore is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the British Council, IELTS Australia Pty Ltd (owned by IDP Education Pty Ltd), Cambridge University Press & Assessment or ETS. Our questions follow the test formats and are not official questions.

IELTS® is a registered trademark of the British Council, IELTS Australia Pty Ltd and Cambridge. TOEFL® is a registered trademark of ETS. This product is not endorsed or approved by ETS.

You retain ownership of your recordings and answers. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, transmit, transcribe and analyze them only as needed to provide the service and handle lawful retention obligations. This includes the providers disclosed in the Privacy Policy.

The service license ends when your content or account is deleted, except for limited processing necessary for deletion, legal obligations or disputes. Provider retention, local diagnostic copies and public synthesized-speech caches have the limitations explained in the Privacy Policy. Ashore does not currently train models on your recordings; this is not a blanket promise about every provider’s model-improvement settings.

Ashore’s software, questions, lessons, design and brand belong to Ashore or its licensors. While you follow these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use Ashore for speaking preparation for IELTS® and the TOEFL® test.

• We keep improving Ashore and may add, change or remove features.
• You can stop using Ashore at any time and delete your account in Settings.
• We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms or if the law requires it.
• Sections that by their nature should continue after your account ends, such as ownership of content, disclaimers, limitation of liability and governing law, continue to apply.

Ashore is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we make no warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We don’t promise that Ashore will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that using it will raise your IELTS or TOEFL test score.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ashore will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or opportunities, arising from your use of Ashore. Our total liability for any claim relating to Ashore is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.

Nothing in these Terms limits rights you have under consumer protection laws that cannot be waived.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the place where the operator is based, without limiting the rights that the consumer protection laws of your country give you. Nothing here removes mandatory local rights or prevents you from bringing a claim before a court with jurisdiction under applicable law.

We may update these Terms. We will post the new version on this page and update the date at the top. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. If you keep using Ashore after a change takes effect, the updated Terms apply.

Ashore is operated by YIAN TANG. For questions about these Terms, email support@tryashore.com.

For the iOS app, Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies. These service terms supplement that license and do not replace mandatory Apple terms or your consumer rights.

Apple Standard EULA

Website subscriptions renew automatically. You may cancel at any time at Settings → Billing → Cancel subscription. Cancel by the day before the next renewal date to avoid the next charge. You can continue using the service until the paid period ends unless you request a refund that ends access earlier.

A full refund is available within 7 days of an initial purchase or renewal if you have not used Pro features during that paid period. Otherwise, no daily prorated refund is offered, except where required by law. Apple purchases follow Apple’s terms and refund procedure.

Website refund requests: support@tryashore.com

Seller information and refund policy（日本）

For website purchases, you may withdraw within 7 days of payment for a full refund if you have not used paid features. Once paid digital content starts being provided, the right to a full withdrawal within 7 days may be restricted only where the required advance notice and trial access have been provided. Unprovided separable content and mandatory rights, including remedies for defective or misdescribed services, remain protected.

After use begins, you may end the service and request a daily prorated refund: amount paid × unused days ÷ total days in the paid period. Unused days run from the effective service termination date to the end of that period. Canceling renewal alone preserves access until the period ends; request a refund separately if you want service to end earlier.

Subscriptions renew automatically. Cancel at Settings → Billing → Cancel subscription; cancellation is as straightforward as subscribing and stops billing from the next renewal. We notify you at least 30 days before a price increase or a free-to-paid conversion, and obtain your explicit consent within the 30 days before it takes effect, specifying the date, old and new prices, payment method and cancellation options. Without consent, we do not apply the increase or conversion.

App Store purchases follow Apple’s refund procedure at reportaproblem.apple.com. Mandatory consumer rights are unaffected. For disputes, contact the 1372 Consumer Counseling Center (calls charged) or the Korea Consumer Agency’s cross-border consumer portal.

Before buying, try one question on the website without registering (up to 3 submissions per IP per day, subject to service-wide capacity), and use one free IELTS® mock test and 1 free TOEFL® test mock per account. Free use does not start a paid subscription.

Website refund requests: support@tryashore.com

Seller information and refund policy (한국) · 1372 · 한국소비자원