Last updated: August 10, 2025
1. Welcome to Lingolix!
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Lingolix Kanji application, website, and related services (collectively, the "Service"), provided by Lingolix UG (haftungsbeschränkt). By creating an account or using our Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. This is a legal agreement, so please read it carefully.
2. Our Service
Lingolix provides a platform for learning Japanese kanji through a unique, shape-centric methodology. The Service includes learning materials, stroke practice, pronunciation drills, and a personalized Spaced Repetition System (SRS) to help you learn and retain knowledge effectively.
3. Subscriptions & Billing
The Service is offered under a "freemium" model.
- Free Tier: You can access the first 50 kanji and their related vocabulary free of charge. This allows you to experience the core features of our Service before committing.
- Full Access Subscription: To unlock the complete Jōyō kanji set and all associated learning content, you must purchase a recurring monthly subscription ("Subscription").
- Billing: Subscriptions are managed and billed through the platform you use to subscribe: the Apple App Store, the Google Play Store, or Stripe for web purchases. All payments are subject to the terms and conditions of these third-party platforms.
- Automatic Renewal: Your Subscription will automatically renew at the end of each billing cycle unless you cancel it. You can manage and cancel your Subscription through your account settings on the respective platform (Apple, Google, or the Stripe Customer Portal).
- Cancellation Policy: If you cancel your Subscription, you will retain access to the paid content until the end of your current billing period. Afterwards, your account will revert to the Free Tier. You will still be able to review all kanji you have previously learned (including those from the paid tier), but you will not be able to start learning new paid content.
- Price Changes: We reserve the right to change our subscription fees. We will provide you with reasonable prior notice of any price changes to give you an opportunity to cancel your subscription before such change becomes effective.
4. Your Content and Our License to You
To use our Service, you will create an account and generate content through your learning activities. Here’s how we handle content:
- Our Content: The learning materials, texts, graphics, user interface, and all other materials provided by Lingolix are our exclusive property ("Our Content"). We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use Our Content solely for your personal, non-commercial learning purposes through the Service.
- Your Content: Our Service allows you to create your own content, such as stroke practice drawings, voice recordings for pronunciation practice, and notes in your journal ("Your Content"). You retain ownership of Your Content.
- License to Us: By creating Your Content, you grant Lingolix a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, and analyze Your Content for the purposes of operating, providing, and improving the Service. For example, we use your practice data to power your personal SRS algorithm and to improve our stroke recognition models. This license ends when you delete your account or specific content.
5. User Conduct and Responsibilities
You are responsible for your account and any activity that occurs through it. You agree not to misuse the Service, including but not limited to, attempting to access locked content without a subscription, reverse-engineering our learning models, or infringing on the intellectual property rights of others.
6. Data Privacy and Export
Your privacy is important to us. Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data. The Service also provides you with the ability to export your learning data in a JSON format, in accordance with GDPR principles.
7. Termination
You are free to stop using our Service at any time. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Service with or without notice if you breach these Terms.
8. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
The Service is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. Lingolix is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service.
9. Governing Law
These Terms shall be governed by the laws of Germany, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
10. Changes to These Terms
We may modify these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you in advance to give you an opportunity to review them before they become effective. Your continued use of the Service after the changes take effect constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at info@lingolix.com.