Terms of Service

Version 2. By creating an account and accepting these terms you agree to them. They cover what we provide, what we expect of you, and what happens if either of us decides to walk away.

1. Who these terms are between

repeat.cards (“the Service”) is run by Ivan Bezdenezhnykh, an individual established in Portugal, working as a sole trader. The same person is the controller of your personal data, as the Privacy Policy says.

Address: Rua Jorge Munõz Cardozo 1 C 2A, 2840-620 Seixal, Portugal. Email: [email protected].

These terms are an agreement between you and that person — not with a website. They apply when you create an account and accept them. If you do not agree to them, please do not use the Service.

2. What the Service is

A flashcard application for learning the words of a foreign language, with a spaced-repetition schedule that decides what to show you and when.

It is available as a website and as an Android application, which share one account and one database. Parts of it are free, and parts of it may be paid — section 7 explains how that works.

3. Your account

You need an account to use the Service, and you must be at least 13 years old to have one.

You are responsible for:

• giving accurate registration details, and an email address you can read
• keeping your password and any connected sign-in accounts secure
• what is done through your account, including through any access token you issue
• telling us promptly if you think somebody else has got into it

Confirming your email address is not a condition of using the Service, but some things depend on it — in particular, we will not send you email about the product until it is confirmed.

4. Using the Service properly

You agree not to:

• use the Service for anything unlawful, or to store or distribute unlawful content
• use it to harass, threaten or harm anybody
• try to reach parts of the Service or its systems you are not meant to
• interfere with the Service or disrupt it for other people
• upload malicious code or content
• pretend to be somebody else
• read data out of the Service by automated means beyond what the public API permits, or use one account on behalf of several people, or resell access, without our written agreement
• use the AI features for anything but the card they belong to — the chat about a card is there to help you learn that word, not to answer questions unrelated to it, and not as a general-purpose assistantuse the Service to get around an AI provider’s own terms — when you connect your own key, you remain bound by that provider’s rules

If you break these rules we may suspend or close your account. For clear cases — unlawful content, attacks on the Service — we act at once. Otherwise we will normally tell you first and give you a chance to put it right.

5. What belongs to whom

The Service itself — the software, the design, the name — belongs to Ivan Bezdenezhnykh and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights.

What you put in stays yours. We claim no ownership of your decks, your cards, the recordings or pictures you upload, or your training history. You grant us the licence we need to store them and show them back to you so that the Service can work, and we use them for nothing else — with the single exception in section 6, which covers what is sent to an AI provider and what it makes from that.

We do not use what you put in to train any AI model, and we do not sell it.

6. AI features, your keys and ours

Some features — translations, example sentences, mnemonics, pronunciation, pictures, and the chat about a card — send the text of that card to an AI provider. Two arrangements exist and you can tell which one you are on from your profile:

• You connect your own key to an AI provider. That provider bills you directly, and its own terms and privacy policy apply to that exchange.
• You connect nothing, which is the default. The calls then run on our own provider accounts, against a free allowance we set and can change. When the allowance is used up, or an hourly ceiling is reached, the feature refuses until it resets, and the Service tells you which of those happened.

What the AI produces is kept and shared. A pronunciation of a word is the same recording whoever asked for it, and a picture of an apple illustrates the same thing in every language, so paying to have either made twice helps nobody. You grant us a licence to store the text you submit for generation, and whatever the provider produces from it — recordings, pictures, and what we work out a word means — and to serve it to other users asking for the same thing, and to keep all of it after your account is closed. What those entries hold, and what they do not, is described in the Privacy Policy.

This applies only to what an AI provider makes for you. A recording or a picture you upload yourself is never shared with anybody and is deleted with your account.

We do not guarantee that anything an AI produces is correct. It can be wrong, misleading or culturally inappropriate, and you should read it before relying on it.

7. Free and paid parts

What is free and what is paid may change over time. The rules below are what does not change:

• New capabilities may arrive free or paid, and something that is free today may become paid later.
• If a capability you already use becomes paid, we will tell you inside the Service before it happens. Where that would put information you have recorded out of your reach, we will give you a reasonable period to take a copy of it first.
• The price is shown before you buy anything, and buying is always a separate act.
• A change of price never applies inside a period you have already paid for. It applies from the next renewal, and we tell you before that happens.
• You buy from a payment provider, not from us. It is the seller for that purchase: it takes the payment in its own name, handles the tax, issues the receipt, and its own terms are shown to you at the moment you pay and govern the sale.
• Anything you buy is bought at a distance, so the law gives you 14 days to change your mind, and you do not have to give a reason. That right is against the seller, and you exercise it with them. For digital things there is an exception in the law where you have agreed that supply may begin at once; whether it applies to your purchase is decided by the terms you accepted when you paid, not by this document.
• What we promise on top of that, whatever the law decides: ask us within 14 days of buying and we return the coins still on your balance. Coins you have already spent are not returned, because the work they paid for has already been done. Our refunds page is the whole of it.
• Coins bought inside the Android app are sold by Google, and Google's own refund policy applies to those.

8. Changes to the Service, and to what it holds

We may change or remove features, change how information is stored, and change or delete stored information where it is necessary to:

• change the structure or format in which information is kept
• correct errors, including entries our own software recorded wrongly
• keep the Service running, secure and maintained
• remove a feature

Work of that kind happens without telling you individually.

But if we remove a feature and the information that existed only inside it, we will tell you beforehand and give you a reasonable period to take a copy.

There is no one-click download of everything you have. Your decks and your cards can be read back out through the public API, with an access token issued from your profile. If you want a copy and that does not suit you, write to us and we will send you one.

We back the Service up regularly and keep those copies for a limited period. We may be able to recover an earlier state from them, but we cannot promise a particular day or a particular entry. If you delete something yourself, putting it back is not part of the Service — we may be able to help, and we may charge for the work of doing so. None of this affects what data protection law entitles you to, in particular a copy of your own data, which is always free.

9. Availability

We try to keep the Service available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. It may be unavailable during maintenance and updates, or because of things outside our control — including an AI provider being down, which stops the features that depend on it and nothing else.

10. Our responsibility to you

We provide the Service with reasonable care and skill. We do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted or free from errors, and spaced repetition is a learning tool rather than a promise: whether you remember the words depends on your effort, your sources and your context.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury, for intent or gross negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be excluded or limited under the law of the country where you live.

Subject to that, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability to you is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose — or, if you have paid us nothing, to whatever the law provides.

Your rights as a consumer under the law are not affected by anything in this section.

11. Ending the agreement

You can delete your account at any time from your profile settings, on the website and in the app alike. It is immediate and cannot be undone: your decks, cards, training history and uploaded files go from the running Service at once, and we will not put them back. A backup can still hold a copy for a while, as section 8 says, but nothing is ever restored from one into the running Service on its own.

Two things stay behind because the licence in section 6 says so: the recordings, pictures and word meanings an AI made, which go on being served from the shared library, and a one-way hash of your address recording which version of these terms you accepted — the evidence that the licence was given. Neither carries your name or your address. A few other things outlive an account for reasons that have nothing to do with this agreement; the Privacy Policy lists every one of them, and for how long.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or the law. Where we can, we will tell you why and give you a chance to put it right first, unless telling you would itself be unlawful or would cause harm. We may also discontinue the Service entirely, with reasonable notice and a period in which to take a copy of what you have.

12. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. Every version has a number and a date, and the version published on this page is the one that applies.

When a new version changes any of the following, we will ask you to accept it before you carry on using the Service:

• who you are contracting with
• whether something you already use becomes paid, or what you already pay for changes
• what we may do with what you put into the Service, or with what the AI makes from it
• the limits on our responsibility to you
• which law applies, and where a disagreement is settled
• what we commit to providing, where a new version would promise less than this one

For anything else — rewording, clarifications, contact details, descriptions of new capabilities — we publish the new version with a new date, and say so in the Service when there is something worth reading. Carrying on using the Service is not by itself an agreement to a new version.

We keep the text of every version we publish, and will send you any of them if you ask.

13. Which law applies, and how to reach us

These terms are governed by the law of Portugal.

If you are a consumer, that choice does not deprive you of the protection given to you by provisions that cannot be departed from under the law of the country where you live. You may bring proceedings in the courts of that country, and any proceedings we bring against you will be brought there.

If you are a consumer and we cannot settle a disagreement between us, you can take it to a body that settles such things out of court, instead of or before going to a judge. For something bought online from Portugal that body is CNIACC — Centro Nacional de Informação e Arbitragem de Conflitos de Consumo, at cniacc.pt. The consumer portal at consumidor.gov.pt lists the others. Using one of them takes nothing away from your right to go to court.

Questions about these terms go to [email protected], or through our contact page.