Dictoterix Terms of Service

Last updated: August 21, 2026

1. Who we are and what these Terms cover

Dictoterix ("Dictoterix", "the Service", "we", "us") is a language-learning web application operated by Leonid Plekhanov, based in Mexico ("the Operator"). The Service is available at dictoterix.com.

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and the Operator. By creating an account or using the Service, you accept these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

The Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal data and forms part of your agreement with us.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. By registering, you confirm that you are 16 or older. We do not knowingly allow younger users; if we learn that an account belongs to someone under 16, we will close it and delete its data.

3. Your account

• Registration and approval. Creating an account requires a valid email address. Account activation may be subject to manual approval by the Operator. We may decline or revoke access at our reasonable discretion, particularly to protect the Service or other users.
• Accuracy. You agree to provide accurate information and to keep your account credentials confidential. You are responsible for activity that occurs under your account.
• One person per account. Accounts are personal and may not be shared, sold, or transferred.
• Deletion. You can delete your account at any time from your account settings. Deletion is described further in the Privacy Policy.

4. The Service

Dictoterix helps you learn vocabulary and language skills through practice sessions, a structured curriculum, listening and pronunciation exercises, progress tracking, and related features.

• Free service. The Service is currently provided free of charge, with no paid features. We may introduce optional paid features (such as a premium membership tier) in the future (Section 8); if we do, they will be clearly identified and priced, and you will never be charged without your express prior consent.
• Beta / evolving service. The Service is under active development by a small team. Features may change, be added, or be removed at any time. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, error-free operation, or that any particular feature will remain available.
• Not professional instruction. The Service is a self-study aid. It is not a substitute for professional language instruction, and we make no promises about learning outcomes, exam results, or proficiency levels you will reach.
• Profile discoverability is on by default for adults. Once the date of birth on your account shows you are 18 or older, your learner profile is listed in the in-app people search by default, so that other learners can find you as a practice partner. Accounts under 18, and accounts with no date of birth on record, are never listed. You can turn this off at any time in Settings → Profile → Public profile; see the Privacy Policy for exactly what other users can see.

5. AI-generated content

Parts of the Service are powered by artificial-intelligence language models, including:

• the conversation partner you practice with during sessions;
• the companion chat messages that appear in your inbox;
• generated practice sentences, translations, explanations, and feedback.

AI-generated content is labeled or contextually identifiable as such (for example, your practice partner is not a human being). AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading — including grammar explanations and translations. It is provided for learning practice only and is not professional, medical, legal, or any other kind of advice. If something an AI says matters to you outside the app, verify it independently.

6. User content and conduct

Some features let you submit content: messages to other users, images shared in chat, feedback, reports, and your profile details ("User Content").

• Your content stays yours. You retain any rights you hold in your User Content. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, and display it solely as needed to operate the Service (for example, delivering your message to its recipient). This license ends when the content or your account is deleted, except for copies in routine backups (which expire on the backup cycle) and content we must retain to comply with law or handle abuse.
• Prohibited conduct. You must not use the Service to:
  • harass, threaten, or abuse others, or send spam or unsolicited advertising;
  • post content that is unlawful, hateful, sexually explicit, or that infringes someone else's rights (including intellectual-property and privacy rights);
  • impersonate any person, misrepresent your identity to other users, or collect other users' personal data;
  • probe, scan, overload, or attempt to breach the security of the Service, circumvent rate limits or access controls, or access data not intended for you;
  • use automated tools (bots, scrapers) against the Service without our written permission;
  • use the Service to develop a competing dataset or service, or to bulk-extract our content.
• Moderation. We may review reported content, and may remove content or restrict, suspend, or terminate accounts that violate these Terms. Users can report content and block other users in-app. We are not obligated to monitor all content and are not responsible for User Content authored by others, to the extent permitted by law.

7. Intellectual property

The Service — including its software, design, curriculum structure, sentence corpus, generated audio, illustrations, and branding — is owned by the Operator or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your own language learning. You may not copy, redistribute, sell, or create derivative works from the Service or its content except as allowed by law (such as statutory exceptions that cannot be waived).

8. Paid features (none yet)

The Service currently has no paid features and processes no payments. If we introduce optional paid features in the future (for example, a premium membership tier granting access to additional features), the following will apply:

• Paid features will be optional; the Service will remain usable without paying. Features that are free when paid features are introduced will not be moved behind a paywall without the advance notice described in Section 15.
• Prices, billing periods, and renewal and cancellation terms will be clearly displayed before you pay, and any supplemental terms governing paid features will be presented to you at purchase.
• You will never be charged without your express prior consent; there is no automatic conversion from free to paid.
• Payments will be processed by a third-party payment processor (currently planned: Stripe). We will never receive or store your full card details.
• Refunds and cancellations will honor applicable consumer law, including any mandatory withdrawal rights (for example, for consumers in the European Union or Mexico). For payment issues, contact us at support@dictoterix.com.
• Introducing paid features is a change to these Terms and will follow the notice process in Section 15.

9. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy describes what personal data we collect, why, who processes it, and your rights. Highlights: microphone audio from pronunciation practice is processed entirely on your device and never uploaded; we run no advertising or third-party analytics trackers.

10. Suspension, termination, and service changes

• By you: stop using the Service or delete your account at any time.
• By us: we may suspend or terminate your account for material or repeated violation of these Terms, for legal compliance, or to protect the Service or its users. Where reasonable, we will notify you and state the reason.
• Service changes: we may modify or discontinue the Service (in whole or part) at any time. For a discontinuation of the whole Service we will give reasonable advance notice so you can request a copy of your data.

11. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy of content (including AI-generated content), and non-infringement.

This section does not limit rights that consumer-protection law grants you and that cannot be waived by contract — including mandatory consumer rights in Mexico (Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor), the European Union, Brazil, and other jurisdictions where you reside.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Operator is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, loss of data, or loss of profits arising from your use of (or inability to use) the free Service. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount permitted by law.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

13. Indemnity

If your violation of these Terms causes a third-party claim against the Operator, you agree to compensate the Operator for reasonable resulting costs, except to the extent such an obligation is unenforceable under the consumer law of your jurisdiction.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Mexico. Disputes will be submitted to the competent courts of Querétaro, Mexico, and you and the Operator each consent to that venue.

Consumer carve-out: if you use the Service as a consumer in a jurisdiction whose law grants you mandatory protections or a mandatory local forum (for example, EU member states, Brazil, or a US state), nothing in this section deprives you of those protections or that forum. EU residents may also use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform.

Before starting formal proceedings, please contact us at support@dictoterix.com — most issues can be resolved informally.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the Service evolves. For material changes we will give notice (for example, by email or an in-app notice) at least 14 days before the change takes effect. If you continue using the Service after that date, the updated Terms apply. If you do not agree, you may delete your account before the effective date.

16. General

• If a provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.
• Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them to a successor operator of the Service (for example, a company formed by the current Operator), with notice to you.
• These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and the Operator regarding the Service.
• Language. These Terms are published in English and Spanish. The English version controls, except where the mandatory law of your jurisdiction requires otherwise — in particular, for consumers in Mexico the Spanish version governs.

17. Contact

Leonid Plekhanov

support@dictoterix.com