Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and the developer of Glossnote (contactable at valeriachub.dev@gmail.com, “we,” “us”), governing your use of the Glossnote mobile application (“the App”). By downloading, installing, or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the App.

1. What Glossnote is

Glossnote is a language-learning notebook app. It lets you write or paste text, tap words to look them up (via a bundled offline dictionary or an online translation lookup), save translations, and organize your vocabulary into notebooks.

2. License to use the App

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the App on devices you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial language-learning purposes. You may not copy, modify, reverse-engineer, redistribute, or create derivative works from the App itself, except to the extent applicable law gives you the right to do so despite this restriction.

3. Your content

Any text, notes, or translations you enter into the App (“Your Content”) remains yours. We claim no ownership over it. As described in our Privacy Policy, Your Content is stored locally on your device and is not transmitted to us. You are solely responsible for Your Content and for keeping your own backups if you care about not losing it — we have no server-side copy to restore it from.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the App to:

• violate any applicable law or the rights of any third party;
• attempt to disrupt, overload, or abuse the third-party services the App relies on (see Section 5), for example through automated bulk lookups; or

5. Third-party services

The App relies on third-party services to function, including:

• Lingva Translate, an independent translation service, used to fetch translations for words and sentences you look up; and
• Google Firebase (Analytics, Crashlytics, Remote Config), used for usage analytics, crash reporting, and remote configuration.

These services are operated independently of us, and their availability, accuracy, and terms are outside our control. Translations returned by these services are provided for reference and language-learning purposes only and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unavailable at times. Do not rely on them for anything where translation accuracy is critical (e.g. medical, legal, or safety-critical contexts).

6. Purchases

If and when a paid “Pro” upgrade is offered within the App, any such purchase will be processed through the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, as applicable, and will be subject to that store’s own payment, refund, and subscription terms in addition to these Terms. We do not directly process or store your payment information.

7. Intellectual property

The App’s design, branding, source code, and bundled assets (including the bundled dictionary data, to the extent of our rights in it) are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. These Terms do not grant you any rights to our trademarks, logos, or branding beyond what is needed to use the App as intended.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

The App is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that translation lookups will always be available or accurate.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, arising out of or related to your use of (or inability to use) the App, including loss of Your Content due to device failure, uninstallation, or any other cause. Because Your Content is stored only on your device, you are responsible for backing it up if it matters to you.

Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law, including mandatory consumer-protection rights you may have in your country of residence.

10. Termination

You may stop using the App at any time by uninstalling it. We may suspend or discontinue the App, or any of its features (including third-party services it relies on), at any time, with or without notice, though we will try to give reasonable notice of major changes where practical.

11. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time, for example to reflect new features. We will update the “Effective date” above when we do. Continuing to use the App after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Ukraine, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles, as the App is developed and operated from Ukraine. This does not deprive you of any protection you are entitled to under the mandatory consumer-protection laws of the country in which you reside, where such laws apply and cannot be waived by agreement.

13. Contact us

Questions about these Terms can be sent to valeriachub.dev@gmail.com.