Terms of service

These terms govern your use of Apera, operated by Erik Majláth, a sole trader registered in the Czech Republic (IČO 05546371), Prague ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using the service, you agree to them.

The service

Apera turns text you want to read into a personal vocabulary and helps you learn it through spaced-repetition cards, short generated stories, and pronunciation audio.

Your account

You must provide a valid email and keep your credentials secure. You are responsible for activity under your account. You must be at least 16 to use Apera.

Acceptable use

Use Apera lawfully. Do not upload content you have no right to use, attempt to disrupt or reverse-engineer the service, abuse or circumvent usage limits, or use it to infringe others' rights.

Your content

You keep all rights to the text and images you add. You grant us a limited licence to store and process them solely to provide the service to you — extracting vocabulary and generating study material. We do not claim ownership, do not use your content to advertise, and do not share it except with the service providers described in our privacy policy.

Your responsibilities for what you upload

You are responsible for the text and images you add. By adding them, you confirm that you own them or otherwise have the right to use them, and that doing so does not infringe anyone else's rights or break any law. Apera is for your own learning. Do not upload material you are not permitted to copy, and do not add anyone else's personal information.

Reporting infringement

If you believe content on Apera infringes your rights, email hello@apera.me with enough detail to identify the content and your rights in it, and we will review and act on valid notices. We may remove content and may suspend or end the accounts of users who infringe repeatedly.

Generated content

Stories, explanations, and audio are produced by automated language and speech models and may contain errors. They are study aids, not authoritative translations or references.

You may use the study material we generate for you for your own learning. We do not use your uploaded content, or the text we derive from it, to train our own or third-party models.

Free and Plus

Apera is free to use. Free and Plus each have allowances, for example how many pages you can add or stories you can generate in a week or a day. Plus has higher allowances and some features Free does not have. Plus is not sold: you get it with an access code at signup or as a reward for inviting a friend. The current allowances are shown in the app and on our pricing page. We will update these terms before introducing any paid plans.

Plus "for life" has no end date and no charge. Its allowances and features may change only as these terms allow. Plus for a set time, such as a month, ends on its end date and your account moves to Free.

We may raise allowances or add features at any time. We may lower an allowance, or move a feature from Free to Plus, only when it is reasonably necessary and in proportion to one of these reasons: a rise in what it costs us to provide, more demand than the service can handle, abuse that affects the service, or a specific legal or security requirement. A change never costs you anything.

Before we lower an allowance or remove a feature you have, we will email the address on your account at least 30 days ahead. The email will say what changes, when, and how to end your account at no charge. You can do that until 30 days after you receive the email or the change takes effect, whichever is later. We may instead offer you the choice to keep the service unchanged, at no charge. Nothing in this section limits your mandatory consumer rights.

Availability

Apera is provided "as is". We do not guarantee it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and do not guarantee any particular learning outcome. We fix faults and keep the service secure and lawful, which can mean changing how something works. Any other change that makes your use of Apera worse follows the Free and Plus section above. You may stop using Apera and delete your account at any time. Nothing in this section limits your mandatory consumer rights.

Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of the service. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable consumer law.

Suspension and termination

You may stop using Apera and request deletion at any time. We may suspend or end access for breach of these terms.

General

We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control. If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. These terms, together with the privacy policy, are the whole agreement between us about Apera. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms — for example, if our business is reorganised or acquired — and your rights are not affected.

Changes

We may update these terms when the law requires it, to keep the service secure, or for a change the Free and Plus section allows. We tell you in two ways: we change the date at the top of this page, and we email the address on your account. For a change that is not in your favour, that email comes at least 30 days before the change takes effect, says what changes, and explains how to refuse it. You refuse it by ending your account at no charge, until 30 days after you receive the email or the change takes effect, whichever is later. A change in your favour, such as a higher allowance, can take effect straight away.

Your right to withdraw

As a consumer you may withdraw from this agreement within 14 days of creating your account, without giving a reason. Apera is free, so there is nothing to refund: withdrawing means deleting your account, which you can do at any time from your profile or by writing to us.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Czech Republic. Nothing here removes your right, as a consumer, to bring proceedings in your country of residence or to rely on mandatory protections of your local law. If a complaint to us does not resolve a dispute, you can turn to the out-of-court dispute body for consumer disputes, the Czech Trade Inspection Authority (Česká obchodní inspekce, adr.coi.cz).

Contact

Erik Majláth, IČO 05546371, Prague, Czech Republic. hello@apera.me. We answer in English, Czech and Slovak. This is also our single point of contact for users and authorities under the EU Digital Services Act.