1. Accepting these Terms
By downloading, accessing, or using the Pararead app or this website (the “Service”), you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2. Your licence to use the app
The app is licensed to you, not sold, and is governed by Apple’s Standard Licensed Application EULA: apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula. If the Apple EULA and these Terms conflict on the app licence, the Apple EULA prevails; otherwise these Terms apply. Where the Apple EULA would limit or exclude warranties, conformity guarantees, or liability in a way that conflicts with the mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence, your mandatory rights prevail. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them.
3. Subscriptions and billing
Paid subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple through your App Store account. Before you buy, the auto-renewal terms are shown clearly: the price, the billing period, that the subscription renews automatically until you cancel, and that you cancel in App Store settings at least 24 hours before the period ends. You manage, change, cancel, and request refunds in your App Store account settings; refunds are handled by Apple. We do not store payment-card details.
Some subscriptions include a free trial for a set number of days; others have no trial and begin billing straight away. Which one applies - and the length of any trial - is shown clearly before you buy. A free trial converts to a paid subscription automatically when it ends, unless you cancel at least 24 hours beforehand, and any unused part of a trial is forfeited if you start a paid subscription before it ends.
4. Right of withdrawal (EU/EEA, Ukraine, Turkey)
Consumers normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance purchase. Because Pararead is digital content supplied immediately, when you start a subscription you expressly consent to immediate supply and acknowledge that you thereby lose the withdrawal right for content already supplied (EU Directive 2011/83 Art. 16(m), and the equivalent Ukrainian and Turkish provisions). Withdrawals and refunds are handled by Apple as merchant of record. This does not affect your other statutory consumer rights.
5. Content and conformity
If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA, Ukraine, or Turkey, the paid content in Pararead carries the statutory conformity guarantees your national law gives you (EU Directive 2019/770 and equivalent Ukrainian and Turkish law). If paid content does not match what was promised, you can ask us to fix it, reduce the price, or cancel for a refund, as your law provides; any refund is processed by Apple as merchant of record. Nothing below limits these rights.
Pararead's learning content - news articles, stories, facts, translations, and exercises - is created and published by Pararead itself, largely with the help of AI tools. News items are Pararead's own original retellings of publicly reported events, written for language learners; we do not republish or redistribute third-party articles. Otherwise, and to the extent the law allows, this content is provided for language learning only, on an "as is" and "as available" basis. It may contain errors or be out of date; it is not a news service and not professional, medical, legal, or certification advice. Beyond the guarantees required by law, we make no warranties, and we do not independently verify the publicly reported facts our learning content describes. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you use AI-generated and automatically generated content at your own risk, and the accuracy, completeness, and currency of articles, translations, and exercises are not guaranteed.
6. No guaranteed outcome
Pararead is a learning aid. We do not guarantee any specific learning progress, proficiency level, or exam result, or that you will retain what you study. Your results depend on your own effort and circumstances.
7. Acceptable use
You agree not to: misuse or interfere with the Service; access it by unauthorised means; reverse-engineer it except as permitted by law; scrape or bulk-extract content; infringe intellectual-property or third-party rights; or use the Service unlawfully. The content is for your personal, non-commercial learning.
Export control and sanctions: you confirm that you are not located in, and will not use the Service from, a country or territory subject to comprehensive EU, US, or UK sanctions, and that you are not on any applicable restricted-party or sanctions list. You agree not to use or export the Service in violation of applicable export-control or sanctions laws.
8. Your content
You retain ownership of the words, sentences, and notes you save. You grant the operator a limited licence to host and process that content solely to provide the Service; it is deleted on account deletion (see Data deletion).
9. Suspension and termination
You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time (see Data deletion). We may suspend or terminate access for a material breach or unlawful use - where possible with prior notice and proportionately. This does not affect your statutory rights or any refund due for a paid period you cannot use because of our action.
10. Limitation of liability
If you are a consumer (EU/EEA, Germany, Ukraine, Turkey): the monetary cap and the exclusion of indirect or consequential damages below do NOT apply to you. Our liability to you is governed by the mandatory law of your country of residence, including liability for breach of essential contractual obligations and for non-conformity of paid digital content. (Germany: liability for breach of a cardinal obligation is preserved, limited to foreseeable, contract-typical damage.)
For all other users, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW: OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (i) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID THROUGH THE APP STORE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (ii) FIFTY US DOLLARS (US$50). WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA (EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT CAUSED BY OUR FAILURE TO USE REASONABLE CARE), OR GOODWILL. THE EXCLUSION OF CONSEQUENTIAL AND INCIDENTAL DAMAGES IS INDEPENDENT OF, AND SURVIVES, ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY.
Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for: (a) death or personal injury caused by our negligence; (b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (c) gross negligence or wilful misconduct; (d) unlawful processing of personal data that cannot be limited under applicable law (incl. GDPR Art. 82); or (e) any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable mandatory law, including statutory conformity guarantees and mandatory consumer rights.
Apple has no warranty, support, or product-liability obligation for the app; as between you and Apple, any non-conformity claim is Apple’s sole responsibility, limited to a refund of the purchase price, if any. The limitations in this section also benefit Apple as a third-party beneficiary.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and without limiting the mandatory rights of consumers, your sole and exclusive remedy if you are dissatisfied with the Service is to stop using it and cancel your subscription through your App Store account. Apple sells subscriptions as merchant of record, so any refund is handled by Apple under Apple’s policies; we do not separately issue refunds.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and without limiting the mandatory rights of consumers, we are not liable for any interruption, delay, failure, or loss of data caused by third-party platforms or services (including the App Store, payment, hosting, or network providers) or by events beyond our reasonable control.
11. US users: arbitration and class-action waiver
(US users only; this section does NOT apply to EU/EEA, UK, Ukraine, or Turkey consumers.) Any dispute will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, in English. YOU AND WE WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. Carve-outs: small-claims actions and requests for injunctive or IP relief. You may opt out within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by emailing support@mail.pararead.app. If the class-action waiver is held unenforceable, this entire section is void and severable from the rest of the Terms.
12. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the law of Ukraine, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence (Rome I Art. 6(2) and equivalents), which continues to apply to you as a consumer. Consumers may bring proceedings in, and rely on the law of, their own country of residence, and may only be sued there (for example, Brussels Ia Art. 18 in the EU/EEA; your place of residence under the Ukrainian Civil Procedure Code; the Tüketici Hakem Heyeti / Tüketici Mahkemesi at your residence in Turkey). The choice of Ukrainian courts applies only to non-consumer users. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) does not apply.
13. General
Entire agreement: these Terms, together with the Apple EULA and the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and the operator. Severability and reformation: if any provision is held invalid, it is enforced to the maximum extent permitted or severed, and a limitation or disclaimer held unenforceable in part is reformed to the minimum extent necessary to be enforceable. Assignment: you may not assign these Terms; we may assign them (including on incorporation or sale) on notice, without diminishing your rights. Force majeure, notices, and survival apply (the content, no-outcome, liability, and governing-law sections survive termination). Electronic communications: you consent to receive notices electronically. Eligibility: you must meet the minimum age stated above - at least 16 in the EU/EEA and at least 13 in the United States - to create an account, and we do not allow accounts below those ages. Users who are 16 or 17 may take a paid subscription only with the consent of a parent or guardian. Time limit for claims: to the extent permitted by applicable law, and except where you are a consumer benefiting from a mandatory statutory limitation period, any claim arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms must be brought within one (1) year after it arose, or it is permanently barred.
14. Indemnity (non-consumers only)
If you are not a consumer, you will indemnify the operator against third-party claims arising from your unlawful use of the Service or your breach of these Terms. This does not apply to consumers and is limited to your own wrongful conduct.
15. Changes to these Terms
We may change these Terms for a valid reason (legal changes, new features, security). We will give reasonable advance notice of material changes by email or in the app. If you do not agree, you may stop using the Service and cancel before the change takes effect; a change that materially reduces your rights applies to you only if you accept it or keep using the Service after the notice period.
16. Questions about these Terms
For questions about these Terms, contact support@mail.pararead.app.