Terms of Service

These terms are the agreement between you and [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] ( [REGISTERED ADDRESS]) covering your use of アニメ日本語 (anime nihongo) — the website, the applications and everything served from them. Using the service means you accept them. If you do not, do not use it.

1. Who may use the service

You must be at least 16 years old, or the age of digital consent where you live if that is higher. If you are using the service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are allowed to bind it to these terms.

2. Your account

• Give accurate details and keep your email address current — we use it to reach you.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account, including anything someone does with a password you failed to keep to yourself.
• Tell us promptly at [LEGAL EMAIL] if you think your account is compromised.
• One person, one account. Do not share credentials.

3. Subscriptions, billing and cancellation

The service is paid. There is no free tier and no trial: an account can be created without a card, but the features are not usable until a subscription is active.

• Payments are handled by Dodo Payments, who act as merchant of record. They take the payment, issue the invoice and handle tax. Your contract for the purchase itself is with them; your contract for the service is with us.
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period — monthly or yearly, whichever you chose — until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time from the billing page. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it does not end the period you have already paid for.
• Prices can change. We will give you at least 30 days' notice by email before a change affects your renewal, and you are free to cancel instead.
• Refunds are covered by our Refund and Cancellation Policy, which offers 14 days in addition to any statutory right you have.
• If a payment fails we may suspend access until it succeeds. Your data is not deleted during a suspension.

4. What you may not do

• Break the law, or use the service to help anyone else do so.
• Upload material you have no right to upload, or anything unlawful, malicious or designed to harm another person.
• Attempt to breach or probe our security, access another user's data, or bypass rate limits and access controls.
• Scrape, resell, sublicense or redistribute the service, or use it to build a competing product.
• Share one subscription across multiple people.

5. Your content, and material from third parties

Your decks, cards, notes and uploads stay yours. You grant us only the licence we need to run the service — to store your content, process it, and show it back to you, plus to show it to other users if you deliberately mark it public.

We do not supply anime, subtitles, audio or any other copyrighted material, and nothing here grants you rights to it. If you upload or reference material from a series, you are responsible for having the right to do so in your jurisdiction. Study and private-use exceptions vary by country; check yours. We will remove infringing content and may terminate repeat infringers' accounts.

6. Our content

The software, design, branding and original text are ours or our licensors'. Your subscription buys access, not ownership, and gives you no right to copy or reuse them outside the service.

7. Availability and changes

We aim to keep the service running but do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may change, add or remove features. If we remove something significant that you are actively paying for, we will tell you by email and, where the change genuinely disadvantages you, offer a pro-rata refund of the unused period.

8. Disclaimers

The service is provided "as is". To the extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. It is a study tool: we do not promise any particular learning outcome, exam result or JLPT grade.

9. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost data, or loss of goodwill. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for your statutory consumer rights.

10. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the service at any time and delete your account from your account settings. We may suspend or terminate an account that breaches these terms, that we are legally required to act on, or that is being used to harm the service or other users. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will warn you first.

On termination your access ends and your data is deleted in line with the Privacy Policy. Export anything you want to keep before you go.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. For material changes we will give notice by email or in the app at least 30 days beforehand. Continuing to use the service after a change takes effect means you accept it; if you do not, cancel before then.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of [JURISDICTION], and its courts have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory rules in your own country of residence.

13. Contact

[COMPANY LEGAL NAME], [REGISTERED ADDRESS]. Email [LEGAL EMAIL], or use the contact form.