Terms of use
Version 1.0 — effective 5 August 2026
This text explains what you can expect from us, and what we expect from you. We wrote it in plain language. It is still a contract: by using the service, you accept it.
Only the French version is legally binding. Other languages are courtesy translations.
1. Who runs this service
The service is published by Therence Brune, a sole trader (entrepreneur individuel), SIREN 979 083 961, based at 15 rue du 4 Août 1789, 69100 Villeurbanne, France.
You can write to us at [email protected]. Full details are in the Legal Notice.
In this text, "we" means the publisher and "you" means the person using the service.
2. What we are talking about
The service is the Dutch-learning app available at https://language.therence.net. It offers grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation lessons, exercises, a spaced-repetition review system, and a game.
Three words come up often:
- Account: your login — an email address and a password.
- Profile: one learner. An Account can hold several Profiles, for example one per family member.
- Content: everything that makes up the service — lessons, exercises, texts, images, audio, code.
3. Accepting these terms
Creating an Account and using the service means you accept these terms. You can read them at any time from the sign-in page or from the footer of the service.
If you disagree with this text, do not use the service.
4. Who can use the service
Minors are welcome.
- From age 16, you can create an Account and use it on your own.
- Under 16, a parent (or whoever holds parental authority) creates the Account, accepts these terms and supervises use. This is the default age set by Article 8 GDPR; we apply it everywhere, even in countries whose local law sets it lower, to keep things simple.
The parent stays responsible for what their child does on the service. They can ask us to delete the Profile whenever they want.
5. Your Account
Give us a valid email address and accurate information.
Keep your password to yourself. Anything done from your Account is treated as done by you. If you think someone else has access, tell us straight away.
6. Availability
We do our best to keep the service running, but we cannot guarantee it. It may go down for maintenance, for an update, or because of something outside our control. In French law this is an obligation de moyens: we commit to our efforts, not to a result.
We may add, change or remove features. If we remove an important feature from a plan you pay for, we will tell you and you can stop at no cost.
7. Price
Today the service is free.
We may offer paid plans later. If we do:
- the price in euros, all taxes included, will be shown before you pay;
- billing, renewal and cancellation rules will be set out in separate terms of sale, which will override this article;
- you will have fourteen (14) days to change your mind and get a refund, unless you ask for immediate access to the content and expressly waive that period (Articles L221-18 and L221-28 13° of the French Consumer Code);
- what is free today will not become chargeable overnight without us telling you first.
8. What you agree not to do
Use the service normally, as a learner. Concretely, do not:
- use the service for anything illegal;
- create an Account in someone else's name, or pretend to be someone else;
- share your login outside your household, or resell access to your Account;
- copy, scrape or republish our lessons and exercises, by hand or with a bot;
- try to get at the service's source code, except where Article L122-6-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code allows it;
- get around the service's limits, daily quotas or progression system;
- write anything illegal, abusive, hateful or pornographic in free-text fields (Profile name, biography, avatar).
If you break these rules, see article 11.
9. Who owns what
What is ours. The lessons, exercises, illustrations, audio, texts and code belong to us (or to those who licensed them to us). We let you use them to learn, for yourself, free of charge, for as long as you use the service. You cannot resell, republish or commercially exploit them without our written agreement.
What is yours. Your avatar, Profile name and biography stay yours. You simply allow us to store and display them in the service for as long as the Profile exists. You confirm you have the right to publish what you publish. If content is clearly illegal and someone reports it to us, we may remove it.
10. Our liability
We build the service carefully, but we do not promise:
- that it will never have a bug or an outage;
- that every lesson is free of mistakes;
- that you will reach any given level of Dutch. That mostly depends on your own work.
This service is not a qualification and does not prepare you for an official certification, unless we clearly say otherwise.
We are not liable for indirect damage, such as data loss that does not come from us, or lost earnings.
That said, nothing in this text protects us in the event of personal injury, gross negligence or wilful misconduct. Your statutory consumer rights remain fully intact.
On your side, you are responsible for your device, your connection and the use of your Account.
11. Suspension and deletion
You. You can delete your Account at any time from the "Account" section. This erases the attached Profiles and associated data, as described in the Privacy Policy.
Us. If you break these terms, we tell you and give you eight (8) days to put it right. If you do nothing, we may suspend or delete your Account. In a serious case — attacking the service's security or other people's rights — we may suspend immediately.
If we close a paid plan when you have done nothing wrong, we refund the period you have not used.
12. Your data
We explain what data we collect and why in the Privacy Policy, which is part of these terms.
The service only uses the cookies needed to keep you signed in. No advertising, no trackers, no third-party analytics.
13. The companies that help us
To run the service we use technical providers: hosting, file storage, email delivery, authentication. They are listed in the Privacy Policy. We are not answerable for their own terms, nor for the content of external sites we may link to.
14. If we change this text
We may update these terms. If a change is important, we tell you by email or in the service, at least fifteen (15) days beforehand.
If the new text does not suit you, you can delete your Account before that date. If you keep using the service afterwards, that means you accept it.
If one sentence of this text turned out to be contrary to the law, the rest would still apply.
15. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by French law.
If something goes wrong, write to us first at [email protected]. We will look for a solution together.
As the service is free to date, no consumer ombudsman is designated. If paid plans are introduced, an ombudsman will be designated and these terms updated accordingly.
Failing agreement, the dispute goes to court. As a consumer, you choose: the court where you live, or ours.