Terms of use

These terms apply to the lerne.now iPhone app and this website, together with Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement. By creating an account you accept them. How we handle your data is in the privacy policy.

Who we are

TODO: name and postal address of the person or company that runs lerne.now.

Write to us at hallo@lerne.now.

Your account

• You sign in with an email address that you can receive mail at. Keep access to it, because each sign-in sends a code there.
• An account is for one person. Don’t share yours or use someone else’s.
• You can delete your account at any time in the app, on the Profile tab. Deleting your account doesn’t cancel a subscription: cancel it with Apple, as described below.

Subscription

Parts of lerne.now are free, and a subscription unlocks the rest. The app shows the plans and their prices before you buy.

• Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase.
• The subscription renews automatically for the same period unless you turn off automatic renewal at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your Apple ID is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends.
• You can manage or cancel the subscription in your Apple ID settings: on your iPhone, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions. After you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
• If an offer includes a free trial, any unused part of it ends when you buy a subscription.
• Apple handles the payment, so ask Apple for refunds at reportaproblem.apple.com.
• To use your subscription on another device, sign in there and tap Restore purchases on the subscription screen.
• If the price of your subscription goes up, Apple tells you beforehand and, where the law requires it, asks you to agree.

Using lerne.now

lerne.now is for your own learning. Please don’t:

• use it for anything unlawful, or enter anything that is unlawful or infringes someone else’s rights;
• try to break or overload it, get around its security or the subscription, or access it with bots or scripts;
• copy, resell or publish its lessons, audio or other content.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these rules. Unless the breach is serious, we will warn you first.

Your content and ours

What you enter, such as your name and your answers, stays yours. You allow us to use it to run lerne.now for you, as the privacy policy describes. The lessons, texts, audio and design of lerne.now belong to us or to those who license them to us.

Generated content

Parts of each lesson are made for you by AI services: the German for your own details, the spoken audio, and the checks of answers that don’t match exactly. We work to keep them correct, but they can contain mistakes. lerne.now teaches everyday German. It is not an official course and does not lead to a certificate.

Changes and availability

We keep improving lerne.now and may change, add or remove lessons and features. We aim to keep it running at all times but can’t promise that it always will be. If we change these terms in a way that affects you, we will tell you in the app or by email before the change applies.

Liability

We are fully liable for damage we cause on purpose or through gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and where mandatory product liability law applies. For slight negligence, we are liable only if we breach an obligation that is essential to these terms, and only for the damage typical of and foreseeable for this kind of agreement. Nothing in these terms limits your rights as a consumer under mandatory law.

TODO: have this section checked against the law that governs these terms.

Law

TODO: the law that governs these terms, such as German law. If you are a consumer in the EU, you also keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country where you live.