Terms of Use

Last updated: 3 September 2026

If translations differ, the English version prevails.

These Terms govern your use of the mobile application Learn French: Bilingual Reader (and localized names) and related services provided by Learn Languages Studio Limited (“we”, “us”).

Contact: support@learnlanguagesstudio.com

Website: https://learnlanguagesstudio.com/frenchbooks/

1. The service

The App is a bilingual French reading app for language learners. Learning aids (glosses, notes, conjugations, difficulty labels, and similar) may be generated or assisted by automated systems and can contain errors. Content is for personal learning only and is not an official language examination or certification.

2. Licence to you

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the App and any unlocked book content on devices you own or control, solely for your personal, non-commercial use. You do not acquire ownership of copyright in the books, software, or related materials.

3. Free preview and purchases

A limited preview (for example the first chapters of a book) may be available free of charge. Full access may require a non-consumable in-app purchase through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Prices and availability are shown by the applicable store.

4. Payments and refunds

Payments are processed by Apple or Google. Refunds, cancellations, and billing disputes are ordinarily handled under the policies and procedures of the Apple App Store or Google Play — please request a refund from the applicable store. Where the store cannot or does not refund, or where we consider it appropriate, we may also arrange a refund or other reasonable help ourselves, to the extent permitted by law and by the store’s rules. We will assess such situations on a case-by-case basis; which form of help (if any) depends on the circumstances. This is not a promise of cash or any specific outcome. Store decisions on their own refunds remain with the store.

5. Pricing and access changes

We may, at our discretion, change how a book is offered in the App — for example by making a previously free book paid, making a paid book free, reducing the price, or changing access from paid to free at no charge.

Because pricing and access models may change over time, we do not offer refunds or compensation for price differences when a book’s access or price changes after you obtained or unlocked it. This does not affect your rights under section 4 to request a refund from Apple or Google under their respective store policies.

6. Content, copyright and takedown

We respect intellectual property and aim to offer book content that is lawfully available for use in the App.

6.1 Sources of content

Books and related text or images available in the App may include:

• Licensed works — works made available under authorization from creators, publishers, or rights agents (paid or free); and
• Public-domain works — historical texts obtained from lawful open digital libraries or similar sources. We may re-digitize, extract, format, and add learning aids (such as glosses or notes). We make efforts to check copyright status and do not intend to infringe others’ rights.

Learning aids may be generated or assisted by automated systems and can contain errors. They are for personal learning only.

6.2 Copyright notices (notice and takedown)

Copyright rules differ by country, and the status of some older works can be hard to verify. If you are a copyright owner or authorized agent and believe content in the App infringes your rights, please contact us with enough detail for us to identify the work and assess your claim (for example: work title, where it appears in the App, a description of your rights, and how to reach you):

Copyright contact: support@learnlanguagesstudio.com

We will review notices and, where appropriate, remove or restrict access to the disputed content as soon as reasonably practicable.

6.3 If a book is no longer available

We may remove or restrict a book at any time because of copyright or rights issues, the end of a licence, quality or operational reasons, or other reasons beyond our reasonable control.

Free content. After removal, you may no longer be able to get or keep reading that book in the App. We do not owe extra compensation for free content.

Paid content. If a book you unlocked with a purchase must be removed so that you can no longer read it in the App, we will make reasonable efforts to notify affected users (for example with an in-app notice and/or a push notification, when available). If you need a refund or other help, contact us at support@learnlanguagesstudio.com (please include the book title and, if known, the book ID and platform: iOS or Android).

Refunds and other help. As described in section 4, refunds are ordinarily handled under the store’s policies — please request a refund from the applicable store. If the store cannot or does not refund, or if we consider another approach more suitable, we will assess your situation and may, where permitted by law and store rules, arrange a refund ourselves or other reasonable help — for example in-app credit, a coupon, access to another book of similar value, or similar benefits we may add later. Which form of help (if any) depends on the circumstances; we do not promise cash, credit, or any specific outcome.

Limit. Except where the law does not allow us to limit our responsibility, our total responsibility for removing a particular book is limited to what you actually paid for that book (or the store credit you actually spent on it).

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• bypass or disable purchase, trial, or security controls;
• copy, redistribute, or publicly share paid book content without authorization;
• publicly upload or redistribute Anki (or similar) decks that include audio synthesized by device system voices (Apple, Google, or other installed engines) — those voices are licensed primarily for on-device use, so the audio is for your personal review only;
• use the App in any unlawful manner.

8. Sharing to social platforms

If you use the App’s share features to post to Instagram, Threads, Facebook, or other services, your use of those services is also governed by their terms and privacy policies. Sharing does not grant you additional rights to redistribute paid book text beyond what these Terms allow.

9. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The App and content are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not promise uninterrupted service, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or error-free content. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages from your use of the App, except where the law does not allow us to exclude that liability.

10. Third-party content and open data

The App incorporates or references open linguistic resources and open-source software, as listed in About / Credits in the App (including package licenses via “View licenses”). These include Lexique 4 (CC BY-SA 4.0), wordfreq (Apache-2.0), Wiktionnaire (CC BY-SA 4.0, compile-time classification only), and verbecc (LGPL-3.0; used at compile time for some verb conjugation tables; verbecc library not bundled in the App). Difficulty labels are estimates, not official CEFR. Glosses, notes, conjugations, and similar learning aids may be generated or assisted by automated systems and may contain errors.

11. Changes

We may update these Terms and will revise the “Last updated” date. Where permitted by law, continued use after posting constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

12. Contact

Questions about these Terms: support@learnlanguagesstudio.com