Patteurn Japanese
Terms of Use
These Terms of Use ("Terms") form an agreement between you and Patteurn Education Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17472722) ("we", "us"), governing your use of the Patteurn Japanese application ("the App"). By downloading or using the App you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the App.
This agreement is between you and us, not Apple. Apple Inc. is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for the App or its content.
1. Licence
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the App on any Apple-branded device that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. This licence is for personal, non-commercial learning use. You may not sell, rent, sub-license, redistribute, publicly perform, or use the App or its content to build a competing product or dataset.
2. Purchases and content unlocks
- The App offers one-time, non-consumable in-app purchases that permanently unlock decks and content packs on the Apple ID that bought them.
- All payments are processed by Apple. Prices are shown in the App before purchase and may differ by country.
- Purchases are not subscriptions and do not renew.
- You can restore previous purchases on a new device with the "Restore Purchases" option in the App, as long as you use the same Apple ID.
- Refunds are handled solely by Apple under their App Store policy; we cannot issue refunds. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.
- Unlocked content is licensed, not sold. If the App is discontinued we will give reasonable notice where we are able to.
3. Your data and your device
Your learning progress is stored on your device, not on our servers. We do not keep a copy and cannot recover it if you lose your device, delete the App or reset the data. Use the App's export function if you want a backup. How we handle the small amount of data that does leave the device is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
4. Educational content
The App teaches Japanese vocabulary, grammar and social register through examples, illustrated lessons and story-based practice. Content is provided for learning purposes and is not professional, legal, medical or travel advice. Some scenes portray ordinary adult social settings such as restaurants and depict references to alcoholic drinks in that context.
5. Acceptable use
- Do not reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble the App except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits it.
- Do not attempt to circumvent purchase verification or content locks.
- Do not extract, scrape or republish the App's card, audio, illustration or grammar content.
6. Intellectual property
The App, its source code, illustrations, characters, audio recordings, curriculum structure and written explanations are owned by us or licensed to us and are protected by copyright and other laws. Japanese words, phrases and grammar are of course not owned by anyone; our particular selection, sequencing, translation, explanation and recording of them is.
Third-party components are used under their own licences, including typefaces distributed under the SIL Open Font License and weather data from Open-Meteo.com under CC BY 4.0.
7. Maintenance and support
We are solely responsible for providing maintenance and support for the App. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services. Contact us at hello@patteurn.com; we aim to answer within five business days.
8. Warranty
The App is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind to the fullest extent permitted by law. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price of the App to you (where a purchase price was paid); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App. Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to any warranty are our responsibility, not Apple's. Nothing in these Terms limits any statutory consumer rights that cannot be limited under the law of your country of residence.
9. Product claims
We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to the App or your possession and use of it, including product-liability claims, any claim that the App fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer-protection or similar legislation.
10. Intellectual-property claims
If a third party claims that the App or your possession and use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
11. Legal compliance
You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
12. Third-party beneficiary
Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right (and are deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
13. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or relating to the App is limited to the amount you paid for the App and its in-app purchases in the twelve months preceding the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, or for loss of learning progress or exported data.
14. Changes and termination
We may update these Terms; the current version is always at this address and the date at the top shows when it last changed. Continued use after a change means you accept it. We may suspend or discontinue the App or any feature. This licence terminates automatically if you breach these Terms.
15. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and without depriving you of the protection of mandatory consumer-law provisions of your country of residence.
16. Contact
Patteurn Education Ltd, Unit A 82 James Carter Road, Mildenhall Industrial Estate, Suffolk, United Kingdom, IP28 7DE — hello@patteurn.com