Terms of Service

itsmy.beer is a small language-learning application. You save words and phrases you have met yourself, the service helps you explain them, and it asks you about them later. It is run by one person as a personal project, not by a company.

The service is free. There is no subscription, no paid tier, no advertising, and nothing to buy. Because you pay nothing, you also buy no guarantee — please read sections 9 and 10, which say what that means in practice.

By creating an account, or by using the service without one, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the service.

You need an account to save anything. To open one you give an email address and choose a password. The email address must be one you can read, because it is the only way to recover the account if you forget the password.

You must be at least 16 years old to open an account.

The account is yours alone. Keep the password to yourself, use a password you do not use anywhere else, and tell us if you think somebody else has it. You are responsible for what is done through your account while it is in your control.

One person, one account. Do not share an account with somebody else and do not open an account in another person’s name.

Use the service to learn. That is the whole of the permission we can give, and it is a generous one.

Please do not: save material that is unlawful where you are, or that infringes somebody else’s rights; try to reach another person’s account or data; probe, overload, or attack the service or the machine it runs on; use scripts or robots to make many requests; resell access to the service or to the AI models behind it; or remove or work around any limit the service puts on your use.

The service sends what you write to an external AI provider (see section 5 and the Privacy Policy). Do not paste anything into it that you are not allowed to disclose — somebody else’s secrets, personal data about other people, or material you are under an obligation to keep confidential.

The words you save, the sentences you write, the definitions you correct and the connections you draw between words remain yours. The operator claims no ownership of them.

To run the service at all, we need your permission to store that material, to show it back to you, to include it in your backups, and to send the parts of it that a request needs to the AI provider you have selected. That permission is limited to running the service for you and it ends when you delete the material or the account.

Your material is not sold, not shared with anybody who is not listed in the Privacy Policy, and not used to train any AI model by us. What the AI provider you select does with the text it receives is governed by that provider’s own terms — they are a separate company and we cannot promise anything on their behalf.

Definitions, examples, translations, corrections and scores offered by the service are generated by a large language model. They are frequently useful and they are sometimes wrong — a definition can be inaccurate, an example can be unnatural, a translation can miss the sense, and a score can be unfair.

Treat every generated answer as a first draft, not as an authority. The service is built for exactly that: you review a definition before you save it, and you can rewrite it afterwards. Nothing generated by the service is professional, legal, medical or educational advice.

AI providers set their own limits, and a free model may refuse a request when a quota is exhausted. We cannot promise that a definition will be generated when you want one.

If your account is allowed to add its own provider key, requests made with that key run under your own account with that provider, at your own cost and under their terms. You are responsible for that relationship; the operator is not a party to it.

The service is offered as it is, when it is. It may be slow, it may be unreachable while it is being updated or backed up, and it may be unavailable for longer than that if something breaks. No uptime is promised.

Features may be added, changed or removed. Something you rely on today may work differently tomorrow, or not be there at all.

The operator may stop running the service altogether. If that happens and there is any reasonable way to give notice first, notice will be given, so that you can download your vocabulary. You can download it as a PDF at any time from the vocabulary page, and doing so from time to time is a sensible habit.

You may close your account whenever you like, from the profile page. Closing it deletes your account and the material saved under it — see the Privacy Policy for exactly what that removes and how long backups keep a copy. It cannot be undone.

The operator may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, that is being used to harm the service or another person, or that is being used in a way that puts the service at legal risk. Where it is reasonable to warn first, we will.

An account may also be closed after a long period of inactivity, with notice to the account’s email address first.

The service is provided AS IS and AS AVAILABLE, with no warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory.

In particular, and without limiting the sentence above, no warranty is given that the service will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure or free of errors; that any defect will be corrected; that the material generated for you will be accurate, complete, current or fit for any purpose; or that the service is fit for a particular purpose, of satisfactory quality, or free of infringement.

Some countries do not allow every warranty to be excluded. Where that is so, the exclusions above apply only as far as the law of that country allows, and your mandatory rights as a consumer are not affected.

To the fullest extent the law allows, the operator is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, nor for loss of profits, of opportunity, of goodwill, or of an examination or qualification you were preparing for.

The operator is not liable for the loss or corruption of your saved material, however it happens. Backups are taken and are described in the Privacy Policy, but they are a precaution, not a promise. Keep your own copy of anything you would be sorry to lose — the PDF export on the vocabulary page exists for that.

The operator is not liable for anything you do, decide, write or answer on the strength of material generated by an AI model through this service.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you have paid to use the service, which is nothing. This does not limit liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that the law does not permit to be limited.

These terms may change — because the service changes, or because the law does. The date at the top of this page says when the current wording took effect.

If a change materially reduces your rights, notice will be sent to your account’s email address before it takes effect where that is practical. If you keep using the service after a change takes effect, you accept the new wording. If you do not accept it, close your account.

These terms are governed by the law of the country in which the operator is established. Wherever you live, this does not take away the protection given to you by the mandatory consumer law of your own country of residence, and you may bring a claim in the courts there.

These terms are published in English, Russian and Polish. The translations are provided so that the terms can be read in the language of the service. Where a translation and the English version differ in meaning, the English version governs.

If a court finds one part of these terms unenforceable, the rest of them stay in force.

Questions about these terms, or anything else about the service, go to legal@itsmy.beer.