Terms of Service

Legal terms for using the Effortless Thai app

Terms of Service

Effective Date: June 2, 2026
Service Provider: LittleBits s.r.o. (IČO: 08604363, DIC: CZ08604363)
Contact: effortlessthai@littlebits.dev

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Effortless Thai app, website, and related services (the "Service"), provided by LittleBits s.r.o. ("Effortless Thai", "we", "us", "our"). Please read them together with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

1. Agreement to Terms

By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service or our website, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of another person, you confirm you are authorised to bind them.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are between 13 and the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you must have permission from a parent or legal guardian to use the Service and accept these Terms. The Service is intended for adults learning Thai and is not directed to children.

3. User Accounts

3.1. You create an account using Google sign-in (OAuth) or an emailed magic link. You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information, for keeping access to your email and Google account secure, and for all activity that occurs under your account.

3.2. Notify us promptly of any unauthorised use of your account. We are not liable for losses arising from your failure to safeguard your account credentials, except as required by law.

4. The Service and Acceptable Use

Effortless Thai helps you learn Thai by turning text and voice recordings — your own, or, with consent, another person's — into flashcards with translations, romanization, tone details, and audio.

You agree not to:

  • use the Service unlawfully, or to infringe anyone's rights (including privacy and intellectual property rights);
  • record, import, or process any person's voice or personal data without their consent (see Section 7);
  • upload malicious code, attempt to breach security, scrape, or reverse-engineer the Service;
  • resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service without our permission;
  • use the Service or its content (including AI output) to train competing machine-learning or AI models; or
  • abuse, overload, or interfere with the Service or other users.

We may set reasonable usage limits (including on audio length, storage, or AI usage) to protect the Service.

5. Subscriptions, Billing, Trials, Cancellation, and Refunds

5.1 Merchant of Record — Polar

Paid plans are sold and processed by Polar, acting as our Merchant of Record. Polar is the seller of record, charges you, handles applicable taxes, and processes payments and refunds. Your purchase is also subject to Polar's terms. We do not store your full payment card details.

5.2 Plans, fees, and auto-renewal

We offer free and paid plans; current prices and features are shown at checkout and on our pricing page. Paid subscriptions are billed in advance on a recurring basis (for example, monthly or yearly) and automatically renew for successive equivalent periods at the then-current price until cancelled. We will give reasonable notice of any price change before it applies to your next renewal.

5.3 Free trials

If we offer a free trial, your subscription will automatically convert to a paid subscription at the end of the trial unless you cancel before the trial ends. To avoid being charged, cancel before the trial end date.

5.4 Cancellation

You may cancel at any time through your account settings or the Polar customer portal. Cancellation stops future renewals; your access continues until the end of the current paid period.

5.5 Refunds

If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA or the UK, you have a statutory right to withdraw from a purchase of digital services within 14 days. Where you ask us to begin providing the Service immediately (for example, by starting to use it during the withdrawal period), you acknowledge that you may lose that right of withdrawal for the part of the Service already provided, and that we may charge for what has been supplied. Other than rights you have under applicable consumer law, fees already paid are generally not refundable and we do not provide credits for partial periods or unused time. Where you have a statutory right to a refund or withdrawal under EU, UK, Thai, or US consumer law, that right is unaffected. Refunds are handled by Polar as Merchant of Record, and we may share limited account and usage information with Polar to process refunds and prevent abuse.

6. AI-Generated Content and Accuracy

The Service uses third-party AI providers — Google Gemini for transcription, translation, and card details, and ElevenLabs for generated audio — to produce output from your content.

ACCURACY DISCLAIMER. AI-GENERATED OUTPUT — INCLUDING TRANSCRIPTIONS, TRANSLATIONS, ROMANIZATION, TONE DETAILS, AND SYNTHESISED AUDIO — IS PRODUCED AUTOMATICALLY, MAY CONTAIN ERRORS, AND MAY BE INACCURATE OR INCOMPLETE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" FOR LANGUAGE-LEARNING PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION, LINGUISTIC, LEGAL, MEDICAL, OR OTHER ADVICE. YOU SHOULD INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY OUTPUT BEFORE RELYING ON IT, ESPECIALLY IN IMPORTANT OR SENSITIVE SITUATIONS.

Because your content is sent to AI providers to deliver these features, please do not submit personal, confidential, or sensitive information when using AI features. See the Privacy Policy for how providers handle your content.

7. User Content, Your Voice, and Recording Other People

7.1 Your content and licence to us

You retain ownership of the content you create or upload ("User Content"), including text, recordings, and flashcards. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, process, transcribe, translate, generate audio from, transmit to our sub-processors, and display your User Content solely to operate, secure, and improve the Service and provide it to you. This licence ends when you delete the relevant content or your account, except for backups purged on our normal cycle and content we must retain by law.

7.2 Recording another person (for example, your partner or spouse)

Effortless Thai is designed to let you learn from a real person, often the account holder's Thai partner, spouse, or family member. If your User Content contains another person's voice, image, name, or personal data, you represent and warrant that:

  • you have obtained the consent of each identifiable person before recording, importing, or uploading their voice or personal data, and have informed them it will be processed (including by our AI providers) as described in the Privacy Policy;
  • you have all rights and consents required under applicable law — including Thailand's PDPA and any recording or consent laws that apply where you are — to provide that content to us; and
  • you will not record anyone covertly or unlawfully.

You agree to indemnify us against any claim arising from your failure to obtain such consents or rights, to the extent permitted by law (see Section 13).

7.3 Responsibility

You are solely responsible for your User Content and for ensuring it is lawful. We may remove content or suspend accounts that we reasonably believe violate these Terms or the law.

8. Our Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, design, branding, and the content we provide (excluding your User Content and the AI output generated for you), is owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for its intended purpose. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works except as permitted by these Terms or by law.

9. Sharing and Notifications Features

  • Outbound sharing. The Service lets you share a generated card image and text to third-party chat apps. Once you share content with a third party or platform, their terms and privacy practices apply, not ours.
  • Inbound sharing. You can share text into the app to create flashcards; the same User Content terms (Section 7) apply.
  • Web push notifications. If you enable them, you may receive push notifications delivered through your browser's push service. You can disable them in your browser or device settings at any time.

10. Third-Party Services

The Service relies on third parties — including Google, ElevenLabs, Supabase, PostHog, Meta, Polar, Resend, Mailchimp, and Coolify — as described in our Privacy Policy. Their services are governed by their own terms, and we are not responsible for third-party services outside our control.

11. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, misuse the Service, fail to pay, or where required to manage legal, security, or abuse risks. On termination, your right to use the Service ends; provisions that by their nature should survive (including Sections 6, 7.2, 8, 12, 13, and 14) survive. Account deletion and data handling are described in the Privacy Policy.

12. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ACCURACY (INCLUDING OF AI OUTPUT — SEE SECTION 6). WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, OR GOODWILL. OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR 50 EUR.

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS EXCLUDES OR LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT LAWFULLY BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED, INCLUDING DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE, FRAUD, AND MANDATORY CONSUMER RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW OF YOUR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE.

13. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, damages, and costs arising from your breach of these Terms, your User Content, or your failure to obtain the consents required to record or upload another person's voice or personal data (Section 7.2).

14. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by the laws of the Czech Republic without regard to conflict of law principles, and disputes shall be resolved in the courts of Prague, Czech Republic, except where mandatory consumer-protection law in your country of residence gives you the right to bring proceedings elsewhere or requires the application of local law.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes we will provide reasonable notice (for example, in-app or by email) before they take effect, and update the "Last updated" date. Continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance, to the extent permitted by law.

16. Miscellaneous

If any provision of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the Cookie Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.

By using Effortless Thai, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

Last Updated: June 2, 2026