Terms of use

parleu is run by Erik Cupal, a private individual, not a registered business. Contact details: Legal notice. By starting to learn, creating an account or signing in, you agree to these terms. How we handle your data: Privacy policy.

parleu teaches languages with story lessons, word review, grammar, pronunciation, Speak conversations, podcasts and books. Some of it works offline. We keep improving it, so features may change; we do not remove something central to the free plan without telling you first.

The free plan costs nothing and needs no payment details. What it includes is shown on the Pricing page and in the app; it can change over time, and we give notice before we reduce it.

A paid plan is coming but cannot be bought yet. Before you can pay for anything, we will show you its price, what it includes, how it renews and how to cancel, and your right to withdraw from the purchase, in subscription terms you accept at that moment.

A promo code may give you access to more of parleu, for good or for a set time. It has no cash value and cannot be sold.

You must be at least 16 years old to use parleu. If the law where you live sets a higher age to agree to these terms on your own, you need that age or your parent's or guardian's agreement.

You can start without an account: Get started makes a guest account on this device. It is deleted after 30 days without use, and to continue past the first episode or to use Speak you sign in with Google, which keeps your progress.

An account is for one person. Keep your Google sign-in safe; what happens in your account is your responsibility unless someone used it without your permission and you tell us.

Lessons, stories, translations and explanations are written with the help of AI language models and checked against dictionaries and grammar references. The pictures are made with AI image models and the voices are synthetic.

Your Speak partners are AI conversation partners: characters from the story, played live by Google's Gemini. They are not real people. Word explanations, hints and feedback are also made by AI.

AI can be wrong. Use parleu to learn a language, not as legal, medical, financial or other professional advice. parleu prepares you for exams but does not issue certificates, is not affiliated with any exam body and cannot promise a result.

AI conversation partners are real AI models, and every minute of conversation costs us money, so they come with fair-use limits:

• Free plan: 30 turns of AI conversation practice to try, in total. A turn is one thing you say.
• Paid plan: up to 100 minutes of conversation in any 7 days. Only talking counts, yours and your partner's; pauses and silence never do.
• Other AI features, such as word explanations and word audio, are for your own reasonable use, with daily limits that normal learning does not reach.
• We may change these limits. We'll tell you before a change that affects you.

The stories speak as people really do, including slang and swearing, each strong word labelled. Settings > Language register chooses how much you hear: Neutral (soft forms only), Real (the default) or Sense filtre ('no filter'), which needs a separate confirmation that you are 16 or older and adds explicit words and pictures with implied nudity. In Speak, a partner's intimate topics need a further confirmation that you are 18 or older. No picture or conversation in parleu is sexually explicit.

Please do not:

• break the law, or use parleu to harass, threaten or harm anyone;
• use Speak to produce illegal, hateful or sexual content involving minors, to get around its safeguards, or to share other people's private details;
• upload books, audio or files you have no right to use, or share them beyond what these terms allow;
• get around plan limits, Speak limits or upload limits, for example with several guest accounts;
• copy parleu's content in bulk, scrape it, overload the service, probe it for weaknesses without our agreement, or reverse engineer it beyond what the law allows.

What you add stays yours: books and audio you upload, words you save, what you say in Speak. You give us permission to store and process it only to run parleu for you (for example to transcribe audio or answer you in Speak) and, for a title you share with the family circle, to show it to those accounts. Uploads are for your own study: only add copies you have the right to use that way.

Podcasts belong to their publishers. parleu lists public feeds and plays episodes from the publishers' own servers; we do not control them and are not responsible for what they say. A feed you add may become visible to others in the podcast list once enough people follow it.

Everything else in parleu (lessons, stories, pictures, recordings, the app) belongs to parleu or its licensors. You may use it for your own learning, not copy or redistribute it. Sources and licences: Sources and credits.

We work to keep parleu running and correct, but the free plan comes as it is: it may be interrupted for maintenance or problems, and we cannot promise it is free of errors.

Nothing in these terms limits our responsibility where the law does not allow it: for example for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for intent or gross negligence, or for your mandatory rights as a consumer. If you live in the EU or the UK, we are responsible for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care, and not for loss that was not foreseeable.

Where the law allows it, we are not responsible for indirect loss, lost profits or lost data you could have kept with Download my data, and for the free plan our total responsibility is limited to 50 euros.

You can stop at any time and delete your account in Settings; it is erased after 7 days, unless you restore it before then.

We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, after a warning unless the harm is urgent. If we close the free service as a whole, we tell you at least 30 days before, so you can download your data.

If we change these terms in a way that matters to you, we tell you in the app or by email at least 30 days before the change applies, unless the law or your safety requires it sooner. If you do not agree, you can stop using parleu and delete your account.

These terms are governed by Spanish law. This choice never takes away the protection that the mandatory consumer laws of the country where you live give you, and you can bring a claim in the courts where you live.

If something goes wrong, please write to us first; most things are solved quickly: support@parleu.com.

Help with the app: support@parleu.com. Your data: privacy@parleu.com. Legal matters and rights holders: legal@parleu.com.