Terms of Use

These Terms govern your use of Solaread ("the Service"), provided by Suwen Works Inc. ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. The Service

Solaread is a local-first language-learning reading application offering EPUB/PDF reading, vocabulary prediction, and interlinear translation, with audio/video import, transcript reading and podcast listening through Listening. Anyone may create an account. During the Beta, an Activation Code is required before paid capabilities such as AI translation and PDF parsing become available. New structured books may remain visible but locked until their opening translation is prepared. A PDF imported before activation is retained only on that device and is not parsed until activation.

2. Accounts

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your sign-in and for activity under your account. You must provide a valid email address and be old enough to form a binding contract in your jurisdiction.

3. Your content

You retain all rights to the books you import and the notes you create. You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to use and upload any content. While you are signed in, your library is stored in your account and synced to your devices. You grant us a limited licence to store and transmit that content solely to provide the Service to you (for example, storing your files so they appear on your other devices). We do not claim ownership of your content and do not use it for advertising.

The responsibility and limited licence in this section also apply to audio, video and podcast content you import or ask us to process. Your private imported recordings and transcripts are not published, shared across accounts or offered as a public library. Public podcast listings and word-frequency difficulty statistics do not make your private library public.

4. Learning data and prediction improvement

After you accept the current policies, two separate settings govern learning data: Upload learning data to improve predictions and Allow new learning data to train models. Both are on by default for new accounts. You can change either in Settings → Data Management. This program operates in the Global service and is independent of your private cross-device sync.

Learning data includes displayed annotations, word and translation interactions, explicit known/unknown choices and retractions, individual assessment answers, reading-window activity, and your first completed onboarding answers. Word feedback and selected translations may include the sentence containing the word or selection and the immediately adjacent sentences. Records also include positions, language and model versions, and a snapshot of the ability profile actually used. Exposure or a hover is not treated as a definite answer about your knowledge.

Turning upload off stops new collection and clears pending local uploads. Turning training off prevents data created afterwards from being used to train models, while permitted uploads and non-training analysis can continue. Neither change deletes previously received data or withdraws training permission already granted for past events. Re-enabling a setting does not collect past gaps or authorize data created while training was off. Raw learning records are retained for 24 months, then removed together with affected datasets; non-identifying aggregate statistics may remain.

Account deletion is a separate process: raw learning records are deleted, affected datasets are withdrawn and must be rebuilt without your contribution. This does not promise automatic removal of an influence already incorporated into a trained model. Learning permission does not authorize third-party translation or PDF providers to train on your data, and does not make your records or identity public.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to misuse the Service, including: attempting to bypass usage limits or security; uploading unlawful content or content you do not have the right to use; interfering with the Service's operation; or using automated means to abuse the AI translation or parsing capabilities.

6. Copyright complaints

Books in Solaread are private to the account that imported them; we do not publish or share them. If you believe content stored in a Solaread account infringes your copyright, send a written notice to support@solaread.com that:

states your name and address;

identifies the work;

states your interest or right in its copyright;

identifies the account or content it concerns (for example the account's email address);

specifies the infringement you claim;

specifies the date and time of the claimed infringement.

When a notice has all of this and we can identify the account, we forward it to the account holder as soon as we can, tell you that we did (or why we could not), and keep the records the law requires. A notice must not offer a settlement or ask for payment or personal information; we do not forward notices that do. We may remove the content complained about, and we may suspend or close the account of anyone who infringes repeatedly.

7. Paid subscriptions

Paid plans are billed monthly through Paddle, which acts as the Merchant of Record and reseller for purchases. The price and included usage are shown at the point of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically each month until cancelled. You can manage or cancel your subscription through the customer portal linked in Settings → Billing. If you cancel, paid access continues until the end of the current paid billing period. Refunds are governed by our Refund Policy.

If you subscribe inside the Solaread app for iPhone or iPad, the purchase is made through Apple's in-app purchase system and is billed by Apple to your Apple Account, not through Paddle. The price is shown in the app before you confirm. The subscription renews automatically each month unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings (Settings → your name → Subscriptions); Solaread cannot cancel it for you. Refunds for purchases made through Apple are decided by Apple under its own policies, and our Refund Policy does not apply to them.

If you hold a subscription through Paddle and another through Apple at the same time, your account receives the higher of the two plans. The two subscriptions are billed separately, and neither is cancelled or refunded automatically.

Student pricing for purchases through Paddle. If the sign-in email of your account is at a school domain we recognise, a new Scholar Plus or Scholar Pro subscription is billed at the student price shown on the pricing page and at checkout for its first 12 monthly billing periods. After that the regular price applies. Each account can get student pricing once, for at most 12 monthly billing periods. We decide which domains qualify and may change the list. Student pricing is for students; we may end it for an account that misuses it.

Podcast subscriptions and preparation. Following a podcast does not itself start a paid transcription. When you open an unprepared episode, we use an available official transcript or, where needed, transcribe its audio using your AI allowance. Automatic preparation is off by default; turning it on separately authorizes preparation of eligible new episodes in the background and use of that allowance without a current sign-in. Turning it off or unsubscribing revokes future preparation; episodes already saved remain in your library until you remove them. Company-funded difficulty sampling does not use your allowance.

8. Availability and changes

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue parts of the Service. We aim to keep the Service available but do not guarantee uninterrupted operation. Local reading of already-imported books is designed to keep working offline.

9. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by law. AI-generated translations, glosses and transcripts may contain errors and are provided as reading and listening aids, not authoritative translations or guaranteed accurate records.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or for loss of data arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

11. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time in Settings. Deleting an account immediately cancels a linked Paddle subscription to prevent future renewal, but does not automatically refund a previous charge. A subscription bought through Apple is not cancelled when you delete your Solaread account: cancel it in your Apple Account settings first, otherwise Apple will continue to charge you. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The courts located in Ontario, Canada have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory consumer-protection rights in your place of residence.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms; the "Last updated" date reflects the latest version. If a change materially affects how learning data may be used for training or another data purpose, we will ask you to accept the new version before new data is used under that purpose.

14. Contact

support@solaread.com

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