Terms of use

By using LearnPatois you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the app. If you are using it on behalf of somebody else, you are confirming you may agree on their behalf.

• You can start as a guest. A guest identity belongs to one browser, and it is removed after a long enough period of inactivity — so make an account if you want to keep your progress.
• Signing in uses Google, Apple, or a link emailed to you. There is no password to choose and none to lose.
• Keep your email account secure. Anyone who can read your email can request a sign-in link.
• Pick a username other people can see without wincing. We may reset a username that is abusive, impersonating, or misleading.

Use LearnPatois to learn. Please do not:

• Harass, impersonate or abuse other learners.
• Automate play, script the app, or interfere with how progress, XP and rankings are calculated. Results are computed on our servers, so this mostly wastes your time.
• Scrape, bulk-download or redistribute the curriculum, the audio or the artwork.
• Probe, disrupt or attempt to gain access to any part of the service you are not given.

We may suspend or remove an account that does any of these, and we may remove content reported and found to be abusive.

• Gems have no cash value. They cannot be bought with money, sold, transferred, or exchanged for anything outside the app.
• Hearts and Energy are gameplay limits, not property. Both regenerate on their own over time.
• XP, Streaks, League standings and Quests are records of play. We may correct any of them where they were awarded in error or through abuse.
• We may change the rules of the economy — the costs, the rewards, the League ladder — as the app develops. Where a change would remove something you have earned, we will say so first.

The curriculum, the recordings, the artwork and Doc belong to us or to the people who made them for us. You get a personal, non-transferable right to use them inside the app while your account exists — and no right to republish them.

What you produce in the app — your answers, your near-misses, and any recording you agree to share — you allow us to use to run the service and to improve how it teaches and grades Patois. That is how a wrongly-rejected pronunciation becomes an accepted one.

Patois is a living language and a continuum. Nothing in the app claims to be the single correct form of it, and being marked wrong here is not a judgement about how anybody speaks.

We aim to keep LearnPatois running, but we do not promise it will always be available or error-free. Lessons need a connection. We may add, change or remove features, and we may stop offering the service — with reasonable notice where we can give it.

You can delete your account at any time by writing to [email protected]. Deletion is permanent. We may end or suspend your access if you break these terms.

LearnPatois is provided as it is. We do not guarantee any particular learning outcome, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of it. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Questions about these terms go to [email protected]. If we change them materially, we will tell you in the app before the change takes effect.