Cinelang Terms of Use

Effective date: October 19, 2026

1. Agreement

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Aram Abramian ("Cinelang", "we", "us") for the Cinelang app and website (the "Service"). By using the Service, you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.

2. The Service

Cinelang teaches English through short movie scenes. You watch a scene with English subtitles, tap a word or phrase to see its meaning and a translation into your language, save words, and review them. We may add, change, or remove features.

The website also offers a waitlist and founding memberships. When you join either, give an email address that is accurate and that you control. It's how we reach you, and how founding members get access.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old, or older if your country requires a higher age to accept these Terms without a parent's consent. If you're under 18, a parent or guardian must agree to these Terms for you.

4. YouTube and third-party content

Cinelang plays clips in YouTube's official embedded player through YouTube API Services, and the videos remain subject to YouTube's terms. By using Cinelang, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service.

Cinelang respects the intellectual property rights of the people who own the videos. The videos belong to their owners and stay free to watch on YouTube. Cinelang doesn't sell or host them, and the app doesn't download or store them. Cinelang doesn't claim ownership of any third-party videos, music, or other audiovisual works, or of the dialogue in them, including where that dialogue appears in Cinelang's subtitles and translations.

Your subscription pays for Cinelang's own learning tools, including:

• subtitles you can tap, with translations into your language;
• word and phrase meanings, and Explain more;
• your Vocab deck, which keeps each saved word with the line you heard it in;
• review that brings back the words you miss;
• your streak, journey, daily goal, and reminders;
• the Home Screen widget.

It doesn't pay for the videos. YouTube may show ads in its player.

A clip can become unavailable at any time. For example, YouTube or the video's owner may remove it or turn off embedding, its owner's licensing may restrict where it can be shown, it may be blocked in your country, or we may remove it after a copyright complaint.

5. Subscriptions and founding members

• Plans. After the first setup screens, Cinelang requires a subscription or a founding membership. The plans, prices, and any free trial are shown in the app before you buy, in your local currency.
• Billing. Apple charges your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when a free trial ends.
• Automatic renewal. A subscription renews for the same period at the price then in effect unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Apple charges the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends.
• Free trials. A plan may include a free trial for eligible new subscribers. It becomes a paid subscription unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends.
• Cancelling. Go to iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions. You keep access until the end of the period you paid for. Deleting the app doesn't cancel a subscription.
• Refunds. Apple handles all payments and refunds for purchases made in the app, under its own policies. Request a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com; we can't issue refunds for App Store purchases ourselves.
• Price changes. We may change prices. Apple tells you in advance as its rules require, and asks for your consent when they require it.
• Restoring. On a new device, use Restore with the same Apple Account. Family Sharing isn't available.

Founding members. Before launch, you can buy a founding membership on our website for a one-time payment of US$20.

• What you get. Every premium feature in Cinelang, including ones we add later, without a subscription, for as long as we offer Cinelang. "Lifetime" means the lifetime of the Service, not your lifetime. It never renews.
• Payment. Lemon Squeezy sells the membership to you as our merchant of record. It processes the payment, adds any sales tax or VAT, and sends your receipt, and its Buyer Terms apply to the purchase.
• Getting access. When Cinelang launches, we'll email the address you used at checkout with how to unlock it in the app. The app has no accounts, so keep access to that email address.
• Refunds. Email us with your order number, and we'll handle it through Lemon Squeezy under its Buyer Terms.
• Personal. A founding membership is for you alone. You can't resell or transfer it.

6. Our content and your license

Cinelang's app, design, name, mascot, and the learning material we create, such as translations, explanations, and review, belong to us or our licensors. That doesn't include the third-party videos or the dialogue our subtitles and translations are based on, which section 4 covers. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the app for your own non-commercial learning, on Apple devices you own or control, as the App Store's rules allow. Don't use the Cinelang name, logo, or mascot without our written permission, except to refer to Cinelang accurately.

Word meanings and examples come from Simple English Wiktionary and Wiktionary under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, and Cinelang's translations of those meanings are available under the same license. Each meaning links to its source.

7. Acceptable use

Don't:

• copy, scrape, or redistribute Cinelang's subtitles, translations, or other content, except as the Creative Commons license allows for dictionary content;
• get around the subscription, YouTube's player, or its ads;
• access any part of the Service, or the systems behind it, without permission;
• reverse engineer the app, except where the law allows it;
• use bots or other automated access;
• use the Service to break the law or YouTube's terms, or interfere with how it works.

8. Copyright complaints

Cinelang respects the intellectual property rights of others and looks into every report of copyright infringement. If you own the copyright in content available through Cinelang, or are authorized to act for its owner, you can send us a complaint: tap the flag on the clip and choose "Copyright or removal request", or email cinelangsupport@gmail.com. Our Copyright Policy explains what to include and what happens next.

We may remove or disable access to disputed content when appropriate, including the subtitles, translations, and other learning material made from it. A removal takes effect as soon as practical, normally in the next app update, and we reply to you. To remove the video from YouTube itself, use YouTube's copyright process.

9. Disclaimers

To the extent the law allows, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't promise that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, that any clip stays available, or that you'll reach a particular level of English. Translations and explanations can contain mistakes. Explain more is written by Apple Intelligence and can be wrong.

10. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits or data. Our total liability for any claim is limited to what you paid for Cinelang in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that the law doesn't allow us to limit, or your rights as a consumer under the mandatory laws of the country where you live.

11. Apple

These Terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple isn't responsible for the app or its content, has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for it, and isn't responsible for claims about it, including product liability, legal compliance, and intellectual property claims. If the app fails to meet a warranty that applies to it, you may tell Apple, and Apple may refund its purchase price; Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you. Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies to the app; where it conflicts with these Terms about your license to use the app, it controls.

12. Ending your use

You can stop using Cinelang at any time; cancel a subscription separately, as section 5 explains. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms. Sections 6 to 13 continue to apply after that.

13. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and the state and federal courts in Los Angeles County, California, have jurisdiction over disputes. If you're a consumer in the EU, the UK, or another place whose laws protect you regardless of this choice, you keep those protections and may bring a claim in the courts where you live. Before starting a formal dispute, please email us so we can try to resolve it within 30 days.

14. Changes to these Terms

We'll post changes on this page with a new effective date, and tell you in the app if a change is significant. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the new Terms.

15. Contact

Aram Abramian
cinelangsupport@gmail.com