Terms of Use

Introduction

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) form a legally binding agreement between you and ADS BOOST LTD, the company that operates Minutka English (“we”, “us”, “our”). They apply to your use of the website minutkaenglish.com, the Minutka English web application and every lesson, exercise and feature available through them (together, the “Service”).

By signing up, answering the onboarding questions, starting a subscription or using the Service in any other way, you confirm that you have read and accept these Terms, as well as our Privacy Policy, Subscription Terms and Refund Policy. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Service.

What Minutka English Offers

Minutka English is a web application for learning English in short daily sessions, designed for beginner and elementary learners (levels A1 and A2). The interface is available in your native language — currently English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Turkish and Polish — while the lessons themselves are in English. Depending on your plan, the Service may include:

• short stories in English with voice-over audio and a translation into your language;
• vocabulary practice with flashcards and spaced repetition, where you mark words as “I know” or “Learn” and the app schedules reviews for you;
• pronunciation exercises in which you read words or phrases aloud through your microphone and receive an automatic score and feedback;
• a daily streak and other progress indicators that help you build a habit.

We keep improving the Service and may add, change or remove lessons, stories, words, levels, languages and features at any time. The Service is for your personal, non-commercial use only.

Free Access and Minutka Pro

You can use part of the Service for free. Free access has limits — for example, only a few lessons per day — and some features may be available only with Minutka Pro, our paid subscription. We may change what is included in free access and in Minutka Pro from time to time.

Learning Content — No Guaranteed Results

Minutka English is a self-study tool. Stories, translations, word lists, exercises and pronunciation scores are provided for educational purposes only.

• How quickly you progress depends on many things outside our control, such as how often you practise, your starting level and your circumstances. We do not promise that you will reach a particular level, fluency or exam score within any period of time.
• The Service is not an accredited course. Completing lessons does not lead to a certificate, diploma or any official language qualification, and our levels (such as A1 and A2) are a guide to difficulty, not a formal assessment of your ability.
• Translations and pronunciation scores are generated with the help of automated tools. They are meant to support your learning and may sometimes be imprecise.

Lessons and Licence

As long as you follow these Terms (and keep an active subscription where one is needed), we give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to access the stories, audio, translations, word lists and exercises in the Service (the “Content”) for your own non-commercial learning.

You may not:

• download, record, copy or store Content outside the Service, unless the Service clearly offers a way to do so;
• sell, rent, sublicense, publish, broadcast or otherwise share Content with others, in whole or in part;
• use Content to build courses, apps or other products and services, or to train artificial intelligence models;
• remove any copyright or other notices from Content.

We cannot guarantee that a particular story, lesson or word set will stay available.

Pronunciation Exercises and Your Microphone

Pronunciation exercises work only if you allow your browser to use your microphone. Recording starts only when you begin an exercise, and you can refuse or withdraw microphone access in your browser settings at any time — the rest of the Service will keep working.

Your recordings are sent to a speech recognition and assessment provider solely to produce your score, as described in our Privacy Policy. Scores are automatic estimates: background noise, your microphone or your accent may affect them, and they are not an official assessment of your speaking skills.

Streaks and Progress

Your daily streak, learned-word counts and other progress indicators exist to keep you motivated. They have no monetary value, cannot be exchanged for money, goods or services, and cannot be transferred to another account. We may change how they work, or adjust or reset them to correct errors or stop misuse.

Eligibility and Your Account

You must be at least 16 years old (or older, if your country sets a higher age of digital consent) to use the Service. If you are under 18, you confirm that your parent or legal guardian has read and agreed to these Terms.

You sign in with your email address using a secure one-time link. Please keep your email account secure — you are responsible for all activity under your Minutka English account. Tell us right away if you think someone has used your account without your permission.

Your Data and Answers

Your onboarding answers, exercise results, saved words and pronunciation recordings remain yours. You allow us to store and process them only to provide and improve the Service for you, as set out in our Privacy Policy. We do not show them to other users, and you can delete your account at any time.

Acceptable Use

When using the Service, you agree not to:

• use it for anything unlawful or in breach of these Terms;
• copy, redistribute, sell or publicly display Content without our permission;
• reverse engineer, scrape, overload or interfere with the Service or its security, or use bots or other tricks to bypass free-access limits or inflate your streak and progress;
• submit recordings of other people without their consent, or recordings that contain unlawful or offensive material;
• share your account or resell access to the Service.

We may suspend or close accounts that break these rules.

Intellectual Property

The Service — including its design, stories, audio, translations, word lists, exercises, software and the Minutka English name and logo — belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. Apart from the limited licence described above, these Terms do not give you any rights to it.

Subscriptions and Payments

Full access to the Service is available with a Minutka Pro subscription. Current prices and plan lengths are shown at checkout before you pay. If a trial is offered, its length and price are shown at checkout too.

Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel it. You can cancel at any time in your account settings in the web app, on our cancellation page at https://minutkaenglish.com/cancel.html (enter your email and we will send you a secure link), or by writing to [email protected].

All purchases are governed by our Subscription Terms and Refund Policy.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent permitted by law, we do not guarantee that it will always be available or free of errors, that its Content or scores will meet your needs, or that you will reach any particular learning result.

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses arising from your use of the Service, or for decisions you make based on it. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law or affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

Termination

You can stop using the Service and delete your account whenever you like. Deleting your account does not cancel an active subscription automatically — please cancel it first, as described in our Subscription Terms. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms or if the law requires it.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The current version will always be on this page, with the date of the latest update at the top. For significant changes, we will also notify you by email or in the Service. If you continue to use the Service after the changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms.

Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws that apply to consumer contracts in your country of residence, and nothing in them limits the mandatory consumer protection rights you have there. If a dispute arises, please write to us first at [email protected] — we will do our best to resolve it informally.

Contact

Questions about these Terms? We are happy to help.