Terms and conditions of use

Glotta is an iOS application made of a keyboard extension, an app and a widget, published and operated by its owner (the "Owner"). It translates the sentences you write, collects the ones you actually use, and brings them back for review.

These terms are a binding agreement between you and the Owner. By installing, opening or using Glotta, or by browsing this site, you accept them in full. If you do not accept them, do not install and do not use the Service, and uninstall the app.

For the purposes of these terms: the "Service" is the app, the keyboard extension, the widget, this website and any related service; the "Software" is Glotta's code, in object and source form; the "Protected Materials" are the Software, the Glotta name and trade mark, the logo, the interface, the design, the structure and sequence of its features, the animations, the graphics, the copy, the documentation, the databases and the curated phrases shipped with the Service; "User Content" is what you write and whatever is derived from it.

These terms apply to every surface of the Service. The Privacy page forms an integral and substantial part of them.

To use Glotta you must be at least 13 years old and, if you are a minor, have the consent of whoever holds parental responsibility, who is answerable for the use you make of it.

You agree to give accurate information where we ask for it, and to keep it up to date.

You may not access the Service if you develop or market a competing product, if you act on behalf of someone who does, or if the Owner has previously revoked your access. Access obtained in breach of this prohibition is unauthorised from the outset and grants no licence.

The Owner grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence, revocable at any time, to install and use the Service in object form only, on devices you own or control, for personal and non-commercial purposes.

The Service is licensed to you, not sold. Nothing in these terms transfers to you ownership of the Software, of the Protected Materials, or of any intellectual property right in them. Every right not expressly granted here is reserved to the Owner.

The licence terminates automatically, with no notice required, upon any breach of clause 4. From that moment every use you make of the Service is without title.

Except to the extent mandatorily permitted by law, and in particular by articles 64-ter and 64-quater of Italian Law no. 633 of 22 April 1941, you are expressly prohibited — directly, indirectly or through third parties — from the following.

(a) Copying, reproducing, distributing, publishing, transmitting, renting, lending, sublicensing, selling or otherwise making the Service or any part of it available to third parties.

(b) Modifying, translating, adapting, decompiling, disassembling, decoding or reverse engineering the Software, or otherwise attempting to derive its source code, structure, algorithms, models, heuristics or underlying ideas.

(c) Creating derivative works of the Service, or building any product, application, extension or service that reproduces, imitates or replicates, in whole or in part, the Service, its interface, its overall look and feel, the sequence and organisation of its features, its copy or its design.

(d) Accessing or using the Service in order to build, train, evaluate or improve a competing product or service, a machine learning model, a dataset or a benchmark, or in order to extract, replicate or circumvent its functionality.

(e) Extracting, harvesting, indexing or re-utilising, systematically or by automated means — scraping, crawlers, bots, scripts, emulators, interception or traffic-analysis tools — the Service, its databases, the curated phrases or any content forming part of it, in whole or in substantial part, including where the extraction repeatedly and systematically covers insubstantial parts.

(f) Removing, altering or obscuring copyright notices, trade marks, watermarks, attributions or other identifying marks in the Service.

(g) Circumventing, disabling or interfering with technical protection measures, access controls, subscription checks or usage limits, or accessing the Service by any means other than the interfaces the Owner provides.

(h) Using the Service for unlawful activity, to process content you have no right to process, to deliberately overload it, or in any way that compromises its security, integrity or availability for other users.

(i) Using the Glotta name, trade mark or logo, or any confusingly similar sign, in any form not expressly authorised in writing by the Owner, including in domain names, application names, advertising keywords or metadata.

If you are in the European Union and you need interoperability with an independently created program, you must first request the necessary information from the Owner in writing before undertaking any decompilation: the Owner will supply it on reasonable terms, in which case decompilation is not indispensable within the meaning of the law.

The Protected Materials are and remain the exclusive property of the Owner or of its licensors, and are protected by copyright, trade mark law, trade secret law and every other applicable rule, in Italy and abroad.

The Software is a protected work under articles 1, 2 no. 8 and 64-bis et seq. of Italian Law no. 633 of 22 April 1941. The databases that make up the Service, including the curated phrases, are protected both as works and by the maker's sui generis right under article 102-bis of the same law: extraction or re-utilisation of the whole or of a substantial part of their contents is prohibited and is separately actionable.

The architecture of the Service, its implementation choices, its parameters, its heuristics and every other undisclosed technical detail are confidential information and trade secrets under articles 98 and 99 of the Italian Industrial Property Code. You must not disclose them or use them beyond the limits of this licence.

"Glotta", the logo and the visual identity of the Service are distinctive signs of the Owner. Imitation of those signs, slavish imitation of the interface and of the product, and any other act liable to cause confusion with the Service or to appropriate its merits, amount to unfair competition under article 2598 of the Italian Civil Code and will be pursued as such.

Nothing in these terms may be read as granting, expressly or by implication, a licence under any trade mark, patent, copyright or trade secret of the Owner.

If you send us ideas, suggestions, bug reports or proposed improvements, you grant the Owner a free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use them and incorporate them into the Service, with no obligation of confidence, attribution or payment.

This covers only the suggestions you send us of your own accord. It does not touch your User Content, which stays yours under clause 7.

The sentences you write, the vocabulary derived from them and your settings stay yours. They live on your phone and you can delete them from the app at any time.

The Owner claims no rights over your User Content and does not use it to train models.

Where your text ends up is described in detail on the Privacy page, which forms part of these terms.

Glotta is free to use in the features described as such. Premium is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly.

Purchase, renewal, refunds and cancellation are handled by your device's store under its own conditions: you cancel from your store account settings, at least 24 hours before renewal.

Where a free trial is offered, billing starts at the end of the trial period unless you cancel.

A subscription widens the features available to you: it does not widen the licence in clause 3, and it does not soften the prohibitions in clause 4.

The Owner works to keep the Service available and reliable, but does not warrant that it will run uninterrupted, on time, secure or error-free.

The Owner may add, change, suspend or discontinue features at any time. Where a change is substantial and affects you, you will be given reasonable notice.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, all warranties other than those that cannot be excluded are disclaimed, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy of translations and non-infringement.

Glotta is a tool that supports learning and writing. Translations, analyses and corrections are generated automatically and can be wrong: responsibility for what you send, and for the consequences of what you send, stays entirely yours.

To the extent permitted by law, the Owner is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, nor for loss of data, profits, opportunity or reputation, arising from the use of or inability to use the Service.

To the extent permitted by law, the Owner's total liability, on any basis, is in any event limited to what you actually paid for the Service in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to it.

Nothing in this clause excludes or limits liability for wilful misconduct or gross negligence, or for personal injury, or the rights the law grants you as a consumer and which cannot be waived.

You agree to hold the Owner, its collaborators and its licensors harmless from any claim, action, damage, cost and expense — including reasonable legal fees — arising from your breach of these terms, in particular clause 4, from the infringement of third-party rights, or from unlawful use of the Service.

This obligation survives termination of the licence.

You acknowledge that a breach of clauses 4 or 5 causes the Owner serious harm that is hard to quantify, and that damages alone would not be an adequate remedy.

The Owner may therefore seek, including on an urgent basis, injunctive relief, description, seizure and every other interim or restorative measure available under articles 129, 131 and 161 of the Italian Industrial Property Code, articles 156 et seq. of the Italian Copyright Act, and article 700 of the Italian Code of Civil Procedure. The right to full compensation, to an account of profits and to publication of the ruling is unaffected.

Tolerating a breach, even a repeated one, is not a waiver of the right to act on that breach or on later ones.

You can stop using Glotta whenever you like, by uninstalling the app: the data that lives on the phone goes with it.

The Owner may suspend or revoke access and the licence with immediate effect in the event of a breach of these terms, and in particular of clause 4.

On termination, for whatever reason, you must immediately stop all use of the Service, uninstall it, and destroy every copy or extract of the Protected Materials in your possession. Clauses 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15 survive termination.

These terms, and any dispute as to their validity, interpretation, performance or termination, are governed by Italian law, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the Vienna Convention on the international sale of goods.

If you use Glotta as a consumer, the court of the place where you are resident or domiciled has exclusive jurisdiction, and every mandatory protection under the Italian Consumer Code is unaffected. You may also use the European online dispute resolution platform.

In every other case, including disputes concerning clauses 4, 5 and 12, the courts of Milan, Italy have exclusive jurisdiction.

If a provision of these terms is held void or ineffective, it stays valid as to the part not affected and the remaining provisions keep full effect; the affected provision is replaced by a valid one that comes as close as possible to its purpose.

You may not assign these terms or the rights under them without the Owner's written consent; the Owner may assign them on a sale of the business or of a division of it.

These terms, together with the Privacy page, are the entire agreement between you and the Owner about the Service and supersede any earlier understanding.

The Owner may update these terms. The version in force is always the one published on this page, with the last-updated date at the top: continuing to use the Service after publication counts as acceptance.

Under and for the purposes of articles 1341 and 1342 of the Italian Civil Code, by using the Service you declare that you have read and specifically approve the following clauses: clause 3 (revocability of the licence), clause 4 (express prohibitions), clause 9 (disclaimer of warranties, right to change and discontinue), clause 10 (limitation of liability), clause 11 (indemnity), clause 12 (remedies for breach), clause 13 (revocation and survival), clause 14 (governing law and jurisdiction) and clause 15 (no assignment).

If you use Glotta as a consumer, this approval does not affect your non-waivable rights: any clause found unfair under articles 33 et seq. of the Italian Consumer Code remains without effect as against you.