Terms of use

1. About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and William Newell, based in France (“we”, “us”), who makes Finally French. They cover the Finally French app for iPhone and Android and this website. By creating an account or using the app, you agree to them. If you don’t agree, please don’t use Finally French.

Our privacy policy explains how we handle your data and is part of these terms.

2. The service

Finally French is a course in standard (Parisian) French, from beginner level towards fluency. It is free and paid for by advertising, as described in the privacy policy. There is no paid version, and we won’t charge you without asking you first.

We keep improving the course and may add, change or remove lessons and features. If we ever close Finally French, we will tell you in advance where we reasonably can.

3. Your account

• You must be at least 16 to create an account.
• Give a real email address that you can access, so we can send you codes and important notices.
• Keep your password private. You are responsible for what happens in your account.
• An account is for one person.

You can delete your account at any time in the app, under You > Delete account. We delete accounts that are unused for a long time, after emailing you first, as the privacy policy explains.

4. Fair use

Please don’t:

• copy, sell, republish or share the course content, apart from the progress cards the app lets you share,
• try to break, overload, reverse-engineer or get around the security of the app or our servers,
• use bots or scripts to access Finally French, or collect data from it,
• use another person’s account, or create accounts automatically,
• click on ads you aren’t interested in, or try to make ads earn money artificially,
• use Finally French to break the law.

If someone seriously or repeatedly breaks these rules, we may suspend or close their account. Where reasonable, we will warn them first and explain why.

5. Content and ownership

The lessons, exercises, explanations, audio choices, design and name of Finally French belong to us, and are protected by copyright and other laws. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the app to learn French, for non-commercial purposes, for as long as you use it under these terms.

Your learning progress belongs to you. You let us store and process it so that the app can work, as the privacy policy describes.

6. Advertising

The app shows banner ads from Google AdMob. Ads are provided by other companies, and we don’t endorse the products in them. If you buy something from an advertiser, that is between you and them.

7. Learning results

Finally French is designed to help you learn, and many people find a little practice every day goes a long way. But how quickly anyone learns depends on many things, so we can’t guarantee a particular level, exam result or timetable.

8. Availability and responsibility

We work to keep Finally French running smoothly and its French accurate, but the app is provided “as is”. It may sometimes be unavailable, contain mistakes or lose data that hasn’t synced yet. As a free service, to the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses or for losses caused by events outside our reasonable control.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for gross negligence. Nothing in these terms affects your rights as a consumer under the law of the country where you live.

9. App stores

If you download Finally French from the Apple App Store or Google Play, their terms also apply to your download. These terms are between you and us, not Apple or Google. Apple and Google are not responsible for the app or for supporting it. If you downloaded the app from the App Store, Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as Finally French grows. We’ll change the date at the top, and tell you in the app or by email before an important change takes effect. If you keep using Finally French after that, the new terms apply. If you don’t accept them, you can delete your account.

11. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by French law. If you live in another country, you keep any protections that country’s consumer law gives you, and you can bring a claim in your local courts. If something goes wrong, please email us first. Most problems are quickest to fix that way.

12. Contact

William Newell, Finally French, France. Email: support@finallylearnfrench.com.