Terms of use, privacy and refunds

1. What oblabla is

oblabla is a service for learning languages by reading stories generated with artificial intelligence, with word explanations, audio and review tools.

It has a free plan, with usage limits, and paid plans (Pro and Plus) with more stories and features. What each plan includes is shown on the plans page.

2. Who can use it

You must be 18 or older. You sign in with your Google account or with your email and a password, and you are responsible for what is done with your account. Keep your password safe and don't share it.

One account per person. You may not sell, transfer or share your access.

3. AI-generated content

Stories, translations, explanations, illustrations and audio are generated by artificial intelligence. They may contain errors, inaccuracies, unnatural phrasing or imperfect pronunciation. Use them as practice material, not as an authoritative source or a replacement for a teacher.

4. What is not allowed

You may not use oblabla to request, create or spread sexually explicit content, graphic violence, hate speech, harassment, content that mocks or harms real people, or anything illegal or offensive.

You also may not try to get around the content rules or usage limits, use automated programs to access the service, or interfere with how it works.

oblabla applies content rules when generating stories and may decline to write anything that doesn't follow them.

5. Your stories

You may read, save and use the stories you generate for your own learning or in classes.

If you share a story by link, anyone with the link can read it.

Stories you create may be published in oblabla's public library, without your name and only after a review, unless you turn this off. You can turn it off for all your stories in My account or for each story when you share it. For stories that are published, you give us free, perpetual permission to publish them, display them and add educational material to them (for example, a list of key words, an illustration or audio). You can ask us to remove any of them at any time.

6. Moderation and removal

We may review, hide, remove or decline to publish any content, at any time and without prior notice, if we consider that it breaks these terms or is not appropriate.

Anyone with an account can report a public story. We review every reported story and remove it if it isn't appropriate.

We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

7. Paid plans and subscriptions

The Pro and Plus plans are monthly or yearly subscriptions. Payments are processed by Paddle.com, which acts as oblabla's authorized reseller (Merchant of Record): Paddle charges you, issues the invoice and applies your country's taxes. By paying you also accept Paddle's buyer terms.

Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each period (month or year) and is charged to the same payment method until you cancel it. You can cancel any time from My account or from your purchase email: you keep the plan until the end of the period you already paid for, and then move to the free plan without losing your stories or words.

If we change a plan's price, we'll email you beforehand, and the new price only applies from your next renewal. You can cancel before then if it doesn't suit you.

Unlimited word lookups and audio are meant for normal personal use. We may limit automated or unusual use that affects the service.

8. Refunds

If oblabla isn't right for you, within 14 days of your first subscription payment (or of a yearly renewal) we'll refund you in full, no questions asked. Write to hello@oblabla.com or ask Paddle by replying to your purchase email.

After those 14 days, cancelling stops future charges but doesn't refund the period already paid, unless the law of your country says otherwise. If a problem on our side kept you from using the service, write to us and we'll sort it out.

Refunds go back to the original payment method and may take a few days to show, depending on your bank.

9. Privacy

We keep what the service needs to work: your email (and your name, if you sign in with Google), your language preferences, your stories, saved words and reviews, the words you look up, the audio you choose to listen to, the approximate country you connect from (we don't store your IP address) and how you reached oblabla (for example, from which website or campaign). If you sign in with email, your password is stored encrypted by Google (Firebase): we never see it.

We use this data to provide the service, improve it and understand how it's used. We don't sell it or use it for third-party advertising. To measure our own ads we use, only if you accept it, the Meta pixel (see Cookies and ad measurement).

If you create a trial story without an account, to prevent abuse we count how many are created from each internet connection using an encrypted version of your address that can't be reversed and changes every day. We don't store your address.

We work with providers that process data on our behalf: Google (Firebase) for accounts and the database; Anthropic to generate texts and explanations with artificial intelligence; ElevenLabs for the audio of stories and words (with Google Gemini as a backup); Google Gemini for illustrations; Vercel to host the site and store audio and images; and Paddle for payments. We send them only what each task needs (for example, a story's text to read it aloud).

Your card or payment details are received and stored by Paddle: we never see them. From Paddle we receive only what we need to give you your plan: your email, the plan, the subscription status and your country.

From My account (under Account and privacy) you can delete your stories, words and preferences, or delete your whole account with all your data. Stories already published in the library stay, without your name or any link to your account; if you want them removed too, write to us.

Payment records are kept by Paddle for as long as the law requires, even if you delete your account.

10. Cookies and ad measurement

To work, oblabla keeps a few things of its own in your browser: your session, your language, your preferences and how you arrived. They aren't advertising.

We also measure, without knowing who you are, which pages are visited and what is tapped on them (for example, how far a story is read or whether a word is tapped), to improve oblabla. For that we keep a random number in your browser: it doesn't include your name or email and isn't shared with anyone. If you look up words without an account inside Instagram or Facebook and move to your browser to sign up, those words are kept under another random number for up to 14 days, only so they aren't lost on the way.

In addition, only if you accept it in the cookie notice, we use the Meta pixel (Facebook and Instagram) to know whether our ads work. The pixel tells Meta that you visited oblabla, which stories you opened (their title and language) and whether you created an account. We don't send your email, your name or what you write, and we turn off automatic reading of forms. Meta may link those visits to your Facebook or Instagram account under its own privacy policy (facebook.com/privacy/policy).

If you reject it, the pixel isn't loaded and oblabla works the same. You can change your choice at any time with the button below or from My account.

11. No warranties and liability

oblabla is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for damages arising from using or being unable to use the service, or for errors in the generated content.

Nothing here limits the rights the law of your country gives you as a consumer.

12. Changes

We may update these terms. If the changes are significant, we'll say so on the site (and by email, if you have a paid plan). Continuing to use oblabla after a change means you accept the new version.

13. Contact

For any question, refund, removal or data deletion request, write to hello@oblabla.com.