Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are an agreement between you and Side Hustle Holdings Ltd. ("we", "us") about your use of the StoryFluent app (the "App"). By tapping "I agree", or by installing or using the App, you accept these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App.

Effective August 1, 2026, last updated October 23, 2026.

1. Who can use the App

You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age required in your country to consent to the processing of your data, whichever is higher. If you are under 18, you confirm that a parent or guardian has reviewed these Terms and agrees to them on your behalf.

The App is provided through the Apple App Store and Google Play. Their terms also apply to your download and to any purchase.

2. The service

StoryFluent is a reading app for language learning. As you read, it replaces selected words in the text with their translation in a language you are learning, and offers related study tools: dictionary lookups, review, games, handwriting practice, narration and a news reader. You can read books from our catalogue or import your own book files.

Your books, settings and progress are stored on your device. An account is optional: if you create one, a copy of your app data is kept in the cloud so it can be restored on another phone, and up to two phones can be signed in to one account at a time (see the Privacy Policy). We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the App at any time.

3. Books you import

You may import book files you already have (such as EPUB, PDF or plain text). By importing a file, you confirm that you own a lawful copy, that you are permitted to read it for personal use, and that its copy protection has not been removed or bypassed. Do not import unlawfully obtained files. You are solely responsible for the files you import.

Word substitution and every other change the App makes to an imported book is a display-only alteration: it happens on your device, exists only so that you can read and study the text, and is never published or made available to anyone else. Any word-substituted version the App keeps on your device is a temporary working copy for your personal study, is deleted when you remove the book, and may not be exported, shared, redistributed or sold. It is not a new edition of the work and we claim no rights in it.

The App does not remove, bypass or weaken any technical protection measure applied to a file, and you may not use the App to do so.

We do not host, store, index or review the content of the books you import, and we do not use them for anything other than displaying them to you. If you turn on cloud narration, the sentences being read aloud (including from imported books) are sent to Google Cloud Text-to-Speech solely to produce the audio, under Google Cloud's data-processing terms; see the Privacy Policy.

4. Our catalogue

Books offered in the App's Store are, to the best of our knowledge, in the public domain or made available under an open licence in the territories where we offer them. Availability may vary by country, and we may add, remove or restrict titles at any time. Buying or claiming a catalogue book gives you a personal, non-transferable licence to read it in the App and, for public-domain titles, to keep the original file for personal use. It does not give you ownership of, or any rights in, the underlying work.

If you believe a title in our catalogue infringes your rights, write to privacy@storyfluent.app with the title, the basis of your claim and your contact details, and we will review it promptly.

5. Purchases, credits and transfers

Prices are shown in the App. StoryFluent Pro and credit packs are purchased through the App Store or Google Play and are subject to their terms and refund policies; we cannot issue refunds ourselves. StoryFluent Pro is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase; subscriptions renew until cancelled through your App Store or Google Play account, and a lifetime purchase never renews.

Credits are a licence to unlock content within the App. They have no cash value, cannot be redeemed for money, are not transferable except through the App's own transfer feature, and may be adjusted or withdrawn if they were obtained through fraud, abuse or error. Free credits earned from ads, referrals or progress are a courtesy and may be changed at any time.

The transfer feature moves your credit-bought content and progress to another device using a code. Creating a code removes the content from the device that created it. You are responsible for keeping your code private and safe; anyone who has it can use it, and a lost code cannot be recovered by us.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to: reverse engineer, decompile or tamper with the App or its content protection; extract, scrape or redistribute the App's dictionaries, catalogue or other content; use the App to infringe anyone's rights; use bots, emulators or other means to earn credits or rewards artificially; resell access to the App or its content; or use the App in any unlawful way.

7. Intellectual property

The App, its design, code, dictionaries, translations, artwork (including Bub the Bookworm), names and logos belong to us or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. Except for the personal licences described in these Terms, nothing in the App is transferred to you.

8. Advertising and third parties

The App is free to use with advertisements, served by Google AdMob. StoryFluent Pro removes the ads that interrupt reading; ads you choose to watch in exchange for credits stay available on every tier. Where local law requires your consent before advertising, the App asks for it through Google's consent form. If you decline, you can reopen that choice or subscribe to Pro, and until you do one of the two the App cannot be used.

The App also uses Google Analytics. Their use of data is described in our Privacy Policy. The news reader fetches headlines and articles directly from third-party news sources and links out to websites that we neither control nor are responsible for.

9. Disclaimers

The App is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. Translations, word substitutions, dictionary entries, narration and handwriting scoring are generated automatically and may be inaccurate or incomplete: the App is a learning aid, not a professional translation or teaching service, and no particular learning outcome is promised. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, content, credits, progress or profits, arising from or related to the App, however caused. Our total liability for any claim relating to the App is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us through the App in the twelve months before the claim and CAD 50. These limits apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose, and do not exclude liability that cannot be excluded by law.

11. Indemnity

You will defend and indemnify us, our affiliates and our officers against any claim, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from files you import, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

12. Termination

You may stop using the App at any time by deleting it. We may suspend or terminate your access, or withdraw credits, if you breach these Terms or use the App abusively. Sections 3, 5, 7 and 9 to 14 survive termination.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. When we make a material change we will ask you to accept the new version in the App before you continue to use it. Continued use after acceptance means the new Terms apply.

14. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The courts of British Columbia have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, except that either party may seek an injunction to protect intellectual property in any competent court, and nothing here removes protections you have under the mandatory consumer laws of your place of residence. If any part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. These Terms, with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the App.

15. Contact

StoryFluent is operated by Side Hustle Holdings Ltd.. Questions, rights claims and takedown notices: privacy@storyfluent.app.