Terms.
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and Arjun Karthik, doing business as Lecturly, in California (“Lecturly,” “we,” “us”). They cover the website at lecturly.ai, the app at app.lecturly.ai, and everything we provide through them (the “Service”). Our Acceptable Use Policy is part of these Terms, and our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information.
By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use the Service.
Please read section 18 carefully. It requires most disputes to be resolved by individual binding arbitration instead of in court, waives class actions and jury trials, and explains how to opt out within 30 days. It doesn’t apply if you live in the EU or UK.
1. The Service
Lecturly turns lecture files you upload into AI-generated study materials: narrated video lessons, notes, flashcards and quizzes, plus an AI tutor that answers questions about your material. We keep improving the Service, so features may change, as section 16 explains.
2. Who can use Lecturly
You must be at least 13 years old. If you live in the EU or UK, you must be at least 16, or the age of digital consent in your country, whichever is lower. If you’re under 18 (or the age of majority where you live), you may use Lecturly only with the permission of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms for you, and only a parent or guardian may buy a paid plan or video pack for you.
You can’t use Lecturly if you’re barred from receiving services under US law, including if you’re on a US government sanctions list or located in a country under comprehensive US sanctions. You agree to follow US export control laws.
3. Your account
Give us accurate information and keep it up to date. Keep your password safe; you’re responsible for what happens under your account. One person per account: don’t share it, sell it, or create extra accounts to get more free use. Tell us right away at legal@lecturly.ai if you think someone else has accessed your account.
4. Your content
“Your content” means the files you upload and what you enter or create in Lecturly, including the lessons, notes, flashcards and quizzes generated for you and the edits you make.
- You keep ownership. We don’t claim ownership of your content. As between you and us, you own the study materials generated for you, to the extent the law lets anyone own them. Some AI-generated material may not be protected by copyright, and similar material may be generated for other users.
- The permission you give us. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process, transmit (including to the AI and text-to-speech providers described in our Privacy Policy), adapt and display your content, only as needed to run, secure and improve the Service for you, and to show lessons you share to the people you share them with. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies we must keep by law or that sit in backups until they’re overwritten.
- We don’t train AI on it. We don’t use your content to train AI models.
- Your promises. You confirm that you have the rights needed to upload your content and to let us use it as described here, and that it follows the Acceptable Use Policy. You’re responsible for your content, including lessons you choose to share.
5. Sharing lessons
If you share a lesson, anyone with the link can access it, including its title, narration, transcript, your name and its view count. Viewers who aren’t signed in see a short preview in the player before being asked to sign in. You can turn sharing off at any time. Only share lessons made from material you have the right to share.
6. AI-generated content
Lecturly’s lessons, narration, notes, flashcards, quizzes, grading and tutor replies are generated by AI, and the tutor is an AI, not a person. AI can be wrong, incomplete, or out of date, and can sound confident when it’s wrong. Check anything important against your course materials and your instructor. Nothing Lecturly generates is professional advice (medical, legal, financial or otherwise), and we don’t promise any grade or learning outcome. You’re responsible for following your school’s rules on using AI tools.
7. Acceptable use
You agree to follow the Acceptable Use Policy. In short: no illegal or infringing content, no harming others, no cheating where AI isn’t allowed, and no abusing, scraping, reverse engineering, or getting around the limits of the Service.
8. Free plan, paid plans and video packs
Lecturly has a free plan and paid subscription plans. The current plans, prices, and what each includes (such as how many video lessons you can generate each month) are shown in the app before you buy. Monthly video allowances reset each calendar month (UTC), even on yearly billing, and unused allowance doesn’t carry over. A lesson that fails to generate doesn’t count against your allowance.
Paid plan subscribers can also buy one-time video packs. Pack videos are added to your balance, are used only after your monthly allowance runs out, and don’t expire while your account is open. Packs, bonus videos and referral rewards have no cash value, can’t be transferred, and end if your account is closed.
9. Subscriptions and automatic renewal
Paid plans renew automatically. When you subscribe, you authorize us (through our payment processor, Stripe) to charge your payment method the price shown at checkout, plus any applicable tax, at the start of your subscription and again at the start of each new billing period (every month or every year, depending on the plan you chose) until you cancel.
- How to cancel. Cancel any time online in Settings, under Plan & billing, without contacting us. You can also email legal@lecturly.ai.
- What cancelling does. Cancellation stops future renewals. You keep your paid features until the end of the period you already paid for, then your account moves to the free plan. Your lectures and study materials stay in your account.
- Plan changes. Upgrades take effect after payment, and you’re charged a prorated amount for the rest of the current period, which we show you before you confirm. Downgrades and switches between monthly and yearly billing take effect at your next renewal.
- Price changes. If we change the price of your plan, we’ll tell you by email at least 30 days before it applies, and it applies only from your next renewal after that notice. If you don’t want to pay the new price, cancel before then.
- Reminders. We’ll send you a confirmation of your subscription terms after you subscribe, including how to cancel. We’ll also remind you of your subscription, its price and how to cancel at least once a year, and for yearly plans, 15 to 45 days before each renewal.
- Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe may retry it, and we may move your account to the free plan until payment succeeds.
- Taxes. Prices don’t include taxes unless we say so. You pay any taxes that apply.
10. Refunds
- Except as stated here or required by law, payments are non-refundable, and we don’t give refunds or credits for partial billing periods, unused video allowance, or unused packs.
- If something on our end breaks and you can’t use what you paid for, email legal@lecturly.ai and we’ll refund the affected period or pack.
- EU and UK consumers: you can withdraw from a new subscription within 14 days of buying it, for any reason. You get a full refund if you haven’t generated anything with your paid plan yet; otherwise we refund the price minus a proportionate amount for what you used before withdrawing. For a video pack, you can withdraw within 14 days if you haven’t used any of its videos. To withdraw, email legal@lecturly.ai with your account email and a clear statement that you’re withdrawing. We’ll refund you within 14 days using your original payment method.
- If you dispute a charge with your bank instead of contacting us, we may suspend paid features while the dispute is open.
11. Referral program
When someone signs up with your referral code, you can both earn bonus videos, as described in the app. Rewards are limited to a set number of completed referrals per account. Referring yourself, using fake or duplicate accounts, or spamming referral links isn’t allowed, and we can withhold or remove rewards earned that way. We may change or end the referral program at any time, but we won’t take away rewards you’ve already earned fairly.
12. Our property
Lecturly, including its software, design, logos, and the Lecturly name, belongs to us and our licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your own studying, under these Terms. If you send us feedback or ideas, we can use them without paying you or owing you anything.
13. Copyright complaints
We respect copyright and respond to notices of alleged infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you believe content on Lecturly infringes your copyright, send a notice to our copyright agent at legal@lecturly.ai with:
- your physical or electronic signature;
- a description of the copyrighted work you say is infringed;
- where the material is on Lecturly (for example, the share link);
- your name, address, phone number and email;
- a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn’t authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for them.
If we remove your content because of a notice and you believe it was a mistake or you have the right to use it, you can send a counter notice to the same address with: your signature; a description of the removed material and where it was; a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification; your name, address and phone number; and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, if you’re outside the US, any district where Lecturly may be found) and will accept service from the person who sent the notice. We may restore the material 10 to 14 business days after we receive a valid counter notice unless the complainant tells us they’ve filed a lawsuit.
We close the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. Knowingly false notices or counter notices can make you liable for damages.
14. Suspension and termination
You can stop using Lecturly and delete your account at any time in Settings. Deleting your account cancels your subscription (without a refund for the current period, unless the law requires one) and permanently deletes your content, as our Privacy Policy explains.
We may suspend or close your account, or remove content, if you break these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, if we must to comply with the law, or if your use puts other users, us, or the Service at risk. Where it’s reasonable and legal, we’ll tell you why and give you a chance to fix the problem first. If we close your account without cause, we’ll refund the unused part of any prepaid subscription. If we close it because you seriously or repeatedly broke these Terms, we won’t refund anything unless the law requires it.
Sections 4 (the parts about your promises), 10, 12, and 15 through 20 still apply after your account ends.
15. Disclaimers
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND EVERYTHING GENERATED BY IT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND ACCURACY. WE DON’T PROMISE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR SECURE, OR THAT AI OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE.
Some places don’t allow these disclaimers, so they may not all apply to you. If you’re a consumer in the EU or UK, you keep your legal rights for digital content and services that are faulty or not as described.
16. Changes to the Service
We may add, change or remove features, or change plan limits, to improve Lecturly or for legal, security or technical reasons. If a change significantly reduces what you’ve paid for, we’ll tell you in advance, and you can cancel and get a prorated refund for the unused part of your current period.
17. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, LECTURLY WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOST GRADES OR ACADEMIC CONSEQUENCES, EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD THEY WERE POSSIBLE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) US $100.
These limits don’t apply to liability that can’t be limited by law, such as for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence. If you’re a consumer in the EU or UK, we’re responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these Terms or failing to use reasonable care, and these limits apply only as far as your local law allows.
You agree to cover our reasonable losses and legal costs from third-party claims caused by your content or your breaking these Terms, except to the extent we caused them. This paragraph doesn’t apply to EU or UK consumers.
18. Disputes and arbitration
This section applies if you live in the United States or anywhere other than the EU or UK. It affects how disputes are resolved, so please read it.
- Talk to us first. Before starting arbitration or a court case, email legal@lecturly.ai with your name, account email, a description of the problem and what you want. We’ll try in good faith to resolve it within 60 days. Time limits for bringing a claim are paused during that period.
- Arbitration. If we can’t resolve it, you and Lecturly agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, not in court, except as listed below. The American Arbitration Association (AAA) will run the arbitration under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. The arbitrator decides all issues, including whether a dispute must be arbitrated, except as this section says otherwise. The arbitration may be held by video or phone, or in person in the county where you live.
- Costs. If you start arbitration, you pay only the filing fee you would pay to start a case in court, and we pay the rest of the AAA’s fees and the arbitrator’s fees, unless the arbitrator finds your claim was frivolous.
- Exceptions. Either of us may bring an individual claim in small claims court instead, and either of us may go to court to stop infringement or misuse of intellectual property. Nothing here stops you from reporting a concern to a government agency.
- No class actions. You and Lecturly may bring claims against each other only individually, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, consolidated or representative action. YOU AND LECTURLY BOTH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL. The arbitrator can grant relief only to you individually. If a court decides that a claim for public injunctive relief can’t be waived, that claim will be decided by a court after any arbitration of the other claims.
- Mass filings. If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed against us by the same or coordinated lawyers, they will be handled under the AAA’s Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules, and may be administered in batches, and the time limits to bring those claims are paused while that happens.
- Opting out. You can opt out of this arbitration agreement within 30 days of first agreeing to these Terms by emailing legal@lecturly.ai from your account email with the subject “Arbitration opt-out” and saying you want to opt out. Opting out doesn’t affect anything else in these Terms.
- If part of this fails. If the class action waiver is found unenforceable for a claim, that claim goes to court and not arbitration. If anything else in this section is found unenforceable, the rest still applies.
- Changes. If we change this section, the change won’t apply to a dispute we already knew about, and you can reject it by emailing us within 30 days of the change.
19. Governing law and courts
California law governs these Terms, without regard to its conflict of law rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs section 18. Any claim not subject to arbitration will be brought in the state or federal courts in Los Angeles County, California, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction.
If you live in the EU or UK, section 18 doesn’t apply to you. You get the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of your country, and you can bring a claim in the courts where you live. You can also use the online dispute resolution options available to consumers in your country.
20. General terms
- Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we’ll email you at least 30 days before it takes effect. Changes apply going forward only, never to past disputes. If you keep using Lecturly after a change takes effect, you accept the new Terms; if you don’t want to, delete your account before then.
- Entire agreement. These Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy and anything they refer to are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service.
- Severability and waiver. If any part of these Terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don’t enforce a part of these Terms right away, we can still enforce it later.
- Assignment. You can’t transfer these Terms or your account to someone else. We may transfer these Terms as part of a merger, acquisition, sale of assets or reorganization, or to a company we form to run Lecturly, and we’ll tell you if we do. Your rights under these Terms won’t be reduced by such a transfer.
- Events beyond our control. We’re not responsible for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, such as outages at our providers, internet failures, or natural disasters.
- Notices. We may send you notices by email to your account address or in the app. Send notices to us at legal@lecturly.ai.
- Parental controls. Parental control tools (such as computer hardware, software and filtering services) are commercially available and may help limit minors’ access to material online. Information about them is available from providers such as the FTC’s consumer site at consumer.ftc.gov.
- No third-party beneficiaries. These Terms don’t give rights to anyone except you and us.
21. Contact
Questions about these Terms, billing, refunds or disputes: legal@lecturly.ai. For help with the app, write to contact@lecturly.ai.