Pado — Terms of Service

Version 1.0 — 11 July 2026. Service provided from Norway.

1. The service

Pado is a personal language-learning application in an invite-only trial phase ("beta"). You bring your own study material; Pado helps you turn it into structured learning cards and reviews. The service is provided "as is", free of charge during your trial period, and may change, pause, or end during the beta.

2. Your account and trial

Accounts are created with a personal invite code. Your trial lasts the number of days stated with your invite (typically 21 days, 7 days for referral invites). After the trial, features that create costs for us (AI processing) are deactivated until paid membership options exist; the app itself and everything stored on your device keep working and remain yours.

3. Your data and content

Your learning content (words, sentences, photos, progress) is stored only on your device. We do not receive, store, or see it. When you explicitly use an AI feature, the specific text snippet or cropped image you chose is transmitted transiently to our AI processor (Anthropic) to generate a suggestion, and is not stored by us. See the Privacy Policy.

4. Acceptable use

Do not abuse the service (automated scraping, attempting to access others' accounts, reselling access, unlawful content). We may suspend accounts that do.

5. Feedback and surveys

During the beta we ask for your help instead of payment: an entry survey, issue reports, and an exit survey. Participation is voluntary; responses are used only to improve Pado.

6. Liability

To the extent permitted by law, the service is provided without warranties; we are not liable for indirect damages or data loss on your device — please use the built-in export/backup. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under mandatory consumer law of your country of residence.

7. Governing law

These terms are governed by Norwegian law. EU/EEA consumers retain the protection of their local mandatory rules; for US users, these terms are an agreement with the provider in Norway.