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Lecta Terms of Service

Effective date: October 21, 2026

The Korean version of these terms applies to users in Korea and prevails for them. For everyone else, if the Korean and English versions differ, the English version prevails.

1. Purpose

These terms set out the conditions and procedures for using the Lecta app (listed in app stores as "Lecta 노트") and related services (the "service") provided by Lecta ("we", "us"), and your rights and duties and ours.

2. The service

  1. The service turns recordings and audio files into text (transcription), and can refine that text with AI (AI correction), summarize and organize it (AI notes), and translate it.
  2. On-device transcription works without signing in. Cloud transcription, AI correction, AI notes, translation and instant captions ("cloud features") are for signed-in users and use tokens.
  3. We may change features, how processing is done, or the outside providers we use to improve the service. We will give advance notice of important changes that are unfavorable to you, as described in section 13.
  4. During the beta, features may change or stop, and free beta tokens and test data (such as free token balances) may be reset or changed without notice. We do not sell anything during the current beta. Tokens and plans you have paid for are not subject to this reset and are handled under the refund rules in section 5.
  5. AI notes are created by AI and are labeled in the app as AI summaries.

3. Signing up and your account

  1. You sign up by signing in with a Google or Apple account and agreeing to these terms and the Privacy Policy.
  2. In Korea you must be 14 or older to sign up. Outside Korea you must be 16 or older. The app checks your age range from your birth year when you first open it (the year itself is not stored).
  3. Under 18, some features are limited because of outside providers' terms: instant captions are not available, and AI correction is handled by a different AI model than for users 18 or older. Recording and on-device transcription work at any age. AI correction and other cloud features are available from the sign-up age.
  4. You can check your age again in Settings at any time, and the features you can use follow the new result. If you choose an age that isn't true, you alone are responsible for any resulting disadvantage or liability.
  5. You may not lend or sell your account to anyone else, and you are responsible for keeping it secure.
  6. You can close your account at any time in the app (Settings > Account & tokens > Delete account) or on the account deletion page. When you do, your remaining tokens are lost and cannot be restored.

4. Tokens

  1. Each cloud feature uses a set number of tokens. The amount for each feature is shown in the app.
  2. We may give free tokens to free users. In the month you sign up, you get a one-time sign-up bonus, which cannot be received again on the same device. After that, we give a set number of free tokens each month. You cannot receive the free tokens for the same period (month) twice with the same account or the same device. The amount and conditions of free tokens may change.
  3. If reward tokens (for example from inviting friends) were obtained unfairly, such as by creating multiple accounts, we may take them back.
  4. Tokens cannot be exchanged for cash or transferred to anyone else.
  5. If you do not receive a result because of an error during processing, the tokens are added back to your balance.

5. Paid services and refunds

  1. Paid plans and token packs are bought through Google Play or the App Store. Payment, subscription billing, cancellation and refunds follow the billing and refund rules of the app store you bought from.
  2. You can cancel a subscription at any time in your app store account settings. After you cancel, you can keep using it until the end of the period you already paid for.
  3. Within 7 days of buying a token pack, you can cancel the purchase of the tokens you have not used and ask for a refund. If you have used some of them, you can ask for a refund of the unused part. Refunds for subscriptions (plans), including the tokens that come with them, follow the rules of the app store you bought from. Refunds are handled through the app store's refund process to the extent the law allows.
  4. If you cannot use the service because of our fault, we will return the affected tokens or compensate you accordingly.

6. Your responsibilities and prohibited conduct

You must not:

  1. Record or use recordings in ways that break the law, such as secretly recording a conversation you are not part of.
  2. Infringe other people's copyright, personality or publicity rights, or privacy, for example by recording where the lecturer or speaker has forbidden it, or by distributing or selling recordings or results without permission.
  3. Interfere with the service, for example by reverse engineering or modifying it, or by sending large numbers of automated requests.
  4. Use another person's account, or create multiple accounts to obtain free tokens or rewards unfairly.
  5. Record patient care, or record or process protected health information or other patient information, with the service.

Lecture materials: use lecture materials (for term spelling in AI notes) only if you have the right to use them. You are responsible for any infringement of copyright or other rights.

Recording laws: you are responsible for getting any consent and permission required before recording, under the law where you are and under the rules of your school or institution. Some US states and some countries require the consent of everyone in the conversation (all-party consent).

Health information: the service is not designed for health information. Do not use it to record patient care or conversations containing patient information, and do not use cloud features for recordings that contain identifiable patient information.

7. Your content and our rights

  1. The rights to your recordings and to the transcripts, corrected transcripts, AI notes and translations made with the service ("results") belong to you (or to the original rights holder). We do not use results for any purpose other than providing the service.
  2. The rights to the app and the service itself (software, design, logo) belong to us.

8. Accuracy of results

  1. Transcription and AI correction, notes and translation can be wrong, leave things out, or add content that was never said. Check anything important against the original recording.
  2. Do not use results as the only basis for important decisions, such as medical, legal or exam decisions. Results are not medical advice. We do not guarantee that results are accurate.

9. Changes to and interruption of the service

  1. We may suspend the service temporarily for maintenance, outages at outside providers, natural disasters and similar causes. In that case, processing may fall back to on-device features.
  2. If we end the service, we will announce it in the app 30 days in advance and refund remaining paid tokens according to applicable law and app store policies.

10. Restrictions on use

If you break section 6, we may restrict your use in this order: a warning, suspension of cloud features, then closing your account. If you disagree with a restriction, you can object by email.

11. Limitation of liability

  1. Unless we acted intentionally or with gross negligence, we are not responsible for:
    • Recordings and results stored only on your device being lost because the device breaks, is lost, or the app is deleted (we recommend turning on Drive backup).
    • Losses from using results without checking them for errors.
    • Losses caused by your breaking the law or these terms.
  2. Unless the law requires otherwise, we are not liable for losses relating to services or tokens provided free of charge.

12. App stores

If you got the app from Google Play or the App Store, that store's terms also apply to your use of the app and to your purchases. Purchases, subscriptions, billing and refunds are handled by the store under its rules.

13. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms to the extent permitted by applicable law. We will announce changes in the app 7 days before they take effect, or 30 days before for changes that are unfavorable to you. If you do not agree to the changed terms, you can close your account.

14. Contact and disputes

  1. Send questions and complaints about the service to support@lectanote.com.
  2. These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, and disputes are resolved in the court with jurisdiction under the Korean Civil Procedure Act.
  3. This does not take away the protection you have under the mandatory consumer protection laws of the country where you live.

Effective date

These terms take effect on October 21, 2026.