Terms of Use

Please read these Terms of Use (“Terms”, “Terms of Use”) carefully before using the https://fluentize.com web site (the “Service”) operated by Fluentize, LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the state of Pennsylvania (“Fluentize”, “us”, “we”, or “our”).

Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access or use the Service.

By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not access the Service.

Use of This Web Site

Our web site provides access to English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching tools. We provide digital and printable lesson plans and lesson materials (referred to in these Terms as "Content"). Our Content includes reference to Non-Fluentize content and websites. Use of that content and those sites is governed by the Terms of Service for those sites and Fluentize recommends that you read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for those sites prior to use. The information on our web site is for information purposes only. It is believed to be reliable, but we do not warrant its completeness, timeliness or accuracy. User accesses, uses, and relies upon such content at user’s own risk.

Payments, Credit Packages, and Subscriptions

When you create an account with us, you must provide us information that is accurate, complete, and current at all times. Failure to do so constitutes a breach of the Terms, which may result in immediate termination of your account on our Service.

Upon creation of an account, Services are offered through Individual Credit Packages (referred to in these Terms as “Credit Package(s)” or "Credit(s)"), Individual Teacher All-Access Subscription (referred to in these Terms as "Subscription"), or Organizational Multi-Teacher Subscriptions. Individuals may purchase either a 1-Credit package for $2.99, a 5-Credit Package for $12.49, or a 10-credit package for $22.49. These credits do not expire. Individuals may also purchase the Individual Teacher All-Access Subscription at the price of $79.00 which gives him/her full access to download to all lesson plans on the site for one year from the date of purchase. The individual will be able to download and use all lesson plans on the site for the duration of his/her one-year Subscription until the date of the expiration of his/her subscription. Language Schools and other Organizations may purchase a package upon request and agreement with Fluentize. All prices are in U.S. Dollars.

When you make a payment on Fluentize for any Credit Package(s) or the Subscription, you consent to these Terms of Use. 

A valid payment method, including credit card, is required to process the payment for any Credit Packages or Subscription purchased. You shall provide Fluentize with accurate and complete billing information including full name, address including state, city, zip code, and country, and a valid payment method information. By submitting such payment information, you automatically authorize us to charge all Credit Package and Subscription fees for requested packages and subscriptions to any such payment instruments. Upon purchase of a Credit Package or Subscription, Fluentize grants to the Purchaser a personal limited non-exclusive, non–transferable license to Fluentize content. Any Content, whether free or paid, downloaded from the website cannot be emailed, shared, posted, transferred, linked to, or distributed in any other way to another person physically or electronically without the consent of Fluentize. All Content downloaded and accessed through Fluentize is for personal use only. Any commercial use of the Service other than for teaching purposes is expressly prohibited. Any such use may result in termination of access to the Service without refund.

Your Subscription will automatically renew at the end of each period unless you cancel it or Fluentize terminates it.

Upon purchasing the Subscription, you gain access to the materials solely during the active Subscription period.

Subscription Cancellations

The automatic Subscription renewal can be cancelled in your account settings (in the "Credits, Subscription & Billing" tab) or by contacting Fluentize. You will not receive a refund for the fees you already paid for Your current Subscription period.

Account & Password Confidentiality

You are responsible for safeguarding the password that you use to access the Service and for any activities or actions under your password, whether your password is with our Service or a third-party service.

You agree not to disclose your password to any third party. You must notify us immediately upon becoming aware of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account.

Furthermore, sharing your username, log-in credentials, password, or any other account information with another user, or other users, without the consent of Fluentize is expressly prohibited and will result in termination of your account without refund, at Fluentize’s sole discretion.

Fee Changes

Fluentize, in its sole discretion and at any time, may modify the fees for the Credit Packages and Subscriptions. Fluentize will provide you with a reasonable prior notice of any change in fees. Your continued use of the Service after the fee change comes into effect constitutes your agreement to pay the modified Credit Package fee amount.

Refunds

All fees paid for Content, Credit Package(s), or the Subscription are non-refundable, unless required by law.

Content Sharing

By continuing to use Fluentize, you agree not to share any of our Content with any other person in any way without our consent.

The only permitted sharing of Fluentize Content with others is with your own students or learners.

Any Fluentize Content, including our lesson materials and lesson plans, whether free or paid, cannot be emailed, sold, shared, posted, transferred, linked to, or distributed in any way to another person, individual, business, school, or organization, either physically or electronically, without the prior consent of Fluentize. Doing so without the consent of Fluentize is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate termination of your account without refund, at Fluentize’s sole discretion. By continuing to use our Service, you agree to safeguard the Content you download, access, and purchase from Fluentize, and agree to use our Content solely for the purpose of teaching your own students or learners.

Any commercial use of the Service other than for teaching purposes is expressly prohibited. Any such use may result in termination of access to the Service without refund.

Content

You agree not to post to any site, forum, or social media account of Fluentize or otherwise transmit information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags, or other materials (“Content” means the transmission of information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, tags or other materials generated by a user) that:

  • is patently offensive and/or promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
  • harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
  • exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
  • contains nudity, violence, pornography, sexually explicit material or offensive subject matter;
  • provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names or email addresses of anyone other than your own;
  • promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
  • violates any intellectual property or other proprietary right of any third party, including Content that promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
  • involves the transmission of “junk mail,” “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, “spimming,” or “spamming”;
  • contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
  • furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
  • – solicits passwords or personal identifying information from other Users;
  • involves commercial activities and/or sales without Fluentize’s prior written consent, such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and/or pyramid schemes;
  • includes a photograph of another person that you have posted without that person’s consent or otherwise constitutes an invasion of an individual’s privacy or infringement of publicity rights;
  • denigrates, ridicules, or demeans another person; or
  • contains a virus or other harmful component.

You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, “robots,” “spiders,” or “offline readers,” that accesses the web site in a manner that sends more request messages to the Fluentize servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser.

Intellectual Property

The Service and Content inclusive of lesson plans, methodology, and its original content features and functionality are and will remain the exclusive property of Fluentize and its licensors. The Service is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States, United Kingdom and foreign countries. Our trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service without the prior written consent of Fluentize. The third party content used by Fluentize is not the property of Fluentize and Fluentize does not grant any license thereto.

Third-Party Sites

Our Service uses and may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by Fluentize.

Fluentize has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the availability, content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such websites or services. We urge all copyright owners, to recognize that the links contained within this site are located somewhere else on the web. If you have any legal issues please contact appropriate media file owners / hosters. All content, trademarks, trade names, service marks, images, copyrighted work, logos etc referenced herein belong to their respective owners/companies.

We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party web sites or services that you visit.

Fluentize does not host any of the videos shown on its website. Our Service doesn’t host any of the videos within its own server and it links to the popular Online Video hosting site Youtube.com using video embed codes on Youtube.com. We cannot be held liable for content uploaded by members of third-party websites. Some videos embedded on our website may be unavailable in some countries due to country or video uploader restrictions, which Fluentize has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for. Refunds will not be issued for lesson plans purchased that correspond to videos that are unavailable in certain countries. By continuing to use the service, you acknowledge that certain videos may be unavailable in your country and that refunds will not be issued. It is the responsibility of the visitors, users, and customers who access or use the Service to confirm whether the videos embedded on Youtube.com are available in their country.

Indemnification

Any information provided to Fluentize by the User is truthful to the best of the User’s knowledge and in the event any such information changes, the User shall notify the Fluentize of any such change within a reasonable amount of time. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Fluentize and its licensee and licensors, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees), resulting from or arising out of a) your use and access of the Service; b) a breach of these Terms, or c) Content posted on any site or social media account of the Service.

Limitation of Liability

No license to the user is implied in these disclaimers. Nothing herein shall be construed as limiting or reducing Fluentize’s responsibilities and obligations to clients in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

In no event shall Fluentize, nor its directors, employees, partners, agents, suppliers, or affiliates, be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (i) your access to or use of or inability to access or use the Service; (ii) any conduct or content of any third-party on the Service; (iii) any content obtained from the Service; and (iv) unauthorized access, use or alteration of your transmissions or content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence) or any other legal theory, whether or not we have been informed of the possibility of such damage, and even if a remedy set forth herein is found to have failed of its essential purpose.

Disclaimer

Your use of the Service is at your sole risk. The Service are provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. The Service is provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or course of performance.

Fluentize, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and its licensors do not warrant that a) the Services will function uninterrupted, secure or available at any particular time or location; b) any errors or defects will be corrected; c) the Service are free of viruses or other harmful components; or d) the results of using the Service will meet your requirements.

We are not responsible for any virus or malware, and related harm, injury and damage, of any nature that your computer or other devices become in contact with while you are using our web site, tools or services. Please maintain up to date anti-virus anti-malware software at all time while you are using our web site, and related tools, services and functions.

Additionally, Fluentize retains the right to add, delete, change or otherwise alter or amend Service content at any time, with or without notice, at its sole discretion.

Availabilities, Errors, and Inaccuracies

We are constantly updating product and service offerings on the Service. We may experience delays in updating information on the Service. The information found on the Service may contain errors or inaccuracies and may not be complete or current. Products or services may be mispriced, described inaccurately, or unavailable on the Service and we cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any information found on the Service.

We therefore reserve the right to change or update information and to correct errors, inaccuracies, or omissions at any time without prior notice.

Exclusions

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and notwithstanding any other provision of these terms, under no circumstances will Fluentize ever be liable to you or any other person for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary loss or damage arising from, connected with, or relating to your use of the Service, these Terms, the subject matter of these Terms, the termination of these Terms or otherwise, including but not limited to personal injury, loss of data, business, markets, savings, income, profits, use, production, reputation or goodwill, anticipated or otherwise, or economic loss, under any theory of liability (whether in contract, tort, strict liability or any other theory or law or equity), regardless of any negligence or other fault or wrongdoing (including without limitation gross negligence and fundamental breach) by Fluentize or any person for whom Fluentize is responsible, and even if Fluentize has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage being incurred.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, so the limitations above may not apply to you.

Governing Law

We will try to solve any disagreements quickly and efficiently. The Site Terms and Conditions, and any dispute concerning or relating to the web site or your use of the web site, shall be governed by the laws of the state of Pennsylvania without regard to conflict of laws principles. Any legal suits initiated against Fluentize shall be brought in the state or federal courts in, or nearest to, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, as appropriate. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect.

The caption to each Section of these Site Terms are for convenience of reference only and shall be ignored in the construction or interpretation hereof.

Changes

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material we will try to provide at least 30 days notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

By continuing to access or use our Service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, you must stop using the Service.

Privacy Policy

Please refer to our Privacy Policy. You agree that they constitute part of these terms. You must read our Privacy Policy before you use the Service.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about the rights and restrictions above, please contact us at jake@fluentize.com

BY CONTINUING TO USE OUR SITE, YOU AGREE TO ABIDE BY THESE SITE TERMS.