Terms of Use

Last updated: June 12, 2026

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a legally binding agreement between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ("you"), and Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages ("Company", "we", "us", or "our") concerning your access to and use of https://livingdictionaries.app and the Living Dictionaries language-documentation platform (the "Site").

By accessing or using the Site, you agree that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree with all of these Terms, you are prohibited from using the Site and must stop using it immediately.

Supplemental terms, policies, or documents posted on the Site are incorporated into these Terms by reference. We may change these Terms at any time by updating the "Last updated" date above. Your continued use of the Site after revised Terms are posted means you accept the revised Terms.

The information on the Site is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation. If you access the Site from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

The Site

Living Dictionaries helps language communities, researchers, and collaborators document and share dictionaries, entries, example sentences, texts, audio recordings, photographs, videos, speaker information, and related language materials.

Some dictionaries and contributions are public. Others are private or visible only to invited collaborators. Dictionary managers control many publication settings, but public content may be viewed, searched, printed, downloaded, indexed, or otherwise accessed by people outside the contributing team.

Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use or register for the Site. If you are under 18, you may use the Site only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. By using the Site on behalf of an organization, community, research project, or other entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity to these Terms.

Accounts and Sign-In

You may need an account to create, edit, or manage a dictionary. The Site uses email one-time codes and optional Google sign-in rather than passwords. You are responsible for keeping access to your email account, device, and sign-in session secure and for all activity that occurs under your account.

You agree that any registration or account information you provide will be true, accurate, current, and complete, and that you will keep it updated. If information you provide is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we may suspend or terminate your account and refuse current or future use of the Site.

We may remove, reclaim, or change a username, display name, dictionary URL, or other identifier if we determine that it is inappropriate, misleading, infringing, or otherwise objectionable.

Intellectual Property Rights

Unless otherwise indicated, the Site, including its source code, databases, functionality, software, website design, text, graphics, service marks, trademarks, and logos, is owned or controlled by us or licensed to us, and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. Site materials are provided "as is" for your information and personal or community language-documentation use only.

Except as expressly allowed by these Terms or by written permission from us, no part of the Site or its protected materials may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for a commercial purpose.

Subject to your eligibility and compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Site and to download or print portions of content to which you have proper access for personal, educational, research, or community language-documentation purposes. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

If an endangered language community requests that content on the Site relating to that community be removed for any reason, including a claim of infringement, cultural sensitivity, privacy, or lack of permission, any licenses granted to you with respect to that content immediately terminate. You must stop using that content, remove it from your devices and materials, and treat it as no longer subject to any license granted through the Site.

Community Consent and Sensitive Materials

Living Dictionaries is built for communities documenting their languages. You are responsible for making sure that you have the necessary community permission, speaker permission, and rights-holder permission before creating a public dictionary or adding content.

You agree not to add or publish content that is restricted, sacred, confidential, culturally sensitive, private, or otherwise inappropriate to share online unless the relevant community and rights holders have authorized that use. We may remove or restrict content if we receive a request from a language community, speaker, contributor, rights holder, or other affected person.

User Contributions

The Site may allow you to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or otherwise make available words, translations, definitions, example sentences, texts, audio, photographs, video, speaker information, notes, metadata, comments, messages, suggestions, and other materials ("Contributions").

Contributions may be visible to other users of the Site, public visitors, search engines, and third-party websites. Contributions you make available through the Site may be treated as non-confidential for the purposes of operating, preserving, displaying, and sharing the Site.

When you create or make available any Contributions, you represent and warrant that:

You are the creator and owner of the Contributions, or you have the licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions necessary to use the Contributions and to authorize us, the Site, and other users to use them as contemplated by the Site and these Terms.
The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, public performance, accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions does not and will not infringe any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, publicity right, cultural right, community right, or other right of any third party.
You have the written, recorded, or otherwise valid consent, release, or permission of each identifiable person included in your Contributions, including permission to use that person's name, likeness, image, voice, and relevant speaker metadata in the ways contemplated by the Site and these Terms.
You have the permission of the relevant language community for any public dictionary or public language material you submit.
Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, misleading, unlawful, abusive, harassing, threatening, defamatory, obscene, exploitative, discriminatory, invasive of privacy, or otherwise objectionable.
Your Contributions do not solicit personal information from anyone under 13, exploit minors, violate laws intended to protect minors, or contain sexually exploitative or violent material involving minors.
Your Contributions do not contain viruses, malware, spyware, tracking devices, or other code that interferes with the Site or another person's use of the Site.
Your Contributions do not contain unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, spam, mass mailings, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or other unauthorized solicitation.

Any use of the Site in violation of this section may result in removal of content, suspension or termination of your account, and any other action we consider appropriate.

Contribution License

We do not claim ownership over your Contributions. You retain all ownership rights you have in your Contributions and are solely responsible for them.

By posting Contributions to the Site, you grant us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully paid, worldwide right and license to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, publish, broadcast, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt, distribute, prepare derivative works of, and incorporate into other works your Contributions, including your image and voice when included in the Contributions. This license applies in any media formats and through any media channels now known or later developed.

This license includes our use of the name, organization name, trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, personal images, and biographical or speaker information you provide with your Contributions, as needed to operate, display, preserve, promote, export, back up, and improve the Site. To the extent permitted by law, you waive moral rights in your Contributions and warrant that moral rights have not otherwise been asserted.

We are not liable for statements, representations, or materials in your Contributions. You agree to release us from responsibility for your Contributions and to refrain from legal action against us regarding your Contributions except where prohibited by law.

We may, in our sole discretion, edit, redact, re-categorize, pre-screen, refuse, restrict access to, disable, or delete any Contributions at any time and for any reason, including community requests, rights-holder requests, privacy concerns, cultural sensitivity, legal risk, technical burden, or violation of these Terms.

Public Dictionaries, Printing, and Exports

If a dictionary is public, visitors may view its content without signing in. If printing or export features are enabled or available to a user's role, content may be downloaded, printed, or exported. You are responsible for making sure the content, publication settings, and export settings are appropriate for the relevant community, speakers, contributors, and rights holders.

Prohibited Activities

You may not access or use the Site for any purpose other than the purpose for which we make it available. The Site may not be used in connection with commercial endeavors except those specifically endorsed or approved by us.

You agree not to:

Make unauthorized use of the Site, including collecting usernames or email addresses for unsolicited email or creating accounts by automated means or under false pretenses.
Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Site to create or compile a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
Use the Site to advertise, offer to sell goods or services, or send unauthorized solicitations.
Circumvent, disable, or interfere with security-related features of the Site or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of content.
Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site.
Trick, defraud, or mislead us or other users, especially in an attempt to learn sensitive account or sign-in information.
Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
Use scripts, bots, data-mining tools, robots, scrapers, offline readers, or similar tools, except as may result from standard search engine or browser usage.
Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Site or the networks or services connected to the Site.
Impersonate another person or user, use another user's account, or sell or otherwise transfer your profile.
Use information obtained from the Site to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
Use the Site to compete with us or to exploit the Site or its content for an unauthorized commercial purpose.
Decipher, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, copy, or adapt software that makes up any part of the Site, except where applicable law expressly permits it.
Attempt to bypass measures designed to prevent or restrict access to the Site.
Harass, intimidate, threaten, or abuse our employees, agents, contributors, community partners, or users.
Delete copyright notices or other proprietary rights notices from content.
Upload or transmit viruses, Trojan horses, malware, spyware, excessive repetitive content, or other materials that interfere with any person's use of the Site.
Use the Site in a way that violates any applicable law or regulation.

Third-Party Websites and Content

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, embedded content, map tiles, hosted videos, photographs, audio, text, software, or other materials originating from third parties. We do not investigate, monitor, or check all third-party websites or content for accuracy, appropriateness, completeness, privacy practices, or legal compliance.

If you leave the Site or interact with third-party content, you do so at your own risk. These Terms no longer govern third-party websites or services. You should review their applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data-collection practices. Inclusion of third-party content or links does not imply approval or endorsement by us.

Site Management

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the Site for violations of these Terms; take appropriate legal action against anyone who violates the law or these Terms; refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable Contributions; remove files or content that are excessive in size or burdensome to our systems; and otherwise manage the Site in a manner designed to protect our rights, protect language communities and contributors, and facilitate proper functioning of the Site.

Privacy Policy

We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by that Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms.

Please be advised that the Site is hosted in the United States. If you access the Site from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or requirements governing personal data collection, use, or disclosure that differ from United States law, then through your continued use of the Site you are transferring your data to the United States and consent to your data being transferred to and processed in the United States.

We do not knowingly accept, request, or solicit personal information from children under 13, and we do not knowingly market to children under 13. If we receive actual knowledge that anyone under 13 has provided personal information to us without required and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as reasonably practical.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice and Policy

Notifications

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material available on or through the Site infringes a copyright you own or control, please immediately notify our Designated Copyright Agent using the contact information below (a "Notification"). A copy of your Notification may be sent to the person who posted or stored the material addressed in the Notification.

Please be advised that under federal law you may be liable for damages if you make material misrepresentations in a Notification. If you are not sure that material located on or linked to by the Site infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney.

All Notifications should meet the requirements of DMCA 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3) and include:

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works on the Site are covered by the Notification, a representative list of those works.
Identification of the material claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.
Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and email address.
A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in the Notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Counter Notification

If you believe your own copyrighted material has been removed from the Site as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter notification to our Designated Copyright Agent using the contact information below (a "Counter Notification").

To be effective, a Counter Notification should include:

Identification of the material that was removed or disabled and the location where it appeared before removal or disabling.
A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court in which your address is located, or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which we are located.
A statement that you will accept service of process from the party that filed the Notification or that party's agent.
Your name, address, and telephone number.
A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled because of mistake or misidentification.
Your physical or electronic signature.

If you send us a valid Counter Notification, we may restore the removed or disabled material unless we first receive notice from the party filing the Notification that the party has filed a court action to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity related to the material. If you materially misrepresent that disabled or removed content was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may be liable for damages, including costs and attorney's fees.

Designated Copyright Agent
Jonathan Anderson
Attn: Copyright Agent
4676 Commercial St SE, #454
Salem, OR 97302
[email protected]

Term and Termination

These Terms remain in full force while you use the Site. Without limiting any other provision of these Terms, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion and without notice or liability, to deny access to and use of the Site, including blocking certain IP addresses, to any person for any reason or no reason, including breach of these Terms or any applicable law or regulation.

We may terminate your use of the Site, suspend your account, delete your account, or remove content or information you posted at any time, without warning, in our sole discretion. If we terminate or suspend your account, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party, even if you are acting on behalf of that third party. We also reserve the right to pursue civil, criminal, and injunctive remedies.

Modifications and Interruptions

We reserve the right to change, modify, remove, suspend, or discontinue all or part of the Site at any time or for any reason without notice. We have no obligation to update information on the Site.

We cannot guarantee that the Site will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, network, or other problems or need to perform maintenance, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. We will not be liable for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Site during any downtime or discontinuance.

Governing Law

These Terms and your use of the Site are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware applicable to agreements made and to be entirely performed within the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Dispute Resolution

Informal Negotiations

To expedite resolution and control the cost of any dispute, controversy, or claim related to these Terms or the Site (each a "Dispute"), the parties agree to first attempt to negotiate any Dispute informally for at least thirty (30) days before initiating arbitration, except for Disputes expressly excluded below. Informal negotiations begin when one party sends written notice to the other party.

Binding Arbitration

If the parties cannot resolve a Dispute through informal negotiations, the Dispute, except those expressly excluded below, will be finally and exclusively resolved by binding arbitration. You understand that without this provision, you would have the right to sue in court and have a jury trial.

The arbitration will be commenced and conducted under the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") and, where appropriate, the AAA Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes ("AAA Consumer Rules"), both available at www.adr.org. Your arbitration fees and share of arbitrator compensation will be governed by the AAA Consumer Rules and, where appropriate, limited by those rules. If those costs are determined by the arbitrator to be excessive, we will pay all arbitration fees and expenses.

The arbitration may be conducted in person, through submission of documents, by phone, or online. The arbitrator will make a written decision but need not provide a statement of reasons unless requested by either party. The arbitrator must follow applicable law, and any award may be challenged if the arbitrator fails to do so. Except where otherwise required by applicable AAA rules or applicable law, arbitration will take place in Kent County, Delaware.

Except as otherwise provided in these Terms, the parties may litigate in court to compel arbitration, stay proceedings pending arbitration, or confirm, modify, vacate, or enter judgment on the award entered by the arbitrator.

If for any reason a Dispute proceeds in court rather than arbitration, the Dispute will be commenced or prosecuted in the state and federal courts located in Kent County, Delaware. The parties consent to, and waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens with respect to, venue and jurisdiction in those courts. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act (UCITA) are excluded from these Terms.

No Dispute related in any way to the Site may be commenced more than one (1) year after the cause of action arose. If this limitation is found illegal or unenforceable, neither party will elect to arbitrate any Dispute falling within that portion of this provision, and that Dispute will be decided by a court of competent jurisdiction within the courts listed above.

Restrictions

The parties agree that any arbitration will be limited to the Dispute between the parties individually. To the full extent permitted by law, no arbitration may be joined with any other proceeding; there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be arbitrated on a class-action basis or to use class-action procedures; and there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be brought in a representative capacity on behalf of the general public or any other persons.

Exceptions to Informal Negotiations and Arbitration

The parties agree that the following Disputes are not subject to the above provisions concerning informal negotiations and binding arbitration: Disputes seeking to enforce or protect, or concerning the validity of, a party's intellectual property rights; Disputes related to allegations of theft, piracy, invasion of privacy, or unauthorized use; and claims for injunctive relief.

If this provision is found illegal or unenforceable, neither party will elect to arbitrate any Dispute falling within that portion of this provision, and that Dispute will be decided by a court of competent jurisdiction within the courts listed above.

Corrections

There may be information on the Site that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions. We reserve the right to correct errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update information on the Site at any time, without prior notice.

Disclaimer

The Site is provided on an as-is and as-available basis. You agree that your use of the Site is at your sole risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, in connection with the Site and your use of it, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

We make no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of the Site's content or the content of websites linked to the Site. We assume no liability or responsibility for errors, mistakes, inaccuracies, personal injury, property damage, unauthorized access to or use of secure servers or personal information, interruption or cessation of transmission, bugs, viruses, Trojan horses, or other harmful materials transmitted by third parties, or any loss or damage incurred as a result of content posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available through the Site.

We do not warrant, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for any product or service advertised or offered by a third party through the Site, any hyperlinked website, or any third-party content.

Limitations of Liability

In no event will we or our directors, employees, agents, affiliates, or partners be liable to you or any third party for any direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages, including lost profit, lost revenue, loss of data, or other damages arising from your use of the Site, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, our liability to you for any cause and regardless of the form of action will at all times be limited to the lesser of the amount paid, if any, by you to us during the six (6) month period before the cause of action arose or $500.00 USD. Certain laws do not allow limitations on implied warranties or exclusion or limitation of certain damages. If those laws apply to you, some or all of the above limitations may not apply, and you may have additional rights.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, partners, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of your Contributions, your use of the Site, breach of these Terms, breach of your representations and warranties, violation of a third party's rights, or harmful act toward another user of the Site.

We reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with our defense of such claims. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action, or proceeding after becoming aware of it.

User Data

We maintain certain data that you transmit to the Site for the purpose of managing the Site and its performance, as well as data relating to your use of the Site. Although we perform routine backups and take operational precautions, you are solely responsible for all data you transmit and all activity you undertake using the Site. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree that we have no liability for loss or corruption of such data.

Electronic Communications, Transactions, and Signatures

Visiting the Site, sending us emails, and completing online forms constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications, and you agree that agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide electronically, by email or on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing.

You agree to the use of electronic signatures, contracts, records, and electronic delivery of notices, policies, and records of transactions initiated or completed by us or through the Site. You waive rights or requirements under laws that require an original signature, non-electronic records, or non-electronic delivery or retention of records, except where prohibited by law.

California Users and Residents

If any complaint with us is not satisfactorily resolved, you can contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or (916) 445-1254.

Miscellaneous

These Terms and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the Site constitute the entire agreement between you and us. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms does not operate as a waiver of that right or provision.

These Terms operate to the fullest extent permitted by law. We may assign any or all of our rights and obligations to others at any time. We are not responsible or liable for loss, damage, delay, or failure to act caused by any cause beyond our reasonable control.

If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

No joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship is created between you and us as a result of these Terms or use of the Site. You agree that these Terms will not be construed against us by virtue of having drafted them. You waive defenses based on the electronic form of these Terms and the lack of signing by the parties, except where prohibited by law.

Contact Us

To resolve a complaint regarding the Site or to receive further information regarding use of the Site, please contact us at:

Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
4676 Commercial St SE, #454
Salem, OR 97302
United States
[email protected]