Terms of Use

Last updated: August 29, 2026

These Terms of Use are the agreement between you and Noos. They govern your access to and use of the Noos website at noosflashcards.com and the Noos application (together, the "Service"). Please read them: they set out what we owe you, what you owe us, and the limits of both.

Who we are

Publisher: Noos is published by Maxime Kaiser, an individual publishing on a non-professional basis, established in France.

Contact: official@noosflashcards.com. This is the address for every notice under these Terms, for support, for privacy requests, and for copyright complaints. We aim to answer within a few working days.

Hosting: the Service is hosted by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, on Google Cloud and Firebase infrastructure.

Noos is not currently operated through a company. If that changes, we will update this section and, where the law requires it, tell you directly.

Accepting these Terms

You accept these Terms when you tick the acceptance box while creating an account. You cannot create an account without doing so. We record the date of your acceptance and the version of these Terms and of the Privacy Policy that you accepted.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not create an account and do not use the Service.

Who may use the Service

  • You must be at least 16 years old. This is a single rule for every country we serve, and there is no parental-consent route around it. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 16, we will close it and delete the data associated with it.
  • You must give accurate registration details and keep them current.
  • You are responsible for your password and for everything done through your account. Tell us promptly if you believe someone else has access to it.
  • One account per person. Do not share your account or let anyone else use it.
  • You must use the Service lawfully, and you must not use it if sanctions or other laws prohibit us from providing it to you.

What Noos provides

Noos is a flashcard application built around spaced repetition. With an account you can create folders, stacks and cards; study them on a review schedule; publish stacks for other people to find and copy; browse and import stacks published by others; use AI features that suggest card text, read images you upload and generate spoken audio; and study the official stacks we publish ourselves.

The Service is free. Noos does not currently sell subscriptions and does not take payment. Plans described elsewhere on the site as upcoming are not on sale, and nothing in these Terms obliges you to pay anything. If we introduce paid plans, we will publish the commercial terms (price, billing, renewal, cancellation and your right of withdrawal) and ask for your agreement before charging you anything.

Noos is still being built. Features may change, break, or be withdrawn. We may add, alter or remove functionality at any time.

Your content

You keep your rights. The folders, stacks, cards, text and images you create or upload remain yours ("Your Content"). Noos claims no ownership of them.

The licence you give us. So that we can run the Service, you grant Noos a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable licence to host, store, copy, adapt for technical purposes, publish, display and distribute Your Content, for as long as you keep it on the Service. This licence exists only to operate the Service. We do not sell Your Content and we do not use it for advertising.

What you promise. You confirm that you own Your Content or otherwise hold all rights needed to grant that licence; that it infringes nobody's intellectual property, privacy or other rights; that it is lawful; and that it contains no personal data about other people that you are not entitled to publish.

Keep your own copy. Noos is not a backup service. We may lose data, and deleted content generally cannot be recovered. Keep an independent copy of anything that matters to you.

Stacks you publish

Every stack has a visibility setting that you control, on every plan. New stacks are created public unless you change that setting; you can change it at any time, before or after saving.

Public means public on the open internet, not merely visible to other Noos members. If you set a stack to public, you authorise us to:

  • publish it as a web page that anyone can open without a Noos account;
  • list it in our sitemap and submit it to search engines and other indexing services;
  • publish structured data describing it, which search engines and other services may reuse;
  • show it in the in-app community browser alongside your chosen display name; and
  • let other users import a copy into their own account, and keep, edit and study that copy.

Making a stack private stops future publication, but it cannot undo the past. It does not delete copies other people have already imported. Those copies belong to the user who imported them, and they survive both your change of mind and the deletion of your account. It also does not remove the page from search engine caches, web archives or other third-party copies that we do not control.

Think of publishing a stack the way you would think of posting anything else publicly online: reversible going forward, not reversible backward.

AI features

Some features use third-party AI models to suggest card text, analyse images you upload, and generate spoken audio. To provide them, the text, images and language settings you submit are sent to those providers and processed on their systems. Our Privacy Policy names them.

AI output is generated automatically and is not checked by a person. It can be wrong in ways that look convincing: mistranslations, incorrect definitions, bad grammar, wrong pronunciation. You are responsible for verifying anything you rely on. We give no warranty that AI output is accurate, complete or fit for any purpose.

Noos is not a school, a certifying body or a translation service, and the Service is not a substitute for professional teaching or advice. Do not rely on it where being wrong carries a real cost, such as an examination, a medical or legal term, or a professional obligation.

As between you and Noos, suggestions generated for you are yours to use, and the section on Your Content applies to them once you save them. Because these models are generative, similar output may be produced for other users; we do not guarantee that any output is unique or that using it infringes nobody's rights.

Do not submit other people's personal data, confidential information, or unlawful material to these features.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • break the law or infringe anyone's rights;
  • interfere with or disrupt the Service, probe or scan it for vulnerabilities, or get around any security or usage limit;
  • access the Service by automated means without our permission, or scrape it at scale;
  • impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your connection with Noos;
  • upload or transmit malware or other harmful code;
  • resell, sublicense or commercially exploit the Service or content published on it by others.

You also agree not to create, upload or publish through the Service any content that:

  • infringes copyright, trade marks or other rights, including material copied from textbooks, paid courses or other commercial products without permission;
  • is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or incites violence;
  • is sexual content involving minors, or sexual content published where other users may encounter it;
  • contains personal data about another person that you have no right to publish;
  • promotes fraud, or is built to deceive or spam other users;
  • is designed to manipulate our public pages, our search rankings or the community listings.

We may remove, unpublish or restrict access to content, and suspend or close accounts, where we reasonably believe these rules or the law have been broken. Where it is lawful and practical, we will tell you why.

Reporting infringing or unlawful content

If you believe content on Noos infringes your rights or is unlawful, write to official@noosflashcards.com with: the work or right concerned, the address of the page complained of, enough detail for us to locate the content, your contact details, and a statement that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.

We review complaints promptly and act where they are well founded. We will normally pass the substance of a complaint to the user who posted the content so they can respond, and we will restore content removed in error.

Our intellectual property

The Service itself belongs to Noos and its licensors. That includes the software, the interface, the Noos name and logo, our text, graphics, and the official stacks we publish. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to use the Service for your own personal learning, in the way it is designed to be used. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

You may not copy, modify, decompile or reverse-engineer the Service, remove our notices, or use our name or branding without written permission.

Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect, why, who we share it with, how long we keep it, and the rights you have over it. It forms part of these Terms.

Third-party services and links

The Service relies on third-party providers and may link to third-party sites. We are not responsible for their content, practices or availability, and their terms and privacy policies govern your use of them.

Availability, interruptions and data loss

We give no uptime commitment. The Service may be unavailable for maintenance, upgrades, failures at our providers, or reasons outside our control, sometimes without notice. We may suspend, limit or discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, at any time.

We take reasonable care of your data but we do not guarantee that content can be recovered once lost or deleted, and we operate no restore service for individual accounts. If we discontinue the Service altogether, we will give reasonable notice where we can, so that you have an opportunity to retrieve your content.

Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that it will produce any particular learning result.

Nothing in this section affects rights that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including the statutory guarantees available to consumers.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

  • Noos is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, nor for loss of profit, revenue, data, goodwill or opportunity, however caused;
  • Noos's total liability for all claims connected with the Service is limited to €100. The Service is provided free of charge, and this cap reflects that.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability where it would be unlawful to do so. That includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, and for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited. Consumers' statutory rights are unaffected.

Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, and where you are not acting as a consumer, you agree to hold Noos harmless from claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from content you publish through the Service, from your breach of these Terms, or from your misuse of the Service. We will tell you promptly of any such claim and will not settle it without consulting you.

Suspension and termination

We may suspend or close your account if we reasonably believe you have broken these Terms or the law, if your use puts the Service or other users at risk, or if we are required to. Where the breach is minor and can be put right, we will normally warn you first.

You may stop using the Service at any time.

Cancelling and deleting your account

You can delete your account yourself from the Settings page. Deletion is permanent: your profile, folders, stacks, cards and activity history are erased and cannot be restored.

Two things survive it, and you should know both before you delete. Copies of your public stacks that other users imported remain in those users' accounts. And pages that were public may persist in search engine caches and third-party archives we do not control.

If you ever hold a paid subscription, you will need to cancel it before deleting your account. The Service will tell you so, and will not delete the account while a subscription is live, precisely so that you are never left being charged for an account you no longer have.

Changes to these Terms

We may amend these Terms. For material changes, such as new obligations for you, new uses of your content, or the introduction of fees, we will give you at least 30 days' notice by email or in the application before they take effect, and we will update the "Last updated" date above.

If you do not accept a change, stop using the Service and delete your account before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that date means you accept the amended Terms. We will never make a change that starts charging you money without asking you to agree to it first.

Governing law and disputes

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of the Service, are governed by French law.

We would much rather resolve a problem directly, so please write to official@noosflashcards.com first; most things are settled that way.

If a dispute cannot be resolved, the courts of France have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country. Consumers resident in the European Union may also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform.

If you are a consumer in the EEA or the UK

You have statutory rights that a contract cannot take away, and nothing in these Terms limits them. Where any clause here gives you less than the law guarantees you, the law applies instead of that clause.

Noos does not currently charge for the Service. If we introduce paid plans, consumers in the EEA and the UK will have a 14-day right of withdrawal, and we will set out how it works before you buy anything.

Transfer of this agreement

We may transfer these Terms, and our rights and obligations under them, to a company we form to operate Noos, or to a successor in connection with a reorganisation, merger or sale of the business. We will tell you if that happens. Your rights under these Terms will not be reduced by the transfer, and if you are a consumer you may close your account if you would rather not continue with the new operator.

You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our written consent.

General

  • Severability: if a provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the invalid provision is treated as modified to the minimum extent needed to make it valid.
  • No waiver: if we do not enforce a provision on one occasion, we do not give up the right to enforce it later.
  • Entire agreement: these Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Service, and replace anything said before.
  • Events outside our control: we are not liable for failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including network and provider outages, hosting failures, and acts of public authorities.
  • Notices: we contact you at the email address on your account; you contact us at official@noosflashcards.com. Keep your address current, because notices sent to it count as received.
  • Survival: the sections on Your Content, Stacks you publish, our intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, governing law and this General section survive the end of this agreement.
  • Language: these Terms are published in English, and the English text governs. Any translation is provided for convenience only.