Terms of use

1. Accepting these terms

By downloading, installing or using Hoplavox, or by visiting hoplavox.com, you accept these terms. If you install the app for a child, you accept them on behalf of the child and remain responsible for their use of the app.

2. Who publishes Hoplavox

Hoplavox is created by Georges Byona and published through the LosingTek studio (losingtek.com), referred to as "we". Contact: hello@hoplavox.com.

3. What Hoplavox is

Hoplavox is an app of educational mini-games for children aged 3 to 10, played with the voice, in French and English. It works offline once installed. Its content and features may change with updates.

4. Your license to use the app

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use Hoplavox on devices you own or control, for private family use or for educational use with children, such as in a classroom or in therapy sessions.

You may not copy, resell, rent or redistribute the app, extract or reuse its voices, drawings, sounds, music or content outside the app, or try to decompile it or bypass its protections, except where the law expressly allows it.

5. Adults and children

Hoplavox is made for children, but it must be installed and set up by an adult. The adult chooses the settings, keeps the device safe, and decides how long and how often the child plays. The parental gate is designed to keep young children out of the settings, but it is not a replacement for adult supervision.

6. Playing safely

• For the breath and balance games: if the child feels dizzy, stop and breathe normally. Play seated and hold the device firmly.
• Keep the volume at a comfortable level, especially with headphones.
• Take breaks. Hoplavox games are short on purpose.

7. An educational game, not a medical tool

Hoplavox helps children practise counting, words, notes, breath, geography, syllables, listening and logic. It does not replace a teacher, a speech therapist or a doctor, and it does not diagnose anything. Results in the dashboard are indications for parents, not assessments.

Speech recognition is never perfect, especially with young children and noisy rooms. An answer may sometimes be refused or accepted by mistake; the game is designed so that the child is never stuck or blamed.

8. Price, purchases and refunds

The price of Hoplavox, if any, is shown on its store page before download. Payments, family sharing and refunds are handled by Google Play or the App Store, under their own terms. No purchase is offered to the child inside the games.

9. Intellectual property

The name Hoplavox, the frog, the logos, the pictograms, the drawings, the voices, the music, the texts and the code of the app and of this website belong to us or to their licensors and are protected by law.

Hoplavox uses open-source components under their own licenses, such as the speech recognition engine and models (Apache 2.0) and the Fredoka and Patrick Hand fonts (SIL Open Font License). Those licenses are not changed by these terms.

10. Privacy

How Hoplavox handles data is described in the privacy policy, which is part of these terms. In short: the app keeps its data on the device and sends nothing.

11. Updates and availability

We work to keep Hoplavox reliable, and we publish updates to fix problems and add games. We may change, suspend or stop parts of the app or of the website. Since the app works offline, a version already installed keeps working on its own.

12. Responsibility

Hoplavox is provided as it is and as available. To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for indirect damage, for the loss of data stored on a device, or for the use of the app without adult supervision. Nothing in these terms limits a responsibility that the law does not allow to be limited, nor the rights you have as a consumer.

13. This website

hoplavox.com presents the app and answers questions about it. Links to other websites, such as the stores or losingtek.com, are given for convenience; those sites have their own terms.

14. Applicable law

These terms are governed by the law of the country where the publisher is established. This does not deprive you of the protection given by the mandatory rules of the country where you live. Before any dispute, please write to us: most problems are solved with a simple email.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top of this page shows the latest version, and important changes will be announced in the app or on this website before they apply.

16. Contact

For any question about these terms: hello@hoplavox.com.