Last updated: 25 June 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Wakatta mobile app and the wakatta.app website (together, the "Service"), operated by Mariano Matayoshi, an individual established in Spain ("Wakatta", "we", "us"). Our contact email is [email protected]. By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service. Nothing in these Terms removes or limits any rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived under the law of your country of residence.
Wakatta is a language-learning tool that turns Japanese podcasts into tappable lessons — transcripts, furigana, a dictionary, AI explanations, and spaced-repetition review. It is provided for your personal, educational use. We may add, change, improve, or remove features over time, subject to Section 11.
You agree not to: misuse, disrupt, or place an unreasonable load on the Service; attempt to bypass usage limits, security, rate-limiting, or authentication; scrape, harvest, or bulk-extract content or data; reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app except where the law expressly allows and cannot be excluded; or use the Service to infringe others' rights or for any unlawful purpose. We may enforce reasonable, disclosed fair-use limits on costly features (such as AI explanations and transcriptions) to keep the Service available and sustainable for everyone.
Podcasts available through Wakatta are created, owned, and published by third parties and are streamed directly from their public feeds. Wakatta is a learning layer on top of that content; we are not the publisher, and all podcast content remains the property of its respective creators and rights-holders. If you are a rights-holder and want your content removed, contact us at [email protected] and we will act on valid requests.
AI explanations and translations are generated automatically and may be incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate. They are a study aid, not authoritative language instruction — please use your own judgment. We do not warrant the accuracy of AI output, to the extent the law permits (see Section 9).
Wakatta is currently free, and we are not charging anything. If we launch a paid Premium plan in the future: its price, billing terms, and any additional conditions will be presented clearly before you pay, and you will have to expressly agree to them; as an EU consumer you will have a 14-day right of withdrawal, subject to the legal conditions (including that if you ask us to start a paid digital service immediately, you may be asked to expressly consent and acknowledge that doing so can end your withdrawal right once the service is fully performed); and the "notify me" option only registers your interest and creates no payment obligation.
We try to keep the Service available and working as described, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. Where mandatory EU/Spanish consumer law applies (including rules on the conformity of digital content and services), the Service must meet the standards required by that law, and nothing in these Terms reduces those mandatory standards.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law: the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", and we disclaim warranties not required to be given by law; and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential loss arising from your use of the Service. These limits do not apply, and we do not exclude or limit our liability, where the law does not allow it — including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for wilful misconduct, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded under Spanish law (including Article 1102 of the Spanish Civil Code) or the mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence. Nothing in these Terms affects your mandatory statutory consumer rights.
You can stop using Wakatta and delete your account at any time (see our Privacy Policy and wakatta.app/delete-account). We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially or repeatedly breach these Terms or misuse the Service, or where we must do so by law. Where reasonable and lawful, we will give you notice and an opportunity to address the issue first. On termination, the licences you grant us end as described in Section 6.
We may update these Terms, and we may modify the Service, for a valid reason (for example, to reflect new features, legal or security requirements, or changes in providers). For changes that materially and negatively affect you, we will give you reasonable advance notice (in the app or by email), and you will be free to reject the change by stopping use of the Service and deleting your account before it takes effect, and to exercise any termination right the law gives you. Continued use after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms. We will update the "Last updated" date above.
These Terms are governed by the laws of Spain. However, if you are a consumer habitually resident in the EU/EEA, you continue to benefit from the mandatory consumer-protection provisions of the law of your country of residence, and nothing in these Terms deprives you of that protection. As an EU consumer, you may bring proceedings in the courts of your own country of residence or in Spain, and we may bring proceedings against you only in the courts of your country of residence. We do not require you to litigate exclusively in Spanish courts.
We are not currently committed to using any alternative dispute resolution (ADR) body, and we are not obliged to use one. You can always contact us first at [email protected] to try to resolve any issue, and you may also be able to use the European Consumer Centres (ECC) Network for cross-border consumer help. (The EU Online Dispute Resolution platform was discontinued in 2025; we therefore do not link to it.)
Questions about these Terms: [email protected].