Copyright & Intellectual Property Policy

Introduction

This Policy explains what Xmentra owns, what Xmentra does not own, what you may do with the material you find here, and how suspected infringement can be reported.

It is written narrowly and deliberately. Xmentra claims rights only in material it actually created, commissioned, or is otherwise authorised to use. Nothing becomes Xmentra property merely because it appears on, is referenced by, is processed by, or passes through the Platform.

This Policy owns ownership categories, permitted use of Educational Content, third-party rights, and infringement reporting. It forms part of the Terms of Use (/terms), which own the contractual terms, the licence granted to Users, liability, and governing law. Processing of Personal Information is owned by the Privacy Policy (/privacy). The behaviour and limits of AI Features are owned by the AI & Educational Use Policy (/ai-policy). Prohibited conduct, including scraping and intellectual-property misuse, is owned by the Acceptable Use Policy (/acceptable-use). Educational scope and outcome limits are owned by the Disclaimer (/disclaimer).

1. Definitions

These definitions are shared across all Xmentra legal documents and are reproduced without modification.

• Platform — the Xmentra website at https://xmentra.com, together with any applications, subdomains, and interfaces operated by Xmentra.
• Services — all functionality offered through the Platform, including lessons, learning experiences, vocabulary, grammar, listening, revision, progress tracking, the educational blog, and any features added later.
• AI Features — any part of the Services that uses automated language models or similar techniques to generate, adapt, evaluate, or respond to content, including the AI Mentor and AI Conversations when introduced.
• Content — any text, audio, image, code, exercise, translation, or other material available through the Platform, whether created by Xmentra, generated by AI Features, or submitted by a User.
• Educational Content — Content published by Xmentra for learning purposes, including lessons, learning experiences, explanations, audio, and blog articles.
• Personal Information — information that identifies, or can reasonably be used to identify, an individual, either alone or combined with other information available to Xmentra.
• Learning Data — information about a User's learning activity, such as lessons opened, experiences completed, confidence responses, saved vocabulary, and revision history.
• Local Storage — browser storage mechanisms (including localStorage and sessionStorage) used by the Platform to keep information on the User's own device.
• Third Party Services — independent providers whose infrastructure or tools support the Platform, including hosting, analytics, and, where applicable, payment, communication, and AI providers.
• User — any person who accesses or uses the Platform, with or without an Account.
• Account — a credentialed profile that a User may create when Accounts are available, allowing Learning Data to be stored by Xmentra rather than only on the device.
• Subscription — a recurring paid arrangement granting access to Premium Features, where such arrangements are offered.
• Premium Features — Services available only under a Subscription or other paid plan.
• Community — any feature allowing Users to interact with one another, including forums, comments, groups, or shared practice.

Where this Policy refers to User Content, it means Content submitted, uploaded, posted, or published by a User through the Services, if and when the Services offer such functionality.

2. Purpose of this Policy

This Policy exists so that ownership is not left to guesswork. It sets out:

• what Xmentra owns or is authorised to use;
• what Xmentra does not own, including third-party material and ordinary language;
• what you may do with Educational Content for your own learning;
• how third-party rights are respected;
• how suspected infringement can be reported and what happens next.

It does not restate the Terms of Use. Where a contractual question arises — the scope of the licence you receive, termination, liability — the Terms of Use govern.

3. Material Created By or For Xmentra

Content created by or for Xmentra and owned by Xmentra is protected by copyright and other applicable rights. Depending on the item, this may include:

• the Xmentra name, logo, and visual branding;
• the original design, layout, and interface of the Platform;
• original written Educational Content, including lessons, learning experiences, explanations, and blog articles;
• original exercises, prompts, and the structure and sequencing of the learning material;
• original illustrations, icons, and graphics created by or for Xmentra;
• original audio produced by or for Xmentra;
• the software and code written by or for Xmentra;
• this and other Xmentra documentation.

Two limits apply throughout. First, Xmentra claims rights only in the specific items it actually created, commissioned, or is otherwise authorised to hold rights in — not in whole categories by default. Where an item within one of the groups above is licensed, third-party, open-source, public-domain, or otherwise not owned by Xmentra, the rights of the relevant owner apply instead and this Policy makes no claim over it. Second, ownership of original material does not extend to the underlying language, facts, ideas, grammar rules, or common expressions that the material describes (see section 15).

4. Xmentra Brand and Branding

"Xmentra", the Xmentra logo, and the Platform's visual branding are used by Xmentra as its own brand identifiers.

Xmentra makes no claim in this Policy about trademark registration in any jurisdiction, and nothing here should be read as such a claim. The absence of a registration statement does not waive any rights that may exist under applicable law, including unregistered rights.

You may refer to Xmentra by name for ordinary descriptive purposes — reviews, commentary, teaching, journalism, or discussion. Please do not use Xmentra branding in a way that suggests endorsement, partnership, affiliation, or official status where none exists, or in a way likely to confuse people about the source of something.

5. Third-Party Trademarks

Third-party company names, product names, service names, institution names, examination names, logos, and other marks that appear on the Platform remain the property of their respective owners.

They may appear for description, reference, compatibility, comparison, or educational explanation. Their appearance does not imply affiliation, endorsement, sponsorship, certification, accreditation, partnership, or authorisation, in either direction, unless Xmentra states a specific relationship and that relationship actually exists.

6. Examination Names and Providers

Xmentra publishes material that discusses language examinations and the levels they assess. Examination names, level designations used by examination bodies, institutional names, and related marks belong to the organisations that own them.

Xmentra is not an examination provider, examination body, testing centre, accreditation body, or certifying authority. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, partnered with, or authorised by any examination provider or educational institution unless Xmentra states otherwise and that statement is accurate.

References to examinations on the Platform are descriptive and educational. They do not confer official status on Xmentra material, and they do not represent the official position of any examination provider. Where the details of an examination matter to you, verify them with the examination provider directly, as described in the Disclaimer (/disclaimer).

7. Third-Party Educational Material

Third-party material may appear on or through the Platform in limited ways, for example as a reference or citation, a lawful short quotation, a link to an external resource, an illustrative example, licensed material, or material delivered by a Third Party Service.

Where that happens:

• Xmentra claims no ownership of the third-party material;
• the rights of the original owner are unaffected;
• any applicable third-party licence or terms continue to apply;
• Xmentra does not represent that third-party material is accurate, current, or suitable for your purpose.

Where an attribution or licence notice accompanies third-party material, it should be preserved.

8. Open-Source Software

The Platform is built with open-source software components. Those components remain the property of their respective authors and remain subject to their own licences.

This Policy does not replace, modify, or override any open-source licence. Xmentra claims no exclusive ownership of third-party open-source components, and nothing in this Policy limits any rights you may have under the licence of a component itself. Xmentra's own claim is limited to the original code written by or for Xmentra.

Individual packages are not enumerated here, as the set of dependencies changes over time.

9. User Content

At present, the Services do not offer a public User Content system. There are no uploads, comments, posts, profiles for publication, or Community features available, so no User Content is currently hosted or published by Xmentra.

If User Content functionality is introduced, the following principles will apply and will be reflected in the Terms of Use before the functionality goes live:

• You keep ownership of the original material you submit. Submitting it does not transfer ownership to Xmentra.
• Xmentra will ask only for the permission reasonably necessary to operate the relevant Service — for example, to store, display, and transmit your material so that the feature works as you intend.
• The scope, duration, and purpose of that permission will be stated plainly in the Terms of Use.
• Storing, processing, formatting, moderating, or displaying material does not make Xmentra its owner.
• You should submit only material you have the rights to submit.

Xmentra will not claim a broader licence than the relevant feature actually requires.

10. Learner Input

Material you type into the Platform while learning — answers, sentences, practice responses, notes, saved words and phrases, reflections, and similar learner-created material — is yours. It is not Educational Content, and it is not treated as Xmentra-owned material.

Using the Services does not transfer ownership of what you write. Xmentra processes learner input only to provide the learning functionality you are using, as described in the Privacy Policy (/privacy).

Learner input containing material you do not have the right to use remains your responsibility.

11. Personal Corpus

The Services collect the phrases and vocabulary you work with into a personal learning collection, so that revision and practice can reflect what you have actually done.

The fact that learner-created or learner-associated material forms part of that collection does not give Xmentra ownership of your underlying expression. Where the collection contains Educational Content published by Xmentra, that Content remains Xmentra's under section 3, and your permitted use of it remains as described in section 19. Where it contains your own words, section 10 applies.

How this material is stored and processed is described in the Privacy Policy (/privacy).

12. AI-Assisted Material

No live AI provider is currently connected to the Services, and current Mentor Educational Content is human-authored. The following applies to AI Features where they exist or are introduced.

Rights in AI-assisted or AI-generated material are unsettled in many jurisdictions, and Xmentra does not attempt to resolve them here. Whether such material is protected at all, and who holds any rights in it, may depend on:

• applicable law in the relevant jurisdiction;
• the nature and degree of human authorship involved;
• the source material the output draws on;
• the terms of the AI provider concerned;
• the specific circumstances in which the material was created.

Xmentra therefore makes no blanket claim that AI output belongs to Xmentra, and no blanket statement that it belongs to the User. Where Xmentra publishes material that was produced with AI assistance and then reviewed and edited by a person, Xmentra claims rights only to the extent it legitimately holds them.

The behaviour, accuracy, and limits of AI Features are described in the AI & Educational Use Policy (/ai-policy).

13. Material You Send to AI Features

Sending material to an AI Feature does not transfer ownership of that material to Xmentra. Section 10 continues to apply to what you write.

You should send only material you are authorised to use. Do not submit material belonging to someone else where you lack the rights or permission to do so.

What happens to the data itself — how it is transmitted, retained, and whether it is used for model training — is owned by the Privacy Policy (/privacy) and the AI & Educational Use Policy (/ai-policy).

14. Similarity of AI-Assisted Output

AI-assisted output is generated statistically. It may resemble existing material, and similar prompts may produce similar results for different people.

Xmentra therefore does not guarantee that AI-assisted output is unique, original, protectable by copyright, or free of resemblance to third-party material. Where you intend to use such output beyond your own learning — for publication, at work, or commercially — you are responsible for checking that the use is appropriate and lawful in your circumstances.

15. Ordinary Language and Educational Examples

Language teaching necessarily uses words, phrases, everyday expressions, grammar patterns, numbers, names, place names, common scenarios, and cultural references.

Xmentra does not claim ownership of the German language, of any other language, or of any of the following: individual words, ordinary phrases and everyday expressions, grammar rules, linguistic facts, teaching ideas or methods as such, pronunciation of words, or factual information about a language or country.

What may be protected is Xmentra's own original expression: the specific wording of an explanation, the way a scene or exercise is written, the selection, arrangement, and sequencing of material, and the original design and presentation around it. The distinction matters, and Xmentra applies it honestly: a common phrase used in a lesson remains a common phrase, freely usable by anyone.

16. Translations

Rights in translated material depend on the source and on applicable law.

Xmentra does not claim exclusive ownership of source-language material it did not create, of third-party text, or of translations of third-party material where the underlying rights belong to someone else. Simple translations of ordinary words and everyday phrases are not claimed as proprietary at all (see section 15).

Where Xmentra creates original translation-based educational material — for instance an original explanation, gloss, or annotated example written by or for Xmentra — rights are claimed only to the extent legitimately held in that original material.

17. Audio

Audio available through the Platform may be created by or for Xmentra, licensed from another party, provided by a Third Party Service, recorded by a person, or produced synthetically.

Xmentra claims rights only in audio it actually created, commissioned, or is authorised to hold rights in. It does not claim ownership of all audio categorically. Licensed and third-party audio remains subject to the rights and terms of its owner. Descriptions here are intentionally technology-neutral, because the way audio is produced or delivered may change.

18. Images and Other Media

The same approach applies to photographs, illustrations, icons, diagrams, video, and other media. Some items are created by or for Xmentra; others may be licensed, supplied by a Third Party Service, or used under the terms of their owner.

Xmentra claims rights only in the items it actually owns or is authorised to use, and makes no categorical claim over all media appearing on the Platform.

19. Permitted Personal Use

For your own personal, non-commercial learning, and subject to the Terms of Use (/terms), you may:

• view, read, and listen to Educational Content on the Platform;
• practise with it, including repeating, rehearsing, and speaking aloud;
• study it and return to it as often as you like;
• make reasonable personal notes, including writing down words and phrases you are learning, for your own use;
• keep reasonable personal copies incidental to normal use, such as a saved page for offline reading;
• refer to it in ordinary discussion, teaching conversation, or study with others.

This section describes permitted personal use only. It does not grant redistribution, publication, or commercial rights, and it does not extend to third-party material that Xmentra does not own. Where the Terms of Use and this section could be read differently, the Terms of Use govern.

20. Restricted Copying and Redistribution

Except as permitted by applicable law, by the Terms of Use, by a separate written permission from Xmentra, or by the licence of the material concerned, please do not:

• copy Educational Content in bulk;
• republish, redistribute, or resell Xmentra material;
• systematically extract, scrape, or harvest Content, including for the purpose of building a dataset or a competing repository;
• present Xmentra material as your own, or strip attribution from it;
• use Xmentra material to train models or build derivative products without permission.

These restrictions apply only to material Xmentra actually owns or is authorised to control. They do not apply to ordinary language, facts, or ideas (section 15), to open-source components under their own licences (section 8), or to third-party material governed by its owner's terms (section 7). Related technical rules are set out in the Acceptable Use Policy (/acceptable-use).

21. Rights Under Applicable Law

Nothing in this Policy is intended to remove or override rights that applicable law gives you. Depending on your jurisdiction, exceptions and limitations such as fair use, fair dealing, quotation, criticism, review, news reporting, private study, teaching, research, accessibility, or other statutory exceptions may permit uses that this Policy otherwise restricts.

Where such an exception applies to you, it applies. This section is a statement of approach, not legal advice; if the scope of an exception matters to you, take advice about your own jurisdiction.

22. Search Engines and Automated Access

Public pages on the Platform are meant to be found. Ordinary, well-behaved indexing by search engines — crawling public pages in line with the Platform's robots.txt and sitemap — is permitted and welcome, and nothing in this Policy prohibits it.

That is different from unauthorised bulk extraction: high-volume scraping, circumventing access controls or rate limits, ignoring robots.txt, copying the Content library wholesale, or harvesting Content to train models or build a competing product. Those uses are restricted under section 20 and under the Acceptable Use Policy (/acceptable-use).

23. Linking to Xmentra

You may link to public pages on the Platform. No permission or approval process is required for ordinary lawful links, including links in reviews, articles, teaching material, forums, and social posts.

Please do not link or frame in a way that misrepresents the relationship — implying endorsement, partnership, affiliation, or official status where none exists — or that presents Xmentra Content as your own or in a misleading context.

24. Screenshots and Sharing

Reasonable personal and editorial sharing is expected and acceptable: a screenshot of a lesson in a message to a friend, an image in a review or article, a short excerpt in commentary, criticism, or educational discussion, with Xmentra identified as the source.

That is not the same as republication. Sharing under this section does not grant rights to reproduce Educational Content at scale, to build a collection or mirror of Xmentra material, to remove branding or attribution, or to use Xmentra Content commercially. Where a statutory exception under section 21 gives you broader rights, those rights apply.

25. Reporting Suspected Infringement

If you believe material on the Platform infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, or that Xmentra material has been used without authorisation elsewhere, write to hello@xmentra.com with "IP report" in the subject line.

To make a report useful, please include what you reasonably can:

• identification of the work or right you say is affected;
• identification of the material you believe is infringing, and where it is on the Platform — a URL, page name, or lesson reference is usually enough;
• your name and contact details, and your relationship to the right (owner, agent, or other);
• a short explanation of why you believe the use is not authorised;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is unauthorised;
• anything else reasonably necessary for Xmentra to look into it.

Nothing more is required. If some of this is unavailable, send the report anyway and Xmentra will ask if something essential is missing.

Xmentra has not designated a DMCA agent, a registered copyright agent, a legal department, a postal address for notices, or a dedicated reporting portal. Email is the current channel for all such reports.

26. How Reports Are Handled

On receiving a report, Xmentra may:

• review it and the material identified;
• ask you for additional information or clarification;
• restrict, remove, or amend material where that is appropriate and technically possible;
• contact any other party involved where appropriate;
• correct attribution, add a licence notice, or take another proportionate step;
• decline to act where the report appears unfounded, and explain why;
• comply with obligations that applicable law places on Xmentra.

Reports are handled on a best-effort basis by a small team. Xmentra does not promise a particular outcome, a particular remedy, or a fixed response time unless applicable law requires one.

27. Repeated Infringement

The Services currently have no Accounts, no User Content, and no Community, so there is no account-based repeat-infringer system in operation and none is implied here.

If Accounts, User Content, or Community features are introduced, repeated infringement may lead to proportionate action under the Terms of Use (/terms) and the Acceptable Use Policy (/acceptable-use), including restriction or termination of access. Any such process will be described in those documents before it is applied.

28. False or Abusive Reports

Infringement reports affect real material and real people, so please send them only where you have a genuine, good-faith belief that a right has been infringed.

Reports that are knowingly false, submitted to silence criticism, or used to harass someone are not acceptable, and Xmentra may decline to act on them, may decline to process further reports from the same source, and may take other proportionate steps. Depending on jurisdiction, knowingly false statements in such reports can also carry legal consequences; Xmentra makes no general claim about what those are.

29. Responses to Removal

Xmentra does not operate a formal DMCA counter-notice procedure, and this Policy does not present United States procedures as applicable everywhere.

If material of yours has been restricted or removed and you believe that was mistaken, write to hello@xmentra.com explaining why, and Xmentra will review the decision. Where applicable law provides a specific process for objections or counter-notices in a given situation, Xmentra will respond in line with that law.

30. Third Party Services

Third Party Services retain their own intellectual property rights, and their own terms and licences continue to apply to their software, content, and marks.

This Policy governs Xmentra material only. It does not replace, modify, or override the terms of any Third Party Service, and Xmentra claims no rights in their material beyond the permissions it has been granted.

31. Feedback

If you send Xmentra a suggestion, bug report, or idea for improvement, that is welcome and no formal arrangement is imposed on you for doing so.

Xmentra does not claim ownership of your ideas simply because you communicated them. Xmentra may, however, use feedback to improve the Services without obligation, payment, or confidentiality unless separately agreed in writing — including where the same suggestion has been received from others or was already under consideration. Where the Terms of Use (/terms) address feedback, those terms govern; this section is descriptive and adds nothing inconsistent with them.

Please do not send confidential or third-party proprietary information as feedback.

32. Copyright and Attribution Notices

Copyright notices, attribution, licence text, and proprietary notices attached to material should not be removed, obscured, or altered, whether the material belongs to Xmentra, to an open-source author, or to a third party.

A notice records a claim; it does not create ownership. Where Xmentra does not otherwise hold rights in something, no notice on the Platform should be read as claiming that it does.

33. Changes to this Policy

This Policy is versioned in line with the Xmentra legal documentation system. The Version, Effective Date, and Last Updated fields at the top of this document reflect the current state, and material changes are recorded in the Revision History below.

Substantive changes are published in advance where the change affects your rights, on the notice basis described in the Terms of Use (/terms). No separate or conflicting notification period is introduced here. Continuing to use the Platform after a change takes effect means the current version applies.

34. Contact Information

For questions about this Policy, permission requests, attribution questions, or infringement reports:

hello@xmentra.com

Xmentra https://xmentra.com

35. Revision History