Terms of use
The agreement between you and Omnia Data Analytics LLC covering the Dictionary Genie app and this website. It is short because the app is free, has no accounts, and takes nothing from you.
1. Acceptance
These terms are an agreement between you and Omnia Data Analytics LLC, a limited liability company organized in the United States (“we”, “us”), covering the Dictionary Genie application for iPhone and iPad (the “App”) and the website at dictionarygenie.app (the “Site”). By installing or using the App, or by using the Site, you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the App or the Site.
Our privacy policy is part of this agreement.
2. Licence to use the app
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the App on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service and Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement. That licence is for your own use of the App as published. It does not permit you to copy, sell, rent, sublicense, reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of the App, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits it despite this restriction.
Nothing in this section restricts your rights in the underlying dictionary data, which is separately licensed — see section 4.
3. The app is a reference, not an authority
Dictionary Genie is a general-purpose reference work. It reports how words are defined, pronounced and used in the sources it draws on. It is not:
- a substitute for a specialist dictionary in law, medicine, science or any other technical field;
- professional, legal, medical, financial or academic advice of any kind;
- a certified translation service, or a suitable basis for a legal, medical or contractual translation;
- a prescriptive authority on what is correct usage in a particular examination, style guide or jurisdiction.
Definitions, examples, pronunciations and translations are compiled from open datasets by an automated pipeline. They will contain errors, gaps and outdated senses, and coverage varies widely by word. Do not rely on the App where accuracy matters materially — verify against an authoritative source appropriate to your purpose. If you find an error, please report it; we take corrections seriously.
4. Content, sources and licences
The dictionary content in the App comes from openly licensed datasets, each with its own licence and attribution requirements. Those licences are set out in full on the Sources & licenses page, and they govern that content rather than these terms.
In particular, content derived from Wiktionary is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, and the derived dictionary data that ships inside the App is made available under the same licence. If you want to reuse that data, follow the terms on the Sources page — you do not need our separate permission, and you may not treat these terms as narrowing rights that an open licence grants you.
Attribution shown inside the App and on the Sources page must not be removed, obscured or misrepresented in any reuse.
5. What you create in the app
Your favorites, lists, notes and history are yours. They are stored on your device, we never receive them, and we claim no rights over them. We cannot recover them for you if you delete the App or lose your device, because we do not have a copy. Back up your device if that material matters to you.
6. Acceptable use
Use the App and the Site lawfully. Do not:
- extract the App’s content in bulk for redistribution in a way that breaches the source licences described on the Sources page;
- use the App or Site to harass, defame or harm anyone, or to violate anyone’s rights;
- attempt to disrupt, probe, overload or gain unauthorised access to the Site or any system we operate;
- misrepresent content taken from the App as your own original work, or strip its attribution.
7. Intellectual property
The App’s software, interface design, artwork, icon, the name “Dictionary Genie”, the pronunciation style guide, and our own editorial content — the daily word notes, the Latin phrases and their glosses, and hand-verified pronunciation overrides — are owned by Omnia Data Analytics LLC and protected by copyright and other laws. This agreement transfers no ownership.
Third-party names and marks appearing in the App or on the Site belong to their owners and are used for attribution and identification only.
8. Price and availability
The App is free. There are no in-app purchases and no subscriptions, so there is nothing for you to buy, cancel or be refunded. Any refund for a paid App Store transaction, should one ever exist, would be governed by Apple’s policies rather than ours.
We may change, suspend or discontinue the App, the Site, or any feature of either, at any time. We may release updates that Apple installs according to your settings, and we may stop supporting older versions of iOS. We do not promise that the App will remain available in any particular country or on any particular device.
9. Third-party services
The App uses Apple’s operating-system frameworks, including the Translation framework for sentence translation and the speech synthesiser for audio. Those are Apple’s services, governed by Apple’s terms and privacy policy, and their behaviour, availability and language coverage are outside our control. The Site is served by Cloudflare. Links from the Site to third-party websites are provided for reference and we are not responsible for their content.
10. Disclaimer of warranties
The App and the Site are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory. To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim all warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy and quiet enjoyment.
We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted or error free, that its content is accurate, complete or current, that defects will be corrected, or that it will meet your requirements.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you. Where it does not, our warranties are limited to the minimum period and extent required by that law.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither we nor our members, officers or contractors will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill or opportunity, arising out of or relating to your use of or inability to use the App or the Site, on any theory of liability, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to this agreement is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the App in the twelve months before the claim (which, the App being free, is zero) or ten United States dollars.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
12. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, loss or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your misuse of the App or the Site, your breach of these terms, or your infringement of anyone’s rights, including in your reuse of content obtained through the App.
13. Apple-specific terms
These terms are between you and us, not with Apple Inc., and we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the App and its content. Accordingly:
- Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support for the App.
- If the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund any purchase price paid for the App (which is zero). To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the App, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility.
- We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to the App or your use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the App fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection or similar legislation.
- We, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any third-party claim that the App infringes that party’s intellectual property rights.
- You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- You must comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App.
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, upon your acceptance, will have the right to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.
14. Termination
You may end this agreement at any time by deleting the App. We may suspend or terminate your licence if you materially breach these terms. Sections 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 17 survive termination.
15. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the state in which Omnia Data Analytics LLC is organized, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The exclusive venue for any dispute is the state and federal courts serving that state, and you consent to their jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom or another jurisdiction whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts and to the protection of mandatory local consumer law, this section does not take that right away from you.
If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, it is severed and the remainder continues in force.
16. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top of this page, and we will describe material changes in the App Store release notes for the version that introduces them. Continuing to use the App or the Site after a change means you accept the updated terms.
17. Contact
Omnia Data Analytics LLC
United States
alend@omniadataanalytics.com