1. Definitions
"This Site" or "the Site" means the website accessible at wamiko.com and all of its subdomains (including without limitation dictation.wamiko.com, mock.wamiko.com, speaking.wamiko.com, and ai.wamiko.com), together with all pages, content, code, interfaces, access-restricted areas, and technical features present on or through them.
"Owner" means the individual person who owns and maintains this Site in a purely personal capacity.
"User" or "you" means any natural person, legal entity, or automated agent that accesses, registers on, or otherwise interacts with this Site in any manner.
"Account" means the unified WAMIKO account, registered with an e-mail address, that provides access to the Site's tools and holds the shared Credit balance.
"Credits" means a metering unit, denominated for display convenience in currency-like units, that represents a residual quantity of third-party computing quota already procured by the Owner as described in Section 6. Credits are not money, funds, stored value, or a claim to money.
"Study Materials" means, without limitation, the practice texts, word lists, recordings, transcripts, questions, topic lists, model answers, and similar materials present on or accessible through the Site. Study Materials are not created by the Owner and are handled as described in Section 7.
"Host Jurisdiction" means the State of California, United States, where the Site's public-facing server infrastructure is located.
2. Scope & Acceptance
2.1 These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Site & Product Disclosures, and any rules posted within a specific tool, constitute a binding agreement between you and the Owner.
2.2 By accessing this Site, registering an Account, redeeming a code, or using any feature, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms in their entirety. If you do not agree, you must immediately cease all access to and use of this Site.
2.3 The Owner may revise these Terms at any time, at the Owner's sole discretion, without prior individual notice. Revised versions become effective upon publication, and an updated version identifier is published with the revised text. Continued use after a revision constitutes acceptance; if you do not agree to a revision, your sole remedy is to cease using the Site. Renewed consent may be sought where, and only to the extent that, applicable law mandatorily so requires.
3. Nature of the Site
3.1 Personal, Not-for-Profit Operation. This Site is the privately owned, personal study tool of an individual. It has no profit purpose, and no profit has been derived from it. Redemption codes may be issued with or without any payment being involved; where any amount is concerned in a code at all, it serves solely to defray the third-party computing quota that the Owner procures in advance, as described in Section 6.
3.2 Not a Public Service. This Site is not a commercial enterprise, an educational institution, an examination body, or a public-facing information service. Nothing on this Site constitutes an offer or solicitation of services to the public in any jurisdiction. This Site is not open to the public: it exists for the Owner's own personal use, and access, where extended at all, is extended individually and revocably only to such individual persons as the Owner may expressly and revocably authorize solely for technical purposes concerning the Site as software and systems, including but not limited to system maintenance, functional testing, and technical evaluation of the Site’s functioning. Any such authorization relates exclusively to the technical functioning of the software; it does not constitute, include, or imply any right, license, or permission in respect of any contents accessible through the Site, the use of which remains subject in full to the rights requirements stated herein, as described in Section 4.
3.3 No Affiliation. This Site is an independent study tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any examination authority or publisher. See the Disclosures for details.
3.4 No Continuity Undertaking. The Owner may modify, suspend, limit, or discontinue the Site or any feature, in whole or in part, temporarily or permanently, at any time, for any reason or no reason, without prior notice and without liability. The Owner undertakes no service level, availability, response time, support, or maintenance obligation of any kind. The Site is not undertaken to be perpetual; any suspension or discontinuation may result in the lapse of residual quota meters without compensation, as provided in Section 6.5.
4. Eligibility & Authorized Access
4.1 Authorized Users Only. Access to and use of this Site require that a person hold, cumulatively and in full, all rights, permissions, and authorizations requisite to such access and use — including but not limited to (a) any authorization requisite to accessing this Site, and (b) all rights requisite in respect of any contents accessed or used through it. Any person who does not hold all such rights, permissions, and authorizations in full — including but not limited to any person who holds some but not all of them — must not access this Site and must not use any of its contents. The determination of whether you hold all such rights rests with you, and you bear sole responsibility for that determination.
4.2 Authorized Purposes Only. To the extent any person accesses this Site consistently with Sections 3.2 and 4.1, such access may be used solely for the purposes for which the Owner's authorization was given — namely technical maintenance, functional testing, and technical evaluation of the Site's functioning. Interaction with Study Materials in the course of such use is incidental to verifying the software's functioning and confers no right in or to any Study Material. Any other use — including but not limited to study or consumption of Study Materials as such, redistribution, republication, use for profit or any commercial exploitation, or provision of the Site's contents to third parties — is prohibited.
4.3 Legal Capacity. By using this Site you represent that you are of legal age and possess full legal capacity under the laws applicable to you, or that you use the Site under the supervision and with the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
4.4 Compliance With Local Law. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your access to and use of this Site is lawful in your jurisdiction. If such access is prohibited or restricted under laws applicable to you, you must not access this Site. The Owner makes no representation that the Site or its contents are appropriate or lawful for use in any particular jurisdiction, and assumes no responsibility for determining the lawfulness of your access.
4.5 Right to Restrict. The Owner may restrict, suspend, or terminate access by any person, Account, region, or network at any time, for any reason or no reason, without prior notice.
5. Accounts
5.1 If your access is consistent with Sections 3.2 and 4.1, you may register with an e-mail address under your control; keep your password confidential. You are responsible for all activity under your Account.
5.2 One Account provides access to all tools on the Site; the Credit balance is shared across tools, while training and examination records are kept per tool. Accounts and Credits are personal, non-transferable, and may not be lent, sold, or shared.
5.3 You must not circumvent authentication, entitlement, metering, rate-limiting, or security controls. The Owner may log authentication, security, balance, and technical events as described in the Privacy Policy.
6. Credits, Redemption & Refunds
6.1 How Credits come into existence. The Owner procures computing quota (including but not limited to AI-model usage capacity) from third-party providers in advance and in bulk. Credits are added to an Account exclusively through redemption codes issued by the Owner. At the moment a code is redeemed, the entire amount concerned is irrevocably converted into and allocated as third-party computing quota. From that moment onward, no money, funds, or stored value is held by the Owner for the User; the displayed balance is solely a meter of the residual prepaid quota allocated to the Account. Credits are allocated for prompt use: the intended use period is thirty (30) days from redemption, mirroring the billing cycle of the Owner's underlying provider procurement. Section 6.5 governs residual quota after that period. Codes may be issued for consideration or gratuitously — including but not limited to for testing, evaluation, or courtesy purposes. Gratuitous issuance involves no sale, no purchase, and no payment; quota allocated upon redemption of a gratuitously issued code is a courtesy allocation only, may be reduced, withdrawn, or cleared at any time without notice or compensation, creates no right, expectation, or claim whatsoever, and is disregarded — as zero — in any computation of amounts paid (including under Section 13).
6.2 Legal character. Credits are not money, deposits, electronic money, stored value, a payment account, an investment, or a claim to money; they bear no interest, have no cash value, are not transferable or exchangeable, and confer no right of withdrawal or cash-out. The currency-style display of Credits exists only for metering convenience.
6.3 Consumption. Credits are consumed by features that draw on the prepaid quota (including but not limited to AI-assisted grading, explanation, and tutoring). Per-use consumption and the residual meter are shown in the Account interface, and a per-entry ledger is available for review. Consumption quantities may vary with the length and complexity of each use and with third-party provider metering, and are determined by the records of the Site.
6.4 Finality; no refunds. Because the conversion described in Section 6.1 is completed at the moment of redemption, redemptions are final. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, neither consumed nor residual Credits are refundable, redeemable, or convertible into money. Any exception exists only where, and only to the extent that, a mandatory provision of applicable law requires it.
6.5 Exhaustion; expiry; termination; discontinuation. When the meter reaches zero, quota-consuming features are suspended until a further code is redeemed. Where a single use overruns the residual meter, the shortfall is absorbed by the Owner and recorded as a waiver; no debt accrues to the User. In addition, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Owner may treat as lapsed, and clear from the meter without compensation: (a) residual quota remaining after the intended use period described in Section 6.1 has expired — any availability of residual quota beyond that period is a discretionary, revocable indulgence of the Owner, not a promise, undertaking, or acquired right; it may be withdrawn at any time without notice, and forbearance on any occasion creates no entitlement to forbearance on any other; (b) any residual meter, upon termination of an Account for breach of these Terms; and (c) all residual meters, upon any suspension or discontinuation of the Site, of any quota-consuming feature, or of the Owner's underlying arrangements with third-party providers. The Site is not undertaken to be perpetual, and residual quota is a metering entry only — not a claim that survives the Site, any feature, or any provider arrangement. Any lapse or clearance under this Section is recorded in the ledger.
6.6 No obligation to supply. The Owner does not undertake to issue redemption codes to any person, to maintain any particular price, quota rate, or feature cost, or to continue offering any quota-consuming feature. Quota rates and feature costs may change at any time; changes apply to consumption occurring after the change.
7. Study Materials & Third-Party Content
7.1 Origin; No Curation. Study Materials are not created, authored, commissioned, selected, edited, or curated by the Owner. Such materials, where present at all, are uploaded, imported, or configured by persons using the Site under the technical authorizations described in Section 3.2, solely for the purpose of verifying that the Site's software functions correctly — including but not limited to rendering, playback, input handling, scoring, annotation, and synchronization. Neither such upload nor the presence of any material on the Site represents that the Owner or the uploading person holds, claims, or conveys any right in the material; all rights remain with their respective rights holders, and nothing in these Terms grants any right or license in respect of any Study Material.
7.2 Uploader Responsibility. Any person who uploads, imports, or configures any material bears sole and exclusive responsibility for that act, and represents and warrants that they hold, cumulatively and in full, all rights, permissions, and authorizations requisite to it. No person may upload, import, configure, or use any material for profit, or for any purpose beyond the technical purposes described in Section 4.2.
7.3 No Exploitation. No person may copy, download in bulk, redistribute, republish, mirror, sell, or otherwise exploit any Study Material, and every person must independently ensure that any interaction with a third-party work is permitted under the laws applicable to them and under the rights they hold. Study Materials are not published, distributed, or offered to the public at large. The Owner may remove, disable, or refuse any material at any time, for any reason or no reason, without notice.
7.4 Rights Holders. Any rights holder who objects to the accessibility of any material through this Site may use the takedown channel in Section 11; the Owner may review facially valid requests and address them in the manner the Owner deems appropriate under applicable law, which may include removing or disabling access to the material in question.
8. AI Features
8.1 Certain features use generative artificial intelligence (large language models) to grade writing, explain answers, support review, and answer general study questions about examination formats, rules, and preparation. AI output may contain factual, linguistic, or scoring errors and does not represent official examination scoring, official examination regulations, or advice from any examination authority. You must independently verify AI output against authoritative sources before relying on it.
8.2 AI-assisted feedback is a study aid only. The Owner makes no representation that AI-estimated band scores correspond to scores that would be awarded in any actual examination.
8.3 Content you submit to AI features (such as essays, follow-up questions, and any image you attach) is transmitted to third-party model providers for processing, as described in the Privacy Policy.
9. Acceptable Use
9.1 You agree not to use this Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms, and in particular, without limitation, not to: (a) attempt unauthorized access to the Site, its servers, or connected systems, whether by password mining, credential stuffing, vulnerability probing, or otherwise; (b) introduce malicious code; (c) scrape, crawl, harvest, or bulk-download any portion of the Site or its Study Materials; (d) circumvent security, entitlement, metering, or rate-limiting controls; (e) overburden or impair the functioning of the Site; (f) use the Site for cheating in, or impersonation at, any actual examination; (g) resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit any part of the Site; or (h) decompile or reverse-engineer any component of the Site.
9.2 Unauthorized access to this Site or its systems may violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030) and comparable statutes of the Host Jurisdiction, including Cal. Penal Code § 502. The Owner reserves all rights and remedies.
9.3 Breach of this Section may result in immediate suspension or termination of your Account and access, forfeiture of access to features, and referral to competent authorities where warranted.
10. Intellectual Property
10.1 The Site's original software, interfaces, design, arrangement, and branding are the property of the Owner and are protected under the laws of the Host Jurisdiction and applicable international treaties.
10.2 Subject to these Terms, and only to the extent you meet the requirements of Sections 3.2 and 4.1, you are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license — relating solely to the Owner's own interface software and to nothing else — to render the Site's interfaces in a normal web browser. This license does not extend to any Study Materials or other third-party content, and terminates automatically upon breach.
10.3 Third-party works, trademarks, and trade names appearing on or through the Site are the property of their respective owners. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.
11. Copyright Complaints & Takedown
11.1 If you believe that material accessible through this Site infringes your copyright, send a written notice to support@wamiko.com containing: (i) your physical or electronic signature; (ii) identification of the copyrighted work; (iii) identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with information sufficient to locate it; (iv) your contact information; (v) a statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized; and (vi) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act for the rights holder.
11.2 The Owner may review facially valid notices and address them in the manner the Owner deems appropriate under applicable law, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) to the extent relevant, which may include removing or disabling access to the identified material. Counter-notices may be handled to the extent recognized by applicable law. In appropriate circumstances, Accounts or persons associated with repeated allegations or findings of infringement may have their access restricted or terminated. Nothing in this Section creates any obligation toward any person beyond those imposed by mandatory applicable law.
12. Disclaimers
THIS SITE AND ALL CONTENT, MATERIALS, FUNCTIONALITY, AND FEATURES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE OWNER DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. THE OWNER DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ANY SCORE, RESULT, OR OUTCOME OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE PREDICTS OR CORRESPONDS TO ANY ACTUAL EXAMINATION RESULT. NOTHING ON THIS SITE CONSTITUTES PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.
13. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OWNER BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS SITE, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE OWNER'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THIS SITE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS, IF ANY, PAID FOR REDEMPTION CODES REDEEMED TO YOUR ACCOUNT IN THE ONE (1) MONTH PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE UNITED STATES DOLLAR (US $1.00). NOTHING IN THIS SECTION LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
14. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Owner from and against all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your access to or use of this Site; (b) your breach of these Terms; (c) your violation of any applicable law or of any right of a third party, including intellectual property rights; or (d) any misrepresentation regarding the representations set forth herein. This obligation survives termination.
15. Governing Law & Dispute Resolution
15.1 These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to this Site shall be governed by the laws of the Host Jurisdiction, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, save that mandatory consumer protections of your place of habitual residence remain unaffected where they cannot be derogated from by agreement.
15.2 Subject to Section 15.3, any proceeding shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts.
15.3 At the Owner's election, any dispute may be resolved by final and binding arbitration in Los Angeles before a single arbitrator under the then-current streamlined rules of JAMS or a comparable provider, conducted in English.
15.4 TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL DISPUTES SHALL BE RESOLVED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, AND EACH PARTY WAIVES THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.
16. General Provisions
16.1 Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, without affecting the remaining provisions.
16.2 No Waiver. Failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.
16.3 Entire Agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Disclosures, and posted product rules constitute the entire agreement regarding this Site.
16.4 Assignment. You may not assign your rights or obligations without the Owner's written consent; the Owner may assign freely.
16.5 Language. These Terms are drafted in English. Any translation is provided for convenience only; the English version controls.
16.6 Survival. Sections 1, 3.4, 4, 6, 7, 9–16 survive termination of your access.
17. Contact
All notices, questions, takedown requests, and formal communications regarding this Site must be sent in writing to support@wamiko.com. Communications must identify the sender, the subject matter, and the legal basis of the communication, and must be written in the English language. The Owner is not obligated to respond to, act upon, or acknowledge any communication, and in particular any communication that does not meet the foregoing requirements; no response time is promised or implied. Silence shall not be construed as consent, admission, or waiver.