The rules, in plain English.

1. Agreeing to these terms

By creating an account, downloading Akuru App, or using it, you agree to these terms, to our Privacy Policy, and to our Refund Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use Akuru App.

You must be at least 18 years old, or have a parent or guardian agree to these terms for you. If you use Akuru App on behalf of an organisation, you must have the authority to agree to these terms for it, and “you” then means that organisation as well.

2. Who we are

Akuru App is an equal joint venture between two companies registered in Sri Lanka: Leafy Code International (Pvt) Ltd and mooniak (Pvt) Ltd. When these terms say “we” or “us”, they mean both companies. Both are equally bound by these terms, and you can hold either of us to them.

3. The service

Akuru App is a desktop app for working with text and type in Sinhala, Tamil and English. It currently includes a font library, a type canvas, a trilingual glossary, and a Sinhala ASCII to Unicode converter.

Akuru App is in alpha. Parts of it are unfinished, and things will change as we build it. We may add, change or remove features over time. We try not to remove something people depend on without warning them first, but we may do so when we need to.

4. Your account

Your account is for you. Keep your password safe, and do not share your account with anyone else. You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think someone else has got into it, tell us straight away using the contact details below.

5. Subscriptions and payment

Akuru App is sold as a monthly plan, priced per person, and single fonts can be licensed on their own. Current plans and prices are on our pricing page. There is no online checkout: you buy by contacting us, and we confirm the price and what you are getting before you pay. Those details become part of these terms.

Prices are in Sri Lankan Rupees (LKR). A subscription renews each month until you cancel it. You can cancel at any time; cancelling stops the next charge, and you keep access until the end of the period you already paid for.

Refunds are covered by our Refund Policy.

6. Fonts: what you may do with them

The fonts in Akuru App belong to the type designers and foundries who made them. When you install a font through Akuru App, you are licensed to use it, not sold it. While your subscription is active, you may use the fonts you have access to in your own work, on the computers signed in to your account.

You may not:

• share, sell, lend or upload the font files, or give them to anyone else — including colleagues, clients or printers;
• change a font file and pass it off as your own, or distribute a changed copy;
• remove or change the reference code in a font file (see below).

Every font file you download carries a short reference code. It points to your order in our own records, and nothing else — it is not your name, your email address, or anything that identifies you to someone who finds the file. If a font turns up somewhere it should not be, the code lets us tell which download it came from. It does not stop the font working anywhere, and it is not a way of watching what you do.

7. When a subscription ends

If your subscription ends or a payment fails, we warn you first and give you time to sort it out. Only after that do we switch off the paid fonts on your computers.

We never stop you opening your own work. Akuru App does not lock you out of files you made. A document that uses a font you no longer have may show a different font until you subscribe again.

“We could not reach our server” is never treated as “you cancelled”. If your computer is offline, or our server is down, that gives you more time, never less. Access ends only when our server confirms it.

8. Your work

What you make with Akuru App is yours — the text you write or convert, the designs you lay out on the canvas, and the files you export. We do not claim any ownership of it.

You are responsible for what you make and for having the right to use the text and images you put into it.

9. Using the service fairly

When you use Akuru App, please do not:

• break the law, or use Akuru App to help anyone else do so;
• try to get round the subscription, the licence checks, or anything else that controls access to paid fonts;
• copy, take apart or resell the app, except where the law gives you the right to;
• overload, attack or interfere with our servers, or try to reach parts of them that are not meant for you;
• collect the glossary or the font catalogue in bulk to build a competing product.

10. Suspension and closing an account

We may suspend or close an account if we believe in good faith that it is seriously or repeatedly breaking these terms — for example, sharing font files or getting round the subscription. Where we can, we will tell you why first and give you a chance to put it right. If you think we got it wrong, contact us and we will look at it again.

You can close your account at any time by contacting us. Closing an account does not stop you opening files you already made.

11. What we do not promise

Akuru App is provided “as is” and “as available”, and it is in alpha. We work hard to keep it working and your fonts installed correctly, but we cannot promise it will always be available or free of errors.

The glossary is drawn from the Official Languages Department of Sri Lanka and is offered as a reference. The converter does its best with text in older encodings, but no conversion is perfect. Check anything important — a legal document, a printed sign, a published book — before you rely on it.

12. Limits on our liability

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses — such as lost profits, lost revenue, lost data or damage to reputation — that come from using Akuru App or being unable to use it.

Our total liability for any claim under these terms is limited to the greater of (a) what you paid us in the twelve months before the thing that caused the claim, or (b) LKR 10,000.

Nothing in these terms takes away any right you have under Sri Lankan consumer protection law that cannot be taken away by agreement.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Sri Lanka. Any dispute about them will be decided by the courts of Sri Lanka. Before going to court, please contact us — most problems are faster to sort out by talking.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms when Akuru App changes, when the law requires it, or to make them clearer. The date at the top of this page shows the current version. If a change affects your rights in a way that matters, we will email you before it takes effect. Continuing to use Akuru App after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Contact us

If anything here is unclear, or you want to make a request about your information, a refund or our terms, contact us. We reply to every message.

• CompaniesLeafy Code International (Pvt) Ltdmooniak (Pvt) Ltd
• Emailhello@leafycode.com
• Phone+94 76 670 7355
• Address28/3/C, Ambuldeniya Mawatha, Hokandara South, Hokandara, Sri Lanka

One address, one inbox, one number for both companies — you never have to work out which of us to write to.