Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing and using DictBridge (“the Service”, accessible at https://dictbridge.com), you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site.

2. Educational Purpose & Permitted Use

DictBridge is an open linguistic platform provided free of charge for personal, educational, academic, and non-commercial research purposes. You are granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive license to view, search, and study dictionary entries, phonetics, example sentences, and grammatical references.

You may cite brief definitions or sentences in academic work or language study with appropriate attribution to DictBridge.

3. Prohibited Conduct

When using DictBridge, you agree that you will not:

• Use automated scrapers, spiders, bots, or extraction scripts to harvest the database in bulk without written permission.
• Attempt to disrupt, overload, or impair our servers, databases, or network infrastructure (including Denial of Service attacks).
• Circumvent or attempt to circumvent security headers, rate limits, or IP throttling mechanisms.
• Re-publish, mirror, or sell substantial portions of the dictionary database on commercial platforms or mobile app stores.

4. Disclaimer of Warranties

DictBridge provides lexicographical content on an “as is” and “as available” basis. While our linguistic engineering team applies rigorous validation algorithms and multi-step verification to ensure accuracy, human languages are complex, evolving, and contextual.

DictBridge makes no warranties, expressed or implied, regarding the 100% completeness, accuracy, or suitability of translations for specialized legal, medical, or contractual translation purposes. Users requiring certified translations for legal or statutory documents should consult accredited certified human translators.

5. Intellectual Property

The original software architecture, user interface, visual branding, logo, data structures, and curated bilingual sentence pairs are the intellectual property of DictBridge and protected by applicable copyright and trademark laws.

6. Modifications to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Service at any time. Changes become effective immediately upon posting to this page, with an updated revision date. Your continued use of the platform following modifications constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

For questions regarding our terms, please contact our legal desk at [email protected].