Terms of Use

1. The service

Norlecta is a digital English-learning platform. All Norlecta products are digital; no physical goods are sold or shipped. The service currently includes structured Real Interaction speaking programmes, the Reading Library and Literature Corner, the classroom activities Speak Around and SpeakVenture, a personal portfolio, a Learning Summary view of your practice results, and the Checkpoints page, which shows the four checkpoints of your programme and their deadlines. Work reaches an instructor only as a checkpoint submission, and each checkpoint can be submitted once (section 6); in the current version a checkpoint submission is recorded only in the browser where it is made, and Norlecta instructor accounts are not yet available. Some capabilities described in Norlecta's product materials are planned for the future; these Terms govern the service as it is currently provided.

2. Eligibility

The Norlecta Platform is for adults only. You may create an account and use the Platform only if you are aged 18 or over and have the capacity to enter into a binding agreement under the law that applies to you. You confirm this by declaring "I'm 18 or over" when you register. If your account was created before this declaration was introduced, you are asked to make it before you can continue to use your account. The declaration is your own statement: Norlecta does not ask for your date of birth or an identity document, and does not verify the declaration. Norlecta offers no account and no functionality for persons under 18. If Norlecta learns that an account belongs to a person under 18, it may restrict or close the account and delete the related personal data, as described in the Privacy Notice.

3. Accounts and your responsibilities

You create your account yourself, on the sign-up page, with your name, your email address and your declaration that you are 18 or over (section 2), and you accept these Terms when you create it. Today your account exists only in the browser on the device where you created it: there is no Norlecta account server yet, so the account cannot be used on another device. Norlecta does not ask for a password and the account has none, so anyone who can use that browser can open the account with your email address. You are responsible for how you use the platform and for the content you create in it, and for keeping your device secure. If you believe someone else has used your account, contact support@norlecta.com. What the platform records about your account, including your acceptance of these Terms, is described in the Privacy Notice.

4. Permitted use and prohibited conduct

You may use Norlecta for personal learning and for legitimate classroom use. You must not misuse the service, for example by attempting to break, overload, reverse-engineer or gain unauthorised access to it, by infringing others' rights, or by using it unlawfully. Norlecta may suspend or limit access where use is unlawful, abusive, or harmful to the service or others.

5. Content and intellectual property

Norlecta content. The learning content, text, design, instructional audio, and software are owned by Norlecta or its licensors and are protected by law. You may use them for your own learning and permitted classroom use, but you may not copy, redistribute or commercially exploit them without permission.

Your content. Work you create (your writing and your speaking recordings) remains yours. Because this work is stored on your own device, you grant Norlecta only the limited permission needed to operate the features you use (for example, to store your work locally, to let you play it back, and, when you submit a checkpoint, to deliver the work it includes to the instructor you confirm). Norlecta does not claim ownership of your work.

6. Instructor Codes and checkpoint submissions

Your programme has four checkpoints, each covering a block of sessions and each with a deadline set by your institution. A deadline date means the end of that day, Istanbul time. Each checkpoint can be submitted once, at any time before its deadline; there is no late submission. The one exception is an incident recovery: if a documented failure on Norlecta's side prevented your first submission of a checkpoint, Norlecta may declare a recovery, at your institution's request, that lets you make that first submission within at most 14 calendar days after the original deadline. A recovery never gives a second submission, never changes a submission already made, and is never opened by a learner's own request or by an instructor; the submission records the recovery and the work it covers. Before you confirm, the Checkpoints page shows the scores, recordings and writing the submission will include, and the name of the instructor your Instructor Code identifies. Once you confirm, the submission is final: it cannot be changed, withdrawn or submitted again, and it stays with that instructor. Who teaches you, and who completes a review when an instructor leaves or loses their authorisation, is your institution's responsibility, not Norlecta's: your institution may authorise, in writing, another of its instructors to complete only the reviews still outstanding, under that instructor's own identity; the submission itself is not changed, transferred or reshared, a review already finalised keeps its author, and no one acts under another person's account. You can keep learning and practising afterwards, but new results and new versions of your work do not change a submission. You can send a later checkpoint to another authorised instructor; an earlier submission is not transferred, reshared or shown to them. An Instructor Code identifies the instructor who receives a checkpoint submission; it is not a login and does not give an instructor access to your account or to your other data. Sending a single item to an instructor, Return for Resubmission and resubmission are no longer offered; a share made before checkpoint submissions replaced them is kept as a record. In the current version a checkpoint submission is recorded only in the browser where it is made and is not transmitted to Norlecta; Norlecta instructor accounts are not yet available, so no Instructor Code is recognised on this site, and no institution has set checkpoint deadlines on it, so no checkpoint can be submitted here yet. Secure remote submission through Norlecta's systems is planned and not yet in operation.

7. Classroom activities

Speak Around and SpeakVenture are classroom activities included in every Real Interaction programme licence. Speak Around and SpeakVenture require a signed-in learner or instructor account.

8. Results and feedback

Practice results in Norlecta are objective practice indicators only. They are not a proficiency certificate, a CEFR score, or a guaranteed grade, and must not be relied on as certification. The same applies to the two checkpoint results a checkpoint submission includes, one calculated from your best attempts and one from your first attempts, each weighting Real Interaction practice at 75% and the connected Reading practice at 25%. Three things are distinct. Objective practice indicators and checkpoint results are calculated by Norlecta from your own attempts and are not a grade, a certificate or a CEFR level. AI-supported feedback, where a later version offers it, is provisional and supports teaching and learning; it is not an assessment. The review of a checkpoint submission is made by your institution's authorised instructor, with Norlecta's rubric, and is your institution's own assessment act under its own rules; Norlecta provides the tools and the record but does not itself assess, grade or certify you, and does not guarantee that a review or feedback will be provided unless a specific product states so. No AI feature is active in the current version of Norlecta. Where AI is used in a later version (to conduct a spoken practice conversation, to process the audio and derived representations that conversation requires, or to prepare evaluations, analyses and feedback), it supports teaching and learning. AI-supported evaluations, analyses and feedback do not constitute the final formal institutional academic assessment, and they are not a proficiency certificate. Final assessment authority rests with the authorised instructor.

9. Access

Norlecta is licensed to institutions. There is no learner-facing checkout, purchase, subscription or payment flow: learners do not buy access, and nothing in the platform sells or upgrades it. Where an institution provides your access, it also decides the programme you are assigned. A Real Interaction programme licence covers that programme, the Reading Library passages connected to its sessions, Speak Around and SpeakVenture; the full Reading Library, with the Literature Corner, is a separate licence, and an institution may provide more than one licence for the same period. Checkpoints never lock learning material: for as long as your access lasts, you can revisit your sessions and keep practising after you submit a checkpoint.

10. Availability, disclaimers and liability

Norlecta aims to keep the service available and accurate but does not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation, and may update, change, suspend or withdraw features for security, technical, legal or operational reasons. To the extent permitted by the law that applies to you, the service is provided "as is" and Norlecta limits its liability accordingly. Nothing in these Terms limits rights that cannot be limited under applicable law, including mandatory consumer rights.

11. External links

The platform may link to third-party sites or services that Norlecta does not control and is not responsible for.

12. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws applicable to Norlecta's operation. For consumer transactions, the mandatory consumer-protection law of your place of residence and the competent consumer arbitration committees or courts remain available to you. The definitive governing-law and dispute-resolution clause is subject to confirmation by qualified counsel.

13. Changes to these Terms

Norlecta may update these Terms when the platform, its commercial model, its providers or applicable requirements change. The version and effective date above indicate the current text. This version 2.8 states, in section 6, that staffing and the completion of reviews are your institution's responsibility and how an outstanding review is completed when an instructor leaves, and that there is no late submission except under an incident recovery declared by Norlecta for a documented failure on its side, within at most 14 calendar days after the original deadline; and, in section 8, how objective practice indicators, AI-supported feedback and your instructor's review relate, and that Norlecta certifies nothing. Section 1 and section 7 were made consistent (programmes; Speak Around and SpeakVenture named). Version 2.7, dated 23 October 2026, described checkpoint submissions, which replace sending individual items to an instructor: sections 1 and 6 describe the four checkpoints of a programme, their deadlines and a final submission, made once, to the instructor you confirm, and state that in the current version a checkpoint submission is recorded only in the browser where it is made; section 5 describes the permission a submission needs; section 7 states that Speak Around and SpeakVenture are included in every Real Interaction programme licence, where they were described as free; section 8 states that checkpoint results are practice indicators; and section 9 describes what each licence covers and states that checkpoints do not lock learning material. It no longer describes an Annual Learning Path view or three kinds of sharing, which the service no longer offers. Version 2.6, dated 16 October 2026, made the Platform adults-only: section 2 states that you may create an account and use the Platform only if you are 18 or over, which you confirm by declaring "I'm 18 or over", and that Norlecta offers no account or functionality for persons under 18. It also described the service as it was built then: section 3 states that you create your account yourself, that it is kept only in your browser, that you accept these Terms when you create it and that the account has no password; sections 1, 5 and 6 stated that a share with an instructor was recorded only in the browser where it was made, that Norlecta instructor accounts were not yet available and that secure remote sharing was planned; section 8 states that no AI feature is active; and section 9 states that an institution decides your programme only where it provides your access. Version 2.5, dated 14 October 2026, changed punctuation only: dashes were replaced by commas, parentheses or full stops, and no right, obligation, period or meaning changed. Version 2.4, dated 29 September 2026, added the binding-language statement above: the Turkish text is legally binding. Version 2.3, dated 25 September 2026, updated section 7: Speak Around and SpeakVenture require a signed-in learner or instructor account. Previous versions (version 2.7, dated 23 October 2026; version 2.6, dated 16 October 2026; version 2.5, dated 14 October 2026; version 2.4, dated 29 September 2026; version 2.3, dated 25 September 2026; version 2.2, dated 14 September 2026; version 2.1, dated 6 September 2026; version 2.0, dated 22 July 2026; and an earlier text dated 6 June 2026) are retained as a historical record.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms: contact@norlecta.com. Account or access support: support@norlecta.com.