Terms of Use
Last updated: 31 August 2026
*This is a translation of the German original. In case of dispute, the German
version prevails.*
1. Provider and scope
The provider of the app Pattern Translator: Knit & Sew is:
PepperTools
Owner: Charles Imilkowski
Stubbenweg 29
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany
Email: info@peppertools.de
VAT ID under section 27a of the German VAT Act: DE316844774
These terms apply to your use of the app and the related services. Your own
differing terms do not apply, even if we do not expressly object to them.
2. What the app does
The app translates sewing, knitting and crochet patterns in PDF format by
machine into another language. You upload a document, our servers process it
and return a translated version to you.
Translation is fully automated. What we owe you is a machine translation
result, not a professional, proofread or legally usable translation. No
particular quality, completeness or accuracy is part of this contract.
Layout, images and pattern sheets are preserved unchanged. Whether this
succeeds for a specific document depends on how that document is built.
3. Account
You need an account to use the service. You sign in with your Google account or
with an email address and password.
You are responsible for keeping your credentials secret. We attribute actions
taken through your account to you until you report misuse to us.
There is no entitlement to an account. We may refuse to open one.
4. Free allowance
New accounts receive a one-time starter balance of translations. This balance
is voluntary, revocable at any time, non-transferable and not redeemable for
cash. No entitlement to it arises.
5. Subscription
5.1 Conclusion and processing
You purchase the Pattern Translator Plus subscription through the Google
Play Store. Google is the seller and your contracting party for the purchase.
Payment, invoicing, refunds and withdrawal are governed by the Google Play
terms.
Once the purchase succeeds, we provide you with the agreed services.
5.2 Scope
The subscription includes a fixed number of translations per billing period
(currently 20 per month) and higher limits for file size and page count
(currently 50 MB and 50 pages per document).
Unused translations expire at the end of the period. They are not carried over,
not refunded and not paid out.
5.3 Term and cancellation
The subscription runs for one month and renews automatically for a further
month until it is cancelled. You cancel in the Google Play Store, at the latest
24 hours before the current period ends.
After cancellation, access remains until the end of the paid period. There is
no pro-rata refund.
5.4 Price changes
We may change prices for future billing periods. Google notifies you before an
increase and obtains your consent where required. If you object, the
subscription ends at the end of the current period.
6. Your obligations
You warrant that you hold the necessary rights to every document you upload —
either as the author or under a corresponding licence.
You will not upload content that
- infringes third-party rights, in particular copyright and trade mark rights,
- violates applicable law,
- contains malware.
You will not use the app in an automated manner, will not circumvent technical
restrictions, and will not attempt to manipulate allowances or prices.
Indemnification: if you breach these obligations and a third party asserts
claims against us as a result, you indemnify us against those claims, including
reasonable costs of legal defence. This does not apply where you are not
responsible for the breach.
7. Rights in your documents
Rights in the documents you upload remain with you or with the respective
rights holder.
You grant us the non-exclusive right, limited to the duration of processing, to
store, process and translate the document and to provide the result to you. We
receive no rights beyond that.
We delete the uploaded file after processing. The result remains available for
download for 24 hours and is deleted afterwards. Permanent storage is your
responsibility; the library in the app is held solely on your device and is
lost when you uninstall.
8. Availability
We aim for high availability but do not owe it. Maintenance, faults, force
majeure and outages of third-party services may temporarily restrict the
service.
We may develop, change or discontinue individual features, provided this is
reasonable for you. Material restrictions to a paid service entitle you to
cancel.
9. Warranty
For free use, we are liable only as set out in section 10.
For defects in the paid service, statutory provisions apply, subject to the
fact that translation is performed by machine (section 2). Deviations in
wording, style or terminology, and formatting deviations in unusually
structured documents, do not constitute a defect.
10. Liability
We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to
life, body or health, for fraudulent concealment of a defect, to the extent of
a guarantee we have given, and under the German Product Liability Act.
For simple negligence, we are liable only for breach of a material contractual
obligation — an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the
contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly
rely. In that case, liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for
this type of contract at the time the contract was concluded.
Any further liability is excluded. In particular, we are not liable for damage
arising from the use of a machine translation, nor for the loss of documents
you have not backed up elsewhere.
These limitations also apply to our legal representatives and vicarious agents.
11. Suspension
In the event of a serious or repeated breach of section 6, we may suspend or
terminate your account. Where an account is suspended for misuse, there is no
entitlement to a refund.
12. Changes to these terms
We may amend these terms where this is necessary to adapt to a changed legal
situation, changed case law or a further development of the service, and where
this does not unreasonably disadvantage you.
We will notify you of changes at least six weeks in advance in text form. If
you do not object within six weeks, the changes are deemed accepted. We will
point out this consequence separately in the notification. If you object, you
may terminate the contract with effect from the date the change takes effect.
13. Term and termination
The usage contract runs for an indefinite period. You may end it at any time by
deleting your account in the app. A running subscription must additionally be
cancelled in the Google Play Store.
We may terminate the free usage contract with 30 days' notice. The right to
terminate for cause remains unaffected.
14. Dispute resolution
We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution
proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
15. Final provisions
German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the
International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, the mandatory consumer
protection provisions of your country of residence remain unaffected.
If the user is a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund
under public law, the place of jurisdiction is Delmenhorst.
Should any provision be invalid, the remainder of the contract remains
effective.