Terms of Service

Last Updated: September 16, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of thefourlanguages.com and all digital products and services offered by Innovation Distributed OU ("we", "us", "our"), registered in Estonia (registry code 16434657).

By purchasing or accessing our products, you agree to these Terms.

1. Our Products and Services

We offer digital educational products and services at the following tiers:

All prices are in EUR. Prices may change. Any price change applies only to new purchases, not existing customers. If you purchased at an earlier price, you keep that price permanently.

2. Account and Access

When you purchase a product:

• We create an account for you using the email address you provided at checkout
• You receive a "Set Your Password" email to activate your account
• You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure
• One account per person. Do not share your login with others.

Lifetime access (for one-time purchases) means access for as long as we operate the course platform at thefourlanguages.com. If we ever discontinue the platform, we will provide at least 90 days notice and ensure you can download your materials.

Your Client Garden. If you fill in the Service Map, buy a landing page, a quiz, a course platform, or work with us on a build, we open a Client Garden for you: a private space you sign into with your email, holding your brief, the documents you share, your agreement, the record of our sessions, and whatever gets delivered to you. It stays open after the work finishes, because the point of it is that you can go back to it.

• Your garden is yours alone. Nobody else with a garden can see anything in it.
• The garden is a convenience, not the deliverable. Everything built for you is handed over in full at completion and is yours to keep whether the garden exists or not, so nothing you own depends on it staying open.
• If we ever close the platform, the same 90 days notice above applies and you will be able to download everything in your garden first.
• Ask us and your garden is deleted. What we keep afterwards, and for how long, is in the Privacy Policy.

3. What You Can and Cannot Do

You CAN:

• Access and use the course content for your own personal and professional development
• Build your own system using the templates and frameworks provided
• Use what you learn to improve your own business, coaching practice, or personal life
• Share your experience with the methodology (reviews, testimonials, social posts about YOUR journey)

You CANNOT:

• Share, redistribute, or resell the course content, videos, templates, or Repo(sitory)
• Use the materials to create a competing course, product, or service that teaches the Four Languages methodology
• Share your account credentials with others
• Claim the Four Languages methodology, framework, or "Root File" system as your own creation
• Copy the course structure or materials to teach others (you learn it for YOUR system, not to resell)

To be clear: The course teaches you to build YOUR OWN personalized system. It does not grant you a license to teach, resell, or redistribute the methodology itself.

4. Root System Repo(sitory)

If your purchase includes Repo(sitory) access:

• You receive a downloadable Repo(sitory) containing starter files, architecture examples, and configuration templates
• This is a TEMPLATE. It does not contain any personal data, client data, or proprietary configurations.
• You may modify and customize the templates for your own use
• You may NOT redistribute the Repo(sitory) or share it publicly
• The Repo(sitory) is provided "as-is" at the time of purchase.

5. Sessions and Services (Your landing page, Your quiz, Your course platform, Team workshops, Built for you, and the closed lines)

Sprints (EUR 800 each, closed to new customers as of 19 August 2026): the Founder Launch or the Founder Back Office. A bundle of live group sessions in which you build a defined part of your business alongside other participants. Includes the DIY Course. Whatever you build during the sessions, and all logins, are yours to keep.

Drop-in co-builds and AMAs (EUR 50 to EUR 200 per session, closed to new customers as of 19 August 2026): a single seat in a publicly scheduled live session, a co-build or an AMA. Includes the recording and any starter files, which are yours to keep. No membership required.

The Four Languages Membership (EUR 150/month) is closed to new customers as of 30 July 2026. Existing members remain governed by these terms until they cancel:

• Includes a seat in the live co-build and AMA sessions that run while the subscription is active, held via video call and announced in advance. These are scheduled as they are set rather than on a fixed monthly count.
• Includes access to the Build Library (recordings and starter files of past co-builds) while the subscription is active.
• Does not include the course. The course is the DIY product, a separate one-time purchase with lifetime access.
• You may cancel anytime. You keep any files you have already downloaded. The live calls and the Build Library stop at the end of your billing period.

1:1 sessions (EUR 500 per 90 minutes, closed to new customers as of 19 August 2026): a private session with Maaria, booked on request. Reschedule any time with 24 hours' notice.

Your landing page (EUR 550): one page built for you in two weeks. You hand over what you already have and talk us through your business, and two weeks later we go through the finished page together on a call. You keep the finished file and the template it was built from, and both are yours to put wherever you want them. You supply your brand and your copy. Numbers are limited, because each one carries a call, so a place is confirmed when it is paid for. This does not include the DIY Course.

Your landing page + DIY (EUR 1,000): the page built for you plus the DIY Course and the Repo(sitory), in the same garden. You start with a conversation in your garden. A 90-minute call unlocks once that and your material are in, booked 14 days from when we have everything. The DIY Course opens when you pay, with lifetime access.

Your quiz (EUR 2,000): a lead-magnet quiz on its own page with the result and the emails after it, your own database and sending address in your name, plus the landing page and the DIY Course. Built in four weeks. Two 60-minute calls. The DIY Course opens when you pay, with lifetime access. Does not include the Client Garden sold with Built for you.

Your course platform (EUR 3,000): the sales page, course home, module pages, login, welcome email and payments on your own account, with one course loaded from the material you already have, the tiers and the payments wired in, plus the landing page and the DIY Course. Built in six weeks. Two 60-minute calls. Does not include the quiz, the back office, or the Client Garden sold with Built for you. The DIY Course opens when you pay, with lifetime access.

Your Client Garden (EUR 4,000): the back office, built for you on your own domain. People, access, today, your tasks, what you share with them, their sessions. No quiz, page or course as a client-facing deliverable. A custom build, agreed on a call. The same EUR 4,000 sits inside Root Page and Root Product. Does not include the DIY Course unless it is bought separately.

Team workshops: the same system run with your team rather than built for one person, so each person owns it afterwards. Prices exclude VAT.

• Four sessions of two hours, for up to 10 people, with a kick-off with the management team and a closing session around them. A Four Languages scan is done before the first session as a pre-step rather than a session.
• Your Root File is always first and is the gate. Everything else is bought on top of it, in the order Your Memory, Your Rhythm, then Your Dashboard.
• Priced per session or as a run, never per head: Your Root File EUR 1,500 online or EUR 2,500 in person, each session after it EUR 1,200 or EUR 2,000, all four EUR 4,500 or EUR 7,000.
• Up to 10 people is what the price covers. A larger group is quoted before the booking is confirmed.
• Every session installs the skills and templates on each person's own machine. Those are theirs to keep and to keep using afterwards, with no ongoing payment to us.
• Dates are held once a booking is confirmed. A session can be moved at no cost with at least 7 days' notice; inside 7 days we will move it where we can.
• You supply the people, the room or the call, and your own accounts for the tools each person uses. This is the productized system run with a team. It is not bespoke consulting and it is not an IT project.

Built for you: a build delivered for you rather than taught to you, in one of three sizes. Root Page (EUR 6,000): the website and the AI quiz and the emails, together with your Client Garden, built and live on your own domain. Root Product (EUR 7,000): your course platform together with your Client Garden. Root System (EUR 15,000 per half): your Storefront or your Back Office, or both halves connected for EUR 25,000. Every tier includes the DIY Course and the Repo(sitory). The terms below apply to every Built for you engagement.

• Scope is agreed in writing on the intake call before any payment is taken. That written list is the engagement. Anything outside it is a separately priced change order, agreed before the work begins.
• You supply your brand, your strategy, your copy and your data. Copywriting, brand design, logo design and business strategy are not included in any tier.
• Multi-part builds run to a fixed window agreed up front. What is completed within that window is what is delivered.
• Two rounds of revisions per deliverable are included. Further revisions are a change order.
• One business per engagement. A second brand or business is a separate engagement.
• On completion, every file and every login is handed to you and is yours to keep. There is no lock-in and no required ongoing payment to The Four Languages to keep your system running. You pay your own third-party tools (hosting, AI usage, email) directly.
• A build is bespoke work made for one customer. By paying, you agree that building may begin immediately and that the 14-day withdrawal right ends once it has. Any payment made before building starts is refundable in full.
• Built and held (optional, on request). Any build can be taken with a held year on top: fixes for anything that breaks, updates when the underlying tools change, and four scheduled check-in sessions a year, with small changes batched into them. New features, daily use and content are outside it and are quoted separately. Priced per tier: Root Page EUR 9,000 | Root Product EUR 9,000 | Root System EUR 19,500 per half | both halves EUR 29,500 for the build plus the first held year, then EUR 1,500 | 2,000 | 3,000 | 4,500 a year from year two, billed annually. You can end the holding at any time and everything built stays yours.

About the live sessions:

• Sessions run on a set schedule, via video call.
• All sessions are recorded; if you cannot make one live, you can watch the recording on your own time.

6. Refunds and your right to withdraw

EU law gives you 14 days to withdraw from most things you buy online, and that is the starting point here. For digital content you download and keep, the law lets that right end sooner, on one condition: you have to ask for your access to open immediately and confirm that you understand what that means. That is what the tick box at checkout is. Below is where you stand for each thing we sell.

The DIY Course

Your access opens the moment you pay. Ticking the terms box at checkout is how you agree to these terms, and this is the part that matters: you are asking for that immediate access, and your 14-day right to withdraw ends when it opens. Your welcome email confirms the purchase and is your record.

From then on the sale is final. The course and the Repo(sitory) are downloadable and yours to keep for good, so there is nothing to send back.

If you change your mind before you have used any of it, write to us within 14 days of buying and we will refund you in full. Once you have signed into the course or downloaded any part of the Repo(sitory), the sale stands.

Your landing page (EUR 550)

• Any payment made before building starts is refundable in full.
• A page is made for one customer. By paying, you agree that building may begin immediately and that your 14-day right to withdraw ends once it has.

Your landing page + DIY, Your quiz, and Your course platform

These include the DIY Course, so two things are true at once.

• The DIY Course opens the moment you pay. Ticking the terms box at checkout is how you agree to these terms, and you are asking for that immediate access. Your 14-day right to withdraw from the course ends when it opens. If you change your mind before you have used any of it, write to us within 14 days of buying and we will refund you in full. Once you have signed into the course or downloaded any part of the Repo(sitory), that part of the sale stands.
• The page, the quiz, or the course platform is work made for one customer. By paying, you agree that building may begin immediately and that your 14-day right to withdraw from that work ends once it has. Any payment made before building starts is refundable in full, less the DIY Course if you have already signed in or downloaded it.

Team workshops

• Any payment made before the dates are held is refundable in full.
• Confirming a booking holds the dates. From then on the fee is not refunded; a session can be moved at no cost with at least 7 days' notice, and inside 7 days we will move it where we can.
• If we cancel a session, you choose between a new date and a full refund for the session we did not run.

Built for you (Root Page, Root Product, Root System)

• Any payment made before building starts is refundable in full.
• A build is bespoke work made for one customer. By paying, you agree that building may begin immediately and that your 14-day right to withdraw ends once it has.

Live sessions

• Live sessions are no longer sold. If you hold a seat you already paid for, it is refundable in full until that session begins, and non-refundable once it has started.

The Four Languages Membership (existing members only)

• Cancel any time. The current billing period is not refunded, and you keep every file you have already downloaded.

How to ask. Email maaria@thefourlanguages.com with the email address you bought with and what you would like to happen. Refunds go back to your original payment method within 10 business days.

7. Intellectual Property

All content on thefourlanguages.com, including but not limited to:

• Course videos, text, and materials
• The Four Languages framework and methodology
• Templates, Repo(sitory) files, and code structures
• The "Root File" concept and system architecture
• Brand assets, logos, and design elements

...is the intellectual property of Innovation Distributed OU and/or Maaria Tiensivu. All rights reserved.

Your purchase grants you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use the materials for your own development. It does not transfer ownership of any intellectual property.

8. Payments and Taxes

• All payments are processed by Stripe
• Prices are listed in EUR
• Applicable taxes (VAT, GST, sales tax) are calculated and collected automatically by Stripe Tax based on your location
• You are responsible for any local tax obligations not covered by Stripe Tax

9. Availability and Changes

• We aim to keep the course platform available at all times, but do not guarantee uninterrupted access
• We may update course content, add new modules, or modify existing materials
• For tiers with "lifetime access," you retain access to purchased materials at no additional cost, including the updates we make to the course and the Repo(sitory).
• We reserve the right to modify these Terms. Changes apply to new purchases only. Existing customers are governed by the Terms in effect at the time of their purchase, unless they agree to updated Terms.

10. Use of AI Tools

We use AI tools in the creation, delivery, and operation of our products and services:

• Claude by Anthropic is used as a development and operational tool. Claude Code (the CLI tool) is central to how we build and maintain our systems, and it is the tool we teach you to use in the course. The Anthropic Claude API also powers the AI-guided conversation in the Root Scan tool on this website.
• We use the Anthropic API under Anthropic's Commercial Terms. How Anthropic handles API data is documented in its privacy policy and Data Processing Addendum.
• Under those terms, Anthropic may not train models on customer content.
• AssemblyAI is used for voice transcription in the Root Scan tool. When you tap the microphone, your audio is sent to AssemblyAI to be converted into text and is not stored by us. How AssemblyAI handles audio is documented in their privacy policy.
• Root Scan storage. Your Root Scan conversation, diagnosis, and results are stored in our Supabase database (EU, Frankfurt) so you can return to your scan. Anonymous scans are keyed only to a session ID with no personal identifier. Logged-in scans are linked to your account. See our privacy policy for full details and your deletion rights.
• Course content, templates, and communications may be created with AI assistance. All materials are reviewed and approved by Maaria Tiensivu.
• During live sessions, AI tools may be used live as part of the build process. This is a feature of the service, not incidental.

The course teaches you to use these same tools to build your own system. You are responsible for your own AI tool subscriptions, API usage, and compliance with the terms of any tools you choose to use.

11. AI and your words

Several tools on this site ask you to write something honest about your work and your life, and then an AI reads it and writes you something back. This section says exactly what happens to those words: which model reads them, which company they pass through, what is kept afterwards, and what is never done with them.

Which tools use AI, and what you type into them

Four things on this site send what you write to an AI model. Here is each one, what it asks for, and what stays behind afterwards.

The Root Scan inside the course also takes voice. When you tap the microphone, the audio goes to AssemblyAI to become text. The audio is not stored, only the text.

The Life Scan keeps the whole conversation. It is the one tool here that stores everything you said, not just a summary, because the follow-up emails and any coaching conversation are built from it. If you would rather it were gone, ask, and the conversation is deleted within 30 days.

Which AI companies see what

Everything that is stored lives in our own database in Frankfurt, Germany, on Supabase. It is encrypted in transit and at rest.

What never happens to your words

• Your words are never sold, and never shared with marketers or data brokers
• Your words are never used to target advertising at you
• Your readings and conversations are never published, quoted, or shown to anyone else
• Under Anthropic's Commercial Terms, Anthropic may not train models on what you write here

The AI writes a reading, not a verdict

The quiz, the 10-hour week, and the Life Scan all produce a reading generated by a language model from what you told it. It is a mirror held up to your own words, and it can be wrong. Nothing it says is medical, psychological, legal, or financial advice, and no decision about you is made automatically on the strength of it. You decide what to do with it.

Changing your mind

Every email from these tools carries a link to your email preferences, where you can stop one sequence or all of them. Stopping the emails does not delete what is stored. To have that removed, ask, and it is deleted within 30 days, apart from the consent record that GDPR requires us to keep.

Your full rights, how long each kind of record is kept, and every other service we use are set out in the Privacy Policy. That document governs; this section explains the AI part of it in plainer language. Questions about your data, or a request to see or delete it, go to the contact details in section 14.

12. Limitation of Liability

The Four Languages Root System is an educational product. Results depend on your effort, circumstances, and application.

• We do not guarantee specific business outcomes, income, or results
• Our course and services are educational and informational, not professional advice (legal, medical, financial, or therapeutic)
• Our total liability for any claim related to our products is limited to the amount you paid for that product
• We are not liable for any indirect, consequential, or incidental damages

13. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Estonia. Any disputes will be resolved in the courts of Tallinn, Estonia, unless mandatory consumer protection laws in your jurisdiction require otherwise.

For EU consumers: You may also use the EU Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

14. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms: