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Terms of use

Plain rules for a teacher's toolbox. By creating an account or using ESL Pathway you agree to them.

Last updated: October 24, 2026

Who we are

ESL Pathway (eslpathway.com) is run by Mehmet Akif Derebent, a sole trader in Türkiye, Selçuklu Mah. 41. Sk. No:10, Onikişubat / Kahramanmaraş. Email: info@eslpathway.com. Full details are on the Contact & legal notice page.

Who can use ESL Pathway

  • ESL Pathway is for teachers and tutors. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account.
  • An account is for one teacher. Keep your password to yourself and don't share your account; tell us straight away if you think someone else has used it.
  • Students don't need an account; they only use the class links their teacher shares with them.

Using our material

You may use our lessons, worksheets, decks, songs, games and tools with your own classes and students: on the board, on paper or in online lessons. You may not resell, republish or share our material outside your teaching, for example by uploading worksheets to another website. All rights in our material stay with us or our licensors.

Your content

Lesson plans, worksheet drafts, word lists, pictures you upload and other things you create stay yours. So that we can run the service, you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, copy, format and display that content for you and, when you share a link to it (for example, a shared lesson plan at /p/…), to anyone who has the link. The license ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from copies kept for a short time in backups or where the law requires us to keep them.

Shared lesson plans can be seen by anyone with the link. They are not listed in search engines, but anyone you give the link to can pass it on, so don't put personal information in them.

You must have the right to everything you upload or share, and it must not be unlawful, infringing, offensive, or contain other people's personal information without permission. We may remove or disable content that breaks these terms or the law, or that someone reports to us, and we'll tell you when we reasonably can.

Acceptable use

  • Don't copy our material in bulk, scrape the site, or use automated tools to download or collect it.
  • Don't try to get around the free-open limit, Premium access or any security measure, or interfere with the site or other users.
  • Don't use ESL Pathway to harass anyone, collect personal data about students or others, or for anything unlawful.
  • Don't upload viruses or harmful code, or impersonate anyone.

Free use and Premium

  • Free samples of the lessons, worksheets, decks and videos, the classroom tools and the games with their own word lists are free for everyone.
  • With a free account, with no card needed, you can also open a few Premium items each month, make a few creations of your own to keep (a worksheet, a game with your own words or a copy of a sheet) and make class links for the free samples. The current numbers are on the pricing page.
  • Premium opens everything while your subscription is active. Monthly and yearly plans renew automatically at the end of each period until you cancel.
  • You can cancel at any time from My desk; Premium stays active until the end of the period you paid for, and you won't be charged again.
  • We email yearly subscribers a reminder before each renewal.
  • A first subscription may come with an introductory price (for example a lower price for the first month of the monthly plan), shown on the pricing page and at the checkout before you pay. After that, the usual price of your plan is charged and renews as above.
  • Premium is digital content that starts as soon as you pay. When you buy, you ask for it to start straight away and accept that the right to withdraw from the purchase ends once you use it. We still refund a payment in full if you ask within 7 days and haven't used Premium since paying, as described in Refunds.
  • Prices can differ by country. The price shown at checkout applies. If we change the price, we'll email you before your next renewal and the new price only applies from then.

Inviting a colleague

  • Each account has an invite link (My desk › Invite a teacher). When a teacher makes a new account from it, confirms their e-mail and uses the site on three different days, you both get a month of free Premium. You can earn up to six months this way.
  • If you already pay for Premium, the months you earn are kept and start when your subscription ends. Earned months have no cash value.
  • Inviting yourself, made-up or shared accounts doesn't count; we may withdraw months earned that way. We may change or end the program, keeping months already earned.

School licenses

  • A school or course can buy Premium for a number of its teachers (For schools). Teachers join with the school's link and have Premium while the license runs; each teacher's own account, and what they save and make, stays theirs.
  • A free pilot runs for the days we agree and ends by itself. A paid license runs for 12 months from the day the school pays and is renewed only when the school pays again. The school's coordinators can remove teachers and make a new link; the school must not share its link outside its own teachers.
  • If a school or teacher misuses a license (for example, by sharing the link publicly), we may end it after telling the school.

Payments

Orders are processed by Lemon Squeezy, our online reseller and merchant of record, who also handles invoices, taxes and refunds. Their buyer terms apply to the payment. Subscriptions bought in Turkish lira before 24 October 2026 keep the contract they were bought under until they end.

Availability and changes

We work hard to keep ESL Pathway online and correct, but it is provided “as is”, and there may be interruptions for maintenance or reasons outside our control. We may add, change or retire content and features. If we change these terms in a way that matters, we'll tell account holders by email first.

Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time from My desk (cancel any active subscription first). We may suspend or close accounts that seriously or repeatedly break these terms; where we reasonably can, we'll warn you first. If we close a paid account without good reason, we refund the unused part of your subscription.

Liability

As far as the law allows, our liability is limited to what you paid us in the last 12 months. Nothing here limits liability for intent or gross negligence, or any right you have as a consumer that can't be limited by contract.

Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Türkiye. If you are a consumer, this does not take away the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you may bring a claim where the law allows it. Consumers in Türkiye can apply to the Consumer Arbitration Committee (Tüketici Hakem Heyeti) or the Consumer Court (Tüketici Mahkemesi), depending on the amount. For other disputes, the courts of Türkiye have jurisdiction.

Contact

Questions? Write to info@eslpathway.com.