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Terms of Service

Last updated: October 1, 2026

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") constitute a binding agreement between Pinto y Corral Constructora e Inmobiliaria, Materiales y Servicios, S.A. de C.V. ("PINNCOR", "we", "us" or "our") and any person who accesses or uses the website located at lapalabradeifa.com (the "Site") or the La Palabra de Ifá apps for iPhone and Android (the "apps"), together with any service made available through them (collectively, the "Service"). By using the Service, creating an account or buying a plan, you ("you" or the "User") agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Notice.

1. The provider and the scope of these Terms

1.1. The Service is operated by Pinto y Corral Constructora e Inmobiliaria, Materiales y Servicios, S.A. de C.V. ("PINNCOR"), a Mexican company with registered address at Cerrada Misión 124, San Felipe Tlalmimilolpan, Toluca, State of Mexico, C.P. 50250, Mexico. Phone: +52 729 128 9964. Email: contacto@lapalabradeifa.com.

1.2. These Terms apply to the Site and to the apps.

1.3. The Service is a digital study library: it publishes, organizes and explains the texts of the Lukumí religious tradition concerning the 256 Odù of the Ifá corpus (prayers, patakís, proverbs, prohibitions, and the works and ebbós as recorded in the treatises) (the "Content"). What is sold is reading access to that library, by subscription, in the same way a publisher sells a book or an online encyclopedia.

2. What the Service is not

The Service does not offer, sell or perform Ifá consultations, divination, readings, predictions, horoscopes, personalized interpretations or spiritual or esoteric services of any kind, whether in person, remotely or by automated means. It does not sell works, ebbós, cleansings, amulets, ceremonies or "spells", nor does it act as an intermediary for anyone who performs them. It does not answer questions about any person's life or future. It promises and guarantees no outcome whatsoever.

Consultations and ceremonies of the tradition are performed by consecrated priests, in person and outside the Service; the Service takes no part in them and charges nothing for them. Prices are fixed per plan and do not depend on any consultation, question or outcome.

3. Nature and limitations of the Content

3.1. The Content is furnished exclusively for cultural, educational, documentary and study purposes concerning a living religious tradition. It is the transcription, ordering and explanation of a traditional literary corpus.

3.2. The Content does not constitute, and shall not be construed as, a substitute for consultation with a consecrated priest of Ifá (Babalawo) or for any traditional ceremony, nor as medical, psychological, legal, financial or other professional advice. For any health, legal or financial matter, consult a qualified professional.

3.3. The works and ebbós described form part of a traditional corpus documented for study. Their performance pertains exclusively to those consecrated in accordance with the tradition, and nothing in the Content shall be deemed authorization, instruction or license to perform them.

4. Accounts and User obligations

4.1. In the apps you can read without an account; an account is needed only to back up your notebook to the cloud and to buy. On the Site, paid Content opens with an account associated with a valid email address. You represent that the information supplied is accurate and that you will keep it current.

4.2. You are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential and for all activity under your account.

4.3. The account is personal and non-transferable. Sharing, assigning or otherwise making access available to third parties is a material breach of these Terms and may result in suspension of the Service.

4.4. Adults only. The Site and the apps are intended solely for persons 18 years of age or older. On creating the account, or on first signing in, the User is asked for the date of birth in order to verify this (only the year is retained); a person under 18 may neither create an account nor use the Service. PINNCOR does not collect data from minors: where an account is found to belong to a person under 18, it is deleted together with its data (see the Privacy Notice).

4.5. Up to three devices. Your account may be open at the same time on at most three devices (phones with the app or browsers). To open it on a fourth, first sign out of one of the others; you can do so remotely from "Your devices", in the app or in My account.

5. Plans and prices

5.1. The plans named The Door, The Notebook and The Legacy were formerly designated Aleyo, Babalawo and Awó respectively. The change is one of name only and does not affect any right or condition already contracted.

5.2. In Mexico, prices are shown in Mexican pesos (MXN) with VAT (IVA) included. Outside Mexico, the App Store or Google Play shows you the final price in your currency before you pay.

6. Purchases in the apps

6.1. Purchases made inside the apps are charged and renewed by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play), using the payment method of your account in that store and under that store's own terms. We never see your card.

6.2. They are cancelled in the store, not on the Site: on iPhone, in Settings → your name → Subscriptions; on Android, in Google Play → Payments & subscriptions. After cancelling, you keep access until the end of the period already paid for.

6.3. Refunds for purchases made in the apps are decided by the store under its own rules: Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com and Google from your Google Play order history. See the Cancellation and Refund Policy.

6.4. What you buy in an app also opens the Site when you sign in with the same account.

7. Payments on the Site

Payments on the Site are closed today: plans are purchased in the apps. When they open, they will be processed by Stripe; we will not store card numbers, and Site subscriptions will be cancelled from your account, keeping access until the end of the period paid for.

8. Cancellation and refunds

You may cancel your subscription at any time and keep access until the end of the period already paid for. The 7-day guarantee on The Legacy applied only to purchases made on the Site. The details are in the Cancellation and Refund Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

9. Deleting your account

You may delete your account at any time: in the app (Profile → Delete my account), on the Site (My account) or by writing from your email address to contacto@lapalabradeifa.com with the subject «Borrar mi cuenta» (Delete my account). Your account and everything linked to it are deleted. Deleting the account does not cancel a subscription bought on the App Store or Google Play: that is cancelled in the store. All the steps are at lapalabradeifa.com/en/delete-account.

10. Intellectual property

10.1. The compilation, editorial treatment, arrangement, design, source code and presentation of the Service are the exclusive property of PINNCOR and are protected by applicable copyright and related laws.

10.2. The traditional corpus of Ifá belongs to the tradition itself; PINNCOR asserts rights solely in its own edition, organization and presentation of that corpus.

10.3. Save as expressly permitted herein, no User may reproduce, extract in bulk, redistribute, publicly communicate, adapt or resell the Content without the prior written authorization of PINNCOR.

11. Prohibited conduct

The User shall not: (a) access or attempt to access paid Content without the corresponding plan; (b) interfere with, disrupt or impair the operation, integrity or security of the Service; (c) employ automated means, including crawlers, scrapers or robots, to extract Content; or (d) resell, sublicense or otherwise commercialize access to the Service.

12. Availability and changes

12.1. PINNCOR endeavours to keep the Service continuously available but does not warrant uninterrupted or error-free operation.

12.2. PINNCOR may modify the Content, the prices and these Terms. Price changes do not affect a period already paid for, and material changes will be announced on the Site before they apply.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the aggregate liability of PINNCOR to any User shall not exceed the amount actually paid by that User for the Service during the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Nothing in these Terms limits the rights you have under consumer protection law.

14. Governing law and consumer protection

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United Mexican States, without prejudice to the rights granted to you by the consumer protection laws of the country where you live, which apply whenever they are more favourable to you. If you are a consumer in Mexico, you may go to the Federal Consumer Protection Agency (Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor, PROFECO) with any complaint about the Service. If you wish, write to us first: almost everything is solved with an email.

15. Contact

Pinto y Corral Constructora e Inmobiliaria, Materiales y Servicios, S.A. de C.V. · Cerrada Misión 124, San Felipe Tlalmimilolpan, Toluca, State of Mexico, C.P. 50250, Mexico · +52 729 128 9964 · contacto@lapalabradeifa.com.