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Terms
There are no terms of service yet, because sign-up is not open and because writing them is an education attorney's job rather than ours. Publishing a plausible-looking approximation would be worse than publishing nothing, since the whole function of this document is that it can be relied on.
In plain language — true today
- Starting free works today; the price, when set, will be published on the pricing page.
- Starting free needs a parent’s consent first; a child never creates an account alone.
- Deletion on request is verified and itself logged.
Terms of use — written by counsel, not designed
Below: the same facts at length — a description of what the system does, written from the architecture. It is not the notice.
What is not decided
Pricing, billing periods, refunds and cancellation terms. Service levels. Liability and indemnity. Governing law. Acceptable-use enforcement. All of it.
These are commercial and legal decisions, not engineering ones, and they are logged as open questions in the project rather than filled in with something reasonable-sounding.
What is already true, and is a property rather than a promise
Each of the following is enforced by code with a test behind it, not by this page.
No child’s personal information reaches an AI model provider. Scrubbing happens on our own infrastructure, before the call, and the request is refused rather than sent on if that scrubbing fails.
There is nowhere to store a child’s name. The relevant database table has no such column, and a change that added one fails a test that blocks the deployment.
One organisation cannot read another’s data. Isolation is enforced by the database rather than by application code, and the application connects as a role that cannot bypass it.
Archie does not state the correct answer. Every response is compared against the recorded answer before it is shown.
No third-party script runs on any page a child can reach. Checked against the built site before it can be published.
Intellectual property
Work a child produces using the product belongs to that child. We do not claim a licence to it, we do not use it to train anything, and the model provider we use operates under terms that prohibit retaining or training on what is sent.
When this page changes
Before sign-up opens. If you are reading this and able to create an account, something has gone wrong in the release process and we would like to know.