Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-11-11

Pilot version, pending legal review. AI Education Advocate is a small, invite-only pilot. These terms are a plain-language starting version. A lawyer will review them before the app is offered to the public, and they may change.

1. Accepting these terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and [Operator legal name] ("we", "us") about your use of AI Education Advocate, including the website and the Android app (the "Service"). By signing in or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Who may use the Service

• You must be at least 18 years old.
• You must be a parent or legal guardian of the child whose information you enter, or another adult who is legally authorized to act for that child in education matters, or a person that such an adult has invited (for example a co-parent, or a guest such as a tutor).
• You confirm that you have the right to upload and use the documents and information you add.
• Children may not use the Service or have accounts.
• During the pilot, the Service is available by invitation only.

3. What the Service is, and what it is not

The Service is a self-help tool for parents. It helps you organize your child's special-education documents, track deadlines, understand general information about special-education law, and prepare drafts for you to review and send yourself.

• Not a law firm, not legal advice. We are not a law firm, and the Service is not a lawyer or an advocate and is not a substitute for one. Information from the Service is general educational information and drafting help, not legal advice about your situation. No attorney-client or other professional relationship is created by using the Service.
• AI can be wrong. The Service uses AI models. They can misread documents, miss information, state the law incorrectly, cite the wrong source, or calculate a date or deadline wrongly. Deadlines and timelines in particular must be checked against the official rules and with your school district or state education agency.
• You review, decide and send. Everything the Service writes is a draft or suggestion. You are responsible for reviewing it, checking it against the original documents and the law, deciding what to do, and sending anything yourself. The Service does not send letters, emails or forms to schools, file anything, or represent you in any meeting or proceeding.
• Get professional help when it matters. For disputes, due process, complaints, missed deadlines or other high-stakes decisions, consider contacting a special-education attorney, your state's Parent Training and Information Center, or your state's Protection and Advocacy agency.
• No guarantee of results. We do not promise any outcome with your school or in any proceeding.

4. Your content

• You keep ownership of the documents, information and messages you add ("Your Content"), and of the drafts the Service produces for you.
• You give us permission to store, process, copy and transmit Your Content only as needed to run the Service for you as described in the Privacy Policy, including sending it to our AI and hosting providers to produce results, and to keep the Service secure and working.
• Your family's records are encrypted with a key held on your family's devices. You are responsible for keeping your recovery phrase (and any recovery file or password) safe. If you lose your key and all of your recovery options, we cannot recover your records.
• Keep your own copies of important documents. The Service is not a guaranteed archive.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service for anyone other than a child you are authorized to act for, or to upload information you have no right to use;
• use the Service to harass, threaten or deceive anyone, including school staff, or to impersonate anyone (including presenting AI-generated text as coming from a lawyer);
• upload malware, or attempt to access other families' data, test or break the Service's security, or get around usage limits;
• overload, scrape, copy or reverse-engineer the Service, or use it to build a competing service;
• use the Service in violation of any law or of the usage policies of our AI provider.

6. AI allowance, limits and pilot availability

• Each family has a monthly allowance for AI work (for example reading documents, answering questions and drafting letters), plus monthly limits on documents read and school-calendar lookups. When a limit is reached, new AI work pauses until the allowance resets on the 1st of the next month. Your saved records stay available. Settings shows how much of the allowance has been used.
• We may set or change these limits, for example to control costs or prevent abuse.
• During the pilot we do not charge for the Service. If we introduce fees, we will tell you before they apply, and you can choose whether to continue.
• The Service is a pilot. Features may change or be removed, and the Service may be unavailable at times or end. We will try to give reasonable notice before ending the Service so you can export what you need.

7. Family members and guest sharing

• A family owner can invite other adults to the family's space. Anyone who has your family key can read your family's records. Only share your key, invite links and recovery file with people you trust, and remove members who should no longer have access.
• If you use guest sharing, you choose what to share and with whom. You are responsible for making sure you are allowed to share it, and for revoking access when it is no longer needed. A guest may have already seen, copied or saved what you shared before you revoke access.
• Guests must use shared information only to help the child, and must not share it further without the parent's permission.

8. Your account

• You are responsible for activity in your account. Keep your email account and your devices secure (use a screen lock).
• Tell us promptly if you think your account, a device with your family key, or your recovery phrase has been lost or misused. Owners can rotate the family key in Settings.

9. Ending your use

• You can stop using the Service at any time. To delete your account or your family's whole space, contact us (see the Privacy Policy, section 8).
• We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms, if needed to protect the Service or others, or if we end the pilot. Where reasonable, we will tell you first and give you a chance to export your records.
• Sections 3, 4 (ownership), 10, 11, 12, 13 and 15 continue to apply after your use ends.

10. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service or any AI output will be accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted or error-free, or that any deadline, legal citation or summary is correct.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, opportunity or outcome (including any educational, legal or administrative outcome), arising from or related to the Service or any AI output, even if we were told such damages were possible. Our total liability for all claims related to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the claim, or [$100].

Some places do not allow these exclusions or limits, so some of them may not apply to you.

12. Your responsibility to us

If you use the Service in breach of these Terms or the law, or upload content you had no right to use, and that leads to a claim against us by someone else, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs from that claim, to the extent permitted by law.

13. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of [State], without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be handled in the state or federal courts located in [State], unless the law where you live requires otherwise. Before bringing a claim, please contact us so we can try to resolve it informally.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. We will change the "Last updated" date above, and for significant changes we will give notice in the app or by email before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after the changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms.

15. General

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. If any part is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we do not enforce a part, we have not waived it. You may not transfer these Terms; we may transfer them as part of a transfer of the Service.

16. Contact

[Operator legal name]
[Mailing address]
Email: [contact email]