Terms of Service

Effective Date: April 16, 2026 Last Updated: April 16, 2026

1. Agreement to Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you ("you," "your," or "User") and Homeschool OS LLC ("Homeschool OS," "Company," "we," "us," or "our"), governing your access to and use of the Homeschool OS website at homeschoolos.io, our web application (accessible on desktop and mobile browsers), and all related services (collectively, the "Service").

By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age, that you are the parent or legal guardian of each child whose information you enter into the Service ("Student"), and that you have the legal authority to enter into these Terms on your own behalf and to provide consent for the collection and use of your Student's information as described in our Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use the Service.

2. Description of the Service

Homeschool OS is a homeschool operating system for U.S.-based families. The Service helps Parents plan, execute, and document a homeschool education for one or more Students. Core capabilities include AI-assisted curriculum ingestion, adaptive scheduling across multiple Students, a Student-facing daily checklist application, compliance tracking and portfolio assembly informed by state homeschool requirements, evidence capture, and philosophy-aware recommendations. The Service is informational and operational; it does not itself provide education, instruction, or compliance services, and it does not act as a school or educational institution.

3. Account Registration and Security

3.1 Account Creation

To access the Service, you must create an account by providing a valid email address and creating a password. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration and to keep that information up to date.

3.2 Account Security

You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account, including all activity conducted by your Students or other members of your household using your account. You agree to notify us immediately at support@homeschoolos.io of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. We are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to protect your account credentials.

3.3 Household Account Structure

A Homeschool OS account is organized around a single household. You may create profiles for multiple Students under a single Parent account. A second Parent or co-guardian may be granted access to the account at your direction. You may not use a single account to manage Students from more than one household, and you may not share your account credentials with any person outside your household or co-parenting arrangement.

3.4 Student Access

Students do not create their own accounts. Student access to the Service — including the Student daily-checklist app — is mediated entirely by the Parent's account. As the Parent, you are responsible for supervising your Students' use of the Service and for all activity conducted through a Student profile.

3.5 Account Termination by User

You may delete your account at any time through your account settings or by contacting support@homeschoolos.io. Account deletion is subject to Section 10 (Cancellation and Refunds).

4. Subscription, Pricing, and Payment

4.1 Single Plan

The Service is offered under a single subscription plan at $19 per month or $167 per year, as described on our pricing page at homeschoolos.io/pricing and incorporated into these Terms by reference. There are no feature gates or tiers; every paid subscriber receives the complete product. Paid subscriptions and payment processing will be available at or shortly after launch. Until payment processing is enabled, access to the Service is provided during the free trial period as described in Section 4.2.

4.2 Free Trial

New users are eligible for a 21-day free trial with no credit card required. At the end of the trial, your access to the Service will be limited or paused unless you choose to subscribe. Only one free trial is permitted per household. We reserve the right to modify or discontinue the free trial offering at any time.

4.3 Payment Processing

All payments are processed by Stripe, Inc. ("Stripe"). By subscribing to a paid plan, you agree to Stripe's terms of service. You authorize us to charge the payment method you provide for all applicable fees, including automatic renewal charges.

4.4 Billing Cycles and Auto-Renewal

Monthly subscriptions are billed on the same date each month (or the last day of the month if the billing date does not exist in a given month).
Annual subscriptions are billed once per year on the anniversary of your subscription start date.
Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current price until you cancel. You may cancel at any time as described in Section 10.

4.5 Price Changes

We reserve the right to change our pricing at any time. For existing subscribers, price changes will take effect at the start of the next billing cycle following at least 30 days' written notice (via email to your account email address). If you do not agree to a price change, you may cancel your subscription before the new pricing takes effect.

4.6 Taxes

All prices are exclusive of applicable taxes. You are responsible for any sales tax, use tax, VAT, or other taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on your subscription, except for taxes based on our net income.

4.7 Failed Payments

If a payment fails, we will attempt to process the charge up to three additional times over a 14-day period. If payment cannot be collected, we may pause or suspend access to paid features until payment is resolved. We will notify you by email of any payment failures.

5. Acceptable Use

5.1 Permitted Use

The Service is intended for use by Parents and legal guardians to plan and manage the education of Students in their own household. You may use the Service for any lawful homeschool-related purpose consistent with these Terms.

5.2 Prohibited Conduct

You agree NOT to:

Use the Service to manage Students outside your own household, including operating the Service as a shared tool for multiple unaffiliated families, a co-op, a microschool, an umbrella school, or any other group educational program, except under a separate written agreement with us.
Circumvent usage limits or access controls, including creating multiple free trials to avoid paying, sharing credentials with users outside your household, or using technical means to bypass subscription requirements.
Upload content you do not have the right to upload, including copyrighted curriculum materials for which you do not hold a license or other lawful authority to copy and process. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your uploads comply with the licensing terms of any curriculum publisher.
Scrape, crawl, or bulk extract data from the Service using automated tools, bots, or scripts, except through an API we make available under a separate agreement.
Reproduce, redistribute, or resell Service functionality, outputs, or content in a competing product.
Interfere with the Service, including introducing malware, viruses, or other harmful code; attempting to gain unauthorized access to our systems or other users' accounts; overloading our infrastructure; or reverse-engineering, decompiling, or disassembling any part of the Service.
Use the Service for unlawful purposes, including violating any applicable local, state, national, or international law or regulation, or submitting fraudulent compliance information to a school district, state agency, evaluator, or umbrella school.
Upload content that is unlawful, harmful to children, sexually explicit, violent, harassing, hateful, or otherwise inappropriate for an educational platform that children will use.
Misrepresent your identity or your relationship to a Student, or create a Student profile for a child who is not in your legal care.
Use the Service to surveil, track, or monitor any person for purposes unrelated to the educational operation of your household.

5.3 Enforcement

We reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate action against any violation of this Section 5, including without limitation removing content, suspending or terminating accounts, and reporting illegal activity — particularly activity that may harm a child — to law enforcement authorities.

6. User Content and Uploads

6.1 Definition of User Content

"User Content" includes any content you or your Student submit, upload, or create through the Service, including curriculum uploads (PDFs, photos, text, URLs), Student profile information, schedules, notes, attendance records, portfolio materials, evidence of student work (photos, scans, files, audio, typed responses), assessment data, and communications with our support team.

6.2 Ownership

You retain ownership of your User Content. Your Student (and you as their legal guardian) retains ownership of any creative or academic work submitted as evidence.

6.3 License to Operate the Service

By submitting User Content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, transmit, process, display, and modify your User Content solely as necessary to operate the Service for you — including parsing curriculum into lesson plans, generating schedules, assembling portfolios, producing recommendations, delivering content across your devices, and backing up your data. This license terminates when you delete the relevant User Content or your account, except for copies reasonably retained for backup, archival, or legal compliance purposes and subject to the retention periods described in our Privacy Policy.

6.4 No Training on User Content

We do not use your User Content — including curriculum uploads, Student data, family context, or evidence of student work — to train our own AI models. We do not authorize third-party AI providers to use your User Content to train their models, and our agreements with those providers prohibit such use.

6.5 Third-Party Curriculum Content

Curriculum you upload may be subject to copyright, licensing agreements, or terms of use imposed by the curriculum publisher. You represent and warrant that you have the right to upload each piece of curriculum content you submit and to have it processed by the Service (including by our AI providers) for the purpose of structuring it into lesson plans for your own household's use. We will process curriculum you upload only for your household; we do not resell, republish, or share curriculum content.

6.6 Evidence of Student Work

Evidence captured through the Student app — photos, scans, recordings, typed responses, or uploaded files — is stored in your account for the purpose of assembling your portfolio. We treat evidence of student work as especially sensitive, and we do not use it for any purpose beyond operating the Service for you, as further described in our Privacy Policy.

6.7 Feedback

If you provide us with feedback, suggestions, or ideas regarding the Service ("Feedback"), you grant us an unrestricted, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free license to use, modify, and incorporate such Feedback into the Service or any other product without any obligation or compensation to you. Feedback does not include User Content.

7. Intellectual Property

7.1 Our Intellectual Property

The Service, including its original content, features, functionality, design, user interface, software code, AI prompts and methodologies, trademarks, logos, and documentation, is owned by Homeschool OS LLC and is protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. Nothing in these Terms grants you any right, title, or interest in or to our intellectual property except the limited license to use the Service as described herein.

7.2 AI-Generated Outputs

Structured lesson plans, schedules, portfolio drafts, compliance summaries, and other outputs generated by the Service based on your inputs are provided for your use in operating your household's homeschool. You may use these outputs for your own internal and compliance-related purposes. We make no claim of copyright over AI-generated outputs delivered to you that are based on your User Content, but we retain all rights in our underlying AI systems, prompts, methodologies, and algorithms. To the extent an output reflects material you uploaded that is owned by a third party (for example, copyrighted curriculum), your use of that output remains subject to the third party's rights.

7.3 Public Information

The Service may reference information about state homeschool requirements, public educational standards, or other publicly available information. We do not claim ownership of such public information; our proprietary interest is in the compilation, organization, and presentation of that information within the Service.

8. Compliance, Accuracy, and Disclaimers

8.1 Not Legal, Educational, or Professional Advice

The Service provides informational and operational tools only. Nothing in the Service constitutes legal, educational, psychological, medical, or professional advice. No information presented through the Service — including compliance summaries, state-specific requirements, pacing recommendations, or AI-generated suggestions — should be construed as legal or professional guidance. You should consult qualified professionals (including attorneys familiar with homeschool law in your state, licensed educators, or medical and mental-health providers) for specific guidance regarding your family's situation.

8.2 State Homeschool Compliance

Homeschool laws vary significantly by state and change over time. While the Service includes a compliance engine and a database of state requirements, you are solely responsible for understanding and complying with the homeschool laws applicable to your family. We do not guarantee that our state requirements database is complete, current, or accurate, and we do not represent that use of the Service will satisfy any state's legal requirements. The Service's attendance tracking, portfolio assembly, and deadline alerts are tools to help you organize information — they are not legal filings, and they are not submitted on your behalf. Any submission to a school district, state agency, evaluator, or umbrella school is initiated and reviewed by you, and you are solely responsible for the content and accuracy of any such submission.

8.3 AI-Generated Content Accuracy

AI-generated schedules, lesson plans, pacing alerts, recommendations, summaries, and other outputs are algorithmically generated estimates and may contain inaccuracies, omissions, or errors. You should review all AI outputs before relying on them, especially outputs used for compliance purposes. Recommendations reflect patterns and heuristics, not guarantees about your Student's learning outcomes. We expressly disclaim liability arising from your reliance on AI-generated content.

8.4 No Guarantee of Educational Outcomes

Use of the Service does not guarantee any particular educational outcome for your Student. The Service is a management tool; it does not teach, evaluate, accredit, or assess your Student. Your Student's educational progress depends on many factors outside our control.

8.5 Data Accuracy

You are responsible for the accuracy of information you enter into the Service, including Student information, attendance records, and assessment data. We do not independently verify information you enter, and we are not responsible for errors, omissions, or misstatements in your records.

9. Limitation of Liability

9.1 Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; THAT ANY DATA OR CONTENT PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR CURRENT; OR THAT USE OF THE SERVICE WILL SATISFY ANY LEGAL OR EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENT APPLICABLE TO YOU.

9.2 Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL HOMESCHOOL OS LLC, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS OR OPPORTUNITY, LOSS OF COMPLIANCE STATUS, COSTS OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, OR DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR RELIANCE ON AI-GENERATED CONTENT OR COMPLIANCE INFORMATION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100).

9.3 Essential Purpose

THE LIMITATIONS IN THIS SECTION 9 APPLY EVEN IF ANY LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

10. Cancellation and Refunds

10.1 Cancellation by You

You may cancel your paid subscription at any time through your account settings or by contacting support@homeschoolos.io. Upon cancellation, your access to the Service will remain active through the end of your current billing period (monthly or annual), after which it will end. No partial refunds will be issued for the remaining portion of a billing period, except as provided in Section 10.2.

10.2 Annual Subscription Refunds

If you cancel an annual subscription within the first 14 days after purchase or renewal, you may request a full refund by contacting support@homeschoolos.io. After 14 days, annual subscriptions are non-refundable but will remain active through the end of the annual billing period.

10.3 Cancellation by Us

We may suspend or terminate your account and access to the Service immediately and without prior notice if you violate these Terms, engage in fraudulent or illegal activity, upload content that is harmful to children, fail to pay applicable fees after the cure period described in Section 4.7, or if we reasonably believe your continued use poses a risk to the Service, to other users, or to a child. If we terminate your account for a reason other than your breach of these Terms, we will issue a pro-rata refund for any prepaid and unused portion of your subscription.

10.4 Effect of Termination

Upon termination or expiration of your account, your right to access the Service ceases (or ceases at the end of the billing period for voluntary cancellations). We will delete your personal data and your Student's data in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You are responsible for exporting any portfolio, compliance, or other User Content you wish to retain — including any records you may need for state compliance purposes — prior to termination. We strongly recommend exporting your compliance portfolio at the end of each school year regardless of your subscription status.

10.5 Data Export on Termination

For at least 30 days following account cancellation or termination (other than for violations involving harm to a child or serious misuse of the Service), we will make your User Content available for export on reasonable request.

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Homeschool OS LLC, its officers, directors, members, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or in connection with: your use of the Service; your violation of these Terms; your violation of any law or regulation (including state homeschool laws or compulsory-attendance laws); your violation of any rights of a third party (including copyright holders in curriculum materials you upload); any User Content you submit; or any claim that content you submitted was not authorized for use with the Service. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, and you agree to cooperate with our defense of such claim.

12. Dispute Resolution

12.1 Governing Law

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Georgia, United States of America, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

12.2 Informal Resolution

Before filing any formal legal proceeding, you agree to attempt to resolve any dispute informally by contacting us at legal@homeschoolos.io. We will attempt to resolve the dispute informally within 60 days. If the dispute is not resolved within 60 days, either party may proceed as set forth below.

12.3 Binding Arbitration

Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service that cannot be resolved informally shall be settled by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Commercial Arbitration Rules (or, where applicable, its Consumer Arbitration Rules). The arbitration shall be conducted by a single arbitrator, and the seat of arbitration shall be Atlanta, Georgia. The arbitrator's decision shall be final and binding, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

12.4 Class Action Waiver

YOU AND HOMESCHOOL OS LLC AGREE THAT EACH PARTY MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S CLAIMS AND MAY NOT PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.

12.5 Small Claims Exception

Notwithstanding Section 12.3, either party may bring an individual action in small claims court for disputes within the court's jurisdictional limits.

12.6 Injunctive Relief

Nothing in this Section 12 shall prevent either party from seeking injunctive or other equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction for the protection of intellectual property rights, the enforcement of confidentiality obligations, or to prevent irreparable harm.

13. Modifications to the Service

We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) at any time. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide at least 30 days' notice before discontinuing the Service entirely or removing a material feature. We will also use reasonable efforts to give paid subscribers a meaningful opportunity to export portfolio and compliance data before any material discontinuation. We shall not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the Service, except as expressly provided in these Terms.

14. Modifications to These Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email (at the address associated with your account) or by posting a prominent notice on the Service at least 30 days prior to the changes taking effect. For non-material changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of these Terms. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of any revised Terms constitutes your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the Service and cancel your subscription.

15. General Provisions

15.1 Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any other policies or agreements referenced herein, constitute the entire agreement between you and Homeschool OS LLC with respect to the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications, proposals, and agreements, whether oral or written.

15.2 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable, or if modification is not possible, shall be severed from these Terms. The remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

15.3 Waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of that provision or any other provision. No waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of Homeschool OS LLC.

15.4 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your rights or obligations hereunder without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms freely in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets. Subject to the foregoing, these Terms shall bind and inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

15.5 Force Majeure

We shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations under these Terms due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government actions, pandemics, labor disputes, power or internet outages, or failures of third-party service providers.

15.6 Notices

All notices to us must be sent to legal@homeschoolos.io. Notices to you will be sent to the email address associated with your account. Notices shall be deemed given when sent by email, except for notices of material changes to these Terms, which shall be deemed given upon the earlier of actual receipt or 30 days after posting on the Service.

15.7 Headings

Section headings are for convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of these Terms.

15.8 Survival

The following sections shall survive termination or expiration of these Terms: Sections 6 (User Content and Uploads), 7 (Intellectual Property), 8 (Compliance, Accuracy, and Disclaimers), 9 (Limitation of Liability), 11 (Indemnification), 12 (Dispute Resolution), and 15 (General Provisions).

16. Contact Information

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us at:

Homeschool OS LLC Email: legal@homeschoolos.io