These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of Readee, the educational reading platform operated by Readee Learning LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company ("Readee", "we", "us", "our"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms.

1. Who can use Readee

The Service is intended for:

Parents and legal guardians creating accounts on behalf of children under 13.
Children 13 and older with parent or guardian consent.
Educators and school staff using Readee through a school or district account.
Students under 13 accessing Readee through a school account where school consent applies under COPPA's school exception.

If you create an account for a child under 13, you represent that you are the child's parent or legal guardian (consumer flow), or that the school has authority to consent under FERPA / COPPA's school exception (district flow). See our Privacy Policy for how we collect and use data.

2. Account types and subscriptions

Readee offers free reading activities and an optional Readee+ subscription:

Free Readee - one child per account, the assessment and full report, one recommended lesson with teaching and practice, and today's Daily Readee with recorded narration and questions. The report and included lesson remain available to revisit.
Readee+ ($9.99/month, or $6.99/month billed annually as $83.88/year) - one child per account, the ongoing custom reading journey, full lesson and story libraries, practice, Luna, progress history, and the Daily Readee archive. Prices in USD.

Pricing on /upgrade may change with notice; active subscriptions retain the price you signed up at for the remainder of the term.

Free trials. First-time subscribers can start a 14-day trial by completing checkout with payment details. The selected plan renews automatically when the trial ends unless you cancel beforehand. Previous subscribers are not eligible for another free trial.

Cancellation and refunds. You can cancel Readee+ at any time from your account settings. Readee+ remains active through the end of the current billing period and closes afterward; your child's progress stays saved. Your report, included free lesson, and today's Daily Readee remain available. Annual subscriptions include a 14-day money-back guarantee from the first annual payment. Refunds are not issued for partial monthly billing periods. See our full Refund and Cancellation Policy.

3. Account security

You are responsible for keeping your password secure and for all activity under your account. Provide accurate information at signup, do not share credentials, and notify us at hello@readee.app if you suspect unauthorized access. Accounts that are shared or used in violation of these Terms may be suspended.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

Use the Service for any unlawful purpose.
Generate, distribute, or store content that is illegal, defamatory, harassing, sexually explicit, or that infringes another party's rights.
Reverse-engineer, scrape, or systematically extract Service content for redistribution.
Resell or sublicense the Service without a separate written agreement with Readee.
Use the Service to compete with Readee, including training a competing AI model on Readee output.
Attempt to circumvent rate limits, paywalls, or content filters.
Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation.

5. AI-generated content

Readee's authoring features use artificial intelligence to generate text, images, and audio in response to prompts (custom quizzes, Readee.ai parent content, daily questions, running records, writing rubric, translation, suggested practice, and others as they ship). By using these features:

5.1 Your prompts are your responsibility.

You retain ownership of the prompts you submit and warrant that they do not infringe any third-party right and do not include personal information of any minor other than the child whose account is used.

5.2 You are responsible for output you publish.

AI-generated output is provided "as-is". You are responsible for reviewing AI-generated content before assigning it to students or distributing it to parents. You will not knowingly publish AI output that infringes copyright, trademark, publicity, or privacy rights.

5.3 Output ownership.

Subject to these Terms, Readee grants you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use AI-generated output for educational purposes within your classroom, school, or family. The U.S. Copyright Office's current position is that AI-generated content without significant human authorship is not eligible for copyright; nothing in these Terms expands that legal status.

5.4 Indemnification by user.

You agree to indemnify and hold Readee harmless from any third-party claim arising from prompts you submitted or AI output you published, distributed, or sold. This does not apply to claims caused by Readee's own negligence or willful misconduct in operating the AI features.

5.5 Hosted content; takedown.

Readee hosts AI-generated content as a convenience. We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (see /copyright) and remove infringing content within a reasonable time after a valid notice. Repeat offenders may have their account suspended or terminated.

6. Children's data and privacy

Readee complies with COPPA, FERPA (in school contexts), CCPA, and similar state laws. See our Privacy Policy.

Schools as agents. When Readee is purchased by a school or district, the school is treated as an authorized agent of the parent for COPPA purposes and warrants authority under FERPA's "school official" exception (34 CFR 99.31).

No targeted ads. We do not serve targeted advertising to children. We do not sell student personal information.

Subprocessors. We use Supabase (database, auth, storage), Vercel (hosting), Google Gemini / Vertex AI (text + image + audio generation), Anthropic API, OpenAI API, Stripe (payments), Sentry (errors), and PostHog (analytics). Districts sign a Data Processing Addendum that governs the specific data flows for their seats.

7. Intellectual property

Readee's IP. The Service, original content authored by Readee, illustrations, branding, the Readee bunny mascot, and the trademarks "Readee" and associated logos are owned by Readee Learning LLC. You may not reproduce or distribute Readee-owned content outside the Service without written permission.

Your content. Content you author or upload (custom quizzes you build, classroom rosters, your students' work, your prompts) belongs to you. You grant Readee a non-exclusive license to host, display, and process that content to operate the Service. On account deletion, your authored content is deleted from active servers within 30 days; backups expire on their normal cycle.

Feedback. If you send Readee suggestions or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free license to use it without obligation.

8. DMCA / copyright complaints

See /copyright for our designated DMCA agent and takedown procedure. Repeat infringers will lose access to AI generation features after two valid takedowns and may have their account terminated after three.

9. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

As-is. The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

No outcome warranty. Readee is a tool to support reading practice. We do not guarantee specific educational outcomes, test score improvements, or learning gains.

Cap on liability. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Readee's total liability for any claim arising from the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the fees you paid Readee in the twelve months preceding the claim or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). Readee is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages.

Exceptions. Nothing in this section limits liability where prohibited by law, including for gross negligence, willful misconduct, or violations of consumer protection statutes you cannot waive.

10. Termination

We may suspend or terminate access for material breach of these Terms, repeated DMCA takedowns, suspected fraud, or unsafe conduct toward children. We provide notice where reasonably possible. You may terminate at any time by deleting your account.

11. Dispute resolution

Informal first. Before filing a formal dispute, contact us at hello@readee.app and try to resolve in good faith for 30 days.

Governing law and venue. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey. Any unresolved dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts in Somerset County, New Jersey, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction there.

No class actions for consumer accounts. For consumer (Readee+) accounts, you agree to bring any claim on an individual basis, not as a class member, plaintiff, or representative. School and district customers proceed under their separately negotiated Master Services Agreement.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be announced via email or in-product notice at least 14 days before they take effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

13. Miscellaneous

Severability. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.
No waiver. Failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver.
Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays caused by events beyond reasonable control.
Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Copyright/DMCA page, and any signed Master Services Agreement or DPA, constitute the entire agreement between you and Readee.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. Readee may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale.

14. Contact

Readee Learning LLC
81 Culver Street
Somerset, NJ 08873
hello@readee.app