Terms of Use

1. Agreement and Eligibility

These Terms form an agreement between you and OpenBook Homeschooling regarding your use of the OpenBook website, curriculum, parent dashboard, student learning areas, assessments, progress tools, downloadable materials, and related services.

Parent accounts are intended for adults who have authority to create and manage student profiles for children in their care. By creating a student profile, you represent that you are the child's parent or legal guardian, or otherwise have lawful authority to manage that child's use of the service.

2. What OpenBook Provides

OpenBook provides homeschool curriculum and educational resources that may include lessons, activities, worksheets, assessments, automatic grading, manually reviewed work, progress information, parent tools, and related educational features. Available subjects, grades, features, and content may change as the service develops.

3. Parent and Guardian Responsibility

Homeschool laws and requirements vary by jurisdiction. The parent or guardian is responsible for determining and satisfying the legal requirements that apply to the child's education, including any required notices, filings, attendance or instructional-day requirements, subjects, assessments, evaluations, records, or other obligations.

OpenBook may provide general information or links concerning homeschooling laws, but such information is educational and informational only and is not legal advice. Laws and agency guidance may change, and families should verify current requirements with appropriate official sources.

Parents are also responsible for supervising their child's use of OpenBook, reviewing the appropriateness of curriculum and external resources for their child, and providing instruction or assistance where needed.

4. Parent Accounts and Student Profiles

You agree to provide accurate account information and to keep your login credentials secure. You are responsible for activity occurring through your account unless you promptly notify us of suspected unauthorized access.

Student profiles are controlled through the associated parent account. You agree not to create a student profile for a child unless you have appropriate authority to do so. You should provide only information reasonably necessary for educational use and should not place unnecessary sensitive information in lesson answers, assignments, support messages, or other free-text fields.

Children should not be instructed to create independent parent accounts or circumvent parental controls. Children's information is also governed by our Privacy Policy and applicable children's privacy requirements.

5. Acceptable Use

You may use OpenBook for lawful personal, family, homeschool, and other uses expressly permitted by OpenBook. You agree not to:

• Attempt to access another family's account, student records, administrative areas, databases, or systems without authorization.
• Share passwords or access in a manner that defeats account or subscription restrictions.
• Interfere with, overload, probe, attack, scrape, reverse engineer, or circumvent security or access controls except where applicable law expressly permits otherwise.
• Upload or transmit malicious code or use OpenBook for fraudulent, unlawful, abusive, or harmful activity.
• Use the service to collect or expose another person's personal information without authorization.
• Reproduce, redistribute, resell, publish, or commercially exploit substantial portions of OpenBook curriculum or materials except where written permission or a specific license allows it.

6. Curriculum, Downloads, and Intellectual Property

OpenBook's original website design, curriculum text, lesson organization, assessments, graphics, downloadable materials, software, and other original content are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. Third-party materials remain the property of their respective owners.

Unless a resource states otherwise, an active authorized user may use and print OpenBook educational materials for the personal educational use of students covered by that user's account. This permission does not transfer ownership and does not permit resale, public redistribution, posting the materials to another website, or creating a competing content library from OpenBook materials.

OpenBook may link to public or third-party educational resources. A link does not transfer ownership of that resource to OpenBook or imply endorsement by the third party.

7. Answers, Assignments, and Other User Submissions

You retain whatever ownership rights you have in original content submitted through your account. You authorize OpenBook to store, process, display within the appropriate family or administrative areas, grade, and otherwise use submitted material as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, support, and improve the educational service.

Do not submit material that you do not have the right to provide, or material containing unnecessary sensitive or confidential information.

8. Plans, Subscriptions, and Payments

If OpenBook offers paid plans, current pricing, billing intervals, included services, and applicable renewal terms will be presented during enrollment or checkout. Paid subscriptions may be processed by a third-party payment processor.

Any cancellation, refund, trial, introductory, or founding-family terms displayed at the time of purchase form part of the applicable purchase terms. OpenBook will not retroactively change the price already paid for a completed billing period. Future pricing or plan features may change with appropriate notice where required.

Until paid enrollment is activated, descriptions of planned subscription pricing on the website do not themselves create a paid subscription.

9. Service Availability and Changes

We work to keep OpenBook available and useful, but uninterrupted or error-free operation cannot be guaranteed. Maintenance, updates, Internet failures, security events, hosting issues, or other circumstances may temporarily affect availability.

OpenBook may add, revise, reorganize, replace, or discontinue curriculum, features, or resources as the program develops. Where a change materially affects a paid service, we will provide notice when reasonably appropriate or legally required.

10. Educational Results and Records

OpenBook is designed to support learning, but no particular academic result, grade-level advancement, test score, admission outcome, graduation status, or legal homeschool compliance is guaranteed. Student outcomes depend on many factors beyond the website, including instruction, participation, individual learning needs, family decisions, and local requirements.

Automatic grading is appropriate only for certain question types. Written or open-ended work may require human review. Parents should review progress and assessment information rather than relying on software as the sole measure of a child's understanding.

11. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, OpenBook and its services are provided on an “as available” basis. We do not warrant that every educational resource will be suitable for every child, that all content will be free of errors, or that the service will always be uninterrupted.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, OpenBook will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from use of or inability to use the service. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits rights or liabilities that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

12. Suspension, Closure, and Termination

You may stop using OpenBook at any time. Account closure and data requests may be made through available account controls or by contacting support.

OpenBook may restrict or suspend access when reasonably necessary to protect users or the service, investigate suspected misuse, respond to legal requirements, address nonpayment of a paid service, or enforce these Terms. When appropriate, we will attempt to provide notice and an opportunity to resolve the issue.

Data associated with a closed account will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable retention requirements.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms as OpenBook develops or as legal, technical, or business requirements change. The effective date at the top of this page identifies the current version. For material changes, we will provide additional notice when required or reasonably appropriate. Continued use after updated Terms take effect constitutes acceptance to the extent permitted by law.

14. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by applicable United States federal law and, to the extent state law applies, the laws of the state in which OpenBook Homeschooling operates, without overriding consumer rights or other protections that applicable law does not permit the parties to waive.