Subscription Agreement
Effective . This is the agreement between you and Nephium Unipessoal Lda, a company registered in Portugal (VAT PT519455916), trading as Homeschool Studio, for your use of Homeschool Studio.
1. Your account
You need an account to use Homeschool Studio. You are responsible for what happens under it, including anything done by family members you invite. Keep your sign-in details to yourself. You must be old enough to enter a contract in the country you live in.
2. Your free trial
This agreement begins the day you open your account, and it covers your whole time with Homeschool Studio: the free trial first, then the paid subscription that follows it. There is one agreement, not two, and you accept it once.
Your first 30 days are free. We do not ask for a card to begin and nothing is charged during them. What the subscription will cost when the trial ends is set out in section 3 and shown on our pricing page, which you can read before you sign up and at any point during the trial. When the 30 days are up you carry on with the same account and the same work in it, and the subscription begins. If you would rather not carry on, do nothing and you are never charged.
Cancellation and refunds are covered in our Refunds and Cancellation policy, which forms part of this agreement.
3. What your subscription includes
Homeschool Studio is sold as one plan with every feature included. The price depends on how many children are on your account, at the rates shown on our pricing page, which are the rates that apply to this agreement from the day you open your account. If we change them, section 4 says what happens.
The Smart features, which draft, import, translate, and summarize on your instruction, include a monthly fair use allowance for each child on your account. The allowance in effect is shown in the app. We may change it, but if we reduce it in a way that materially affects you we will tell you at least 30 days beforehand and you may cancel before the change takes effect. Any reduction applies from your next billing period rather than the one you have paid for. Unused allowance does not carry over to the following month.
Reaching the allowance does not affect the rest of Homeschool Studio, which continues to work normally. You may buy additional Smart usage at the price shown at the time of purchase. It applies once that child's monthly allowance is spent, can be used across any of the Smart features, and does not expire while your account is open.
4. Payment
Subscriptions are billed monthly or annually in advance, to the payment method you provide, until you cancel. Prices include VAT and other consumer taxes where they apply. If a payment fails we may retry it and may suspend access until it succeeds.
We may change our prices. If we do, we will tell you at least 30 days before the change affects you, and you may cancel before it takes effect.
If you subscribe in our iPhone or iPad app, you buy your subscription from Apple, as an In-App Purchase paid through your Apple Account. Apple charges you the price shown in the app, Apple's own terms govern that payment, and your use of the app itself is also covered by Apple's standard license agreement for apps. Everything else in this agreement applies to that subscription just as it does to one paid on our website.
A subscription bought through Apple renews automatically at the end of each period, monthly or annually, until you cancel it, and Apple charges each renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. To cancel or change it, go to your Apple Account settings (on an iPhone or iPad: Settings, your name, Subscriptions) at least 24 hours before it renews. Your access then continues to the end of the period Apple has charged for. If we raise its price, Apple tells you before the new price applies and, where its rules require it, asks you to agree first. Refunds of a payment to Apple, including any the law entitles you to, are requested from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com and decided by Apple. Our price-change notice above, and the renewal reminder, refund promise and ways to cancel in sections 5 and 16, apply to subscriptions paid on our website, not to one bought through Apple.
5. Renewal, and your right to change your mind
Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, monthly or annually, at the price then in effect, until you cancel. An annual subscription goes on renewing a year at a time, and each new year is charged in full at the start of it, but it never binds you for that year: you can end it whenever you like, and section 16 sets out what happens to the rest of what you paid. Before an annual subscription renews we will email you at least 40 days beforehand to tell you the date it renews, what it will cost, and how to stop it.
Consumers in the European Union and the United Kingdom have 14 days from the day an agreement is made to withdraw from it, for any reason or none. This agreement is made the day you open your account, so those 14 days fall inside your free trial, when you have paid nothing and given us no card. Walking away costs you nothing and needs no form: stop, and there is no charge. If you would rather tell us, write to hello@homeschoolstudio.com. Renewing does not make a new agreement, so no further 14-day period arises later.
Separately from that, and because we would rather you were happy than technically bound: if you change your mind within 14 days of your first payment, write to us and we will refund it. You do not have to explain. This is our own promise on top of the law, not a restatement of it.
You can also cancel at any time, whenever you like, under section 16.
For a subscription bought in our iPhone or iPad app, section 4 sets out how it renews, how to cancel it and how refunds work.
6. Your content
Everything you put into Homeschool Studio stays yours: your curriculum, your lesson plans, the documents you upload, and the records of your children's learning. We claim no ownership of it.
You confirm that you own, or otherwise have the right to use, everything you upload, and the right to have us process it as described in this agreement and our Privacy Policy. This matters most for material published by someone else. Uploading a curriculum, workbook, or worksheet you bought or downloaded is a decision only you can make, because only you know the terms it came with.
You give us permission to store, process, display, and transmit your content for the purpose of operating Homeschool Studio for you, including sending it to the service providers listed in our Privacy Policy. That permission exists so the product can function and for no other reason. We do not use your content to train models.
7. What you may not do with Homeschool Studio
Homeschool Studio is private by design. Nothing you create or upload is visible to anyone outside your family, and no part of the product publishes anything. Even so, you may not use it to store or generate material that is unlawful, that sexually exploits or endangers a child, that infringes rights you have no license to use, or that is meant to attack the service or another person.
One account is for one family's children. You may invite others to help with them, such as a co-parent, a tutor or a grandparent, but you may not use one account for the children of more than one family. You also may not open further accounts to take another free trial, use scripts, bots or other automated means to drive the Smart features, get around the fair use allowance or any other limit, or abuse, threaten or harass our staff.
These examples are not a complete list. You may not use Homeschool Studio for anything unlawful or fraudulent, to obtain something you are not entitled to, or in a way that damages the service or harms other families or anyone else, whether or not this agreement names that use in advance.
We do not monitor what you store and we do not read your content, unless you ask us to or the law requires it. If something is reported to us, or we otherwise become aware of it, we may look at what was reported, remove it or restrict access to it, and where the law requires us to we will tell the authorities. If we act, we will tell you what we did and why, and you can dispute it by replying to us, unless telling you is itself unlawful.
If you believe something held in Homeschool Studio infringes your rights or breaks the law, Reporting content on our website terms explains how to tell us and what happens next.
8. What the Smart features produce
The Smart features generate their output from what you give them. If you upload a document, the lesson plans, summaries, and translations built from it are derived from your material and are treated as your content under section 6. We do not review that material and cannot tell whether you hold the rights to it.
Because of this, claims arising from material you supply are dealt with under section 11 rather than section 10, whether the claim concerns the material itself or anything generated from it.
Smart output is a starting point for you to review, not finished work. It can be wrong. You remain responsible for what you teach and for any records you rely on for legal or regulatory purposes.
9. Our intellectual property
Homeschool Studio itself, including its software, design, and content we supply, belongs to us. You may use it for your family's education under this agreement. You may not copy it, resell or redistribute access to it, reverse engineer it, or use it to build a competing product, except where the law gives you a right that a contract cannot take away.
10. What we are responsible for
We will defend you, and pay any damages finally awarded against you or any settlement we agree to, if someone claims that Homeschool Studio as we provide it infringes their patent, copyright, or registered trademark, or misuses their trade secret.
This does not apply to any claim arising from content you supplied, from anything the Smart features generated from content you supplied, from your use of Homeschool Studio in a way this agreement does not permit, from changes made by anyone other than us, or from combining Homeschool Studio with anything we did not provide.
If a claim like this arises, we may instead obtain the right for you to keep using the affected part, change it so it no longer infringes, or, if neither is reasonably possible, end this agreement and refund the unused part of what you have paid.
11. What you are responsible for
If someone brings a claim against us because of content you supplied, or anything generated from it, you will cover our reasonable costs and any damages awarded or settlement agreed. This applies only where the claim results from your own act or omission, and only to the extent the law in your country allows. Nothing here affects your statutory rights as a consumer.
Either of us relying on this section must tell the other promptly, let them handle the defense, and cooperate reasonably. Neither of us will settle a claim in a way that imposes an obligation on the other without their agreement.
12. What we promise about the service
We will provide Homeschool Studio with reasonable skill and care, and we work to keep it available and your data safe. We cannot promise it will be uninterrupted or error free. Anything beyond that is not promised, except where the law gives you rights we cannot exclude.
13. Limits on our liability
Nothing in this agreement limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, for gross negligence or deliberate wrongdoing, or for anything else the law does not allow us to limit. Your statutory rights as a consumer are unaffected.
Otherwise, and to the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for everything arising out of this agreement is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the event that caused it. We are not liable for lost profits or business losses, which are not the kind of loss this product is sold for.
14. Changes to Homeschool Studio
We improve the product continuously, so features change. We will not materially reduce what your subscription provides during a period you have already paid for. If we plan to remove a feature you rely on, we will give you at least 30 days' notice.
15. Changes to this agreement
If we change this agreement, the new version carries a new effective date and the previous version stays available. Where a change materially affects your rights or what you pay, we will tell you before it takes effect and ask you to accept it. If you would rather not, you may cancel and we will refund the unused part of what you have paid.
16. Ending this agreement
You may cancel at any time from your account settings, or on our cancellation page without signing in. Your access then continues to the end of the period you have paid for, or for 30 days, whichever comes first, and anything you have paid for beyond that is refunded. On a monthly plan that simply means you keep the month you paid for. On an annual plan it means you do not have to wait for the year to run out. Afterward your account becomes read-only for a period so you can retrieve what you want to keep, as described in our Refunds and Cancellation policy.
A subscription bought in our iPhone or iPad app is ended in your Apple Account instead, as section 4 explains, and runs to the end of the period Apple has charged for.
We may suspend or end your access if you seriously or repeatedly breach this agreement, if we are required to by law, or if payment fails and stays unpaid. Except where the breach makes it inappropriate, we will tell you first and give you a chance to put it right.
Where we have serious grounds to believe your account is being used for fraud or another unlawful purpose, or in a way that puts the service, other families or anyone else at risk, we may suspend it straight away, without warning, while we look into it, and end it if what we find bears that out. We may also suspend an account for as long as it takes to secure it, for example if we believe someone else has gained access to it. In each case we will tell you what we did and why, unless the law prevents us, and you can dispute it by replying to us.
We may also end this agreement for any other reason by giving you at least 30 days' notice. You keep full access until then, we refund the unused part of what you have paid, and you can retrieve your content afterward as if you had canceled. If you bought your subscription through Apple, your access continues instead to the end of the period Apple has charged for. Cancel it in your Apple Account so that it does not renew.
17. Privacy
How we handle personal data, including your children's, is set out in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of this agreement.
18. Transfer
You may not transfer this agreement to anyone else. We may transfer it to a company that acquires our business, provided your rights under it are not reduced.
19. Law, language and disputes
This agreement is governed by Portuguese law. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings there. Any translation of this agreement is provided for convenience; the English text governs.
If we cannot settle a complaint between us, you may take it to the consumer arbitration center for our district, CIAB – Centro de Informação, Mediação e Arbitragem de Consumo (www.ciab.pt), or to CNIACC (www.cniacc.pt). You may also record a complaint in the Portuguese national complaints book at livroreclamacoes.pt.
If any part of this agreement is found unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
20. Contact
Nephium Unipessoal Lda, Avenida da Liberdade 615, 1.º, 4710-251 Braga, Portugal. Questions about this agreement: hello@homeschoolstudio.com.