Terms of Service

1. Agreement

These Terms of Service (the “Agreement”) are between SandboxLearn (“Sandbox,” “we,” “us”), headquartered at 156 Portland Street, Toronto, Canada, and the teacher, school, or school board that creates an account (“you”). By creating an account or using Sandbox (the “Service”), you agree to this Agreement. If you accept on behalf of a school or school board, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization.

This Agreement works together with our Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, and FERPA Notice. If they conflict, this Agreement controls for account and service matters.

2. The Service

Sandbox is an AI-assisted lesson-planning platform for teachers. It includes a slide editor, a document editor, a calendar and weekly planner, assessment and worksheet tools, and optional student-records features. The Service is designed for educational purposes only.

Sandbox is currently offered to an invited group of pilot teachers. Features, limits, and access levels (including account approval and subscription tier) may change as the Service develops.

3. Intellectual Property

Sandbox and its software, design, branding, and documentation are owned by SandboxLearn and its licensors. Nothing in this Agreement transfers ownership of them to you.

You keep ownership of the lessons, documents, and other content you create or upload (“Your Content”). You grant us a limited license to host, process, display, and back up Your Content solely to provide the Service to you. Content generated for you by AI features is provided for you to review, edit, and use; you are responsible for checking it before using it with students.

4. Modification

We may update this Agreement or the Service from time to time. For material changes to this Agreement we will give at least 30 days’ notice by email or in-app notice before they take effect. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated terms.

5. Term and Termination

This Agreement starts when you create an account and continues until terminated. You may close your account at any time from your privacy settings. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach this Agreement, put the Service or other users at risk, or if we end the pilot program.

After termination you have a 30-day grace period to export Your Content. After that, your data is deleted in line with our data retention practices, except where the law requires us to keep it.

6. Payment Terms

Sandbox is currently free to use. We plan to introduce paid subscription tiers, with payments processed by Stripe. Before any charge applies we will show you the price, billing period, and renewal terms, and we will require your agreement. We will not charge you for a paid tier without that step.

Once paid tiers are available: fees are stated in the currency shown at checkout; unless the law requires otherwise, fees are non-refundable except as stated at purchase; and taxes such as GST/HST are added where applicable. Card details are handled by Stripe and are never stored on our servers.

7. Governing Law

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. You and Sandbox submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Toronto, Ontario, except where the law of your location gives you the right to bring a claim elsewhere.

8. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will indemnify SandboxLearn against third-party claims arising from your breach of this Agreement, your misuse of student data, or Your Content infringing someone’s rights. Where you are a public school or school board and the law limits your ability to indemnify, this section applies only to the extent permitted.

9. Severability

If any part of this Agreement is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect and the unenforceable part will be applied to the fullest extent permitted.

10. Authorization and Student Data

You confirm that you are authorized by your school or school board to use the Service and, if you enter student information, to do so for legitimate educational purposes. You are responsible for having any consent or notice to parents or guardians that your school, board, or the law requires, including under FERPA and COPPA in the United States and applicable Canadian federal and provincial privacy laws.

During the pilot, please enter mock or demonstration data only and no real student personal information, unless we have told you in writing that student-records features are available to you.

Where we process student information for you, we do so only on your instructions and for providing the Service, and we act as a school official under FERPA where that law applies.

11. Privacy

Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy. We do not sell personal information and do not use student information for advertising.

12. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, including encryption in transit, access controls, and audit logging. No system is completely secure. You must keep your login credentials confidential, use the Service only through your own account, and tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorized access. If we become aware of a breach affecting your data we will notify you without unreasonable delay.

13. Warranties

Each party confirms it has the authority to enter this Agreement. We will provide the Service with reasonable care and skill. Apart from that, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” and we do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that AI-generated content will be accurate, complete, or suitable for a given class.

14. Disclaimer of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, SandboxLearn is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits, or teaching time. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and CAD $100. Nothing in this Agreement limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

15. Contact Information and Other Matters

SandboxLearn, 156 Portland Street, Toronto, Canada. Email: legal@sandboxlearn.com. You can also reach us through our contact page.

This Agreement, together with the documents it references, is the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. You may not assign it without our consent; we may assign it in connection with a merger or sale of the business.