End User Licence Agreement · LessonSmith
This agreement covers the software itself: the permission you have to use LessonSmith, what remains ours while you use it, and what you may not do with it. It forms part of the Terms of Use and restates Sections 6, 8 and 9 of those Terms in the detail a licence needs. Where the wording here and the wording in the Terms differ, the Terms govern.
You accept this agreement by creating an account or by using the Service. If you do not accept it, do not use the Service.
1. The short version
This summary is written to be read. The numbered sections below are what apply if the two ever come apart.
- We license the Service to you. We do not sell it to you, and you never receive a copy of the software.
- The software, the design, the themes, the prompts behind the generator and the LessonSmith name stay ours.
- What you type in and what the Service drafts for you are yours, on the terms in Section 4.
- Your permission covers your own teaching, at the tier you hold. It does not cover reselling access, running the Service on someone else's behalf, or rebuilding it.
- The permission lasts as long as your account does, and it ends when your account does.
2. The licence we grant you
For as long as your account is in good standing, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable right to access and use LessonSmith through a web browser or through the public endpoints described in Section 6, at the tier you hold and within the limits set out in Terms Section 3.
That right covers use for your own teaching work: preparing lessons and schemes of work for the classes you teach, for the school that employs you, or for learners you tutor or teach privately. A School plan seat covers the individual teacher it was issued to, under Terms Section 3a. It is not a licence held by the school on that teacher's behalf.
No copy of the software changes hands. LessonSmith is a hosted service. You are being given access to software we run, not a copy of software you own, and nothing in this agreement transfers ownership of any part of it. There is no right to receive source code, and no right to keep running an older version.
One person, one account. Your login is yours. Terms Section 6 and the Acceptable Use Policy set out what account sharing means and what happens when we find it.
3. What stays ours
We or our licensors own the Service and everything it is built from, including:
- the application, its source code, its APIs and the infrastructure behind them;
- the interface, layout, typography, iconography and the themes, including the default black and gold theme;
- the system prompts, instructions, curriculum mappings and other material that shapes what the generator produces;
- the site copy, the curriculum pages, the documentation and the support content;
- the names LessonSmith and VoussoirAI, the logo, and the wordmark.
You get the permission written in Section 2 and nothing else. No other right is granted by implication, by our silence, or by our not enforcing a term on some earlier occasion.
Feedback. If you send us an idea, a bug report or a suggestion, we may use it without restriction, without payment, and without any obligation to credit you. That gives us no right to your lesson content.
Names that are not ours. Curriculum and examination-board names appear only to describe what generated content is meant to align with, and they belong to their owners. Terms Section 9a sets out that we are independent of every one of those bodies.
4. What you own
Your inputs stay yours, and as between you and us you own the lesson plans, schemes of work and support plans you generate. Terms Section 8 is the governing statement of this, and it is not narrowed here. In summary:
- You may use, adapt, print, share with colleagues, and sell or licence what you generate, provided the result is your own reviewed and edited work and you do not present it as endorsed by us or by any curriculum authority.
- You may not resell or redistribute raw, unedited output in bulk, run a plan-generating service for other people through your account, or use output to train, fine-tune or evaluate a competing AI model or dataset.
- Output is not exclusive to you. Similar inputs can produce similar text for another user, and we do not warrant that anything generated is original.
- You grant us a limited licence to process and store your content so that we can run the Service, on the terms in the Privacy Policy.
5. What you may not do
You may not, and may not permit anyone else to:
- copy, mirror, host, republish or redistribute the Service, its pages or its client code, or frame or embed it inside another product except through a sharing feature we provide;
- reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise try to derive the source code, the system prompts, the model configuration or any other non-public part of the Service;
- use prompts, injected instructions or any other technique to make the Service reveal its internal instructions, its configuration, or another user's content;
- scrape, crawl or bulk-download any gated part of the Service, or collect content from it by automated means beyond what Section 6 allows;
- bypass or interfere with authentication, tier gating, usage allowances, rate limits, request signing, or any other control we use to enforce those limits;
- share your credentials, or sell, rent, lend or sublicense your account or your School plan seat;
- resell access to the Service, or use it as the engine behind another product or service offered to other people;
- use the Service, or anything generated with it, to develop a competing product, or to train, fine-tune or evaluate a competing AI model or dataset;
- remove, obscure or alter any copyright, trademark or attribution notice;
- probe, scan or test the security of the Service outside the reporting route in Acceptable Use Policy Section 2a;
- use the Service where doing so is unlawful, or in breach of sanctions or export controls that apply to you or to us.
Where the law says otherwise, the law wins. Nothing in this section removes a right you hold under mandatory law that a contract cannot exclude, including the right some jurisdictions give you to decompile software so far as necessary to achieve interoperability. If you want interoperability information, ask us first at legal@lessonsmith.ai. We would rather give it to you.
6. Automated and agent access
Part of the Service is published for software rather than for people, and the rules differ by endpoint.
Public, read-only endpoints. The agent API under /agent/v1, the OpenAPI document, /llms.txt and the files under /.well-known/ exist for agents and for the people building them. You may read them, cache them and build on them, without registering and without a key, provided you keep your request volume reasonable and stop if we ask you to. These endpoints expose public information about the product only.
Everything behind a login. Generation, your library, your studio state and your account endpoints may be used only through your own account, for your own work, within your tier's allowance. Do not drive them from a script to farm allowances, to create accounts automatically, or to serve other people through your credentials.
7. Third-party components, models and services
LessonSmith is built on open-source components that carry their own licences. Nothing in this agreement narrows a right one of those licences gives you in that component, and nothing here gives you a right in our software because an open-source licence appears somewhere in the stack.
Generation runs on third-party AI models, currently OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini as primary and Google's Gemini Flash Lite as fallback. Those providers have their own terms about generated content, and their terms sit alongside this agreement rather than being replaced by it. The sub-processors that handle authentication, billing, storage and analytics are listed in the Privacy Policy.
8. Changes to the software
We may add features, change them, or withdraw them. The licence in Section 2 covers the Service as it is at the time you use it, not the version you first signed up to, and we do not maintain older versions. Where a change materially reduces what your tier gives you, we will tell you before it takes effect, under Terms Section 13.
9. How the licence ends
The licence starts when you create your account and runs until the account ends. It ends immediately if you close your account, if we suspend or terminate it under Terms Section 10, or if you breach Section 5 of this agreement.
When it ends you must stop using the Service and delete any copy of its client code, documentation or other material you hold. Lesson plans and schemes of work you already generated remain yours. Terms Section 10a covers what happens to content still stored in your account, and how long you have to export it.
Sections 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 and 14 survive the end of this agreement.
10. No warranty
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, that output will be accurate, current or suitable for your class, or that it will satisfy any curriculum or inspection requirement. Terms Section 7 and the Limitation of Liability set this out in full, including the part that is yours: every plan arrives as a draft for a teacher to check.
11. Liability
Our liability under this agreement is limited exactly as Terms Section 11 limits it. Where we do owe you money, the total is capped at whichever is higher: the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or KES 10,000. We never exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not allow us to exclude, and your mandatory consumer rights apply on top of everything here.
12. If you breach this agreement
A breach of Section 5 is a material breach. We may suspend or terminate your account under Terms Section 10, with or without notice, depending on the seriousness of what happened and the risk to other users.
Money is not an adequate remedy for unauthorised copying of the software or for misuse of our marks, so we may also ask a court for an injunction without having to prove financial loss. If you believe content on the Service infringes a copyright you hold, use the Copyright / DMCA Policy instead.
13. Changes to this agreement
We may update this agreement. When we do, we will revise the effective date above, and we will give notice of material changes under Terms Section 13. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated agreement.
14. Governing law and disputes
This agreement is governed by the laws of Kenya, and the dispute-resolution process in Terms Sections 14 and 15 applies to it in full, including the informal resolution step, arbitration in Nairobi, and the class-action waiver. Consumers keep any right they have to bring a claim in their local courts.
15. Contact
Licensing questions, permission requests and interoperability requests: legal@lessonsmith.ai. Anything about your account or your bill: support@lessonsmith.ai.