Terms of Use · LessonSmith

By creating an account or using LessonSmith ("the Service"), you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to the terms of this agreement, then you may not use the Service.

1. The Service

LessonSmith generates lesson plans and Schemes of Work using AI. Features and limits shall depend on your subscription tier and may change over time.

2. Eligibility & accounts

• You must be at least 18 years old or the age of majority required in your country and able to form a binding contract. Those under the age of 18 may not use the Service. We do not knowingly provide the Service to anyone under 18, and if we learn that an account holder is under 18 we shall close the account and delete the associated personal data.
• You shall be responsible for your account, your login credentials, and all activity under your account. Clerk handles authentication.
• You shall provide accurate information and shall keep it current.

3. Subscription tiers & limits

LessonSmith comes in four tiers. We shall enforce these limits, and we may adjust them with notice:

A signed-in account with no subscription can open, edit and export everything it has already made, and cannot draft anything new. Every theme is available on every tier.

Each paid plan shall carry two set prices, one in US Dollars and one in Kenyan Shillings; neither is a conversion of the other (Section 4). The Custom plan is the exception: its price shall be agreed with the school in writing before it is billed, and shall depend on the number of teachers the school asks us to cover.

The Max tier also includes early access to new features.

Usage limits and allowances.

• Allowance reset. Your full allowance shall become available on the applicable reset date. Allowances do not build up or carry over between reset dates. The lesson-plan allowance resets on the monthly anniversary of your billing start date, or every seven (7) days from that date on a weekly plan; for an account covered by a Custom plan, the monthly anniversary of the school’s billing start date.
• Schemes of Work. The allowance for Schemes of Work resets every ninety-one (91) days, approximately every three (3) months. This period runs independently and is not linked to any school term, academic calendar or curriculum.
• Support plans. The allowance for Support Plans resets on the same date as the lesson-plan allowance. Support Plans have a separate allowance from lesson plans. Creating a Support Plan shall therefore not reduce your lesson-plan allowance.
• No circumvention. You must not attempt to bypass or avoid any usage limits, access restrictions or rate limits that apply to the Service, as set out in Section 6.
• Multiple plans. Only one plan shall apply to an account at a time. If you have both an individual plan and a seat under a Custom plan, the plan that provides the higher applicable limits shall apply.
• No combining allowances. Allowances from different plans cannot be combined or added together. Having more than one subscription shall not increase your usage limits.

3a. Custom plans

A Custom plan is purchased by a school and covers the number of teachers agreed upon at the time of purchase. Under a Custom plan, the school is the customer and is responsible for the subscription. The terms that apply specifically to Custom plans apply only to Custom plans and do not apply to any other type of plan or subscription. In addition to the terms of this agreement, the following terms shall also apply to Custom plans.

• The school is the customer, not the individual teacher. The school shall agree with us by email on the price and the number of seats covered by the plan. The school is responsible for payment of all fees, which shall be made through Polar. A teacher covered by the Custom plan is not required to make any payment or provide card details. Each teacher will have their own account and will remain bound by the terms of this agreement.
• Seats are managed by the school. The school shall appoint one or more administrators to manage the plan. An administrator may invite or remove teachers and may cancel the Custom plan through the relevant section of their LessonSmith account. We shall not add or remove teachers on behalf of the school unless the school requests us to do so.
• A teacher may join a Custom plan only by accepting an invitation from the school. Each invitation is a single-use link and will expire fourteen (14) days after it is issued, and can be accepted only by an account whose email address is the one the invitation was sent to. We shall not add a teacher to a Custom plan based only on a matching email address or email domain.
• An account may be covered by only one Custom plan at a time. If an account is already covered by a Custom plan, any invitation to join another Custom plan shall be declined.
• The limits under a Custom plan shall apply separately to each teacher and are not shared between teachers. The limits are identical for all schools and cannot be changed or negotiated. The price of the Custom plan is negotiable, but the limits are fixed and not negotiable.
• When a teacher’s coverage under a Custom plan ends, the account keeps everything it has made and stops drafting new work. This shall apply whether the teacher is removed by the school from the Custom plan, the Custom plan is cancelled, or the Custom plan expires due to non-payment. If the Custom plan is cancelled, the cancellation shall take effect at the end of the period that has already been paid for and shall not end immediately.
• Any work created by a teacher remains with the teacher’s account. Lesson plans, Schemes of Work, Support Plans, settings and library content belong to the account that created them and are not transferred to the school or any other person when the teacher’s Custom plan coverage ends. The school shall not gain access to a teacher’s content simply by paying for the teacher’s seat, and we shall not provide or transfer that content to the school upon request. This is subject to Section 8 and our Privacy Policy. If a school requires materials created by a departing teacher, the school and the teacher must arrange for the transfer of those materials directly between themselves.
• What a school administrator may view. A school administrator may view the email addresses of teachers covered by the Custom plan, the role assigned to each seat, whether an invitation has been accepted, and each teacher’s activity on the plan since joining: the number of lesson plans, Schemes of Work and Support Plans created, the days on which the teacher was active, when the teacher was last active, and a productivity score calculated from those figures by the formula we publish. A teacher is told this on the invitation page before accepting. A school administrator cannot view the content of a teacher’s lesson plans, Schemes of Work or Support Plans, a teacher’s assistant conversations, or any activity from before the teacher joined the Custom plan. The school shall use these figures only to manage its own plan and its own staff, in line with the data-protection law that applies to it.

3b. Trying LessonSmith without an account

Selecting the "Try it without an account" button will create a temporary demo account and automatically sign you in to that account. You cannot choose an email address, you cannot set a password, and you cannot sign in to that demo from any other browser or device. These Terms shall apply to a demo account exactly as they apply to any other account.

• The allowance is fixed and does not refill. A demo shall include 10 lesson plans, 3 Schemes of Work, 10 support plans and 20 assistant messages, once. Allowances in a demo account do not reset on any specific date and we do not provide any additional allowances or top-ups. Once the allowance under a demo account is used up, the way to keep working is your own account on a paid plan.
• Any work created under a demo account may be lost. Demo account access is stored in the user’s browser. If the user clears their browsing data, uses a private or incognito browsing window and closes it, or accesses the Service from a different device, the demo account and any content stored in it may be lost. We are not responsible for restoring content lost in this way. Nothing made in a demo moves to an account you create later. Create your own account before creating or storing any work you may wish to keep.
• We may limit the number of demo accounts that can be created from a single connection. If we do not allow you to start a demo, this does not mean that you have violated these Terms, and no adverse action will be taken against you as a result. If you are unable to access a demo, you may create your own account instead.
• We may end a demo at any time and may delete a demo account and any content stored in it without prior notice. Demo access is provided without any commitment to provide support or to maintain the availability of the demo or the Service.
• A demo account is provided solely for the purpose of evaluating and testing the Service. You must not use a demo account to create a Support Plan for a real learner or enter any personal or identifying information relating to a real learner. Section 6a and the Data Processing Agreement apply where a Custom plan has been established with a named school and teacher. A demo account does not have a named school or teacher and is therefore not intended for processing real learner information.

4. Billing, renewals & payments

Polar is our merchant of record and processes every payment, using Stripe as the underlying card processor. Polar handles applicable global VAT and sales tax. Each paid plan carries two set prices, one in US Dollars and one in Kenyan Shillings, and neither is a conversion of the other: Polar charges whichever matches you, and the exact amount will be shown before you pay.

Every paid plan is an auto-renewing subscription. Polar securely stores your card (we never do) and charges it each billing period until cancelled. Weekly and monthly plans renew without an advance email notification. The Subscription window in the app shows when your next payment is due. You may turn off auto-renewal or cancel your subscription at any time through the Subscription window or the Polar customer portal.

We resolve your effective plan on our servers, based on your active Polar subscription. We never take it from a value your browser sends. We will show you the price, the billing frequency, and the renewal terms before you check out. Price changes apply to future billing periods with reasonable notice. Prices may be exclusive of taxes; where Polar is merchant of record, applicable taxes are handled at checkout.

5. Cancellation & refunds

• You can turn off auto-renew, or cancel, at any time before the end of the current billing period. You may cancel your subscription at any time through the Subscription window in the app or the Polar customer portal. If you cancel, you will continue to have access to the Service through the end of your current billing period.
• Under a Custom plan, only the school may cancel the plan, through the plan section of an administrator’s account. A covered teacher cannot cancel the Custom plan because they are not the paying customer. Cancellation stops renewal of the Custom plan. Each covered teacher will keep access until the end of the period already paid for. After that period ends, the account keeps everything it has made and stops drafting new work.
• Full details on refunds and the fourteen (14) day right of withdrawal applicable to consumers in the European Union or the United Kingdom are set out in our Refund & Cancellation Policy. If you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms limits or removes any mandatory rights you have under applicable law.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• share, resell, or provide access to your account to others beyond your tier;
• attempt to bypass authentication, tier gating, usage caps, or rate limits;
• reverse engineer, scrape, or overload the Service or its AI endpoints;
• enter unlawful content, or students' or third parties' personal data, into prompts, except in the Support Plan tool as Section 6a allows;
• use outputs in any unlawful, harmful, or infringing manner.

Full rules are in our Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

6a. Support plans, and what you are confirming when you draft one

The Support Plan tool drafts the individual plan a learner with additional needs is entitled to under your education system: an IEP, an Individual Support Plan under South Africa's SIAS policy, a SEN Support plan under England's SEND Code of Practice, an Individual Learning Plan, or a Learning Support Plan. Creating a Support Plan may require information about a learner, including information about their special educational needs. Accordingly, the Support Plan feature is the only part of the Service where entering a learner's personal data is allowed. Learner personal data must not be entered elsewhere in the Service.

Each time you use it, you confirm that:

• your school or employer permits you to draft these plans with an external tool, and you are acting within your role;
• your school has obtained any lawful basis, parental consent or guardian consent required under the applicable laws. We do not obtain such consent on behalf of the school and cannot do so;
• for learner personal data, the school is the Data Controller and we act as the Data Processor. Further details are set out in Section 6b below and Section 13 of our Privacy Policy, together with the Data Processing Agreement applicable to the processing of such data;
• you must only enter the minimum learner information necessary to create a Support Plan. A learner's name is optional, and initials may be used instead. You must not enter a learner's diagnosis, medical or psychological reports, home address, parent or guardian contact details, photograph, admission number, or any other unnecessary personal information;
• you must review any Support Plan created using the Service with the learner, the learner's family, and your school's support team before the plan is signed, adopted or filed. A Support Plan created using the Service does not constitute professional, medical, psychological or legal advice.

If you are unsure whether your school permits the use of the Service for creating Support Plans, you should seek confirmation from your school before using the tool. We may suspend an account where the Support Plan feature is used in breach of this Section.

6b. Our Data Processing Agreement applies to support plans

Data entered into the Support Plan tool may include personal data that we process on behalf of your school. Accordingly, the processing of such data is governed by our Data Processing Agreement. The Data Processing Agreement forms part of these Terms and applies to every account that uses the Support Plan tool.

• It takes effect the first time you confirm Section 6a, and it applies whether or not your school has signed a separate copy of it.
• It sets out what we may do with support-plan data, the security we owe, the sub-processors involved, how we may help you answer a request from a learner or a parent, and what happens to the data when you stop using the Service.
• Where there is any conflict between the Data Processing Agreement and these Terms regarding the processing of personal data, the Data Processing Agreement shall prevail.

A school that needs a signed copy on its own paper may make a request by emailing legal@lessonsmith.ai. Signing will change who the named counterparty is. It does not change the obligations, which apply from your first support plan either way.

7. AI-generated content & disclaimer

• Outputs are drafts produced by a machine. LessonSmith generates content using third-party AI models, currently OpenAI (GPT-4o-mini) as the primary and Google (Gemini Flash Lite) as a fallback. The Privacy Policy lists the current providers and we may update it before any change takes effect. AI models produce fluent text that can be wrong, incomplete, outdated, biased, or unsuitable for your class. That is a known characteristic of the technology, not a defect we can remove.
• You remain the professional. You are responsible for reviewing, verifying, correcting, and approving every output before you use it with learners, submit it to a school or education authority, or rely on it for assessment. Using LessonSmith does not transfer or otherwise shift any part of your professional duty of care or responsibility to us.
• No guarantee of curriculum compliance. We do not warrant that any output conforms to a national, regional, examination-board, or school curriculum, syllabus, standard, or inspection requirement, whether or not you selected that curriculum in the Service. Check outputs against the official curriculum documents.
• The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind to the maximum extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that outputs are accurate, error-free, or fit for a particular purpose, or that the Service will be uninterrupted.

8. Your content & ownership

• You retain ownership of the inputs you submit. You own the lesson plans and Schemes of Work you generate using the Service.
• What you may do with them. You may use, adapt, print, share with colleagues, and sell or licence them, including on teaching-resource marketplaces, provided the result is your own reviewed and edited work and you do not present it as officially endorsed by any curriculum authority or by us. You may not resell or redistribute raw, unedited outputs in bulk, run a service that generates plans for other people through your account, or use outputs to train, fine-tune, or evaluate a competing AI model or dataset.
• Outputs may not be unique. AI models can produce similar output for similar inputs. We do not warrant that any output is original or that no other user has received something like it, and we grant you no exclusivity in it. AI providers may also have their own terms about generated content.
• You grant us a limited licence to process and store your content to operate the Service (see the Privacy Policy).
• You confirm that your inputs do not infringe anyone's rights. If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, see our Copyright / DMCA Policy.

9. Intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, branding, and the default "black & gold" theme and other themes, is owned by us or our licensors. These Terms grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service per your tier; no other rights are granted.

9a. Curriculum names & independence (no affiliation)

LessonSmith supports multiple national and international curricula. Names such as CBC/CBE, KICD, NERDC, CAPS, NaCCA, the National Curriculum (England), Common Core/NGSS, CBSE/NCERT, the Australian Curriculum/ACARA, FGOS/FOP (Russia), International Baccalaureate (IB), and Cambridge International (CAIE) are used only to describe the curriculum your generated content is intended to align with. LessonSmith is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored by, or certified by any of these governments, ministries, examination boards, or curriculum authorities. All such names and marks belong to their respective owners. Generated plans are AI-drafted aids, not official curriculum documents; always verify against the official curriculum before classroom or examination use.

10. Suspension & termination

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, abuse the Service, or create legal or security risk. You may stop using the Service at any time. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends, and Sections 7 to 9, 10a, 11, 11a, and 14 to 15 shall survive.

10a. Deleting your content & your account

The periods for which we retain data are set out in Section 7 of our Privacy Policy. If there is any conflict between this Section and Section 7 of the Privacy Policy regarding data retention, Section 7 of the Privacy Policy shall prevail.

• Deleting individual content: deleting a lesson plan, Scheme of Work, or chat history removes it from your library and from our live systems. Residual copies may persist in encrypted backups and operational logs for a limited period until they are purged on our routine backup cycle, and we delete or de-identify the related analytics data.
• Deleting your account: you can delete your account using the in-app controls described in Privacy Policy Section 9, or by emailing privacy@lessonsmith.ai from the address on your account. Deletion removes your account record and your saved content from our live systems, and the same backup cycle then applies. Deletion of data is permanent and cannot be undone. You should export or otherwise save any content you wish to keep before requesting or initiating deletion.
• If we terminate your account: where we suspend or terminate under Section 10, your content is deleted on the same basis once any investigation, legal hold, or dispute connected to the account has closed. We will give you a reasonable opportunity to export your content first, unless the law or the nature of the breach prevents it.
• What we keep after deletion, and why: payment and tax records, which we and Polar are required by law to retain; the record of your acceptance of these Terms and the Privacy Policy, which evidences the agreement between us; and security and abuse records needed to protect the Service and other users. We keep each only for as long as the obligation or purpose behind it lasts.

11. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded, including your non-waivable rights under the consumer-protection and data-protection laws of your country of residence.

These Terms form a binding agreement between you and us. They do not create, limit or affect any rights of a person who is not a party to these Terms, including a learner whose Support Plan you create or the learner's parent or guardian. Nothing in these Terms waives or limits a learner's rights under data-protection law, and nothing in them can be relied on against that learner or their family.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, LessonSmith shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, revenue or other intangible losses arising from or related to:

• (a) your use of the Service;
• (b) your inability to access or use the Service;
• (c) any unauthorised access to or use of the Service, including unauthorised access to or use of your transactions, transmissions or content; or
• (d) any access to or use of the Service by a third party, including any offensive, defamatory or unlawful act or content.

Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of (a) the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) KES 10,000.

11a. Indemnification

You will indemnify and hold harmless VoussoirAI, together with its officers, employees, and contractors, against any third-party claim, and against any resulting loss, damage, penalty, or reasonable legal cost, that arises from:

• content you entered into the Service, including students' or any other third party's personal data entered in breach of Section 6 and the Acceptable Use Policy;
• a support plan you drafted without the permission or the lawful basis you confirmed in Section 6a, including any regulatory penalty imposed on us arising from or relating to the fact that the confirmation you provided was inaccurate or untrue when you gave it;
• your use or misuse of the Service, or your use of any output, in a way these Terms do not permit;
• your breach of these Terms or of any policy that forms part of them; or
• your breach of applicable law, or of another person's rights, including intellectual property and privacy rights.

What this does not cover. This section does not apply to the extent a claim results from our own breach of these Terms, our negligence, or our infringement of a third party's rights. Nothing in these Terms requires you to accept or assume any liability to the extent that doing so is prohibited by applicable law. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes any mandatory consumer-protection or data-protection rights that apply to you in your country of residence.

How a covered claim is handled.

• Notice: we will notify you in writing promptly after we become aware of a claim we intend to bring under this section. Late notice reduces your obligation only to the extent the delay has actually prejudiced the defence.
• Control of the defence: You may take up the defence of the claim at your own cost, using legal counsel reasonably approved by us. If you do not take up the defence within a reasonable time after receiving notice of the claim, we may defend the claim ourselves, and you will remain liable for the reasonable costs we incur in doing so.
• Participation: Regardless of the party handling the defence, the other may participate through its own legal counsel at its own cost. Each of us shall provide the other with any information and reasonable assistance needed to conduct the defence.
• Settlement: neither of us will settle a claim in terms that admit fault by the other, impose a payment or obligation on the other, or restrict the other's rights, without that party's written consent. Consent will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

12. Accessibility

We aim to make the Service accessible. Our Accessibility Statement sets out where we stand and how to report a barrier.

13. Changes to the Service or Terms

We may modify the Service or these Terms. We will inform you of any material changes in-app or by email, and update the "Effective date". Continued use after changes means you accept them.

14. Dispute resolution: informal resolution, arbitration & class-action waiver

• Informal first: before filing any claim, you agree to contact us at legal@lessonsmith.ai and try to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.
• Binding arbitration: if we cannot resolve it, disputes arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will be resolved by final and binding arbitration under the rules of the Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration (NCIA), seated in Nairobi, Kenya, conducted in English, rather than in court, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court where eligible.
• Class-action waiver: to the extent permitted by law, each of us may bring claims against the other only on an individual basis, and not on a class, representative, or collective basis (and we each waive any right we have to bring such claims).
• Mandatory rights preserved: nothing in these Terms affects any rights you may have under the consumer or data-protection laws of your country of residence that cannot legally be excluded or waived.
• Opt-out: you may reject this arbitration agreement by emailing legal@lessonsmith.ai within 30 days of first accepting these Terms; if you do, Section 15 (courts) governs your disputes.

15. Governing law & courts

These Terms are governed by the laws of Kenya. Subject to Section 14, any matter that is not subject to arbitration shall be determined by the courts of Nairobi, Kenya. This does not affect any mandatory consumer rights you may have under the laws of your country of residence.

16. Contact

VoussoirAI ("LessonSmith"), Nairobi, Kenya · legal@lessonsmith.ai · A postal address is available on request by emailing legal@lessonsmith.ai.

Related policies

End User Licence Agreement · Limitation of Liability · Privacy Policy · Cookie Policy · Refund & Cancellation Policy · Acceptable Use Policy · Copyright / DMCA Policy