Terms of Use · LessonSmith

By creating an account or using LessonSmith ("the Service"), you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. The Service

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

2. Eligibility & accounts

• You must be 18+ (or the age of majority where you live) and able to form a binding contract.
• You are responsible for your account, your login credentials, and all activity under your account. Clerk handles authentication.
• Provide accurate information and keep it current.

3. Subscription tiers & limits

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

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

The Max tier also includes early access to new features. The lesson-plan allowance resets on the monthly anniversary of your billing start date — for a free account, the monthly anniversary of the day you created it; for an account covered by a School plan, the monthly anniversary of the school’s billing start date — and the whole allowance returns at once on that date. Schemes of Work reset on a rolling 91-day window, so roughly every 3 months; that window is not aligned to any school term or curriculum. Support plans reset monthly on the same date the lesson-plan allowance does, and they are counted separately, so drafting a support plan never spends a lesson plan. Do not attempt to circumvent limits, gating, or rate limits (Section 6).

One plan applies to an account at a time. If you hold both a plan of your own and a seat on a School plan, we apply whichever gives you the higher limits. Allowances are never added together, and holding more than one subscription does not raise any limit.

3a. School plans

A School plan is bought by a school and covers a number of teachers agreed in advance. It changes who the customer is, so the following applies to it and to nothing else.

• The school is our customer, not the teacher. The school agrees the price and the number of seats with us by email, pays through Polar, and is the party responsible for the fees. A covered teacher pays nothing and is not asked for a card. Each teacher still has their own account and is still bound by these Terms in their own right.
• Seats are managed by the school. The school names one or more administrators, and an administrator can invite a teacher, remove a teacher, and cancel the plan, from a section of their own LessonSmith account. We do not add or remove teachers on the school’s behalf except at its request.
• A teacher joins by accepting an invitation. Invitations are single-use links that expire after 14 days. We never add an account to a school plan by matching an email address or a domain.
• An account can be on one School plan at a time. Accepting a second invitation while covered by another school is refused.
• The limits above are per teacher, not shared, and are the same for every school. The price is what is negotiated; the limits are not.
• When cover ends, the account returns to Free. That applies whether the school removed the teacher, the plan was cancelled, or it lapsed for non-payment. Cancelling ends cover at the end of the period the school has already paid for, not immediately.
• Work made by a teacher stays with that teacher. 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 to anyone else when cover ends. The school does not gain access to them by paying for the seat, and we do not hand them over on request — see Section 8 and the Privacy Policy. If a school needs a departing teacher’s materials, that is a matter between the school and the teacher.
• What a school administrator can see. The list of email addresses on the plan, each seat’s role, and whether an invitation has been accepted. They cannot see any teacher’s lesson plans, schemes of work, support plans, assistant conversations, or how much of an allowance a teacher has used.

3b. Trying LessonSmith without an account

The button marked Try it without an account creates a temporary demo account and signs you into it. You do not choose an email address, you cannot set a password, and you cannot sign in to that demo from another browser or another device. These Terms apply to a demo exactly as they apply to any other account.

• The allowance is fixed and does not refill. A demo includes five lesson plans, two Schemes of Work, three support plans and five assistant messages, once. Nothing resets on a date, and we do not top it up. When it runs out, the way to keep working is a free account, which gives you ten lesson plans every month.
• Anything you make in a demo can be lost. Your access to a demo is held in your browser. If you clear your browsing data, use a private window that you then close, or move to another device, that demo and everything in it is gone, and we cannot restore it. Create a free account before you put in work you want to keep.
• We limit how many demos one connection can start. If we refuse you a demo, you have not done anything wrong and nothing is held against you. Create a free account instead.
• We can end a demo at any time. We may delete a demo account and its contents at any time and without notice. A demo comes with no support commitment and no availability commitment.
• A demo is for trying the product. Do not use one to draft a support plan about a real learner, and do not put any real learner’s details into it. Section 6a and our Data Processing Agreement assume a named school and a named teacher, and a demo has neither.

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 is 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 you stop it. On yearly plans Polar emails you seven days before each renewal charge; monthly plans renew without an advance email, and the Subscription window in the app shows when the next charge is due. You can turn off auto-renew, or cancel outright, at any time — from that same window, or in the Polar customer portal.

We resolve your effective plan on our servers, from your active Polar subscription. We never take it from a value your browser sends. We 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 — in a few clicks from the Subscription window in the app, or via the Polar customer portal; access continues until the end of the paid period and does not renew thereafter.
• On a School plan, only the school can cancel, from the plan section in an administrator’s account. A covered teacher has nothing to cancel, because they are not the paying customer. Cancelling stops the renewal; every covered teacher keeps their access to the end of the period the school has paid for and then returns to Free.
• Full details, including any refund eligibility, are in our Refund & Cancellation Policy. Where you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms removes mandatory statutory 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. Drafting one necessarily involves data about a child, including data about their special educational needs, so this is the one place in the Service where entering a learner's personal data is permitted rather than prohibited.

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 holds whatever lawful basis, parental consent or guardian consent its own law requires. We do not obtain that consent, and we are not in a position to;
• for that data your school is the Controller and we are the Processor (see Privacy Policy Section 13, and Section 6b below, which puts our Data Processing Agreement behind that split);
• you will enter the minimum. The learner's name is optional, initials are enough, and you will not enter a diagnosis, a medical or psychological report, a home address, a parent's contact details, a photograph, or an admission number;
• you will review the draft with the learner, the family and your support team before it is signed or filed, and you accept that a drafted plan is not professional, medical, psychological or legal advice.

If you are not certain your school allows this, ask before you use the tool. We may suspend an account that uses it in breach of this Section.

6b. Our Data Processing Agreement applies to support plans

Support-plan data is personal data we process on your school's behalf, so a processor contract has to sit behind it. Our Data Processing Agreement is that contract. It 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 help you answer a request from a learner or a parent, and what happens to the data when you stop using the Service.
• Where it conflicts with the rest of these Terms on anything to do with personal data, the Data Processing Agreement controls.

A school that needs a signed copy on its own paper can ask at legal@lessonsmith.ai. Signing changes 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 generated by AI (OpenAI GPT-4o-mini primary, with Google Gemini Flash Lite fallback) and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable. You are responsible for reviewing and verifying all content before use, including in any classroom.
• 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.

8. Your content & ownership

• You retain ownership of the inputs you submit. As between you and us, you own the lesson plans and SOWs you generate and may use them for your teaching.
• You grant us a limited licence to process and store your content to operate the Service (see Privacy Policy).
• AI providers may have rights or terms regarding generated content; outputs may not be unique to you.
• You represent 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. On termination, your right to use the Service ends; certain provisions (Sections 7 to 9, 10a, 11, 11a, and 14 to 15) survive.

10a. Deleting your content & your account

The periods for which we retain data are set in Privacy Policy Section 7. Where that Section and this one differ, Section 7 governs.

• 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 is not reversible, so export anything you want to keep before you start.
• 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 are an agreement between you and us. They do not affect the rights of anyone who is not a party to them, which includes a learner whose support plan you draft and that 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.

Subject to the paragraph above, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, or loss of data, profits, or goodwill. 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 a regulatory penalty imposed on us because that confirmation was not accurate 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. It does not require you to assume any liability that the law does not permit you to assume, and it does not displace mandatory consumer-protection or data-protection rights 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 actually prejudiced the defence.
• Control of the defence: you may take over the defence of the claim, at your cost, using legal counsel we reasonably approve. If you do not take it over within a reasonable time of the notice, we may defend the claim ourselves and you remain liable for the reasonable cost of doing so.
• Participation: whichever of us is conducting the defence, the other may take part through its own counsel at its own cost, and each of us will give the other the information and assistance the defence reasonably needs.
• 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 tell you about 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, you and we agree that 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, claims may be brought only on an individual basis, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, or representative proceeding.
• Mandatory rights preserved: nothing here removes non-waivable rights you have under the consumer or data-protection laws of your country of residence.
• 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 matters not subject to arbitration are subject to the courts of Nairobi, Kenya, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer rights in 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