Terms of Service
These terms govern access to and use of SparkTales websites, applications, educational experiences, and AI-assisted storytelling tools.
Effective Date: [Insert Date]
Last Updated: [Insert Date]
These Terms of Service are a working draft and should be reviewed by legal counsel before public launch.
These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of SparkTales websites, mobile applications, educational experiences, story libraries, interactive features, AI-assisted tools, reader profiles, downloadable content, and related services.
For purposes of these Terms, “SparkTales,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to [SparkTales legal entity name], and “you” or “user” refers to anyone who accesses or uses the services, including parents, guardians, educators, institutions, and readers.
By accessing or using SparkTales, you agree to these Terms and any additional terms, policies, or guidelines that apply to specific features.
If you do not agree to these Terms, you should not use SparkTales.
If you are using SparkTales on behalf of a child, student, classroom, school, organization, or other institution, you represent that you have the authority to accept these Terms on their behalf.
SparkTales creates AI-enhanced educational storytelling experiences designed to bring meaningful stories, historical narratives, religious and cultural texts, mythology, literature, and learning experiences to life through reading, visual content, activities, maps, encyclopedic exploration, and interactive tools.
SparkTales may include, among other things:
SparkTales is designed to support learning and discovery. It is not intended to replace adult supervision, professional instruction, religious guidance, legal advice, medical advice, psychological advice, or formal educational judgment.
SparkTales may be used by families, educators, students, and institutions.
Children should use SparkTales only with appropriate involvement from a parent, guardian, educator, school, or authorized institution, especially where accounts, reader profiles, downloads, progress tracking, or AI-assisted features are used.
Where required by law, we may require parental, guardian, educator, school, or institutional consent before allowing certain features to be used by children.
You agree not to create an account, submit information, or allow a child to use SparkTales in a way that violates applicable law, school policy, parental consent requirements, or institutional requirements.
Some SparkTales features may require an account. You agree to provide accurate information and to keep account information up to date.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account, except where the activity results from SparkTales’ failure to use reasonable security measures.
You must notify us if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.
We may suspend or restrict access to accounts that appear to violate these Terms, create security risks, misuse the services, or violate applicable law.
SparkTales may allow parents, guardians, educators, or account holders to create reader profiles. Reader profiles may be used to organize:
Reader profiles are designed to help organize the learning experience. They should not be used to submit sensitive personal information unless specifically requested and necessary for the service.
SparkTales content is provided for educational, informational, creative, and personal enrichment purposes.
SparkTales may include stories inspired by religious texts, historical events, mythology, traditional stories, public domain literature, cultural material, and other educational sources. While we aim to create respectful and accurate educational experiences, content may be simplified, adapted, dramatized, summarized, translated, or presented for learning purposes.
You understand that:
SparkTales does not guarantee that all content will be complete, error-free, or suitable for every reader.
SparkTales may use artificial intelligence to help generate, adapt, recommend, summarize, translate, explain, illustrate, or personalize educational experiences.
AI-assisted outputs may vary and may occasionally be inaccurate, incomplete, inappropriate, biased, outdated, or unsuitable for a particular age group or context. You should review AI-assisted outputs before relying on them, sharing them, or presenting them to children, students, classrooms, or institutions.
You agree not to use AI-assisted features to create, upload, request, or distribute content that is unlawful, harmful, abusive, exploitative, discriminatory, sexually explicit, violent, infringing, misleading, or otherwise inappropriate.
SparkTales may limit, filter, moderate, review, or block prompts, outputs, or interactions to support safety, quality, legal compliance, and age-appropriate use.
SparkTales may allow users to download stories, images, activities, models, or other content for offline or in-app use.
Downloaded content is licensed, not sold. Your ability to access downloaded content may depend on your account status, subscription status, device, app version, region, or availability of the service.
You may not extract, copy, redistribute, sell, scrape, reverse engineer, or use downloaded content outside SparkTales unless we expressly permit it.
We may update, remove, replace, restrict, or disable downloaded content if needed for legal, safety, licensing, technical, or product reasons.
SparkTales may offer free, paid, trial, subscription, family, classroom, institutional, or promotional access plans.
If payments are offered, pricing, billing cycles, renewal terms, cancellation rights, and refund rules will be disclosed at purchase or through the applicable app store, payment processor, or subscription platform.
If you purchase through Apple, Google, Stripe, or another third-party payment provider, your purchase may also be governed by that provider’s terms, billing rules, refund policies, and account settings.
Unless otherwise stated, paid access continues until canceled. Deleting the app may not cancel a subscription.
You agree to use SparkTales only for lawful, respectful, educational, personal, family, classroom, or institution-approved purposes.
You may not:
SparkTales may allow users to submit prompts, comments, preferences, uploaded materials, classroom materials, feedback, story selections, activity responses, or other content.
You retain ownership of content you submit, subject to the rights you grant us below.
By submitting content, you grant SparkTales a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, process, reproduce, display, adapt, and use that content as needed to operate, improve, secure, personalize, and provide the services.
You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to submit any content you provide.
You are responsible for user content submitted through your account or by users you authorize.
If you provide ideas, suggestions, corrections, feature requests, or other feedback, you allow SparkTales to use that feedback without restriction or compensation, unless otherwise agreed in writing.
SparkTales, including its name, trademarks, logos, characters, product names, interfaces, generated assets, original stories, design systems, visual style, software, content collections, educational experiences, activities, and other materials, is owned by SparkTales or its licensors.
These Terms do not transfer ownership of SparkTales intellectual property to you.
Subject to these Terms, SparkTales grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the services for personal, family, educational, classroom, or institution-approved purposes.
You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, reverse engineer, create derivative products from, or commercially exploit SparkTales materials unless we give written permission.
SparkTales may include or connect to third-party services, such as app stores, payment processors, analytics providers, AI providers, cloud hosting providers, authentication services, content tools, or external links.
Third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. SparkTales is not responsible for third-party services that we do not control.
SparkTales may use public domain works, licensed materials, historical sources, religious texts, cultural stories, user-provided materials, or AI-assisted transformations.
Where source material is public domain, SparkTales may still own original adaptations, illustrations, interfaces, activities, summaries, metadata, software, and generated assets created by or for SparkTales.
Where content is licensed, your rights are limited by those licenses.
SparkTales may use automated and human review processes to help detect misuse, improve quality, maintain safety, enforce these Terms, protect children and students, and comply with law.
We may remove, restrict, modify, or decline to display content that we believe may violate these Terms, applicable law, safety standards, app store requirements, or educational suitability standards.
SparkTales is an evolving product. We may add, change, suspend, discontinue, rename, replace, or limit features, content, subscriptions, apps, downloads, reader profiles, AI tools, activities, or integrations at any time.
We will try to avoid unnecessary disruption, but we do not guarantee that any particular feature or content item will remain available forever.
SparkTales is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
To the extent permitted by law, SparkTales disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, availability, security, and error-free operation.
SparkTales does not guarantee that:
To the extent permitted by law, SparkTales and its owners, directors, officers, employees, contractors, service providers, licensors, and affiliates will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, data, goodwill, educational opportunity, or business opportunity.
To the extent permitted by law, SparkTales’ total liability for any claim relating to the services will not exceed the greater of:
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some limitations may not apply to you.
If you use SparkTales on behalf of yourself, a family, school, classroom, organization, or institution, you agree to indemnify and hold SparkTales harmless from claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from:
This section applies only to the extent permitted by law.
You may stop using SparkTales at any time.
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk, misused the services, failed to pay required fees, violated law, or caused harm to SparkTales, users, children, students, institutions, or third parties.
After termination, sections that by their nature should survive will survive, including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnity, and dispute provisions.
These Terms are governed by the laws of [Province, Canada] and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, unless otherwise required by consumer protection, child privacy, student privacy, or other applicable law.
Any disputes will be resolved in the courts located in [Province, Canada], unless applicable law requires another forum.
We may update these Terms from time to time. If changes are material, we may provide notice through the app, website, account email, or other reasonable means.
Your continued use of SparkTales after updated Terms become effective means you accept the updated Terms.
Questions about these Terms can be sent to:
SparkTales
Email: hello@sparktales.io
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