Terms of Service

Who we are, and who can use the service

LessonBrief ("we", "us") is an independent service that helps tutors and small education providers turn lesson notes into draft messages and documents. You can contact us at lessonbrief@proton.me.

To use the service you must be at least 18 years old and using it for legitimate tutoring or education administration. By creating an account you confirm this, and that where you enter information about a student you have the authority and a proper legal basis to do so.

What the service does

LessonBrief helps you draft messages and documents from lesson notes. Every output is a draft for you to review and edit before you send or share it — a starting point, not a finished or approved message. Drafts are produced by our own template engine; nothing you enter is sent to an outside AI provider to create them.

Your account

You are responsible for keeping your sign-in details secure and for activity that happens under your account. Tell us promptly at lessonbrief@proton.me if you think someone else has accessed it.

Acceptable use

You agree to use the service lawfully and only for legitimate tutoring administration. In particular you must not enter a child's full name or sensitive personal data, upload unlawful or harmful content, try to break or bypass our security or access other users' data, or misuse the service in the ways set out in our Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these terms.

Your content, and who owns what

You keep ownership of the notes and details you enter and of the drafts produced from them. You grant us the limited permission we need to store and process that content for the sole purpose of providing the service to you (and, for your students' data, on the basis set out in our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Terms).

We own the service itself — the software, design, brand and built-in templates. These terms do not give you any right to copy, resell, reverse-engineer or reuse those beyond normal use of the service. If you send us feedback or suggestions, you allow us to use them to improve the service without any obligation to you.

Privacy and data protection

How we handle personal data is explained in our Privacy Policy. Where you enter information about your students, you are the controller of that data and we act as your processor under our Data Processing Terms. Please read both — they form part of this agreement.

Drafts, accuracy and no professional advice

Drafts are generated from the notes you provide and may contain mistakes. LessonBrief does not provide medical, psychological, safeguarding, legal, financial or other professional advice, and makes no guarantee about accuracy, results or outcomes. You must review and correct every draft before you rely on it, send it or share it.

Availability, and changes to the service

The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis — meaning we provide it as it is at the time, and we do not promise it will always be available or completely fault-free. It is under active development, so features may change, and it may occasionally be unavailable or be discontinued. We will try to give reasonable notice of significant changes where we can.

Fees

The service is currently free to use. If we introduce paid features in future, we will make the price and terms clear before you buy, and paying for them will be optional.

Our responsibility to you

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability where the law does not allow it — including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for any of your rights as a consumer that cannot be excluded by law.

Subject to that, LessonBrief is not responsible for indirect or knock-on losses (losses that are not the direct, obvious result of a problem) — such as lost income, damage to your reputation, or loss of data caused by factors outside our reasonable control — or for any content you choose to send or share using a draft. Please keep your own copies of anything important; you can export all of your data at any time from Settings.

Because the service is free, we cannot offer a refund. If something goes wrong that is our fault, we will do our best to fix or restore the service. None of this affects the legal rights you have as a consumer, which we cannot take away.

Your responsibility to us

If you use the service in the course of a business or profession and we suffer a loss because you deliberately or carelessly broke these terms or our Acceptable Use Policy, used the service unlawfully, or infringed someone else's rights, you agree to cover the reasonable, reasonably foreseeable costs we incur as a direct result. This does not apply to ordinary, good-faith use of the service, and it does not apply where you use the service purely as a private consumer. We will tell you promptly about any such claim and will not settle it in a way that affects you without asking you first.

Suspending or ending your use

You can stop using the service and delete your account and data at any time from Settings. We may suspend or close an account that misuses the service or breaks these terms; where it is reasonable to do so, we will give you notice and a chance to put things right first.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the service develops. If we make a material change, we will always tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect, and give you the chance to close your account if you do not agree. Minor or legally required changes may take effect when we post them, and the date at the top always shows the latest version. If you keep using the service after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms.

Governing law, and where disputes are handled

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and disputes will be dealt with by the courts of England and Wales. If you use the service as a consumer, you keep the benefit of any mandatory legal protections of the country where you live.

General

• If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.
• If we do not enforce a right straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours if the service changes hands, without reducing your rights.
• These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Acceptable Use Policy and Data Processing Terms, are the whole agreement between us about the service.
• No one other than you and us has any right to enforce these terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Email us at lessonbrief@proton.me.