Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between you and SpaltX Industries, the operator of TaleTykes. "TaleTykes," "we," "our," and "us" refer to the TaleTykes service, website, applications, APIs, and related offerings made available by SpaltX Industries.

By accessing, browsing, creating an account, enabling a child or student account, purchasing a subscription, or otherwise using TaleTykes, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

TaleTykes is intended to be used by parents, guardians, teachers, schools, districts, and children or students acting under adult or institutional supervision. Adults who create or administer accounts represent that they have the legal capacity and authority to do so.

• Parents and guardians may create and manage family accounts for themselves and their children.
• Teachers, schools, and districts may create or administer accounts only if authorized by the applicable institution.
• Children and students may use TaleTykes only through an authorized account flow approved by a parent, guardian, teacher, school, or district, as applicable.
• If you accept these Terms on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization.

If TaleTykes is used pursuant to a school, district, classroom, data processing, or subscription arrangement, the institution remains responsible for determining whether it is authorized to disclose student information to TaleTykes and for satisfying any required notices, consents, or approvals under applicable law.

Schools and districts are responsible for the accuracy of rosters, class assignments, authorization settings, and administrative account permissions that they submit or control through the service.

If a school or district enables AI-assisted features, the institution is responsible for determining whether use of those features with student data is permitted under its policies, notices, contracts, and applicable law, and for training staff not to submit unnecessary sensitive personal information into prompts or free-text fields.

Users must provide accurate and current account information and keep credentials secure. You are responsible for activity that occurs through your account, except to the extent caused by our breach of these Terms or our failure to maintain reasonable security measures.

• You may not share credentials except within a lawfully managed organizational account structure.
• You may not impersonate another person or misrepresent institutional authority.
• You must notify us promptly at contact@taletykes.com if you suspect unauthorized access or credential compromise.
• We may require identity, role, or authority verification before granting or restoring certain account privileges.

TaleTykes provides tools for reading practice, story generation, writing support, classroom workflows, family dashboards, educational analytics, and related accessibility or personalization features. The service may change over time, and some features may be limited by subscription tier, user role, geographic availability, or school configuration.

TaleTykes is an educational support tool. It is not medical, legal, mental health, crisis response, or emergency-response software, and it should not be relied on as a substitute for professional judgment in high-risk or legally required decision-making.

You may not use TaleTykes to:

• Violate law, regulation, school policy, court order, or another person's rights.
• Upload or generate unlawful, infringing, defamatory, sexually explicit, exploitative, hateful, violent, or otherwise inappropriate content.
• Attempt to access accounts, classes, records, or systems without authorization.
• Scrape, reverse engineer, interfere with, or overload the service or its security mechanisms.
• Use the service to train, benchmark, or build a competing product without our written permission.
• Submit unnecessary sensitive personal information into prompts or content, including Social Security numbers, government IDs, full medical records, or financial account details, unless clearly necessary and lawfully authorized for the use case.
• Introduce malware, abusive automation, or fraudulent activity into the service.
• Use generated outputs without appropriate adult or institutional review where the context requires review.

As between you and TaleTykes, you retain ownership of content you lawfully submit to the service, including prompts, stories, writing drafts, classroom materials, and messages. You grant TaleTykes a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, adapt, display, and transmit that content solely as necessary to operate, secure, improve, and support the service.

If you choose to publish or otherwise share content with other users, classrooms, schools, or the public library, you grant us the additional rights necessary to make that content available in the selected scope until you remove it or the content is otherwise taken down.

You represent that you have the rights and permissions necessary to submit the content and that the content does not violate law, contract, or the rights of any third party.

TaleTykes, including its software, design, branding, text, compilations, workflows, user interface elements, and non-user content, is owned by or licensed to SpaltX Industries and protected by intellectual property and other laws. Except for the limited rights expressly granted in these Terms, no license or right is granted by implication, estoppel, or otherwise.

TaleTykes may use AI-assisted or automated tools to generate stories, illustrations, writing suggestions, personalization recommendations, moderation results, and related educational outputs. Those outputs may be influenced by user prompts, account settings, student profile information, or school configuration.

Depending on the feature, the data submitted to an AI-assisted workflow may include story prompts, current draft text, learner reading targets, age or grade-band information, phonics or vocabulary goals, teacher instructions, and related educational context needed to generate the requested output.

Generated output may be incomplete, biased, inaccurate, or unsuitable for a given learner or classroom context. You are responsible for reviewing outputs before relying on them in instructional, legal, financial, disciplinary, or other consequential contexts.

By using AI-assisted features, you represent that you have the authority to submit the relevant prompts, text, and related data to those features and that doing so is consistent with applicable notices, consents, school policy, and law.

Certain TaleTykes features require a paid subscription or the purchase or use of platform credits. Pricing, included features, and plan limits may be described on the site, in-product, or in a separate order form.

• Paid subscriptions may renew automatically until canceled, unless a separate written agreement states otherwise.
• You authorize our payment processor to charge the payment method you provide for recurring fees, add-on purchases, taxes, and any other amounts due.
• Except as required by law or expressly stated by us in writing, fees paid are non-refundable and credits are non-refundable once used or consumed.
• We may change pricing prospectively with reasonable advance notice for recurring plans.
• Failure to pay may result in suspension, downgrade, or termination of applicable paid features.

Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy. School-related student record handling is further described in our FERPA notice.

We do not sell student personal information and do not use child or student personal information for behaviorally targeted advertising. When the service is used by children under 13 outside a school authorization context, we require parental consent where applicable.

School authorization for child or student data use is limited to school-authorized educational purposes. TaleTykes does not treat a school's use of the service as consent for unrelated commercial uses of child data.

TaleTykes may interoperate with third-party providers for payments, email, authentication, rostering, hosting, storage, analytics, or AI functionality. Use of third-party services may be subject to those providers' separate terms and privacy practices.

We are not responsible for third-party products or services that we do not control, except as required by law or as expressly stated in a separate written agreement.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to TaleTykes, with or without notice where reasonably necessary, if we believe there has been a violation of these Terms, a safety issue, misuse of the service, non-payment, legal risk, or a threat to the integrity of the platform.

You may stop using TaleTykes at any time. Termination does not relieve any obligation incurred before termination, including payment obligations. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including provisions relating to ownership, payment, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnity, and dispute resolution.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, TaleTykes is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, perfectly secure, or suitable for every educational need or institutional requirement.

We disclaim all implied warranties to the fullest extent permitted by law, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, SpaltX Industries and its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, licensors, and service providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenues, goodwill, data, or business opportunity arising out of or related to TaleTykes or these Terms.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount paid to TaleTykes by the claimant for the service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) $100.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SpaltX Industries and its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, licensors, and service providers from and against claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, losses, costs, and expenses arising out of or related to your use of TaleTykes, your content, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of law or the rights of another person.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio and applicable United States law, without regard to conflict of laws principles, except to the extent such law is displaced by mandatory consumer or student privacy protections.

Unless a separate written agreement states otherwise, the state or federal courts located in Ohio will have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from or relating to these Terms or the service, and each party consents to those courts and waives objections based on venue or inconvenient forum.

We may modify TaleTykes or these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, communicated through the service or by direct notice. Continued use of TaleTykes after the effective date of updated Terms constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

For legal notices, contract questions, or other legal matters, contact legal@taletykes.com.

For general support, contact contact@taletykes.com. For privacy matters, contact privacy@taletykes.com.