Terms of Service

1. The agreement and its scope

LessonsForge is operated by Develastic, s. r. o., a company established in Slovakia, with its registered office at Tallerova 2/4, 811 02 Bratislava - mestská časť Staré Mesto, Slovakia (Develastic, we, us). Company identification number (IČO): 54530725. Registered in the Commercial Register of Mestský súd Bratislava III, Section Sro, Entry 160099/B. These Terms of Service are the user agreement for our website and application. Contact the company at [email protected].

Tax identification number (DIČ): 2121715299. VAT identification number (IČ DPH): SK2121715299, registered under §7a of the Slovak VAT Act since 11 March 2024.

The version presented for acceptance when you create an account or place an order forms part of that agreement. An accepted order identifies the purchased service, price, duration and any offer-specific conditions. A later revision does not automatically replace an earlier agreement merely because its revision date changes.

You must have the legal capacity and authority needed to enter the agreement. When acting for an organization, you confirm your authority to bind it and to provide the information and instructions concerned. Mandatory consumer and data-protection rights are not excluded by these Terms or by describing a service as free, experimental or AI-generated.

Descriptions of optional sign-in methods, offers and support tools apply when we make them available to your account. These Terms do not promise the availability or release date of a feature that is not offered in the product.

Privacy Policy

2. What the service provides

LessonsForge helps educators and other authorized users research, plan, generate, revise, translate and export educational materials. Features may include lesson plans, teacher scripts, student guides, homework, assessments, presentations and illustrations. The selected operation and plan determine the actual scope.

Writer and Artist names, including Bachelor, Master, Doctor and Professor, describe product profiles, not academic qualifications, accreditation or a guarantee of educational outcomes. A generated assessment is not a professionally validated examination merely because it passes automated checks.

Generation may involve several operations and may finish partially. A completed request or workflow does not necessarily mean that every requested material is ready or that its content is correct. Review the status and content of individual deliverables.

3. Accounts and sign-in

Use the sign-in methods we offer, which may include Google and passkeys. Keep control of your devices, authentication provider and recovery information. Do not transfer an account or share personal sign-in credentials to evade plan or collaboration limits. Organization members should use their own authorized accounts.

For independent passkey registration, we ask for a contact email but do not send an enrollment verification message. Format and domain checks do not establish that you control the mailbox. Supply an accurate address you can access and keep it up to date. We may reject unsupported contact formats, including new contact addresses containing the plus character (+). We do not silently turn such an address into a different mailbox.

The contact-format rule does not itself revoke an existing account or rewrite an external identity. An email address, invoice address or matching display name is not by itself proof of account ownership. Linking sign-in methods must follow our authorized linking procedure.

Account creation, activation, subscription choice, eligibility for free credits and security restrictions are separate. Creating an account does not by itself authorize paid generation, free credit grants or administrative access.

4. Passkeys, additional devices and recovery

Where passkeys are offered, you may register supported additional keys and manage them through the available account controls. Adding permanent access from another device requires proof using an existing authorized key or an approved recovery process; an open browser session alone is not sufficient.

Keep any backup recovery code privately and securely. A code is intended for one-time use and may be replaced or revoked. We retain a one-way verification value rather than a retrievable copy of the code. Never send the code, a passkey private key or a password to a support conversation.

When normal access is lost, support may ask you to demonstrate control of an existing contact and provide relevant account-history information. Automated support may help collect and assess that information. Public project knowledge, a payment screenshot or an email sender address alone does not establish ownership. We may require additional verification, decline an insufficiently supported request or refer it for authorized review.

We do not guarantee recovery after all usable authentication and recovery methods are lost. This does not remove statutory rights to make a properly verified privacy, payment or consumer request. Paying for a plan is not a substitute for proving ownership or resolving a security restriction.

5. Plans and activation

The plan comparison and your accepted order describe the available features, profiles, collaboration rights, branding and processing options. Credit balance is spending capacity, not permission to use every feature.

For Hobby under this offer, available Writers are Bachelor and Master, available Artists are Draft and Balanced, and generation uses Economy only. Buying credits does not unlock Priority Line, higher profiles, collaboration or removal of required LessonsForge branding. Other plans have the entitlements shown for them.

Where the activation offer is available, Google users may choose Hobby without a payment card. An independent account choosing Hobby must purchase the Starter Pack or link an eligible Google identity to the same account. Buying a paid subscription requires no separate Starter activation payment. A prior qualifying paid subscription does not require a second activation purchase merely because it later ends.

Activation does not guarantee future free grants. A payment that is reversed or refunded may require reassessment of purchase-based qualification, without erasing unrelated paid rights. Authorized members using an eligible organization budget are governed by that workspace and its membership rules, not an extra personal activation fee.

6. Discretionary Hobby and promotional credits

Free access, promotional credits and future Hobby grants are discretionary benefits. We may decline to offer them, change their amount or frequency, restrict their use, or suspend or discontinue them for an individual account or for all accounts. Previous grants, prior eligibility and an earlier purchase do not create a right to future free grants.

We do not have to allege or prove misconduct before deciding not to fund further free use. Except where applicable law requires otherwise, we do not undertake to give an individualized explanation, disclose security signals or provide a manual appeal procedure solely about discretionary free benefits.

Eligibility and abuse controls may operate automatically and may make mistakes. We may voluntarily investigate or correct an error. Doing so in one case does not promise a particular outcome in another case or continuing eligibility.

Discontinuing free benefits alone does not cancel purchased credits, erase retained materials or remove rights under an accepted paid order. Security restrictions and termination of the account are addressed separately. Nothing in this section excludes mandatory notice, explanation, challenge, consumer or privacy rights.

7. The one-time Starter Pack

When offered, the Starter Pack is a one-time purchase with a base price of USD 10 for exactly 800 credits. Applicable taxes are added at checkout and do not change the 800-credit entitlement. It is not a recurring subscription or an empty card-verification fee.

The same Starter offer and credit quantity apply to eligible Google and independent accounts. It is optional for a Google account eligible for cardless Hobby and can satisfy the initial purchase condition for independent Hobby. Any one-per-account or other promotional purchase limit is shown with the offer and applies across linked sign-in methods.

8. Credits and metered work

credits are prepaid service units for eligible operations, not a bank deposit, investment, transferable currency or a promise of cash redemption. They cannot be sold or transferred outside an approved product feature. Statutory refunds and other rights expressly provided by the agreement remain available.

Consumption depends on the applicable generation pricing, selected profiles, processing line, material scope and actual work, including research, checks, images and authorized correction attempts. Estimates and examples expressed as numbers of lessons or courses are approximate, not fixed billing units or guaranteed outputs.

We may reserve credits before starting work and settle the actual billable usage afterward. Work already performed may consume credits even when a larger job finishes partially or you cancel remaining work. A reservation is not itself a final charge. You may raise an incorrect, duplicate or unauthorized charge through support; this description does not exclude remedies for defective or undelivered services.

We may change pricing for future purchases and future work. We do not rewrite historical charges or reduce an issued credit balance merely by changing a display conversion or the price of a new package. Accepted operations and purchases retain the pricing or quantity applicable to them.

Recurring included credits and purchased credits are identified separately. Period-limited recurring credits may expire as disclosed for the relevant allowance. A monthly reset does not by itself expire purchased credits. Any purchase-specific expiry restriction must be disclosed before the purchase and is not introduced retroactively.

9. Orders, taxes and subscriptions

Before you place a paid order, review the total payable amount, currency, credit quantity or features, billing interval, renewal and cancellation conditions. For new purchases through Stripe Managed Payments, Stripe is the merchant of record and calculates, collects and remits applicable indirect taxes in jurisdictions covered by its Managed Payments tax service. Our displayed prices are base prices; applicable taxes are added at checkout and paid by the buyer. The final payable total and applicable purchase terms are shown before payment. Previously accepted direct orders retain their frozen tax and purchase terms; this change does not retroactively change an invoice, paid price, issued credits or an existing subscription. A checkout redirect alone does not establish successful payment.

A recurring subscription renews only on the basis of the renewal terms you accepted. You can stop future renewal using the offered cancellation controls or by contacting us before the next renewal. Stopping renewal, withdrawing from a contract and requesting account deletion are different actions. Accrued lawful charges are not cancelled merely by closing a browser or ceasing use.

New prices or materially changed paid conditions apply prospectively with the notice and opportunity to cancel required by your agreement and applicable law. We do not impose a new recurring subscription because you bought a one-time Starter Pack.

We may investigate payment failures, duplicate orders, suspected unauthorized payments, refunds and chargebacks, and may suspend the affected paid service where justified. We correct related credit entries rather than treating a payment dispute as permission to confiscate unrelated balances. Using a lawful consumer remedy is not itself prohibited abuse.

10. Consumer withdrawal and early performance

When you are a consumer and the applicable distance-selling rules provide a withdrawal right, you may withdraw without giving a reason within the statutory period, generally 14 days from conclusion of a service or digital-content contract. A longer period may apply where required information was not properly provided. Mandatory local rights take precedence.

You can notify us by a clear statement sent to [email protected], using the withdrawal function where provided, or by any other method permitted by law. Identify yourself and the order or contract you wish to withdraw from. Sending the notice before the deadline is sufficient. Use of a model form is optional and is not a condition of withdrawal.

Starting a service during the withdrawal period requires the separate express request and information required by law. If you then withdraw, a proportionate charge for performance already supplied is payable only when the statutory conditions are met. Merely creating an account or adding credits is not a blanket waiver of withdrawal rights.

For a fully performed service, or digital content supplied without a physical medium, any loss of withdrawal rights applies only to the relevant supply and only after all required prior express consent, acknowledgment, performance and durable-confirmation conditions have been satisfied. Agreement to these Terms alone does not supply those separate consents.

Where a withdrawal refund is due under applicable Slovak consumer law, we reimburse it without undue delay and within 14 days after receiving the notice, using the original payment method unless you expressly agree otherwise, without a refund fee. Any lawful deduction for expressly requested performance follows the applicable rules, not an arbitrary activation or processing penalty.

11. Problems, remedies and refunds

Report an undelivered service, billing error or defect to [email protected] with enough information to identify the order and problem. Do not include a password, backup recovery code or full payment-card details. We will handle mandatory complaints and remedies under the applicable requirements.

Consumers retain statutory rights concerning supply and conformity of digital content and digital services. Depending on the circumstances, these may include bringing the service into conformity, a price reduction or termination and reimbursement. AI fallibility, a beta label or a free-benefit restriction does not remove those rights.

Stripe Managed Payments handles refunds under its applicable purchase terms and mandatory consumer rights. Our earlier direct-purchase policy, where accepted for the relevant historical order, was non-refundable except where required by law because using credits incurs third-party processing costs. That earlier policy does not override Stripe Managed Payments terms, impose a refund or processing fee, claim that unused credits have already been spent, or limit the statutory rights described above. Free credits are not refunded for cash. Termination by us and unsupplied paid entitlements are addressed below.

A paid service order and its fulfillment are distinct from a later decision to stop discretionary gifts. We do not treat a complaint about an actual payment or a privacy right as a request for a free-benefit exception.

12. Your inputs and processing permission

You retain the rights you have in prompts, files, course materials and other inputs you provide. You are responsible for having the necessary permissions, including intellectual-property rights and a lawful basis for any personal data. A source being available online does not automatically permit its unrestricted copying.

You give us a non-exclusive permission to host, copy, process, transmit, adapt and display those inputs, and to generate, translate and export results, to provide your requested services and to carry out necessary security, support and legal functions. We may use service providers for those purposes subject to the applicable safeguards. This is not a transfer of ownership of your inputs.

Private-project processing does not authorize public publication, advertising use or sale of your private content. The first release does not provide public or unlisted online publication of project materials; publishing an exported file elsewhere is your separate action. The Privacy Policy describes personal-data processing separately; accepting these Terms is not blanket consent to unrelated processing.

Privacy Policy and data rights

13. Outputs, licenses and attribution

You may use generated outputs as permitted by your plan and applicable law. To the extent we hold transferable rights in an output created for you, we permit you to use, reproduce, edit and distribute that output subject to the applicable branding, attribution, license and third-party conditions. This does not transfer our software, templates, trademarks or another person’s protected material.

We do not guarantee that an AI-generated output attracts copyright, is exclusive to you, is unique, or is free of third-party rights. Other users may receive similar outputs. Verify licenses, quotations, references, logos, likenesses and other protected elements before publishing or commercial use.

Hobby exports retain the LessonsForge branding required by the plan. Eligible paid plans may remove product branding, but not legally required AI-origin notices, provenance information, third-party attribution or safety information. Buying extra credits alone does not change those rules.

Open Education is unavailable for new selection during the first release. Any open license already validly granted remains in effect, and a later private-plan purchase does not erase obligations attached to previously funded materials.

14. Review before teaching, publishing or relying on output

AI output may contain factual errors, invented references, bias, omissions, unsuitable language, unsafe instructions or misleading assessment answers. Automated reviewers do not replace a competent human review. You are responsible for evaluating suitability, accuracy, learner age, accessibility and safety before use.

Generated photographs, diagrams and screenshot-like illustrations may be synthetic approximations. They are not proof that a real event occurred or that a software interface or physical process appears exactly as shown. Check technical examples and source references independently.

Do not use an unreviewed output as the sole basis for high-stakes decisions about admission, grades, employment, health, legal rights or safety. The service is a production aid, not a professional adviser, accredited curriculum approval or a guarantee of examination quality. This review responsibility does not waive our statutory service obligations.

15. Organizations, collaborators and learner information

A workspace owner may manage access and permitted spending within the organization features it has purchased. Invite and authorize collaborators through the product rather than sharing authentication secrets. Do not use another person’s email or a shared payment method as proof that you may access their account.

When processing information about learners, employees or other people, provide only what is necessary and ensure the required authority, notices and consents. Prefer fictional or de-identified examples. Do not submit credentials, payment-card security data or unnecessary sensitive personal information.

Where we process personal data on an organization’s behalf as its processor, the required data-processing arrangements must be in place. These Terms do not replace such an arrangement or transfer the organization’s responsibilities to us.

16. Acceptable use and abuse prevention

• Do not use the service for unlawful, fraudulent, infringing, exploitative or deliberately harmful activity, impersonation or unauthorized disclosure of personal information.
• Do not create or use accounts, scripts, aliases or repeated payment attempts to harvest promotional credits, evade restrictions, test stolen cards or manipulate billing and grants. Having more than one account is not by itself prohibited.
• Do not access another account, private project, export, billing record or administrative function without authorization. Do not deceive support to acquire someone else’s access.
• Do not deploy malware against the service, bypass access or isolation controls, overwhelm capacity, exploit private endpoints or use prompt injection to defeat our controls. Legitimate API use and specifically authorized security testing remain subject to their agreed scope.
• Do not falsify attribution, misrepresent synthetic evidence or remove notices that must remain under law, license or your plan.
• Comply with applicable sanctions, export restrictions and third-party rights. Availability in one country does not guarantee availability everywhere.

17. Reporting unlawful content and security concerns

Send a sufficiently specific report to [email protected], identifying the relevant content or account activity, the reason for the report and information that allows us to assess it. Report security concerns responsibly and avoid accessing other users’ data or publicly exposing secrets.

We may investigate, restrict or remove content and accounts where appropriate. We do not promise to disclose confidential security methods, another person’s information or investigation details. We provide notices, reasons and review routes when applicable law requires them; those duties are not displaced by our discretion over free benefits.

18. Availability, providers and changes to features

We do not promise uninterrupted access, a fixed completion time or the permanent availability of a particular AI provider or model unless expressly included in an accepted service commitment. Maintenance, provider queues, capacity limits, security incidents and events outside reasonable control may delay or prevent operations. Economy prioritizes lower-cost processing rather than a guaranteed deadline.

We may make changes for valid reasons such as security, legal compliance, interoperability, provider availability, maintenance and improvement of the service. Optional beta features may be changed or withdrawn. A beta label does not cancel paid commitments or mandatory conformity rights.

Changes to a continuous consumer digital service follow applicable requirements, including a valid contractual reason, no additional cost where required, clear information and advance durable notice for qualifying negative changes. Statutory rights to terminate or retain a conforming unchanged service remain available where they apply. Discretion over future free grants is not a blanket right to diminish an already paid service.

19. Third-party services and platform rights

External authentication, payment, AI, hosting and other services may have their own terms and privacy practices. We are responsible for our own obligations and do not treat a third-party failure as automatically removing your mandatory remedies.

Develastic and its licensors retain rights in the application, software, design, platform templates and brand, excluding your own content. Do not copy, reverse engineer or reproduce the platform as a competing service except as authorized or permitted by mandatory law. This does not prohibit lawful use of your generated materials.

20. Disclaimers and liability

To the extent legally permitted and except for express commitments, the service is provided as available, without an additional promise of error-free output, non-infringement, fitness for an undisclosed purpose or uninterrupted operation. These limitations do not exclude statutory requirements for supply, conformity, security or remedies.

For business customers, to the extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits and business interruption. Our aggregate contractual liability is limited to the greater of the fees you paid us for the service in the three months before the event giving rise to the claim or EUR 100.

These exclusions and limits do not apply to fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence where liability cannot lawfully be limited, death or personal injury for which we are responsible, or any liability or remedy that applicable law does not allow us to exclude or limit. They do not limit mandatory consumer or data-protection rights. The business-customer cap is not imposed on a consumer merely by calling the product a professional tool.

21. Restriction, termination and account deletion

You may stop using the service, cancel a subscription or request deletion through the available controls or support. Stopping use alone does not notify us to stop an expressly agreed renewal. Valid outstanding charges, record-retention duties and licenses already granted do not disappear because an account is closed.

Subject to applicable notice and mandatory rights, we reserve the right to refuse new registrations and to restrict, suspend, terminate or close accounts for lawful reasons, including a decision not to continue offering service to an account. We do not voluntarily promise individualized explanations or disclosure of security evidence. For existing continuing contracts, we give any reasonable advance notice required by law; urgent legal, security, fraud or serious-breach concerns may justify immediate action.

A restriction of free funding alone is not account termination. Where an account is suspended, we may retain the information needed to investigate and, when appropriate, restore it. Opening a support request does not guarantee restoration. Paying does not automatically remove a security restriction.

If we end paid service without your breach before delivering the paid entitlement, we settle the unsupplied part, including any refund required by the agreement or law. Other termination, fraud and payment-dispute consequences follow the applicable rules; this clause is not a general right to retain payment while refusing all performance.

We provide access to or export of retained user content when required by law and, where appropriate, a reasonable opportunity to obtain it before final deletion. Keep your own copies of important materials. The service is not a promise of permanent archival storage. Deletion is subject to lawful retention, backups and existing sharing or open-license effects described in the Privacy Policy.

22. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Slovak Republic. This choice does not deprive a consumer of mandatory protection that applies in the consumer’s country of habitual residence or of mandatory rights concerning courts and remedies.

First contact [email protected] to request redress. An eligible consumer may seek alternative dispute resolution from the Slovak Trade Inspection or another competent body after a rejected redress request or no response within 30 days, subject to the applicable eligibility rules. This does not prevent using a competent court.

Business disputes may be brought before the competent courts in Slovakia, subject to mandatory jurisdiction rules and any specifically agreed dispute-resolution provision. These Terms do not impose private arbitration or a blanket waiver of consumers’ court rights.

Slovak Trade Inspection: consumer alternative dispute resolution

23. Changes, notices and interpretation

We may revise these Terms for changes in law, security, features, providers or commercial arrangements. We identify the revision and communicate material changes using the notice and timing required for the affected agreement. Where fresh acceptance is required, we obtain it; merely posting new terms or recording continued use does not replace a required consent or notice.

Revisions apply prospectively and do not rewrite an accepted purchase, historical credit entries or an accrued claim. An individually agreed written provision controls over a conflicting general term to the extent permitted by law. Mandatory law controls in all cases.

If a provision is invalid, the remainder continues only to the extent legally possible; an invalid consumer term is not automatically replaced with the most restrictive alternative. A voluntary credit, refund, investigation or restoration is not a waiver of our rights in other cases.

Operational notices, order confirmations, security messages and replies to support or legal requests may be sent through the application or appropriate contact channels. The absence of a signup email-verification step does not prevent us from sending required transactional or legal communications.

24. Contact

Contact Develastic, s. r. o. about this agreement, payments, complaints or account support at [email protected]. Identify the relevant account or order without sending authentication secrets.

Email Develastic