Terms of Service

Akros Academics, Inc.

Effective Date: April 25, 2026 Last Updated: April 25, 2026

A note from us

These Terms of Service are the agreement between you and Akros Academics, Inc. about how you use our service. They are written in plain language because you should be able to understand what you are agreeing to without a law degree. If anything is unclear, email us at legal@akrosacademics.com and we will explain it.

By creating an Akros account, accessing our website at akrosacademics.com, or using our mobile applications, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

1. The short version

If you only have two minutes, here is what you are agreeing to:

• You must be at least 18 years old and the parent or legal guardian of any child you add to your account.
• One account per family. You can have multiple children on a single account, but you cannot share an account across multiple families or resell access.
• You pay for what you use. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel. You can cancel any time.
• We grade your child's work and generate next-day lessons. We do not use your child's data for advertising, AI training, or any purpose other than running the service for you.
• Akros is a learning tool, not a replacement for school. We make no guarantees about academic outcomes.
• If we have a dispute, we both agree to resolve it through arbitration instead of court. You have 30 days from account creation to opt out of arbitration if you prefer.
• Either of us can end the relationship at any time. You can cancel; we can terminate accounts for fraud, abuse, or non-payment.

The rest of this document explains all of this in more detail. Section 17 is the arbitration agreement and is the most important section to read carefully.

2. Who can use Akros

2.1 Age and identity

To create an Akros account, you must be at least 18 years old and have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement. By creating an account, you represent that you meet these requirements.

2.2 Parents and guardians

Akros is designed for families with children, and only parents or legal guardians may create accounts. By adding a child to your Akros account, you affirm that:

• You are the child's parent or legal guardian.
• You have the legal authority to consent to the collection and processing of the child's personal information as described in our Privacy Policy.
• You will supervise your child's use of Akros.
• You take responsibility for all activity on your account, including any activity by your child.

If you are not a parent or legal guardian — for example, a teacher, tutor, or extended family member — you may not create an account that includes a child unless you have written authorization from the child's parent or legal guardian. Educational institutions interested in Akros for classroom use should contact us at legal@akrosacademics.com to discuss appropriate licensing.

2.3 One account per family

Each Akros account is for use by a single family. You may not:

• Share your account credentials with another family.
• Use the same account to serve children outside your immediate family.
• Resell or sublicense access to your account.
• Create multiple accounts to circumvent subscription pricing.

If you need to add additional children to an account, do so through the in-product child management interface — there is no per-child charge for additional children on an existing account.

3. The service

3.1 What Akros provides

Akros generates personalized daily math lesson PDFs for K–8 students. Each day, our system:

1. Creates a printable lesson PDF tailored to your child's current learning level.
2. Emails the lesson to you (the parent) so you can print it.
3. Receives photos of your child's completed work that you upload through the app or web portal.
4. Uses AI to grade the handwritten work and update your child's learning history.
5. Generates the next day's lesson based on what your child has mastered and what they are still working on.

The service includes a parent portal where you can view your child's progress, lesson history, and grading results.

3.2 What Akros is not

Akros is a supplemental learning tool. It is not:

• A licensed school, accredited curriculum, or substitute for formal education.
• A special education service or therapeutic intervention.
• A diagnostic tool for learning disabilities or developmental conditions.
• A guarantee of academic achievement or performance on standardized tests.
• A replacement for a qualified teacher, tutor, or educational professional.

We make no warranties about specific learning outcomes. Children learn at different rates and in different ways, and Akros is one tool among many that may help support a child's mathematical development.

3.3 Service availability

We work hard to keep Akros available and reliable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted service. We may experience downtime for maintenance, updates, technical issues, or reasons beyond our control. We will make reasonable efforts to minimize disruption and to communicate planned maintenance in advance when possible.

If the service is unavailable for an extended period that materially affects your subscription, contact us at legal@akrosacademics.com and we will work with you on an appropriate remedy (typically a service credit or partial refund).

3.4 Changes to the service

Akros is an evolving product. We may add, modify, or remove features over time as we improve the service. We will not remove core features (lesson generation, grading, parent portal) without notice, but smaller features and interface details may change without individual notification.

4. Your account

4.1 Account creation

To use Akros, you must create an account by providing accurate information including your name, email address, and payment method. You agree to keep this information current and to notify us of any changes.

4.2 Account security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. If you suspect unauthorized access to your account, contact us immediately at legal@akrosacademics.com so we can help you secure it.

We use industry-standard security practices to protect your account, including multi-factor authentication options. We strongly recommend enabling these where available.

4.3 Accurate information

You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during account creation and to maintain that information over time. Providing false information may result in account termination.

5. Subscriptions and payment

5.1 Subscription plans

Akros is a paid service. Current pricing is displayed at akrosacademics.com/pricing and may change over time with notice to existing subscribers.

• Akros Pro Monthly: $26.99 per month, billed monthly, recurring until canceled.
• Akros Pro Annual: $179.99 per year, billed annually, recurring until canceled. Annual subscribers receive a 44% discount compared to the monthly rate.

There is no free trial and no free tier. A valid payment method is required from the moment you create an account.

5.2 Billing

Subscriptions are billed in advance for the upcoming billing period (one month for monthly subscribers, one year for annual subscribers). Charges are processed by our payment processor, Stripe, and appear on your statement as "Akros Academics" or similar.

By providing payment information, you authorize us to charge your payment method for all fees due. If a charge fails (expired card, insufficient funds, etc.), we will attempt to retry the charge and notify you. If we are unable to collect payment after reasonable retry attempts, your account may be suspended or terminated.

5.3 Automatic renewal

Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing period unless you cancel before the renewal date. You can cancel at any time through your account settings or the Stripe customer billing portal accessible from your account.

When you cancel, your subscription remains active through the end of the current billing period, and your account is downgraded or closed at the end of that period.

5.4 Refunds

In general, Akros does not offer refunds for subscription fees that have already been charged. There are two exceptions:

• 14-day money-back guarantee for first-time annual subscribers. If you sign up for an annual subscription and decide within 14 days that Akros is not right for your family, contact us at legal@akrosacademics.com and we will refund the full annual fee. This guarantee applies only to your first annual subscription on a given account.
• Service failure. If Akros is unavailable for an extended period that materially affects your subscription, we may offer a partial refund or service credit at our discretion.

Outside of these two exceptions, all fees are non-refundable. Canceling your subscription does not entitle you to a refund of fees already paid for the current billing period.

5.5 Price changes

We may change subscription pricing from time to time. If we increase the price for an existing subscriber, we will provide at least 30 days' notice by email and the new price will take effect at the start of the next billing period after the notice period. You can cancel before the new price takes effect if you do not wish to continue at the new rate.

5.6 Taxes

Subscription fees are exclusive of any applicable sales tax, VAT, or similar taxes. If we are required to collect taxes on your subscription, we will add them to your invoice and remit them to the appropriate authority.

6. Acceptable use

You agree to use Akros only for its intended purpose — providing personalized math instruction to children in your family. You agree NOT to:

• Share or resell access to your account.
• Scrape, copy, or systematically extract content from the service for any purpose other than your own family's use.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the service or attempt to derive the source code or AI models that power it.
• Use the service to upload non-educational content or content that is not your child's math work (e.g., uploading photos of unrelated documents, drawings, or other material).
• Attempt to bypass security controls, access another user's account, or interfere with the service's operation.
• Submit content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or invasive of another person's privacy.
• Use the service to develop a competing product or to train AI models that compete with Akros.
• Resell, redistribute, or commercially exploit the lesson PDFs or other content generated by Akros, except for the use of those PDFs by your own family for educational purposes.
• Misrepresent your identity or your relationship to any child added to your account.

We reserve the right to investigate suspected violations of this Acceptable Use policy and to take appropriate action, including warning you, suspending your account, or terminating your account.

7. Intellectual property

7.1 What Akros owns

Akros owns or licenses all rights to the platform itself, including:

• The Akros website, mobile applications, and parent portal.
• The lesson generation system, grading models, and AI infrastructure.
• The brand, logos, "Akros" name, mascot characters, and visual design elements.
• The content of lesson PDFs we generate, including the underlying templates, layouts, problem-generation algorithms, and explanatory text.

These are protected by copyright, trademark, patent, and other intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the service for your own family's educational purposes during your subscription period. This license does not transfer ownership of any of the above to you.

7.2 What you own

You retain ownership of:

• Your child's handwritten work and the photos you upload.
• Your child's name, learning history, and any other personal information about your child.
• Any feedback or suggestions you send us (though by sending feedback, you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free license to use it to improve the service — see Section 7.4).

You grant us a limited license to use your uploaded photos and your child's learning history only for the purpose of running the service: grading work, generating personalized lessons, displaying progress in your portal, and improving the service in aggregated and anonymized form. We do not use your child's data for advertising, AI model training, or any other purpose. See our Privacy Policy for the full data handling commitments.

7.3 The patent

The Akros lesson generation and grading pipeline architecture is the subject of a pending United States provisional patent application. Use of the Akros service does not grant you any rights under that patent application or any future patent that may issue from it.

7.4 Feedback

If you send us feedback, suggestions, ideas, or other input about Akros, we may use that feedback for any purpose without obligation to you. You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, and incorporate the feedback into the service. We will not identify you publicly as the source of feedback without your permission.

8. Privacy

Our handling of your personal information and your child's personal information is described in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Please read it carefully.

Key points relevant to these Terms:

• We use the parent-as-account-holder consent pattern to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). By creating an Akros account and adding a child to it, you provide verifiable parental consent on behalf of your child.
• We do not sell, rent, or share your information with advertisers, marketers, or data brokers.
• We do not use your child's data to train general-purpose AI models. Our AI sub-processor (Anthropic) is contractually prohibited from retaining customer data for model training.
• You can request deletion of your account and all associated data at any time. We will complete deletion within 30 days of your request.

If there is a conflict between these Terms and the Privacy Policy with respect to data handling, the Privacy Policy controls.

9. Termination

9.1 Termination by you

You may cancel your subscription and terminate your account at any time through your account settings, the Stripe customer billing portal, or by emailing legal@akrosacademics.com. When you cancel:

• Your subscription remains active through the end of the current billing period.
• At the end of the period, your account is downgraded or closed.
• Your data is deleted within 30 days of account closure, except for billing records we are required to retain for tax purposes.
• Your subscription does not renew, and we do not charge you again unless you create a new account or reactivate.

9.2 Termination by us

We may suspend or terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, for any of the following reasons:

• Non-payment. If we are unable to collect subscription fees after reasonable retry attempts.
• Violation of these Terms. Including violations of the Acceptable Use policy in Section 6.
• Fraud or abuse. Including fraudulent payment activity, abuse of refund policies, or abusive behavior toward Akros staff.
• Legal requirement. If we are required to terminate your account by law, court order, or regulatory directive.
• Service discontinuation. If we decide to discontinue the Akros service entirely. In this case, we will provide at least 30 days' notice and refund any unused prepaid subscription time.

When we terminate an account for cause, we may at our discretion provide a partial refund, no refund, or — in cases of fraud or material breach — pursue additional remedies including legal action.

9.3 Effect of termination

Upon termination of your account:

• Your right to use the service ends immediately.
• We will delete your data within 30 days as described in our Privacy Policy, except for information we are legally required to retain.
• Provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including Sections 7 (Intellectual Property), 10 (Disclaimers), 11 (Limitation of Liability), 12 (Indemnification), and 17 (Arbitration).

10. Disclaimers

10.1 "AS IS" service

THE AKROS SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, AKROS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

• IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
• WARRANTIES THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
• WARRANTIES THAT GRADING WILL BE 100% ACCURATE OR THAT GENERATED LESSONS WILL MEET ANY SPECIFIC EDUCATIONAL STANDARD.
• WARRANTIES OF ANY SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES OR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties. To the extent your jurisdiction does not allow such exclusions, the above disclaimers apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

10.2 Educational disclaimer

You acknowledge that Akros is a supplemental learning tool and that:

• Children learn at different rates and Akros may not be effective for every child.
• We make no guarantees about your child's academic performance, test scores, grade-level placement, or learning outcomes.
• Akros is not a substitute for a qualified teacher, school curriculum, special education services, or professional educational assessment.
• AI grading may occasionally make errors, particularly with messy handwriting or unconventional answer formats. Parents should review grading results and use the corrections feature when appropriate.

10.3 Third-party services

Akros relies on third-party service providers (Stripe for payments, SendGrid for email, Anthropic for AI, Render for application servers, Vercel for web frontend, Neon for database, Google Cloud Storage for file storage, Clerk for authentication). We are not responsible for the availability, performance, or actions of these third parties beyond our reasonable efforts to select reliable providers and to honor the data handling commitments described in our Privacy Policy.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW:

11.1 No indirect damages

AKROS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, OR ANY OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE.

11.2 Liability cap

AKROS' TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF:

• One hundred United States dollars ($100), OR
• The total amount you paid Akros in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

11.3 Exceptions

The limitations in Sections 11.1 and 11.2 do not apply to:

• Liability that cannot be limited under applicable law (such as gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud).
• Akros' indemnification obligations under Section 12 below, if any.

11.4 Basis of the bargain

You acknowledge that the disclaimers in Section 10 and the limitations in this Section 11 are an essential part of the agreement between you and Akros. Without these limitations, the cost of the service would be substantially higher.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Akros Academics, Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, agents, and affiliates from any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to:

• Your use or misuse of the service.
• Your violation of these Terms or any applicable law.
• Your violation of any third party's rights, including intellectual property or privacy rights.
• Any content you upload to the service, including photos and learning history data.
• Any misrepresentation about your identity, your authority to act on behalf of a child, or the accuracy of information you provide.

We will notify you promptly of any claim subject to indemnification and will cooperate with your defense at your expense. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate with us.

13. Modifications to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make changes, we will:

• Update the "Last Updated" date at the top of these Terms.
• For material changes (changes that meaningfully affect your rights or obligations), notify you by email at the address on file at least 30 days before the changes take effect, and obtain your continued use of the service as acceptance of the new Terms.
• For non-material changes (clarifications, formatting fixes, contact info updates), we may make the changes without individual notification.

If you do not agree to a material change, you may cancel your subscription before the change takes effect. Continued use of the service after the effective date of a change constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

14. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Akros Academics, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with its registered office in Newark, Delaware.

Subject to the arbitration agreement in Section 17, any legal action that is not subject to arbitration must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in the State of Delaware, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

If you are a consumer located in a jurisdiction that grants you the right to bring legal action in your local courts notwithstanding the above, this Section 14 does not override that right to the extent it cannot be waived under applicable consumer protection law.

15. Notices

15.1 Notices from us to you

We may provide notices to you by email at the address on file with your account, by posting on the Akros website, or by in-product messaging. You are responsible for keeping your email address current.

15.2 Notices from you to us

You may send notices to Akros at:

By email: legal@akrosacademics.com

By mail: Akros Academics, Inc. Attn: Legal 131 Continental Dr, Suite 305 Newark, DE 19713 United States

For privacy-specific inquiries, please use privacy@akrosacademics.com instead. For general support questions, please use support@akrosacademics.com.

16. General provisions

16.1 Entire agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any other documents incorporated by reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and Akros regarding your use of the service. They supersede any prior agreements between you and Akros on the same subject.

16.2 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found by a court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

16.3 No waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to enforce that provision later. Any waiver must be in writing and signed by an authorized representative of Akros.

16.4 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account to any other person or entity without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or by operation of law, with notice to you.

16.5 Force majeure

Neither party will be liable for any failure or delay in performance due to causes beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, pandemic, government action, internet or telecommunications failures, or labor disputes.

16.6 Relationship of the parties

These Terms do not create any agency, partnership, joint venture, employment, or franchise relationship between you and Akros. You and Akros are independent parties.

16.7 Headings

Section headings in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.

17. Arbitration agreement (please read carefully)

This Section 17 is a binding arbitration agreement and class action waiver. It affects your legal rights. Please read it carefully. You have the right to opt out of this Section 17 within 30 days of creating your Akros account by following the procedure in Section 17.7.

17.1 Agreement to arbitrate

You and Akros agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, or your use of the Akros service (a "Dispute") will be resolved by binding individual arbitration rather than in court, except as set forth in Section 17.6.

This includes Disputes that arose before you accepted these Terms and Disputes that may arise after your account is terminated.

17.2 Arbitration procedure

Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, available at adr.org. The arbitration will be conducted by a single arbitrator with expertise in the subject matter of the Dispute.

The arbitration will be conducted in English. Unless you and Akros agree otherwise, the arbitration will take place in the county where you live, or by video or telephone if practical.

The arbitrator will have the authority to grant any remedy that would be available in court, subject to the limitations in Section 11 (Limitation of Liability).

17.3 Class action waiver

You and Akros agree that any arbitration or court proceeding will be conducted only on an individual basis and not as a class action, collective action, or representative action. You waive the right to participate as a class member in any class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration against Akros.

If a court or arbitrator decides that this class action waiver is unenforceable for a particular Dispute, then the entire Section 17 will not apply to that Dispute, and the Dispute will be resolved in court instead.

17.4 Costs of arbitration

Akros will pay all AAA filing, administration, and arbitrator fees for arbitrations brought against Akros where the amount in controversy is less than $10,000, unless the arbitrator determines that your claim was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose. For claims over $10,000, fees will be allocated according to the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules.

You and Akros each pay your own attorneys' fees and costs, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

17.5 Pre-arbitration notice and good-faith negotiation

Before initiating arbitration, you agree to first send a written notice of the Dispute to legal@akrosacademics.com describing the nature of the claim and the relief you are seeking. Akros will have 60 days from receipt of the notice to attempt to resolve the Dispute informally. If the Dispute is not resolved within 60 days, either party may proceed with arbitration.

Akros will follow the same procedure if it has a Dispute with you, sending notice to the email address on file with your account.

17.6 Exceptions to arbitration

The following Disputes are NOT subject to arbitration and may be brought in court:

• Small claims court actions for Disputes that fall within the jurisdiction of small claims court.
• Intellectual property claims by either party seeking injunctive or other equitable relief to protect intellectual property rights (for example, a claim that one party is infringing the other's patents or copyrights).
• Claims that cannot be subject to arbitration under applicable law.

17.7 Right to opt out of arbitration

You have the right to opt out of this Section 17. To opt out, you must send a written notice to legal@akrosacademics.com within 30 days of creating your Akros account, stating that you wish to opt out of the arbitration agreement. The notice must include your full name, the email address associated with your account, and an explicit statement that you are opting out.

If you opt out within the 30-day window, this Section 17 will not apply to you, and Disputes will be resolved in the courts described in Section 14. Opting out of arbitration will not affect any other provision of these Terms or your use of the service.

If you do not opt out within 30 days of account creation, you will be bound by this arbitration agreement.

17.8 Survival

This Section 17 survives termination of these Terms or your account.

18. Contact us

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us:

By email: legal@akrosacademics.com

By mail: Akros Academics, Inc. Attn: Legal 131 Continental Dr, Suite 305 Newark, DE 19713 United States

For privacy questions, please use privacy@akrosacademics.com. For general support questions, please use support@akrosacademics.com.

These Terms of Service are provided in English. If we provide translations into other languages, the English version will control in case of any conflict.

By creating an Akros account or using the Akros service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy.