Version: 2026-11-06
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern access to and use of the Focus on Foundations website, family account and learning services, lessons and prototypes, private documents, user-facing AI agent, and QRAG question-answering service (collectively, the “Services”).
1. Acceptance and Privacy Policy
By creating a guardian or individual account, accepting these Terms through the Services, or using the Services, you agree to these Terms. You acknowledge our current Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.
An individual account is available from age 13. If you are under 18, use the Services with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. A parent or legal guardian accepts these Terms for a guardian-created child account. A child account cannot accept account-holder terms or re-consent.
Each document has a version identified by its date. A guardian or individual account holder must review and accept new Terms and Privacy Policy versions to keep using the account. If you choose “Decline and sign out,” we sign you out. We provide additional notice of material changes. The request can appear at the next sign-in or page view, or while you are already signed in. The server blocks new agent and QRAG requests until you accept the required versions. We record the accepted versions and the time of acceptance. Earlier versions remain available at Legal versions.
2. United States Family-Direct Alpha Scope
The current alpha is offered directly to families in the United States. A person age 13 or older may self-register for an individual account. Children under 13 may not self-register. A parent or legal guardian may create and manage a child account as described below.
The alpha is not a school-directed service. Focus on Foundations does not currently offer school deployments, enter school contracts, or integrate school rosters or school-controlled education records. Focus on Foundations does not represent that it acts as a FERPA school official. Do not use the alpha on behalf of a school.
A guardian may upload their own school documents, or documents about their own child, to their private documents or the child's private document space. This includes school reports that the guardian has the right to provide. This permission does not authorize a school deployment or the upload of records about other students without authority. Private documents are visible to other guardians in the same family, as Section 5 explains.
Any future school-directed or non-United States offering would require separate operational and legal review and, where appropriate, separate or updated terms. These intended limits do not by themselves conclusively determine which laws apply. Actual legal obligations depend on the facts and applicable law.
3. Guardian-Managed Minor Accounts
Only a parent or legal guardian with authority over a minor may create or manage the minor’s account. The guardian accepts these Terms on the minor’s behalf, supervises the minor’s use, controls the account credentials, provides any required consent, and is responsible for reviewing the minor’s use of the Services.
Children under 13 may not self-register. A child account may not accept account-holder re-consent. An individual account holder age 13 to 17 must have the permission and supervision described in Section 1. The guardian can use available family controls to review, correct, export where offered, or delete the minor’s account and learning data, subject to the Privacy Policy and the technical limits described there.
4. Accounts and Security
You must provide accurate account and family information and keep it reasonably current. A guardian creating a child account must use a guardian-owned plus-address email, such as parent+child@example.com, that routes to the guardian’s inbox.
Keep credentials confidential and use them only for the account to which they belong. Do not share an adult account or allow another person to use it. A guardian may allow a child to use only the guardian-created child account that the guardian manages. Notify contact@focusonfoundations.org promptly if you believe an account or credential has been compromised.
5. Services, Documents, and AI
The Services may include learning applications, family account tools, learning-data synchronization, account data export and deletion controls, lessons, prototypes, private documents, QRAG, and an AI agent. Features may change during the alpha.
Lessons and prototypes
Lessons and prototypes can save session results, answers, attempts, progress, and positions in the knowledge map for the selected learner. A prototype is an early version. We may change or remove it. A prototype may contain errors or lose compatibility with earlier progress. The Privacy Policy describes the learning records we keep.
QRAG
QRAG questions and selected source context may be sent to AI model providers to generate a response. Our Privacy Policy names them. QRAG may include earlier messages from the same conversation. A child account cannot use QRAG. Do not include sensitive personal information, confidential information, school-controlled education records that you lack authority to provide, or other information you lack authority to submit in a QRAG question.
Saving QRAG history does not give QRAG access to the account's family records, private documents, or child learning-data store. The agent has separate tools and permissions, described below.
The agent
The agent is available to eligible guardian and individual accounts. A child account cannot enter it directly. It can use permitted tools to read the learning catalog, learning records, knowledge-map positions, and private document text. A guardian can use permitted family tools for members of that family. It acts within the signed-in person's access rights. It cannot use administrator powers.
The agent may read permitted information to answer your request. Before it changes your documents or other supported records, it shows a preview. You must confirm the preview before the change runs. Review the destination, content, and effect carefully. Confirmation authorizes the displayed action. An answer or a preview is not proof that a change succeeded. Check the reported result.
Using the agent sends your messages, relevant conversation history, and the results of its permitted reads to the AI service. Those results can contain personal information. Before the agent first sends a child's learning records or documents, it asks the guardian to allow that use. You can allow one turn or remember the choice. You can turn the question back on under AI and your data in your account. The personal-information notice can also be turned off and on. The notice cannot detect every personal detail. You remain responsible for what you submit.
Private documents
You can upload documents for private storage and use with the agent. We scan uploads for malware and extract text from supported formats. These checks can fail or leave a file unreadable. They do not guarantee that a file is safe, accurate, or complete. Some formats are stored without text extraction.
Private means access is restricted. It does not mean that a document is visible only to its uploader. Every guardian in a family can see and act on the family's private documents, including another guardian's documents and each child's documents. Do not upload material that you are not authorized to share in this way. Tutors do not receive access to the private document space through a tutor grant.
The Privacy Policy explains storage, AI disclosure, deletion, and retention. Deleting a document does not remove text already included in a saved conversation or a provider's records.
Model choice and provider terms
The Services offer models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenRouter, as listed on the AI providers page. OpenRouter passes a request to the company that runs the selected model. Available models depend on the feature, your account's access, and the service configuration. The agent shows a model chooser when more than one model is offered.
The AI providers page shows model prices, data handling levels, policy check dates, and links to the applicable provider terms and data policies. Model menus and information tips also show data handling levels. Your account's AI and your data section links to the providers page. Review that disclosure before selecting a model. By choosing and using a model, you accept the provider terms and the data retention and training policy shown for that choice. Focus on Foundations passes on that disclosure. We do not control the provider's practices. We remain responsible for our own obligations under these Terms, the Privacy Policy, and applicable law.
The three labels are Zero data retention (ZDR), No training, and May keep and train. ZDR is the most privacy-protective level. It means the provider states that it does not routinely keep request or answer content after processing and does not train on it. No training means the provider states that it does not train on that content but may retain it under its policy. May keep and train means the provider may retain that content and use it to train models. Any safety, legal, or other stated exceptions form part of the disclosure. These labels do not describe how long Focus on Foundations keeps your records.
For QRAG answers and agent steps sent through OpenRouter, the request uses the routing rule for the selected model's disclosed level. A ZDR model requires ZDR routing. A No training model excludes providers that collect request data for training. A May keep and train model has no data restriction on routing. We refuse an OpenRouter model without a recorded data policy. Choose the level you are comfortable with. The Privacy Policy explains these controls and the current providers' retention practices.
AI output may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or misleading. Independently evaluate it before relying on it or confirming an action.
6. Acceptable Use
You may use the Services only lawfully and in accordance with these Terms. You may not:
- Use the Services for unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, exploitative, or harmful activity.
- Impersonate another person, misrepresent authority, harass others, or abuse the Services.
- Scrape, crawl, bulk-download, or use automated requests in a way that extracts the corpus, exceeds reasonable limits, or overloads or disrupts the Services.
- Bypass or attempt to bypass authentication, access controls, security measures, or rate limits.
- Introduce malware or other harmful code, or probe or interfere with the Services or supporting systems.
- Infringe intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality, or other rights.
- Attempt to access another account, family, child record, learning file, or other nonpublic data without authorization.
- Upload or submit content or data you do not have authority to use and provide.
7. User Content
You retain any rights you have in questions, files, learning inputs, and other content you submit (“User Content”). You grant Focus on Foundations a nonexclusive license to host, copy, process, transmit, display, and otherwise use User Content only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, maintain, and provide the Services, comply with law, and exercise or enforce legal rights.
You are responsible for User Content and represent that you have the rights, permissions, and authority needed to provide it and permit this use. This limited license does not transfer ownership to Focus on Foundations and does not authorize us to sell User Content or use it for advertising.
8. Focus on Foundations and Third-Party Content
The Services, software, design, prompts, curated corpora, and other materials supplied by Focus on Foundations are owned by or licensed to us and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to use the Services for personal and family educational purposes during the alpha. Separate open-source licenses govern code specifically released under those licenses.
Third-party excerpts, media, trademarks, and other materials remain subject to their owners’ rights and any applicable licenses or legal limitations. Links to third-party sites or services are provided for convenience; Focus on Foundations does not control or endorse their content, availability, privacy practices, or terms.
9. Alpha Availability, Changes, and Termination
The Services are experimental and may contain errors or interruptions. We may add, change, limit, suspend, or discontinue alpha features, and we do not promise uninterrupted availability or that a feature will remain available. AI features can pause for everyone when the site reaches its monthly spending limit. Models from one provider can pause when that provider reaches its site spending limit. Account limits also apply. Having an account or AI credits does not guarantee that a model or feature is available.
We may suspend or terminate access when reasonably necessary to protect users or the Services, comply with law, respond to suspected misuse or a security issue, or address a violation of these Terms. You may stop using the Services at any time and may use available account controls to export eligible data or delete an account.
Export data you wish to retain before requesting deletion or losing access. Deletion is intended to remove applicable current account records and user files and may be irreversible; limited records may remain temporarily in provider backups or recovery systems, or when narrowly necessary for legal or security purposes, as described in the Privacy Policy. Suspension, termination, feature changes, or discontinuation may limit later access to or export of data.
10. Educational and Informational Use
The Services and their outputs are for educational and informational purposes only. They are not legal, medical, financial, mental-health, safety, or other professional advice and are not a substitute for a qualified professional. AI-generated and source-derived material may contain errors. You are responsible for deciding whether and how to rely on it and for providing appropriate adult supervision.
11. Disclaimers
To the extent permitted by law, the Services are provided “as is” and “as available,” without express or implied warranties, including warranties of accuracy, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or noninfringement. We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or suitable for a particular learning outcome.
These disclaimers do not exclude warranties or rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the extent permitted by law, Focus on Foundations and its directors, officers, employees, volunteers, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to the Services or these Terms.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability or remedies that cannot be limited under applicable law, and nothing waives nonwaivable consumer, privacy, child-protection, or other statutory rights.
13. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by law, an adult user or guardian agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Focus on Foundations and its directors, officers, employees, and volunteers from third-party claims, damages, and reasonable costs arising from that user’s unlawful use of the Services, User Content submitted without required authority, or material violation of these Terms. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim results from conduct for which indemnification cannot lawfully be required.
14. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, subject to any mandatory law or nonwaivable rights that apply to you.
15. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms as the alpha and our practices change. We post the revised Terms and update the version date. A guardian or individual account holder must accept the new Terms and Privacy Policy versions to keep using the account. Choosing “Decline and sign out” signs you out. For a material update, we provide additional notice. Section 1 describes the acceptance record and earlier versions.
16. Contact
Questions about these Terms or the Services may be sent to:
Focus on Foundations
Email: contact@focusonfoundations.org
These Terms describe the intended current alpha offering and remain subject to legal review. They are not a representation that a lawyer or regulator has approved the Services or these Terms.