1. This agreement
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are an agreement between you and the operator of Classistry (“Classistry”, “we”, “us”). Classistry is run by Classistry LLC, based in Utah, United States. These Terms cover classistry.com and every Classistry app on the web or on a phone (together, “Classistry”). By creating an account or using Classistry, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle information. If you don’t agree, please don’t use Classistry.
If your organization has a separate written agreement with us, that agreement governs the organization’s use of Classistry where it differs from these Terms. Organizations that use Classistry run their own groups and activities; they don’t operate Classistry and are not parties to these Terms.
2. Who can use Classistry
You must be at least 13 to use Classistry. Classistry is not for children under 13. If you are 13 to 17, a parent or legal guardian must agree to these Terms on your behalf before you use Classistry; until they do, your account can only ask them, show these documents and be deleted. A parent or guardian who agrees accepts these Terms, the Privacy Policy and the use of AI described there for the teen, and is responsible for the teen's use of Classistry. They can withdraw permission at any time; we then stop the account and delete it within 30 days. We delete accounts no parent or guardian agrees to within 30 days. An organization may set a higher minimum age for its groups. If you use Classistry for an organization, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Terms for it. You may not use Classistry if the law or an earlier decision by us bars you from it.
3. Your account
Give accurate information when you sign up, including your date of birth, and keep it current. Keep your password to yourself; you are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us at hello@classistry.com if you think someone else has used it.
4. Organizations and groups
Most people use Classistry as a member of a group run by an organization, such as a school, a club or a national organization and its chapters. The organization and its leaders decide who joins their groups, what material the groups use and which features are turned on. They can invite you, change your role or remove you from their groups. Material an organization or its leaders publish is their responsibility, not ours.
5. AI is part of Classistry
Classistry uses AI to ask follow-up questions, give coaching and ratings, help draft material, turn speech into text and text into speech, and answer questions about your files. Using AI is a condition of using Classistry: by using it, you agree that the content these features need, including your recordings, transcripts, answers, files and questions, is processed by our AI providers as described in the Privacy Policy. If you don’t want your content processed this way, please don’t use Classistry.
You accept the Terms once, on the website or in the app. AI features don’t run for an account that hasn’t accepted the current Terms, and nothing is sent to a provider before that. To stop using AI features, stop using them or delete your account. Write to us at hello@classistry.com with questions.
- AI output can be incomplete, wrong, one-sided or offensive. Check important facts against the sources, and don’t rely on Classistry for legal, medical, financial, mental health or other professional advice.
- In practice rounds the AI questioner argues positions on purpose to test you. What it says is practice material, not our view or your organization’s.
- Feedback and ratings are practice coaching. They rate how you make your case. An organization may set the side you practise, such as making the conservative case. Ratings are not a grade of record or an official assessment unless your organization tells you otherwise.
- You are responsible for what you do with AI output, including reviewing it before you publish or share it.
- Don’t use AI features to create content that breaks these Terms, and don’t submit other people’s personal information for AI processing without their permission.
6. Your content
You own what you create in Classistry, such as your answers, recordings, messages and material you publish (“your content”). You give Classistry a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process, transmit, display and adapt your content only as needed to run, secure and improve Classistry for you and your groups, including sending it to our service providers for the purposes in the Privacy Policy. This license doesn’t let us sell your content, use it for advertising or use it to train AI models. It ends when your content is deleted, except for copies others already received because you shared them, material you published to a group that stays with the group as the Privacy Policy explains, and backup copies until they are replaced.
You confirm that you have the rights to what you upload and that it doesn’t break the law or anyone’s rights. If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without owing you anything.
7. Private practice
Your Hold the Floor recordings, transcripts and coaching are private to you. They are shared with your group only when you choose to share an answer’s text. We may still act on them where the law requires or to keep people safe, as the Privacy Policy explains.
8. Acceptable use
Classistry is a place to learn, disagree and practice in good faith. Political, religious and other views are welcome when they are expressed civilly. When you use it, don’t:
- harass, threaten, bully or demean anyone, or post hateful, sexual or violent content;
- encourage violence, self-harm or illegal activity;
- post or request sexual content involving anyone under 18, or try to contact a young member for anything other than group activities;
- break the law, or help anyone else break it;
- post other people’s personal information, or record anyone without their permission;
- pretend to be someone else, or misrepresent your connection to an organization;
- upload malware, probe or break our security, or get into accounts or data that aren’t yours;
- scrape Classistry, overload it, or get around its limits, including limits on AI use;
- copy, sell or reverse engineer Classistry, except where the law allows it;
- use Classistry to send spam or advertising.
Your organization may have its own rules for its groups, and you should follow those too. We may remove content, and limit or end accounts, that break these Terms.
9. Reports and copyright
To report content or a person, use the report option in the app or email hello@classistry.com. In the iPhone app you can also block people whose content you don’t want to see.
If you believe something in Classistry infringes your copyright, email hello@classistry.com with: your name and contact details; the work you believe is infringed; where the material is in Classistry, in enough detail for us to find it; a statement that you believe in good faith that the use isn’t authorized by the owner, its agent or the law; a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or are authorized to act for the owner; and your physical or electronic signature. We may remove or disable the material and tell the person who posted it. If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake, tell us why at the same address. We end the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe.
10. Our service and brand
Classistry, its software, design and brand belong to us and our licensors. Other organizations’ names, logos and material that appear in Classistry belong to them, and these Terms give you no rights in them. We give you a personal, limited, non-transferable right to use Classistry under these Terms. Nothing in these Terms gives you any other right to our name, logos or technology.
11. Other services
Some features rely on other companies’ services, such as Sign in with Apple or an app store. Their own terms apply to your use of those services, and we aren’t responsible for them.
12. Apps from Apple’s App Store
If you got a Classistry app from Apple’s App Store, these terms also apply:
- These Terms are between you and us, not Apple. We, not Apple, are responsible for the app and its content.
- You may use the app only on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as the Usage Rules in Apple’s Media Services Terms and Conditions allow, including for other accounts linked to you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
- Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
- If the app fails to meet a warranty that applies to it, you may tell Apple, and Apple will refund the price you paid for the app, if any. To the fullest extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app. Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses caused by a failure to meet a warranty are our responsibility, to the extent these Terms don’t exclude them.
- We, not Apple, are responsible for any claims by you or anyone else about the app or your possession or use of it, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
- If anyone claims that the app, or your possession or use of it, infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim.
- You confirm that you are not located in a country that is subject to a US Government embargo or that the US Government has designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- When you use the app, you must follow any third-party terms that apply, such as your wireless carrier’s.
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms. Once you accept these Terms, Apple has the right to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.
Send questions, complaints or claims about the app to us at hello@classistry.com.
13. Fees
Organizations pay for Classistry under their own agreements with us. We don’t charge individual members unless we tell you the price clearly before you agree to pay it.
14. Changes to Classistry
Classistry is growing, and we add, change and remove features. Some features are early and may change quickly or stop. If we stop Classistry altogether, we will give reasonable notice where we can, so you can export your information.
15. Suspension and ending
You can stop using Classistry at any time and delete your account from Settings. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms, if your organization asks us to or ends its agreement with us, or if we must to protect people or Classistry or to comply with the law. Where it’s reasonable, we will tell you first and give you a chance to export your information. Sections 6, 10, 12 and 16 to 21 continue after your access ends.
16. Disclaimers
We work hard to make Classistry reliable and helpful, but we provide it “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement, and we don’t promise that Classistry will be uninterrupted or error-free.
Content that other members, organizations or AI produce isn’t ours, and we don’t endorse the views in it. Meetings, events and other activities that organizations and groups hold, online or in person, are run by them and not by us.
17. Limits on liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data or goodwill, arising from your use of Classistry. Our total liability for any claim about Classistry is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for Classistry in the 12 months before the claim and 50 US dollars. Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not apply to you in full.
18. Responsibility for misuse
If you use Classistry for an organization or business and a claim is brought against us because of your content or your breach of these Terms, you (or your organization) will cover the reasonable costs of that claim, to the extent the law allows.
19. Governing law
The laws of the State of Utah and of the United States govern these Terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be heard in the state or federal courts located in Utah, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your home courts.
20. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. We post the new version here and update the date at the top. If a change is material, we tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. If you keep using Classistry after that, the updated Terms apply.
21. General
These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about Classistry, alongside any written agreement with your organization. If part of these Terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don’t enforce a term right away, we haven’t given up the right to. You may not transfer these Terms without our permission; we may transfer them to a company that takes over Classistry.
22. Contact us
Questions about these Terms go to hello@classistry.com, or use the support form.