Terms of Use

Version 1.0
Effective date: August 27, 2026
Last revised: August 27, 2026

The website located at academa.ai, together with its applications, features, content, and related services (collectively, the "Service"), is a copyrighted work belonging to Academa, Inc. ("Academa," "Company," "us," "our," or "we"). Certain features may be subject to additional guidelines, terms, plans, or rules posted in connection with those features. Those additional terms are incorporated into these Terms of Use (these "Terms"). If additional terms conflict with these Terms, the additional terms control for the feature to which they apply.

These Terms set forth the legally binding terms and conditions governing your use of the Service. By accessing or using the Service, you accept these Terms on behalf of yourself or the entity you represent, and you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into these Terms. You may not access or use the Service or accept these Terms if you are not at least 18 years old. If you do not agree to all of these Terms, do not access or use the Service.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and retain information in connection with the Service.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SECTION 10.2 GOVERNS HOW DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND COMPANY ARE RESOLVED. AMONG OTHER THINGS, IT CONTAINS AN AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE THAT REQUIRES, WITH LIMITED EXCEPTIONS, BINDING AND FINAL ARBITRATION. IT ALSO CONTAINS CLASS-ACTION AND JURY-TRIAL WAIVERS. PLEASE READ THAT SECTION CAREFULLY.

UNLESS YOU OPT OUT OF THE AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE WITHIN 30 DAYS AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 10.2(i): (1) YOU MAY PURSUE DISPUTES OR CLAIMS AND SEEK RELIEF AGAINST US ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN A CLASS, REPRESENTATIVE, COLLECTIVE, OR MASS ACTION OR PROCEEDING, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN SECTION 10.2(h); AND (2) YOU WAIVE THE RIGHT TO PURSUE COVERED DISPUTES OR CLAIMS IN A COURT OF LAW AND TO HAVE A JURY TRIAL.

Accounts

Account creation

Certain features require an account ("Account"). Academa currently allows you to create or access an Account through a supported third-party identity provider, such as Google or GitHub. You authorize us to obtain and use the account information that provider makes available in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

You represent and warrant that all information you submit is truthful, accurate, current, and complete and that you will maintain its accuracy. You may not create an Account for another person without authorization, impersonate a person or entity, or use a name, handle, image, or other identifier in a misleading or unlawful manner.

Some features require you to choose a permanent public handle. Your handle, name, and profile image may be shown with lectures, comments, and other content you make public. We may refuse or remove a handle that is unavailable, reserved, misleading, infringing, or otherwise violates these Terms.

You may request deletion of your Account by contacting founders@academa.ai. Account deletion is subject to the retention, public-content, billing, legal, safety, and other limitations described in our Privacy Policy. Disconnecting Google or GitHub does not by itself delete your Account. Company may suspend or terminate your Account under Section 8.

Account responsibilities

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of the identity-provider account, device, session, and other credentials used to access your Account. You are fully responsible for activities that occur under your Account, except to the extent caused by Company's breach of these Terms or applicable law.

You agree to notify Company promptly at founders@academa.ai of any unauthorized or suspected unauthorized use of your Account or any other security breach. Company will not be liable for loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with these requirements.

Access to and use of the Service

License to use the Service

Subject to these Terms, Company grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, limited license to access and use the Service for your own personal, educational, or internal business purposes. This license does not grant a right to resell or commercially exploit the Service itself. Your permitted use of an Output is addressed separately in Section 3.4.

Certain restrictions

The rights granted to you are subject to the following restrictions. Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, applicable open-source licenses, or written authorization from Company, you may not:

• license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Service, in whole or in part;
• copy, reproduce, distribute, republish, download, display, post, or transmit any part of the Service, other than your User Content or Output as permitted under these Terms;
• modify, translate, create derivative works of, disassemble, decompile, reverse compile, reverse engineer, or attempt to discover source code, models, prompts, weights, systems, or underlying components of the Service, except to the limited extent a restriction is prohibited by law;
• access or use the Service to build, train, benchmark for publication against, or support a substantially similar or competitive product or service, or to extract models, system prompts, source code, or datasets;
• bypass, disable, interfere with, or evade access controls, plan limits, rate limits, security measures, content protections, or technical restrictions;
• remove, obscure, or alter copyright, trademark, attribution, or other proprietary notices; or
• use the Service in violation of the Acceptable Use Policy.

Future releases, updates, and additions to the Service are subject to these Terms unless we say otherwise.

Artificial intelligence features

The Service uses artificial intelligence and automated systems to conduct lecture interviews, parse documents, create lecture source and audiovisual materials, generate narration, and answer tutor questions. You authorize Company and its providers to process User Content as reasonably necessary to provide those features, as explained in our Privacy Policy.

AI systems are probabilistic. Output may be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, offensive, non-unique, or unsuitable for your purpose. Output can contain factual, mathematical, citation, translation, accessibility, code, or other errors. You must evaluate Output for accuracy, appropriateness, legality, and fitness before relying on, publishing, distributing, or using it.

The Service and Output are educational tools and do not constitute legal, medical, financial, mental-health, or other professional advice. They are not a substitute for a qualified professional, an instructor's requirements, or your independent judgment. You are responsible for complying with academic-integrity, attribution, disclosure, and other rules that apply to your use.

We may limit, block, or refuse a generation or remove Output when reasonably necessary to comply with law, provider requirements, safety rules, plan limits, or these Terms. We do not guarantee that any model, provider, voice, feature, or generation method will remain available.

Paid plans and billing

Some features require a paid plan. Polar Software, Inc. ("Polar") acts as merchant of record and authorized reseller for purchases. When you complete a purchase through Polar, Polar's checkout terms and privacy policy also apply to the transaction; these Terms govern your license to and use of the Service.

The checkout page will show the price, currency, taxes, billing interval, included access, renewal terms, and other material purchase details. By purchasing a recurring subscription, you authorize Polar to charge the disclosed payment method at the beginning of each billing period until you cancel. Prices and plan features may change prospectively. We or Polar will provide any notice required by law before a price change takes effect for an existing subscription.

You may manage or cancel a subscription through the billing portal available from the Service. Cancellation stops future renewal charges and ordinarily takes effect at the end of the then-current paid period unless the checkout terms, billing portal, or applicable law states otherwise. Deleting an Account or stopping use of the Service does not necessarily cancel a subscription; use the billing portal or contact us to confirm cancellation.

Except as expressly stated at checkout or required by applicable law, purchases are final and fees are nonrefundable. Polar is responsible for payment processing, transaction receipts, taxes it collects as merchant of record, and payment-method refunds or disputes administered through its systems. If a payment fails, is reversed, or is reasonably suspected to be fraudulent, access to paid features may be suspended or terminated.

Plan limits, entitlements, and included usage are part of the applicable plan description. Usage may be measured by generations, tutor turns, compute, or other units stated in the Service. Included usage has no cash value and may not be transferred unless the applicable plan description expressly states otherwise.

Modification of the Service

Company reserves the right at any time to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, with or without notice. We may change features, providers, models, storage, limits, and availability. Where required by law, we will provide notice or an appropriate remedy for a material adverse change to a paid Service.

You agree that, to the maximum extent permitted by law, Company will not be liable to you or any third party for a modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the Service or any part of it.

No support or maintenance obligation

You acknowledge and agree that Company has no obligation to provide support or maintenance in connection with the Service, except as expressly stated in a paid plan or required by law. If we provide support, doing so does not create a continuing obligation to provide the same support in the future.

Ownership of the Service

Excluding User Content and the rights in Output addressed in Section 3, all intellectual-property rights in and to the Service and Company Materials are owned by Company or its suppliers.

"Company Materials" include the Site; software; application programming interfaces; designs; interfaces; templates; systems; prompts; orchestration; lecture engines; rendering systems; data models; taxonomies; documentation; branding; trademarks; know-how; and content supplied by Company or its licensors independently of your User Content. Company Materials also include improvements, modifications, and derivative works of those materials, even when used to create an Output.

Neither these Terms nor your access transfers any right, title, or interest in Company Materials except for the limited rights expressly granted in Section 2.1. Company and its suppliers reserve all rights not expressly granted. No implied licenses are granted.

Feedback

If you provide Company with suggestions, ideas, ratings, corrections, or other feedback about the Service ("Feedback"), you assign to Company all right, title, and interest in that Feedback and agree that Company may use and exploit it without restriction or compensation. If an assignment is not effective under applicable law, you grant Company a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully paid license to use and exploit the Feedback for any purpose.

Company will treat Feedback as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Do not submit as Feedback information or ideas you consider confidential or proprietary.

User Content, Output, and Public Content

User Content

"User Content" means information and content that you submit to, upload to, post on, transmit through, or use with the Service. It includes profile information; lecture requests and prompts; interview answers; instructions; PDFs and extracted material; tutor questions, messages, drafts, and attachments; comments; reports; and communications. User Content does not include Feedback or Company Materials.

You are solely responsible for your User Content. You assume the risks associated with it, including reliance on its accuracy, its disclosure to providers needed to perform the Service, its use in an Output, and any disclosure that identifies you or another person.

You represent and warrant that:

• you own your User Content or have all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to submit it and grant the rights in these Terms;
• your User Content and our permitted use of it do not violate any law, contract, duty, or third-party right;
• you have provided all notices and obtained all consents required for personal information about another person contained in your User Content; and
• your User Content complies with the Acceptable Use Policy.

You may not represent or imply that Company provides, sponsors, endorses, or verifies your User Content. Company is not obligated to back up User Content, and User Content may be lost, removed, or become unavailable. You are responsible for keeping your own copies when needed.

Your ownership of User Content

As between you and Company, you retain ownership of your User Content. These Terms do not transfer ownership of your User Content to Company. You grant Company only the licenses and other rights needed for the purposes described below.

License to Company

You grant Company a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable, and sublicensable license to host, store, cache, reproduce, transmit, adapt, format, translate, analyze, create derivative works of, display, perform, distribute, and otherwise use your User Content as reasonably necessary to:

• provide, operate, maintain, secure, troubleshoot, support, analyze, and improve the Service;
• process your request and create, render, deliver, and evaluate Output;
• make content available to the people and audiences you select;
• moderate content, investigate misuse, enforce these Terms, and comply with law; and
• use service providers and contractors for those purposes.

For User Content you make public ("Public Content"), the license also allows Company to publicly display, perform, distribute, index, make available, and promote that Public Content and the Service through any media or channel. This public-content license continues while the content is public and afterward for copies made or distributed while it was public, reasonable backup and archival periods, public thread integrity, and legal, safety, and enforcement purposes.

For private User Content, this license ends when the User Content is deleted from our active systems, except to the extent continued processing is reasonably necessary for backups, security, fraud prevention, billing or entitlement integrity, legal obligations, dispute resolution, enforcement, or deidentified information. Some lecture-production records are durable by design, as explained in the Privacy Policy.

To the extent permitted by law, you waive and agree not to assert moral rights or similar rights in User Content against Company or its authorized users for uses allowed by these Terms. If a waiver is not permitted, you agree not to exercise those rights in a way that interferes with the granted licenses.

Outputs and your rights in them

"Output" means content generated and returned by the Service in response to User Content, including generated lectures, source created specifically for a lecture, narration, transcripts, audiovisual materials, and tutor responses. Output does not include Company Materials, third-party materials, or content that existed independently of your request.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms and to the extent permitted by applicable law, Company assigns to you any right, title, and interest Company may have in Output generated specifically for you. You may use that Output for any lawful purpose, including commercial purposes, subject to these Terms and any third-party rights or notices that apply.

This assignment does not grant you ownership of Company Materials or third-party materials that appear in or are used by an Output. Company retains all rights in Company Materials, and the owner or licensor of third-party material retains its rights. Company grants you a non-exclusive license to use Company Materials embedded in an Output only as reasonably necessary to use that Output as permitted by these Terms, and only while you comply with these Terms.

Because of the nature of artificial intelligence, Output may not qualify for copyright or other protection, and the same or similar output may be generated for other users. Company does not represent that Output is unique, protectable, accurate, non-infringing, or free of third-party rights. You are responsible for reviewing Output and obtaining any additional rights or permissions needed for your intended use.

You grant Company the same license in Output that Section 3.3 grants in User Content, solely for the purposes stated there. If you make an Output public, the Public Content terms apply to it.

Public Content and interactions

When you choose to publish a lecture or post in a public feature, the Public Content may be viewed worldwide, indexed by search engines, copied, cached, quoted, or redistributed by others. Public Content may include the generated lecture, transcript, title, subject, summary, metadata, public handle, profile name and image, comments, reactions, and aggregate engagement.

Unless the Service expressly indicates otherwise, publishing a generated lecture does not make the original prompt, interview answers, uploaded PDF, or tutor conversation public. Once someone else has copied or redistributed Public Content, Company may be unable to remove that person's copy even if you later make the content private or delete it.

Each user is solely responsible for their own User Content and interactions. We do not guarantee the identity, conduct, accuracy, quality, or legality of any user or Public Content.

Acceptable Use Policy

The following terms constitute our "Acceptable Use Policy."

You agree not to use the Service to collect, upload, transmit, generate, display, distribute, or otherwise make available content that:

• violates a third party's copyright, trademark, patent, trade-secret, moral, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other intellectual-property or proprietary right;
• is unlawful, harassing, abusive, tortious, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy, vulgar, defamatory, knowingly false or misleading, trade libelous, pornographic, obscene, patently offensive, or promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, discrimination, or physical harm against a group or individual;
• sexually exploits or otherwise harms a minor, or depicts a minor in a sexual or exploitative manner;
• contains personal information you lack authority to provide, or is intended to identify, track, profile, or target another person unlawfully;
• violates a law, regulation, sanctions restriction, court order, obligation, or restriction imposed by a third party; or
• is designed to facilitate academic dishonesty, fraud, impersonation, deception, or misrepresentation in violation of applicable rules or law.

In addition, you agree not to:

• upload, transmit, or distribute malware, viruses, worms, harmful code, corrupted files, or software intended to damage, alter, monitor, or obtain unauthorized access to a system or data;
• send unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional material, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or duplicative messages;
• harvest, collect, gather, or assemble information about users, including email addresses, without their consent or another lawful basis;
• interfere with, disrupt, disable, or create an undue burden on the Service or connected servers or networks, or violate their policies or procedures;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or another system or network, including through credential attacks, password mining, vulnerability exploitation, or circumvention of controls;
• conduct penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, or security research against the Service without Company's prior written authorization;
• harass or interfere with another user's use and enjoyment of the Service;
• use automated agents, scripts, bots, or deceptive means to create Accounts, manufacture engagement, evade limits, submit generations, or make requests at a volume a person could not reasonably produce;
• scrape, crawl, mine, mirror, or extract content, datasets, prompts, models, or other information from the Service, except as expressly permitted; or
• use Output or the Service to make a decision about another person that has legal or similarly significant effects in employment, credit, housing, insurance, education admissions, healthcare, or access to essential services without all review, notices, consent, and safeguards required by law.

We conditionally grant operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy Public Content solely to create publicly available searchable indices, not caches or archives, and only as permitted by our robots.txt file. This permission does not extend to content used to train artificial-intelligence models or to any other automated extraction.

Enforcement

We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to review, refuse, restrict, disable, or remove User Content or Output in our discretion. We may investigate and take action if we believe you violated the Acceptable Use Policy or these Terms, infringed rights, created risk or liability, or misused the Service. Action may include removing or modifying content; making content private; limiting generations or access; preserving evidence; suspending or terminating an Account under Section 8; and reporting conduct to affected parties, providers, or law-enforcement authorities.

We may use automated systems to detect spam, abuse, malware, policy violations, or security threats. Enforcement decisions may be imperfect. Contact founders@academa.ai if you believe we made a mistake.

Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Company and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, suppliers, successors, and assigns from and against any claim, demand, action, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, judgment, settlement, penalty, cost, or expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to:

• your use of the Service or Output;
• your User Content or Public Content;
• your violation of these Terms;
• your violation of applicable law or regulation; or
• your violation of another person's rights.

Company reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of a matter subject to indemnification, and you agree to cooperate with that defense. You may not settle a matter without Company's prior written consent. Company will use reasonable efforts to notify you of a covered claim after becoming aware of it.

This Section does not require a consumer to indemnify Company for Company's own unlawful conduct and does not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.

Third-party services and other users

Third-party services and links

The Service may contain links to, interoperate with, or depend on third-party websites, services, content, models, identity providers, payment services, and infrastructure (collectively, "Third-Party Services"). Third-Party Services are not under Company's control, and Company is not responsible for them.

We provide access to Third-Party Services as a convenience or as part of operating the Service. Unless expressly stated, Company does not review, approve, monitor, endorse, warrant, or make representations about them. Your use of a Third-Party Service may be subject to that party's terms, acceptable-use rules, and privacy practices. You should make whatever investigation you consider necessary before authorizing an integration, relying on content, or completing a transaction.

Other users

Each user is solely responsible for their User Content and conduct. Because we do not control User Content, we are not responsible for content provided by you or others and make no guarantees about its accuracy, currency, suitability, appropriateness, quality, or legality.

Your interactions with other users are solely between you and those users. Company is not responsible for loss or damage resulting from those interactions and has no obligation to become involved in a dispute between users.

Release

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you release and forever discharge Company and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, successors, and assigns from, and waive and relinquish, every past, present, and future dispute, claim, controversy, demand, right, obligation, liability, action, and cause of action of every kind and nature, including personal injury, death, and property damage, arising directly or indirectly out of or relating to interactions with other users or independent Third-Party Services.

IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542 IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOREGOING RELEASE. SECTION 1542 STATES: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS THAT THE CREDITOR OR RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE AND THAT, IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER, WOULD HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR OR RELEASED PARTY.”

Disclaimers

The Service uses experimental and evolving technologies. Generated lectures, tutor responses, translations, transcripts, citations, animations, narration, and other Output may contain errors, omissions, artifacts, or unsafe or unsuitable material. Company does not verify every Output before it is delivered or published. You are responsible for review and use.

THE SERVICE AND ALL OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, COMPANY AND ITS SUPPLIERS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

COMPANY AND ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE OR OUTPUT WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR EXPECTATIONS; ACHIEVE ANY EDUCATIONAL, PROFESSIONAL, COMMERCIAL, OR OTHER RESULT; BE AVAILABLE ON AN UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE BASIS; OR BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, COMPLETE, CURRENT, UNIQUE, LEGAL, SAFE, ACCESSIBLE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL CODE. COMPANY DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ERRORS OR DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED OR THAT USER CONTENT WILL NOT BE LOST.

NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM COMPANY, THE SERVICE, OUTPUT, OR ANOTHER USER CREATES A WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS. IF APPLICABLE LAW REQUIRES WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE, ALL SUCH WARRANTIES ARE LIMITED IN DURATION TO 90 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF FIRST USE, TO THE EXTENT THAT LIMIT IS PERMITTED BY LAW.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so some of the exclusions or limitations above may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms affects a warranty or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Limitation on liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL COMPANY OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST SAVINGS, LOST DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, OR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, THE SERVICE, USER CONTENT, OUTPUT, OR YOUR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, EVEN IF COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THOSE DAMAGES. ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICE AND OUTPUT ARE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE OR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA RESULTING FROM THEM.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY IN THESE TERMS, COMPANY'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS, THE SERVICE, USER CONTENT, OR OUTPUT, FOR ANY CAUSE AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO FIFTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US $50). THE EXISTENCE OF MORE THAN ONE CLAIM WILL NOT ENLARGE THIS LIMIT. YOU AGREE THAT COMPANY'S SUPPLIERS WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS.

Some jurisdictions do not allow limitations or exclusions of liability for incidental or consequential damages, or allow particular liability to be limited only in specified ways, so some of the limitations above may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, willful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

The limitations in this Section are fundamental elements of the agreement between you and Company and apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose.

Term and termination

These Terms remain in effect while you use the Service. You may stop using the Service at any time. You may request Account deletion as described in Section 1.1, and you must separately cancel a recurring subscription through the billing portal if you want to stop future charges.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Company may suspend or terminate your rights to use the Service, including your Account, at any time and for any reason, including a violation of these Terms, nonpayment, legal or provider requirements, risk to the Service or others, or discontinuation of a feature. Where reasonably practicable, we may provide notice and an opportunity to cure, but we are not required to do so when immediate action is reasonably necessary.

Upon termination, your license and right to access and use the Service terminate immediately. Termination may involve deletion of or loss of access to User Content in live systems. Public Content, durable production and provenance records, transaction records, backups, and information required for legal, security, billing, or enforcement purposes may remain as described in the Privacy Policy. Company has no liability for a lawful suspension or termination, including resulting loss of access to an Account, User Content, or Output.

Sections 2.2 through 2.8, Section 3, and Sections 4 through 10, together with any provision that by its nature should survive, remain in effect after termination.

Copyright policy

Copyright and repeat-infringer policy

Company respects the intellectual property of others and asks users to do the same. We may remove or disable access to material that we believe infringes copyright and, in appropriate circumstances, terminate Accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

Notice of claimed infringement

If you believe material available through the Service infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to enforce, send a written notice containing substantially the following information, as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3):

• your physical or electronic signature;
• identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed or, for multiple works on the Service, a representative list of those works;
• identification of the material you claim is infringing and information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it, including the specific URL where possible;
• your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address;
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you own the allegedly infringed copyright or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Send copyright notices to:

Academa, Inc. — Copyright Contact
Attn: Copyright
1111B S Governors Ave, STE 37781
Dover, DE 19904
United States
founders@academa.ai

We may send a copy of your notice, including your contact information, to the user who posted the material and may publish or otherwise disclose the notice as required or permitted by law.

Counter-notification

If material you posted was removed or disabled as a result of a copyright notice and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may send the Copyright Contact a written counter-notification containing substantially the information required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), including:

• your physical or electronic signature;
• identification of the material removed or disabled and where it appeared before removal;
• a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification;
• your name, address, and telephone number; and
• a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the appropriate United States federal district court and will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original notice or that person's agent.

We may restore material in accordance with applicable law unless the original complainant notifies us that it has filed an action seeking a court order.

Misrepresentations

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees. Consider consulting an attorney before submitting a notice or counter-notification.

General

Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time. If we make a substantial change, we may notify you by email at the last email address associated with your Account, through the Service, or by prominently posting notice. You are responsible for keeping your Account information current.

Unless otherwise stated, a material change to these Terms will become effective 30 days after notice, and other changes will become effective when posted. A change addressing new functionality, law, security, abuse, or an emergency may take effect sooner. Changes to the Arbitration Agreement are governed by Section 10.2(k).

Your continued use of the Service after revised Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and cancel any subscription. A revision does not retroactively change rights or obligations accrued before its effective date unless the law permits and the revised Terms expressly say so.

Dispute resolution

Please read this Arbitration Agreement carefully. It is part of your contract with Company and affects your rights. For this Section, "Dispute" means any dispute, claim, or controversy between you and Company or its officers, directors, employees, agents, predecessors, successors, assigns, or suppliers (collectively, the "Company Parties") arising out of or relating in any way to the Service, User Content, Output, communications, transactions, these Terms, or the relationship between you and a Company Party, whether based in contract, statute, regulation, ordinance, tort, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal or equitable theory.

Applicability and exclusions

You and Company agree that every Dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, except:

• either party may bring an individual action in small-claims court if the action remains in that court and is within its jurisdiction;
• either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction for actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of intellectual-property rights;
• either party may ask a court to compel arbitration, stay a proceeding pending arbitration, or confirm, modify, vacate, or enter judgment on an arbitration award; and
• a claim or request for relief that applicable law prohibits from being arbitrated may proceed in court, but only after all arbitrable claims and remedies are resolved first, to the extent permitted by law.

This Arbitration Agreement applies to Disputes that arose or involve facts occurring before or after you accepted it. The Federal Arbitration Act governs its interpretation and enforcement. This Arbitration Agreement is mutually binding on you and the Company Parties.

Informal dispute resolution

Before initiating arbitration, the complaining party must send the other a written notice of the Dispute (a "Notice") and participate in an individualized, good-faith effort to resolve it informally for at least 60 days. A Notice to Company must be sent to founders@academa.ai with the subject "Notice of Dispute" or by certified mail to the address in Section 10.9. Company will send a Notice to the email address associated with your Account or another appropriate address in its records.

The Notice must include the sender's name, telephone number, mailing address, and email address; the Account handle and email address, if applicable; a description of the nature and factual basis of the Dispute; the legal claims asserted; the specific relief sought; and an accurate, good-faith calculation of any amount sought in United States dollars. The Notice must be personally signed by the party bringing the Dispute and, if represented, by counsel.

During the 60-day period, either party may request an individualized telephone or video settlement conference. The parties will cooperate to schedule it at a mutually convenient time, and each party must personally participate, with counsel if represented. The statute of limitations and filing-fee deadlines are tolled during the informal process to the extent permitted by law.

Compliance with this subsection is a condition precedent to arbitration. A court of competent jurisdiction, not an arbitrator, has authority to decide whether a party complied and to enjoin an arbitration that was not preceded by a compliant individualized Notice and process.

Arbitration rules and request

If the Dispute is not resolved within 60 days after receipt of a compliant Notice, either party may initiate binding arbitration administered by JAMS. Disputes in which all claims and counterclaims total less than $250,000, excluding attorneys' fees and interest, are governed by JAMS's then-current Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures. All other Disputes are governed by JAMS's then-current Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures. If the Dispute is a consumer arbitration, the JAMS Consumer Arbitration Minimum Standards also apply. JAMS's rules are available at jamsadr.com or by calling 800-352-5267.

A party initiating arbitration must give the other party a request for arbitration (the "Request") and submit it to JAMS as its rules require. The Request must include:

• the requesting party's name, telephone number, mailing address, and email address, along with any Account handle and Account email address;
• a statement of the legal claims and their factual bases;
• a description of the relief sought and an accurate, good-faith calculation of the amount in controversy in United States dollars;
• a certification that the informal process in Section 10.2(b) was completed; and
• evidence that the requesting party paid any filing fee that the applicable JAMS rules require that party to pay.

If represented by counsel, the Request must also provide counsel's name, telephone number, mailing address, and email address and must be signed by counsel. By signing, counsel certifies, after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances, that the Request is not presented for an improper purpose; the claims, defenses, and legal contentions are warranted by existing law or a nonfrivolous argument to change the law; and the factual and damages contentions have or are likely to have evidentiary support.

Unless the parties agree otherwise or Section 10.2(h) applies, arbitration will take place in the county where you reside, by video, by telephone, or through written submissions, as the JAMS rules and arbitrator permit. The arbitrator may direct a limited and reasonable exchange of non-privileged information relevant to the Dispute. If JAMS is unavailable or unwilling to administer the arbitration consistent with this Arbitration Agreement, the parties will confer in good faith to select another provider. If they cannot agree, a court of competent jurisdiction may appoint a provider under 9 U.S.C. § 5.

Your responsibility for JAMS fees and costs is solely as provided by the applicable JAMS rules and Consumer Arbitration Minimum Standards. Company will pay all arbitration fees it is required to pay under those standards and applicable law. The parties will keep materials and documents exchanged in arbitration confidential except as reasonably necessary for the proceeding, to consult attorneys, accountants, insurers, or business advisers who agree to confidentiality, to enforce an award, or as required by law.

Authority of the arbitrator

Except for issues expressly reserved to a court in this Arbitration Agreement, the arbitrator has exclusive authority to resolve Disputes about the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation of these Terms or this Arbitration Agreement, including a claim that part of them is void or voidable.

The following issues must be decided only by a court of competent jurisdiction: disputes about the Waiver of Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief; except as expressly provided in Section 10.2(h), disputes about payment of arbitration fees; disputes about compliance with a condition precedent to arbitration; and disputes about which version of the Arbitration Agreement applies.

Except as provided in Section 10.2(h), the arbitration may not be consolidated with another matter or joined with another case or party. The arbitrator may grant motions disposing of all or part of a claim and may award on an individual basis any monetary or non-monetary remedy available under applicable law, the JAMS rules, and these Terms. The arbitrator must follow applicable law and issue a written award describing the essential findings and conclusions, including the calculation of damages. The award is final and binding, subject to the limited review allowed by law, and judgment may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

Waiver of jury trial

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN SECTION 10.2(a), YOU AND THE COMPANY PARTIES WAIVE ALL CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY RIGHTS TO SUE IN COURT AND TO HAVE A TRIAL BEFORE A JUDGE OR JURY. YOU AND THE COMPANY PARTIES INSTEAD ELECT TO HAVE COVERED DISPUTES RESOLVED BY ARBITRATION. AN ARBITRATOR CAN AWARD ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS THE SAME DAMAGES AND RELIEF AS A COURT AND MUST FOLLOW THESE TERMS AS A COURT WOULD, BUT THERE IS NO JUDGE OR JURY IN ARBITRATION AND COURT REVIEW OF AN AWARD IS VERY LIMITED.

Waiver of class or other non-individualized relief

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN SECTION 10.2(h), YOU AND COMPANY AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, NOT ON A CLASS, REPRESENTATIVE, COLLECTIVE, COORDINATED, CONSOLIDATED, OR MASS-ACTION BASIS. THE PARTIES WAIVE ALL RIGHTS TO HAVE A DISPUTE BROUGHT, HEARD, ADMINISTERED, RESOLVED, OR ARBITRATED ON A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, REPRESENTATIVE, OR MASS-ACTION BASIS. ONLY INDIVIDUAL RELIEF IS AVAILABLE, AND DISPUTES OF MORE THAN ONE USER MAY NOT BE ARBITRATED OR CONSOLIDATED EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN SECTION 10.2(h).

Subject to this Arbitration Agreement, the arbitrator may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party's individual claim.

If a court enters a final decision not subject to further appeal that this subsection is invalid or unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, including a request for public injunctive relief, that claim or request alone will be severed from arbitration and may be litigated in a court of competent jurisdiction. All other Disputes will be arbitrated or litigated in small-claims court. This subsection does not prevent participation in a class-wide settlement.

Attorneys' fees and costs

The parties will bear their own attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration unless applicable law, these Terms, or the arbitrator permits an award because a claim, defense, or requested relief was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose, measured by standards comparable to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b).

If a party must seek a court order to compel arbitration, the party obtaining an order compelling arbitration may recover its reasonable costs, necessary disbursements, and reasonable attorneys' fees to the extent permitted by law. The prevailing party in a court action about compliance with a condition precedent to arbitration may recover reasonable costs, disbursements, and attorneys' fees to the extent permitted by law. Nothing in this paragraph requires a consumer to pay fees or costs where prohibited by the JAMS Consumer Arbitration Minimum Standards or applicable law.

Batch and mass arbitration

To increase the efficiency of administering substantially similar arbitrations, if 100 or more individual Requests of a substantially similar nature are filed against Company by or with the assistance of the same law firm, coordinated group of law firms, or organization within a 30-day period, or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, the Requests will be administered in batches of 100 Requests per batch, with a final batch containing any remainder ("Batch Arbitration").

JAMS will appoint one arbitrator for each batch and resolve each batch as a single consolidated arbitration with one set of filing and administrative fees per side per batch, one procedural calendar, one hearing if needed, and one final award that separately addresses each claimant. The JAMS Mass Arbitration Procedures and Guidelines apply to the extent they are not inconsistent with this subsection, with 100 Requests as the agreed threshold for this Batch Arbitration process.

Requests are of a "substantially similar nature" if they arise out of or relate to the same event or factual scenario, raise the same or similar legal issues, and seek the same or similar relief. If the parties disagree about whether Batch Arbitration applies, the objecting party will notify JAMS, and JAMS will appoint a sole process or administrative arbitrator to decide that issue. Company will pay that arbitrator's fees.

The parties agree to cooperate in good faith with JAMS to implement Batch Arbitration and minimize time and costs, including by paying the single applicable set of filing and administrative fees for each batch, appointing a discovery special master if useful, and adopting an expedited calendar.

This subsection does not authorize a class, collective, representative, or mass arbitration or action of any kind, or joint or consolidated claims, except for the specific Batch Arbitration process described here. If this subsection is held invalid or unenforceable as to a set of Requests, those Requests will be administered individually and not as a class, collective, representative, or mass arbitration.

30-day right to opt out

You may opt out of this Arbitration Agreement by sending a timely written notice within 30 days after you first become subject to it. Send the notice by email to founders@academa.ai with the subject "Arbitration Opt Out" or by mail to:

Academa, Inc.
Attn: Arbitration Opt Out
1111B S Governors Ave, STE 37781
Dover, DE 19904
United States

Your notice must include your name, mailing address, Account email address and handle if applicable, and a clear statement that you opt out of the Arbitration Agreement in Academa's Terms of Use. You must personally sign the notice, including an electronic signature if sent by email.

If you timely opt out, all other parts of these Terms continue to apply. Opting out has no effect on any other arbitration agreement you may have with us or may enter into later.

Invalidity and expiration

Except as provided in the Waiver of Class or Other Non-Individualized Relief, if any part of this Arbitration Agreement is found invalid or unenforceable, that part will be severed and the remainder will continue in effect.

A Dispute must be initiated within the applicable statute of limitations or it is time-barred. Applicable limitations periods apply in arbitration in the same manner as in court, subject to any tolling expressly provided in these Terms or by law.

Modification of the Arbitration Agreement

If Company makes a future material change to this Arbitration Agreement, you may reject that change by sending written notice within 30 days after the change becomes effective to founders@academa.ai or the mailing address in Section 10.2(i). Your notice must identify the change you reject and be personally signed.

Unless you timely reject the change, continued use of the Service after the change becomes effective constitutes acceptance. A change does not give you a new opportunity to opt out of an Arbitration Agreement you previously accepted without timely opting out. If you reject a change but remain bound by an earlier version, that earlier version remains in effect. Company will honor valid opt-outs made under a prior version.

Governing law and court venue

The Federal Arbitration Act governs the Arbitration Agreement. Except to the extent federal law, the law of your residence, or another mandatory law applies, these Terms and any Dispute are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

For a Dispute that is not subject to arbitration or small-claims court, you and Company consent to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Delaware, except where applicable law gives you a non-waivable right to bring a claim elsewhere.

Export controls and sanctions

The Service may be subject to United States export-control and economic-sanctions laws and to import or export laws in other countries. You agree not to access, use, export, reexport, release, or transfer the Service, technical data, Output, or products utilizing them in violation of those laws.

You represent and warrant that you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or organized under the laws of a comprehensively sanctioned jurisdiction; identified on a United States government restricted-party list; or owned or controlled by such a person, except where access is authorized by applicable law and Company.

California consumer notice

Company's name, address, and contact information appear in Section 10.9. If you are a California resident, you may report complaints to the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs by writing to 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by calling 800-952-5210.

Electronic communications

Communications between you and Company may use electronic means, whether you use the Service, send email, receive a transactional message, or view a notice posted on the Service. For contractual purposes, you consent to receive communications from Company electronically and agree that electronic terms, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing.

You may withdraw consent to marketing communications as described in the Privacy Policy, but you may still receive transactional, legal, billing, and security messages. This subsection does not affect non-waivable rights.

Entire agreement and miscellaneous terms

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any applicable additional terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Company regarding the Service and supersede prior or contemporaneous understandings about it.

Company's failure to exercise or enforce a right or provision is not a waiver. Section titles are for convenience and have no legal or contractual effect. "Including" means "including without limitation." If a provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the other provisions remain unimpaired, and the invalid provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable where permitted.

Your relationship with Company is that of an independent contracting party; neither party is the other's agent, partner, joint venturer, employer, or employee. These Terms do not create third-party beneficiaries except that the Company Parties and suppliers may enforce provisions that expressly protect them.

You may not assign, subcontract, delegate, or transfer these Terms or your rights or obligations without Company's prior written consent, and an attempted transfer in violation of this restriction is void. Company may assign these Terms in connection with a financing, corporate reorganization, merger, acquisition, sale of assets, operation of law, or otherwise. These Terms bind and benefit permitted successors and assigns.

Copyright and trademark information

Copyright © 2026 Academa, Inc. All rights reserved.

The names, trademarks, logos, service marks, and trade dress displayed through the Service ("Marks") are the property of Company or their respective third-party owners. You may not use a Mark without the prior written consent of its owner. Nothing in these Terms grants a license to use a Mark except as it appears unaltered in an Output you are otherwise permitted to use.

Contact information

Questions about these Terms or the Service may be sent to:

Academa, Inc.
1111B S Governors Ave, STE 37781
Dover, DE 19904
United States
founders@academa.ai