Terms of use: Story Classrooms

DRAFT 2026-10-19, for legal review. Not yet in force.

These terms are between [COMPANY] ("we") and the teacher or school using Story Classrooms ("you"). Last updated: [DATE].

1. The service

Story Classrooms gives a teacher a class page (with its own link and QR code) where students plan, write or tell, and send stories and other writing, and a dashboard where the teacher reads the work, grades it and shares feedback. Schools get a counts-only view of their classrooms. These terms cover the Story Warriors brand; JotJay has its own terms on its own site.

2. Who can use it

• Teachers and other school staff, aged 18 or older, using it for their classes.
• Students use it through their teacher's class page, with a classroom account they make (a made-up writing name and a password, no email), with the school's or teacher's permission. Students do not agree to these terms; their teacher and school are responsible for their use.
• When you join through your school's invitation link, your school's agreement with us also applies, and it wins if the two differ.

3. Plans and payment

• Schools: seat-based plans (Small 1 to 10 teachers, Medium 11 to 25, Large 26 to 50, Custom 51+), one seat per active teacher. Prices, term and invoicing are set in the school's quote or agreement. A school's plan runs for one school year (ending June 30), when its student work is deleted. [DECIDE: renewal and refunds.]
• Individual teachers (JotJay, formerly Story Ninjas): free to start with limits (the free start); a purchase is the full version, and its order number is checked at signup or in Settings. [DECIDE: annual renewal and what happens on expiry.]
• Taxes (GST/HST/PST) are added where they apply.

4. Your account

Keep your password to yourself and use one that's at least 10 characters. Tell us at [SUPPORT CONTACT] if you think someone else has used your account. You're responsible for what happens in your account.

5. Student information

• Use the service only for teaching. Ask students for their first name and last initial only, and remind them not to put full names, addresses or other personal details in their work.
• Follow your school's and board's rules on student information and on parental consent.
• Add a parent's or guardian's email address only when they have agreed to get emails from you about their child's writing, only for your own students, and remove it when asked.
• You can delete any piece of student work at any time. Otherwise it is deleted after the school year ends (June 30), or on the date your school sets. Download anything you need to keep (grades CSV) before then; you'll get a reminder two weeks ahead.
• We handle student information as described in the privacy notice and, for schools and boards, the data agreement.

6. Acceptable use

Don't use Story Classrooms to post anything unlawful, hateful or harmful to students; to try to get into anyone else's classroom or guess story codes; to overload or attack the service; or to copy the service or resell it.

7. Content

• Students and teachers own what they write. You give us only the permission we need to store, show and send it as part of the service.
• Our materials (the pages, artwork and books unlocked as rewards) belong to us or our licensors. Reward books are for the student's personal reading.

8. Availability and changes

We work to keep Story Classrooms available during the school day but can't promise it will never be interrupted. We may change or improve features; if a change takes away something you rely on, we'll tell you ahead of time. We'll give at least 30 days' notice of changes to these terms by email.

9. Ending

You can stop using Story Classrooms at any time and ask us to close your account (see the privacy notice). We may suspend an account that breaks these terms, after telling you why where we can. When a school's plan ends, its teachers' classrooms close and student work is deleted on its normal date, or sooner if the school asks. [DECIDE: grace period for downloads.]

10. Liability

[LAWYER: standard disclaimer and limitation of liability, capped at fees paid in the last 12 months; carve-outs for privacy breaches caused by our negligence may be required by boards.]

11. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of [PROVINCE] and the federal laws of Canada that apply there.

12. Contact

[COMPANY], [ADDRESS], [SUPPORT CONTACT].

Terms of service

Effective November 1, 2026

These terms are an agreement between JotJay Inc. ("JotJay", "we", "us") and the teacher, homeschooling parent or school that uses JotJay ("you"). Please read them before you sign up. We've kept them short and plain. How we handle information is set out in our privacy policy, which is part of these terms.

1. Who we are

JotJay is a writing classroom for Canadian schools, Kindergarten to Grade 12, run by JotJay Inc., 2015 46 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta. Teachers get class pages (each with its own link, class code and QR code) where students plan, write or speak, and hand in their writing, and a dashboard to plan the year, teach our premade lessons, read the work, see how it was written, grade it and give feedback. Schools get a view of their teachers and classes with totals, never student work.

2. Who can use JotJay

• Teachers and school staff, 18 or older, using JotJay with their own classes. A parent teaching at home can use JotJay the same way.
• Schools, school boards and districts, through a school plan. When you join JotJay through your school (an invitation, or your school email address), your school's agreement with us also applies, and it wins if the two differ.
• Students, only through their teacher's class page, with the permission of their school or teacher. Students make an account with a made-up writing name and a password, never an email address. Students don't agree to these terms; their teacher and school are responsible for how JotJay is used in their class.
• If you sign up on your own, you confirm that your school allows you to use JotJay with your students, or that you'll ask before you do.

3. Your account

You're responsible for your account and what happens in it. Use a password of at least 10 characters that you don't use anywhere else, and keep it to yourself. If you think someone else has used your account, tell us right away at support@jotjay.com. Keep your email address up to date: it's how we reach you about your account, your plan and these terms.

4. Plans and prices

The current plans are below. The prices that apply to you are the ones on our pricing page when you buy, or in your school's quote. All prices are in Canadian dollars, per school year, and don't include GST/HST, which we add where it applies.

• The free plan is for a teacher on their own. Its 3 assignments are for good: deleting one doesn't free up its place. Some features, such as term grades, writing insights, planning weeks ahead, archiving and the natural reading voice, come with a paid plan. We may change the free plan's limits; if we do, we'll tell you first, and work already in your class stays.
• A school year runs to June 30. Paid plans run to the end of the school year and renew (or are invoiced again) on July 1.

5. Paying, renewing and cancelling

Just me and Homeschool are paid by card, through our payment processor, Stripe. We never see or store your card number.

• Your first payment is the full yearly price, whenever in the year you buy, and covers you to the end of that school year. If you buy in the last 60 days of a school year, it also covers the whole next school year.
• Your plan renews automatically each July 1 at the price on our pricing page at that time, and we charge the card on file. If we raise the price, we'll email you at least 30 days before the renewal that would cost more.
• You can turn off renewal at any time on your Plan page, or by emailing us. Your plan then runs to the end of the year you paid for and doesn't renew. You can turn renewal back on before then.
• If a renewal payment fails, Stripe tries again for a short while and your plan keeps working in the meantime.
• You can move up from Homeschool to Just me during the year; we take what's left of your Homeschool year off the price.

Schools pay by invoice, sent by email and paid online through Stripe. It's due 30 days after it's sent.

• A school's plan starts when its invoice is paid.
• About 30 days before the school year ends, we send the school's invoice for the next year, for the same plan and number of teachers. To stop renewing, choose "Don't renew" on the school's page or tell us before that invoice is due. An unpaid renewal invoice doesn't commit the school to anything: the plan simply ends.
• Adding teachers mid-year: a school can add teachers at any time and pays only for the rest of the school year, at its per-teacher rate.
• Boards and districts are invoiced each year on the terms of their quote.

6. Refunds

• 30-day money-back promise. If JotJay isn't right for you, email support@jotjay.com within 30 days of a payment (your first payment or a renewal) and we'll refund it in full. For a school, the 30 days count from the day the invoice is paid.
• After 30 days, payments aren't refundable for the rest of that school year, but you keep everything you paid for until the year ends.
• If we're at fault, for example if we end your plan without cause (section 11), stop offering JotJay, or make a change to these terms you don't accept (section 14), we refund the unused part of your school year.
• Nothing in these terms takes away a right to a refund that the law gives you.

7. When a plan ends

When a paid plan ends without being renewed, you keep the full version for 7 more days (30 days for a school), so a late payment doesn't interrupt your class. After that your account moves to the free plan.

• Nothing is deleted because a plan ended. Your classes, students and their work all stay. If you have more than 3 assignments, the oldest 3 stay open and the rest are locked: your students can't see them and you can't open them until you pay again, but nothing in them is lost. Paying again opens them at once.
• Student work is still deleted on its normal date (section 12), whatever plan you're on.
• When a school's plan ends, its teachers move to the free plan's limits in the same way, and the school's student work is deleted on its normal date, or sooner if the school asks.

8. Your content and student work

• You're in control of your classes' content. The work your students write, record and hand in, and the lessons, assignments, feedback and grades you add, are under your control, or your school's when you use JotJay through a school. The writing itself belongs to whoever wrote it. We don't own any of it.
• You give us only the permission we need to run JotJay for you: to store it, show it to the people you allow, read it aloud, and send it where you ask. We don't use it for anything else. We never sell it, never use it for ads, and never use student work to train artificial intelligence.
• Only you (the student's teacher) can read a student's work. Your school sees totals, never the writing. We look at content only when we must to keep JotJay running, fix a problem you report, or because the law requires it.
• You confirm that you have the right to add what you upload, such as files, pictures, recordings and video links, and to share it with your class.
• When JotJay is used through a school or board, its data agreement with us sets out how we handle student information on its behalf, and it wins if it differs from these terms.

Protecting student information. Use JotJay only for teaching. Ask students for their first name and last initial only, like "Maya R.", and remind them not to put full names, addresses or other personal details in their writing. Follow your school's and board's rules on student information and on parental consent.

9. Acceptable use

Use JotJay only for teaching and learning. Please don't:

• post anything unlawful, hateful, harassing or harmful to students;
• try to get into anyone else's class, account or information;
• share your account, or let someone who isn't allowed use JotJay through it;
• overload, probe, scan or attack the service, or get around its limits or security;
• copy, scrape, resell or rebuild JotJay or its content.

10. AI and writing insights

• No artificial intelligence analyses, writes or grades your students' work. You do the teaching and the grading.
• Writing insights show you facts about how a piece was written: what was typed, pasted, spoken or brought in from the plan, and how that compares with the student's own other pieces. They are not proof that a student used AI or copied, and you agree not to treat them as proof on their own. Use them to start a conversation with the student.
• Read aloud reads text out loud with a computer voice: on paid plans, Microsoft's speech service in Canada, which receives only the words being read and keeps nothing; otherwise the device's own voice.
• Speaking instead of typing uses the browser's own speech service (Google, in Chrome). That happens in the student's browser, under the browser's own terms.

11. Our materials, availability and changes

• Our materials (the app, the premade lessons and lesson packs, their audio, and our artwork) belong to us or the people we license them from. While you use JotJay, you may use them with your own classes and print worksheets for those classes. You may not republish or sell them.
• Availability. We work hard to keep JotJay running during the school day, but we can't promise it will never be interrupted, for example during maintenance or a problem with a service we rely on.
• Changes to JotJay. We improve JotJay all the time. If a change takes away something important in a paid plan you rely on, we'll tell you ahead of time. If we ever stop offering JotJay, we'll give at least 60 days' notice so you can download what you need, and refund the unused part of your school year.
• If you break these terms, we may suspend or close your account, after telling you why and giving you a chance to fix it where we reasonably can. We can act right away when students' safety or the security of the service is at risk.

12. Closing your account and deleting data

• Year-end deletion. Student work is deleted after the school year ends: after June 30, or on the date your school or you set. This includes the writing, recordings, pages, feedback, grades, notes and the student accounts. We email you 14 days before, so you can download what you need to keep, such as grades.
• Deleting sooner. You can delete any piece of student work at any time. A school can delete all of its student work at once.
• Closing your account. You can stop using JotJay at any time. Settings → Delete my classroom deletes your classroom, all of its student work and your account details at once, and emails a confirmation to your old address. It can't be undone, so download anything you need first. If your plan renews by card, turn off renewal on your Plan page before you delete, or email us and we'll cancel it.
• What stays. After deletion we keep only records with no content in them: counts and dates we need for school totals and billing, and a log of who opened what (ids only, never writing or grades), which is deleted after 13 months. Backups made by our hosting provider expire on their own schedule. Emails already sent stay in the inboxes they went to.

13. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

• JotJay is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, we don't promise that it will meet every need, be free of errors, or always be available, and we make no promises beyond those in these terms.
• Keep your own copies of anything important, such as grades and report card notes, and download them before their deletion date.
• To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses, such as lost data you could have downloaded, lost time or lost profits.
• To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for any claim about JotJay is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and CA$100.
• These limits don't apply to losses caused by our gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or to anything the law doesn't allow us to limit. A school's or board's agreement with us may set different terms, and wins if it does.
• Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer protection laws that can't be waived.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. Any dispute goes to the courts of Alberta, unless the law gives you the right to bring it where you live. Before going to court, please email us: most problems can be sorted out quickly.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as JotJay changes. If a change matters, we'll email you at least 30 days before it applies and show the new date at the top of this page. If you don't agree with the change, you can turn off renewal or close your account before it applies, and we'll refund the unused part of your school year. If you keep using JotJay after the change applies, the new terms apply to you.

16. Contact

JotJay Inc., 2015 46 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta

Questions, support, refunds and cancellations: support@jotjay.com. For privacy questions, see the contacts in our privacy policy.