Terms of Service
Effective Date: May 27, 2026
Welcome to ĀYŌDÈ (The Organization for the Advancement of Youth through Opportunities in Digital Education). By accessing or using our services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (“Terms”). Please read them carefully.
1. Acceptance of Terms and Permission to Use
By accessing or using ĀYŌDÈ’s website, applications, or services (collectively, the “Services”), you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you are an individual who is entering into these Terms on behalf of an entity, you represent and warrant that you have the power to bind that entity, and you hereby agree on that entity’s behalf to be bound by these Terms, with the terms “you,” and “your” applying to you, that entity, and other users accessing the Services on behalf of that entity. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use our Services.
Subject to these Terms, ĀYŌDÈ grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive permission to access and use the Services.
2. Eligibility and Conditions for Use
Our Services are intended for individuals who are at least 13 years old. If you are under 13, you may use our Services only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian. Schools or educational institutions may provide consent on behalf of parents for students under 13, in compliance with applicable laws.
Your permission to use the Services is conditioned on your compliance with these Terms, our Acceptable Use Policy, our Community Guidelines, and any other applicable posted policies. You may not use the Services if ĀYŌDÈ suspends, terminates, or otherwise revokes your permission to use them.
3. User Accounts
To access certain features of our Services, you may be required to create an account. You agree to provide accurate and complete information and to keep this information up to date. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account.
You may close your account using available account settings or by contacting us using the contact information provided in these Terms.
You must promptly notify ĀYŌDÈ if you suspect that your account has been compromised, accessed without authorization, or otherwise misused.
You are responsible for selecting and maintaining a secure password and any other authentication methods associated with your account.
You remain responsible for activity conducted through your account until you close the account or notify ĀYŌDÈ of suspected compromise or unauthorized use.
If you provide a mobile phone number or enable phone-based authentication, you represent that the number is current, that you are authorized to receive messages at that number, and that you will promptly update or remove the number if it changes.
4. Acceptable Use
You agree to use our Services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You shall not:
- Use the Services in any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation.
- Engage in any conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the Services.
- Impersonate or attempt to impersonate ĀYŌDÈ, an ĀYŌDÈ employee, another user, or any other person or entity.
- Introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.
5. Intellectual Property
All content, features, and functionality of the Services, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, and software, are the exclusive property of ĀYŌDÈ or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.
If you believe that material available through the Services infringes your copyright, please submit a notice in accordance with our DMCA Policy.
6. User Contributions
Our Services may allow users to submit, post, or display content (“User Contributions”). You retain ownership of your User Contributions, and nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of your User Contributions to ĀYŌDÈ.
By providing any User Contribution, you grant ĀYŌDÈ an irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, analyze, and otherwise use that User Contribution in connection with the Services and ĀYŌDÈ’s related educational, operational, promotional, archival, and administrative purposes.
That license survives account closure, content removal requests, and termination of these Terms. ĀYŌDÈ is not obligated to store, maintain, return, or provide copies of User Contributions.
You represent and warrant that:
- You own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions.
- All of your User Contributions comply with these Terms.
ĀYŌDÈ is not responsible for misuse of User Contributions by other users or third parties who access or receive them through the Services.
7. Privacy and Data Protection
We are committed to protecting your privacy. Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information about you. By using our Services, you consent to our collection and use of your information as described in the Privacy Policy.
We may monitor, log, record, and analyze use of the Services for purposes including security, abuse prevention, policy enforcement, troubleshooting, analytics, and service improvement, as further described in our Privacy Policy and, where applicable, our Cookie Policy.
By accessing or using the Services, you acknowledge and agree to those practices to the extent permitted by applicable law. Where applicable law requires additional consent for particular monitoring or recording activities, we will seek that consent through an appropriate notice, banner, setting, or other consent mechanism.
For users under 13, we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Schools and educational institutions must obtain parental consent before providing us with personal information of students under 13.
8. Transactional Communications and SMS
If you provide a mobile phone number and affirmatively enable SMS-based features, including SMS multi-factor authentication, password recovery, account verification, or other phone-based security tools, you consent to receive transactional text messages from ĀYŌDÈ regarding those features and your account.
These communications are intended for account, authentication, fraud-prevention, safety, and operational purposes, not for unsolicited marketing. Message frequency varies based on your account activity, sign-in attempts, recovery requests, and other security or transactional events. Message and data rates may apply.
You may opt out of non-required SMS communications using available in-product controls. You may also disable SMS-based authentication in your account settings, subject to any requirement that you first enroll another approved authentication method. If a sending channel supports reply commands, you may also be able to reply STOP to opt out or HELP for assistance. Opting out of or disabling SMS may prevent you from using features that depend on phone-based verification.
You acknowledge that message delivery depends on third-party service providers, cloud messaging infrastructure, and participating wireless carriers, and that such messages may be delayed or fail. Standard SMS is not end-to-end encrypted and may be accessible to your carrier or others with access to your device. Additional details are provided in our Privacy Policy and Communications and SMS Policy.
9. Payment Terms
If you purchase any services or products from us, you agree to pay all applicable fees and taxes. Payments are non-refundable unless otherwise stated. We reserve the right to change our fees at any time.
10. Termination
We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services at our sole discretion, without notice, for conduct that we believe violates these Terms or is harmful to other users of the Services, us, or third parties, or for any other reason.
You may stop using the Services at any time and may close your account using available account settings or by contacting us using the contact information provided in these Terms.
Any provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including Section 6 (User Contributions), Section 11 (Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability), Section 12 (Responsibility for Your Use), Section 13 (General Terms), Section 15 (Disputes), and any payment or accrued-rights provisions that remain applicable.
11. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
The Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. ĀYŌDÈ makes no warranties, express or implied, regarding the Services, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
The Services may link to, interoperate with, or include content, software, integrations, or services provided by third parties. ĀYŌDÈ does not control and does not make any warranty regarding third-party services or content, and your use of those third-party offerings may be subject to separate terms, conditions, and privacy policies.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, ĀYŌDÈ shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages resulting from your use of or inability to use the Services.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, ĀYŌDÈ shall not be liable for damages that were not reasonably foreseeable at the time you agreed to these Terms.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, ĀYŌDÈ’s total aggregate liability for claims arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Services, or content made available through the Services, whether in contract, tort, statute, or otherwise, will not exceed fifty U.S. dollars (US $50).
12. Responsibility for Your Use
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless ĀYŌDÈ, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents from and against third-party claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, and fees, including reasonable attorney fees, arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms or your misuse of the Services.
If ĀYŌDÈ seeks indemnification under this section, ĀYŌDÈ will provide you with reasonably prompt notice of the claim, provided that any delay in notice will reduce your obligations only to the extent you are materially prejudiced by the delay.
ĀYŌDÈ may control the defense and settlement of any claim subject to indemnification under this section, and you agree to cooperate with the defense of those claims. ĀYŌDÈ will not agree to any settlement that admits fault on your behalf or imposes obligations on you without your prior written consent.
13. General Terms
If any provision of these Terms is unenforceable as written, that provision will be modified only to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and if that is not possible, it will be severed from these Terms without affecting the remainder.
You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without ĀYŌDÈ’s prior written consent. ĀYŌDÈ may assign these Terms to an affiliate, a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, change of control, or to a purchaser of assets related to the Services.
No waiver of any provision of these Terms will be deemed a further or continuing waiver of that provision or any other provision, and any failure to exercise or delay in exercising any right under these Terms will not operate as a waiver.
These Terms, together with the policies and agreements they expressly incorporate by reference, constitute the entire agreement between you and ĀYŌDÈ regarding your use of the Services and supersede prior or contemporaneous understandings relating to that use.
14. Feedback
ĀYŌDÈ may use any feedback, comments, ideas, or suggestions you provide regarding the Services without restriction, notice, attribution, or compensation to you.
Do not submit feedback or suggestions that you consider confidential or proprietary unless you are willing for ĀYŌDÈ to use them on the terms described in these Terms.
15. Changes to Terms
We may revise these Terms from time to time. The most current version will always be posted on our website. By continuing to use the Services after changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms.
If we make material changes to these Terms, we may provide notice by email, through the Services, or by other reasonable means before the updated Terms take effect.
16. Disputes
These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict of law principles.
You and ĀYŌDÈ agree to seek injunctive relief relating to these Terms only in state or federal court in Dallas, Texas. You and ĀYŌDÈ consent to personal jurisdiction, forum, and venue in those courts for those purposes.
Except to seek injunctive relief or for claims brought under applicable computer misuse laws, you and ĀYŌDÈ agree to resolve disputes relating to these Terms or the Services through binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its applicable commercial and consumer rules and procedures then in effect. Arbitration will take place in Dallas, Texas, unless the parties agree otherwise.
You and ĀYŌDÈ agree to bring claims only on an individual basis and not as a plaintiff, class member, or representative in any class, consolidated, collective, or representative proceeding. No arbitrator may consolidate any dispute with any other arbitration without the consent of all affected parties.
Any arbitration award may include costs, reasonable attorneys’ fees, and reasonable witness costs where permitted by applicable law or the applicable arbitration rules. Judgment on any arbitration award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.
17. Contact Information
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us.
ĀYŌDÈ 5900 Balcones Drive #18126 Austin, TX 78731