Terms of Use

Last updated: 12 February 2026 · Version 2.0

TL;DR

• You get a single-user lesson-planning tool. The Free tier is genuinely free; the Pro tier is a paid monthly or yearly subscription.
• You own your content. You are fully responsible for everything you upload — Lesson Ready does not scan or moderate the text and files you store.
• Don't break the law, don't try to break the service, and don't use it against the spirit of the product. If you do, we'll terminate immediately with no refund.
• Cancellations stop renewal at the end of the current period; the law-mandated 14-day right of withdrawal applies separately for new EU/UK consumers.
• We cap our financial liability and the agreement is governed by German law.

Contents

1. 1. Parties
2. 2. The service
3. 3. Accounts
4. 4. Pro subscription, prices & VAT
5. 5. Acceptable use
6. 6. Your content & responsibility
7. 7. No content scanning
8. 8. Third-party integrations
9. 9. Service availability
10. 10. Right of withdrawal (EU/UK consumers)
11. 11. Cancellation & refunds
12. 12. Intellectual property
13. 13. Warranties & disclaimers
14. 14. Limitation of liability
15. 15. Suspension and termination
16. 16. Changes to these terms
17. 17. Governing law and jurisdiction
18. 18. ODR & consumer dispute resolution
19. 19. Miscellaneous
20. 20. Contact

1. Parties

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a binding contract between Lesson Ready (sole trader operated by Stewart McKane), Am Blauent Stein 18, 50997 Köln, Germany ("Lesson Ready", "we", "us") and you, the natural person who creates an account or otherwise uses the Lesson Ready service ("you"). For the purposes of EU/UK consumer legislation, you are presumed to be a consumer unless you create an account in connection with your trade, business, craft or profession.

2. The service

Lesson Ready is a web-based timetable, lesson-planning and readiness-tracking tool for individual teachers. The full feature list is published on the pricing page. We may add, change or remove features at any time. We will give you a reasonable heads-up by email before removing or materially degrading a feature that you already pay for.

3. Accounts

• You must be at least 18 years old to create an account.
• One account per person. Sharing logins between colleagues is not permitted.
• You are responsible for keeping your sign-in method secure (email inbox, Google account or Microsoft account).
• You will tell us promptly at hello@lessonready.app if you suspect unauthorised access.

4. Pro subscription, prices and VAT

• The Free tier is provided at no cost and may have feature limits that we publish on the pricing page.
• The Pro tier is sold as a recurring monthly or yearly subscription. Current prices and any applicable VAT are shown at checkout. Prices include any taxes payable by you unless otherwise stated.
• Payment is processed by Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd. on our behalf. We do not see your card details.
• Pro subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each billing period unless cancelled. You can cancel anytime from /billing or via the Stripe Customer Portal; cancellation takes effect at the end of the then-current paid period.
• We may change Pro prices for future billing periods. You will be notified at least 30 days in advance and may cancel before the price change takes effect.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use Lesson Ready to store, transmit or distribute content that is unlawful, infringes a third-party right, depicts the sexual abuse of any person, or constitutes harassment, hate speech or threats.
• Upload material containing malware, ransomware, exploits, or attempt to bypass the file-size limits, account limits or any technical safeguard.
• Probe, scan or interfere with the security or integrity of the service or any third party's systems via Lesson Ready.
• Use the service for automated scraping, account farming, model training, resale, white-labelling or any other form of commercial redistribution of the platform itself.
• Share, sublicense, resell or rent your account (or any feed or signed URL we issue) to anyone else.
• Use the service in any manner that is contrary to its evident purpose — i.e. a single teacher planning their own teaching week. Operating Lesson Ready as a multi-tenant platform for an organisation you have not separately licensed from us is a breach of these Terms.
• Impersonate any other person, organisation or institution.

If we determine, acting reasonably, that you have engaged in any of the above activities, or otherwise used the service in bad faith, abusively, or in a manner that runs against the spirit and clear intentions of the service as set out by the developer, we may immediately suspend or terminate your account with no refund of any fees already paid. We are not required to provide prior warning where the breach is material or repeated. Section 15 below sets out the suspension and termination process in more detail.

6. Your content and your responsibility for it

You retain all rights to the text, images, links and files you create or upload in Lesson Ready ("Your Content"). You grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, transmit, display and back-up Your Content for the sole purpose of providing the service to you. This licence ends when you delete Your Content or close your account (subject to the retention windows set out in our Privacy Policy).

You are solely responsible for Your Content. By uploading material to Lesson Ready you represent and warrant that:

• You own Your Content or otherwise have all rights necessary to upload it and grant us the licence above.
• Your Content does not infringe any copyright, trademark, database right, trade secret, right of publicity or other right of any third party.
• Your Content does not contain identifiable special category personal data of a child or any other person without an appropriate lawful basis under UK / EU GDPR.
• Your Content complies with all laws applicable to you, including those of your country of residence and any country where you direct your use of the service.

You agree to indemnify Lesson Ready against any third-party claim, regulatory investigation, fine or loss arising from Your Content or your breach of this section, to the maximum extent permitted by law and subject to the liability cap in §14.

7. No content scanning, no moderation

Lesson Ready does not read, scan, classify, fingerprint or otherwise automatically inspect the text, images, attachments or notes you store. We do not run AI/ML models over Your Content. We do not use Your Content to train any model, ours or a third party's. We do not pass Your Content to any third party except as strictly necessary to provide the service (e.g. delivering an email you have asked us to send).

As a direct consequence of the above, you are solely and exclusively responsible for Your Content. Lesson Ready cannot identify, prevent or warn you about unlawful, infringing, defamatory or harmful material you upload — because we have deliberately chosen not to inspect it. By using the service you accept that responsibility in full.

Nothing in this section prevents Lesson Ready from:

• Inspecting specific data when reasonably necessary to investigate a credible abuse report or a suspected security incident.
• Complying with a binding court order, regulator's request or other legal obligation under UK, EU or German law.
• Relying on the standard, content-agnostic abuse-prevention systems operated by the underlying infrastructure providers (e.g. malware-pattern detection inside an email or file gateway).

8. Third-party integrations

Optional integrations (Google sign-in, Microsoft sign-in, Stripe billing, Google Drive picker, OneDrive picker, Dropbox picker, Resend email delivery, calendar feed subscriptions) are provided by third parties under their own terms. Your relationship with those providers is governed by their terms; Lesson Ready is not responsible for their availability, accuracy, security or data-handling beyond what we publish in our Privacy Policy and the Data Processing arrangements referenced there.

9. Service availability

We aim for high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted operation. The service may be unavailable due to maintenance, upgrades, third-party outages, force majeure or unforeseen technical issues. We owe you no service-level credit unless we have entered into a separate, signed SLA with you in writing — which we currently do not offer.

10. Right of withdrawal (EU/UK consumers only)

If you are a consumer habitually resident in the EU, EEA or UK, you have a statutory right to withdraw from a paid Pro subscription within 14 days of starting it (German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch §§312g, 355; UK Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013).

However, by signing up for Pro you expressly request that the service starts immediately and acknowledge that you lose the right of withdrawal once Lesson Ready has been fully performed within the withdrawal period — i.e. once you have used any paid feature (uploads, daily emails, cloud links, custom fields beyond the free limit, calendar feed). For uses that have not yet been made, a pro-rated refund will be provided on request inside the 14-day window. To exercise the right, email hello@lessonready.app within 14 days of subscribing.

11. Cancellation, refunds and the no-refund rule

• You can cancel a Pro subscription at any time from /billing. Cancellation stops the next renewal; you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for.
• Beyond the statutory 14-day window in §10, paid subscription fees are non-refundable in the ordinary course. We do not offer pro-rated mid-period refunds.
• Where we terminate your account under §5 or §15 (abuse, breach of these Terms, or use against the spirit of the service), no refund of any kind will be issued for the remaining period.
• If we terminate your account for our own convenience (and not because of a breach), we will refund any pre-paid fees for the unused portion of the period on a pro-rata basis.

12. Intellectual property

The Lesson Ready name, logo, application source code, design and the look-and-feel of the service are the property of Lesson Ready and protected by copyright, trademark and other applicable laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers any IP rights to you beyond the limited, personal, non-transferable right to use the service while your account is active. You may not copy, modify, decompile, reverse-engineer or create derivative works of the service except where permitted by mandatory law.

13. Warranties and disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the service is provided "as is" and "as available". We disclaim all warranties, conditions and representations of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including without limitation any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, non-infringement, or uninterrupted operation. We do not warrant that the service will meet your specific compliance, regulatory or pedagogical requirements — that assessment is yours to make.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for: (i) death or personal injury caused by our negligence; (ii) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or (iii) any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded under German law (e.g. liability for intent or gross negligence under §309 No. 7 BGB, or under the Produkthaftungsgesetz), under the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015, or any other mandatory consumer protection legislation in your country of residence.

14. Limitation of liability

Subject to §13 (which sets out liabilities we do not limit), the total aggregate liability of Lesson Ready to you for any and all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the service — whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise — is limited to the greater of:

1. the total amount of fees you have actually paid to Lesson Ready in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim; or
2. EUR 100.

We are not liable for any indirect, consequential, special, incidental, exemplary or punitive damages, nor for any loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of goodwill, loss of teaching time, missed inspection deadline, regulatory fine or loss of data — even if we had been advised of the possibility of such damages. This exclusion does not affect any non-excludable consumer right you have under §13 above.

15. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the service, in whole or in part, immediately and without prior warning where:

• You have materially or repeatedly breached these Terms (including but not limited to §5 "Acceptable use" and §6 "Your content").
• We have a reasonable, good-faith belief that your account has been compromised, is being operated by a third party, or is being used in any manner that is abusive, fraudulent, or against the evident spirit of the service.
• A regulator, court or other competent authority requires us to do so.
• Continued provision of the service to you would expose Lesson Ready or its sub-processors to material legal, financial, reputational or security risk.

Where we terminate under this section, no refund of any pre-paid fees will be issued, and we may retain (in a quarantined, access-restricted form) any data reasonably necessary to defend or pursue legal claims, for the period required by the applicable limitation statute. You may also terminate at any time by closing your account from Settings. Termination does not affect any rights or obligations that accrued before the date of termination.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time. We will notify active accounts of any material change at least 30 days before it takes effect, via email and by updating this page. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the service and may close your account; we will refund any unused portion of a pre-paid Pro period on a pro-rata basis. Continued use of the service after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

17. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms, and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

If you are a consumer habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the EU or the EEA, the choice of German law does not deprive you of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence (Art. 6(2) Rome I Regulation; equivalent UK rules under the Rome I retained version).

The non-exclusive courts of Köln, Germany shall have jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms, save that a consumer may also bring proceedings in the courts of their country of habitual residence and may be sued only in those courts.

18. Online dispute resolution and consumer alternatives

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. Lesson Ready is not obliged and does not commit to participate in consumer arbitration proceedings before a consumer-arbitration body (Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle) pursuant to §36 of the German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act (VSBG).

19. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Lesson Ready regarding the service.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest will remain in full force; the unenforceable provision will be reformed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable.
• No waiver. A failure to enforce a right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision.
• Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our written consent. We may assign to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition or restructuring, provided that successor agrees to be bound by these Terms.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control (e.g. natural disasters, war, cyber-attack, third-party infrastructure outage, governmental orders).
• Notices. We send notices to the email address on file for your account. You should send legal notices to hello@lessonready.app.
• Language. These Terms are concluded in English. Any translation is provided for convenience only; the English version controls.

20. Contact

General support: hello@lessonready.app.
Abuse reports (illegal content, security issues, suspected fraud): abuse@lessonready.app.

These Terms are provided in good faith and have been drafted to reflect commonly accepted practice for a UK / EU / German operating context, but they are not a substitute for independent legal advice. Before relying on them in court or for a school-procurement decision, please commission your own review.