Terms of Service

Last revised on 7 September 2026

Welcome to the Terms of Service (these “Terms”) for the beepy website (the “Website”), the beepy study assistant you talk to by text message and the pages you sign in to, such as your memory, cards and quiz pages (the “App”), operated by beepy (“beepy”, “we”, “us”, “our”) from British Columbia, Canada. The Website, the App, and any content, tools, features and functionality offered on or through them are collectively referred to as the “Services”.

beepy is a study assistant that lives in your texts. It knows your classes, your tests, and what is due when, and it beeps you before anything is late. It connects to the tools your school already uses, including Canvas, Google Calendar, Gmail, and Microsoft Teams, so due dates land in your memory without you typing them. Send it a photo of the board and it writes you a practice quiz. Tell it what you keep forgetting and it turns that into flashcards, then brings them back right when you are about to forget. Ask about a reading and it finds the sources. There is no app to learn: you text it, and it texts back.

These Terms govern your access to and use of the Services. Please read these Terms carefully, as they include important information about your legal rights. By accessing or using the Services, including by texting beepy, you are agreeing to these Terms and acknowledge that you have read our Privacy Policy. If you do not understand or agree to these Terms, please do not use the Services.

For purposes of these Terms, “you” and “your” means you as the user of the Services. If you are a parent or guardian using the Services to keep track of a kid’s schooling, “you” means you, and the account is yours.

Table of contents

1. Who may use the Services

You must be 13 years of age or older to use the Services. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you must have your parent’s or legal guardian’s permission to use the Services. You also need a phone that can send and receive text messages, and the right to use the number you sign up with. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you meet these requirements. The Services are not directed to children under 13, and if we learn that an account belongs to someone younger, we delete it and everything attached to it.

2. User accounts

Creating and safeguarding your account

Your mobile number is your account (“Account”). There is no password: you sign in with a one-time code we text you, or a link we send you, and holding the phone is the proof. That has a consequence worth stating plainly: whoever is holding your phone can sign in as you. Lock your phone. You are solely responsible for any activity on your Account. You may not allow anyone else to use your Account, and you may not use another person’s Account or sign up with a number that is not yours. You must notify us at brandon@graderaise.com if you know or have reason to suspect that someone else has access to your Account. You may only hold one Account at a time, and you agree not to create a new Account if we have previously closed yours for a breach of these Terms.

Changing your number

If you change your number, text beepy from the new one with a code from your signed-in session and the Account will move across. If you give up a number without doing so, write to us so that the old number can be unlinked before it is reassigned to someone else.

Account settings

You control your time zone, your quiet hours, the length of a practice quiz, whether test-day reminders are on, and your conversation privacy setting from your settings. Text messages are described in Section 12.

3. Using the Services

Inputs, outputs and actions

The Services provide a study assistant powered by artificial intelligence (“AI”). As part of the Services, you may provide or otherwise make available to us, actively or passively, including by connecting third-party services, messages, photographs, documents, and other materials and data for processing (“Input”), and the Services will use AI to generate replies, practice questions, flashcards, explanations, summaries, source maps, and other materials based on your Input (“Output”), or take actions on your behalf (“Actions”) based on your Input, such as sending you a reminder or adding a test date to a calendar you have connected. Inputs and Outputs are collectively referred to in these Terms as “Materials”.

Input

By submitting or making available any Input through the Services, you represent that (i) you have all rights, permissions, and authority necessary to submit it and to allow us to use it in connection with the Services, (ii) your submission will not breach any third party’s rights, any third party’s terms, or applicable law, and (iii) your Input does not contain material subject to copyright or other proprietary rights unless you are permitted to provide it. Do not upload other people’s private information, and take care with material your school or teacher has asked you not to redistribute. The Services are not designed to store government identifiers, financial account numbers, health information, or other sensitive categories of data, and you should not send them.

Connected services

The Services may interact with third-party services on your behalf (each, a “Connected Service”). Connecting one is optional, and everything in this subsection happens only after you have connected it. By connecting a Connected Service, you authorise the Services to access it, read data from it, and take Actions on it, using the access you granted and nothing more. Data collected from a Connected Service is your Input, and data the Services write to a Connected Service is your Output. You are solely responsible for ensuring that the Services’ interactions with a Connected Service are permitted under that service’s terms and under your school’s rules, including your right to create a Canvas access token.

  • Canvas. You provide your school’s Canvas address and an access token you create yourself. The Services read your courses, due dates, and the files your teachers post, with your permissions, which means beepy can see what you can see and nothing more.
  • Google. You approve access on Google’s own consent screen and may revoke it there or from within the Services at any time. The Services read when you are busy so that beepy can schedule around you, and write the tests, due dates, and study blocks it is tracking into your calendar. Every event beepy creates is tagged as its own, and it will only ever edit or delete an event carrying that tag. Events you created are not ours to touch. The optional Gmail and Google Drive permissions, and exactly what each accesses, are described in the Privacy Policy.
  • Microsoft Teams. Read-only. The Services read the names of the teams you are in and, when you ask, the files your teachers posted there. beepy cannot post, edit, or delete anything in Teams and cannot read your chats or announcements.

Disconnecting a Connected Service deletes the stored credential immediately. Classes and dates that have already synchronised remain, because deleting a term’s deadlines is a worse surprise than a few records that stop refreshing, and you can delete any of them on the memory page.

Actions

You authorise the Services to take Actions on your behalf that are responsive to your Input. The Actions beepy can take are limited, and the limit is worth stating: it sends messages to you, it adds and removes its own events on a calendar you connected, and it reads files and email you have pointed it at. beepy does not make purchases, does not send messages to anyone other than you, does not post to any Connected Service, and does not enter into agreements or commitments on your behalf. Nothing in these Terms appoints the Services as your agent for any purpose beyond those Actions.

Materials

We do not claim any ownership in your Materials. For clarity, we and our licensors own and will continue to own the Services and all technologies used to generate Output or take Actions. Due to the nature of AI, we make no representation that any copyright or other intellectual property right will vest in any Output. Other users may receive Output that is similar or identical to yours, such as because the same or similar Input was provided, and they may use it for their own purposes.

You grant us permission to store and process your Materials only so far as providing the Services requires: sending a photograph to our AI provider so that questions can be generated from it, retaining those questions so that your answers can be scored against them, and retaining your messages so that beepy has the conversation. We do not sell your Materials, we do not use them for advertising, and neither we nor our AI provider use them to train AI models. If you chose help make beepy better during sign-up, our team may read your conversation in order to improve the product; if you chose just between you and beepy, your messages are encrypted at rest and no one on our team can read them. Either choice can be changed from your settings and is described in the Privacy Policy.

Responsibilities and acknowledgment of risks

The Services are not error-free and may generate Output containing incorrect or incomplete information or make errors in Actions. A model reading a photograph of a slide will sometimes misread it, mark a correct answer wrong, or explain something incorrectly. Please verify the accuracy of any Output before relying on it, and check anything that matters against your own notes, your textbook, or your teacher. Any expected grade the Services show is arithmetic on the questions you have answered within the Services. It is a way of seeing whether practice is going well, not a prediction of your actual grade, and not a promise about how you will perform on an assessment.

You are responsible for your Input, for the Actions you ask for, and for your use of any Output, including compliance with your school’s rules on assessments, AI tools, and academic honesty. Using the Services during a test, or to produce work you submit as your own where that is not permitted, is a matter between you and your school and is also a breach of these Terms. The accuracy of any Action depends on the Input you provide: if you tell beepy the wrong date, the reminder will be wrong. We are not responsible for a reminder that arrived late or never arrived, or for a calendar event you did not expect, and you should review what beepy adds to a calendar you connect.

The Services are not a tutor, not a teacher, and not academic, medical, legal, or financial advice. They are not a counselling or crisis service. If a message indicates that someone may be in danger, beepy provides a crisis line, but it does not monitor you, does not escalate automatically, and will not contact a parent, a school, or an emergency service on your behalf.

5. Location of our privacy policy

Our Privacy Policy describes how we handle the information you provide to us when you use the Services, including information from Connected Services. For an explanation of our privacy practices, please visit our Privacy Policy. It forms part of these Terms. The rules of behaviour when using the Services are in Section 6, under Restrictions on your use of the Services.

6. Rights we grant you

Right to use the Services

We hereby permit you to use the Services for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided that you comply with these Terms. We grant you a personal, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, and non-exclusive right to access and use the Services, and any software, content, or materials provided to you as part of them, for the sole purpose of using the Services as permitted by these Terms. We reserve all rights not expressly granted here. Your access to the Services may be interrupted from time to time, including for maintenance, updates, or the failure of a network, a handset, or a provider.

Restrictions on your use of the Services

You may not do any of the following in connection with your use of the Services, unless applicable law prohibits these restrictions or you have our written permission:

  • use the Services for any unlawful purpose, or to harass, threaten, defame, or impersonate anyone;
  • access or attempt to access another person’s Account, data, or Connected Services, or probe, scan, scrape, or attack the Services or the systems they run on;
  • attempt to induce beepy to disregard its instructions, to act on another Account’s behalf, or to disclose information it should not disclose;
  • resell the Services, operate them on another person’s behalf as a service, or use them for benchmarking or to build or develop a competing product;
  • use Output to train, distil, or fine-tune any other AI model, or use the Services to improve or train other AI models, tools, or technologies;
  • access the Services by automated means. A script texting beepy is not a student, and each message costs us money;
  • duplicate, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works of any part of the Services, or circumvent any measure we use to restrict access to them;
  • submit Input that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, harassing, hateful, invasive of another person’s privacy, or that infringes another person’s rights;
  • create, use, or distribute Output in a fraudulent or misleading way, including by representing it as entirely human-generated where that matters, such as in work you submit to your school; or
  • introduce any virus, malware, or other technologically harmful material into our systems.

Use of the Services on your phone

You are responsible for providing the phone, wireless service plan, and internet connection you need to use the Services. We do not guarantee that the Services can be used on any particular device, with any particular carrier, or in any particular geographic location. Your wireless carrier may charge you for text messages and data, including for the messages beepy sends you. Section 12 describes those messages.

Beta offerings

The Services are early. Features appear, change, and occasionally disappear, and there is no guaranteed uptime. Any feature we make available on a test or beta basis is provided “as is”, may contain errors or inaccuracies, and is used at your sole risk. Where we reasonably can, we will give notice of anything that meaningfully changes what you are relying on.

7. Ownership

Ownership of the Services

The Services, including their look and feel, text, graphics, logos, software, and other materials, other than your Materials, are protected under copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. We and our licensors own all right, title, and interest in and to the Services, and you agree not to take any action inconsistent with that ownership. Nothing in these Terms transfers any of it to you.

Ownership of trademarks

The beepy name, the beepy mark, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans are ours. Other names and logos that appear on the Services, including those of Canvas, Google, and Microsoft, are the property of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with, connected to, or sponsoring us.

Ownership of feedback

We welcome feedback, comments, and suggestions about the Services (“Feedback”). If you send us Feedback, we may use and disclose it in any manner and for any purpose without further notice or compensation to you, and Feedback does not give you any right, title, or interest in the Services. Please do not send us Feedback you expect to be kept confidential or to be paid for.

Usage data

The Services generate diagnostic, technical, and other usage data relating to how you interact with them (“Usage Data”). We may use Usage Data in de-identified or aggregated forms for any lawful purpose, including to provide, operate, secure, and improve the Services. Usage Data is handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

8. Third-party services and materials

The Services display, include, or make available content and functionality from third parties (“Third Party Materials”), including the AI model that powers beepy, the Connected Services described in Section 3, and links to third-party websites such as the sources beepy finds for you. Canvas, Google, and Microsoft are not ours, and what they do with your data is governed by their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating the content, accuracy, availability, legality, or any other aspect of Third Party Materials or third-party websites, and we do not warrant or endorse them. We are not responsible for a Connected Service, its availability, or a change on its end that breaks a connection. Third Party Materials and links are provided solely as a convenience to you, and your use of them may be governed by additional terms of their providers, which you agree to comply with.

9. Disclaimers and limitations of liability

Disclaimers

Your access to and use of the Services, including Actions taken through the Services and your use of any Output, are at your own risk. You understand and agree that the Services, Output, and Actions are provided to you on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. Without limiting the foregoing, to the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, we and our licensors DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. We make no warranty and disclaim all responsibility and liability for: (a) the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security, or reliability of the Services and any Output or Action; (b) whether a message will be delivered, or delivered on time; (c) the operation or compatibility of the Services with any Connected Service, device, or carrier; (d) your use of Output, including in any assessment; and (e) the deletion of, or the failure to store or transmit, your Materials. You should not rely on the Services or any Output for advice of any kind, including academic, medical, legal, or financial advice.

Limitations of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST MARKS, MISSED DEADLINES, LOSS OF DATA, OR A MESSAGE THAT ARRIVED LATE OR NEVER ARRIVED, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIM CONNECTED WITH THE SERVICES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED CANADIAN DOLLARS (CAD $100) AND THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICES, IF ANY, IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM.

Nothing in these Terms limits rights you have that cannot lawfully be limited, including consumer-protection rights under the law of British Columbia, Canada, or excludes liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

Indemnification

There is none. These Terms do not require you to defend, indemnify, or hold us harmless from anything.

10. Governing law and disputes

Informal process first

If you have a dispute with us, please contact us first at brandon@graderaise.com and give us 30 days to respond and to try in good faith to resolve it with you before you resort to more formal means. We will do the same before taking any formal step against you.

Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada, without regard to its conflict of laws rules, and the courts of British Columbia, Canada have jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to the Services. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of the place where you live.

No arbitration and no class action waiver

There is no arbitration agreement and no class action or jury trial waiver in these Terms. You keep every remedy the courts of your jurisdiction give you.

11. Additional provisions

Changes to the Services

We may change the content, features, and other services provided as part of the Services from time to time, and we do not guarantee that any particular feature will always be available. We may also limit or stop providing the Services, to you or to users generally.

Updating these Terms

We may modify these Terms from time to time, in which case we will update the “Last revised” date at the top of these Terms. If we make changes that are material, we will use reasonable efforts to notify you before they take effect, ordinarily by text message to the number on your Account, since that is where you already are. The updated Terms will be effective as of the time of posting, or such later date as the updated Terms specify. Your continued use of the Services after the modifications have become effective will be deemed your acceptance of the modified Terms; if you do not accept them, stop using the Services and delete your Account.

Termination by you

You may stop at any point, in whatever depth you want:

  • reply STOP to end the messages while keeping the Account;
  • disconnect Canvas, Google, or Teams, which deletes the stored credential immediately;
  • delete what beepy remembers, being classes, facts, and dates, on the memory page;
  • select Delete my account at the bottom of the same page, which deletes the Account on the spot together with everything attached to it, or write to brandon@graderaise.com and we will do it for you.

Termination of licence and your Account

If you breach any provision of these Terms, the rights granted to you under Section 6 terminate automatically. We may suspend or close your Account, with or without notice, for a breach of these Terms, and we will generally tell you why. If we close your Account for a suspected breach, you may not re-register under a different number. If we stop operating the Services altogether, we will give you notice and a means of retrieving your data before it goes. On termination for any reason, deletion of your personal data is described in the Privacy Policy. Sections 3 (Materials), 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 survive termination.

Miscellaneous

These Terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and us with respect to the Services and supersede all other agreements and understandings between us about them. If any provision of these Terms is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision is severed and the remaining provisions remain in effect. We may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of the business, on notice to you; you may not assign them without our written consent. No waiver of any breach is a waiver of any other breach. Section headings are for reference only and have no legal effect. We may give you notice by text message to the number on your Account or by a notice within the Services; you give us notice by writing to the address below.

How to contact us

You may contact us regarding the Services or these Terms at brandon@graderaise.com, which is read by a person.

12. SMS/text messaging

We send one-time passcode (OTP) text messages to verify sign-ins. When you enter your phone number on our sign-in page and request a sign-in code, you consent to receive a single text message containing a one-time verification code for that request. When you text beepy, you consent to receive replies and reminders about the classes, dates, and cards you have told it about, which may be sent with automated technology; we do not send marketing messages. Message frequency varies with how much you use the Services and how many deadlines you have. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to cancel and stop receiving text messages from us (after opting out you will no longer receive sign-in codes by text message; reply START to resume). Reply HELP for help, or contact us at brandon@graderaise.com. Wireless carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.