Acceptance and product scope
By using the Ascent Arcade, you agree to these terms and the Privacy Notice. A teacher or other adult creating a workspace represents that they can accept these terms for their own use and will follow school, district, and legal requirements for classroom use. These terms apply only to the isolated Ascent Arcade, not to the Assessment Center or other products.
Accounts, children, and authority
- Public players may use anonymous authentication and generated aliases. Do not enter a real name or other personal information.
- Teacher, creator, paid, and owner features require an authenticated account. Keep access links and credentials secure.
- Children under 13 may use the Arcade only in a properly authorized school context or under the direction and supervision of a parent or guardian.
- A school or teacher must not use the Arcade as an unapproved roster, student-information, disciplinary, or high-stakes assessment system.
Rooms, assignments, and acceptable conduct
A room or homework code helps locate an authorized activity; it does not grant unlimited access. Authentication, App Check, capacity, availability, due dates, attempt limits, expiration, bans, and teacher controls still apply. A teacher may close or archive homework; a host may kick, restore, or remove participants and end a room.
You may not disrupt play, impersonate another person, scrape answer keys, probe other tenants, automate abusive joins, reverse engineer access tokens, reuse another player's result, submit malicious input, evade rate limits, or use the service to harass, discriminate, cheat, or violate law or school policy.
Question banks and creator content
You retain rights in original content you create. You grant the Arcade a nonexclusive license to host, process, reproduce, display, and distribute that content as necessary to provide the visibility you select. Private content is limited to authorized workspace use; unlisted content requires its authorized reference; public content may be discovered in the library.
- You must have the rights to all prompts, images, media, explanations, and standards references you submit.
- Do not upload student records, personal information, confidential school material, copyrighted test items without permission, malware, or unlawful or inappropriate content.
- Publishing creates an immutable version for reproducible play. Later edits belong in a new version.
- Public content may be reported, reviewed, limited, removed, or made unavailable when it creates an accuracy, safety, privacy, copyright, or legal concern.
- AI-assisted or template content must be reviewed by a qualified teacher before it is represented as teacher reviewed. The Arcade does not guarantee instructional accuracy or standards alignment.
Free and paid plans
The free plan may include limits on private banks, public banks, hosted sessions, and report retention. Paid plans, if enabled, provide the features and limits shown at checkout. Stripe hosts Checkout and the Billing Portal; payment-card information is handled by Stripe rather than stored by the Arcade.
- Subscriptions renew until canceled. Price, billing period, taxes, proration, and renewal terms are shown in Stripe before purchase.
- Plan changes and cancellation use the hosted Billing Portal. A scheduled cancellation generally keeps paid access through the current paid period.
- Past-due access may continue during a configured recovery period; unpaid, paused, expired, or canceled subscriptions may fall back to free-plan limits.
- Deleting an Arcade account does not substitute for canceling an active subscription. The product must complete billing preflight before final account deletion is made available for paid tenants.
Paid billing remains unavailable until the live Stripe catalog, restricted key, webhook, portal settings, entitlements, cancellation, and signed production tests are configured. No paid purchase should be inferred from engineering-preview screens.
Scores and reports
Game scores and reports are instructional signals, not official grades unless an authorized teacher reviews and records them under school policy. Reports use aliases and may be incomplete if a learner disconnects, the session ends, or retention expires. Teachers are responsible for protecting downloaded CSV files and verifying results before using them for a decision.
Availability and disclaimers
The Arcade is provided on an “as available” basis. We work to preserve exact game behavior, secure service boundaries, and accurate content, but do not promise uninterrupted availability, compatibility with every device or assistive technology, a particular learning outcome, or error-free community content. Nothing in the Arcade is legal, medical, or professional advice.
Suspension, deletion, and changes
We may limit or suspend access to protect users, investigate abuse, comply with law, or enforce these terms. You may request account deletion from the account page; a recovery period and legal or billing retention may apply. We may update these terms for material product, legal, or security changes. A new effective date and, where required, renewed acceptance will identify the new version.
Legal terms
To the extent permitted by law, the service and its providers are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from use of the Arcade. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so these limits apply only to the extent permitted. If any provision is unenforceable, the remaining terms continue. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver.
These terms are governed by applicable United States and Texas law, without overriding rights that cannot lawfully be waived. Before commercial general availability, counsel should review the governing-law, dispute, warranty, and liability language for the final operating entity and market.
