Terms of service
Last updated: July 22, 2026
The plain-language version
Honey Root is a reading-practice tool for kids, run by their parents. During early access it is free. Use it as a parent for your own child, don’t abuse it, and know that it teaches reading — it doesn’t diagnose or treat anything.
1. Who can use Honey Root, and whose agreement this is
These terms are a contract between Honey Root LLC and you, the parent or legal guardian who creates the account. You accept them by creating an account or using Honey Root. Your child is not a party to these terms; you are responsible for your child’s use of Honey Root.
Accounts are created and controlled by a parent or legal guardian who is at least 18. Children use Honey Root only inside a parent’s account, after the parent completes the consent step described in our privacy policy. You control your child’s participation: you decide whether your child uses Honey Root, you can pause or stop it at any time, and you can withdraw your consent as described in the privacy policy. Honey Root is offered to families in the United States during early access.
2. What Honey Root is, and is not
Honey Root provides structured reading practice: your child reads aloud, and the product listens, teaches, and reports to you. It is an educational tool. It is not a diagnostic instrument, a medical or psychological service, or a substitute for evaluation by a qualified professional, and nothing in the product or its reports is a diagnosis.
3. Early access
Honey Root is currently in early access and free: no subscription, no recurring charge, nothing to cancel. The parent-verification card check of about fifty cents is a real charge — that is what makes the verification work — and we automatically start a refund once verification completes; your bank may take a few days to post it. If we later add paid plans, we will tell you clearly and ask for your explicit agreement before you are ever billed — beyond the verification check, we never charge you during early access.
4. Your account
Keep your password and your child’s PIN private, and tell us if you think your account has been accessed without permission. You’re responsible for activity under your account. Provide accurate information, including that you are the child’s parent or legal guardian.
5. Acceptable use
- Don’t use Honey Root for a child for whom you are not the parent or legal guardian.
- Don’t probe, scrape, reverse-engineer (except where the law says we can’t stop you), overload, or interfere with the service.
- Don’t attempt to extract other families’ data or misuse any content-creation feature.
6. Content and ownership
Honey Root’s stories, art, audio, software, and the Bloom character belong to Honey Root LLC. Stories generated for your child are yours to read within the product; the underlying content systems remain ours. Your family’s data is governed by the privacy policy, and how we use it is governed exclusively by that policy.
7. Disclaimers
Honey Root is provided “as is” during early access. We disclaim all implied warranties — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement — to the extent the law allows. We work hard to make it excellent, but we don’t promise uninterrupted service or specific reading outcomes.
8. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Honey Root LLC’s total liability for any claim arising from the service is limited to the greater of $100 or the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages. Nothing in these terms limits liability for our gross negligence or willful misconduct, or any liability that the law does not allow us to limit. Some jurisdictions don’t allow these limits, so they may not fully apply to you.
9. Ending things, and how the service can change
You can close your account at any time; our privacy policy explains what happens to your family’s data, including the 30-day deletion schedule. We may suspend or end accounts that violate these terms; we will give notice first unless we reasonably believe immediate action is needed to protect children, other families, or the service, or to comply with law.
Honey Root is an early-access product and will change. We may add, change, or remove features, and may suspend or discontinue the service in whole or in part. If we ever shut down entirely, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice, and the privacy policy’s deletion commitments will apply to your family’s data.
10. Governing law, disputes, and changes
These terms are governed by Illinois law. Any dispute we cannot resolve informally will be brought in the state or federal courts sitting in Illinois, and both of us consent to those courts — except that either of us may bring an individual claim in small-claims court where you live.
If we make a material change to these terms, we will email you at least 30 days before it takes effect — except where a shorter period is required to comply with law or to protect children or the security of the service, in which case we will give as much notice as we reasonably can. If you do not agree to a change, close your account before it takes effect; using Honey Root after the effective date means you accept it. Questions: hello@myhoneyroot.com.
11. The legal fine print
If part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. These terms, the privacy policy, and any consent form or addendum you sign are the whole agreement between us about Honey Root and replace earlier discussions. We may assign these terms as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of Honey Root; you may not assign them. If we do not enforce a provision, we can still enforce it later. We are not responsible for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control. If you misrepresent that you are a child’s parent or legal guardian, or violate section 5, and that causes a claim against Honey Root LLC by someone else, you agree to cover the resulting costs. Sections 6 through 8, 10, and 11 survive the closing of your account.