Terms of service

These terms are an agreement between you and NIX Development LLC (“NIX,” “we,” “us”) about your use of NIX Classroom, the website at classroom.nix.management and the Classroom app (together, the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these terms and to our privacy policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Who can use Classroom

You must be at least 13 years old. One account per person, and you are responsible for what is done with it. A professor is anyone who creates a class. A student is anyone who joins one from its card. The Service is built for college classes; an institution is not a party to these terms unless it signs its own agreement with us.

2. What Classroom does

A professor creates a class and prints its card. Students join from the card. At the start of a session a student points their camera at the professor's check-in code and puts their own phone down for the period; they can end early at any time. The professor sees a roster that says, for each student, one of seven things the app knows: Not here, Checked in, Phone down, Nearby, Lost contact, Ended early, or Checked out, with the time it changed. The professor can export that record for their class.

It is your phone. Putting it down is a commitment you make, and you can end it at any time, in the app or in your phone's settings. When you do, the roster shows that you ended early and when. Classroom never claims a phone is sealed, and never pretends to know more than it does.

3. Professors and the class record

The records for a class belong to the class and go to its professor. Classroom records what happened; it never writes a grade, applies a consequence or decides what a record means. How a professor uses the record, including any reward they set, is the professor's choice and their institution's policies apply. A professor who turns on accommodation mode for a student agrees to keep that fact between them and the student, as the Service does.

4. Honest use

Do not:

• check in for someone else, or share a check-in code so someone outside the room can check in;
• interfere with the Service, another person's account, or another person's phone;
• use the Service to watch, rank or discipline anyone beyond what the roster shows;
• use the Service for anything unlawful.

5. Seats and payment

Professors pay for Classroom; students never do. A professor buys seats on the website at $1 each, 10 or more at a time, in one card payment. Nothing renews and nothing is charged later.

One seat is one student in one class for that class's term. A seat is used when a student joins a class, and comes back if the student leaves or is removed within 14 days of joining. Seats stay on the professor's account, work across all their classes and never expire. Unused seats can be refunded on request within 30 days of purchase; used seats are not refunded. Email billing@nix.management.

Nothing a student does depends on payment: joining, check-in, putting the phone down, the live roster and the student's own record work whatever the professor's seats. If an account runs out of seats, its balance can go below zero. Fourteen days later, for a class with students waiting for seats, the attendance of its sessions before today and its CSV, Excel and Moodle exports wait until the account has seats again. Attendance is still recorded while they wait. A class whose term has ended always shows its attendance and always exports.

Card payments are processed by Stripe. We keep the number of seats, the amount and Stripe's reference for each payment, never card details. We may change the price of future purchases; seats already bought keep working as described here.

6. Your account

You may close your account at any time by emailing us. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. Closing an account deletes it as described in the privacy policy, and there is no undo.

7. The Service is provided as is

We work to keep Classroom accurate and available, and we do not promise that it always will be. A phone can lose contact, a code can fail to read, and a platform can change what an app is allowed to know. The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, to the extent the law allows.

8. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, NIX is not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for any loss arising from a record being wrong, late or missing, including any grade or decision based on it. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the claim.

9. App stores

When the Classroom app is installed from the App Store or Google Play, Apple and Google are not parties to these terms and have no obligation to support the app. These terms, not theirs, govern your use of it.

10. Changes

If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. Using the Service after a change means you accept it.

11. Governing law and contact

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Michigan, unless the law where you live gives you the right to sue elsewhere. Questions: support@nix.management. NIX Development LLC, Michigan, USA.