Terms and privacy

For our beta families. Last updated 2 November 2026.

Two parts: the terms of using Aristos, and how we handle your family's information. We've written them to be read. If anything is unclear, ask us at hello@aristoslearning.com.

Part 1 — Terms of use

Who we are

Aristos is run by Aristos Learning ("Aristos", "we", "us"). You can reach us at hello@aristoslearning.com. By creating an account you agree to these terms for yourself and for each child you add.

This is a beta

You're one of a small first group of families. Features may change, break or be switched off while we fix them. We'll tell you about anything that affects your children's school days. Aristos is free for our beta families. If that ever changes, we'll tell you well ahead, and you'll never be charged without agreeing first.

Who can use it

• A parent or legal guardian, aged 18 or over, creates the account and decides which children use it. You confirm that you are the parent or legal guardian of every child you add.
• Aristos is written for children in Grades 1 to 8. Children use it only with your permission and under your supervision.
• Keep your password and family access code within your household. You're responsible for what happens under your account.

How Aristos uses AI

Aristos uses Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic. Here is everywhere AI is used:

• The Scholar, the tutor your children chat with. It is built to ask questions rather than hand over answers, to keep to schoolwork, and to speak in a way that suits your child's age.
• Each day's tasks. AI writes the task around the lesson for that day, sized to the minutes you chose.
• Your child's progress record. AI reads the Scholar conversations to judge what a child has shown they understand, and what they haven't yet.
• Weekly notes for parents, written from that week's work.
• Books. AI writes reading guides for the books on your children's shelves, looks up where and when a book is set, and reads the photos of reading lists you upload when you add past reading.

What isn't made up as it goes: the curriculum itself (what is taught, the lessons, and the order) is written in advance and is the same for every child at that grade. We wrote it with the help of AI tools and reviewed it ourselves. It doesn't change from one conversation to the next.

What AI gets wrong. Despite our safeguards, the Scholar and the other AI features can state a wrong fact, make an arithmetic mistake, misread a photo, misjudge whether a child understood something, or occasionally say something unhelpful or unsuitable. Progress records are our best estimate, not grades, test scores or a formal assessment.

What we ask of parents

Aristos works best, and is safest, with a parent close by. We ask that you:

• Introduce it. Sit with your child for their first sessions, and explain that the Scholar is a computer program.
• Stay nearby. Children below Grade 4 should work with a parent beside them. Older children should use Aristos somewhere you can see the screen, not alone behind a closed door.
• Read along. Every conversation is open to you in the portal, and the This week page summarises each child's week. Read some of the conversations themselves, not only the summary.
• Keep the screen in its place. Most of the work in Aristos happens on paper and in real books, in short sittings. The Scholar is for talking it over, not for hours of screen time.
• Teach the basics of AI safety. Go over the note for children above.
• Tell us when something seems off, even something small.

Not a school, and not professional advice

• Aristos is not an accredited school. It does not issue diplomas, official transcripts or grades. Records it prepares for you, such as a homeschool plan, are drafts for you to check, complete and file yourself.
• Aristos gives no medical, psychological, counselling, special-education or legal advice, and cannot identify or diagnose learning differences. It does not teach health or physical education and gives no health, fitness or diet advice; your family covers those.
• Homeschool rules where you live. Aristos provides general information about homeschool and alternative-education requirements based on publicly available sources. It is not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for independently verifying compliance obligations with your state and local education authorities. Requirements change; families are responsible for confirming current rules before relying on anything here.

If a child says something worrying

If a child says something that suggests they may be unsafe or in distress, the Scholar pauses the conversation, encourages them to talk to a trusted adult, and shows the message to you at the top of your portal. The Aristos founders see it too, and may contact you about it. But the Scholar is not a counsellor, the conversation is not watched by a person as it happens, and an alert can be missed or come late. You remain responsible for your children's safety and wellbeing. In an emergency, call 911.

Using Aristos fairly

• Aristos is for your own family's education. Please don't share your account outside your household, or try to get the Scholar to produce harmful or inappropriate content.
• Each family has a generous weekly allowance of Scholar time. A normal school week, even a busy one, stays well inside it. If your family reaches it, the Scholar rests until the following Monday while daily plans and reading carry on. Ask us, and we can raise it.
• We may pause or close an account that breaks these terms, or to protect a child. We'll tell you why.

Books, and your children's work

Aristos never reproduces copyrighted books. Your family supplies its own copies; where we include a passage, it is from an out-of-copyright edition. Your children's work and words belong to them. We use them only to run Aristos for your family and to improve it, as described below.

Changes, and leaving

• We may update these terms. We'll tell you what changed before it takes effect. If a change affects how we use your children's information, we'll ask for your agreement again rather than assume it.
• You can stop at any time. Ask us, and we'll send you a copy of your family's information and then delete it.
• If we end the beta, we'll give you notice and a chance to download your family's records.

No guarantees

Aristos is provided as it is, during a beta, without promises that it will be error-free or always available. To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of it. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York.

Part 2 — Privacy

What we collect

From you, the parent:

• Your family name, your email, and your password (stored only in scrambled form, which we cannot read).
• Each child's first name and grade. We never ask for last names, birthdays or photographs of your children.
• What you set up: your calendar and school days, each child's week, the language your family studies, your plans for health, PE, art or music, which books you have, and any past reading you import (including photos or files of reading lists, which are used to read the list and then discarded).

From your children, as they use Aristos:

• The text of every conversation with the Scholar, including anything they dictate.
• What they type for projects, which tasks and problems they tick, their answers in practice tests, their book ratings and reflections, and where they are in a book.
• Pictures of their work that they choose to show the Scholar. These are sent to the AI for that one reply and are not kept by us.

What Aristos works out: daily plans, the progress record for each subject, weekly notes, and reading guides.

Technical: a cookie that keeps you signed in. Your internet address is used briefly to stop abuse of sign-in and sign-up, and our host keeps ordinary server logs. Aristos has no advertising or analytics trackers.

Dictation and read-aloud use your device's own speech features. Depending on your browser, the sound of your child's voice may be processed by the browser's maker (for example Google or Apple) to turn it into text. Aristos receives only the text.

How we use it

• To run Aristos for your family: plan the days, tutor, keep the record, write your weekly notes.
• To keep children safe: the safeguards described above.
• To support you, and to improve Aristos. We read conversations to find where the Scholar or a lesson went wrong. The fixes reach every family; your children's words are never shown to another family.

We don't sell your information, use it for advertising, build marketing profiles, or allow it to be used to train AI models.

Who can see it

• You. Every conversation and every day's work is open to you from the portal.
• The Aristos founders, to support your family, check the Scholar is teaching well, and fix problems.
• The AI assistant we use to run Aristos. We use Claude, from Anthropic, to help us operate Aristos, for example to investigate a problem you report or to check that lessons are working. It sees your family's information only for those purposes, at our direction.
• Companies that run parts of Aristos for us, only as needed to do so:
  • Anthropic processes what your children write, and pictures they share, so the AI can reply. Under its commercial terms Anthropic may not train its models on this data, and deletes it within 30 days. The exception is content its safety systems flag, which it may keep for up to two years.
  • Railway hosts the app and stores its database.
  • Resend sends password-reset emails, and sees only your email address.
  • Open Library (the Internet Archive): when you add a book, its title is looked up there, and book covers load from there. No personal information is sent.
• No one else, unless the law requires it or it's needed to protect a child's safety.

Children's privacy

Aristos is used by children, many under 13. We collect information from children only with the consent of the parent who creates the account, given when you sign up, and only what Aristos needs to teach. As a parent you can at any time:

• review everything we hold about your child (most of it is already in your portal);
• ask us to correct it, or to delete it;
• tell us to stop collecting it, which means closing that child's profile.

Write to hello@aristoslearning.com. We'll confirm you're the parent on the account before acting.

How long we keep it

• While your account is open, we keep your family's records so the progress record and the Book of Books stay whole.
• When you ask us to delete your family or a child, we delete it from the live system within 30 days, and it leaves our backups within 90 days as they are replaced.
• Pictures of work are never stored. Anthropic's copies are deleted as described above.
• If the beta ends and you don't continue, we delete your family's information within 90 days of the end.

Keeping it safe

Everything travels encrypted (HTTPS). Passwords are stored in scrambled form. Only the founders can reach the database and its backups. No system is perfect; if your family's information is ever exposed, we'll tell you promptly and say what we're doing about it.

Questions

hello@aristoslearning.com

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