Terms of Service for SpellHive

Last updated: October 12, 2026

1. About these terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and SpellHive ("SpellHive," "we," "us"). They cover the SpellHive apps for iOS and Android and the web app at spellhive.com (together, "SpellHive" or "the App"). By creating an account, continuing as a guest, or otherwise using SpellHive, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use SpellHive.

2. Who can use SpellHive

• Adults set it up. Parents, guardians and teachers create and manage SpellHive accounts. You must be an adult (18 or older, or the age of majority where you live) to create an account, sign in, or agree to these Terms.
• Children use it with an adult. SpellHive is designed for children practicing spelling under the supervision of the adult who set it up. That adult is responsible for the child's use of the App, including on any device where they enter the child's code.
• Teachers and schools. If you use SpellHive with students, you confirm that you are allowed to do so by your school and that you will follow your school's rules, including any requirement to inform parents or obtain their consent before students' first names and practice results are stored.

3. Your account

• Guest accounts. You can try SpellHive without signing in. A guest account lives on one browser or device. It can be lost if you clear the browser's or app's data, uninstall the App, or don't use it for a long time. Sign in with Google (or Apple on iOS) to keep your progress. We can't recover a lost guest account.
• Codes and PINs. A child's or student's code lets any device that enters it practice as that child and see their progress. The Parent PIN and Teacher PIN lock adult areas on one device. Keep codes and PINs private. If a code is shared by mistake, make a new code from the child's or student's card; devices using the old code are signed out.
• Accuracy. Give accurate information about yourself when you sign in. You are responsible for activity under your account.

4. Learning content

SpellHive includes words, spellings, meanings, syllable splits, sound-pattern hints, word lists, grade and difficulty levels, recorded pronunciations, the device's own text-to-speech voice, and the feedback shown after an answer (together, "Learning Content").

• Prepared in good faith. We prepare and review Learning Content carefully and to the best of our knowledge, using reference sources and software tools. Recorded pronunciations are made with computer-generated voices.
• It can contain mistakes. Learning Content may contain errors, omissions or simplifications. A meaning may be shortened or cover only one sense of a word. Syllable splits and sound-pattern hints are practice aids that may differ from a particular dictionary or curriculum. A pronunciation may not match every accent. Spellings follow American English.
• Not an authority or an assessment. Learning Content is for spelling practice. It is not a dictionary, a curriculum, a test of reading level, or a diagnosis of any learning need. Progress figures, "% right," "tricky words" and similar labels describe practice in the App only. Use your own judgment, and rely on your child's teacher or a qualified professional for educational decisions.
• We may change it. We may add, correct, change or remove Learning Content at any time.
• Tell us about mistakes. If you find an error, email spellhive@gmail.com and we'll look at it.
• No liability for Learning Content. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we make no promise that Learning Content is accurate, complete, current or suitable for any particular child, class or purpose, and we are not liable for any loss or harm that comes from relying on it.

5. Content you add

You may add your own content, such as word lists, children's or students' first names, and class names ("Your Content").

• You keep ownership of Your Content. You give us permission to store, copy and display it only as needed to run SpellHive for you and the people you share it with (for example, your students' devices).
• You are responsible for Your Content. Make sure you have the right to use it, that it is suitable for children, and that it contains no more personal information than the App asks for. A first name is enough; please don't add last names, photos or contact details.
• We don't review Your Content before it is used, and we are not responsible for it. We may remove content that breaks these Terms.

6. Acceptable use

Please don't:

• use SpellHive for anything unlawful, harmful or unsuitable for children;
• add offensive, hateful or sexual words or content, or another person's personal information beyond a first name;
• try to get into accounts, classes or data that aren't yours, or get around the Parent PIN, Teacher PIN or Classroom Mode lock on a device you don't manage;
• copy, scrape or bulk-download the word bank, recordings or other Learning Content, or use them to build another product;
• interfere with, overload, reverse engineer or attack the App or its servers, except as the law expressly allows; or
• pretend to be someone else, or misrepresent your relationship with a child or school.

7. Our rights

SpellHive, including its design, software, word bank, Learning Content, recordings, the SpellHive name and the bee logo, belongs to us or our licensors. We give you a personal, revocable, non-transferable permission to use the App for your family's or your class's spelling practice, under these Terms. Teachers may use SpellHive with their own students. Some parts of the App use third-party software and materials under their own licences.

8. Free service and changes

SpellHive is currently free. We may add, change or remove features, set limits (for example, on guest accounts), or stop offering SpellHive. If we ever introduce paid features, we'll describe the price clearly before you pay, and you won't be charged without agreeing. If we plan to shut SpellHive down, we'll try to give reasonable notice so you can stop using it and ask us to delete your data.

9. App stores

If you got SpellHive from the Apple App Store or Google Play, that store's terms also apply to your download. These Terms are between you and SpellHive only, not Apple or Google, and Apple and Google are not responsible for the App or its content.

10. Disclaimers

SpellHive and all Learning Content are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability and non-infringement. We don't promise that the App will always be available, free of errors, or that progress will never be lost, or that using it will produce any particular learning result.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, SpellHive and the people who make it are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, progress, goodwill or opportunity, arising from or related to SpellHive, its Learning Content, Your Content, or these Terms, even if we were told such loss was possible. Our total liability for any claim relating to SpellHive is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for SpellHive in the 12 months before the claim (currently nothing) or US$50.

Some places don't allow certain warranties to be excluded or liability to be limited. Where that's the case, these limits apply only as far as the law allows, and nothing in these Terms takes away rights you have by law as a consumer.

12. Ending use

• You can stop using SpellHive at any time, and delete your account and data as described in the Privacy Policy or on our account deletion page.
• We may suspend or close an account that breaks these Terms or puts children, other users or the App at risk. Where reasonable, we'll tell you first.
• Sections 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 14 and 15 continue to apply after use ends.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms. We'll change the date at the top, and if a change is significant we'll let account holders know in the App or on spellhive.com before it takes effect. If you keep using SpellHive after the change takes effect, the updated Terms apply. If you don't agree, stop using SpellHive and delete your account.

14. Disputes

If you have a problem with SpellHive, please contact us first at spellhive@gmail.com. We'll try to resolve it informally and quickly. Nothing in these Terms takes away any right you have under the law where you live to bring a claim. We'll add the governing law and the place where disputes are heard to this section when SpellHive is registered as a business, and we'll update the date above when we do.

15. General

• These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about SpellHive.
• If part of these Terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.
• If we don't enforce part of these Terms straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• You can't transfer your rights under these Terms. We may transfer ours if SpellHive is taken over by someone else, and these Terms will still protect you.

16. Contact us

Questions about these Terms: spellhive@gmail.com