TERMS OF SERVICE — SmarterBook Last Updated: April 7, 2026 PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. BY COMPLETING A PURCHASE OR ACTIVATING A LICENSE KEY, YOU UNCONDITIONALLY AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS IN THEIR ENTIRETY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT PURCHASE OR USE SMARTERBOOK. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS By purchasing, downloading, installing, or using SmarterBook in any capacity, you ("User") confirm that you are at least 18 years of age, or at least 13 years of age with verifiable parental consent, and that you have read, understood, and agree to be legally bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"), our Privacy Policy, and our Refund Policy. These Terms form a legally binding contract between you and SmarterBook ("we," "us," "our," "Developer"). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE SmarterBook is an independent, privately developed browser extension ("Software") that provides study automation and educational assistance tools. The Software is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any way officially connected to McGraw Hill LLC, McGraw Hill Education, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates. All McGraw Hill product names, trademarks, and logos are the property of McGraw Hill LLC. SmarterBook's use of those names is purely descriptive of compatibility and constitutes nominative fair use. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3. INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE — NO AFFILIATION SmarterBook is a fully independent third-party software product. The Developer has no relationship with McGraw Hill LLC or any educational institution. The Software is developed and sold entirely independently. Any legal action, cease-and-desist, or enforcement attempt by any third party (including McGraw Hill LLC or any educational publisher) is directed at the Developer's independent business operations and in no way affects, transfers to, or creates liability for any User of the Software. BY AGREEING TO THESE TERMS, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE SOFTWARE IS AN INDEPENDENT PRODUCT AND THAT NO THIRD PARTY CAN HOLD YOU LIABLE SOLELY FOR HAVING PURCHASED OR USED IT. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4. LICENSE GRANT Subject to these Terms and timely payment, SmarterBook grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use the Software on a single device for your personal use only, for the duration of your active subscription period. This license does not include the right to share, resell, sublicense, or transfer your license key to any other person or entity under any circumstances. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5. ABSOLUTE DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY — READ CAREFULLY TO THE ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEVELOPER, ITS OFFICERS, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS, AND ASSIGNS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION: • ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES • LOSS OF REVENUE, PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY • ACADEMIC PENALTIES, DISCIPLINARY ACTION, EXPULSION, GRADE LOSS, SCHOLARSHIP REVOCATION, OR ANY EDUCATIONAL CONSEQUENCE OF ANY KIND • LEGAL COSTS, ATTORNEY FEES, OR FINES INCURRED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SOFTWARE • ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM A THIRD PARTY (INCLUDING ANY EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHER OR INSTITUTION) AGAINST YOU IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SOFTWARE THIS LIMITATION APPLIES REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY (CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE) AND EVEN IF THE DEVELOPER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR YOUR CURRENT LICENSE KEY, WHICH MAY BE AS LOW AS $0.00 FOR TRIAL USERS. THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE CAP. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6. ASSUMPTION OF RISK & WAIVER OF CLAIMS BY PURCHASING AND USING SMARTERBOOK, YOU EXPRESSLY AND IRREVOCABLY: (a) ASSUME ALL RISKS associated with the use of the Software, including but not limited to the risk of academic consequences, disciplinary action, account suspension on any third-party platform, and any legal or regulatory risk specific to your jurisdiction; (b) WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS against the Developer arising from or relating to your use of the Software, including claims based in contract, tort, statutory law, or equity; (c) ACKNOWLEDGE that the Software is a tool and that YOU — not the Developer — are solely and exclusively responsible for all decisions made using or informed by the Software; (d) AGREE that you will not, under any circumstances, initiate, join, or participate in any lawsuit, class action, arbitration, or legal proceeding of any kind against the Developer arising from your use of the Software. THIS WAIVER IS BROAD, UNCONDITIONAL, AND IRREVOCABLE. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS RISK AND WAIVER IN FULL, YOU MUST NOT PURCHASE OR USE SMARTERBOOK. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7. DISCLAIMER OF ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITY SmarterBook is provided as a software study tool. The Developer makes no representations, warranties, or guarantees regarding the compatibility of the Software's use with the academic integrity policies of any educational institution, school, university, or other organization. YOU ARE SOLELY AND EXCLUSIVELY RESPONSIBLE for understanding and complying with all applicable academic integrity policies, honor codes, and institutional rules that govern your enrollment. The Developer shall not be liable — under any legal theory, in any jurisdiction, in any forum — for any academic, disciplinary, legal, financial, professional, or personal consequence of any kind arising from your decision to use this Software. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8. THIRD-PARTY ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS In the event that any third party (including any educational publisher, platform operator, or government body) issues a cease-and-desist, DMCA notice, court order, or other legal demand directed at the Developer: (a) Such action is directed at the Developer's independent business and does NOT create any cause of action against Users of the Software; (b) The Developer may, at its sole discretion, modify, suspend, or discontinue the Software or any feature thereof without liability to Users; (c) No refund shall be owed to Users in the event the Software is discontinued due to third-party legal action; (d) Users shall have no right to participate in, be joined to, or assert claims in connection with any legal proceeding involving the Developer and a third party. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 9. INDEMNIFICATION You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Developer and its affiliates from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use or misuse of the Software; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your violation of any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right; or (d) any dispute between you and any third party, including any educational institution. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10. BINDING ARBITRATION & CLASS ACTION WAIVER ANY DISPUTE ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SOFTWARE SHALL BE RESOLVED EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION. YOU EXPRESSLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO: • FILE OR PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT • FILE OR PARTICIPATE IN CLASS-WIDE ARBITRATION • ACT AS A PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL • JOIN YOUR CLAIMS WITH THOSE OF ANY OTHER PERSON This arbitration clause is intended to be as broad and enforceable as the law allows. If any portion is found unenforceable, the remainder shall remain in full force. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 11. NO WARRANTY THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE DEVELOPER DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 12. GOVERNING LAW These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any dispute not subject to arbitration shall be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Texas, and you hereby consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 13. MODIFICATIONS We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. Changes take effect immediately upon posting. Your continued use of any valid license key constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 14. SEVERABILITY If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and all remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 15. CONTACT Support & policy questions: discord.gg/h4BVp4XEn8