Terms of Service

Last updated: 14 August 2026

The short version. The app is free and you do not need an account. The software engine is open source under the MIT licence, so you can read it, fork it and build on it. The teaching content — the question packs, the curriculum sequences, the name and the logo — is not: that comes out of years of teaching, and it stays ours.

Anything you create in the app is yours. We claim no licence over your questions, your whiteboards or your students' work, and everything exports as plain JSON so you are never locked in.

Tutoring is a separate thing from the software, and section 6 says how it is contracted.

1. Who you are agreeing with

These terms are between you and Staples Education, a sole proprietorship operated by Adam Staples, which publishes the Interactive Quiz App at interactivequizapp.com.

Using the app means you accept these terms. If you do not, do not use it — and note that the app is downloadable and runs offline, so declining costs you nothing you have already made.

2. The software licence

The application engine — the quiz runtime, the whiteboard, the synchronisation layer, the import tooling, and the server worker — is released under the MIT licence. You may use, copy, modify and redistribute it, including commercially, provided the copyright notice and licence text travel with it.

Written with AI assistance, and that changes nothing about the licence. Substantial portions of this codebase were written with an AI coding assistant under human direction, review and testing. That is disclosed because it is true and because we would rather say it than have it discovered. It does not make the code public domain, it does not make it unlicensed, and it does not waive the MIT terms — the selection, arrangement, direction and testing are human work, and the MIT grant above is the licence under which the result is offered.

3. What is not under that licence

The MIT grant covers the engine. It does not cover any of the following, all of which are proprietary and remain the copyright of Adam Staples:

Item	Status
Curriculum question packs and their explanations	Proprietary — all rights reserved
Topic sequences, shelf structures and course outlines	Proprietary — all rights reserved
"Staples Education", "Interactive Quiz App"	Unregistered trade marks
The purple stapler logo and brand artwork	Proprietary — all rights reserved
The specific arrangement and visual design of the interface	Proprietary — all rights reserved

Packs shipped with the app carry the licence string Proprietary - Staples Education in their metadata. You may use them to teach and to study. You may not republish, resell, or redistribute them as your own, whether or not you have edited them, and whether or not you are charging.

Fork the engine freely. Ship it under your own name and your own content. Do not ship it under ours.

How the bundled questions were made, said plainly. The example Geometry library was assembled from a real one-to-one tutoring archive. That describes where the material came from, not who wrote each question. The questions have mixed provenance — some written by hand, some generated with AI assistance, some originating outside this project — and no per-question record distinguishes them, so we make no claim that any particular question is human-written. What is ours either way is the selection and the sequencing: which topics, in what order, on which shelf. Same reason as the disclosure above: we would rather say it than have it discovered.

Where the audit has got to, stated as a number rather than as reassurance. Every question can now carry an origin — unknown, traced to a session artefact, AI-generated, third-party, or personally attested — and the value can only ever move toward unknown: when two copies of a question disagree about where it came from, the result is "we no longer know", never whichever copy arrived last. As of 14 August 2026, none of the 1,194 questions has been classified. That is not a finding that nothing is third-party; it is the honest state of an audit that has its tooling and not yet its answers.

One thing was deliberately not done, and it is worth saying why. Some packs describe in their own text where their questions came from. Those descriptions were written alongside the questions, by the same process, and they are exactly the claim being re-examined — so no origin was derived from them. An origin here means somebody can point at an artefact, or the author is personally confirming it. Nothing else counts.

Questions this app generates for you are marked as generated, in the file itself, from 14 August 2026 onward. The marking travels with the question through export, share links, sync and merge, and editing the question by hand does not remove it.

4. What you own

Everything you make. Your questions, your libraries, your whiteboards, your imported material and your students' work belong to you, and we take no licence over them beyond what is technically required to store and sync them at your request.

You keep them in a form you can leave with: every library and every board exports as plain JSON, and the app reads and writes that format on purpose rather than a proprietary one.

You are responsible for having the right to use anything you upload — a worksheet you did not write, a textbook page, a copyrighted diagram. The app rasterises PDFs locally and never uploads the file, but that is a privacy property, not permission.

5. Acceptable use

Do not use the live-session features to harass, or to record anyone without their knowledge.
Do not attempt to reach other users' accounts or synced content.
Do not use the service to distribute malware, or to store material you have no right to store.
Do not present the proprietary content in section 3 as your own work.

We may suspend access to the hosted service for any of the above. The app itself runs on your device and will keep working — which is the point of building it that way.

6. Tutoring services

Tutoring is a service Adam Staples provides personally. It is separate from the software licence, and how it is contracted depends on how the relationship started. There are exactly two routes and they do not mix.

6a. Students who came through a marketplace

If you were introduced through a tutoring marketplace — Wyzant or any comparable platform — then that platform's terms govern the engagement. In particular, lessons are scheduled and paid through the platform, at the rate shown there, under its billing, cancellation and dispute policies.

We will not take a marketplace-sourced lesson off-platform, and will decline if asked. Not as a formality: Wyzant's Independent Tutor Agreement forbids seeking payment directly from its students or diverting funds around its billing, and doing so is grounds for removal. It is also simply the deal. If you found this tutor through a platform, the platform earned that introduction and gets paid for it.

6b. Students who came directly

If you reached Staples Education independently — through stapleseducation.com, this app, a personal referral, or any route that did not involve a marketplace — the engagement is a direct independent contract between you and Adam Staples. Rates, scheduling, invoicing and cancellation terms are agreed between us in writing before lessons begin, and no marketplace is a party to it.

This is expressly permitted by the same agreement referenced above, which leaves the tutor free to advertise to the general public and to take other work. Being on a marketplace is not an exclusivity arrangement.

6c. Which one you are

It is decided by how the relationship started, and it does not change afterwards. A student introduced by a marketplace stays a marketplace student for the duration of the engagement, regardless of what software they later use, which website they later visit, or where they later send a message. Using this app does not move anyone from 6a to 6b.

If a booking link in this app or on our website sends you to a marketplace, that is deliberate and is the compliant route for that audience.

7. Fees

The app is free, and there is no account wall in front of it. If a paid tier is ever introduced, anything you have already built stays yours and stays exportable — see section 4.

Tutoring is charged separately at the rate agreed under section 6.

8. No warranty

The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. This is the standard MIT disclaimer and it means what it says.

Practically: keep your own backups. The app stores your work in your browser, and clearing your browser's site data will remove it. Export the things you would be upset to lose.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Staples Education is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost data, lost profits or lost teaching time, arising from use of the software. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you have paid for the software — which, for the app, is zero.

Nothing here limits liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Some jurisdictions do not allow some of these exclusions, in which case they apply to you only as far as the law permits.

10. Privacy

Handled separately and in more detail in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. In short: the app is local-first, sign-in is optional, sync is opt-in, and quiz results are never uploaded.

11. Changes

These terms may change as the product does. Material changes are reflected in the "last updated" date above. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept it; the offline copy you already have keeps working under the terms it shipped with.

12. Governing law and contact

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Consumer-protection rights that apply where you live are not displaced by this clause.

Questions, licensing enquiries and takedown requests: [email protected].

These terms have not been reviewed by a lawyer. They are written honestly and describe what the product actually does, which is worth more than most boilerplate — but they are not legal advice and they are not a substitute for a solicitor reading them before any significant commercial commitment.