Terms of Use

StoryHop is a service operated by Aleksandr Gorin.

Support contact: support@storyhop.io

Privacy contact: privacy@storyhop.io

Postal address and legal provider information: /impressum

These Terms of Use apply to the StoryHop website and web services. They do not replace the StoryHop Privacy Policy.

By creating an account, using StoryHop, or allowing a child to use StoryHop through your account, you agree to these Terms.

If you use StoryHop on behalf of a child, you confirm that you are the child's parent or legal guardian, or that you have authority from the parent or legal guardian to accept these Terms and manage the child's use of StoryHop.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use StoryHop.

StoryHop is a reading and educational service for families. It provides stories, poems, quizzes, reading-progress features, child profiles, recommendations, and related features.

StoryHop is designed for children aged 6 and older, but accounts are created and managed by parents or legal guardians. Children cannot access parent settings.

StoryHop is for personal and family use only. StoryHop is not currently offered for school, classroom, teacher, tutoring-center, or institutional use.

Parents create StoryHop accounts and may create child profiles.

Parents are responsible for:

• the accuracy of account information;
• choosing whether to enter a child's real name or nickname;
• supervising child use of StoryHop;
• deciding which child profiles to create;
• keeping login credentials secure;
• keeping QR codes, magic links, and child-device login links private;
• all activity that happens through their account, unless caused by StoryHop's own security failure.

A parent account may be used by parents or legal guardians in the same family if they have access to the same login method, such as email/password or the same Google account. Account sharing with friends, other families, schools, groups, or the public is not allowed.

Parents may generate QR codes or magic links to let a child use StoryHop without giving the child a username or password.

QR codes and magic links are for the intended child device only. Parents must not post them publicly, share them with other families, or use them to bypass parent controls.

If you believe a QR code, magic link, or account session has been misused, contact support@storyhop.io or log out/revoke sessions where available.

StoryHop is currently provided as a free service.

StoryHop is intended to support reading practice and make reading more engaging.

StoryHop does not guarantee:

• any specific educational result;
• reading improvement;
• quiz performance;
• school readiness;
• curriculum alignment;
• diagnostic accuracy;
• suitability for a particular child, school, exam, or learning need.

Parents remain responsible for deciding whether StoryHop is appropriate for their child.

You must not:

• use StoryHop for unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, abusive, or misleading purposes;
• attack, disrupt, overload, scan, scrape, crawl, or reverse engineer StoryHop;
• attempt to bypass authentication, parent controls, account limits, child protections, or security controls;
• share account access, QR codes, magic links, or child-device links outside your family;
• use StoryHop for school, classroom, group, commercial, or institutional purposes without written permission;
• copy, download, extract, redistribute, sell, or publicly display StoryHop content except as allowed by these Terms;
• use bots, scripts, or automated systems to access StoryHop;
• interfere with other users' access to StoryHop;
• misrepresent your identity or authority to manage a child profile;
• use StoryHop in a way that violates applicable laws or third-party rights.

StoryHop and its content are protected by copyright, trademark, database, and other laws.

StoryHop content may include:

• original stories;
• story adaptations;
• translations;
• quizzes;
• reading levels;
• recommendations;
• illustrations;
• avatars;
• user interface elements;
• metadata;
• selection, arrangement, and presentation of materials.

Subject to these Terms, StoryHop grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use StoryHop through the website for personal and family reading purposes.

You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, sell, license, scrape, train AI models on, or create competing services from StoryHop content without written permission.

Some source materials used in StoryHop may be public domain works or third-party works used under license or another legal basis. For example, a public-domain poem may be used as source material.

StoryHop does not claim ownership of public-domain works themselves. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you already have under applicable law to use a public-domain work independently from StoryHop.

However, StoryHop-created or StoryHop-curated materials remain protected. This includes StoryHop illustrations, adaptations, translations, simplified versions, quizzes, explanations, reading levels, metadata, recommendations, interface presentation, and the selection and arrangement of materials.

You may use those StoryHop-created or StoryHop-curated materials only inside StoryHop unless we give written permission otherwise.

StoryHop does not currently allow parents or children to post public content, comments, reviews, stories, images, free-text prompts, or public profile materials.

Parents may provide account information, child profile information, support messages, and privacy requests. Those materials are handled under the Privacy Policy.

If you send us feedback, suggestions, bug reports, ideas, or feature requests, you allow StoryHop to use them without restriction or payment to you.

You confirm that your feedback does not include confidential information that you do not want StoryHop to use.

StoryHop is an early-stage service. It may contain bugs, interruptions, missing features, changing designs, or temporary downtime.

StoryHop may change, suspend, remove, limit, or discontinue features at any time. This includes stories, poems, quizzes, illustrations, recommendations, child-profile features, achievements, XP, reading levels, and progress features.

We will try to avoid unnecessary disruption, but we do not promise that any feature or content item will remain available forever.

StoryHop may suspend, restrict, or delete an account, child profile, session, QR code, magic link, or access to the service if we reasonably believe that:

• these Terms have been violated;
• the account is being misused;
• QR codes, magic links, or sessions were shared or compromised;
• the service, users, children, data, infrastructure, or security are at risk;
• the account is involved in attacks, scraping, fraud, abuse, or attempts to bypass controls;
• suspension is needed to comply with law or protect StoryHop.

StoryHop may also take protective action when the administrator reasonably believes it is necessary to protect the service against attacks, abuse, misuse, or security risk.

You may stop using StoryHop at any time. You may request account deletion by contacting support@storyhop.io or privacy@storyhop.io.

The StoryHop Privacy Policy explains how StoryHop collects and uses personal data.

Privacy Policy: /privacy

The Privacy Policy is part of the practical context for these Terms, but it is not replaced by these Terms.

StoryHop stories are not intended to contain external links.

Parent-facing parts of StoryHop may contain links to external websites or services, such as privacy, legal, app-store, authentication, or support resources.

StoryHop is not responsible for external websites or services that we do not control.

StoryHop is operated from Germany and may be accessed worldwide.

You are responsible for following laws that apply to you. StoryHop may restrict access from countries, regions, networks, accounts, or devices if we believe this is necessary for legal, security, operational, or compliance reasons.

StoryHop is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, StoryHop disclaims warranties of uninterrupted availability, error-free operation, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, educational outcome, and non-infringement.

Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties, consumer rights, or liability that cannot legally be excluded under applicable law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, StoryHop and Aleksandr Gorin will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits, goodwill, business opportunity, or educational outcome.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, StoryHop's total liability for claims relating to the free web service is limited to 50 EUR.

These limits do not apply where liability cannot legally be limited, including liability for intent, gross negligence, death, personal injury, or mandatory consumer rights where applicable.

This section applies only to users located in the United States, to the extent permitted by law.

Before bringing a formal claim, you and StoryHop agree to try to resolve the dispute informally. To start this process, email support@storyhop.io with a description of the dispute and the relief requested.

If the dispute is not resolved within 60 days, either party may bring an individual arbitration claim, unless an exception below applies.

You and StoryHop agree that disputes will be resolved only on an individual basis and not as a class, collective, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative action.

This arbitration and class-action waiver does not prevent either party from:

• bringing an individual claim in small claims court where allowed;
• seeking injunctive or equitable relief for misuse of intellectual property, security attacks, or unauthorized access;
• reporting issues to regulators or public authorities;
• exercising rights that cannot be waived under applicable law.

This section does not apply to EU, EEA, UK, Swiss, or German consumers where mandatory law gives them access to courts or consumer remedies that cannot be waived.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Germany.

If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of mandatory consumer protections that apply in your country of residence.

For consumers in the EU, EEA, UK, or Switzerland, mandatory venue and consumer-protection rules may also apply.

StoryHop may update these Terms as the service changes.

If changes are material, we will provide appropriate notice, such as by email, website notice, in-app notice, or account notice.

The updated Terms will apply from the stated effective date. If you do not agree to updated Terms, you must stop using StoryHop.

Support: support@storyhop.io

Privacy: privacy@storyhop.io

Operator: Aleksandr Gorin

Postal address and legal provider information: /impressum