Terms of Service

Planella uses artificial intelligence to generate draft lesson plans for early childhood educators, student teachers, and homeschool parents. You provide an activity idea, a role, an age group, and a framework selection, and the Service returns a draft plan. The output is a draft. It is not a substitute for your professional judgment, training, or knowledge of the specific children in your care.

You must be at least 18 years old to use Planella. The Service is intended for adult educators and caregivers. It is not intended for, and is not directed to, children under 13.

The free tier currently provides up to 3 lesson plans per day per user. We may change this limit at any time. Planella does not currently require an account. If we add accounts or a paid subscription tier in the future, pricing and any additional terms will be disclosed before purchase.

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for any unlawful purpose
• Submit input that contains personally identifiable information about specific children, including full names, photographs, dates of birth, home addresses, IEP/IFSP or assessment data, medical information, or family contact information (see our Privacy Policy for why)
• Submit input that infringes any third party's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights
• Submit content that is harassing, hateful, sexually explicit, or that depicts harm to children
• Attempt to reverse-engineer, scrape, or otherwise misuse the Service
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute Planella's output as a paid product without our written permission
• Use Planella's output to train another AI model

Planella uses third-party large language models (currently Anthropic's Claude API) to generate output from your inputs. You acknowledge and agree that:

• Output is generated, not authored. It is a draft and may contain errors, outdated information, omissions, developmentally inappropriate suggestions, or content that does not match the framework you selected.
• You must review every plan before using it with children. Without exception. Review for accuracy, age-appropriateness, framework fit, allergies, choking hazards, and every other consideration relevant to your specific children, classroom, and local regulations.
• No professional substitution. Planella is not a substitute for early childhood education credentials, training, mentorship, licensure, or the judgment of a qualified educator who knows the children in front of them.
• AI processing. Inputs you submit are sent to our AI provider for processing. See our Privacy Policy for how inputs are handled and stored.

Lesson plans generated by Planella may include physical activities, sensory materials, food handling, water play, art supplies, outdoor activities, and other elements that carry inherent risk when conducted with young children.

You expressly assume all risk associated with implementing any plan generated by Planella. Before using any plan with children, you are solely responsible for:

• Reviewing the plan for hazards, including choking hazards, toxic or allergenic substances, sharp objects, slip and fall risks, supervision ratios, and water depth
• Confirming the plan is appropriate for each child's age, developmental level, abilities, allergies, IEP/IFSP requirements, and individual needs
• Ensuring you have all required licenses, insurance, parental permissions, and regulatory approvals for the activity in your jurisdiction
• Providing adequate adult supervision at all times
• Following your program's, school's, district's, state's, or country's applicable health and educational regulations

Planella has no control over how a plan is implemented, who supervises it, or the children involved. We disclaim all responsibility for any outcome resulting from the implementation of a Planella-generated plan.

Planella generates plans inspired by widely known early childhood approaches, including Reggio-inspired, Montessori, HighScope®, Creative Curriculum®, and general play-based practice, with developmental domain mapping.

Planella is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by NAEYC, Teaching Strategies, LLC (The Creative Curriculum®), HighScope Educational Research Foundation, Reggio Children or the Municipality of Reggio Emilia (Reggio Emilia Approach®), or any Montessori organization. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

References to these approaches in our output describe the inspiration for the plan structure; they do not indicate certification, accreditation, or formal alignment with any of these organizations.

You retain all rights you have in the inputs you submit. By submitting inputs, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, and process them solely to (a) operate and provide the Service to you, (b) send them to our AI provider for processing, and (c) keep the usage records described in our Privacy Policy and use them to improve Planella. We do not claim ownership of your inputs.

Output generated for you is yours to use, modify, print, and share for educational and personal purposes, including in your classroom, homeschool, or program. You acknowledge that AI-generated outputs may be similar to outputs generated for other users from similar prompts, that AI-generated content may not be copyrightable in some jurisdictions, and that the resale and AI-training restrictions in Section 4 apply.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, you agree to receive periodic emails from Planella. You can unsubscribe at any time via the link in any email. Newsletter delivery is handled by beehiiv, and your subscription is also subject to beehiiv's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Planella relies on third-party services, including Anthropic (AI processing), Vercel (hosting and analytics), Supabase (database), Cloudflare (bot protection), Resend (transactional email), and beehiiv (newsletter). Your use of Planella may also be subject to those providers' terms. We are not responsible for the acts or omissions of third-party providers.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranty of any kind, express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, reliability, and availability. We do not warrant that:

• The Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free
• Generated lesson plans will be accurate, complete, age-appropriate, framework-compliant, or suitable for any particular purpose
• Output will meet any regulatory, licensing, or accreditation standard
• Defects will be corrected

You use the Service at your own risk.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Planella, Jennifer Bell, and any operators, employees, contractors, agents, or licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including personal injury, property damage, loss of data, loss of profits, business interruption, or loss of goodwill, arising out of or relating to your use of the Service or its output, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total cumulative liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the total fees you paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).

These limitations apply regardless of the legal theory of the claim (contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise) and survive termination of these Terms. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of liability for certain damages; in those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Planella, Jennifer Bell, and any operators, employees, contractors, agents, and licensors from and against any claim, damages, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your use of the Service; (b) your implementation of any plan generated by Planella; (c) any input you submit; (d) your violation of these Terms; or (e) your violation of any law or third-party right.

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service (or any part of it) at any time. We may also update these Terms; when we do, we'll update the "Last updated" date above, and for material changes we will make reasonable efforts to notify you (for example, via a notice on the site). Continued use of the Service after changes means you accept the new Terms.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice. You may stop using the Service at any time. Sections 4 through 8 and 10 through 17 survive termination.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict of law principles.

Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the Service will be resolved as follows: (a) we both first attempt informal resolution by contacting each other (for us: hello@getplanella.com); (b) if not resolved within 30 days, disputes will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in California, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

Questions about these Terms? Email us at hello@getplanella.com.