Terms of Service

Last updated: November 5, 2026.

Terms and Conditions ("Terms")

Please read these Terms carefully before using https://classla.org, https://app.classla.org and the software and services offered there (the "Service"), operated by Classla LLC ("Classla", "us", "we", or "our").

Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of these Terms. They apply to everyone who uses the Service. By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by them. If you disagree with any part of them, you do not have permission to use the Service.

Service

We provide a hosted environment for teaching and practicing coding and other subjects: assignments, an in-browser IDE, grading, and tools for a teacher to see how their class is doing.

Schools, Teachers, and Students

Classla is built for schools, and most student accounts are created by a teacher.

• The school is in charge of student accounts. A teacher or school administrator creates each student account, decides what information goes into it, and can change or remove it. In doing so the school acts as the agent of the student's parent or guardian in authorizing the student's use of the Service.
• We collect only what the school gives us. A student account requires a username and a password. Nothing else. First and last name are optional at every layer of the system, so a teacher may use initials, roster numbers, or pseudonyms instead of real names.
• There is no age minimum for a school-created student account. Classla is for K-12 classrooms, and we do not ask students their age.
• The self-service sign-up at app.classla.org is for teachers and other adults setting up a class. If a student needs an account, their teacher creates it.
• For education records, we act as a "school official" with a legitimate educational interest under 34 CFR 99.31(a)(1)(i)(B). We use student data only to provide the Service, under the school's direction, and we will sign a district's data privacy agreement.

Your Content and Who Owns It

Our Service lets you create and store text, code, files, answers, and other material ("User Content").

You own your User Content. Student work belongs to the student and their school, and never to Classla. That includes files, code, submissions, notes, and the edit history behind them. We claim no ownership of it and no right to control it.

You grant us only the license we need to operate the Service: to store your User Content, display it back to you, show it to the people in your course who are meant to see it (a teacher sees their own students' work), run it, grade it, and back it up. That license exists so the product can work, it is limited to operating the Service, and it ends when the content is deleted.

• We do not sell your data.
• We do not show ads and we do not use your data to target them.
• We do not use your data for marketing.
• You can ask for a copy of your data, or ask us to delete it, at any time. See the "Managing Your Information" section of our Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for the User Content you post, including its legality and appropriateness, and you represent that you have the right to post it. We may remove content that infringes someone else's rights, and we may terminate the account of anyone who repeatedly does so.

Accounts

When you create an account, you agree that the information you give us is accurate and that you will keep it current. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and for activity under your account, and you must tell us as soon as you become aware of any unauthorized use of it.

You may not use as a username the name of another person or entity that is not lawfully available to you, a name or trademark subject to someone else's rights, or a name that is offensive, vulgar, or obscene.

Deleting an account is not the same as deleting data. Deleting an account removes that person's login and their access to the Service. A teacher often still needs the record of a student's work in a course after that student's account is gone, so the work stays with the course. To have data itself deleted, the school or the account holder asks us, and we do it. See the Privacy Policy.

Services You Choose to Connect

Some features let a teacher connect an account they hold with another service, such as Google Classroom or an AI app like Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, and a school can add Classla to its learning management system, such as Canvas or Moodle. Connecting is optional. What Classla sends to and reads from a connected service is described in our Privacy Policy. Your use of that service is governed by its own terms, not these, and we are not responsible for it. You can disconnect at any time: an AI app from your account Settings, under Connected apps, and Google Classroom or an LMS from your course settings, or by revoking Classla's access in your account with that service. Disconnecting removes Classla's access. If you let a connected AI app read student work, you are responsible for doing so only where your school allows student work to be shared with that service. Only teachers connect Google Classroom or an AI app; students never sign in to Google or an AI app through Classla. Where a school has added Classla to its LMS, students and teachers can open Classla from the LMS, which signs them in to their Classla account.

Acceptable Use

• Except where applicable law permits it, you agree not to distribute, sell, translate, reproduce, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or make derivative works of any part of the Service or Classla's content without our authorization, unless we make the means to do so available through the Service itself.
• You agree not to alter or modify any part of the Service.
• You agree not to use the Service to attack or tamper with other websites, services, or people.
• You agree not to access Classla's content by any means other than the pages of the Service itself or other means we explicitly authorize.
• Without our prior written approval, you agree not to sell access to the Service, and not to sell ads, sponsorships, or promotions placed on or within the Service or Classla's content. Prohibited commercial uses do not include any use we authorize in writing.
• You agree not to interfere with or disrupt the Service or the networks connected to it, and not to attempt to gain unauthorized access to other systems.
• You agree not to run automated systems, such as robots, spiders, or offline readers, that send more requests to our servers in a given period than a person could reasonably produce with an ordinary browser. We may grant public search engines permission to index the public site. You agree not to collect or harvest personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service, and not to use the Service to solicit its users for commercial purposes.
• You agree not to use the Service for anything illegal or fraudulent.
• You agree not to use the Service for resource-intensive cryptocurrency activity, such as mining.
• You will comply with all applicable laws in your use of the Service.

We may discontinue or revoke any of the rights above, or your access to the Service, at any time.

Our Content and Intellectual Property

The Service and its original content, features, and functionality, excluding User Content, remain the property of Classla LLC and its licensors, and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Our trademarks and trade dress may not be used without our prior written consent. You may use our content for your own information and teaching as permitted by these Terms; you may not copy, redistribute, sell, or license it for other purposes without our consent, and you agree not to circumvent security features of the Service. Some content on the Service is licensed from third parties on their own terms, which are shown alongside that content.

When you use the Service you will see content created by other people. We are not responsible for its accuracy or usefulness, and some of it may be wrong or objectionable.

Fees

Classla is a paid service for schools. A free account can explore the Service, and no card is required to create one; running a real class requires us to verify the account, as described on our website. If you buy a subscription, you agree to pay the fees quoted to you, on the terms quoted to you. We may refuse or cancel an order for reasons including availability, an error in a description or price, an error in the order, or suspected fraud.

Availability, Errors, and Inaccuracies

We update the Service often. Information on the Service may contain errors, may be out of date, or may be incomplete, and we cannot guarantee its accuracy. We may change or correct it at any time without notice.

Notice and Communications

By creating an account, you agree that we may contact you about changes to the Service or about your use of it. Where we ask for an email address, you are responsible for keeping it current. If the last address you gave us is not valid or cannot receive mail, our sending a notice to it still counts as effective notice. You may give us notice by emailing camden@classla.org.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Classla LLC, its licensees and licensors, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers, and directors, from any claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, or expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, arising out of a) your use of the Service, by you or anyone using your account, or b) your breach of these Terms.

Limitation of Liability

In no event shall Classla LLC, nor its directors, employees, partners, agents, suppliers, or affiliates, be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, data, use, or goodwill, resulting from (i) your use of or inability to use the Service; (ii) any unauthorized access to or use of our servers or the information stored on them; (iii) any interruption of transmission to or from the Service; (iv) any bugs, viruses, or similar that a third party transmits through the Service; (v) any errors or omissions in content made available through the Service; or (vi) any other matter relating to the Service.

This section applies to the fullest extent permitted by law in the applicable jurisdiction.

Disclaimer

Your use of the Service is at your sole risk. The Service is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or course of performance.

Classla LLC, its affiliates, and its licensors do not warrant that a) the Service will run uninterrupted, secure, or available at any particular time or place; b) any errors or defects will be corrected; c) the Service is free of viruses or other harmful components; or d) the results of using the Service will meet your requirements.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, so the limitations above may not apply to you.

Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Where a school district's data privacy agreement that we have signed conflicts with these Terms about student data, that agreement controls.

Our failure to enforce a right or provision of these Terms is not a waiver of it. If a court holds any provision invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. These Terms are the entire agreement between us about the Service and replace any prior agreement about it.

Changes

We may modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, we will give at least thirty days' notice before the new terms take effect. By continuing to use the Service after a revision takes effect, you agree to the revised terms. If you do not agree to them, you are no longer authorized to use the Service.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms, email camden@classla.org. Camden answers this himself.