Terms of Use
These terms are the agreement between you and Homeplay for using the Homeplay app. In short:
- Homeplay is for students 13 and older.
- What you add stays yours. Homeplay only uses it to make your courses.
- Your courses are made by AI, and AI can get things wrong. Check what matters.
- Be kind. Nothing offensive in your name or username, and no harassing anyone.
- Videos come from YouTube, so by using Homeplay you also agree to YouTube's Terms of Service.
- Homeplay is free to start. Homeplay Plus, a subscription from the App Store, gives you more, and renews until you cancel it.
- You can delete your account at any time.
Who we are
Homeplay is made by Sharmarke Mohamed Hilowle, in Switzerland ("we" in these terms). For anything about these terms, write to privacy@homeplay.app.
Who can use Homeplay
Homeplay is for students 13 and older. If the law where you live asks for a parent's or guardian's permission to use apps like Homeplay at your age, ask them first. To use Homeplay, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy.
Your account
You sign in with Apple, so keep your Apple account safe: what happens in your Homeplay account is your responsibility. An account is for one person. Don't pretend to be someone else. You can delete your account in Homeplay's settings at any time.
What you add stays yours
The photos, scans and files you add are yours, and stay yours. To turn them into your course, you allow Homeplay to process them and to send them to the services named in our Privacy Policy, only for that.
Only add material you're allowed to use, like your own notes or handouts from your class, and don't add other people's private information.
Made by AI
Your chapters, readings and quizzes, the videos picked for them, your courses' covers, and what the mascot says when you talk with it are made by AI from what you add. AI can misunderstand things and get facts wrong. Homeplay is a study aid, not a teacher, and it can't promise you any grade. Check what matters against your material and with your teachers.
Friends, and being kind
Your name, username and color are seen by your friends and by people you ask to be friends. Homeplay has zero tolerance for abuse:
- No names or usernames that are offensive, sexual, hateful or violent, or that pretend to be someone else.
- Don't use Homeplay to bully, threaten, harass or spam anyone.
You can block or report anyone who can see you, right in the app. We look at every report within 24 hours, remove anything that breaks these terms, and where needed close the account it came from.
Videos from YouTube
Homeplay uses YouTube API Services to find videos for your chapters, and they play in YouTube's own player. By using Homeplay, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. Google's Privacy Policy explains what Google does with data. The videos belong to the people who made them. Homeplay doesn't own them and isn't responsible for what they say.
Using Homeplay fairly
Homeplay, its design and its mascot are ours, and you may use the app for your own studying. Please don't:
- Try to break, overload or get around Homeplay's limits or security.
- Copy, take apart, resell or rebuild the app.
- Use Homeplay to collect other people's information, or for anything against the law.
Free, and Homeplay Plus
Homeplay is free to start: up to 3 new courses a week, and 3 minutes of talking with the mascot to try it.
Homeplay Plus gives you unlimited new courses and 20 minutes a month of talking with the mascot. Unlimited is meant for studying: to keep Homeplay fair and working for everyone, it allows up to 20 new courses a day. Minutes you don't use don't carry over to the next month.
Plus is a subscription, yearly or monthly, that you buy from Apple in the App Store, at the price the app shows you before you buy, in your currency. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Plus renews automatically, for the same length and at the same price, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your Apple Account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before it ends. If your plan starts with a free trial, your subscription starts when the trial ends, and you're charged then, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends.
You can manage or cancel Plus at any time, in Homeplay's settings under Subscription, or in your Apple Account's subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal, and Plus stays yours until the end of the period you paid for. Deleting your Homeplay account doesn't cancel Plus, so cancel it first. Refunds are Apple's to give, under Apple's rules: you can ask for one at reportaproblem.apple.com.
If what Plus gives you or costs ever changes, Homeplay tells you in the app before it applies to you, and if its price goes up, Apple asks for your agreement where its rules require it.
Changes
Homeplay keeps growing, so its features can change, and some may end. If these terms change, this page changes too, with a new date at the top. If it's a big change, Homeplay tells you in the app. If you don't agree with new terms, you can stop using Homeplay and delete your account.
Ending
You can stop using Homeplay at any time and delete your account in its settings. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, right away if it harms others.
Our responsibility
We work hard to make Homeplay good and safe, but we provide it as it is, without promising it will always work or never be wrong. As far as the law allows, we aren't responsible for indirect harm from using Homeplay. Nothing in these terms limits our responsibility for harm we cause on purpose or through gross negligence, or any rights the law gives you as a consumer.
The law
Swiss law applies to these terms. If you live somewhere whose law protects you more, that protection still applies to you.
If you got Homeplay from the App Store
Homeplay is licensed to you under Apple's standard End User License Agreement, together with these terms. These terms are between you and us, not Apple:
- Apple isn't responsible for Homeplay or what's in it, or for its maintenance and support. We are.
- Any claims about Homeplay, like that it doesn't work as promised, breaks a law, or infringes someone's rights, are ours to handle, not Apple's. If Homeplay doesn't work as promised, you can tell Apple, and Apple may refund what you paid for it; beyond that, Apple has no warranty obligations for it.
- When you use Homeplay, you follow the terms of others involved, like your mobile carrier's.
- You confirm that you aren't in a country under a U.S. Government embargo or designated as supporting terrorism, and that you aren't on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.
Questions
Write to privacy@homeplay.app. Homeplay is made by Sharmarke Mohamed Hilowle, in Switzerland.