Confidentiality & Non-Disclosure Agreement

This Confidentiality & Non-Disclosure Agreement (the "Agreement") is entered into between Raising Readers with Elise, LLC, a New York limited liability company ("LitTrack," "we," or "us"), and each educator, tutor, tester, contractor, or other person who creates or uses a LitTrack account ("you"). It is incorporated into and forms part of the Terms of Service. You accept this Agreement the same way you accept the Terms of Service: by clicking "I agree," creating an account, or using the Service.

1. Why this exists

LitTrack gives you access to a working product, an instructional model, and internal design decisions that are not public. This Agreement is intended to prevent copying, rebuilding, or reselling that work. It is not a non-compete: you remain free to tutor, teach, run your own business, and use general knowledge, skill, and experience you already had or that you gain generally as a professional.

2. Confidential Information

"Confidential Information" means non-public information you learn or access through the Service or through communications with us, including:

• the structure, sequencing logic, scoring rules, thresholds, mastery criteria, and progression design of LitTrack's scope and sequence, diagnostics, assessments, and lesson templates;
• product design, workflows, screens not publicly released, unreleased or beta features, prompts, AI instructions, and internal documentation;
• source code, database structure, algorithms, and technical architecture;
• pricing not publicly posted, roadmaps, business plans, marketing strategy, and financial or subscriber information;
• anything we identify as confidential, or that a reasonable person would understand to be confidential from its nature or the circumstances of disclosure.

Student and family information is not covered by this Agreement in the same way — it is governed by the Student Data Privacy Policy and Student Data Responsibility Agreement, which impose stricter obligations.

3. What is not confidential

Confidential Information does not include information that:

• is or becomes public through no fault of yours;
• you already lawfully knew before accessing the Service, and can show you knew;
• you lawfully receive from a third party who is free to disclose it, or that you develop independently without reference to Confidential Information;
• consists of generally known reading-instruction methods, structured literacy principles, phonics concepts, or other publicly available pedagogy. LitTrack does not claim ownership of the science of reading or of general teaching practice.

4. Your obligations

You agree that you will not, without our prior written permission:

• disclose, publish, or share Confidential Information with anyone outside your account;
• use Confidential Information to build, fund, advise on, or assist any product, app, platform, spreadsheet system, or service that competes with or substantially replicates LitTrack;
• copy, export, screenshot, scrape, or bulk-download LitTrack's scope and sequence, diagnostics, templates, or word banks for redistribution, resale, or use outside your own tutoring practice within LitTrack;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code, prompts, or underlying logic of the Service;
• share your account credentials or give access to anyone who has not accepted these terms.

You will protect Confidential Information with at least the same care you use for your own confidential information, and never less than reasonable care.

You may capture and share screenshots privately with LitTrack for technical support, testing, and bug reporting. You may not publish or distribute those screenshots without LitTrack's prior written permission.

5. Permitted use

You may use Confidential Information solely to run your own tutoring or teaching practice inside LitTrack, including sharing individual student-facing materials, lesson plans, and reports with that student's own parents, guardians, or school team. That normal instructional sharing is expressly allowed.

6. Ownership

Nothing in this Agreement transfers ownership. LitTrack and its underlying content, software, methods, and design remain the property of Raising Readers with Elise, LLC. You keep ownership of the content you create and upload, subject to the license in the Terms of Service. If you send us feedback, ideas, or suggestions, you grant us a perpetual, royalty-free right to use them without obligation or compensation.

7. Required disclosure

If you are legally compelled to disclose Confidential Information by subpoena, court order, or law, you may do so, but you agree to give us prompt written notice where legally permitted so we can seek protection, and to disclose only what is required. Nothing here limits your right to report suspected unlawful conduct to a government agency, to communicate with regulators, or to exercise rights that cannot be waived by contract.

8. Duration

Your obligations begin when you accept this Agreement and continue for as long as you have an account and for three (3) years after your account closes. Obligations covering trade secrets continue for as long as the information remains a trade secret under applicable law.

9. Return or deletion

When your account closes, or on our written request, you will stop using Confidential Information and delete or destroy copies in your possession, except copies you must keep by law and routine backups that are not readily accessible.

10. Remedies

You agree that a breach of this Agreement may cause harm that money cannot adequately repair, and that we may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in addition to any other remedy, without needing to post a bond. We may also suspend or terminate your account immediately for a breach.

11. General

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of New York and is subject to the dispute-resolution provisions of the Terms of Service, except that we may seek injunctive relief for intellectual-property misuse in court. If any provision is unenforceable, the rest remains in effect and the unenforceable provision is limited to the minimum extent necessary. This Agreement does not create an employment, agency, partnership, or joint-venture relationship.

12. Contact

Questions or permission requests: raisingreaderswithelise@gmail.com.

Related policies: Terms · Privacy · Acceptable Use · Student Data Responsibility