Terms of Service

The short version

These terms cover your use of the Reading Challenge, a web app from Timberdoodle that helps homeschool families track reading. By creating an account or using the app, you’re agreeing to these terms. They’re written to be readable first and lawyerly second.

Who can use it

The Reading Challenge is for parents (or legal guardians) who want to track reading for the kids in their family. You need to be at least 18 years old to create an account. Children don’t create their own accounts—you manage reader profiles on their behalf.

By adding a reader profile for a child, you confirm that you’re that child’s parent or legal guardian and that you consent to our handling of their information as described in the Privacy Policy.

Free and paid access

The Read Across the USA challenge is free for everyone. The rest of the reading challenges unlock with a Timberdoodle access code, which you can redeem at the Unlock page. The code grants access for a stated period from the date of redemption.

Pricing and access duration are shown in the app at the time of redemption. Codes are non-transferable and not redeemable for cash. If your access expires, your account and family data stay—you just won’t see the paid challenges until you renew.

Acceptable use

Please use the Reading Challenge for what it’s intended for: tracking your own family’s reading. Specifically, don’t:

• Share your account credentials. One account per family.
• Use the app for any unlawful purpose, or upload content that violates someone else’s rights.
• Reverse-engineer, scrape, or attempt to extract our book catalog or other system data in bulk.
• Interfere with the app’s operation, attempt to bypass access gates, or attack our infrastructure.
• Upload avatar photos that depict anyone other than the readers in your family, or that you don’t have the right to upload.

We may suspend or close accounts that violate these rules.

Keeping it kid-friendly

The Reading Challenge is built for kids—parents log books and manage profiles, but the readers we’re ultimately serving are their children. What you contribute (book submissions, notes, ratings, reader avatars, anything else) needs to be kid-friendly. We’re the judge of what counts. If we decide something doesn’t, we reserve the right to remove it and to close your account.

Your content

The reader profiles, photos, lists, notes, and other content you add are yours. By using the app, you grant us a limited license to store and display that content back to you and your family account, for the purpose of running the Reading Challenge. We don’t claim ownership and we don’t use your content for anything outside the app.

Our content

The book catalog, challenge content, curated picks, editorial copy, photography, and the app itself are owned by Timberdoodle (or licensed from third parties). You’re welcome to use them inside the app as a member; please don’t copy or redistribute them elsewhere.

Changes to the service

We’re a small team and we ship improvements regularly. Features may change, get added, or get reworked over time. If we make a major change that affects how you use the app or how your access works, we’ll let you know.

Closing your account

You can close your account at any time by emailing us (see Contact). We can also close accounts that violate these terms, that we believe are causing harm, or that have been inactive for a long time. If we close your account, we’ll let you know unless there’s a legal reason not to.

Warranty disclaimer

The Reading Challenge is provided “as is” and “as available.” We don’t guarantee it will always be perfect, always available, or always work the way you expect. To the extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, Timberdoodle isn’t liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of your use of the Reading Challenge, and our total liability for any claim related to the service won’t exceed what you paid us for Reading Challenge access in the twelve months before the claim arose (or $50, whichever is greater).

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes go to the state or federal courts of competent jurisdiction located in Mason County, Washington.