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Beta Test Addendum

Scope — where this applies. This document covers WhiteKnight Academy as a whole: both the public website at whiteknight.academy and the learning platform at analytics.whiteknight.academy. Where it refers to "the Site", "the Service", or "the Platform", it means both unless a specific one is named.

Effective date: 2026-07-02

Beta Test Addendum

§ 1. What this Addendum is

This Addendum forms part of your agreement with TheBroda sp. z o.o. ("we", "WhiteKnight Academy") during the closed-beta phase of the Service. It applies in addition to — and, where there is a conflict, modifies — the Parent Terms of Service and Adult Terms of Service. The Privacy Policy, Children's Privacy Notice, Cookie Policy, Safeguarding Policy, and Acceptable Use Policy continue to apply unchanged.

§ 2. Who this applies to

  • Parents/guardians who signed up a child via an invitation to the beta.
  • Adult users invited to the beta.
  • Coaches who signed onto the platform during the beta.

You are in the beta if your account was activated before general availability and we have not migrated you to a paid plan. You can check status at any time in Settings → Account.

§ 3. What "beta" means here

  • Invitation-only access. Accounts are created only via an invitation we issue. You may not invite or register additional users outside your own household without our consent.
  • Free of charge. Beta use costs nothing. We do not collect payment, tip, donation, or in-kind contribution during this phase. (Any Stripe customer record we create at sign-up is a technical pre-wiring for Phase 2 — no charge is made.)
  • Work in progress. Features are partially built. Things may break, look strange, be renamed, or disappear. Outages, data loss on non-production environments, or missing features are possible.
  • Shorter feedback loop. We ask you to tell us what works and what does not. Feedback is welcome but not mandatory.
  • Limited capacity. We reserve the right to cap the number of beta accounts, invitations, lessons, or feature usages, and to adjust those caps without notice.

§ 4. Your statutory rights are preserved

Nothing in this Addendum waives or reduces rights that you cannot waive under the law applicable to you. In particular:

  • EU / EEA consumers: your rights under Directive 2011/83/EU (information), Directive (EU) 2019/770 (quality of digital content), Polish Kodeks cywilny, and Ustawa o prawach konsumenta remain in force. Because beta use is free, the 14-day right of withdrawal does not attach to a paid transaction (there is none); if we introduce a paid step, that right applies to it.
  • California residents: your rights under CCPA/CPRA and Song-Beverly are not waived. California AADC protections for any Child user are fully applied.
  • Canadian residents: PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, and applicable provincial statutes remain in force.
  • Children's rights under COPPA and GDPR Art 8 are applied in full: parental consent, access, deletion, and material-change re-consent all work exactly as described in the Privacy Policy and Children's Privacy Notice.

Where the disclaimers in § 5–§ 7 below would, under the law applicable to you, be unenforceable, they do not apply to that extent.

§ 5. No service-level agreement

During beta, we do not provide a service-level agreement (SLA), uptime guarantee, response-time commitment, or performance warranty beyond what is required by law.

  • We aim for good uptime, but we do not promise a specific percentage.
  • If something breaks, we will try to fix it quickly. We will keep you informed via email or a status notice.
  • We do not owe credits, refunds, or service-level penalties during beta. (There is nothing to refund because beta use is free.)

§ 6. Data may be reset at general availability

We reserve the right to reset certain beta data when the Service reaches general availability, provided we give you at least 15 days' notice before any reset. This would only happen if we need to migrate to a new schema or architecture; in the common case data will be preserved across the beta → GA transition.

If a reset happens, we will:

  • tell you in advance what will be reset (e.g., rated games, XP, badges) and what will not (account identity, chess-performance history considered "permanent");
  • offer a one-click export of everything beforehand via the DSAR portal (§ 11 of the Privacy Policy);
  • where lawful, preserve aggregated non-identifying statistics.

We will not reset parental-consent records, billing records (none during beta), or safeguarding incident files.

§ 7. Feature availability may change

Features advertised today may be modified, renamed, paywalled at GA, combined with other features, or removed entirely. Where we remove a feature that you have relied on, we will give you at least 15 days' notice unless removal is required for safety, security, or legal compliance.

Paid-plan features after GA will be announced with clear pricing. Nothing during beta is an offer, promise, or representation about future pricing.

§ 8. Feedback

Your feedback is valuable. By sharing ideas, suggestions, bug reports, feature requests, screenshots, recordings of your own sessions, or survey responses with us, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to use that feedback to improve the Service.

This licence:

  • covers only the feedback you voluntarily share;
  • does not give us rights in your Content (games, messages, puzzles, homework submissions) — those remain subject to the ordinary ToS licence grant (ToS § 8 Parent / § 5 Adult);
  • does not allow us to attribute your ideas to you publicly without your separate consent;
  • does not allow us to train AI models on your feedback data when that feedback is associated with a Child user's account.

You can withdraw future feedback participation at any time — just stop sharing. Already-incorporated ideas remain in the product.

§ 9. Confidentiality of the beta

  • Screenshots and discussions of your beta experience with friends, other parents, or chess-community channels are welcome.
  • Sharing unreleased features that we explicitly mark as "confidential — beta" is not. If we mark something [confidential] in a beta-only panel, please keep it private while the marking is in place.
  • If we ask specifically for confidentiality during a feedback session (e.g., a focus group call), we will make the request at that time; by default, nothing in this Addendum obliges secrecy.

§ 10. Suspension and end of the beta

  • We can end a user's participation in the beta, with reasonable notice, for breach of the Acceptable Use Policy, safeguarding concerns, or if our beta capacity needs to be reallocated.
  • We expect the beta to run for approximately 3–6 months. At the end we will either convert beta users into a paid tier (at the user's option) or retire beta accounts with at least 30 days' notice and a full data export offer.
  • You can leave the beta at any time by closing the account (Privacy Policy § 11).

§ 11. Liability during beta

The liability limits in the Terms of Service apply in full. During beta you have paid us nothing, so the "amounts paid in the past 12 months" component of the liability cap is zero; the floor of EUR 100 aggregate still applies. The exceptions to the cap (death, personal injury, fraud, willful misconduct, non-waivable statutory rights) apply as in the Terms of Service.

§ 12. Safeguarding is not beta

Nothing about the beta reduces our safeguarding duties or the rights of children. The Safeguarding Policy, Coach Code of Conduct, and Incident Response Plan apply exactly as if the Service were at general availability.

§ 13. Changes to this Addendum

We may update this Addendum during beta. Material changes are notified to active beta users at least 15 days before they take effect. You can close the account before a change takes effect if you disagree.

§ 14. Contact

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