Terms of Use

Scope of Services

Ardent's online services may include:

• Public website content and educational resources
• Parent and family portals
• Student enrollment and account management
• The SOLVE learning platform
• Research, admissions, competition, and academic planning resources
• AI-assisted educational tools, advisors, and content recommendations
• Other services offered by Ardent Academy from time to time

Certain programs or services may be subject to additional enrollment agreements, program policies, or platform-specific terms. If there is a conflict, the more specific agreement will govern that service.

Who May Use Our Services

Ardent Academy serves students in kindergarten through grade 12 and their families.

Accounts are ordinarily created and maintained by a parent or legal guardian. Some Ardent programs allow a student to open their own account in order to apply or take part; where they do, we require the name and contact details of a parent or legal guardian at the same time, and any enrollment agreement is made with the parent or guardian. A student who has not reached the age of majority takes part with their parent's or guardian's knowledge and consent.

Ardent does not knowingly collect personal information directly from a child without parental authorization where required by law. Information practices are described in our Privacy Policy.

Accounts and Security

Some features of the website and related services require an Ardent account.

You agree to:

• Provide accurate and current information
• Maintain the confidentiality of your login credentials
• Notify Ardent promptly of any unauthorized use of your account
• Ensure that anyone using your account complies with these Terms

You are responsible for activity occurring under your account unless caused by Ardent's failure to maintain reasonable security.

Ardent may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to any account that violates these Terms or threatens the security or operation of our services.

Acceptable Use

You may use Ardent services only for lawful educational and informational purposes.

You may not:

• Access or attempt to access accounts, systems, or data without authorization
• Interfere with the operation, security, or availability of the services
• Scrape, harvest, copy, or bulk-download content, data, or user information
• Use bots, automated tools, or AI systems to extract content except as expressly authorized
• Impersonate another person or misrepresent your affiliation
• Upload malicious code or attempt to disrupt service
• Harass, threaten, abuse, or harm another user
• Submit unlawful, defamatory, obscene, or infringing content
• Use Ardent content, curriculum materials, assessments, or proprietary resources to develop competing educational products without written permission

Parent Portal, Educational Planning, and AI Features

Ardent may provide planning tools, calendars, educational resources, AI-assisted advisors, recommendations, and other informational features.

These tools are provided for educational and informational purposes only.

Parents remain responsible for evaluating educational opportunities, deadlines, admissions requirements, competition rules, and other decisions affecting their student.

While Ardent strives for accuracy, information may change without notice and should be independently verified where appropriate.

Student Learning Services

Access to courses, assignments, curriculum materials, research programs, and learning activities may be provided through SOLVE or other Ardent platforms.

Participation in those services may be governed by separate enrollment agreements, program policies, and platform-specific terms.

Nothing in Ardent's services guarantees:

• Academic achievement
• Test scores
• Competition results
• Research outcomes
• Scholarships
• Admission to any school, college, university, or program

Student success depends on many factors beyond Ardent's control.

Content You Submit

Where Ardent allows you to submit comments, testimonials, memories, feedback, photographs, projects, or other materials, you retain ownership of your content.

By submitting content, you grant Ardent a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, display, publish, edit for clarity or length, distribute, and republish the content in connection with Ardent's educational, promotional, and operational activities.

You represent that:

• You have the right to submit the content
• The content does not infringe another person's rights
• Any necessary parental or guardian permissions have been obtained
• The content does not unlawfully disclose another person's personal information

Ardent may review, edit, decline, or remove submitted content at its discretion.

Publication is not guaranteed.

Intellectual Property

All content and materials provided through Ardent services, including but not limited to:

• Curriculum descriptions
• Course materials
• Assessments
• Videos
• Graphics
• Text
• Logos
• Trademarks
• Software
• Educational resources

are owned by Ardent Academy or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws.

Except as expressly permitted, you may not copy, distribute, modify, republish, sell, license, or create derivative works from Ardent content without written permission.

You may not use Ardent content, curriculum materials, or proprietary educational resources to train machine learning models or other automated systems without written authorization.

Third-Party Services

Ardent services may link to third-party websites, applications, payment processors, communication tools, or external resources.

Those services operate independently and are governed by their own terms and privacy practices.

Ardent is not responsible for the content, security, availability, or practices of third-party services.

Text Messaging

Ardent Academy sends recurring service and account text messages to the parent or guardian on a family account, at a mobile number they provide and consent to be texted at. We do not text students.

Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of purchasing any product or service, and the consent box on our forms is optional.

Messages may include:

• Class schedules, reminders, and schedule changes
• Attendance notifications
• Makeup and trial class confirmations
• Enrollment and registration updates
• Payment and billing notifications
• Account verification and security notifications

Message frequency varies. Most enrolled families can expect approximately two to six messages per month, and frequency may be higher during registration, schedule changes, or periods of active enrollment.

Message and data rates may apply. Any charges are billed by and payable to your mobile carrier under your mobile service agreement.

You may stop receiving text messages at any time by replying STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE, or QUIT to any message from Ardent Academy. For assistance, reply HELP, or contact Care@ArdentAcademy.com or (949) 861-2211.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties.

Our full Messaging Terms are at ardentacademy.com/sms and our Privacy Policy is at ardentacademy.com/privacy.

Privacy

Your use of Ardent services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how information is collected, used, stored, and shared.

Disclaimer of Warranties

Ardent services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ardent disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Ardent does not warrant that services will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or free from harmful components.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ardent Academy and its officers, employees, instructors, contractors, and affiliates shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to the use of Ardent services.

Ardent's total liability for any claim relating to the services shall not exceed the amount paid to Ardent for the applicable service during the twelve months preceding the claim.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

Changes to These Terms

Ardent may update these Terms from time to time.

The revised version becomes effective when posted on the website.

For material changes affecting enrolled families, Ardent may provide notice through email, account notifications, or other reasonable means.

Continued use of the services after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

Any dispute arising from these Terms or the use of Ardent services shall be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Orange County, California, and you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts.

Contact Information

Ardent Academy, 820 Roosevelt, Irvine, CA 92620.

Email Care@ArdentAcademy.com or call (949) 861-2211.