The 30-second version. LinoClass is operated by Lino Ti Inc. The free plan stays free, with no credit card. The Pro plan costs 79 $ CAD per year per teacher, after a 30-day trial, and renews automatically each year until you cancel. You can cancel at any time, in two clicks, from the app. Student content belongs to you, never to us. We sell no data and we show no advertising.
1. Who we are, and what you are agreeing to
LinoClass is a service operated by Lino Ti Inc., a corporation incorporated in Quebec, Canada. In this document, "we" means Lino Ti Inc. and "you" means the person using the service.
By creating an account or using LinoClass, you accept these terms. If you do not agree with them, do not use the service.
These terms apply together with our privacy policy, which describes how we handle personal information. The two documents form the agreement between you and us.
2. The service
LinoClass is a web application for the primary classroom. It lets a teacher keep a digital portfolio for each student, send announcements to parents, exchange messages with them, assign activities, and use an interactive whiteboard.
We improve the service continuously. Features may be added, changed or removed. A feature announced as coming soon is an intention, not a commitment to a specific date.
If we remove a significant Pro feature during a period you have already paid for, you may request a refund prorated over the remaining months. Write to support@linoclass.ca.
3. Who can use LinoClass
3.1 Teachers and schools
You must be 18 or older to open a teacher account. If you open an account on behalf of a school, a school service centre or another organization, you confirm that you have the authority to bind that organization.
You are responsible for what happens in your account. Keep your sign-in links to yourself. Tell us at support@linoclass.ca if you believe someone else has access to it.
3.2 Parents
Parents receive an invitation from the teacher. A parent account gives access to their own child's portfolio, the classroom announcements, and messaging with the teacher.
3.3 Students
Students have no account with an email address or a password. They sign in with their classroom QR code, on a device provided by the school. The service is designed for children aged 5 to 8 and is used under the teacher's supervision.
3.4 Parental consent
The teacher or the school must obtain parental consent before adding a child. We provide the consent tracking tool inside the app. Responsibility for obtaining consent stays with the teacher or the school, who decides what information is entered into LinoClass.
4. Plans and pricing
4.1 Free plan
The free plan has no time limit and asks for no credit card. It includes one classroom, up to 35 students, the photo and drawing portfolio, announcements, messaging with parents, assigned activities and the whiteboard.
Fair-use limits apply to the free plan, including on the number of portfolio items per classroom. The current limits are shown in the app and on the pricing page.
4.2 LinoClass Pro
The Pro plan costs 79 $ CAD per year, per teacher, plus applicable sales tax. It is billed once a year.
Sales tax is calculated at checkout from your billing address. In Quebec that adds GST (5%) and QST (9.975%), for a total of $90.83. Elsewhere in Canada, your province's applicable rate is used. Our registration numbers: GST 713606952RT0001 and QST 1232032959TQ0001. Every invoice itemizes the tax.
A Pro subscription follows the person, not the classroom. A Pro teacher can invite up to 3 collaborators into a classroom, for example a music or English specialist.
4.3 The 30-day trial
The Pro plan starts with a free 30-day trial. A credit card is requested at the start of the trial, but nothing is charged during those 30 days. If you cancel before the trial ends, you pay nothing.
4.4 Automatic renewal
At the end of the trial, and then on each anniversary date, the subscription renews automatically for one year and the card on file is charged. You can stop that renewal at any time from the Billing section of the app.
4.5 Price changes
We may change the price of the Pro plan. A price change never applies to a year you have already paid for. We tell you by email at least 30 days before the renewal date, which leaves you time to cancel.
5. Payment, cancellation and refunds
Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your card number.
Cancellation. You can cancel at any time from the app. Cancelling stops the next renewal. You keep Pro access until the end of the period you already paid for, then the account returns to the free plan. Your data stays in place.
Refunds. If the service is not right for you, write to support@linoclass.ca and we will refund you. We ask for no justification and impose no artificial deadline. A year already under way is refunded prorated over the remaining months.
This policy is deliberately generous, because we would rather have a customer leave happy than be held in place. If it is repeatedly abused, we will tighten it going forward, with the 30-day notice set out in section 12. A tightening will never apply retroactively to a year already paid.
These terms take away no right the law gives you, including under Quebec's Consumer Protection Act.
6. Your content
Photos, drawings, text, video, audio recordings and messages placed in LinoClass remain the property of their author, or of the school, as the case may be. We never become their owner.
You grant us only the technical permission needed to run the service: to store the content, display it to the authorized people in the classroom, back it up and generate previews. That permission ends when the content is deleted.
We do not use student or parent content to train artificial intelligence models. We do not sell it. We share it for no advertising purpose.
A parent can download their child's portfolio content from the app at any time. You can also request a full copy of your information at privacy@linoclass.ca.
7. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- place sensitive information in LinoClass that does not belong there, such as a medical file or a social insurance number;
- post illegal, hateful, violent or sexually explicit content;
- use the service to contact parents for commercial or political purposes;
- try to reach the data of another classroom or another account;
- disrupt the service, probe it without authorization, or work around its technical limits;
- resell or sublicense access to the service.
If you find a security flaw, write to us at support@linoclass.ca before making it public. We treat those reports as a priority.
8. Availability
We aim for a service that is always available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability. Downtime is sometimes needed for maintenance, updates, or to fix a problem.
We take regular backups of the database. A backup is not a guarantee. Keep your own copy of what truly matters to you, as you would with any digital tool.
9. Suspension and closing an account
You can request deletion of your account at any time by writing to privacy@linoclass.ca. We carry it out within 30 days.
We may suspend or close an account that breaks section 7, that puts the security of other classrooms' data at risk, or whose billing stays unpaid. Except in an emergency or a case of illegality, we warn you first and give you time to fix the situation.
Inactive accounts are deleted after 24 months without a sign-in, as stated in the privacy policy. We send an email notice before deletion.
10. Warranties and liability
The service is provided as is. We do not warrant that it will meet every one of your needs, or that it will be free of errors.
To the extent permitted by law, our total liability to you, for any claim related to the service, is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event. If you use the free plan, no amount was paid.
This limit does not apply to what the law forbids us to exclude, including our own gross or intentional fault.
11. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws applicable in Quebec and in Canada. Any dispute falls to the courts of Quebec.
12. Changes to these terms
We may change these terms. In case of a material change, we tell you by email and with a note in the app at least 30 days before it takes effect. The last updated date at the top of the document indicates the current version. If you keep using the service after that date, you accept the new version.