Terms of Service

Welcome to Patient Owl! We built Patient Owl to help kids discover the joy of reading, celebrate progress, and build lifelong reading habits. By using the website, you agree to these Terms.

We tried to keep this simple, readable, and fair.

1. Who Can Use Patient Owl

Patient Owl is designed for children from elementary school through high school, with accounts created and managed by parents, guardians, schools, or teachers.

Children may not create their own accounts. A parent, guardian, school, or teacher must create and manage the account for them.

By using Patient Owl, you agree to use it responsibly and respectfully.

2. What Patient Owl Does

Patient Owl helps users:

• Track books and reading progress
• Set reading goals
• Celebrate milestones and achievements
• Build positive reading habits

Patient Owl is meant to motivate and organize reading. It is not a replacement for school programs, libraries, or professional educational guidance.

3. Accounts

Parents, guardians, schools, or teachers may create and manage child profiles.

Please keep login information secure. You are responsible for activity that happens under your account.

You agree not to:

• Pretend to be someone else
• Upload harmful, illegal, or inappropriate content
• Interfere with the website or other users
• Use bots, scraping tools, or automated systems without permission

We may suspend or remove accounts that misuse the platform.

4. Privacy & Children’s Information

We take privacy seriously, especially when it comes to children.

We only collect the information needed to provide the service, improve the experience, and help families and schools track reading progress.

Parents, guardians, schools, and teachers are responsible for supervising children’s use of Patient Owl.

For more details, please review our Privacy Policy.

5. Content & Book Information

Book titles, covers, authors, and related information may come from third-party sources.

All trademarks, book covers, and copyrighted materials belong to their respective owners.

If you believe content should be removed or corrected, please reach us through the Contact page.

6. Free Service

Patient Owl is currently free to use.

We may add optional paid features in the future, but we will clearly explain any pricing before charging anyone.

7. Availability

We do our best to keep Patient Owl running smoothly, but we cannot guarantee uninterrupted access at all times.

Features may change, improve, or occasionally be removed as we continue building the platform.

8. Your Reading Data

You keep ownership of the information entered into Patient Owl, such as reading logs, goals, and notes.

By using the platform, you give us permission to store and process that information so the service works properly.

We will never sell personal reading data to advertisers.

9. Safety & Community

Patient Owl is meant to be positive, encouraging, and kid-friendly.

Please do not post:

• Bullying or abusive content
• Inappropriate material
• Spam or misleading information
• Anything unsafe for children

We reserve the right to remove content or accounts that violate these rules.

10. Disclaimer

Patient Owl is provided “as is.” While we work hard to make the platform reliable and accurate, we cannot guarantee everything will always work perfectly.

Use the service at your own discretion.

11. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time as Patient Owl evolves.

If we make major changes, we will post an update on the website.

Continuing to use Patient Owl after changes means you accept the updated Terms.

12. Contact Us

Questions, suggestions, or concerns? Please reach us through the Contact page.

Last updated: May 2026