Pagewise Terms

Terms of use

Pagewise is a post-reading learning platform for secondary school students. By signing in, you agree to the terms below.

1. A non-commercial educational project

Pagewise is a non-commercial educational project — a teaching tool for reading comprehension, writing practice, and classroom discussion. Not a business. There are no paid plans, no advertising, and no analytics or recommendation service. Use it only in good faith for student learning under the supervision of a teacher.

2. Accounts

• Student and teacher accounts are issued by the school or class teacher. Username and password are pseudonymous; the student should not share them outside class.
• Each student is responsible for the work saved under their account. Teachers can review, reset passwords, or delete an account.
• The demo (/demo) is open to anyone; nothing entered there is saved.

3. Student-created work

Notes, paragraphs, recordings, and videos a student creates inside Pagewise belong to the student. We store them so the student can come back to them across devices and so the teacher can review them. We do not claim ownership.

4. Respecting other people's copyright

When students write about a book, they should write in their own words. Pasting copyrighted text (long quotes, the publisher's plot summary, or full sections of someone else's work) into student notes is not permitted. Short quotations for the purpose of discussion or analysis are acceptable as fair use / fair dealing under the educational provisions of the Hong Kong Copyright Ordinance (Cap. 528), §§38, 41, 41A, and the equivalent UK and US fair-use provisions.

5. Pagewise editorial content

Brainstorm prompts, themes, discussion questions, reading hints, challenge questions, mini-project prompts, and any other guidance shown by Pagewise are editorial commentary written by the Pagewise team. They are designed to support a student's own thinking after they have read the original book. They are not:

• a summary of the book that substitutes for reading it;
• a reproduction of the author's prose, dialogue, or illustration;
• an authorised analysis of the work by the publisher or author.

Students may not copy Pagewise's editorial notes as their own work or submit them as a school assignment. Pagewise's commentary may be quoted briefly when the student is writing about Pagewise as a tool, with attribution. Otherwise the same rule applies to platform commentary as to any other secondary source: summarise in your own words, cite where it came from.

Pagewise uses book titles, authors, ISBNs, genres, and abstract themes as bibliographic references. The platform does not reproduce, host, or hotlink book covers, illustrations, or extended passages of copyrighted prose.

6. Copyright takedown procedure

If you are a copyright rights-holder or an authorised representative and you believe that Pagewise is displaying or distributing material that infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to pagewiseadmin@gmail.com containing:

1. Your name, organisation (if any), postal address, email address, and your relationship to the rights-holder.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you allege has been infringed — title, author, ISBN, publisher, and year of publication.
3. Identification of the specific Pagewise content alleged to infringe: the page URL, the section heading, and (where possible) a verbatim quotation of the offending text.
4. An explanation of why the use is not authorised and is not covered by fair dealing for criticism, review, or education.
5. A statement, under penalty of misrepresentation, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the rights-holder or authorised to act on their behalf.
6. A physical or electronic signature.

On receipt, Pagewise will:

• acknowledge the notice within 3 business days;
• review and, where appropriate, remove or replace the disputed content within 7 business days of acknowledgement;
• send the rights-holder a confirmation of the action taken; and
• keep an internal record of the notice and the response.

For incomplete or clearly invalid notices, Pagewise will respond asking for the missing information. Pagewise does not waive any legal defence (including fair use / fair dealing) by responding to a notice.

The DMCA-style takedown procedure above is also recorded in the project's internal copyright policy at docs/COPYRIGHT_POLICY.md.

7. Availability and changes

Pagewise is hosted on Cloudflare. We make reasonable efforts to keep the platform running but make no formal availability guarantee. Terms may be updated; significant changes will be reflected in the date at the top of this page.

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