Addaly is a school. It is free, all of it, and it stays that way. The rules are short on purpose — you should not need a lawyer to learn here.
What this place is for
- Reading is never gated. Every lesson, every figure and every book can be read without an account, without an address and without paying.
- An account exists so that your own progress follows you: what you have finished, where you stopped, and how an exam went.
- Questions you would be embarrassed to ask a person are welcome here. That is most of what a tutor is for.
What we ask of a learner
- Answer a check honestly. Your first answer is the one we keep, and we keep it because it is the only one that means anything. Reading the explanation and then changing your answer helps nobody, least of all you.
- Sit your own exam. A paper you passed with somebody else’s help opens a course you are not ready for. There is no timer and there is no limit on retakes — a retake draws fresh questions, so there is nothing to gain by rushing the first one.
- Keep your slip to yourself. If a teacher gave you a username and a password on a slip of paper, it is yours. Somebody else signing in as you puts their work on your record and yours on theirs.
- Do not try to break the site. No bulk accounts, no scripts around the daily limits, no scraping.
What we ask of a teacher or a school
- Make accounts only for your own pupils. The roster is fenced to the classes you teach, and every staff action is written to a log that cannot be edited afterwards.
- Ask the parent first. A child’s account may only be created where the school already holds that child’s parent or guardian’s consent. That is the whole legal basis for a pupil being here, and it is the school’s to hold.
- Answer a parent who asks. A parent may ask what is held about their child, have it corrected, or have it erased. An administrator answers from the parents’ desk in the staff portal, one child at a time.
What is never allowed
There is not much a person can publish on Addaly — a display name, a short biography, the questions you put to a tutor, and the problem reports you send us. These lines apply to all of it.
- Hate and harassment. Attacking a person for who they are — caste, religion, gender, body, family, where they are from — or going after somebody to make them miserable.
- Private information about anyone. Names, addresses, phone numbers, photographs, screenshots of private messages. Yours or anybody else’s.
- Sexual content, and anything sexual involving a child. Zero tolerance and no grey area. This is the one category that is preserved and reported to the authorities rather than simply removed.
- Encouraging harm. Instructions or encouragement to hurt yourself or anyone else.
How the writing you do here is checked
A display name, a biography and a question to a tutor pass an automated check before they are stored or answered. Fast rules catch the obvious cases and an AI review handles the grey zone. We lean hard against false removals, because a wrongly-blocked question costs a learner more than a badly-worded one costs anybody else. If a check stops something of yours that it should not have, tell us through complaints and a person will read it.
If you are struggling
Saying that you are frightened, ashamed or exhausted is never a rule you broke. If something you write sounds like distress, you are met with support, never a penalty, and the helplines are offered alongside the answer. In India you can reach Tele-MANAS at 14416 or iCall at 9152987821, at any hour.
A tutor is an AI and is not a doctor, a lawyer or a counsellor. Nothing it says is advice of that kind, and it can be wrong.
If something is wrong
A broken page, a lesson that is plainly incorrect, a decision that went against you, or anything about your own data: use complaints. It needs no account and it gives you a reference number to quote.
The larger promises — what we will never do to you — are in your Bill of Rights, and what an account holds is set out in Privacy.