Terms of Service
The agreement between you (the school owner or staff member using Retention OS) and us. We've written it in plain language so you can actually read it.
Effective date: August 1, 2026. By creating an account or using the service you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.
What Retention OS is
- Retention OS is a product of MatOS, operated by Excellence Martial Arts, LLC (“we,” “us”). It is a subscription software service that helps martial arts school owners track student engagement, identify at-risk students, manage belt rank progression, and communicate with student families.
- The service is provided ‘as is’ during beta. We are actively developing the product and features may change.
- You must be 18 or older and authorized to enter agreements on behalf of your school to create an account.
- You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity under your account.
Subscriptions and billing
- Plans are billed monthly or annually in advance. Pricing is shown on our Pricing page.
- Free trials are available on eligible plans. No card is required to start a trial unless specified at sign-up.
- After a trial ends your account is automatically downgraded or paused — we will not charge you without your authorization.
- Payments are processed by Stripe. By providing a payment method you authorize Stripe to charge it on the billing cycle you selected.
- Subscriptions renew automatically. You can cancel at any time from your account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
- We do not offer refunds for partial billing periods. If you cancel mid-month you retain access through the end of the period you paid for.
- We may change pricing with 30 days' notice. If a price increase applies to your plan we will notify you by email before it takes effect.
- If a payment fails we will retry and notify you. After 7 days of non-payment your account may be suspended until payment is resolved.
Acceptable use
You agree to use Retention OS only for its intended purpose — managing student retention at your martial arts school. Specifically, you must not:
- Use the service to store data for any school you do not own or operate.
- Share login credentials with individuals outside your school's staff.
- Attempt to access another school's data, or exploit any vulnerability in the platform.
- Use the parent email feature to send unsolicited commercial messages unrelated to your school.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the service.
- Resell, sublicense, or white-label the service without our written consent.
- Use automated scripts or bots to scrape or bulk-extract data from the platform.
- Upload content that is illegal, defamatory, or violates a third party's intellectual property rights.
Violation of these rules may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account.
Your data and ours
- Your data is yours. Student records, attendance history, rank data, and anything else you enter into Retention OS belongs to you.
- You grant us a limited license to store and process your data solely to provide the service to you.
- We do not claim ownership of your data. We do not sell it, share it with advertisers, or use it to train AI models.
- You are responsible for obtaining any consents required by applicable law to enter student or parent data into the platform.
- You can export your data at any time from the Reports section. On cancellation we retain your data for 90 days to allow for export, then delete it.
- Retention OS owns the software, design, algorithms, and all intellectual property that makes up the platform itself.
Disclaimers and liability limits
- The service is provided ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ without warranties of any kind, express or implied.
- We do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We aim for high availability but we cannot promise it.
- Retention OS is a tool to support your retention decisions — it does not replace your judgment as a school owner.
- To the maximum extent permitted by law, our liability to you for any claim arising from your use of the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 3 months before the claim arose.
- We are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, including lost profits or data loss, even if we were advised of the possibility.
- Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or limitations of liability. In those cases the limitations above apply to the fullest extent permitted.
Termination
- You can cancel your account at any time from Account Settings. Your access continues until the end of the billing period.
- We may suspend or terminate your account immediately if you violate these terms, engage in fraud, or if required by law.
- If we choose to discontinue the service we will give you at least 60 days' notice so you can export your data.
- On termination, your right to access the service ends immediately. We will retain your data for 90 days and then delete it, unless required by law to retain it longer.
Governing law and disputes
- These terms are governed by the laws of the United States.
- We will try to resolve any dispute informally first — email us at support@retentionos.com and we will respond within 5 business days.
- If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, both parties agree to binding arbitration under the American Arbitration Association rules, on an individual basis (no class actions).
- Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking injunctive relief in a court for intellectual property violations or data security breaches.
Changes to these terms
- We may update these terms from time to time. We will notify you by email at least 14 days before any material change takes effect.
- If you continue to use the service after the effective date of a change, you accept the updated terms.
- If you do not accept a material change, you may cancel your account before the change takes effect and receive a prorated refund for any unused prepaid period.
Questions about these terms?
Email us at support@retentionos.com. We will respond within 2 business days.
Also see our Privacy Policy for details on data collection and use, and our Security & Privacy page for how your data is protected.