Terms of Use

These terms govern your use of IgniteEd Leadership OS Pro (“IgniteEd,” “we,” “us”), including IgniteWalk and IgnitePulse, at getigniteed.com. IgniteEd is operated by Joe Roman-Torres. By creating an account or using IgniteEd, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. If you use IgniteEd for a school or district, you confirm that you are authorized to do so.

Schools and districts

IgniteEd is provided to schools and districts and the staff and teachers they invite. If your school or district has a signed agreement with us, that agreement controls where it differs from these terms. The school decides who may join, what each person can do, and which products are turned on for its campus.

Accounts

• IgniteEd is for educators and school staff. Students do not have accounts.
• A school administrator approves who can join a school.
• Keep your sign-in secure. Accounts that use a password must use two-step sign-in.
• Tell us right away if you think your account was misused. You are responsible for activity under your account.

Your content

You and your school own the records you create in IgniteEd. You give us permission to store, process, and display that content only as needed to provide the service to you and your school, as described in our Privacy Policy. You are responsible for making sure you have the right to enter what you enter.

Student information

If your school enters student information (for example, in IgnitePulse), the school confirms that it may do so under FERPA and applicable state law, and that IgniteEd acts as a school official with a legitimate educational interest, under the school’s direct control, using the information only to provide the service. Enter only the student information your instructional work needs.

Observations, appraisals and professional judgment

IgniteEd helps you record and organize observations and coaching. It does not make employment or appraisal decisions. T-TESS is the Texas Education Agency’s framework; IgniteEd uses its domains and dimensions to organize evidence. Your district’s official appraisal process, timelines and system of record still apply, and decisions about teachers remain with the people responsible for them.

Electronic signatures

You can sign documents in IgniteEd electronically, including coaching action plans and appraisal documents your school issues (for example, T-TESS, T-PESS, T-SCESS, and support-staff appraisal documents). You set up a signature in Settings by drawing, typing, or uploading it, and you agree there to sign electronically.

• What a signature means. On an appraisal or other evaluative document, your signature confirms that you received the document. It does not mean you agree with it, and you can submit a written response as your school’s policy and Texas rules allow. On a coaching action plan, your signature records your agreement to the plan.
• What we record. With each signature we record your signed-in identity, the time from our server, your IP address and device details, and a fingerprint of the document, which is then locked. A correction is issued as a new version; the signed version is kept.
• Paper copies. You can download a PDF of any document you signed, and you can ask your school for a paper copy.
• Withdrawing consent. You can stop signing electronically at any time by removing your signature in Settings and asking your school for a paper process. Documents you already signed stay signed.
• What you need. A current web browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox) and the ability to view or download PDF files.

Your school decides which documents it accepts with an electronic signature under its own policies and Texas law.

AI-generated feedback

Optional AI features produce drafts to help you write feedback. Drafts may be inaccurate or incomplete. Review and edit them before sharing, and use your professional judgment. You are responsible for feedback you send.

Acceptable use

Do not:

• access data that belongs to another school or person, or try to get around access controls;
• sign or enter a reflection as someone else, except where IgniteEd records that you did it on their behalf;
• upload unlawful content or content you have no right to share;
• disrupt, overload, or attack the service, or use automated tools to scrape it;
• use IgniteEd for anything other than its educational purpose.

We may suspend accounts that break these rules.

Connected services

If you sign in with Google or Microsoft, or connect a work calendar, your use of those services is also governed by their terms. You can disconnect a calendar at any time from the IgniteEd Calendar page.

Our property

IgniteEd, its software, design, and materials, including The Kindling Model and its coaching instruments as presented in IgniteEd, belong to us. These terms give you the right to use IgniteEd for your school’s work; they do not transfer ownership of it.

Availability and changes

We work to keep IgniteEd available and reliable, but the service is provided “as is” and may sometimes be unavailable. We may add, change, or remove features, and a school’s products may be switched on or off under its arrangement with us. If we change these terms in a material way, we will update the date above and let users know before the change takes effect.

Disclaimers and limitation of liability

To the extent allowed by law, IgniteEd is provided without warranties of any kind, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost data or profits, arising from your use of the service. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

Ending use

You can stop using IgniteEd at any time and ask us to delete your account. We may suspend or end access for accounts that violate these terms. When a school ends its use of IgniteEd, we delete or return its data on request, as described in our Privacy Policy.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute that is not resolved informally will be heard in the state or federal courts located in Dallas County, Texas. Where a school or district’s signed agreement says otherwise, that agreement controls.

Contact

Joe Roman-Torres, IgniteEd. Questions about these terms: contact@getigniteed.com