Terms

Last updated November 1, 2026

These are our terms of use in plain English. If anything here is unclear, email hello@loreeducation.com and ask. By using the site you agree to them; if you don’t, please don’t use it.

Who we are

Lore is a college counselor for all four years of high school, in early preview. Right now the site has a free college price check, pages on what colleges cost, planning guides, a few free tools, a deadline tracker, a way for a student to send a parent a cost report, Shifts (short job stories for teens), and free family accounts that keep each student’s college-planning record. Lore also sells two counselor plans and a Merit Money Report, on the terms below. The plans go on sale once our first counselor has joined and is named on the plans page and the college figures they work from have been checked by a person, and the report once enough colleges’ figures have been checked by a person; until then, the place you’d buy each one says so, and nothing can be charged. Lore’s IEC Copilot, a back office for independent college counselors’ practices, isn’t taking new practices yet. A practice that already uses it has its own terms. Lore is run by its founder, as an early-stage project that is not incorporated yet. Contact: hello@loreeducation.com.

Our numbers are estimates, not promises

• Every published cost and scholarship figure we show links to the college’s own page, with the date we last checked it. The estimated net cost is worked out from those linked figures, and says so next to it.
• Colleges set their own prices and make their own aid decisions, and they can change either at any time. Our figures are estimates from what they publish — not offers, and not a promise of what any college will do. Check the college’s page before you decide anything; that’s why the link is there.
• The college pages show the same published figures, each with its link and date, and the same estimates.
• The free tools work from published rules and tables, and link each fact they use to its source; a fact we couldn’t check against its source says so. What a tool gives you (a recalculated GPA, a score conversion, the warning signs an offer or a program shows) is a guide: not an official score, and not a ruling that an offer or a program is, or isn’t, legitimate.
• Lore isn’t affiliated with, or endorsed by, any college it shows.

Sample data in the preview

While the price check shows a “Preview build — sample colleges only” banner, its colleges and numbers are made-up sample data for testing the product. They aren’t real prices or real offers. Please don’t use them to make decisions.

Guidance, not outcomes

Lore gives guidance. It can’t promise admission, aid, a major, a career, or a passion — and it doesn’t. What it can do is help you learn more, faster, from small real experiments. The decisions stay yours.

Lore never writes your application for you, and you agree not to hand in AI-written work as your own.

Shifts are stories

In Shifts, an AI model writes the characters in real time. They aren’t real people, and what they say can be wrong. Shifts is a way to try a job on for size — it isn’t counseling, therapy, or medical advice.

If you’re in crisis

Age

You must be 13 or older to use Lore. If you’re under 18, your Lore record is set up by a parent or guardian, who confirms it from their own inbox; until then, signing in only lets you ask a parent. Without an account, a parent or guardian should still know you’re using Lore — Shifts asks you to confirm that once on each device.

Accounts

• You sign in with a link we email you; there’s no password. Whoever can read your inbox can sign in as you, so keep it to yourself, and don’t forward a sign-in link. Each link works once, for 15 minutes.
• For a student under 18, the account is the family’s: a parent or legal guardian sets it up, agrees to Lore keeping the student’s record as our privacy policy describes, and confirms from their own inbox before the student’s account opens. Only tick the box saying you’re a student’s parent or legal guardian if you are.
• A student’s own login should use an inbox only the student reads. Lore refuses a parent’s own address, or a variation of it that lands in the same inbox (like name+teen@…), but it can’t see where any other address forwards.
• Who sees what, in the words we show families:

  Parents see deadlines, money, and progress. Essays, drafts, and exploration stay the student’s own — never shown to parents. A counselor you’ve booked can read what you share for that checkpoint, only until it’s delivered. That’s what makes the honesty real.

  Your Lore counselor reads a student’s work only during a review the student or a parent asks for, only the kinds of work that review needs, and only while that review is open; each time the counselor opens it, that goes on a list only the student sees. The details are in our privacy policy.
• What you write in Lore is yours. You let us keep it, show it to the people the rule above allows, and work with it only to run Lore for you — never to train AI models, and never to sell.
• You can sign out everywhere from your account page, and a parent can delete a student’s record, or the whole family’s account, there at any time. How deleting works.
• We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms.

Sending a report to a parent

• Send a report only to your own parent or guardian, at an address you know is theirs.
• The note is for them, in plain words. It can’t include links, email addresses, phone numbers, @handles, or requests for payments or passwords (the form refuses them), and you agree not to use it to mislead or pressure anyone.
• The report shows the estimates described above, as they stood when you previewed it. If a college’s figures change after that, the report says so and points to the college’s own page instead.
• A parent can stop these emails with the link in the one they got. After that, no one can send a report to that inbox again, however its address is spelled. What we keep.

Saving a lookup

If you ask us to email you a lookup, use an inbox that’s yours. The lookup isn’t saved until you use the link we send it. Then we send what the words beside the box say — a link to re-run the lookup and, now and then, a college-planning guide — and every one of those emails has a one-click unsubscribe. Our privacy policy says what we keep and for how long.

Using Lore fairly

Please don’t:

• use Lore to harass, threaten, or harm anyone;
• say you’re a student’s parent or guardian when you aren’t, or use someone else’s account or sign-in link;
• send a report to anyone but your own parent or guardian, or ask us to email a lookup to an inbox that isn’t yours;
• scrape the site, or use bots or other automated tools to use it;
• try to get around rate limits, invite codes, or the age check;
• try to break, overload, or get into parts of the site that aren’t meant for you;
• use it for anything illegal.

If you do, we may block your access.

The $100 data bounty

Every number links to the college’s own page. Find one that doesn’t match its source and we’ll pay you $100.

• What counts: Any figure we show as verified — with a source link and a “last verified” date — that doesn’t match its linked college page when you check it. That includes a figure that has gone out of date: if the college changed its page and we still show the old number, it counts. It also covers an estimate we work out from those figures, like the estimated net cost: if it doesn’t follow from the linked figures it says it’s built from, it counts.
• What doesn’t: The sample data shown while the “Preview build — sample colleges only” banner is up. It’s labelled as made-up test data, not any college’s real figure. Please still tell us if something there looks off. Nor does a figure marked “pending our review” or “we couldn’t re-verify this — check the source”: there, we’ve told you to check the source.
• How to claim: Use “Report a problem” next to the number, or email hello@loreeducation.com with the page you saw it on, the number, and the source link (for an estimate, the linked figures it’s built from). A screenshot helps. You never need to show what the college’s page said on our verified date — what counts is what it says when you check.
• Who gets paid: The first person to report each distinct figure that doesn’t match. One wrong figure that shows up on several pages is one claim. We pay once we’ve checked it (through a parent or guardian if you’re under 18), and we fix the number.

Every figure we show for a college, each with its own report link, is on the bounty page.

Counselor plans

The Senior-Year Plan costs $399. It runs from the day you buy it until May 31 of your student’s senior year, when it ends by itself; there is nothing to cancel. The Multi-Year Counselor Plan costs $299 a year, for 9th to 11th grade. Each year runs twelve months from the day you buy it, but never into senior year: a year that stops on July 31 before senior year is charged for the days it covers. Before a year ends, we email every parent on the account 30 days ahead and once more 7 days ahead. The plan continues only if a parent says yes and pays, themselves; we never keep a card. The offer stays open 60 days after the year ends, and the plan is paused meanwhile. The time left on a Multi-Year Plan can move to a sibling in 9th to 11th grade; each student’s own record stays with them. We don’t sell a plan with fewer than 30 days left in its term. Whatever a plan made stays yours after it ends.

What each plan includes, and who your student’s counselor is, are on the plans page.

The Merit Money Report

• The report costs $199, once. It’s made for one student, from the state, GPA and any test scores on their record and their college list, once the payment has gone through, and we email each parent the link when it’s ready. If a number it needs is missing, it waits for you to add it. When a college changes a figure, the report is updated to match; if one still doesn’t match what the college publishes, we hold the report while a person checks it, and email you when it’s ready.
• Its costs and scholarships are estimates from what each college publishes, each linked to its source, as above. It isn’t an offer from any college, and it doesn’t promise admission or aid.
• It counts in full toward a counselor plan for 90 days from the day you buy it, through the last of those days, or, if you buy it before counselor plans are on sale, for 90 days from the day they open. If counselor plans go off sale while its days are running, the days stop, and the ones left run again from the day plans are back on sale. A sibling’s report later is $100. That credit comes with the $199 report only, not with a sibling’s, and it pays toward a counselor plan for any student in the family; it’s never paid out as money.
• We sell one report per student: another can be bought for the same student only after the first is refunded (and the first stays yours, as the refund terms below say).

Paying

• A parent buys plans and reports on Lore; students never pay.
• Every purchase a family makes is a one-time payment in US dollars, made on Stripe’s checkout page (or with no payment at all, when a report’s credit covers the whole price). Lore never keeps a family’s card and never sets up a subscription for a family: nothing is charged again unless a parent goes through checkout again themselves. Each parent on the account gets a receipt.
• A bank payment can take a few business days to clear. Your order waits for it, and nothing is cancelled meanwhile.
• If a payment reaches us that we can’t use (a second payment for something your student already has, say), we refund all of it, without your asking.
• A price change never touches what you’ve already bought, and a plan’s next year costs what its renewal email said, or less when the year is shorter.
• What Stripe receives, and what we keep, is in our privacy policy.

Refunds

The Merit Money Report: a full refund within 30 days of buying it, from the button in your account, with no questions asked. You keep the report and the PDF, and its credit toward a plan ends. A report whose price has already paid for part of a plan can’t be refunded on its own. Counselor plans aren’t refunded when they’re stopped early, except under the appeal guarantee below. If a card or bank dispute is decided against us, we count that money as refunded. Refunds go back to the card or account you paid with; your bank may take up to 10 business days to show it.

The April appeal guarantee

This is the Senior-Year Plan’s guarantee: if our April award-letter work doesn’t identify at least your fee in appealable aid, we refund the year. In the spring of senior year, your counselor reviews the award letters your student received and you’ve shared with us, and records how much appealable aid our analysis identifies. If that is less than what you paid for the plan ($399, including any report credit you used), we refund that amount in full, without your asking. It depends only on our own analysis, never on what any college decides. The plan stays in place until May 31, and you keep everything it made. There is one review per plan year.

The review counts for the guarantee when your counselor delivers it between March 1 and May 31 of senior year, while the plan runs, so it covers the award letters you’ve shared with us by then.

For counselor practices (the IEC Copilot)

The Copilot isn’t taking new practices yet. These terms are for a practice that already uses it. The plans, payments and refunds above are a family’s, and a family’s plan never renews without a parent’s yes.

• The trial: For a practice already in its free trial (14 days, no card needed), we email a reminder 3 days before it ends. If it ends unpaid, the workspace becomes read-only: nothing is deleted then, and export stays open.
• The plans: Solo: $149 a month, one seat. Multi-counselor: $349 a month, up to 5 seats. It renews monthly until you cancel, and you can cancel any time from your billing page: no call, no form. Export stays open after you cancel.
• Prices: a price change never touches a month your practice has already paid for. We email your administrator before it reaches your bill, so you can cancel first.
• A failed payment: everything keeps working for 7 days; after that the workspace is read-only until the payment goes through. Nothing is deleted, and export stays open.
• The data processing agreement: before your practice adds its first client, its administrator reads and accepts the data processing agreement, and we record the version, a fingerprint of its exact text, who accepted it and when. It governs your clients’ data: never used to train models, never shown to other customers, never used in our consumer product.
• Your clients: add only your own clients, with their and their parents’ agreement. A client’s own sign-in opens only once a parent confirms from their own inbox.
• The AI drafts feedback, never essays: its first pass reads a draft against your rubric and suggests feedback for you to edit. It never writes or rewrites a client’s sentences, and your client sees only what you release.
• Email in your name: the weekly updates to your clients’ parents come from Lore’s address with your practice as the sender’s name and replies going to you, and each one says how to stop them.
• Ending: cancel any time from your billing page. When you cancel, or a trial ends unpaid, the workspace is read-only with export open, and within 30 days we delete all of it and email your administrator a certificate of deletion.

No warranty, and limits

We work hard to get every figure right and link each one to its source, but the site is provided as it is. We can’t promise it will always be available, free of mistakes, or right for your family’s situation.

As far as the law allows, Lore isn’t responsible for decisions you make using the site, or for indirect losses. If we are responsible for something, our total responsibility is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the last 12 months or $100. Nothing here takes away rights the law gives you that can’t be waived, and none of this limits the bounty above.

Contact

Questions, bounty claims, deletion requests, or anything else: hello@loreeducation.com. How we handle your data is in our privacy policy.

Changes to these terms

When these terms change, this page changes with a new date at the top. Changes apply from that date forward, never backward — a bounty you claimed under the old terms is paid under the old terms, and something you bought keeps the terms it was bought under.