Terms of Use

Mechna Academy is a product of Banana Flip LLC. Effective October 8, 2026.

The short version

Who we are. Mechna Academy is a product of Banana Flip LLC. Questions: team@mechna.ai.
The app is licensed through Apple. Apple's standard licence for App Store apps covers your right to use it.
A parent or guardian sets up and manages Mechna. Children use the app with a parent's permission and supervision. Our website forms are for adults 18 or older.
Joining the waitlist is free and does not guarantee a place. Places are limited.
Mechna is a learning app, not a substitute for school or a teacher. We don't promise any particular learning result.
Please don't send us information about children or students through our forms.
If we disagree, we talk first. Disputes that we can't settle go to individual arbitration, not class actions or court, and you can opt out within 30 days (section 14). Colorado law applies.

Who we are
What these terms cover
How to reach us
The Mechna app
Who can use Mechna
What Mechna is, and isn't
Schools and educators
The waitlist
Using the website
Our content, trademarks and your feedback
Privacy
Disclaimers
Limits on our liability
Resolving disputes
Ending access and other terms
Changes to these terms

1. Who we are #

Mechna Academy is a product of Banana Flip LLC. In these terms, "we", "us" and "our" mean Banana Flip LLC. "You" means an adult who uses the website, or the parent or guardian who sets up the app for a child.

Email: team@mechna.ai
Mail: Banana Flip LLC, Lafayette, CO 80026

2. What these terms cover #

These terms cover:

the website at mechna.ai, including the waitlist and the educator and district forms; and
the Mechna app for iPad and Mac, alongside Apple's licence for it (section 4.1).

By using the website or the app, you agree to these terms. Our website forms also ask you to agree to them before you send anything. If you set up the app for a child, you accept these terms for your household. If you do not agree, please don't use the website or the app.

Our Privacy Policy explains what information we collect and how we handle it.

3. How to reach us #

Email team@mechna.ai with any question about these terms, or write to Banana Flip LLC, Lafayette, CO 80026.

4. The Mechna app #

4.1 Your licence to use the app #

The Mechna app is published by Banana Flip LLC through Apple. Your right to use the app is governed by Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the "Apple standard licence").

These terms add to the Apple standard licence. If the two conflict about the app, the Apple standard licence controls.

4.2 Installing the app, and the pilot #

A parent or guardian installs Mechna on their own device, using their own Apple Account: through Apple's TestFlight during the pilot, or through the App Store. Children do not have accounts with us, and children should not be TestFlight testers. The parent installs the app and supervises the child's use of it.

Apple's TestFlight terms also apply to the pilot. A test version may have bugs, and it stops opening when it expires until you install an update.

4.3 Purchases #

The pilot is free. There is nothing to buy in the app.

Any purchase made through the App Store is billed by Apple, and refunds and Family Sharing are handled by Apple under Apple's terms.

4.4 Apple's role #

These statements apply to the app, as Apple requires:

These terms are between you and Banana Flip LLC only, not Apple. Banana Flip LLC, not Apple, is solely responsible for the app and its content.
Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
If the app fails to meet a warranty that applies to it, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. To the maximum extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app. Any other claim, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense from a failure to meet a warranty is our responsibility, to the extent these terms do not disclaim it.
We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party about the app or your use of it, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
If a third party claims that the app or your use of it infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a United States government embargo, or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
You must follow any third-party terms that apply when you use the app, such as your internet service terms.
Questions, complaints or claims about the app come to us at team@mechna.ai.
Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms as they relate to the app. When you accept these terms, Apple has the right, and is deemed to have accepted the right, to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

5. Who can use Mechna #

Mechna is set up and managed by a parent or guardian. A parent or guardian installs the app, sets up each child in the parent area behind the parent check, and is responsible for the child's use of it.

Children use the Mechna app with a parent's or guardian's permission and supervision.

Our website forms are for adults. You must be 18 or older to join the waitlist or send an educator or district form.

Children should not use our website forms. If a child sends us information, we will delete it, as our Privacy Policy explains (Privacy Policy, section 6.7).

6. What Mechna is, and isn't #

Mechna is a learning app for children aged 8 to 10.

It is not a substitute for school, a teacher, tutoring or a professional assessment of a child's learning.
We do not promise any particular learning result.
The research page on our website explains the ideas behind Mechna's design. It is information, not a promise of results.
What the app and the website say is for general learning and information. It is not professional advice about a particular child.

7. Schools and educators #

The educator and district forms are a way to contact us. Sending one does not create an agreement, a licence for classroom use, or a commitment by either side.

Please don't include student information in these forms.

Classroom use. Please contact team@mechna.ai before using Mechna with students, so we can agree privacy terms in writing.

8. The waitlist #

Joining is free.
Places are limited. Joining the waitlist does not guarantee a place, a date or a price.
We offer places as they open. We decide how places are offered.
You can leave at any time. Email team@mechna.ai to have your email deleted.
One entry per email address. Joining again with the same email updates your existing entry.

We may remove an entry that breaks these terms, for example one sent by an automated tool or with someone else's email address.

9. Using the website #

When you use the website, please don't:

send information about a child or a student through our forms;
use someone else's email address, or pretend to be someone else;
send forms with automated tools, or try to get around our security checks or limits on repeated attempts;
try to break, overload or gain unauthorized access to the website or the systems behind it;
copy the website's content in bulk, except as section 10 allows.

10. Our content, trademarks and your feedback #

Our content. We own, or have permission to use, the app and the website's words, art, voices and other content. Some materials, such as fonts, are used under their own licences.

You may view and share pages of the website for personal, non-commercial use. You may not reuse our content for any other purpose without our written permission.

Trademarks. "Mechna" and "Mechna Academy", and the Mechna name and logos, are trademarks of Banana Flip LLC. You may not use them without our written permission, except to refer accurately to Mechna. iPad, Mac, App Store and TestFlight are trademarks of Apple Inc.

Your feedback. If you send us ideas or feedback, through TestFlight, by email or otherwise, we may use them to fix and improve Mechna without paying you or owing you anything. Please don't send us ideas you want to keep confidential.

11. Privacy #

Our Privacy Policy explains what the website and the app collect, how we use it, how long we keep it, and how to ask us to delete it.

12. Disclaimers #

Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer-protection laws that cannot be waived.

TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WE PROVIDE THE WEBSITE AND THE APP "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", AND WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not promise that the website or the app will always be available, error-free or free of harmful components, or that they will meet a particular need.

Some places do not allow some of these disclaimers. Where that is so, they apply only as far as the law allows.

For the app, the Apple standard licence also sets out warranty terms (section 4.1).

13. Limits on our liability #

13.1 Kinds of loss we are not liable for #

TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, BANANA FLIP LLC IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE WEBSITE, THE APP OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD THEY WERE POSSIBLE.

13.2 The most we are liable for #

TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE WEBSITE, THE APP OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR US$50.

13.3 What these limits do not cover #

These limits do not apply to liability for fraud, gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or to any other liability the law does not let us limit. Some places do not allow some of these limits. Where that is so, they apply only as far as the law allows.

For the app, the Apple standard licence also limits liability (section 4.1).

13.4 Your responsibility for misuse #

If you break these terms or misuse the website or the app, and someone else makes a claim against us because of it, you will cover our reasonable costs of that claim, including reasonable legal fees. This applies only to the extent the claim is caused by your breach or misuse, not by our own fault. We will tell you about the claim promptly, and you may take part in the defence with a lawyer of your choice, at your own cost.

14. Resolving disputes #

Please read this section carefully. It requires you and us to resolve most disputes by individual arbitration, not in court, and it waives class actions. You can opt out (section 14.5).

14.1 Talk to us first #

Before either of us starts an arbitration or a small-claims case, the one with the dispute must send the other a written notice that describes it and what they want. You send yours to team@mechna.ai, and we send ours to the email address you have used with us. We will both try in good faith to resolve the dispute for 30 days after the notice arrives. During those 30 days, neither of us may start an arbitration or a court case, except to stop a deadline from passing.

14.2 Individual arbitration #

If the dispute is not resolved within those 30 days, any dispute, claim or controversy between you and Banana Flip LLC arising from or relating to the website, the app or these terms will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, except as section 14.4 allows.

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) runs the arbitration under its Consumer Arbitration Rules in effect when it starts, which are at adr.org. A single arbitrator decides. Filing, administration and arbitrator fees are paid as those rules provide, and under them the business pays most of these costs. A hearing takes place by video or phone, or in the county where you live, unless we both agree otherwise.

The arbitrator may award the same individual relief a court could, but only to the person bringing the claim and only as far as needed for that person's own claim. The arbitrator decides questions about the scope and enforceability of this agreement to arbitrate, except that a court decides questions about section 14.3. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section 14.

14.3 No class actions #

You and we each may bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated or representative proceeding. An arbitrator may not combine more than one person's claims, or preside over any form of class or representative proceeding.

If a court decides that this section 14.3 cannot be enforced for a particular claim or kind of relief, that claim or relief, and only that one, is separated from the arbitration and decided by a court under section 14.7, after the individual arbitration of everything else has finished. The rest of section 14 still applies.

14.4 Small claims and intellectual property #

Either of us may bring an individual claim in small-claims court instead, if the claim qualifies and stays there as an individual claim. Either of us may also ask a court to stop the infringement or misuse of intellectual property.

14.5 Opting out #

You can opt out of this agreement to arbitrate. Email team@mechna.ai within 30 days after you first accept these terms, with your name, the email address you used with us, and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. If you opt out, sections 14.2 and 14.3 do not apply to you, and the rest of these terms still do.

14.6 Changes to this section #

If we make a material change to this section 14, it does not apply to a dispute that arose before the change. You can reject the change by emailing team@mechna.ai within 30 days after it takes effect. The version of this section you last accepted then applies to you.

14.7 Governing law and courts #

These terms and any dispute about the website, the app or these terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and section 14 is also governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. Any dispute that is not arbitrated will be decided by the state or federal courts located in Denver, Colorado, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction.

The Apple standard licence's own governing-law terms apply to that licence. If you live outside the United States, this section does not remove protections that the law where you live does not allow a contract to remove.

15. Ending access and other terms #

Ending access. We may suspend or end access to the website or the waitlist for anyone who breaks these terms or misuses our services. You can stop using the website or the app at any time, and ask us to delete your information (Privacy Policy, section 14).

What continues. Sections 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15 continue to apply after your use ends.

Transfer. You may not transfer these terms or your rights under them without our written permission. We may transfer them to a company that takes over Mechna or Banana Flip LLC's business, for example in a merger or sale, and will say so on this page.

If part of these terms is invalid, the rest still applies. Section 14.3 has its own rule for when part of it is invalid.

Entire agreement. These terms and, for the app, the Apple standard licence are the whole agreement between you and us about the website and the app, unless we sign a separate written agreement with you.

No waiver. If we don't enforce part of these terms at one time, we can still enforce it later.

16. Changes to these terms #

We may change these terms. We will post any change on this page with a new effective date, and record it in the change log below. If a change is material, we will also say so at the top of this page.

Changes apply from their effective date and do not apply to disputes that arose before it. If you keep using the website or the app after a change takes effect, you accept the changed terms. Section 14.6 explains how changes to the disputes section work.

Effective date: October 8, 2026.

Change log

Date	Change
October 8, 2026	First version of these terms.