Effective Date: August 29, 2026
Last Updated: August 29, 2026
Welcome to Cima.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Cima website, applications, educational platform, digital content, tutoring services, and related services (collectively, the "Services").
Cima is operated by Alan Dominguez, an individual based in California, United States ("Cima," "we," "us," or "our").
By creating an account or using Cima, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not use the Services.
If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use Cima only with the involvement or consent of a parent or legal guardian where required by applicable law.
1. About Cima
Cima is an educational preparation platform designed to help students prepare for academic examinations and university applications.
Depending on the Services offered, Cima may provide preparation materials and tools relating to:
- SAT
- Advanced Placement (AP)
- International Baccalaureate (IB)
- IGCSE
- University admissions
- Other academic examinations and educational programs
Cima may provide:
- Lessons and courses
- Practice questions
- Practice examinations
- Diagnostic assessments
- Personalized learning paths
- Progress tracking
- Study recommendations
- XP, levels, streaks, and achievements
- Leaderboards and leagues
- Parent progress tools
- Educational reports
- One-on-one tutoring
- Academic coaching
- University preparation resources
- Notifications and study reminders
We may add, modify, suspend, or discontinue features from time to time.
2. Educational Disclaimer
Cima is an educational preparation and practice service.
Cima does not guarantee:
- A particular examination score
- A particular grade
- A particular amount of score improvement
- Admission to a particular university
- Admission to any university
- Scholarship eligibility
- Acceptance into any academic program
Cima's practice scores, diagnostic results, recommendations, progress measurements, and other assessments are educational tools and should not be considered official examination results.
Cima is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the College Board, International Baccalaureate Organization, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, or any university unless expressly stated.
SAT, AP, IB, IGCSE, and related names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
3. Eligibility and Accounts
You must provide accurate and current information when creating an account.
You may not:
- Create an account using false information
- Impersonate another person
- Access another person's account
- Share your account with another person
- Sell, transfer, or resell your account
- Circumvent applicable age or parental-consent requirements
If a parent or legal guardian creates or manages an account for a student, that parent or guardian is responsible for providing accurate information and supervising the student's use of the Services where appropriate.
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials and for activity occurring through your account.
4. Students and Minors
Cima may be used by students under the age of 18.
Where applicable law requires parental or guardian consent, Cima may require such consent before allowing certain users to create an account or before collecting certain personal information.
Cima may use different account and consent procedures depending on a user's age and applicable law.
Parents and legal guardians may have rights concerning a child's account and personal information as described in our Privacy Policy.
5. Parent and Guardian Accounts
Cima may provide parent or guardian accounts that connect to a student's account.
A parent or guardian who connects to a student's account represents that they have the legal authority to do so.
Depending on the features available, parents or guardians may be able to view information such as:
- Lesson completion
- XP
- Streaks
- Study activity
- Practice performance
- Study time
- Learning goals
- Progress
Cima may change or expand parent features as the Services develop.
6. Educational Content
Cima provides educational materials that may include:
- Practice questions
- Answer choices
- Explanations
- Lessons
- Exercises
- Practice examinations
- Study guides
- Examples
- Graphics
- Curriculum structures
- Databases
- Other educational materials
Cima owns or licenses its proprietary educational content.
Unless otherwise authorized by Cima, you may use Cima's educational content only for your personal educational purposes.
You may not:
- Copy or reproduce Cima's question bank
- Scrape the Services
- Extract Cima's educational database
- Reproduce Cima's curriculum commercially
- Sell Cima content
- Redistribute Cima content
- Upload Cima content to another platform
- Use automated systems to extract Cima content
- Build a competing database or service using Cima's proprietary content
7. Artificial Intelligence and Educational Content
Cima may use artificial intelligence ("AI") tools during the development, preparation, organization, or review of certain educational content.
AI-assisted content may include:
- Practice questions
- Answer choices
- Explanations
- Examples
- Exercises
- Study materials
- Other instructional content
AI-generated or AI-assisted content may be reviewed, edited, tested, and curated by Cima before being made available to users.
Because AI-assisted content may contain errors, Cima does not guarantee that every question, answer, explanation, or educational recommendation is completely error-free.
Cima does not represent AI-assisted content as official examination material.
Cima's use of AI to create or assist with educational content does not mean that Cima uses generative AI as a substitute for teachers, tutors, or qualified educational professionals.
Cima may modify its use of AI technologies as the Services develop. If our use of AI materially changes how user personal information is processed, we will update our Privacy Policy and provide additional notices or obtain consent where required by applicable law.
8. User Content
Certain Cima features may allow users to submit content, including:
- Written answers
- Essays
- Notes
- Profile photographs
- Feedback
- Messages
- Other educational materials
You retain ownership of content that you submit to Cima.
By submitting content, you grant Cima a limited, non-exclusive license to host, store, reproduce, process, and display that content solely as necessary to provide, maintain, secure, and improve the Services.
You represent that you have the rights necessary to submit the content.
9. Academic Integrity
Cima is designed to help students learn and prepare for examinations.
You may not use Cima to:
- Cheat on an examination
- Obtain unauthorized examination materials
- Share confidential examination questions
- Circumvent examination security
- Manipulate official examination systems
- Misrepresent Cima practice results as official examination results
- Facilitate academic misconduct
We may suspend or terminate accounts involved in serious abuse of the platform.
10. XP, Levels, Streaks, Crowns, and Leaderboards
Cima may include gamification features such as:
- XP
- Levels
- Streaks
- Crowns
- Achievements
- Leagues
- Leaderboards
- Daily goals
These features are intended to encourage consistent learning.
Cima may modify the rules, thresholds, scoring systems, rankings, or other mechanics associated with these features.
Virtual XP, crowns, achievements, levels, and rankings have no monetary value and cannot be exchanged for money.
11. Leaderboards
If you participate in a Cima leaderboard, other users may be able to see limited information such as:
- Display name
- Username
- Avatar
- XP
- Rank
- League
Users should avoid including their full legal name or sensitive personal information in public profile fields.
Cima may remove or modify usernames, avatars, or other public profile content that violates these Terms.
12. In-App Purchases
Cima's course content is free, and Cima does not currently offer a subscription.
Cima offers optional one-time in-app purchases, such as refilling practice hearts. These are consumable: they are used up when applied to your account, and they do not renew.
In-app purchases are sold and processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play, depending on the platform you use. The store shows the applicable price before you confirm, and your payment method is charged by Apple or Google rather than by Cima.
A purchase is tied to the store account used to make it and to the Cima account signed in at the time.
Apple and Google process purchases under their own terms and privacy policies.
If Cima introduces a subscription or another payment method in the future, the applicable terms and pricing will be presented before you are charged.
13. Cancellation
Because Cima's in-app purchases are one-time and consumable, there is no recurring subscription to cancel.
You may stop using Cima at any time, and you may delete your account through the mechanism provided in the app.
If Cima introduces a recurring subscription in the future, it will be managed through your App Store or Google Play account and can be canceled there.
14. Refunds
Refunds for in-app purchases are handled by the store that processed the purchase. Requests should be directed to Apple or to Google under their applicable refund policies.
Cima cannot issue refunds for purchases made through the App Store or Google Play.
Nothing in these Terms limits any refund or cancellation rights that cannot legally be waived.
15. Rewarded Advertising
Cima offers optional rewarded video ads through Google AdMob as a free alternative to an in-app purchase, so that a student who runs out of practice hearts can continue without paying.
Watching a rewarded ad is always your choice. Cima does not show banner or interstitial advertising, and no course content is gated behind watching an ad.
Ads are served by Google and are subject to Google's own policies. Cima does not select or control the specific ads that are shown.
Interfering with, automating, or falsifying ad completion in order to obtain rewards is prohibited under these Terms.
Rewards obtained by watching an ad have no cash value and cannot be exchanged, transferred, or redeemed outside Cima.
16. Tutoring and Academic Coaching
Cima may offer optional one-on-one tutoring or academic coaching.
Tutoring, where offered, is purchased separately and is not part of Cima's free course content.
Tutors provide educational assistance and do not guarantee a particular examination score, grade, university admission, or other academic result.
Additional terms may apply to tutoring services.
17. University Preparation
Cima may provide university preparation resources, including:
- University research
- Application planning
- Application checklists
- Application timelines
- Essay preparation
- Interview preparation
- Deadline tracking
These resources are informational and educational.
Cima does not guarantee admission to any university, scholarship, or academic program.
18. Third-Party Services
Cima relies on third-party providers to operate portions of the Services.
These may include:
- The Apple App Store and Google Play for in-app purchases
- RevenueCat for in-app purchase and entitlement records
- Google AdMob for optional rewarded video ads
- Supabase for database, authentication, and application infrastructure
- Cloudflare for networking, security, performance, and related infrastructure
- Email providers
- Authentication providers
- PostHog for product analytics, where enabled
- Sentry for crash and error reporting, where enabled
- Other technology and service providers
Third-party providers may have their own terms and privacy policies.
19. Prohibited Conduct
You may not:
- Reverse engineer Cima
- Attempt unauthorized access to Cima systems
- Scrape Cima
- Circumvent security measures
- Introduce malicious software
- Abuse Cima APIs
- Manipulate leaderboards
- Create fraudulent accounts
- Resell Cima access without authorization
- Copy proprietary educational content
- Interfere with the operation of Cima
- Use Cima for unlawful purposes
20. Intellectual Property
The Cima name, logo, branding, software, interface, educational materials, curriculum, question bank, databases, designs, and other proprietary materials are owned by or licensed to Cima.
These Terms do not transfer ownership of Cima's intellectual property to you.
21. Service Availability
We strive to keep Cima available and reliable but do not guarantee uninterrupted availability.
The Services may temporarily become unavailable because of:
- Maintenance
- Updates
- Technical problems
- Security incidents
- Third-party outages
- Events beyond our reasonable control
22. Account Suspension or Termination
We may suspend or terminate an account when reasonably necessary because of:
- Material violation of these Terms
- Fraud
- Abuse
- Security threats
- Unauthorized access
- Serious misuse of educational content
- Academic misconduct
Where appropriate and legally required, we will provide notice and an opportunity to resolve the issue.
23. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
We do not guarantee that:
- Cima will always be available
- The Services will always be error-free
- Every educational question will be error-free
- Every explanation will be error-free
- Recommendations will always be appropriate
- Cima will produce a particular academic result
24. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Cima and Alan Dominguez will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from or related to your use of the Services.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.
25. Changes to the Terms
We may update these Terms as Cima develops.
If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice.
Your continued use of Cima after the effective date of revised Terms constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.
26. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable law requires otherwise.
27. Contact
Cima
Operated by Alan Dominguez
California, United States
Email: support@cima.app