Terms of Use

1. About these terms

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and CAPSKit (operated by Sparkify, a South African concern based in the Western Cape). By using capskit.co.za or any tool linked from it, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use CAPSKit.

"CAPSKit", "we", "us", and "our" refer to Sparkify (operating CAPSKit). "You", "your", and "the user" refer to the person using CAPSKit.

2. What CAPSKit is

CAPSKit is a free, browser-based prompt builder for South African teachers. You walk through a short series of choices (grade, subject, topic, format, paper size), and CAPSKit assembles a structured AI prompt you can copy and paste into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI tool you already use.

CAPSKit does not generate the question paper itself. The AI you paste the prompt into does that. CAPSKit is the structuring layer in front of your AI.

CAPSKit is independent and not affiliated with the Department of Basic Education. "CAPS" refers to the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement, a curriculum framework owned and published by the DBE; CAPSKit references it only in a descriptive capacity.

3. Using the tool

CAPSKit is free for personal, non-commercial use by teachers, parents, tutors, school staff, and learners. You may:

• Use the prompts you generate to produce papers, worksheets, or other teaching materials with your AI tool of choice
• Use those materials with your learners, in your classroom, at your school
• Adapt, edit, and improve the materials as you see fit
• Share the link to CAPSKit with colleagues

You may not:

• Resell or commercially redistribute the CAPSKit tool itself, or scrape/copy our curriculum data, prompt templates, or codebase
• Run automated bots or scripts against CAPSKit to generate prompts at scale
• Misrepresent CAPSKit as your own product or claim affiliation with the Department of Basic Education through use of CAPSKit

4. AI-generated content

This is the most important section. Read it carefully.

CAPSKit produces structured prompts. The actual content of any question paper, worksheet, or memorandum is produced by whichever third-party AI tool you paste the prompt into (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.). Those tools are operated by third parties under their own terms of service.

AI tools make mistakes. They can produce content that is factually incorrect, pedagogically misaligned, biased, off-curriculum, or otherwise unsuitable for your learners. CAPSKit's prompt structuring helps reduce these risks but cannot eliminate them.

You, the teacher, remain professionally responsible for any content you administer to learners. You should:

• Read every paper carefully before printing or distributing
• Cross-check content against the official CAPS curriculum where relevant
• Apply your professional judgement about what is appropriate for your specific learners
• Treat AI output as a starting point, not a finished product

CAPSKit is not liable for the content the AI produces, for any errors in that content, or for any consequences flowing from your use of that content with learners.

5. Your email and account

To use CAPSKit's prompt generator, we ask for your email address once. We use it to:

• Send you a magic-link sign-in if you want to access CAPSKit on another device
• Recognise you as a returning user without asking for a password
• Send you optional updates (only if you opted in to the newsletter)

We do not require any other personal information. We do not collect names, school details, learner data, or any other sensitive information through CAPSKit.

You can ask us to delete your email at any time by writing to hello@capskit.co.za. See our Privacy Policy for full details on how we handle your data.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to use CAPSKit to:

• Generate content that is illegal, harmful, defamatory, harassing, or that violates anyone's rights
• Generate content involving the sexualisation or harm of children
• Attempt to bypass, scrape, reverse-engineer, or extract our prompt templates or curriculum data
• Interfere with the operation of the service, including through automated traffic, denial-of-service attempts, or security probing
• Misrepresent the source or authorship of CAPSKit-assisted materials in formal contexts where authorship matters

We reserve the right to block users who violate these acceptable-use rules.

7. Advertising

CAPSKit may display advertising — including ads served by third-party networks like Google AdSense — to help cover the cost of running the service. We aim to keep advertising unobtrusive and away from the actual prompt-building flow.

Ads served by third-party networks are subject to those networks' own terms and privacy practices. CAPSKit doesn't control the specific ads shown to you and isn't responsible for the content of third-party ads or the products and services they advertise.

You can opt out of advertising cookies through our cookie consent banner.

8. Liability and warranties

CAPSKit is provided "as is". We don't promise it will always work, be available, be error-free, or produce the result you want. Where allowed by South African law, we exclude all implied warranties.

To the maximum extent permitted by South African law (and noting that the Consumer Protection Act limits how far we can exclude liability):

• CAPSKit is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including failed assessments, exam appeals, learner outcomes, professional reputational harm, or loss of teaching time
• CAPSKit's total liability under these terms, in any rolling 12-month period, is limited to ZAR 1,000 or the amount you paid us in that period (whichever is greater)
• Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded under SA law (such as liability for fraud or for personal injury caused by gross negligence)

9. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. When we make changes that affect your rights or obligations in a material way, we'll update the "Effective" date at the top of this page and notify you in a reasonable way (for example, an in-product notice when you next visit, or an email if you've given us one). Continued use of CAPSKit after a material change means you accept the updated terms.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa. Disputes will be resolved in the courts of competent jurisdiction in South Africa.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms? Email us at hello@capskit.co.za.

Thank you for using CAPSKit. We built it because setting CAPS-aligned papers takes hours we'd all rather spend teaching. We hope it gives some of those hours back.