These are the terms for using First Move, a study tool built by Cardan Marketing Solutions for Alberta students in Grade 9 and up. By registering as a parent or using First Move as a student, you're agreeing to these terms.
1. What First Move is
First Move is a recognition-training tool. It trains a student to identify what an exam question is actually asking before they answer it, checks their vocabulary against the language of the course, and gives them a place to plan an essay. It does not write essays, solve problems, or complete assignments for a student, and it's built so it can't.
2. No guaranteed results
We don't promise a specific grade, mark improvement, or exam outcome. What the method is built on — retrieval practice, spaced repetition, and recognizing the right first move before executing it — is supported by research on learning generally. What that does for any individual student depends on the student, their teacher, and how much they actually use it, and we're not going to claim otherwise.
3. Accounts
A parent or guardian registers and sets up each child's account — a student doesn't register themselves. There are no passwords: a parent gets a token, and a student joins with a one-time code the parent gives them. Keep both private; anyone with the parent token can see that family's reports, and anyone with an unused join code can join as that child.
4. Subscriptions and billing
- First Move is billed monthly or by the term, at the price shown on the pricing page at the time of purchase.
- Monthly subscriptions can be cancelled at any time; you'll keep access through the end of the period already paid for.
- We offer refunds — contact marc@cardanmarketing.com to discuss one. We don't advertise a blanket refund window, because we don't want to encourage someone to use a full term through exams and then ask for their money back; refunds are handled case by case, in good faith.
5. Acceptable use
- First Move is for the personal, non-commercial use of the registered student.
- Don't attempt to reverse-engineer, scrape, or resell the question banks or the app.
- Don't use the account-flag feature (reporting a bad question) in bad faith to try to remove correct content — it's reviewed by a person before anything is changed.
6. The pilot / research use
Some students may take part in a small research pilot measuring whether the training approach helps. If your family is invited to participate, you'll be told what that involves and can opt out at any point without losing access to the regular product. See our Privacy Policy for how pilot data is used.
7. Intellectual property
The question banks, app, and site content are owned by Cardan Marketing Solutions. Your family's own study data belongs to you; see the Privacy Policy for how to request a copy or deletion.
8. Termination
We can suspend or close an account for violating these terms, or for behaviour that puts other families' data or the service itself at risk. A parent can close their own account at any time.
9. Limitation of liability
First Move is provided "as is." We work carefully on accuracy, but we don't guarantee the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we're not liable for exam or academic outcomes. Nothing here limits liability where the law doesn't allow it to be limited.
10. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Alberta, Canada.
11. Changes to these terms
If these terms change in a way that matters, we'll post the update here and change the date at the top of the page.