Terms of Service, Privacy & Copyright

Using the Hub

Florida Writing Hub is an independent educational website. It is not a school, test provider, government service, or admissions office. You can use the Hub to practice skills and find resources. Use the site lawfully, respect others’ privacy and rights, and do not interfere with its operation or use it to send spam.

Parents and educators should help younger learners choose suitable activities and supervise visits to other websites. Learners keep any rights they hold in their own writing. Use practice tools only with materials you have permission to use, and follow the rules your school, contest, or application sets for outside assistance.

Practice, scores, and writing feedback

Hub lessons and practice sets cover selected skills. Grade and difficulty labels help you choose what to work on. Fixed answer keys can contain errors, and a practice score does not predict an official score, placement, admission, or award. Some challenge sets go beyond the real exam. Use the official provider’s materials for current test formats, content, and accommodations.

FAST practice is available for grades 3–10. The Hub’s grades 3–5 test-style workspace uses original practice items and does not reproduce Florida’s secure test or scoring system. Florida’s B.E.S.T. Writing assessment is separate from FAST Reading. GED, ACCUPLACER, and personal statement feedback supports revision; it does not assign an official essay score or predict an admissions decision.

The Writing Studio, mentor texts, Skills Lab, and Study Coach offer models, prompts, checklists, and study guidance. Automated suggestions use limited checks, such as word counts and text patterns. They do not verify facts, citations, source use, authorship, plagiarism, or the quality of an argument. Review the feedback before applying it. Linguistics and device library activities are supplemental practice.

GED, citizenship, and English learning resources support practice. They do not determine readiness, eligibility, placement, or an official result. Use USCIS study materials for the citizenship test version that applies to you.

Outside resources, contests, and donations

Directory listings and links help you find outside providers. Confirm deadlines, fees, waivers, eligibility, entry limits, submission steps, and publication rights with the organizer before sending work or paying. A listing does not imply endorsement or affiliation. The Hub does not submit entries or applications for you. Outside sites, including booksellers and payment processors, have their own terms and privacy practices.

Donations are optional and handled by PayPal. The Hub does not take payment-card details on its own pages. A donation does not establish tax deductibility or guarantee any service or educational outcome.

Copyright and permissions

© 2026 Florida Writing Hub (floridawritinghub.org). Rights are reserved in protectable material to the extent the Hub owns those rights. This includes qualifying human-authored expression and creative selection or arrangement. Some materials were developed with generative AI; the notice does not claim exclusive rights in unprotectable AI-generated material, facts, ideas, public-domain works, or third-party materials.

You may link to the Hub. You may download, print, and share copies of Hub-created educational materials with your learners for personal study and noncommercial classroom or tutoring instruction. Credit Florida Writing Hub and keep applicable notices intact. This permission does not cover resale, public reposting, or reuse in another website, app, or commercial product. Uses allowed by law or a separate license remain available.

Outside books, texts, images, tests, logos, and trademarks remain subject to their owners’ rights. A link or a copyright disclaimer does not grant permission to copy a work. The device library identifies definitions reproduced or adapted from Gideon O. Burton’s Silva Rhetoricae under CC BY 3.0; those definitions remain available under that license. For a permissions request or rights concern, use Contact Us and include the relevant page URL and a description of the material.

Bundled components have separate notices: PDF.js, fflate, Liberation fonts, and Foxit fonts.

Privacy, analytics, and saved work

Drafts and files. Practice answers and drafts are processed in your browser. The Study Materials Studio reads supported files on your device; it does not send the files or extracted text to the Hub or an AI service. Most drafts disappear when you refresh or leave. Where you choose to save work or preferences on the device, they may be visible to others using the same browser. Clear saved data using the tool’s reset or your browser settings. Delete downloaded copies separately. Do not enter confidential student records, passwords, identification documents, or private application details.

Visits and searches. Hosting and Cloudflare Web Analytics may process technical information to deliver the site and measure traffic and performance. The Website Statistics page does not display private traffic totals. Some search links include search terms in the URL; avoid entering private information. External fonts and linked services can receive ordinary browser requests. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy for its practices. The optional citizenship Listen tool uses browser speech synthesis for the provided text and does not ask for microphone access; speech processing may depend on your device or browser provider.

Messages and children’s privacy. Contact Us prepares an email draft. The Hub receives your email address and message only if you send it through your email service. We use messages to respond and address the issue reported. Children under 13 should ask a parent or guardian to contact us. Send only what is necessary and avoid identifying children. A parent or guardian can contact us to ask about information sent about their child or request deletion.

Availability and liability

The Hub provides general educational information and tools as available. Access, listings, and feedback can change or contain errors, and saved work can be lost. To the extent permitted by law, the Hub and its operator disclaim implied warranties and liability for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential losses from use of the Hub or reliance on its materials. These terms do not limit any right, remedy, or liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

We may revise this page as the site changes. The date at the top identifies the latest revision. Report broken links, errors, accessibility barriers, and privacy concerns through Contact Us.