These terms cover your use of School of Mahjong (the “Service”) at schoolofmahjong.com. By using the Service you agree to them. We’ve kept them short and in plain English.
What we offer
School of Mahjong is an educational website that teaches American Mahjong through interactive lessons, practice tools, and drills.
The first three lessons, the daily hand and its read, the Charleston trainer, and the hand analyzer are free, with no signup. So are Read the Hand and Best Pass in the drill room, three Defend the Table positions a day, and three whole games a day at the Play a Hand table.
A Club membership ($14.99 per month or $149 per year) unlocks the full lesson track, takes the daily limits off the drills and the Play a Hand table, and adds the AI coach for hands from your own game.
We teach the structure, mechanics, and strategy of the game. We are an independent teaching site and are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the National Mah Jongg League (NMJL). We do not reproduce any year’s official card. Playing along at a club requires your own copy, which we encourage you to buy from the League.
The Service is provided for instruction and entertainment. We don’t guarantee any particular result, score, or outcome at a real table.
Your access
You don’t need to create a password-based account to use the Service. Paid access is tied to your device through a secure cookie, and you can restore it on another device using the email you bought it with.
Keep your access to yourself. A single purchase is for one person’s personal use. Don’t resell, share, or commercially redistribute the lessons or tools.
Purchase and access
Club membership is $14.99 per month or $149 per year, billed on a recurring basis until you cancel. Payments are processed by Stripe, and we never see or store your full card details.
A membership renews automatically at the end of each period. You can cancel at any time from your account page. You keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for, and you are not charged again. Restore your access on any device from your account page using the email you signed up with.
We previously sold a one-time $39 course. That offer is retired, but if you bought it, your access is permanent exactly as promised at the time: nothing recurring, nothing to cancel, and nothing you need to do.
Prices may change at any time, but a change only ever applies to future purchases, never to something you have already bought.
Refunds
We keep refunds simple and friendly. See our Refund Policy for the details. The short version is that you can try the first three lessons and the free practice tools before you pay, and if a paid charge leaves you unhappy, email us within 14 days and we’ll refund it, or within any longer window we promised you before you bought.
Acceptable use
Please don’t try to break, scrape, overload, or reverse-engineer the Service, and don’t use it to do anything unlawful. The lessons, copy, code, illustrations, and the teaching method are our intellectual property, you may use them to learn, not to copy or republish.
We may suspend access that abuses the Service or violates these terms.
Disclaimers and liability
The Service is provided “as is,” without warranties of any kind. We work hard to keep it accurate and available, but we don’t promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free.
To the fullest extent allowed by law, School of Mahjong is not liable for indirect or consequential damages, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the prior twelve months.
Changes and contact
We may update these terms from time to time. The “last updated” date below always reflects the current version, and continued use means you accept the changes. These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the state in which School of Mahjong is operated.
Questions? Email support@schoolofmahjong.com and a real person will answer.