Terms of Service

Being listed and claiming your listing

Being listed on MontessoriCity is free, permanently, whether or not you ever claim it. Claiming your listing — verifying you're affiliated with the school so you can edit its details — is also free and always will be. We don't have a paid subscription tier. You only ever pay for the specific things described below, and only when you choose to.

What you pay for

• $15 per parent request, charged in your school's own currency (the exact price is always shown before you pay) — charged only when you choose to unlock a specific family's contact details (name, email, phone, full message), after seeing their request without contact details for free: child's age and program, start date, area and distance, budget range, schedule and priorities. One charge per family per school every 90 days — if the same family reaches out again within 90 days, you see their details at no additional charge.
• Your first family is free. The first request any school unlocks costs nothing.
• One free unlock every calendar month, automatically, for any claimed listing with a published tuition range. It resets on the 1st and doesn't roll over.
• Tours are never charged separately. Families book and attend tours with you at no cost to either side.

If a family can't be reached

Every family verifies their email address before their request is sent. If you unlock a family and can't reach them at all by email or phone, write to hello@montessoricity.com and we'll refund that unlock in full.

Ranking is never for sale

Every school on MontessoriCity — claimed or not, paying or not — is ranked by a Bayesian average of its Google rating and review count. When results are otherwise equal, schools with more complete, recently verified profiles come first. This is based on profile quality only; no school can pay for a higher position. Unlocking leads, a montessorimedia membership, or any other paid action never changes your position in search results, city pages, or any ranked list anywhere on the site. There is no mechanism, past, present, or planned, for a school to pay for better placement.

How we handle parent information

A family's contact details are hidden from you until you unlock their request (as described above). We never sell or share a family's information with any other school, advertiser, or third party — an unlocked request is visible only to the specific school the family chose to be introduced to (each family picks the schools they want to visit). Families can request their data be deleted at any time by emailing hello@montessoricity.com.

Editing your listing

Once claimed, you're responsible for the accuracy of what you publish — description, tuition, photos, CWELCC status, and other details. We reserve the right to correct or remove content that's false, misleading, or violates applicable law, and to un-verify a claim if we later determine it wasn't made by someone actually affiliated with the school. Accreditation badges (AMI/AMS/Montessori Canada) are never self-reported — they're sourced only from the accrediting bodies' own official directories, and you can't edit them from your dashboard.

Cancellation

There's no subscription to cancel and no lock-in period — you can stop using paid features (lead unlocks, tours) at any time simply by not using them; there's nothing to turn off. If you'd like your listing unclaimed or removed from the directory entirely, email hello@montessoricity.com and we'll action it as soon as we can.

Questions

Email hello@montessoricity.com. See also full pricing details.