1. Agreement and Acceptance
These Terms of Service form a legally binding agreement between you (the user) and AcadBoard. By accessing or using AcadBoard you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.
2. Definitions
AcadBoard means the web application, website, services, and any related features provided by the operator.
User or you means any person or entity using AcadBoard.
User Content means any data, files, text, images, audio, video, or other content you upload, submit, or create within AcadBoard.
Third-party Services means external APIs, providers, or services integrated with AcadBoard (hosting, AI, analytics, authentication, payment processors).
3. Eligibility and Account Responsibility
Eligibility: AcadBoard is intended for educational use. Users may be students, including those under the age of 13, where access is provided, authorised, or supervised by a school, teacher, parent, or legal guardian. Where applicable law requires parental or guardian consent for minors, such consent must be obtained before use.
Account creation: You are responsible for providing accurate information and for ensuring that any required consents or permissions have been obtained before creating or using an account.
Security: You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately of any unauthorised use or security breach.
Account termination: We may refuse, suspend, or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, applicable law, school policies, or for any other reason at our discretion.
4. Acceptable Use and Prohibited Conduct
- You agree not to use AcadBoard to:
- Upload, store, or transmit content that is illegal, infringing, defamatory, obscene, pornographic involving minors, or that violates privacy or publicity rights.
- Use the service to commit fraud, distribute malware, engage in phishing, or otherwise harm others.
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the service, other accounts, or systems.
- Interfere with the operation of AcadBoard, including reverse engineering, scraping, or bypassing rate limits.
- Use AcadBoard to provide professional services to third parties where reliance on accuracy or completeness could cause harm, unless you obtain appropriate professional review and disclaimers.
5. User Content Ownership and Licence
Ownership: You retain ownership of the intellectual property rights in your User Content.
Licence to AcadBoard: By uploading or submitting User Content you grant AcadBoard a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, modify, transmit, display, analyse, and otherwise use and process your User Content as necessary to provide, operate, and improve the service (including training models and improving features), and to comply with legal obligations.
6. Content Standards and Enforcement
We do not pre-screen all content. However, we reserve the right to remove or disable access to any User Content that we reasonably believe violates these Terms or the law.
We may retain copies of removed content for a reasonable period for investigation, enforcement, or legal compliance.
7. Third-Party Services and Integrations
AcadBoard integrates with third-party services for hosting, AI processing, analytics, authentication, and payments.
No endorsement: Third-party integrations are provided for convenience and do not imply endorsement.
Separate terms: Your use of third-party services is subject to their terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for third-party practices.
Dependency disclaimer: We may rely on third parties to provide critical functionality. We do not guarantee the availability, performance, or security of third-party services.
8. No Professional Advice
AcadBoard is an educational and productivity tool. Content and outputs (including AI-generated summaries or analyses) are for informational purposes only and are not professional advice (legal, medical, financial, or otherwise).
You should not rely solely on AcadBoard for decisions that require professional judgment. Always consult a qualified professional where appropriate.
9. Service Availability and No Uptime Guarantee
The service is provided "as is" and "as available." We make reasonable efforts to maintain the service but do not guarantee continuous, error-free, or secure operation.
No uptime warranty: We do not warrant any specific level of availability, performance, or response time. Scheduled or unscheduled maintenance, third-party outages, and other factors may cause interruptions.
Planned maintenance: We may perform maintenance that temporarily degrades or interrupts service.
10. Data Loss, Corruption, and Backups
You are responsible for maintaining your own backups of important content. We provide tools to export or download content where available, but we do not guarantee that exports will always be available.
No liability for loss: We are not liable for loss, corruption, or deletion of User Content except as required by law. Backups may not capture the most recent changes and may be retained for a period after deletion.
11. Suspension, Termination, and Enforcement
Right to suspend or terminate: We may suspend or terminate access to the service, or remove content, for violations of these Terms, suspected illegal activity, security concerns, or at our discretion.
Notice: We may provide notice before suspension or termination, but we may act immediately where necessary to protect users or comply with law.
Effect of termination: Upon termination, your right to access the service ends. We may delete or retain your content in accordance with our retention policy and legal obligations.
12. Fees and Payments
If we offer paid features, fees and payment terms will be presented at purchase. All payments are non-refundable except as required by law or as expressly stated.
We may change pricing or introduce new fees with notice. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.
13. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless AcadBoard, its operators, affiliates, and their officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, losses, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from:
- your breach of these Terms;
- your User Content or conduct on the service;
- your violation of any law or third-party rights.
We may assume control of the defence of any claim at our option.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, AcadBoard and its operators will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, data, goodwill, academic outcomes, or business interruption, arising from or related to these Terms or your use of the service.
Liability cap: Where permitted by law, AcadBoard’s total aggregate liability for any claim will be limited to the total amount actually paid by you to AcadBoard for the service in the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
Australian Consumer Law: Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude, restrict, or modify any rights or remedies that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law or other applicable mandatory laws.
15. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
Good faith negotiation: If a dispute arises, the parties will first attempt to resolve it informally by good faith negotiation.
Mediation: If negotiation fails, the parties agree to attempt mediation in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, before commencing formal proceedings.
Arbitration: If mediation does not resolve the dispute, either party may elect to have the dispute finally resolved by binding arbitration administered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, under the rules of a recognised Australian arbitration body (for example, the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration) or another mutually agreed arbitration provider. The arbitrator’s decision will be final and binding, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Exceptions: Either party may seek urgent injunctive or equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.
Costs: Each party will bear its own costs of negotiation and mediation. The arbitrator may allocate costs and fees as permitted by law.
16. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by the laws of Australia. The parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria, Australia, for matters not subject to arbitration or urgent relief.
17. Changes to Terms
We may modify these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will post the updated Terms with a new “Last updated” date and, where appropriate, provide notice. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.
18. Notices
We may provide notices by email, in-app messages, or by posting on the site. Notices to us should be sent to:
Email: [email protected]