Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of StudyRise (the "Service"), a study planning and tracking web application available at https://studyrise.app. The Service is operated by the individual developer trading as "StudyRise" ("we", "us", "our"). StudyRise is currently operated as a personal project and not through a formal company entity; the operating entity may change in the future, and these Terms will continue to apply to the Service regardless of any such change.

Please read these Terms carefully. By creating an account, ticking the acceptance checkbox, or otherwise using the Service, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not create an account and do not use the Service.

1. Acceptance of these Terms

By accessing or using the Service you enter into a binding agreement with StudyRise. You accept these Terms when you do any of the following:

• Tick the "I agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy" checkbox during registration.
• Sign in with a third-party provider (such as Google) and complete account setup.
• Continue to use the Service after we publish updated Terms (subject to the re-acceptance process in Section 14).

If you are using the Service on behalf of another person, organisation, or institution, you represent that you have authority to bind that party to these Terms, and "you" refers to that party.

2. What StudyRise is — and what it is not

StudyRise is an educational planning and tracking tool. It helps you organise a study plan across phases, schedule spaced-repetition reviews based on the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, generate daily study schedules, log practice questions and mock exams, track mistakes, and view analytics about your progress. It also includes an optional AI Study Advisor and, for university users, term, unit, assessment, and grade-tracking features.

StudyRise is built for candidates preparing for high-stakes examinations — including the Australian Medical Council MCQ (AMC MCQ), the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board test (PLAB 1), the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 CK), and custom exams — as well as university students.

StudyRise is not:

• A provider of medical advice, clinical guidance, diagnosis, or treatment. Nothing in the Service is a substitute for professional medical judgement or training.
• An accreditation body, examination board, or official source of exam information. We are not affiliated with the AMC, GMC, USMLE program, ECFMG, NBME, or any university.
• A guarantee of any examination outcome, score, pass, or result. Your results depend entirely on your own effort, ability, and preparation.

You are solely responsible for verifying exam dates, eligibility requirements, registration deadlines, and content accuracy directly with the relevant official body. See Section 11 (Disclaimers) for more detail.

3. Eligibility and age requirements

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. By using the Service you confirm that you meet this requirement.

• If you are between 13 and 18 years of age (or below the age of majority in your jurisdiction), you may use the Service only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian, who must agree to these Terms on your behalf.
• Some jurisdictions set a higher minimum age for digital consent (for example, 16 in parts of the European Union). Where a higher age applies to you, the same parental-or-guardian consent statement is required until you reach that age.
• The Service is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 13, we will delete it promptly. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us data, contact us at hello@studyrise.app.

4. Your account

To use most features you must create an account. You agree to:

• Provide accurate, current, and complete information (including a valid email address and phone number) and keep it up to date.
• Maintain the confidentiality of your password and any other credentials, and not share your account with anyone else.
• Be responsible for all activity that occurs under your account.
• Notify us promptly at hello@studyrise.app if you suspect unauthorised use of your account.

You may register with an email and password or through a supported third-party sign-in provider. We use Supabase for authentication; your credentials are handled as described in the Privacy Policy. We are not liable for any loss arising from your failure to safeguard your credentials.

5. Acceptable use

You agree that you will not:

• Attempt to access, tamper with, or use any account, data, or part of the Service that does not belong to you.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, scrape at scale, or copy any part of the Service except as expressly permitted by law.
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measure.
• Use the Service to upload or transmit unlawful, harmful, abusive, defamatory, infringing, or otherwise objectionable content.
• Use the Service in any way that violates applicable laws or regulations, including the Bangladesh Digital Security Act and any data-protection law that applies to you.
• Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service, including by introducing malware or overwhelming our infrastructure.
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service without our prior written permission.

We may investigate and take appropriate action — including suspending or terminating accounts and reporting to authorities — for any violation.

6. Intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, branding, the "StudyRise" name and logo, the tagline "Plan today. Rise tomorrow.", and all associated content we create, is owned by StudyRise and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the limited right to use the Service granted under these Terms, no rights are transferred to you. You may not use our branding without our prior written consent.

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial study purposes, subject to these Terms.

7. Your content and study data

You retain all ownership of the data and content you create or upload to the Service — including your study plans, subjects, tasks, daily study logs, mock exam scores, spaced-repetition records, mistake logs, notes, and any avatar image ("Your Content"). We do not claim ownership of Your Content.

You grant us a limited licence to host, store, process, and display Your Content solely for the purpose of operating and providing the Service to you (for example, to generate your schedule, compute analytics, or, where you use it, to produce AI Study Advisor suggestions). This licence ends when you delete Your Content or your account, except for backups retained for a limited period and records we are required to keep by law.

You are responsible for Your Content and for maintaining your own independent copies of anything important to you. We provide a data-export tool (Settings → Danger Zone / Import-Export) so you can download your data at any time.

8. Subscriptions, payment, and refunds

The Service may be offered on a free and paid (subscription) basis. Paid subscriptions are not currently activated; while activation is off, all features are provided as a free preview. The terms below describe the subscription model that applies once paid subscriptions are activated.

• Free access period. New accounts receive 30 days of full access free once subscriptions are activated. No card is required to start.
• Tiers. The Service may offer Trial, Pro, and Free (limited) tiers. The features included in each tier are described in the app and may change.
• Payment processors. For users in Bangladesh, payments may be processed by bKash Limited and/or Nagad Limited. Other regions will be supported in due course. We do not store full payment-instrument details; these are handled by the payment processors under their own terms and privacy policies.
• Refunds. Where paid plans are active, we offer a 7-day money-back guarantee on your first paid month. Renewals are non-refundable. This does not affect any non-waivable statutory refund or cancellation right you may have under the consumer law of your jurisdiction.
• Cancellation. You may cancel at any time through Settings → Billing or by contacting hello@studyrise.app. Cancellation stops future renewals; it does not retroactively refund a current paid period except as described above.
• Price changes. We may change prices. Where required, we will give you reasonable advance notice, and changes will not apply to a billing period you have already paid for.

9. AI Study Advisor

The AI Study Advisor is an optional feature that sends a summarised view of your study data to a third-party AI provider (currently OpenAI) to generate personalised suggestions. Its output is AI-generated and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable. It is a suggestion aid only and is not professional, medical, or examination advice. You are responsible for evaluating any suggestion before acting on it. See the Privacy Policy for what data is shared.

10. Service availability and changes

We aim to keep the Service available but do not guarantee uninterrupted, error-free, or secure access. We may update, modify, suspend, limit, or discontinue any feature of the Service at any time, with or without notice. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of significant changes that materially reduce the functionality you rely on. We are not liable for any unavailability, delay, or data loss caused by factors outside our reasonable control.

11. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

• The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.
• StudyRise is an educational planning tool. It does not provide medical advice, clinical guidance, exam-outcome guarantees, or accreditation.
• AI Study Advisor outputs are AI-generated suggestions, not professional advice.
• You are responsible for verifying exam dates, eligibility requirements, fees, and content accuracy with the relevant official body (such as the AMC, GMC, USMLE program, ECFMG, NBME, or your university). We are not responsible for decisions you make in reliance on the Service.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, StudyRise and its operator(s) will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, study outcomes, or examination results, arising out of or related to your use of (or inability to use) the Service, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other theory, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Where liability cannot be wholly excluded, our total aggregate liability to you arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD 50 (or its equivalent).

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations; in those jurisdictions our liability is limited to the smallest extent permitted by law.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless StudyRise and its operator(s) from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use or misuse of the Service; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your violation of any law or the rights of a third party; or (d) Your Content.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the version number and effective date and, where the change is significant, prompt you to re-accept the updated Terms the next time you use the Service. Your continued use of the Service after the updated Terms take effect constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service and may delete your account. A summary of changes is recorded in the Changelog at the end of this document.

15. Termination

• By you. You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time from Settings → Danger Zone. Deleting your account cascades the deletion of your associated study data as described in the Privacy Policy.
• By us. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if required by law, or if continuing to provide the Service to you would expose us or others to risk. Where reasonable and lawful, we will give you notice.
• Effect. On termination, your right to use the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 16, and 17) survive termination.

16. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them or the Service are governed by the laws of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to any non-waivable rights you have under the mandatory consumer law of your own country of residence, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Bangladesh for the resolution of any dispute.

Before commencing formal proceedings, you agree to first contact us at hello@studyrise.app and attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days.

17. General

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them, including to a successor operating entity, on notice.
• Notices. We may provide notices to you by email or in-app. You may contact us at hello@studyrise.app.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at hello@studyrise.app.

Changelog

• Version 1.0.0 — 13 June 2026: Initial publication of the Terms of Service.