Terms of Use
Terms of Use
These Terms govern your use of The Study Concept's currently available free and trial services. Paid checkout is disabled. Before any paid service opens, The Study Concept will identify the verified adult legal operator, publish the required business contact information, confirm the payment flow, and present the applicable agreement for acceptance. By accessing or using the currently available Services, you agree to these Terms and the policies linked here.
1. The Services
The Study Concept provides study tools, including dashboards, schedules, to-do lists, document tools, flashcards, content libraries, reminders, progress features, LYNE assistant features, and AI-assisted study workflows. The Services may change over time as features are added, removed, improved, or limited.
2. Eligibility and Accounts
- You must have legal capacity to use the Services or permission from a parent, guardian, or authorized school representative.
- If you are under 13, you may not create a personal account or submit personal information. Under-13 account use is not supported. A school email address alone does not establish parental consent or a school agreement.
- If you are 13 to 17, a parent or guardian must authorize a paid purchase unless you independently have legal capacity to enter the agreement.
- You are responsible for the accuracy of account information and for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials.
- You must notify us promptly at
deanconcepcion8@gmail.comif you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.
3. Acceptable Use
You agree not to use the Services to:
- Violate any law, regulation, school policy, academic integrity rule, contract, or third-party right.
- Upload, copy, distribute, or generate content you do not have the right to use.
- Harass, threaten, exploit, impersonate, deceive, or harm another person.
- Attempt to bypass security controls, probe systems, scrape data, reverse engineer code, or interfere with the operation of the Services.
- Submit malware, harmful code, spam, or content designed to disrupt the Services.
- Use AI features for emergency, medical, legal, financial, or other high-stakes decisions without qualified human review.
4. Academic Integrity
The Study Concept is intended to help students learn, organize, practice, and understand material. You are responsible for following your school, teacher, examination board, and institution rules. You must not use the Services to cheat, misrepresent authorship, fabricate sources, submit prohibited AI output, or bypass assignment instructions.
5. AI Features
- AI outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, outdated, or misleading.
- You are responsible for reviewing AI-generated notes, explanations, summaries, cards, transcripts, images, and other outputs before relying on them.
- AI features are educational and productivity tools, not professional advice.
- Prompts, selected content, uploaded files, and related context may be processed by third-party AI providers when you use AI features.
Additional guidance appears in the AI Use Notice.
6. User Content
You retain any ownership rights you have in content you submit to the Services, subject to rights held by schools, teachers, publishers, employers, or other third parties. Uploading a class handout, textbook excerpt, school document, or other third-party material does not transfer its ownership to you or to us. You grant us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive license to host, store, reproduce, process, transmit, display, and use your content only as reasonably necessary to provide requested features, maintain security, and respond to support requests. This license does not transfer ownership or authorize selling your content. It ends when content is deleted, except for limited backup retention, legal obligations, and copies you have shared with others.
You represent that you have all rights necessary to submit your content and that your content does not violate law, these Terms, or another person's rights.
7. Intellectual Property
The Study Concept name, interface, software, original design elements, workflows, documentation, and related materials are owned by Dean Concepcion or used under licence, except for user content and third-party materials. No licence to our trademarks or other intellectual property is granted except as needed to use the Services personally under these Terms. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from the Services except as expressly permitted by us or by law.
We respect third-party rights. If you believe material available through the Services infringes your copyright, follow the reporting process in our Copyright Policy. We may remove or limit access to reported material while we review it.
8. Paid Access, Billing, and Trials
Paid checkout is not available yet. No paid subscription may be purchased until the seller identity and contact details are published and the payment processor, subscription management, tax settings, refund process, and final order disclosures are working and consistent with these Terms.
Prices, Jump Start offer, and billing interval. The planned Premium Monthly Jump Start offer is CAD $4.99 per month for the first three paid monthly billing periods, plus applicable tax shown at checkout. Starting with the fourth paid monthly billing period, the subscription renews at CAD $9.99 per month, plus applicable tax, unless cancelled before that renewal. The offer applies only to a monthly subscription started while the offer is active; it is not a permanent price guarantee and does not apply to yearly billing. The separate planned Premium Yearly price is CAD $40 per year, plus applicable tax. Monthly subscriptions are billed in advance each month and yearly subscriptions in advance each year. Each renews for the same interval until cancelled. There is no lifetime plan. Before payment, checkout must show the amount due today, each tax, the next renewal amount and timing, cancellation method, and any other mandatory charge. The CAD $9.99 renewal after the three disclosed introductory payments is part of the offer accepted at checkout; any later increase to an existing subscriber’s price will be separately notified and handled as required by law, with a way to cancel before the changed price applies.
Trial. The current seven-day trial is cardless, ends without a charge, and does not convert automatically to a paid subscription. Starting a trial does not authorize a later payment. A paid subscription begins only after an eligible adult purchaser reviews the order and deliberately submits payment. The purchaser must be at least 18 and may purchase for themselves or, where the product permits, for an eligible learner. A parent’s purchase does not override the account age rules in section 2.
Taxes and payment processing. Any applicable sales tax will be calculated and displayed before the purchaser submits payment. The payment processor and seller or merchant-of-record roles will be clearly identified before purchase. Payment processing does not make the processor the provider of The Study Concept unless the checkout expressly says otherwise. Do not send card numbers or security codes to The Study Concept support.
Cancellation. When paid access launches, the purchaser may cancel through the secure billing portal linked from account billing or the payment receipt. If the portal is unavailable or cannot be accessed, the purchaser may email deanconcepcion8@gmail.com with the billing email, learner account email if different, and a request to cancel. We will acknowledge the request within two business days. An email cancellation request received before a renewal charge is due will be treated as effective when received, even if our confirmation follows later; we will take reasonable steps to stop that renewal and refund it if it is charged after the request. Cancellation stops future renewal; unless the purchaser receives a refund or applicable law requires otherwise, access continues through the end of the already-paid period. Stopping use, signing out, or deleting an account does not itself cancel a subscription.
Refunds. The voluntary refund promise and how to request it are set out in the Refund and Cancellation Policy. That policy does not restrict a cancellation, refund, charge dispute, or other remedy available under applicable law. Eligible refunds will be submitted through the payment processor to the original payment method where supported; the time for a bank or card issuer to post the credit is outside The Study Concept’s control.
9. Third-Party Services
The Services may integrate with or link to third-party tools, including authentication providers, payment processors, AI providers, hosting services, calendar services, and external websites. Independent providers have their own responsibilities. This does not remove our obligations for providers processing information on our behalf. Your use of third-party services may be governed by their separate terms and policies.
10. Suspension and Termination
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to the Services if we believe you have violated these
Terms, created risk for users or the Services, infringed rights, failed to pay amounts owed, or used the
Services unlawfully. We may act immediately for security threats, fraud, unlawful activity, serious abuse,
or material risks to another person. For an ordinary remediable breach, we will provide notice and a
reasonable opportunity to correct it where practicable. You may ask for a review by contacting
deanconcepcion8@gmail.com.
You may stop using the Services or request account deletion at any time. Stopping use does not cancel a future paid subscription; cancellation must use the billing portal or billing-support process. Where technically available, you should export important material before closing an account. After termination, account deletion and retention follow the Privacy Policy. If The Study Concept later ends a paid service without user breach, it will provide the notice, continued access, refund, or other remedy required by the agreement and applicable law.
11. Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available." We do not warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, accurate, or suitable for any particular purpose. Study recommendations, AI outputs, analytics, and readiness signals are provided for support and organization only. Check course materials, AI output, dates, grades, curriculum coverage, and academic requirements against your teacher's instructions and authoritative school sources.
The Study Concept does not promise or guarantee grades, test scores, course completion, admission, scholarships, academic outcomes, or that any study plan, recommendation, or generated material will be complete, correct, suitable, or accepted by a teacher or school. The Study Concept is not your school, teacher, examination authority, or publisher of your course materials.
12. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Dean Concepcion, The Study Concept, and their service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, data, goodwill, academic outcomes, or business opportunities. To the extent direct liability cannot be excluded, total liability will be limited to the greater of CAD $100 or the amount you paid for the Services in the 12 months before the claim arose. This limit does not apply to fraud, wilful misconduct, gross negligence where it cannot lawfully be limited, death or personal injury caused by negligence where applicable, privacy or security obligations that cannot lawfully be limited, or mandatory statutory remedies.
13. Your Consumer Rights
Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded, including statutory guarantees, cancellation and refund rights, or the right to bring a claim in a court available under mandatory consumer law. The disclaimers and liability limits above do not apply to fraud, wilful misconduct, or liability that cannot legally be limited. These Terms do not require consumers to indemnify us for our own acts or omissions.
14. Governing Law and Venue
These Terms are governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable in Ontario, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to any mandatory law that provides otherwise, disputes will be brought in the courts located in Ontario, Canada.
These Terms do not require consumer arbitration and do not waive participation in a class proceeding where such a waiver is prohibited. The parties may voluntarily agree to mediation or another dispute process after a dispute arises. Nothing here removes a consumer's right to use a court, regulator, or complaint process available under mandatory law.
15. School and Organization Accounts
If you access the Services through a school or organization, that organization may administer your account and content under a separate agreement. Its authorized administrators may control access, retention, integrations, and account settings. If a separate written agreement conflicts with these Terms, that agreement controls only for the covered organization and services.
16. Beta Features and Service Changes
Preview, beta, or experimental features may change, be unavailable, or contain errors. We may add, modify, suspend, or discontinue features, but will provide notice where required by law or an applicable paid agreement. You should export important study content and keep independent copies where appropriate.
17. General Contract Terms
These Terms and documents incorporated by reference form the entire agreement for personal use of the Services. If any provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a reorganization, financing, or transfer of the Services. Neither party is responsible for delay caused by events reasonably beyond its control.
Material changes to these Terms will be communicated through the Service or the account contact method where required. A change that requires renewed consent will not apply merely because a revised page was posted. Prior versions and acceptance records should be retained for contract administration.
The Study Concept aims to provide accessible services and a reasonable way to report barriers or request support. See the Accessibility Statement. Accessibility commitments do not reduce any rights or accommodation duties provided by applicable law.
18. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. The updated Terms will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Continued use of the Services after an update means you accept the updated Terms, unless applicable law requires a different process.
19. Contact
Questions about these Terms may be sent to deanconcepcion8@gmail.com.