Terms of Service

StudySocial is a free web app for students. It helps you keep your class schedule, see when friends are free, and track assignments and study materials. It is an independent project. It is not run by, or affiliated with, any school, university, or educational authority.

When you create an account, or keep using StudySocial after these Terms change, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use StudySocial. The Community Guidelines explain how we expect people to treat each other; breaking them is also a breach of these Terms.

In these Terms, “StudySocial”, “we”, and “us” mean the people who run StudySocial. “You” means the person using it.

StudySocial is built for students organizing school life. Today there is no minimum age to sign up, and signup does not ask for your age or date of birth.

A minimum age may be set in the future. If that happens, signup will ask you to confirm you are at least that age, and these Terms and the Student & Youth Privacy page will be updated to say what the age is.

To use StudySocial you create an account with your name, a username, your email address, and a password. Where the deployment offers it, you can instead sign in with Google. StudySocial does not send email of any kind, so there is no password-reset email; keep your password somewhere safe.

• Keep your password private. Do not share your account with anyone.
• One account per person. Do not create accounts for other people or run more than one account for yourself.
• You are responsible for everything done through your account, whether or not you did it yourself.
• If you think someone else has used your account, change your password right away (this signs out every session) and tell us through the contact form.

You can also add “managed people” — people who are not on StudySocial — by typing their name and classes. Only you can see them, and they can never sign in. You are responsible for what you enter about them.

Give us accurate information when you sign up and keep it up to date. Use your real name or the name people actually know you by, so friends can find the right person. Do not sign up using someone else’s email address or identity.

Use StudySocial for what it is: a place to organize your schedule, your work, and your time with friends. Use it in a way that is lawful, honest, and considerate of the other people on it.

You may only access StudySocial through the app itself, in a normal web browser, as a person. Automated access, scraping, and bulk downloading are not allowed.

While using StudySocial, you agree not to:

• Break any law, or help anyone else break one.
• Access another person’s account, data, or schedule without permission, or try to.
• Interfere with the service: probe or attack it, overload it, bypass security or privacy controls, or reverse engineer it.
• Use bots, scripts, or other automated tools to access StudySocial or create accounts.
• Upload malicious files, or post links to malware, phishing pages, or scams.
• Send spam, unwanted advertising, or repeated unwanted friend requests.
• Post or upload content you do not have the right to share.
• Use StudySocial to cheat, or to share exam content or other material, where your school prohibits it.
• Collect other people’s information from StudySocial, or share it outside StudySocial without their okay.
• Try to get around a block, a suspension, or a privacy setting.

StudySocial only works when people feel safe sharing their week with friends. Harassment, bullying, threats, impersonation, and hate are not allowed anywhere on StudySocial — including in class names, event titles, usernames, and anything else other people can see.

• Harassment and bullying: targeting someone with insults, humiliation, or unwanted attention.
• Threats: threatening to hurt anyone, or encouraging others to.
• Impersonation: pretending to be another person or organization.
• Hate: attacking people because of who they are, including their race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

If someone is making you uncomfortable, you can block them and report them from the Safety Center. The Community Guidelines go into more detail.

“Content” means anything you add to StudySocial: class names and details, meeting times, room text, commitment and event titles, assignment titles and notes, checklists, milestones, links, files you upload to an assignment or to a class, the planning steps and to-dos you write for yourself, and anything you write in a group project. Your name, username, avatar colour, and a profile picture if you upload one are content too.

Most of your content is visible only to you. Friends can see your class names, meeting times, and rooms, and your commitment titles and locations, only while schedule sharing is on. If you turn details sharing off, they see “Busy” instead. Commitments you mark private show as “Busy” too. Assignments, notes, files, your planning steps, your to-do list, and anything imported from your school are never shown to friends. What you put in a group project is visible to the people in that project, which is the point of making one. You can change sharing at any time in Settings → Privacy.

You are responsible for your content. Make sure you have the right to add it, and that it follows these Terms and the Community Guidelines.

Everything you add to StudySocial stays yours. StudySocial does not claim ownership of your classes, notes, files, or anything else you create. You can delete your content at any time, and deleting it removes it from StudySocial’s database immediately.

To run StudySocial, we need your permission to handle your content. So you give StudySocial a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to:

• store your content on our hosting providers’ servers;
• display it to you; and to the friends you choose to share it with, only to the extent your sharing settings allow;
• process it as needed to operate the service — for example, to draw your schedule, sort your assignments, or serve a file back to you.

That is the whole licence. We do not get the right to sell your content, use it in advertising, train anything on it, or publish it. The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies that may remain in backups (if any are kept) and records we keep for safety or legal reasons, as described in the Privacy Policy.

The StudySocial software, design, layout, text, and name belong to StudySocial or its licensors. Apart from the permission to use the service as these Terms describe, these Terms do not give you any rights in them. Please do not copy, modify, or redistribute the app or its design.

Content you add is yours (see above); this section is only about the parts of StudySocial that we made.

“StudySocial” and the StudySocial logo identify this service. Please do not use them in a way that suggests we endorse you, your project, or your organization, or that you are affiliated with us, without asking us first through the contact form.

StudySocial runs on services made by other companies. Each one is governed by its own terms and privacy policy, which we do not control.

• Vercel hosts the app and keeps standard server request logs.
• Supabase hosts the database and, in its storage service, the files you drop into a class. Both are in the United States.
• Google, only if you choose “Continue with Google” and only when the deployment offers it.
• jsDelivr, a content delivery network your browser downloads the text-recognition engine from when you import a schedule from a picture. The picture itself stays on your device.
• Your school’s platform — Brightspace (D2L), Canvas, Google Classroom, Blackboard, Moodle, Schoology, Sakai, or another that publishes a calendar link — only if you connect it.

The Privacy Policy and the School Integrations page explain what each of these receives.

Connecting your school is optional. If you do, StudySocial reads the calendar link your school platform gives you, or makes read-only calls to your school’s Brightspace API, to bring in course names, assignment titles, due dates, the modules or weeks a course is divided into, and similar items. StudySocial only performs read operations. It cannot submit work, change grades, post anything, or write to your school’s systems in any way. Nothing a sync finds is added to your work until you choose it, unless you switch that connection to add new dated work automatically.

StudySocial is not your school and does not speak for it. Imported information can be wrong, incomplete, or out of date — for example, if your instructor changes a due date after the last sync. Always verify anything that matters at the source. Items that disappear at your school are marked “no longer posted” rather than deleted.

You can disconnect at any time. Disconnecting deletes the connection, its stored secret, and all imported items; anything you added to your own work list stays as your own assignment. Details are on the School Integrations page.

StudySocial has no artificial-intelligence features today. Nothing you add is sent to an AI provider, and nothing in the app is generated or ranked by a machine-learning model.

If that ever changes, we will update these Terms and the AI Disclosure first, and the app will ask you to accept the new version before you continue.

StudySocial is an organizer. It is not an academic authority, an instructor, or a record of what your school expects from you. Due dates, priorities, time estimates, rankings, and daily plans are suggestions built from what you and your school connection entered. They can be wrong.

You are responsible for your own work: for knowing what is due and when, for following your school’s rules, and for checking with your school when something does not look right. Missing a deadline because StudySocial showed the wrong date is still a missed deadline, and we cannot fix it for you.

StudySocial is completely free. There are no paid tiers, purchases, ads, or sponsorships. Because it is free and run by a small team, we make no promise about uptime.

• We may add, change, pause, or remove features at any time.
• The service may go offline for maintenance, because of a problem, or for good.
• We may set limits, such as the maximum file size you can upload.

Please keep your own copy of anything important. If we plan to shut StudySocial down, we will try to give notice in the app, but we cannot promise it.

We may restrict, suspend, or remove your account, or remove specific content, if we believe you have broken these Terms or the Community Guidelines, or if we think it is needed to protect other people or the service. Where it is practical we will tell you why, but we may act without notice when we believe it is needed — for example, to stop harassment or an attack in progress.

StudySocial is run by a very small team, not a moderation department. This section is not a promise of a particular process, appeal, or timeline. If you think we got it wrong, you can write to us through the contact form and we will read it.

You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Account. Deleting your account immediately removes your user record and everything it owns: your classes, commitments, assignments, materials and uploaded file bytes, your class files, your planning steps and to-dos, group projects you own, managed people, sessions, blocks, friend links, and your invite code.

A few things are kept, without a link to you:

• Consent records (which document version you accepted, and when) lose their link to your account but are kept.
• Safety reports keep the reported username and the reason, so abuse can still be acted on.
• If the operator has taken a database backup, that copy is not edited.

Account deletion cannot be undone. The Privacy Policy has the full picture.

The Privacy Policy explains exactly what StudySocial stores, why, who can see it, and how to delete it. It is part of these Terms. The Student & Youth Privacy, Cookies & Tracking, School Integrations, and AI Disclosure pages explain specific parts in more depth.

StudySocial is provided “as is” and “as available”. We work hard to make it accurate and reliable, but we cannot promise that it will always be available, error-free, or secure, or that the schedules, due dates, and plans it shows are correct. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, whether express or implied.

StudySocial is not an emergency service. If you or someone else is in danger, contact local emergency services.

To the fullest extent the law allows, StudySocial and the people who run it are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential losses arising from your use of StudySocial — including missed deadlines, lost grades, lost data, or anything that happens because of information that was wrong or out of date. Because StudySocial is free, our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the greatest extent the law permits.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

If someone brings a claim against StudySocial because of something you did on it — for example, content you uploaded that you did not have the right to share, or a breach of these Terms — you agree to cover our reasonable costs of dealing with that claim, to the extent the law allows.

The people who run StudySocial are in Atlantic Canada. StudySocial’s data is stored in the United States. Which laws govern these Terms has not yet been decided.

If you have a problem with StudySocial, please write to us first through the contact form. Most things can be sorted out by talking.

Each version of these Terms is identified by its date. When we make a material change, we publish a new version with a new date, and the app asks you to accept it again before you can continue using StudySocial. Small fixes, like typos or clearer wording that does not change the meaning, may be published without asking again.

Your earlier acceptance records are kept as they were; a new version simply asks you again. The current version date is shown at the top of this page.

Questions about these Terms, a report, or your account? Write to us through the contact form. Messages go into StudySocial’s database for the people who run StudySocial to read. Because StudySocial is a small project, we cannot promise a response time, but we do read everything.