Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of the appybara.org website and the Appybara mobile apps (together, the "Service"), operated by Appybara ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. You are responsible for your account credentials and for activity under your account. Provide accurate information and keep it up to date; we may suspend accounts that misrepresent who they are.

You own the content you create on Appybara: your essays, activities, profile, and messages. You grant us the license needed to operate the Service: to store, process, display, and back up your content, and to send it to our service providers (for example our AI provider when you request feedback). This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies in routine backups. We do not take ownership of your content and we do not sell it to third parties.

If you choose to publish your profile or share it by link, you grant us the right to display that content to anyone who visits it. You can unpublish at any time from your privacy settings.

Parts of the Service generate content with AI, including essay feedback, admissions estimates, and chat. AI output is informational and can be wrong. It is not professional advice, and no output is a promise or prediction of admission to any institution. You are responsible for the work you submit to colleges; using AI feedback to improve your own writing is what the tool is for, and passing off AI-written work as your own may violate your school's or a college's policies. Because AI output depends on what you provide, similar requests from different users can produce similar output, and we make no promise that AI output is protectable by intellectual property rights.

Mentors on Appybara are independent students and graduates, not our employees, and their views are their own. When you book a session, the mentor provides the service and we provide the platform, scheduling, and payment handling. Verified badges mean we checked evidence of the mentor's stated admission, not that we guarantee the quality of their advice.

Mentors own their profiles, essays, and other materials. Unlocking a mentor's profile gives the buyer personal viewing access, not ownership of the content and not the right to republish it. Mentors can unpublish their content or delete their account and data at any time from their settings; we do not own or resell mentor data.

Paid plans, passes, and one-time purchases are billed through Stripe or through the app store you bought from. Subscription plans renew automatically until cancelled; you can cancel at any time and keep access until the end of the paid period. Except where the law requires otherwise, payments are non-refundable.

Profile unlocks and key packs are one-time purchases. We may change the pricing of unlocks, key packs, and plans at any time; price changes never affect purchases you have already made, and plan price changes apply from your next billing period after notice. Some plans include profile unlocks or other access as a plan benefit, and the benefits included in each plan may change over time.

If you downloaded the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play, your use also has to comply with that store's terms, and purchases made through a store are billed and managed by it under its rules. This agreement is between you and us, not the store operator; the store operator has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for the app and is a third party beneficiary of this section only.

Do not misuse the Service: no unlawful content, no harassment of mentors or other users, no scraping or bulk extraction of profiles or essays, no attempts to break or overload the Service, no sharing of accounts to bypass limits or paywalls, and no uploading content you have no right to share. We may remove content or suspend accounts that break these rules.

The Service, including its design, software, and non-user content, is owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual property law. Example essays and profiles published by their authors remain those authors' work; do not republish them without permission.

If you send us ideas or suggestions about the product, we may use them without restriction or compensation. If you believe content on the Service infringes your intellectual property, email info@appybara.org with the details and we will review it.

The Service is provided as is, without warranties of any kind, and we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation, or any admissions outcome. To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for claims arising from the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

You can stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, and we may discontinue the Service or features of it with reasonable notice. Sections that by their nature should survive (your content license wind-down, disclaimers, liability limits) survive termination.

These terms are governed by the laws of Finland, without regard to conflict of law rules, and disputes belong to the courts of Finland unless mandatory consumer law gives you the courts of your home country. We may update these terms; we will post changes here and, for material changes, notify you in the app or by email. Continued use after changes take effect means you accept them.

These terms are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If a part of them is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign this agreement; we may assign it as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of the business. Neither party is liable for delays caused by events outside its reasonable control.

Questions about these terms: info@appybara.org.