Terms of Service

The agreement

These terms are a contract between you and ClinBound covering your use of the ClinBound app and website. You accept them by checking the agreement box when you create your account — we record that acceptance, when it happened, and which version of these documents you accepted. You agree to these terms and to the Privacy Policy, the Subscription and Billing Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy, the AI and Educational Information Disclaimer, and the Data Retention and Deletion Policy — all part of this agreement. If you use a pre-release build or a Beta-labeled feature, the Beta and Early Access Terms apply too. If you don't agree, don't use ClinBound.

What ClinBound is — and is not

ClinBound is an organizational and educational tool: it helps you track coursework, activities, goals, and applications, and offers study materials and AI-assisted guidance. It is not an admissions consultancy, and nothing in it — including any readiness score, match indicator, or AI Advisor response — is a prediction or guarantee of admission to any school. Admissions decisions are made by schools, not by us, and outcomes depend on far more than any app can measure.

Information in ClinBound is labeled by source: verified school data, historical statistics, or AI-generated content. We verify school data against official sources and keep it current in good faith, but schools change requirements and deadlines without notice — always confirm details with the school itself before making decisions. AI-generated content can be incorrect and should be treated as a starting point, not an authority.

Your account

You must be at least 16 to use ClinBound, and you're responsible for keeping your login secure and for what happens under your account. Give us accurate information — the product's calculations are only as good as what you enter. You can delete your account at any time from Settings; deletion is immediate and permanent.

Your content

Essays, documents, and everything else you put into ClinBound remain yours. You grant us only the limited license needed to store and display it back to you and operate the features you use. We claim no ownership and no right to use your content for anything else.

Subscriptions and billing

ClinBound's core features are free. ClinBound Pro is an optional paid subscription. Billing is handled on our website through Stripe — never through in-app purchase — so a purchase always happens in your browser, and your card details are given to Stripe rather than to us.

Automatic renewal. ClinBound Pro costs $7.99 per month, or $59.99 per year. Whichever you choose, your subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period at that price, and continues until you cancel. There is no free trial. We will charge the payment method you gave Stripe on each renewal date without asking again — that is what automatic renewal means, and it is the part most worth being clear about.

Cancelling. You can cancel at any time from Settings → Manage subscription, which opens the Stripe billing portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for; you keep Pro until then, and you are not charged again. Cancelling does not delete your account or your data — everything you entered stays, and the Pro-only features stop.

Refunds. Payments are for the billing period in which they are made, and we do not refund part-used periods — cancelling stops the next charge rather than refunding the current one. If you were charged in error, or something on our side stopped you using what you paid for, contact us and we will put it right. Nothing here limits any refund or cancellation right you have under the consumer law where you live.

Price changes. We may change the price. If we do, we will tell you before it takes effect, and the new price applies from your next renewal — never retroactively, and never to a period you have already paid for. If you do not want the new price, cancel before that renewal date.

Your data, backups, and loss

Keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose. This is the most important sentence in these terms. Your personal statement, secondary essays, and any other writing you value should exist somewhere outside ClinBound — a document on your own computer or cloud drive. ClinBound is a place to organize your application, not a vault, and it is not your only copy.

No guarantee of retention or backup. We do not promise that data you enter will be preserved, retrievable, or available at any particular time. We may not maintain backups, and where backups exist they are for our own operational purposes and are not a service we owe you or a restore right you can invoke. Features, storage, and retention periods can change.

Deletion is permanent. Deleting your account, a course, an essay, a draft, or any other item removes it immediately and irreversibly. There is no trash, no soft-delete window, and no recovery — including when the deletion was an accident, was performed by someone with access to your account, or was not what you intended. We cannot restore deleted content, and we are not liable for its loss.

Interruptions and loss. ClinBound depends on third-party infrastructure and may be unavailable, delayed, or degraded, including without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss, corruption, deletion, inaccessibility, or unauthorized access to your data, or for any consequence of it — including missed deadlines, lost work, or application outcomes — however it occurs, and regardless of whether we were advised such loss was possible.

Acceptable use

Don't break the law, attempt to access other users' data, probe or disrupt the service, scrape it, resell it, or use it to build a competing dataset. The full rules — including account sharing, content scraping, and academic honesty with AI drafting — are in the Acceptable Use Policy, which is part of these terms. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate it.

Disclaimers and liability

ClinBound is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied. To the maximum extent permitted by law we disclaim all warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; that any information, score, estimate, or AI-generated content is accurate, complete, or current; or that data you enter will be preserved.

Your decisions are yours. You are solely responsible for how you use ClinBound and for the choices you make — which schools to apply to, what to write, what deadlines to meet, and whether to rely on anything the app shows you. Confirm requirements, deadlines, and figures with the school or application service before acting on them.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, lost data, or loss of goodwill — including admissions outcomes, rejected or delayed applications, missed deadlines, and decisions made in reliance on information in the app — even if we were advised such damages were possible. Our total liability for all claims, in aggregate, is limited to the greater of $50 or the amount you actually paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. These limits apply regardless of the legal theory — contract, warranty, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise — and survive termination.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Where a limitation is unenforceable, it applies to the fullest extent permitted, and the rest of these terms remain in force. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless ClinBound and its owner, operators, and contractors from any claim, demand, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the service, your content, your violation of these terms or of any law, or your infringement of anyone else's rights. We may take over the defense of any such matter at your expense, and you will not settle it in a way that binds us without our written consent.

Resolving disputes

Talk to us first. If you have a problem, email 23quamoliv@gmail.com with enough detail to identify the issue and what you want, and give us 30 days to resolve it. Most things end here, and neither side may start a formal proceeding before this step is complete.

Individual claims only. To the maximum extent permitted by law, you and ClinBound each agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, consolidated, or representative action. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim proceeds in court and this paragraph does not apply to it.

Time limit. Any claim arising out of or relating to these terms or the service must be brought within one year after it arises, to the extent such a limit is permitted where you live; otherwise it is permanently barred.

You keep the right to bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and to report concerns to a government agency. Nothing in this section waives any right that cannot lawfully be waived, and consumer-protection law where you live applies regardless of what these terms say.

Changes and termination

We may update these terms. If a change is material, the app will ask you to review and accept the new version before you continue using it — we don't treat silence as agreement to a material change. Minor clarifications that don't affect your rights may take effect when posted. We may discontinue the service with reasonable notice, in which case you'll have the opportunity to export your data first.

Governing law and contact

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the state in which ClinBound is operated, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions stay in full force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the service.

Questions: 23quamoliv@gmail.com.