Terms, in plain English

When you sign up for StudySec, you're agreeing to a small set of rules — what you get, what you pay, how to cancel, and what to do if something goes wrong. Here is what you most need to know.

You can sign up for StudySec from age 18. When you create an account, you confirm your date of birth, choose a password (or sign in with Google), and tick a box to agree to the terms. Everything you tell us has to be accurate.

StudySec costs £7 a month for Essentials, or £12 a month for Pro. (In the EU, that's €8 and €14. In Australia, it's AUD 13 and AUD 22.) All prices already include VAT — what you see is what you pay.

You start with a 7-day free trial. We collect your card at sign-up but we don't charge anything during the trial. If you do nothing, your card is charged on day 8 and your paid subscription begins. If you cancel any time before day 8, nothing comes off your card.

We send every new user two emails about the trial:

• One when the trial starts, telling you the date you will be charged if you do not cancel, and how to cancel.
• One three days before the trial ends, with the same information.

Both emails have a one-click link straight to the cancellation page. You do not have to log in to use it. Two emails are clearer than one.

You can cancel any time, for any reason, with no penalty. The simplest ways are the cancel button in your account settings or the link in the reminder email. Cancelling during the trial means you pay nothing. Cancelling later means you keep access until the end of the month you've paid for, then your subscription stops.

If you're in the UK or EU, you also have a 14-day cooling-off period from the day you sign up — you can cancel during that window for a full refund. If you chose to start using the AI features straight away at sign-up, you can still cancel, but the refund covers the time you haven't used rather than the full 14 days. The choice is made by the box you tick at sign-up; you can review the wording there before you decide.

Your StudySec account is yours alone. Don't share your login, and please don't make a second account to get another free trial or to dodge the monthly limits. If we notice something that looks like account sharing or trial abuse, we'll email you to talk about it before doing anything. We default to working with you, not against you.

Everything you put into StudySec — your uploads, your notes, your research, your planner entries — belongs to you. We don't claim any ownership of your work. We use it only to make the product function for you. We don't train AI on it. We don't sell it. When you leave, we delete it.

You're not locked in. From day one, you can export your notes as Markdown files and your account data as a JSON file, straight from your account settings. The export is emailed to you as a download link. Request a new one any time. If you ever want to leave StudySec for another tool, your work comes with you.

• We don't write your essays. StudySec is a study assistant, not a ghostwriter. The AI helps you plan, research, organise, and revise — it doesn't produce the work you submit. Our Academic Integrity Statement sets that out in full.
• We don't use streaks or guilt-trips to keep you on the app. StudySec is trying to give you your time back, not take more of it.
• We don't run ads, and we never will.
• We don't share your work beyond the providers we strictly need to make StudySec function.

StudySec is a young product and it will change over time. We'll add new features, improve existing ones, and sometimes retire things that aren't working. If we make a change that materially affects you, we'll tell you in advance — by email or in the product. If we change the price, or anything else that matters, we email you at least 30 days before it takes effect, and you can cancel before then if you don't want to continue.

In rare cases — repeated breaches of the rules, payment failures that can't be resolved, or anything that puts you, us, or other users at real risk — we may pause or close your account. We almost always talk to you first. If we do close your account, you have 30 days to download your work before it's deleted. Your data isn't held hostage and your work isn't lost overnight.

If StudySec breaks, misfires, or generally fails to do what we said it would, tell us. Email support@studysec.app and we'll fix it or sort out a refund if one is fair. We try to be generous about this — refusing reasonable refunds is itself against the law where you live, and we have no interest in making you fight for what's right.

The AI can also get things wrong. It can produce a confident-sounding answer that turns out to be incorrect, or cite a source that doesn't quite say what it claims. Treat anything the AI generates as a draft to check, not a final answer. We show you the source of every claim so you can verify it yourself.

For anything about the product or your account, email support@studysec.app. For anything about your personal information, email privacy@studysec.app. You can also tell a parent, teacher, or other trusted adult and ask them to help — we will work with them.

Every user deserves to understand what they are agreeing to without having to parse legal language. The formal terms exist because the law requires them. This page exists because clear communication is part of what StudySec is.

StudySec exists because students deserve tools that take their side. Being honest about the deal, in language you can actually read, is part of that.