Terms of Service

Last updated: September 5, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Outsette — the website, daily briefings, AI Advisor, Learning Hub, Career GPS, job tracker, Showcase, employer discovery, and related features (collectively, the “Service”). Outsette is an early-stage, pre-launch project currently operated directly by its founder (“Outsette,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), not yet through an incorporated company — this section will be updated to name that entity once Outsette incorporates. By creating an account, subscribing to our newsletter, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated here by reference. If you don’t agree, don’t use the Service.

1. Acceptance of these Terms

You accept these Terms by checking “I agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy” — whether at registration, during onboarding, or on the one-time confirmation screen shown to accounts created before this checkbox existed — or, failing that, by using the Service after that point. Either way, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you’re using the Service on behalf of an organization (for example, as university staff or an employer), you confirm you have authority to bind that organization, and “you” in that context refers to both you and the organization.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction if higher, to create a Outsette account or use any account-based feature (job tracker, AI Advisor, Learning Hub, Showcase, and the rest). By creating an account, you represent that you meet this requirement and that all registration information you provide is accurate and truthful. We do not knowingly permit anyone under 18 to create an account; if we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it. This age requirement does not apply to our free email newsletter, which anyone can subscribe to without an account (see our Privacy Policy, Section 10). You also represent that you’re not located in a country subject to a U.S. government embargo, and that you’re not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties — some of the AI providers we rely on impose the same restriction on us, so we can’t make those features available where it would apply.

3. The Service

Outsette is a career-intelligence platform for students: AI-curated daily and weekly news briefings, a job and internship tracker, a Learning Hub of free and paid courses, an AI career chat Advisor, a self-service credential and CV manager, gamified progress tracking, a public portfolio (“Showcase”) you control, and optional employer-discovery and university-partnership features. We may add, change, or remove features at any time, and some features (marked “Premium”) require a paid subscription.

Our news briefings are built from publicly syndicated RSS feeds that publishers make available for exactly this kind of distribution, summarized and analyzed by AI, and always linked back to the original source — we curate and comment on the news, we don’t republish it. Nothing in a briefing — including any market commentary, “take,” or analysis — is investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security. It’s general business and career-education content published on a regular schedule for a general student audience, not advice tailored to your individual financial situation, and you should not rely on it to make an investment decision.

4. Accounts and registration

You’re responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately at support@outsette.com if you suspect unauthorized use. You agree to provide accurate registration information (including your real name, since it appears on any public Showcase you choose to publish) and to keep it up to date. One account per person — you may not create an account on someone else’s behalf or share your login with another person.

5. Subscriptions and payment

Certain features require a paid Premium subscription, billed on a recurring basis (monthly, unless stated otherwise at checkout) through our payment processor, Lemon Squeezy, which acts as the merchant of record for these transactions. By subscribing, you authorize us (through Lemon Squeezy) to charge your payment method on each renewal until you cancel. You can cancel anytime from your billing settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period, and we do not provide partial-period refunds except where required by law. If we change the price of your subscription, we’ll notify you at least 7 days (and no more than 30 days) before the new price takes effect; continued use after that means you accept it. You’re responsible for any taxes applicable to your subscription.

If you’re in the European Union, UK, or another jurisdiction with a statutory withdrawal right, you may cancel a new Premium subscription within 14 days of purchase for a full refund, no questions asked, regardless of the general no-partial-refund policy above — email support@outsette.com to exercise this right. This is separate from, and in addition to, your ability to cancel future renewals at any time.

6. Acceptable use

When using Outsette, you agree not to:

• Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation with a university, employer, or club.
• Upload or submit fraudulent, forged, or altered documents — including interview or offer “proof” that does not genuinely belong to you or does not reflect a real event. Submitting fraudulent proof is grounds for immediate account termination and forfeiture of any XP, tier, or milestone earned from it.
• Scrape, crawl, or systematically extract data from the Service, or use automated means (bots, scripts) to create accounts or interact with the Service, except through any API we officially publish.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the Service, except to the extent applicable law expressly permits.
• Upload malicious code, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any account or system, or interfere with the Service’s normal operation (including rate-limit or security-control circumvention).
• Use the AI Advisor to generate content intended to be submitted as your own original academic work in violation of your institution’s academic-integrity policy (see Section 7).
• Use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or to harass, defame, or infringe the rights of others.
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit access to the Service without our written permission.

We may investigate suspected violations and take action we deem appropriate, including content removal, feature restriction, or account suspension or termination, with or without notice.

7. Academic integrity

The AI Advisor is a study and career-guidance tool, not a substitute for your own academic work. We automatically screen chat messages for patterns consistent with academic-integrity violations (for example, asking the Advisor to complete a graded assignment for you) and may restrict chat access after repeated flags. You remain solely responsible for complying with your institution’s academic-integrity policies regardless of anything the Advisor generates.

8. Your content and the public Showcase

You retain ownership of the content you submit to Outsette — your CV, credentials, showcase items, and chat messages (“Your Content”). By submitting it, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, and display Your Content solely to operate and improve the Service (for example, referencing your CV text to power the AI Advisor, displaying your Showcase to visitors you’ve chosen to let see it, or rendering your Showcase on a third-party site via the embed feature, if you choose to use it there).

Your Showcase page is public-by-default in the sense that anything you publish to it, and its link, is visible to anyone who has that link — including outside any university network — unless you keep individual sections turned off or your showcase set to private in your settings. You are solely responsible for what you choose to publish there. You represent that Your Content doesn’t infringe anyone else’s intellectual property or other rights, and doesn’t contain anything unlawful, defamatory, or misleading.

We may remove any content that violates these Terms or that we’re required to remove by law, and we may (but are not obligated to) review content for compliance.

9. AI features — no guarantee of outcomes

Outsette’s AI Advisor, job-matching suggestions, and interview/offer proof verification are powered by third-party AI models and are provided for informational and productivity purposes only. They can be incomplete, outdated, or simply wrong. Nothing on Outsette — including AI-generated advice, job match scores, readiness signals, XP, tiers, or any other feature — constitutes a guarantee or prediction of any career outcome, including but not limited to receiving an interview, an offer, or a job. Outsette is a tool to help you organize and pursue your own career search; the outcome of that search depends on factors entirely outside our control. Proof-verification decisions can be appealed by contacting support@outsette.com for human review.

10. Employer discovery program

If you turn on “Discoverable” in your profile, a limited set of your profile fields (see our Privacy Policy, Section 5.2) becomes visible to employers using our talent-search feature. This is entirely optional and reversible at any time. Outsette does not guarantee that any employer will view, contact, or make an offer to any discoverable student, and is not a party to any communication, interview, or employment relationship that results from this feature.

Any employer using the talent-search feature agrees to run a fair, non-discriminatory recruitment process — evaluating candidates without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status, as prohibited by applicable law — and to use candidate data made available through the Service only to evaluate that candidate for an actual opportunity. An employer may not sell, resell, license, or otherwise disclose that data to any further third party, use it for unrelated marketing, or use it to build a competing product — this restriction is a condition of access, not a suggestion, and it’s what keeps a student’s opt-in disclosure from becoming a “sale” of their personal information under CCPA and similar laws (see our Privacy Policy, Section 5.6). We may suspend an employer’s access for violating this section.

The ranking Outsette surfaces is a fixed, non-AI point formula (see our Privacy Policy, Section 6) — we don’t make or substantially assist any employer’s actual hiring decision. If your use of Outsette in your own hiring process triggers a notice, audit, or disclosure obligation under a law like NYC Local Law 144, the Illinois Human Rights Act, the EU AI Act, or a similar automated-employment-decision law, that obligation is yours to satisfy, not Outsette’s — we’ll provide reasonable documentation about how the ranking works on request.

11. University and institution partnerships

If your university or business school has an active Outsette partnership, its staff may see anonymized, aggregate cohort statistics about students affiliated with that institution, and — only for students who separately opt in — named progress data (see Privacy Policy, Section 5.3). Institutional access does not give your school control over your account, your Showcase, or any content you choose not to share.

12. Third-party links and content

The Service links to third-party content we don’t control — job and internship postings, external courses, and club events. We curate this content but don’t guarantee its accuracy, availability, or safety, and we don’t endorse any linked third party. Any transaction or interaction you have with a third party found through Outsette (applying to a job, enrolling in a course, attending an event) is solely between you and that third party. Our news briefings work differently — see Section 3 — we summarize and comment on the news ourselves and link back to the original source, rather than displaying or republishing third-party articles.

13. Intellectual property

The Service itself — including our software, design, curated news editions, brand, and logos — is owned by Outsette and protected by intellectual property laws. Except for the limited right to use the Service as intended by these Terms, we grant you no other rights to our intellectual property. “Outsette” and our logo may not be used without our prior written permission.

14. Copyright complaints (DMCA)

If you believe content on Outsette — including something on a student’s public Showcase — infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent, [DESIGNATED AGENT NAME], [DESIGNATED AGENT MAILING ADDRESS], at legal@outsette.com including: (1) your signature (physical or electronic); (2) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; (3) identification of the material you claim is infringing, and information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it; (4) your contact information; (5) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (6) a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf. We will remove or disable access to material we determine, in good faith, infringes a valid copyright claim, and may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

If you believe content of yours was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice to the same address, including: (1) your signature (physical or electronic); (2) identification of the material and its location before removal; (3) a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification; (4) your name, address, and phone number; and (5) a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in the district where you’re located (or, if outside the U.S., any federal district where Outsette may be found), and that you’ll accept service of process from the person who filed the original takedown notice. We’ll forward a valid counter-notice to the original complainant, and unless they notify us they’ve filed a court action within 10 business days, we’ll typically restore the content within 10–14 business days of receiving it.

15. Termination

You may close your account at any time from your Profile settings, or by emailing support@outsette.com. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, at our discretion, if we reasonably believe you’ve violated these Terms, created risk or legal exposure for us, or if we discontinue the Service generally. Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 9, 10, 13, 14, and 16–20) will survive — in particular, an employer’s obligations regarding candidate data under Section 10 continue to apply even after their access to the Service ends.

16. Disclaimers of warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY CONTENT (INCLUDING NEWS, JOB LISTINGS, COURSE INFORMATION, OR AI-GENERATED OUTPUT) IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR CURRENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS DON’T ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

17. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUTSETTE AND ITS OPERATORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) THE SERVICE — INCLUDING ANY CAREER OUTCOME, EMPLOYER INTERACTION, OR RELIANCE ON AI-GENERATED CONTENT — EVEN IF WE’VE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR (B) $100 USD. SOME JURISDICTIONS DON’T ALLOW CERTAIN LIABILITY LIMITATIONS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

18. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Outsette and its operators from any claims, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from your violation of these Terms, your misuse of the Service, or content you submit (including fraudulent proof submissions or content that infringes a third party’s rights). This includes any claim arising from a prompt or input you gave the AI Advisor, job matching, or proof verification, and the AI output that resulted from it — for example, if you deliberately prompt for content that infringes someone’s rights or violates a third party’s license terms. This provision exists because our own AI provider requires the same of us for our users’ use of their models; we’re passing that obligation through, not inventing a new one.

19. Dispute resolution and arbitration agreement

Please read this section carefully — it affects your legal rights. You and Outsette agree to first try to resolve any dispute informally by contacting support@outsette.com. If we can’t resolve a dispute informally within 30 days, you and Outsette agree that it will be resolved by binding individual arbitration under the American Arbitration Association’s Consumer Arbitration Rules, and not in court, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies. For any claim under $10,000, we will pay the AAA filing and arbitrator fees, and we will not seek our attorneys’ fees unless the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous. You and Outsette each waive any right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action, class arbitration, or representative proceeding. This class-action waiver is essential to this arbitration agreement and non-severable from it: if a court or arbitrator determines the waiver is unenforceable for a particular dispute, this entire arbitration section (not just the waiver) is void for that dispute, which will instead proceed in court — never in class arbitration. If you don’t want to be bound by this arbitration agreement, you may opt out by emailing legal@outsette.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name and that you opt out of arbitration. This section does not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law (for example, it does not limit rights that cannot be waived under EU consumer-protection law). Regardless of this section, any claim or cause of action you or we have arising out of or related to the Service must be filed within one (1) year after it accrues, or it is permanently barred, except where applicable law requires a longer period; that one-year period is paused (tolled) for the 30 days of required informal resolution above, so the mandatory cooling-off step can never itself run out the clock on a claim.

20. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of [STATE/COUNTRY OF GOVERNING LAW], without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles, except to the extent a mandatory consumer-protection law of your own country of residence gives you additional rights that cannot be contracted away. For any dispute not subject to arbitration under Section 19 — including one where the arbitration agreement itself is found unenforceable — you and Outsette agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in [COUNTY/CITY, STATE OF VENUE], and each waive any objection to that venue on grounds of inconvenient forum.

21. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we’ll notify you by email or with a prominent notice in the app before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms; if you don’t agree, you should stop using the Service and close your account.

22. Miscellaneous

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remain in full effect. Our failure to enforce a provision isn’t a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Outsette regarding the Service.

23. Contact us

Questions about these Terms: legal@outsette.com
Outsette (an early-stage project operated by its founder; not yet incorporated)
We don’t yet have a registered business address to publish here — email is the fastest and most reliable way to reach us. A formal notice address will be added once Outsette incorporates.

These Terms of Service work together with our Privacy Policy.