Steady Student Terms & Conditions

1. About Steady Student

Steady Student is a student-centered education and career navigation platform designed to help individuals explore educational opportunities, understand career pathways, connect with career support professionals, identify participating schools and programs, access student resources, and prepare for education and employment.

Depending on availability and eligibility, the Platform may provide or facilitate access to services and resources including:

• Career exploration and planning
• Career Counselor meetings
• School and program discovery
• School comparison tools
• Career assessments
• Admissions connections
• Educational resources
• Student support resources
• Transportation resources
• Childcare resources
• Scholarships and grant information
• Community and sponsor-supported resources
• Events and workshops
• Student profiles and milestones
• Employer and career opportunities
• Other education, career, or student-support services

Features may be added, modified, limited, suspended, or discontinued as Steady Student develops.

2. Steady Student Is Student-First

Steady Student is designed to prioritize the student experience.

Students may receive certain Steady Student services, including access to Career Counselors, without charge to the student.

Schools, employers, sponsors, community organizations, service providers, or other partners may separately pay Steady Student for memberships, services, advertising, sponsorships, technology, referrals, access to platform features, or other business services.

The existence of a financial relationship with an organization does not mean that Steady Student guarantees, endorses, or recommends that organization as the best option for any particular student.

Students remain responsible for deciding which school, program, employer, service, or opportunity is appropriate for them.

3. Career Counselors

Steady Student may assign eligible users a Career Counselor.

Steady Student Career Counselors provide education and career navigation support. Depending on the student's needs, this may include helping the student:

• Identify career interests and goals
• Explore potential career pathways
• Understand different education options
• Compare schools and programs
• Identify possible barriers to education
• Develop an education or career plan
• Prepare questions for schools
• Locate available student resources
• Review schools the student is considering
• Prepare for conversations with admissions representatives

Unless expressly stated otherwise, a Steady Student Career Counselor is not acting as a licensed therapist, psychologist, attorney, financial advisor, academic advisor, medical professional, or government representative.

Use of the title “Career Counselor” on Steady Student describes the individual's role within the Steady Student platform and does not, by itself, represent that the individual holds a professional license issued by a state licensing agency.

4. Career Counselor Before Admissions Access

Steady Student intentionally separates career exploration from school admissions.

Students using the applicable Steady Student pathway must first complete a meeting with their assigned Career Counselor before gaining access through Steady Student to participating Admissions Counselors or admissions representatives.

The purpose of this process is to provide students with an opportunity to discuss their interests, goals, questions, concerns, and potential barriers before beginning direct admissions conversations through the Platform.

Creating a Steady Student account does not automatically authorize schools or admissions representatives to contact a student.

5. School and Admissions Connections

Steady Student may allow students to discover schools and, when eligible, request or authorize connections with participating admissions professionals.

Schools and admissions professionals are separate organizations and individuals and are not employees of Steady Student unless expressly identified otherwise.

Steady Student does not control:

• A school's admissions decisions
• Tuition or fees
• Financial aid eligibility
• Program schedules
• Accreditation status changes
• Licensure eligibility
• Transferability of credits
• Graduation requirements
• Academic policies
• Clinical or externship placement
• Employment outcomes
• Certification examination eligibility
• Program availability

Students should independently review important information directly with the school and appropriate regulatory or accrediting organizations before enrolling.

6. School Information and Accreditation

Steady Student may display information concerning schools, campuses, programs, accreditation, approvals, tuition, schedules, student services, ratings, or other characteristics.

We work to provide useful and accurate information, but educational information can change.

Steady Student does not guarantee that every listing is complete, current, or error-free.

Students should verify important information directly with the institution and, where appropriate, the relevant accrediting agency, licensing board, state agency, or other authoritative source before making an enrollment decision.

A school's presence on Steady Student does not by itself constitute an endorsement by Steady Student.

7. Partner and Member Schools

Schools may interact with Steady Student in different capacities.

A school that establishes or claims its presence on the Platform may be identified as a Partner.

A school that purchases an eligible paid Steady Student membership may be identified as a Member and may receive access to additional platform functionality, data, analytics, reporting, or other premium services.

Partner or Member status reflects the school's relationship with Steady Student. It does not represent a guarantee regarding educational quality, student outcomes, accreditation, employment outcomes, or suitability for any individual student.

8. Verified Professionals

Steady Student may use verification procedures for certain schools, admissions professionals, employers, counselors, partners, or other users.

Verification may include methods such as:

• Business email verification
• School affiliation verification
• Telephone verification
• Employment verification
• Identity verification
• Business or facility verification
• Manual review
• Other reasonable verification procedures

A “Verified” designation means that Steady Student completed the applicable verification process at a particular point in time.

Verification is not a guarantee of future conduct, performance, quality, licensing status, employment status, or suitability.

9. Student Accounts

Students may create a Steady Student account without charge unless a particular optional service clearly states otherwise before purchase.

You agree to provide accurate information when creating and maintaining your account.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for activity occurring through your account.

You may not:

• Impersonate another person
• Create accounts using materially false information
• Attempt to access another user's account
• Sell or transfer your account
• Use the Platform for fraud or harassment
• Attempt to bypass security or access restrictions

Steady Student may suspend or restrict accounts when reasonably necessary to protect users, partners, the Platform, or its systems.

10. Appointments and Respect for Professional Time

Many professionals participating through Steady Student dedicate time to helping students at no charge to the student.

Students are expected to make reasonable efforts to attend scheduled appointments or cancel/reschedule in advance.

Repeated missed appointments, excessive cancellations, abusive behavior, or misuse of scheduling resources may result in temporary scheduling restrictions.

Steady Student may implement attendance policies, including temporary read-only or scheduling restrictions following repeated missed appointments.

Any applicable attendance policy will be communicated to the student through the Platform.

11. No Guarantee of Admission

Using Steady Student does not guarantee:

• Acceptance into a school
• Admission into a particular program
• Qualification for financial aid
• Receipt of scholarships or grants
• Transfer credit
• Program completion
• Certification
• Licensure
• Clinical placement
• Externship placement
• Employment
• Salary
• Career advancement

Education and employment outcomes depend on numerous circumstances outside Steady Student's control.

12. Career and Salary Information

Steady Student may provide information regarding occupations, career pathways, employment trends, education requirements, or compensation using public or third-party sources.

This information is provided for educational and informational purposes.

Salary information, where displayed, represents estimates, ranges, medians, historical data, or third-party information and is not a promise or guarantee of earnings.

Actual compensation varies based on factors including location, employer, experience, credentials, economic conditions, work schedule, and individual qualifications.

13. Financial Aid, Scholarships and Financial Information

Steady Student is not a financial institution, lender, financial aid office, or financial advisor.

Information concerning:

• Financial aid
• Scholarships
• Grants
• Tuition
• Payment plans
• Sponsorships
• Budgeting
• Financing
• Educational assistance

is provided for informational or resource-navigation purposes unless expressly stated otherwise.

Eligibility decisions are made by the applicable school, government agency, lender, sponsor, scholarship provider, or other organization.

14. Student Support Resources

Steady Student may connect students with third-party services or resources involving transportation, childcare, technology, educational supplies, food assistance, housing resources, community programs, or other support.

Availability may depend on:

• Location
• Eligibility
• Funding
• Sponsorship
• School participation
• Provider availability
• Program requirements
• Other factors

Listing a resource does not guarantee that a student will qualify for or receive that resource.

15. Steady Student Drivers and Transportation

Steady Student may offer, coordinate, facilitate, sponsor, or provide access to transportation-related services through the Steady Student Drivers program or participating transportation providers.

Transportation services may be subject to separate eligibility requirements, driver requirements, safety policies, scheduling rules, payment terms, geographic limitations, insurance requirements, and transportation-specific terms.

Availability of transportation is not guaranteed.

Where required, users may be required to accept additional transportation terms before requesting or receiving transportation services.

16. Third-Party Providers

Some resources available through Steady Student are provided by independent third parties.

These may include schools, childcare providers, transportation providers, employers, sponsors, technology providers, community organizations, financial service providers, or other organizations.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, these organizations are independent from Steady Student.

Steady Student is not responsible for the independent acts, omissions, policies, representations, services, products, or decisions of third-party organizations.

17. Student Choice and Communication Privacy

Steady Student is designed to give students greater control over their education exploration experience.

Steady Student does not intend for a student's decision to simply explore a school through the Platform to automatically authorize that school to contact the student.

Where applicable, student information may be shared with a school or professional when the student:

• Requests a connection;
• Selects an applicable contact option;
• Gives permission for the connection;
• Participates in a workflow requiring disclosure; or
• Otherwise authorizes the sharing.

Additional information about how personal information is collected, used, and shared will be provided in the Steady Student Privacy Policy.

18. Employers and Steady Professional

Steady Student may provide employer and recruiter functionality through Steady Professional or related services.

Access to student or graduate information may be limited according to student status, privacy settings, consent, eligibility, and Platform rules.

An employer's access to Steady Student does not give the employer unrestricted permission to contact students.

Employers and recruiters must comply with applicable Steady Student communication, recruiting, privacy, anti-discrimination, and job-posting requirements.

Steady Student may remove employers, recruiters, job postings, or opportunities that appear misleading, discriminatory, fraudulent, exploitative, inactive, or inconsistent with Platform standards.

19. Student Profiles and Milestones

Eligible students may be able to create profiles documenting educational and professional progress.

Profiles may contain information such as:

• Program information
• Educational milestones
• Certifications
• Skills
• Clinical or externship milestones
• Workshops
• Career preparation activities
• Graduation status
• Employment-related information
• Student updates

Certain milestones may be identified as verified when Steady Student or an authorized organization confirms them.

Students may not intentionally submit false credentials, certifications, educational history, employment history, or other materially misleading information.

20. Reviews, Ratings and Student Feedback

Steady Student may allow students or graduates to provide feedback regarding schools, programs, services, or experiences.

Users submitting reviews or feedback must provide their genuine opinions and experiences.

Steady Student may moderate content for reasons including fraud, harassment, threats, spam, privacy violations, impersonation, irrelevant content, or violations of these Terms.

Steady Student will not require a user to provide a positive review as a condition of receiving a benefit.

Nothing in these Terms prohibits a consumer from providing an honest review or expressing an honest opinion about Steady Student or another business.

21. Sponsors

Organizations may sponsor Steady Student programs, resources, events, services, or student-support initiatives.

Sponsorship does not provide a sponsor unrestricted access to student personal information.

Any disclosure of student information to a sponsor will be governed by applicable law, the Privacy Policy, student permissions where required, and the specific structure of the sponsored program.

Sponsored content or relationships may be identified where appropriate.

22. User Content

You may have opportunities to upload or submit information, photographs, messages, reviews, documents, profile information, or other materials (“User Content”).

You retain ownership of your User Content.

By submitting User Content to Steady Student, you grant Steady Student a limited license to host, store, process, reproduce, and display that content as reasonably necessary to operate the Platform and provide the services you request, subject to our Privacy Policy and your applicable privacy settings.

You may not upload content that:

• Violates another person's intellectual property rights
• Contains unlawful threats or harassment
• Is fraudulent or intentionally misleading
• Contains malicious software
• Violates another person's privacy rights
• Is unlawful
• Exploits or endangers minors

23. Platform Communications

By creating an account, you agree that Steady Student may send communications reasonably necessary to operate your account and provide requested services.

These may include:

• Account verification
• Security notifications
• Appointment confirmations
• Appointment reminders
• Counselor communications
• Requested connection updates
• Important service announcements
• Account notices

Marketing communications will be handled in accordance with applicable law and available communication preferences.

24. Community Standards

Users must treat students, counselors, school representatives, employers, drivers, partners, staff, and other community members respectfully.

Steady Student may restrict or terminate access for conduct involving:

• Harassment
• Threats
• Hate or discriminatory abuse
• Sexual harassment
• Fraud
• Impersonation
• Exploitation
• Repeated unwanted contact
• Attempts to circumvent student privacy controls
• Misuse of student information
• Misrepresentation of professional credentials
• Other conduct reasonably determined to threaten the safety or integrity of the Steady Student community

25. School and Employer Responsibility

Schools, employers, recruiters, and other professional users are responsible for ensuring that information they provide through Steady Student is accurate and lawful.

Professional users may not:

• Misrepresent accreditation or approval
• Misrepresent program outcomes
• Misrepresent employment opportunities
• Create deceptive or fake job postings
• Misrepresent tuition or material program requirements
• Falsely represent their identity or affiliation
• Use student information outside authorized purposes
• Sell student information obtained through Steady Student
• Circumvent student communication preferences
• Discriminate unlawfully
• Use the Platform for spam or unauthorized solicitation

26. Intellectual Property

The Steady Student name, branding, Platform design, software, graphics, original content, databases, processes, features, and other proprietary materials are owned by or licensed to Steady Student and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

Except where expressly permitted, users may not copy, reproduce, distribute, scrape, reverse engineer, commercially exploit, or create derivative works from proprietary Steady Student materials.

27. Platform Security

Steady Student uses administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect Platform information.

However, no internet-based service or electronic storage system can guarantee absolute security.

Users are responsible for protecting their passwords and immediately reporting suspected unauthorized account activity.

Additional information regarding information security and privacy practices may be provided in the Privacy Policy or applicable security disclosures.

28. Platform Availability

Steady Student may periodically experience:

• Maintenance
• Technical errors
• Service interruptions
• Third-party outages
• Feature changes
• Capacity limitations

We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free access to every Platform feature.

29. Account Suspension or Termination

Steady Student may restrict, suspend, or terminate access when reasonably necessary because of:

• Violation of these Terms
• Fraud
• Safety concerns
• Security threats
• Abuse or harassment
• Unauthorized access
• Material misrepresentation
• Misuse of student information
• Legal or regulatory requirements

Where appropriate, Steady Student may provide notice or an opportunity to address the issue.

30. Disclaimer of Warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, STEADY STUDENT AND ITS SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS.

STEADY STUDENT DOES NOT WARRANT THAT USE OF THE PLATFORM WILL RESULT IN ADMISSION, GRADUATION, LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, EMPLOYMENT, A PARTICULAR SALARY, FINANCIAL AID, TRANSPORTATION, CHILDCARE, OR ANY OTHER PARTICULAR OUTCOME.

Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or rights that cannot legally be excluded.

31. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, STEADY STUDENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM USE OF THE PLATFORM.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability where such limitation is prohibited by law.

32. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, professional, organizational, and business users agree to indemnify and hold harmless Steady Student and its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, and agents from claims arising from their unlawful use of the Platform, violation of these Terms, infringement of third-party rights, or misuse of student information.

This provision does not waive rights that cannot legally be waived.

33. Disputes and Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable federal law controls.

Before initiating formal proceedings, users and Steady Student are encouraged to attempt in good faith to resolve disputes directly.

Any mandatory arbitration provision, class-action waiver, venue requirement, or other dispute-resolution procedure will apply only if clearly presented to the user and legally enforceable.

Steady Student should obtain legal review before implementing mandatory arbitration or class-action waiver provisions.

34. Users Under 18

Steady Student services are primarily intended for individuals capable of entering into these Terms.

Certain features may have separate age requirements.

Where parental or guardian consent is required by applicable law, Steady Student may require that consent before allowing a minor to use particular Platform features or submit particular personal information.

Steady Student may restrict features for minors when reasonably necessary for privacy or safety.

35. Privacy

Your privacy matters to Steady Student.

The collection, use, retention, and disclosure of personal information is governed by the Steady Student Privacy Policy, which should be reviewed together with these Terms.

Students should understand what information is collected, why it is collected, and when it may be shared before submitting personal information.

36. Changes to These Terms

Steady Student may update these Terms as the Platform, services, or applicable legal requirements change.

The updated Terms will display a revised “Last Updated” date.

If a change materially affects users' rights or obligations, Steady Student may provide additional notice where appropriate or legally required.

Continued use of the Platform after an applicable update becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms to the extent permitted by law.

37. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is determined to be unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect to the maximum extent permitted by law.

38. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms expressly presented for a particular Steady Student service, constitute the agreement between the user and Steady Student concerning use of the Platform.

39. Contact Steady Student

Questions regarding these Terms may be submitted through the official Steady Student support or contact channel listed on the Platform.