Terms of Service

Elevara is an online study platform for the digital SAT. It gives you practice questions, adaptive training, diagnostics, full-length mock exams, vocabulary review, a study plan built from your target score and test date, and a place to discuss questions with other students.

Elevara is not a school, a tutor of record, a test administrator, or an admissions adviser. The Services are study support. We do not guarantee any SAT score, any score improvement, any admission outcome, any scholarship, or any academic result. See section 20.

SAT is a trademark registered by the College Board. Elevara is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or approved by the College Board. Our questions are our own, written to match the format and difficulty of the digital SAT; they are not College Board questions and they are not retired official items.

The Services are operated from and hosted in the United States. If you use them from another country, you are responsible for complying with your own local law.

You must be at least 13 years old to use Elevara. We ask for your date of birth when you create an account and refuse the account if it shows you are under 13. The Services are not directed to children under 13.

If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use Elevara only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian. By using the Services you represent that you are at least 13 and, if you are a minor, that a parent or guardian has read these Terms and agreed to them on your behalf.

Parents and guardians are responsible for supervising a minor’s use of the Services, including question discussion and any subscription.

If we learn that an account belongs to a child under 13, we will terminate it and delete the associated personal information as described in our Privacy Policy.

You need an account to use most of Elevara. You agree to give accurate and complete information when you register — including a truthful date of birth — and to keep it up to date.

You are responsible for your account and for everything done through it. Keep your password to yourself. Do not share, sell, lend, rent or transfer your account or credentials. Tell us at support@elevara.space if you believe someone else has access to your account.

You may sign in with an email address and password, or with Google. If you use Google, you are also bound by Google’s own terms in your dealings with them.

We may remove, reclaim or change a display name that is misleading, impersonating, infringing, offensive, or otherwise objectionable.

We own or license the Services and everything in them — the source code, the databases, the design and interface, and above all the question bank: every question, every answer key, and every explanation (together, “Elevara Content”). It is protected by copyright and other intellectual property law.

While you comply with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Services and Elevara Content for your own personal, non-commercial study.

That licence does not let you:

• copy, scrape, bulk-download, republish, distribute, sell, license or post our questions, answer keys or explanations anywhere else;
• use Elevara Content to train, fine-tune, benchmark or evaluate any machine learning model;
• use Elevara Content to build, operate or improve a competing product or any commercial service;
• use the Services to teach paying students, run a class, or otherwise resell access to what you see inside your account.

Studying from Elevara with a friend is fine. Republishing the bank is not. If you are a tutor or a school and want to use Elevara with students, email support@elevara.space — we would rather licence it to you than find it reposted.

Feedback

If you send us feedback, a bug report, a suggestion, a survey response, or a report that a question is wrong, we may use it without restriction and without owing you anything for it. This does not affect your ownership of the content described in section 5.

Elevara lets you post comments on questions, report other people’s comments, and answer an in-app feedback survey. Anything you write in those places is “Your Content”. There is nowhere on Elevara to upload a file or an image.

You keep ownership of Your Content. You are responsible for it. By posting it you confirm that it is yours to post, that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights, and that it does not break these Terms or the law.

Comments you post on a question are visible to other signed-in students who have already answered that same question. Do not post anything — your own or anyone else’s — that you would not want another student to read.

By posting Your Content, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, display and transmit it, and to moderate, format, excerpt or remove it, for the purpose of operating, protecting and improving Elevara. The licence lasts as long as we hold the content and ends when we delete it.

We do not claim ownership of Your Content, and we will not sell it, license it to anyone else, or use it in advertising.

We may remove or restrict Your Content at any time, with or without notice, if we believe it breaks these Terms, infringes someone’s rights, endangers a user, or creates risk for the Services.

Question discussion exists so students can explain items to each other. Use it for that. Be civil, argue about the maths and not about the person, and assume the student asking the obvious question is the one you were last year.

You can report a comment from within the discussion. We may review, hide, remove, edit for safety or formatting, preserve, or disclose comments and account activity where we believe it is necessary to enforce these Terms, protect users, comply with the law, investigate abuse, or operate the Services. We may suspend or terminate accounts for repeated or serious violations.

Question discussion is not counselling, crisis support, or a monitored space. We do not review every comment before it appears. If you believe someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services — not us.

You agree not to:

• break any law or regulation, or infringe anyone’s rights;
• use the Services if you are under 13, or as a minor without parental permission;
• give false or misleading registration, identity, age or billing information;
• share, sell, lend, rent or transfer your account or credentials;
• scrape, bulk-download, systematically copy, republish, leak, sell or distribute our questions, answer keys or explanations;
• use Elevara Content to train, fine-tune or benchmark any machine learning model, or to build a competing product;
• work around paywalls, rate limits, access controls, security features, or the mechanism that withholds answer keys until a question has been answered;
• use bots, scrapers, automated account creation or any other automated system on the Services without our written permission;
• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of the Services, except where the law says you may;
• upload or transmit malware, spam, phishing content or anything designed to disrupt;
• harass, threaten, bully, impersonate, dox, sexualise, exploit or otherwise harm another person;
• post sexual, violent, hateful, discriminatory, self-harm-promoting, or otherwise unsafe content;
• interfere with the Services, our infrastructure, our providers, our support systems, or other users;
• make a knowingly false abuse report, copyright notice, refund request or chargeback claim.

Elevara is for practice before the test, and for nothing else. You agree not to use the Services, or anything you have taken from them, during a live administration of the SAT or any other examination, or in any way that breaks the rules of the body administering that test.

Doing so is a violation of these Terms and grounds for immediate termination — and the consequences with the College Board, which are not ours to soften, are considerably worse than losing an Elevara account.

Elevara does not currently sell subscriptions. There is no paid tier, no checkout, and no charge of any kind today. The rest of this section describes how paid plans will work when they launch. We will update these Terms, and tell you, before that happens. Until then nothing in this section is in effect.

When paid plans launch

• An adult must be the purchaser. Subscriptions will have to be bought by a parent, guardian or other person aged 18 or over. Students under 18 will not be able to purchase one.
• Payments will be handled by Stripe. Card details will be entered directly with Stripe, and Elevara will never receive or store a full card number. Stripe’s own terms will apply to its processing.
• Subscriptions will renew automatically until cancelled, at the price and interval shown at checkout. Prices may change in future, on notice and as the law permits.
• You will be able to cancel at any time. Cancellation will take effect at the end of the billing period you have already paid for, and access will continue until then. Cancelling stops future charges; it does not by itself refund the current period.
• Refunds. Except where the law requires otherwise, charges will be non-refundable and we will not prorate unused time. If you believe a charge is wrong — a duplicate, a billing error, a charge after cancellation — email support@elevara.space and we will review it. Forgetting to cancel, or not using the subscription, will not on its own be grounds for a refund; automatic renewal will be disclosed at the point of purchase.

We may refuse, limit or cancel an order where we suspect fraud, abuse, a pricing error, unauthorised use, or a breach of these Terms.

Elevara sends nothing you write or answer to a third-party AI service. There is no AI tutor and no chat assistant. Your explanations, your wrong-answer diagnosis and your review schedule are computed on our own servers from the question bank and your own history.

Parts of the question bank were drafted with AI assistance and then reviewed and corrected by us. The result is Elevara Content and is covered by section 4, however it was produced.

Questions and explanations can be wrong. A bank this size will contain errors — an ambiguous stem, a mistyped key, an explanation that skips a step. We check for them and we fix them, but we do not warrant that any particular item is correct. If something looks wrong, say so in the discussion on that question or email support@elevara.space. Reporting an error is the single most useful thing you can do for the next student who sees it.

The Services depend on third parties — hosting, our database and authentication system, Google sign-in, and the Desmos graphing calculator shown on math questions. Our site also links out to a Discord server, which is Discord’s to run, not ours.

We are not responsible for third-party services, their content, availability, security or practices. Your use of them may be governed by their own terms and privacy policies. The Privacy Policy names each of them and says what information reaches them.

We may, but are not obliged to: monitor the Services for breaches of these Terms; investigate suspected abuse, fraud, scraping or unauthorised access; restrict, suspend or disable accounts and content; rate-limit or block usage and IP addresses; and report conduct to law enforcement where appropriate. We do this to protect users and to keep the Services running.

Your use of the Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms. It sets out what we collect, who processes it, how long we keep it, and the rights you and your parent or guardian have over it.

We respect intellectual property rights and expect our users to do the same. If you believe material on Elevara infringes your copyright, send a notice to support@elevara.space including:

• your physical or electronic signature;
• identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed;
• identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it;
• your contact details;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act for them.

If we remove your content because of such a notice, you may submit a counter-notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. We may pass notices and counter-notices to the other party. Knowingly misrepresenting material as infringing, or as removed by mistake, can make you liable for damages.

These Terms apply for as long as you use the Services. We may suspend, restrict or terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you have breached these Terms, created risk for other users or for Elevara, scraped or redistributed the question bank, failed to pay, or used the Services unlawfully.

You can close your account at any time. Elevara does not yet have a delete-my-account button, so deletion is by request: email support@elevara.space from the address on the account and we will delete it, by hand, within 30 days of verifying the request. What is deleted and what may be retained is set out in section 9 of the Privacy Policy.

If we terminate your account, you may not create another one without our permission. Sections 4, 6, 20, 21, 22 and 24 survive the end of these Terms.

We may change, suspend, rename, limit or discontinue any part of the Services at any time — features, tiers, pricing, questions, explanations, or discussion. We are not obliged to keep any feature or any item of content available forever.

The Services may be unavailable because of maintenance, provider outages, bugs or security incidents. Except where the law requires otherwise, we are not liable for downtime, interruption, or the loss of data that results.

Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. The new version will be posted here with an updated date, and takes effect when posted. If a change is material we will give notice in the app or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use Elevara after that means you accept the new version; if you do not, close your account.

These Terms and your use of the Services are governed by the laws of the State of Washington, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, except where applicable law requires otherwise. Nothing here removes a right you have under the mandatory consumer-protection law of the place you live.

Talk to us first

Before either of us starts a formal claim, we both agree to try to sort it out informally for at least 30 days. Send written notice describing the dispute and what you want to support@elevara.space. Most things end here.

Binding arbitration

Except for the disputes excluded below, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will be resolved by binding arbitration on an individual basis, administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. Arbitration may be conducted by written submission, telephone, video, or in person as those rules allow.

You understand that, but for this agreement, you would have the right to sue in court and to have a trial by jury. Arbitration is instead of both.

Class and representative action waiver

To the fullest extent permitted by law, disputes may be brought only on an individual basis. Neither you nor Elevara may bring a claim as a plaintiff or class member in a class, collective, consolidated, private attorney general, or representative action.

What is excluded

This section does not apply to:

• an individual claim in small-claims court that stays in that court;
• a dispute about intellectual property rights;
• a claim involving unauthorised access to, scraping of, or piracy of the Services;
• a request for injunctive or equitable relief;
• anything that cannot be arbitrated under applicable law.

You can opt out — 30 days

You may opt out of arbitration and the class-action waiver within 30 days of first agreeing to these Terms, by emailing support@elevara.space with the subject line Arbitration Opt-Out and the email address on your account. Opting out costs you nothing, does not affect your use of Elevara, and does not opt you out of any other part of these Terms.

Court venue

If a dispute goes to court instead of arbitration, it must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Washington, and we each consent to their jurisdiction — except where applicable law requires a different venue.

The Services may contain typographical errors, inaccuracies, omissions, broken content, incorrect explanations, or wrong answer keys. We may correct, update or remove anything at any time without notice. See section 11 on reporting an error.

The services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Elevara disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, reliability, availability and security.

We do not warrant that the Services, the questions, the answer keys, the explanations, the scores, the recommendations, or any content posted by other users will be accurate, complete, secure, error-free, uninterrupted, or suitable for your purposes.

We do not guarantee any SAT score, any score improvement, any test performance, any academic result, any admission outcome, or any scholarship. Your results depend on your own work, and no statement anywhere on this site should be read as a promise otherwise.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Elevara and its officers, employees, contractors, agents and service providers will not be liable for any indirect, consequential, incidental, special, exemplary or punitive damages, including lost profits, lost data, loss of goodwill, or damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Services.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims relating to the Services will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid Elevara in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty US dollars ($50).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Elevara and its officers, employees, contractors, agents and service providers from any claim, damage, loss, liability, cost or expense — including reasonable legal fees — arising out of or relating to: your use of the Services; Your Content; your breach of these Terms; your infringement of anyone else’s rights; your breach of the law; or your harmful conduct toward another user.

We may take over the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to this section, and you agree to cooperate with it. If you are a minor, this section is agreed on your behalf by the parent or guardian described in section 2.

By creating an account, emailing us, submitting a form or clicking a button, you consent to receive communications from us electronically, and you agree that electronic records, notices and signatures satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. You may withdraw this consent by closing your account.

We will send you service emails — confirming your address, resetting your password, and notices about your account or these Terms. You cannot opt out of those while you hold an account, because they are how the account works.

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Elevara about the Services. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of it. If any provision is found unlawful or unenforceable, it is severed and the rest stays in effect. We may assign these Terms; you may not assign yours without our written consent. Nothing here creates a partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship between us.

Questions about these Terms, notices under them, and arbitration opt-outs all go to support@elevara.space.

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