Company: Career Companion Co., an Illinois corporation (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
1. Agreement to terms
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Career Companion Co. (“Company”) governing your access to and use of the Career Companion platform and its features (the “Service”). By creating an account, clicking to accept, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization.
3. The Service
The Service helps you create, analyze, and manage job-application materials and career insights, including features referred to as Fast Apply, TruCognition, TruRead, Blueprint, and Next Best Move. We may modify, add, or discontinue features at any time.
4. Accounts
You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information and for safeguarding your credentials and all activity under your account. Notify us promptly of any unauthorized use.
5. License to use the Service
Subject to these Terms, the Company grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal or internal business purposes. This is a license to use a hosted service; no software is sold or licensed for installation, and no rights are granted except as expressly stated.
6. Restrictions
You agree not to: (a) copy, modify, reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code or underlying methods of the Service; (b) scrape, harvest, or bulk-extract data from the Service; (c) resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service except as permitted; (d) circumvent usage limits, security, or access controls; (e) use the Service to violate law or the rights of others; or (f) upload content you do not have the right to provide.
7. Subscriptions, billing, and trials
The Service offers a free plan and paid plans. Current plan names, features and prices are shown at sign-up and on our pricing page, and may change from time to time; the prices in effect when you subscribe apply to your subscription until your next renewal. Paid plans are billed on a recurring basis through our payment processor and renew automatically until cancelled. If a trial is offered (including a reverse-trial in which you begin on a paid tier and convert to a lower tier if you do not subscribe), the trial terms presented at sign-up control. You may cancel as described in your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period, and you keep access to your paid features until then. Except as set out below, payments are non-refundable and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial billing periods. If you purchase an annual plan, you may request a full refund within fourteen (14) days of that purchase by contacting support@careercompanion.com, provided you have not previously received a refund on an annual plan. Nothing in this section limits any refund or cancellation rights you have under applicable consumer law. Taxes may apply.
8. Your content and ownership
You retain ownership of the documents and content you provide (“User Content”). You grant the Company a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable licence to host, store, use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, and create derived data and derivative works from your User Content, in order to operate, secure, improve, and develop the Service and to provide it to you. This licence survives the closure of your account and the deletion of your User Content to the extent we retain copies in backups, in de-identified or aggregated form, or as our records require. To the extent permitted by law, you waive any moral rights you may have in your User Content. This licence does not permit the Company to use your User Content to train artificial-intelligence models it develops, and we make no such use; see our Privacy Policy. You represent that you have the rights necessary to provide your User Content and that it does not infringe the rights of others.
9. AI-generated content
The Service uses artificial intelligence to extract data and generate documents, scores, and recommendations. AI-generated output is provided as assistance, may be inaccurate or incomplete, and is not guaranteed. You are solely responsible for reviewing, editing, and verifying any output before relying on or submitting it. Where output leaves the Service, you are responsible for any required disclosure that content is AI-assisted and user-edited.
10. No professional advice; no outcome guarantees
The Service does not provide legal, financial, tax, or professional career-counseling advice. Compensation and career insights are informational estimates derived from public and user-provided data and are not financial advice or a prediction of any individual outcome. We do not guarantee any job, interview, offer, salary, or other result.
11. Acceptable use
You agree not to misuse the Service, including by submitting unlawful, fraudulent, infringing, or harmful content, attempting to gain unauthorized access, interfering with the Service, or using it to make misrepresentations to third parties.
12. Intellectual property
The Service, including its software, methods, designs, and content (excluding User Content), and all related intellectual property, are owned by the Company and its licensors. The names and marks used by the Service, including Career Companion, Fast Apply, TruCognition, TruRead, Blueprint, and Next Best Move, are trademarks or pending trademarks of the Company. No rights are granted except as expressly stated in these Terms.
13. Third-party services
The Service may rely on or link to third-party services (for example, payment processing and data sources). We are not responsible for third-party services, which are governed by their own terms.
14. Disclaimers
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY REGARDING ACCURACY OR RESULTS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
15. Limitation of liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE COMPANY WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS OR DATA, AND THE COMPANY’S TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO THE COMPANY IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US$100).
16. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold the Company harmless from claims arising out of your User Content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or applicable law, to the extent permitted by law.
17. Term and termination
These Terms apply while you use the Service. You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for violation of these Terms or as needed to protect the Service. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive.
18. Dispute resolution and governing law
All disputes arising under this agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Illinois, without regard to principles of conflict of laws. The parties to this agreement will submit all disputes arising under this agreement to arbitration in Chicago, Illinois before a single arbitrator of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”). The arbitrator shall be selected by application of the rules of the AAA, or by mutual agreement of the parties. No party to this agreement will challenge the jurisdiction or venue provisions as provided in this section. No party to this agreement will challenge the jurisdiction or venue provisions as provided in this section. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the party from obtaining an injunction.
Class Action Waiver. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT ANY CLAIMS WILL BE ADJUDICATED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, AND EACH WAIVES THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, PAGA, OR OTHER JOINT ACTION WITH RESPECT TO THE CLAIMS.
19. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be notified as required, and continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.
20. Miscellaneous
These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the Service. If any provision is unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect. The Company may assign these Terms; you may not assign them without our consent. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. Notices to the Company may be sent to legal@careercompanion.com.