1. Agreement to these terms
By creating an account or otherwise using Schollar (the “Service”), you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
Our Privacy Policy forms part of these terms and explains how we handle your personal information.
2. Who may use the Service
- You must be able to form a binding agreement in the Republic of South Africa.
- If you are under 18, you may use the Service only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. By creating an account you confirm you have that consent, and your parent or guardian agrees to these terms on your behalf.
- You must provide accurate account information and keep it current.
- You are responsible for your account credentials and for everything done through your account. Tell us promptly at scholar.thimral@gmail.com if you suspect unauthorised access.
3. What the Service is
Schollar is a student productivity tool for tracking tasks, subjects, assessments, study sessions and notes. It is provided free of charge.
We are not currently charging for the Service and there is no billing, subscription or payment processing of any kind. If we ever introduce paid features, we will update these terms and give you notice before any charge applies. Nothing here obliges you to pay anything.
4. Important: do not rely on it alone
Schollar is a personal organisation aid, not an official academic record. Deadlines, assessment dates, venues and timetables in the Service are whatever you entered — they are not verified against, or synchronised with, any institution's systems.
Always confirm deadlines and assessment details with your institution's official sources. We are not responsible for a missed deadline, examination, submission or appointment, however that arises — including data loss, service downtime, a failed notification, or an error in the Service.
5. Your content
You keep all ownership of the content you create in the Service — your tasks, notes, documents, subjects and everything else you enter (“Your Content”). We claim no ownership of it.
You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, process, transmit and display Your Content solely to operate the Service for you. This licence exists only so we can technically run the app — it does not permit us to publish, sell, or use Your Content for any other purpose, and it ends when you delete the content or your account.
You are responsible for Your Content, and you confirm that:
- You have the right to store and use it.
- It does not infringe anyone else's rights.
- Where it contains another person's personal information — for example a lecturer's email address or office details — you are entitled to hold that information.
You are responsible for keeping your own backups of anything you cannot afford to lose. Export features are provided as a convenience, not as a backup guarantee.
6. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Break any applicable law, or use the Service for an unlawful purpose.
- Access, or try to access, another user's account or data; probe, scan or test the security of the Service; or bypass any authentication, authorisation or rate-limiting measure.
- Scrape, crawl, harvest or bulk-extract data from the Service by automated means.
- Upload or store malware, or content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or infringes intellectual property rights.
- Interfere with the Service's operation or place an unreasonable load on it, including through denial-of-service attempts or automated request floods.
- Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Service, except to the extent that restriction is unenforceable in law.
- Resell, sublicense or commercially exploit the Service without our written permission.
- Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your association with any person.
Discovering a security vulnerability is not a breach of these terms provided you report it promptly to scholar.thimral@gmail.com, do not access or modify data that is not yours, and give us reasonable time to fix it before disclosing it.
7. Our intellectual property
The Service — including its source code, design, layout, user interface, text, graphics, the Schollar name and logo — belongs to Nthabiseng Lefophana & Tlou Kgatla and is protected by copyright, trade mark and other laws. These terms give you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service as intended. No other rights are granted.
You may not copy, modify, distribute or create derivative works from the Service, or use the Schollar name or logo, without our written permission.
8. Third-party services
The Service depends on third-party providers, including Supabase (authentication and database) and Vercel (hosting), and on Google if you choose Google sign-in. Their availability is outside our control, and we are not responsible for their acts or omissions. Your use of Google sign-in is additionally governed by Google's own terms.
9. Availability and changes to the Service
We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. We do not guarantee that it will be available, uninterrupted, or free of errors. We may perform maintenance without notice. We will make reasonable efforts to give notice before discontinuing the Service entirely, so you can export your content.
10. Suspension and termination
You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time under Settings → Delete account. Deletion is permanent.
We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these terms, if your use creates a legal or security risk, or if we are required to do so by law. Where practical and lawful, we will give you notice and an opportunity to fix the problem first.
11. Disclaimer of warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any right you have under the Consumer Protection Act, 2008 or any other law of the Republic of South Africa that cannot lawfully be excluded.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Nthabiseng Lefophana & Tlou Kgatla will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, academic marks or opportunity, arising out of or relating to your use of — or inability to use — the Service, even if we have been advised such damages are possible.
Because the Service is provided free of charge, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims relating to the Service is limited to ZAR 1,000 or the amount you have paid us (which is currently nothing), whichever is greater.
Nothing in this section limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
13. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold Nthabiseng Lefophana & Tlou Kgatla harmless from any claim, demand, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from Your Content, your use of the Service, or your breach of these terms or of any law or third-party right.
14. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the South African courts.
Before starting formal proceedings, please contact us at scholar.thimral@gmail.com so we can try to resolve the matter directly.
15. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the Service develops. The “last updated” date at the top always reflects the current version. For material changes — anything that meaningfully reduces your rights or adds obligations — we will give notice in the application before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the updated terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Service and delete your account.
16. General
- Entire agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service.
- Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force.
- No waiver. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.
- Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our consent. We may transfer ours in connection with a transfer of the Service, on notice to you.
17. Contact
Nthabiseng Lefophana & Tlou Kgatla
scholar.thimral@gmail.com