Terms & Conditions
The short version
This summary is here so you know what you are signing. It is not part of the agreement, and if it and the terms below ever disagree, the terms below are the ones that count.
Greenlight is free to use at the moment. No card is taken and nothing is charged. If that ever changes you will be told first, and you will be able to walk away.
It is a study tool, not the syllabus. The content is independently written to cover the scope of each course, and Greenlight has nothing to do with NESA. Your teacher and the official syllabus remain the authority on what is examinable.
Your account is yours. What you put in it stays yours, you can take it out, and you can delete all of it from Settings whenever you like.
Software goes wrong. Keep your own copy of anything you would be upset to lose, and do not let Greenlight be the only place it exists.
1. Definitions
In these terms:
- Greenlight or the Service means the Greenlight website, the application behind it, and everything made available through either.
- Operator, we and us mean the individual who operates Greenlight, based in New South Wales, Australia, contactable at greenlighthsc@gmail.com.
- You means the person who creates or uses an account.
- Your Content means anything you enter, upload or submit through the Service, including ratings, study plans, assessments, notes, photographs and feedback.
- Greenlight Content means everything else in the Service, including its software, design, and written skills, breakdowns and worked examples.
- ACL means the Australian Consumer Law in Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).
Headings are for convenience and do not affect interpretation. The word "including" and its variants do not limit what precedes them.
2. Agreement and eligibility
2.1 These terms form a binding agreement between you and the Operator. You accept them by ticking the acceptance box at signup, and you accept them again each time you use the Service. If you do not accept them, do not create an account and do not use the Service.
2.2 Our privacy policy is incorporated into these terms and forms part of them.
2.3 Greenlight is built for students sitting the NSW Higher School Certificate, most of whom are aged 16 to 18. If you are under 18, you must have the permission of a parent or guardian to use the Service, and by creating an account you confirm that you have it. A parent or guardian may contact us at any time to ask what is held about their child or to have the account closed.
2.4 The Service is not directed at children under 13, and accounts are not knowingly created for them. If we become aware that an account belongs to a child under 13, we will close it.
2.5 You must not use the Service if you have previously had an account suspended or terminated for breach of these terms, unless we have agreed in writing that you may.
3. Your account
3.1 One account per person. The details you give at signup must be accurate, and you must keep them accurate.
3.2 You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and for everything done through your account. Activity under your account is treated as your activity. Sharing a login means sharing everything in the account, including the ability to delete it.
3.3 You must notify us promptly at the address in clause 22 if you believe someone else has obtained access to your account.
3.4 You must not sell, transfer or otherwise deal with your account, or allow another person to use it.
4. Licence to use the Service
4.1 Subject to your compliance with these terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to access and use the Service for your own study.
4.2 That licence does not extend to any commercial use, including tutoring, resale, or use on behalf of a school, business or other organisation, without our prior written consent.
4.3 We may modify, suspend, add to or withdraw any part of the Service, including any feature, at any time. We are not obliged to maintain any particular feature or to provide the Service in any particular form.
5. What the Service is, and what it is not
5.1 Greenlight is a self-assessment and revision tool. You rate your own confidence against each skill, and the Service schedules revision, assembles a study week and reports back on what you have recorded. That is the whole of what it does.
5.2 It is not the syllabus. Greenlight's skills, breakdowns and worked examples are independently written to cover the scope of each course. They are not the official syllabus documents. Greenlight is not affiliated with, endorsed by, approved by or connected to the NSW Education Standards Authority, and nothing in the Service should be read as implying otherwise. Where Greenlight and the official syllabus differ, the official syllabus governs.
5.3 It does not predict results. A green rating records that you told the Service you could do something. It is your own opinion of yourself, stored and scheduled. It is not an assessment of your ability, not a measure of your readiness, and not a prediction of any mark. The Service cannot distinguish an honest rating from an optimistic one, and no output of the Service is evidence of how you will perform.
5.4 It is not advice. Nothing in the Service is educational, academic, career or professional advice, and nothing in it alters what your school or NESA requires of you. You remain responsible for your own study and for everything you submit to your school.
5.5 We do not warrant that the content in the Service is complete, current or free from error, and we do not warrant that it aligns with any particular version of any syllabus.
6. Your Content
6.1 You retain ownership of Your Content. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of it to us.
6.2 You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host, store, reproduce and display Your Content strictly for the purpose of operating the Service and making it available back to you. That licence ends when the content is deleted, except to the extent it must continue for a short period while deletion takes effect across the systems that hold it.
6.3 Your Content is not published, is not made available to other users, and is not used to train any machine learning model.
6.4 You warrant that, for everything you upload:
- you own it or have the right to upload it;
- it does not contain another person's face, name or personal information without that person's consent;
- it does not infringe any third party's intellectual property, and any reproduction of copyright material goes no further than fair dealing for the purpose of study permits;
- it is not unlawful, defamatory, harassing, obscene or otherwise objectionable; and
- in the case of the mistake bank, it is a photograph of your own work or of a question, which is what that feature is for.
6.5 We may remove any content that breaches clause 6.4, or that we reasonably believe breaches it, without notice. We are under no obligation to monitor or review Your Content.
6.6 If you send us feedback, suggestions or ideas about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free and worldwide right to use them for any purpose without obligation, attribution or payment to you.
7. Intellectual property
7.1 All intellectual property rights in the Greenlight Content are owned by the Operator or its licensors and are protected by copyright and other laws. Nothing in these terms assigns any of those rights to you.
7.2 You may use the Greenlight Content for your own study for as long as you hold an account. You must not, and must not permit anyone else to:
- copy, extract or reproduce the content set in bulk, whether by hand, by script or by any other means;
- scrape, index, mirror, republish, distribute, license or sell any part of the Greenlight Content;
- supply it to a tutoring, publishing or educational business, or use it to build a competing product;
- use it as input to train, fine-tune or evaluate any machine learning model; or
- remove, obscure or alter any notice of ownership it carries.
7.3 Showing a page to a friend is not a breach of clause 7.2. Exporting the content set is.
8. Study groups
8.1 Anyone holding a group's invite code can attempt to join that group. Treat a code as you would treat any link you would not want passed around, and change it if it escapes.
8.2 A group displays aggregate figures only: hours recorded and the proportion of a course rated green. Individual ratings, session details, assessments and mistake bank content are never shared with a group. You may participate anonymously, and you may leave a group at any time.
8.3 You must not use a group to harass, bully, shame or pressure another member, including about their figures. Conduct of that kind is a serious breach of these terms and is grounds for immediate termination under clause 16.
8.4 We are not responsible for the conduct of other users, and a group leader is responsible for the group they create.
9. Acceptable use
You must not:
- use another person's account, or permit another person to use yours;
- access or attempt to access data belonging to another user, or circumvent, probe or test any security or access control;
- access the Service by any automated means, including scraping, crawling or scripted requests, or place a load on it that degrades it for others;
- reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of the Service, except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by law;
- introduce any malicious code, or interfere with the operation or integrity of the Service;
- falsify the study time the timer records, or attempt to record study time that did not occur;
- use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in breach of any law that applies to you.
10. Fees
10.1 The Service is currently provided free of charge. No payment details are collected and no amount is charged.
10.2 We reserve the right to introduce fees for the Service or for any part of it. If we do, we will publish the fees and what they cover before they take effect, and we will give account holders notice under clause 19 before any charge applies to them. No fee will ever be charged without your express agreement to it.
10.3 Nothing in these terms obliges us to continue to provide the Service, or any part of it, free of charge.
11. Availability and "as is" supply
11.1 The Service is supplied on an "as is" and "as available" basis. It is under continuous development, and features may be added, altered or withdrawn without notice.
11.2 We do not warrant that the Service will be available at any particular time, that it will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or free from error, or that any defect will be corrected. Access may be suspended without notice for maintenance, for security, or because a service we depend on is unavailable.
11.3 Subject to clause 13.1, all warranties, conditions and terms implied by statute, custom or law are excluded to the maximum extent permitted.
12. Your data, and keeping your own copy
12.1 You are responsible for retaining your own copies of anything you would not want to lose. You must not treat the Service as the only record of anything important to you.
12.2 We do not warrant that data stored in the Service will be preserved, will remain accessible, or can be recovered if it is lost, corrupted or deleted, whether the loss is caused by us, by a provider we depend on, by you, or by anyone else.
12.3 Deletion is permanent. When you delete your account, or content within it, we do not undertake to restore it, and you should assume it cannot be recovered.
12.4 How your information is handled, disclosed and retained is set out in the privacy policy.
13. Consumer guarantees and disclaimers
13.1 Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the ACL or under any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified. If any part of these terms would do so, that part does not apply to you.
13.2 Where the ACL applies and our liability for a failure to comply with a consumer guarantee may lawfully be limited, our liability is limited, at our option, to resupplying the Service or paying the cost of having it resupplied.
13.3 Except as clause 13.1 provides, and to the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no representation and give no warranty about the Service, its content, its availability, its accuracy, or its fitness for any purpose.
14. Limitation of liability
14.1 This clause is subject to clause 13.1 and applies to the maximum extent permitted by law.
14.2 We are not liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for any loss of data, loss of study time, loss of opportunity, loss of profits, or loss or impairment of academic results, however that loss arises, whether in contract, negligence, statute or otherwise, and whether or not we were advised it was possible.
14.3 Our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or in connection with these terms or the Service is limited to the greater of the total amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the claim arose, and one hundred Australian dollars.
14.4 We are not liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations caused by anything beyond our reasonable control, including the failure of any third party service on which the Service depends.
14.5 Our liability is reduced to the extent your own act or omission, or your breach of these terms, caused or contributed to the loss.
15. Indemnity
You indemnify us against any claim, loss, liability, cost or expense (including reasonable legal costs) arising out of or in connection with your breach of these terms, Your Content, your use of the Service, or your infringement of the rights of any other person. This indemnity does not apply to the extent the claim arises from our own breach, negligence or wilful misconduct.
16. Suspension and termination
16.1 You may stop using the Service at any time, and may delete your account and its contents from Settings.
16.2 We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if you breach these terms, if we reasonably suspect you have breached them, if your use presents a risk to the Service or to another user, or if we are required to do so by law. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why and give you an opportunity to remedy the breach first.
16.3 We may discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, on reasonable notice to account holders.
16.4 On termination your licence under clause 4 ends immediately and you must stop using the Service. Clauses 6.6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20 and 21 survive termination.
17. Third party services
The Service relies on third party providers for hosting, storage, authentication and delivery, and may link to third party sites. We are not responsible for those services or for their content, availability or practices, and their own terms and privacy policies apply to your dealings with them. The providers we disclose information to are named in the privacy policy.
18. Notices
We may give you notice through the Service or by email to the address on your account, and a notice sent that way is taken to be received when sent. You must keep that address current. Notices to us go to greenlighthsc@gmail.com.
19. Changes to these terms
19.1 We may amend these terms from time to time. The date at the top of this page changes when we do.
19.2 Where an amendment materially affects your rights, we will give account holders notice under clause 18 before it takes effect.
19.3 Continuing to use the Service after an amendment takes effect is acceptance of the amended terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Service and delete your account.
20. General
20.1 Entire agreement. These terms and the privacy policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service and replace anything said or written before them.
20.2 Severability. If any provision is held to be unenforceable, it is severed and the rest of these terms continue in force.
20.3 Waiver. A failure or delay in exercising a right is not a waiver of it, and a single exercise does not prevent any further exercise.
20.4 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights under these terms. We may assign ours to a successor in connection with a transfer of the Service, on notice to you.
20.5 No agency. Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, agency, employment or joint venture relationship.
20.6 Third parties. These terms confer no benefit on any person who is not a party to them.
21. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales and the courts competent to hear appeals from them. Before commencing proceedings, each of us will make a genuine attempt to resolve the dispute by writing to the other.
22. Contact
Questions about these terms, or about anything on this page, go to greenlighthsc@gmail.com.