Terms of Use.

NextStepUni is operated by NextStepUni Limited, registered in Ireland under company number 818010, with a contact address at 75 Grange Park Road, Ireland. Contact us at nextstepuniinfo@gmail.com.

These Terms govern your permitted use of the Learning Lab. Version 2026-10-04, published 4 October 2026. We ask you to review them and actively agree before using an account. You can open, save or print them at any time at https://www.nextstepuni.com/terms.html

The Privacy Notice explains personal-data handling separately. Agreeing to these Terms is not blanket consent to data processing and does not waive your privacy or consumer rights.

Student accounts are for participants aged 16 or over whose school has arranged programme access. Authorised school staff may use staff accounts. Your school confirms programme eligibility and manages its own educational arrangements; you must not misrepresent your age or use another person’s join code or account.

If you are 16 or 17, you remain a child for data-protection purposes. Any provision that requires contractual capacity or adult authorisation applies only to the extent permitted by Irish law. Your use under a school programme does not make you responsible for the school’s commercial obligations or make a parent a contracting party automatically.

The school’s service and data-processing agreements govern its arrangements with NextStepUni. These user rules do not amend those agreements or bind your school or parent on your behalf. Where adult authorisation is required for a particular arrangement, it must be obtained separately.

Student access through the school programme is not a paid subscription bought by the student. Any future paid offer or materially different service will have its price, duration and applicable terms clearly explained before you choose it.

• Provide accurate account information and keep sign-in credentials secure. Students must use their own personal account; staff must use only the account authorised by their school for their role.
• Use only access codes provided for you or your authorised school role. Do not share student accounts, disclose staff credentials outside their authorised role, or try to obtain another user’s private information.
• Tell your school or nextstepuniinfo@gmail.com promptly if you think your account has been compromised. We will help investigate and secure it.

You are responsible for your own use and reasonable care of your sign-in details. You are not automatically responsible for activity caused by a security failure outside your control. We retain our own responsibilities for the service’s security and compliance.

Use the app for learning and authorised school support. Peer features are for supporting classmates. Your school’s authorised staff can see relevant student account/progress and peer activity as explained in the Privacy Notice.

• Do not bully, harass, impersonate, threaten or discriminate against others, or submit unlawful or inappropriate content.
• Do not upload another person’s private information, infringe intellectual-property rights, introduce malicious code, defeat security controls, scrape private records or disrupt the service.
• Do not falsify activity, exploit rewards or use automated accounts to manipulate programme reporting or peer features.

Report misuse to your school or nextstepuniinfo@gmail.com. We may apply the proportionate suspension process below.

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive permission to use the app and available learning content for your own study, or for authorised staff support within your school programme, while access is available. Built-in download, export and printing features may be used for those purposes, subject to any stated third-party conditions.

NextStepUni and its licensors retain their rights in the app, designs and learning materials. Do not sell, redistribute, publish or commercially exploit them, or copy substantial parts beyond the permitted study features or rights allowed by law. Third-party and official material remains owned by its respective rights holders.

You retain your rights in original work, answers and reflections you create. You give us only the permission needed to store, display, back up, export and otherwise handle that work to provide the programme and features you choose, consistently with the Privacy Notice and the school’s instructions. This does not give us ownership of your work or permission to use private reflections for advertising or AI training.

You must have the right to submit any material you provide. We may remove unlawful content or material that infringes another person’s rights, using the fair review process below.

NextStepUni is an independent study app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the State Examinations Commission, the Department of Education, the CAO, SUSI, the Higher Education Authority, or any other government body or public agency.

Some learning material draws on official publications. Source references accompany exam material; State Examinations Commission material remains © State Examinations Commission, and other quoted works remain the property of their respective owners. Access through NextStepUni does not grant a right to redistribute third-party material.

Official deadlines, fees, grants and entry requirements can change. Check the relevant authority before making an application or relying on an entitlement:

• State Examinations Commission: https://www.examinations.ie
• CAO: https://www.cao.ie
• SUSI: https://www.susi.ie
• Higher Education Authority: https://hea.ie
• Qualifax: https://www.qualifax.ie
• Citizens Information: https://www.citizensinformation.ie
• Irish government information: https://www.gov.ie

We aim to provide a useful, reliable study service and exercise reasonable care and skill in operating it. The app is maintained and updated; maintenance, security work, outages and changes to official material can affect availability. We give reasonable notice of planned material disruption where practicable.

Learning recommendations, practice feedback and self-marking are study aids, not official assessment. We do not guarantee a particular exam grade, college place, grant, career outcome or uninterrupted availability. Use your teachers and the relevant official sources for decisions that require authoritative advice.

Nothing in these Terms excludes applicable statutory standards, remedies or consumer rights. Where the service does not meet a legal obligation, the rights and remedies provided by law remain available.

We are responsible, subject to applicable law, for reasonably foreseeable loss caused by our breach of these Terms or failure to exercise reasonable care and skill. Loss is reasonably foreseeable if it was an obvious consequence or reasonably contemplated when the relevant arrangement was made.

The student service is supplied for personal educational use. To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible under these student Terms for business losses arising from using it commercially or for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable. Any separate school contract governs the school’s commercial relationship with us.

We do not exclude or limit liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any applicable statutory consumer or data-protection right. These Terms do not impose an indemnity on students or require them to compensate us for another person’s actions.

You may stop using the service at any time. Settings → Delete Account lets you download your information or request account deletion; you may also contact us or your school. Deleting the app alone does not close an account.

Your school may end programme access when your participation ends. We may restrict a feature or suspend access where reasonably necessary to address a material breach, misuse, a security issue or a risk to students. The response should be proportionate to the issue.

We normally explain the reason, give reasonable notice and allow a chance to correct the issue. Immediate action may be necessary for a serious or urgent risk, legal requirement or where notice would compromise an investigation. We explain the decision as soon as reasonably possible unless law or a justified safeguarding/security need prevents this.

You can ask for a review by emailing nextstepuniinfo@gmail.com and, where appropriate, involving your school. We will consider the explanation fairly and restore access where the grounds no longer justify restriction.

When access ends, we help arrange an appropriate opportunity to obtain your information where practicable. Access ending does not remove your data-protection rights; deletion and retention follow the Privacy Notice, school instructions and any applicable legal requirements.

We may make reasonable changes for security, legal compliance, accessibility, technical improvements or programme needs. We do not use this clause to remove rights already required by law or impose unexpected charges.

We publish the effective date and version of changes and highlight material changes in the app with reasonable advance notice where practicable. An urgent legal or security change may take effect sooner, with an explanation as soon as reasonably possible. Material changes to these Terms require a new explicit agreement before continued account use; we do not treat a date update alone as acceptance.

Earlier published versions remain available. If you do not agree to a material change, you may stop using the service, download your information or request account deletion, subject to lawful retention requirements. Any additional rights to keep an unmodified service or end an arrangement under applicable law remain unaffected.

Irish law governs these Terms. Where mandatory protections under the law of your usual place of residence apply, you keep those protections. You may bring proceedings in any court that applicable law permits; these Terms do not force a consumer to use an otherwise impermissible exclusive forum.

Contact nextstepuniinfo@gmail.com with a complaint, the issue and the outcome you seek. We aim to acknowledge complaints promptly, investigate fairly and explain our response. School programme matters may also be raised with your school. This process does not restrict access to courts, regulators or other remedies available by law.

If a provision cannot lawfully be enforced, it applies only to the extent permitted; the remaining provisions continue so far as the arrangement can reasonably operate. A delay in exercising a right does not by itself waive it. Nothing here overrides a statutory right or the rights of a person who lacks capacity to be bound by a particular provision.

NextStepUni Limited · Company number 818010 · 75 Grange Park Road, Ireland · nextstepuniinfo@gmail.com.