The ground rules for using Stellar.

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Stellar (“Stellar,” “we” or “us”). By creating an account or using Stellar, you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use Stellar.

Stellar is an organizational tool. It helps you keep track of hours, courses, scores and experiences, and shows how they compare with general goals.

Stellar is not an admissions service, a medical school, a licensed counselor, or a substitute for your pre-health advisor. Nothing in Stellar is medical, legal, financial or professional admissions advice, and using Stellar does not guarantee admission to any program.

• Goals, typical-applicant numbers, prerequisite lists, deadlines and school information are general guidance. They may be incomplete, out of date or wrong for your situation.
• Always confirm requirements, deadlines and policies directly with each school, the AAMC, AACOMAS, and the other official application services.
• Progress rings, readiness labels and "on track" messages are estimates, not predictions of any admissions decision.

• You are responsible for the accuracy of everything you enter. Report hours, grades and scores honestly; application services treat misrepresentation seriously, and Stellar does not check your entries.
• Keep your password private. You are responsible for activity on your account.
• You keep ownership of what you enter. You give us permission to store and display it so we can run Stellar for you and share it with the people you choose.

Never enter patient information (names, dates of birth, record numbers, photos or any other detail that could identify a patient). You are solely responsible for anything you enter that violates HIPAA, a site's confidentiality rules, or anyone's privacy.

If you use Stellar as an advisor, you also agree to:

• Give accurate information when you apply, and use only the school email you were verified with.
• Use student information only to advise those students, and follow FERPA and your school's policies.
• Stop using your advisor account when you no longer work in that role.

Advisor access depends on verification and can be suspended or revoked at any time. Decisions you make about students are your own; Stellar is not responsible for them. A school that signs a separate agreement with us is governed by that agreement where it differs from these terms.

Don't:

• Access another person's account or data, or try to get around our security or access controls.
• Pose as an advisor, a school or anyone else.
• Upload anything unlawful, harmful or that you don't have the right to share.
• Scrape, copy, resell or reverse engineer Stellar, or overload or disrupt it.

We may suspend or close accounts that break these rules.

Stella, our AI assistant, and any other AI features generate answers automatically. They can be wrong, incomplete or out of date, even when they sound confident.

• Treat AI answers as a starting point, not advice. Check anything important with your advisor and the official source.
• Don't rely on AI answers for medical, legal or financial decisions, or for deadlines and requirements.
• Don't put patient information or anyone else's private information in a question.

Some features may require a paid plan. When paid plans are available:

• Subscriptions renew automatically, monthly or yearly, until you cancel. You can cancel any time; you keep access until the end of the period you paid for.
• Payments are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise or we say so in writing.
• We may change prices with at least 30 days' notice. A change applies from your next renewal.
• The core tracker (logging and sharing your record) stays free.

We work to keep Stellar running and your data safe, but we don't promise it will always be available, error-free or that data will never be lost. Keep your own copies of anything important for your application. We may change, add or remove features, and we may update these terms; if a change is significant, we'll tell you before it takes effect. Continuing to use Stellar after that means you accept the new terms.

Stellar is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that Stellar, its content or any AI output is accurate, complete, reliable, current, secure or free of errors.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Stellar and its owners, team members and providers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost data, missed deadlines, admissions or application outcomes, lost opportunities or lost profits, arising from or related to your use of Stellar, even if we were told they were possible.

Our total liability for any claim related to Stellar is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or $50.

Some places don't allow certain of these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

If your use of Stellar, the content you enter, or your breach of these terms leads to a claim against us, you agree to cover our reasonable costs and losses from that claim, including legal fees, to the extent the law allows.

Please contact the Stellar team first; most problems can be solved quickly that way. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.

Any dispute that can't be resolved informally will be settled by binding individual arbitration rather than in court, except that either side may bring a claim in small-claims court. You and we each waive the right to a jury trial and to take part in a class action. You may opt out of arbitration by telling us in writing within 30 days of creating your account.

If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. Our not enforcing a term isn't a waiver. You may not transfer these terms; we may, for example as part of a merger or sale. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about Stellar. Questions? Contact the Stellar team.