Terms of Service

Last updated: 31 August 2026

1. About these Terms

These Terms of Service (Terms) govern your use of StudyLaw, including the Legal Learning Bench website, library, search, Pathways, Workspace and Tutor services (together, the Service).

The Service is provided by studylaw.io, trading as StudyLaw / Legal Learning Bench (we, us or our). You can contact us at support@studylaw.io.

By creating an account, starting a trial, purchasing a subscription or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use any paid feature.

2. The Service

The public library and public search are available without a subscription. A subscription provides access to the paid learning features described on the site, currently including Pathways, Workspace and Tutor.

The Service is an educational study resource about Australian law. It is not legal advice, does not create a solicitor–client relationship, and is not a substitute for advice from a qualified Australian legal practitioner.

Tutor responses may be generated or assisted by automated systems. They may be incomplete, incorrect, out of date or unsuitable for your circumstances. You must independently check important information against current authoritative sources and obtain professional advice where appropriate.

3. Eligibility and accounts

You must provide accurate information and keep your account credentials secure. You are responsible for activity carried out through your account, except to the extent that loss or unauthorised use results from our breach of these Terms or applicable law.

You must be at least 18 years old to purchase a subscription. If you are under 18, you may use the Service only with the involvement and consent of a parent or guardian who accepts these Terms.

We may require email verification, passkey, multi-factor or other reasonable security checks before allowing access to account or paid features.

4. Subscription, trial and payment

The applicable subscription price, billing interval, trial terms and taxes are shown before you complete checkout. Unless stated otherwise, a subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period until cancelled.

Payments are processed by Stripe. Stripe may collect and process payment information under its own terms and privacy notice. We do not store your complete card number.

You authorise us, through Stripe, to charge the payment method you provide for the subscription and any applicable taxes. If a payment fails, we may suspend paid access until payment is resolved.

If a trial is offered, it converts to a paid subscription at the end of the trial unless you cancel before the conversion date. We will not represent a trial as free if a charge will be made without clearly telling you the amount and timing of that charge.

5. Cancellation and refunds

You may cancel a subscription through the account or billing controls we make available, or by contacting us. Cancellation normally takes effect at the end of the current paid period, unless we state otherwise at checkout or applicable law gives you an earlier right to cancel.

Where a refund or other remedy is required by these Terms, our checkout promise or applicable law, we will provide it. Otherwise, amounts paid for a billing period are not refundable merely because you stop using the Service during that period, subject always to your rights under the Australian Consumer Law.

6. Australian Consumer Law

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right, remedy, guarantee, warranty or condition that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified, including the consumer guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)).

For services supplied to a consumer, those guarantees include that the services will be provided with due care and skill, be reasonably fit for a purpose you make known to us where we accept that purpose, and be supplied within a reasonable time where no time is agreed.

If our services fail to meet a consumer guarantee, you may have rights to a remedy, including cancellation, a refund for an unused portion, compensation for reduced value, or compensation for reasonably foreseeable loss, depending on the nature of the failure. Contact us promptly so we can investigate and provide any remedy required by law.

7. Permitted use

You may use the Service for lawful personal study and research. You must not:

• use the Service for unlawful, fraudulent or misleading activity;
• share, resell, sublicense or commercially exploit a paid account;
• copy, scrape, systematically download, redistribute or republish substantial parts of the library or Tutor service;
• upload material that you do not have the right to upload, or that is unlawful, malicious or infringes another person's rights;
• interfere with the Service, bypass access controls, probe its security or use automated access in a way that imposes an unreasonable load; or
• present Tutor output or library material as professional legal advice or as your own original work where that would be misleading.

8. Your Workspace material

You retain ownership of material you upload to Workspace. You grant us the limited licence needed to store, process, index and display that material to provide Workspace and Tutor to you, and to maintain security, backups and service operations. We do not make your private Workspace material available to other learners.

You are responsible for having the rights and permissions needed for anything you upload. Do not upload confidential or sensitive material unless you are authorised to do so and understand the risks of using an online service.

9. Our content and intellectual property

We or our licensors own the Service, its software, design, branding and library content, except for material identified as belonging to another rights holder. These Terms give you a limited, revocable, non-transferable right to access and use the Service for your permitted study purposes. They do not transfer ownership to you.

10. Accuracy, availability and disclaimers

We aim to provide useful, current and well-supported educational material, but we do not warrant that the Service or any content will always be accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, secure, error-free or fit for your particular purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by law, no warranty is made about accuracy, completeness, availability or fitness for purpose.

This disclaimer does not limit any Australian Consumer Law guarantee or other obligation that cannot lawfully be limited. It also does not limit liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

We may update, suspend or discontinue parts of the Service, including content, features and integrations. Where a change materially reduces a paid feature during a current billing period, we will consider an appropriate remedy, subject to applicable law.

11. Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our liability arising out of or in connection with the Service or these Terms is limited to the amount you paid us for the affected paid Service during the three months before the event giving rise to the claim. This limit does not apply to liability that cannot lawfully be limited and does not reduce your rights under the Australian Consumer Law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of data, loss of profit or loss of opportunity, except where that loss cannot lawfully be excluded or results from our fraud or wilful misconduct. Nothing in this section limits your responsibility for material you upload or misuse of the Service.

12. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate access where reasonably necessary for security, non-payment, unlawful use, serious breach of these Terms or legal compliance. Where practical, we will give notice and an opportunity to remedy a breach. Suspension or termination does not remove rights or obligations that accrued before it took effect.

If we terminate a paid subscription without your breach, we will refund any unused prepaid amount where required by applicable law or our stated refund commitment.

13. Privacy

Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy. Stripe separately handles payment information under its own privacy notice.

Where you reach the Service through one of our campaign links, we may record the campaign tags in that link so we can understand which campaigns bring people to StudyLaw. This is our own first-party measurement: we do not use third-party advertising or tracking services, and we do not disclose your information to advertising platforms. The Privacy Policy sets out what is recorded, how long we keep it, and how to ask us to export or erase it.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms by publishing a revised version with a new “Last updated” date. If a change materially affects an existing paid subscription, we will provide reasonable notice and will not apply the change to remove a non-excludable legal right.

15. Governing law and contact

These Terms are governed by the laws of Western Australia and the applicable laws of the Commonwealth of Australia. The courts of Western Australia have non-exclusive jurisdiction, subject to any consumer right to bring a claim elsewhere.

Questions, complaints and requests about a subscription or the Service should be sent to support@studylaw.io. Please include the account email, a description of the issue and the outcome you are seeking.