Terms of Service

These terms apply to your use of thestudent.com.au ("The Student", "we", "us", the "site"). By using the site you agree to these terms. If you create a business account or buy a plan or placement, you also agree to them as the terms of that purchase. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.

Using the site as a student

You don't need to be 18, or have an account, to browse discounts. Some businesses ask you to verify you're a student (for example, with a student email or ID) before you can redeem their offer - that verification happens with the business or their verification provider, not with us.

Businesses set their own discount terms and may change or end them at any time, so offers can change. Always confirm the details with the business before you buy.

Some listings (for well-known brands with a standing student discount, such as through their own education store or a verification platform like UNiDAYS) are researched and published by us directly, rather than submitted by the brand. These aren't official partnerships unless stated otherwise, and where a listing and the business's own page differ, the business's page is the best source.

Third-party offers and links

We link to businesses and to third-party services such as UNiDAYS, Student Beans and Student Edge. We don't control those sites or services, or their availability, terms or decisions about who is eligible. The business's own published terms govern how an offer is redeemed.

Business accounts and listings

To create a business account, buy a listing plan or buy a promotional placement, you must be at least 18 and authorised to act for the business. By creating a business account or submitting a brand or offer, you confirm you own that business or are authorised to manage its listings on our behalf. You're responsible for keeping your login details secure and for activity on your account - please tell us promptly if you think your account has been compromised.

You must make sure what you submit is accurate and up to date, including who is eligible, the discount, participating locations, dates, exclusions and how to redeem it. Offers must be suitable for our audience (which includes high school as well as tertiary students) and must not promote products or services we treat as age-restricted or otherwise unsuitable. We may review, reject, edit, suspend, or remove any listing that's inaccurate, misleading, not authorised, or not appropriate for our audience.

You keep ownership of the content you submit (such as your brand name, logo, images and offer descriptions). You give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, reproduce, display and format it as reasonably needed to run the site and to promote your listings and The Student, and you confirm you have the rights to provide it.

Plans, billing and cancellation

Listing plans (Starter, Growth, Pro) set how many offers and locations your account can have live at once, as shown on our pricing page. Paid plans renew automatically each month until you cancel, and the fee is charged in advance through Stripe at the start of each billing period. A listing only goes live while you have an active paid plan.

You can cancel at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current paid billing period, after which your listings stop showing. If you move to a smaller plan, your oldest listings stay live first if you go over its limits. Except where the law requires otherwise, we don't refund subscription fees because you cancel part-way through a billing period.

Promotional placements

Promotional placements (paid featured visibility for a set period, separate from your subscription) are one-off purchases. They're generally not refundable for a change of mind once the placement has started. If we accept payment but can't provide the placement you bought, we'll give you an appropriate remedy, which may include rescheduling it or refunding that purchase. This doesn't limit any rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law.

Acceptable use

Don't use the site to impersonate a business you don't represent, post false or misleading discount terms, copy the site's content in bulk, or attempt to interfere with the site's normal operation.

Our content

The Student name, branding, site design, software and our original content belong to us or our licensors. You may use the site for its intended purpose, but may not reproduce or commercially exploit our content without permission. This doesn't apply to businesses' own logos, names or offer details, which remain theirs.

Suspension and termination

We may suspend or end an account that seriously or repeatedly breaches these terms, or where we reasonably need to for legal, security or misuse reasons. Listings under a suspended or ended account may stop showing. If an account is ended for serious misuse, fees already paid aren't refunded, except where the law requires it.

No guarantee of savings

We do our best to keep listings accurate and the site running reliably, but we can't promise the site will always be error-free or available, or that every listed offer will apply to your purchase. Nothing in these terms limits any consumer guarantee you're entitled to under the Australian Consumer Law that can't lawfully be excluded.

Changes

We may update these terms from time to time, and we'll update the date at the top of this page. If a material change affects an existing paid plan, we'll give you reasonable notice before it takes effect. A change won't reduce what you've already paid for in a placement, except where reasonably needed to comply with the law or deal with security or misuse.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Australia.

Contact

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