Board Buddy Terms of Service

Last Updated: September 21, 2026

Please read these Terms carefully. Section 15 requires you to resolve most disputes through individual binding arbitration and waives your right to a jury trial and to take part in a class action. You can opt out of arbitration as explained in Section 15.6.

1. Who You Are Contracting With

Board Buddy (also called BoardBuddy and Board Companion), including the Board Buddy Chrome extension, the website at boardcompanion.com, the Board Buddy dashboard, and any related apps and services (together, the "Service"), is owned and operated by Ivy Tutoring LLC, an Arkansas limited liability company ("Ivy Tutoring," "we," "us," or "our").

These Terms are an agreement between you and Ivy Tutoring LLC only. No member, manager, officer, employee, contractor, or agent of Ivy Tutoring LLC — including its founder, Blake Young — is a party to these Terms or makes any promise to you in a personal capacity. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim relating to the Service may be brought only against Ivy Tutoring LLC, and you agree not to bring any such claim against any of those individuals personally.

2. Accepting These Terms

You accept these Terms by clicking to sign in, create an account, or pay, or by installing or using any part of the Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service and uninstall the extension. You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Service.

3. Board Buddy Is Independent

Board Buddy is an independent study tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or approved by UWorld, LLC; AMBOSS GmbH or AMBOSS, Inc.; ScholarRx or USMLE-Rx; Coursology; the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME); the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB); the USMLE program; Anki or AnkiHub; or any other question bank, publisher, or exam provider (each, a "Third-Party Platform").

All third-party names, logos, and trademarks belong to their owners. We use them only to describe which websites the Service works with, and that use does not imply any relationship with or endorsement by their owners.

4. Your Third-Party Accounts Are Your Responsibility

Board Buddy does not give you access to any Third-Party Platform or its content. To use Board Buddy on a Third-Party Platform you must already have your own lawful account and subscription with that platform, obtained directly from it.

Your relationship with each Third-Party Platform is governed by your own agreement with that platform, not by us. You are solely responsible for:

A Third-Party Platform may change its website, block or limit browser extensions, or warn, suspend, or terminate your account at any time for reasons we do not control. You use Board Buddy with any Third-Party Platform at your own risk, and we are not responsible for any action a Third-Party Platform takes against you or your account, or for any fees, subscription time, or access you lose as a result. We make no promise that Board Buddy will keep working with any particular platform.

5. How the Extension Works

The Board Buddy extension runs inside your own browser, on your own device, on pages you choose to open while signed in to your own accounts. It acts only when and where you use it, at your direction. We do not log in to any Third-Party Platform, access it on your behalf, or control which pages you visit or what you do with the Service.

To provide its features, the extension reads the page you are studying — for example, the question text, answer choices, your selected answer, and any explanation shown — and sends the parts needed for a feature to our servers and to our AI providers. We use that information to operate the Service for you (for example, to answer your questions, track your progress, and build your study recaps), as described in our Privacy Policy.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree that you will not, and will not use the Service to:

Flashcards, notes, summaries, and other material you create with the Service are for your own personal study only. We may suspend or end your access if we believe you have broken these rules.

7. Your Content

You keep whatever rights you have in content you submit to the Service. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, process, transmit, and display that content only as needed to operate, secure, and improve the Service for you. You confirm that you have the rights needed to submit it, and that submitting it does not violate any agreement you have with anyone else.

8. Intellectual Property and Copyright Complaints

The Service, including its software, design, and the Board Buddy name and logo, belongs to Ivy Tutoring LLC and its licensors. We respect intellectual property rights. If you believe material handled by the Service infringes your copyright or trademark, send a notice to blake@ivytutoring.net with: your contact information; a description of the work; where the material appears; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner; and your physical or electronic signature. We will review every notice promptly, remove or disable material where appropriate, and end the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances. Rights holders who have concerns about how the Service interacts with their platform are welcome to contact us at the same address, and we will work with them in good faith.

9. AI Output and Educational Use Only

The Service uses artificial intelligence, which can be wrong, incomplete, or out of date. Everything the Service produces is for educational and study purposes only. It is not medical advice and must not be used to diagnose or treat anyone. Always check important information against authoritative sources. We do not guarantee any exam score, grade, or result.

10. Subscriptions and Payment

Paid plans are billed through Stripe; we do not store your card details. Recurring plans renew automatically at the price shown when you subscribed until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from the billing portal or by emailing us, and cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Except where the law requires otherwise, payments are non-refundable, but you may ask for a refund at blake@ivytutoring.net and we will consider it in good faith. We may change prices for future billing periods after giving you notice.

11. Third-Party Services We Use

The Service relies on providers such as OpenAI and other AI providers, Supabase, Stripe, Google, and Anki-related tools. Their services are governed by their own terms, and we are not responsible for their availability or conduct.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, OR UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OPERATION. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL WORK WITH, OR THAT ITS USE IS PERMITTED BY, ANY THIRD-PARTY PLATFORM.

13. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW: (A) IVY TUTORING LLC AND ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND AGENTS (THE "IVY TUTORING PARTIES") WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, ACCESS, ACCOUNTS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, STUDY TIME, OR EXAM RESULTS, INCLUDING ANY LOSS CAUSED BY A THIRD-PARTY PLATFORM SUSPENDING OR TERMINATING YOUR ACCOUNT; AND (B) THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF ALL IVY TUTORING PARTIES FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS (US $50). THESE LIMITS APPLY WHATEVER THE LEGAL THEORY AND EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD THE DAMAGE WAS POSSIBLE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW SOME OF THESE LIMITS, SO THEY MAY NOT ALL APPLY TO YOU.

14. Your Responsibility for Claims (Indemnification)

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Ivy Tutoring Parties from and against any claim, demand, lawsuit, loss, liability, damage, fine, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) brought by anyone — including any Third-Party Platform — that arises from or relates to: (a) your use of the Service; (b) your breach of these Terms; (c) your breach of any agreement with, or policy of, a Third-Party Platform; or (d) content you submit, create, or share. We may take control of the defense of any such claim at your expense, and you will cooperate with us.

15. Disputes: Arbitration and Class-Action Waiver

15.1 Informal resolution first. Before starting any formal proceeding, you and we agree to try to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days, starting when one side sends the other a written description of the dispute (to us at blake@ivytutoring.net).

15.2 Binding individual arbitration. Any dispute that is not resolved informally and that arises from or relates to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by final, binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this Section. The arbitration may be held by video or in Pulaski County, Arkansas, and the arbitrator's award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

15.3 Exceptions. Either side may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either side may go to court to stop infringement or misuse of its intellectual property.

15.4 No class actions. You and we may bring claims against each other only as individuals, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not combine claims of more than one person.

15.5 No jury trial. To the extent any dispute is heard in court, you and we waive any right to a jury trial.

15.6 Opting out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing blake@ivytutoring.net with your name, account email, and a clear statement that you opt out, within 30 days after you first accept these Terms.

15.7 Time limit. To the extent permitted by law, any claim must be brought within one year after it arose, or it is permanently barred.

16. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arkansas, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and by applicable U.S. federal law. Any dispute that is not subject to arbitration will be heard only in the state or federal courts located in Pulaski County, Arkansas, and you and we consent to those courts' jurisdiction.

17. Suspension and Termination

You can stop using the Service at any time by canceling your plan and uninstalling the extension. We may suspend or end your access at any time if you break these Terms, if a rights holder or Third-Party Platform raises a concern we decide to act on, or if we stop offering the Service or any feature, including support for any particular platform. Sections 1, 3–4, 7–9, and 12–18 survive termination.

18. General

We may update these Terms. When we make material changes we will update the date above and notify you in the Service or by email, and continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the updated Terms. These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Ivy Tutoring LLC about the Service and replace any earlier version, including any terms shown inside the extension. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, that part is limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not transfer these Terms; we may transfer them in connection with a merger, sale, or reorganization.

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