MCAT Self Prep Terms of Service

Tutoring

Your private tutor agrees to:

  • Be on time to all tutoring sessions. If he or she is more than five minutes late to a tutoring session, you will receive a free tutoring session.
  • Attend scheduled tutoring sessions. If he or she cannot attend a tutoring session, he or she will send you a rescheduling request at least 24 hours in advance. If he or she requests a rescheduling less than 24 hours in advance, you will receive a free tutoring session.
  • Give a 100 percent effort during each session. He or she will seek to answer all of your questions during each tutoring session with their best efforts.
  • Come prepared to each tutoring session. He or she will prepare answers to at least the first 10 questions that were input into the study portal at least 24 hours prior to the session. 

As a student, you agree to:

  • Be on time to all tutoring sessions. If you are more than 10 minutes late to a tutoring session, your session will be cancelled and will not be made up.
  • Attend your scheduled tutoring session. You may make up to one rescheduling request per lesson. Rescheduling requests must be made at least 24 hours in advance. Otherwise, you will simply have to miss your lesson. Exceptions cannot be made.
  • Take responsibility for your MCAT score. Your tutor will give you the tools you need to succeed, but it is up to you to put in the time to make the most of those tools.
  • Come prepared to each tutoring session. Sessions must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance of their scheduled start time. Also, all questions must be input into the study portal at least 24 hours before the session starts. If you and your tutor finish all the questions in your study portal, the session will end regardless of any remaining time in the session.
  • Be respectful to your tutor. If there is inappropriate language or behavior in talking with a tutor, the tutor will request that this behavior is refrained from. If the behavior continues, the tutor will explain that they will terminate the session and their tutoring together, and will report the matter to Self Prep LLC, who will decide on any further use of service by the student and whether a refund shall be provided. The student should have no further contact with the tutor unless by mutual agreement, including Self Prep LLC.
  • Make On-Time Payments (*if you are paying monthly). MCAT Self Prep will suspend your account and postpone all remaining tutoring sessions if your recurring payment fails at any time. If you plan to change your billing method during your payment plan period, you must keep your information up-to-date in your billing account  to avoid losing access.

Tutoring Package Details:

  • You will be provided 1, 5, 10, 20, or 40 sessions depending on the package purchased. Each session includes 1 hour of tutoring.
  • Tutoring packages do not include access to materials.
  • The tutor has the right to refuse to answer questions regarding practice questions produced by non-AAMC prep companies. The tutor may also refuse to answer any practice questions that do not contain the attached answers and answer explanations.
  • Tutoring program students are not guaranteed to get above a certain score. Testimonials on our website do not guarantee that you will have the same experience. We cannot take responsibility for your study efforts.
  • No refunds will be provided for any unused tutoring sessions for any reason after 3 sessions have been completed or after 90 has passed since the tutoring package was purchased (please see the Tutoring Service Money-back Guarantee).
  • Tutoring sessions are non-transferable. They must be used by the student who made the original purchase.
  • It is not guaranteed that you will continue working with the same tutor throughout your tutoring experience. Your tutor may become ill, need to focus more time on medical school, or become unavailable for unknown reasons. In this case, you will be transferred to another tutor in the same pricing tier. In compensation, you will receive a free tutoring session.
  • Self Prep LLC is not responsible for the manner in which or to what extent a student shares copyrighted material.
  • Communication regarding MCAT content and studying is limited to tutoring sessions only. If a parent would like to inquire regarding the progress of the student, they may do so only using email no more than once every two weeks.
  • Your tutor is not required to text or email you between tutoring sessions. They may do so at their own discretion, but please understand that they are not compensated for the time they spend doing this, so please respect your tutor’s personal time.

Other MCAT Self Prep Products/Plans

  • The Deluxe Pro Plan, Ultimate CARS Strategy Course, and Science Passage Reading Strategy Course are backed by a Score Improvement Guarantee. To qualify, you will need to provide evidence for your score at the start of the program by an AAMC score report and at the end of the program by another AAMC score report. You will also need to provide detailed evidence that you followed all the advice given in the program and that you completed every single course/material as instructed. This evidence should be supplied as a completed Create Your Own Study Plan, accounting for not only goal hours, but actual hours studied and what was done in that time. We cannot take responsibility for your not following instructions or not putting in the effort required to improve your MCAT score.
  • No refunds will be provided after 7 days of purchase of Basic Pro Plan, Advanced Pro Plan, Amino Acid Mastery Course, Behavioral Science Booster Course, Metabolic Pathways Mastery Course, 100 Most Essential Equations Mastery Course, the High Speed Math Mastery Course, or 10 Most Commonly Missed Concepts Mastery Course (please see the Money-back Guarantee).
  • No refunds will be provided after 30 days of purchase of Deluxe Pro Plan, Science Passage Reading Strategy Course, Ultimate CARS Strategy Course, or Medical School Application Course.  (please see the Money-back Guarantee).
  • MCAT Self Prep products are non-transferable. They cannot be sold or given to anyone else. They must be used by the student who made the original purchase.
  • Monthly payment plans must be paid on time. MCAT Self Prep will suspend your account and revoke access if your recurring payment fails at any time. If you plan to change your billing method during your payment plan period, you must keep your information up-to-date in your billing account .

The MCAT Self Prep, a service offered by Self Prep LLC, is dedicated to developing and maintaining a friendly online community, where members of backgrounds feel relaxed and comfortable. Like any community, The MCAT Self Prep website has certain standards. When members use the MCAT SELF PREP website, located at http://www.mcatselfprep.com, they agree to abide by these rules. To remain a part of MCAT SELF PREP, members must be considerate to others. Repeated violations of these standards may result in a member being temporarily suspended or barred from entry or participation in MCAT SELF PREP’s Site.

Online Service Agreement

BY ACCESSING OR USING MCAT SELF PREP’S SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF SERVICE, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE MCAT SELF PREP’S SITE. 

MCAT SELF PREP, IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION, MAY MODIFY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE AT ANY TIME. AN EMAIL WILL BE SENT TO YOUR REGISTERED E-MAIL PROVIDING A) A SUMMARY OF THE CHANGES MADE TO THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND B) A THE FULL TEXT OF THE NEW TERMS OF SERVICE. YOUR CONTINUED ACCESS OR USE OF MCAT SELF PREP’S SITE SHALL BE DEEMED YOUR CONCLUSIVE ACCEPTANCE OF THE MODIFIED AGREEMENT.

  1. AGE REQUIREMENTS

You must be at least thirteen (13) years old to use MCAT SELF PREP’s Site. Children under the age of thirteen (13), or legal guardians acting on their behalf, are strictly prohibited from using MCAT SELF PREP’s Site. You represent and warrant that you are at least thirteen (13) years of age and that you possess the legal right and ability to enter into TERMS OF SERVICE and to use MCAT SELF PREP’s Site in accordance with these TERMS OF SERVICE.

  1. LICENSES
  2. Licenses Granted to Users by MCAT SELF PREP: By these TERMS OF SERVICE, MCAT SELF PREP grants users of MCAT SELF PREP’s Forums, subject to the terms of these TERMS OF SERVICE, a limited, non-transferable and non-exclusive license to access, explore and otherwise use MCAT SELF PREP’s Forums in a manner consistent with these TERMS OF SERVICE for their personal, non-commercial purposes. Commercial use of MCAT SELF PREP’s Forums is strictly prohibited. Examples of, but not limited to, commercial uses this license prohibits:
  • The sale of access to MCAT SELF PREP’s site
  • The sale of advertising, sponsorship, or promotions, including links placed to such, in MCAT SELF PREP’s Site. However, this does not include non-paid opinions and reviews of products, schools, and etc.
  • The linking and/or reposting of any content or material delivered from MCAT SELF PREP’s Site to any webpage that contains advertising, which would include an ad-enabled blog.
  • Otherwise selling and/or profiting, or permitting others to profit, from MCAT SELF PREP’s Site and the content and materials therewithin.

All content and material taken in accordance with these TERMS OF SERVICE from MCAT SELF PREP’s Site, except where otherwise noted, must be licensed to others under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License, which is available at <http: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/>.

  1. USER CONTENT AND MATERIAL; USAGE

3.1 MCAT SELF PREP DOES NOT REVIEW ANY COMMUNICATIONS OR MATERIALS POSTED OR UPLOADED TO MCAT SELF PREP’S SITE by users and is not responsible for the content of these communications and materials. However, MCAT SELF PREP reserves the right after being notified by a third party to block or remove communications or materials that it determines, in MCAT SELF PREP’s sole discretion, to be:

(a) abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, offensive and/or harmful;

(b) fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading;

(c) in violation of a copyright or trademark, other intellectual property right of another; or

(d) is offensive or otherwise unacceptable to MCAT SELF PREP and its mission statement.

ANY MESSAGES, ADVICE, OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION PROVIDED ON OR THROUGH MCAT SELF PREP’S SITE SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS PROFESSIONAL OR MEDICAL ADVICE OR INSTRUCTION.

3.2 All content or materials posted on or shared through MCAT SELF PREP’s Site are the sole responsibility of the user. MCAT SELF PREP shall assume no liability or responsibility for user-posted materials, including, but not limited to, copyright violations or defamatory statements.

3.3 MCAT SELF PREP strictly prohibits the following actions being taken on its Site

(a) Simultaneous use, unattended, or continuous connections to MCAT SELF PREP’s Site with one account;

(b) Posting or transmitting any content which is listed in Paragraphs 3.1 (a)-(d);

(c) Uploading, downloading, posting, or transmitting any content that would violate the property rights of others, including, but not limited to, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and rights of privacy and publicity. However, users are permitted to submit such content to MCAT SELF PREP’s Site with the necessary consent from the right’s holder(s);

(d)  Posting or transmitting any content that would violate any agreement you may have signed with any third party;

(e) Using MCAT SELF PREP’s Site to threaten, harass, stalk, abuse, or otherwise violate the legal rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of others;

(f) Intercepting, or attempting to intercept, the emails or other private communications not intended for you;

(g) Sending emails to users for any purpose other than personal communication, including, but not limited to, advertising, offering, or soliciting to sell goods or services to other users;

(h) Sending unsolicited email messages through third-party mail servers in order to relay your email or hide the origination of your email to others;

(i) Requesting or otherwise soliciting information regarding illegal activities. This includes, but is not limited to, how to obtain or use pirated software, registration keys or codes for software, or illegally photocopied/scanned materials;

(j) Deleting, or falsifying, any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any content submitted or exchanged through MCAT SELF PREP’s Site;

(k) Using MCAT SELF PREP’s Site in a manner that adversely affects the availability of its resources to other users;

(l) Using, downloading, copying, or otherwise providing (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any portion of MCAT SELF PREPs directory or any portion thereof other than for personal, noncommercial purposes (except as otherwise expressly permitted by the MCAT SELF PREP);

(m) Falsely purporting to be an employee or agent of MCAT SELF PREP;

(n) Falsely purporting to be a moderator of MCAT SELF PREP’s Forums;

(o) Causing repeated disruptive incidents;

(p) Attempting to decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise interfere with or damage MCAT SELF PREP’s Site. This includes, but is not limited to, the circumvention of any technological protection measures such as user authentication or password-protected material and content on MCAT SELF PREP’s Site.

3.4 Registered users may send and receive electronic mail (“email”), engage in conferences and chats, download and upload files and otherwise use MCAT SELF PREP’s Site as permitted by these TERMS OF SERVICE and applicable law. MCAT SELF PREP may review e-mails if notified by a third-party as to inappropriate content, as specified in 3.1, or a violation of these TERMS OF SERVICE.

  1. PRIVACY POLICY

MCAT SELF PREP considers its users’ privacy to be of the utmost importance. Please see our Privacy Statement for a detailed description of our information gathering and dissemination practices for the MCAT Self Prep Web site.

  1. DISCLAIMERS
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  3. You are responsible for providing your own access (e.g., computer, mobile device, Internet connection, etc.) to MCAT SELF PREP’s Site. This also includes maintaining up-to-date contact information and securing user passwords;
  4. MCAT SELF PREP provides MCAT SELF PREP’s Site on an “as is” and “as available” basis. You therefore use MCAT SELF PREP’s Site at your own risk. MCAT SELF PREP expressly disclaims any and all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any other warranty that might arise under any law. Without limiting the foregoing, MCAT SELF PREP makes no representations or warranties that MCAT SELF PREP’s Site:
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  • Will transmitted all user content, materials, or messages or that they will appear exactly as submitted to MCAT SELF PREP’s Site; or
  • Will be backed-up and protected indefinitely
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  2. MCAT SELF PREP may delete email or private messages if it has not been accessed by a user within 30 days; and
  3. Content and materials posted on MCAT SELF PREP’s Site by users and third parties, and links or downloads thereof, reflect only the views of their authors and do not necessarily reflect those of MCAT SELF PREP. Furthermore, MCAT SELF PREP makes no warranties or representations that users will not find such content and materials inappropriate or offensive.
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The entire contents of MCAT SELF PREP’s Site are copyrighted as a collective work (“Work”) under the laws of United States and other copyright laws. MCAT SELF PREP holds the copyright in the Work. The Work includes works which are the property of the Information Providers, which may also be protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.  Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

  1. INDEMNIFICATION

YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD HARMLESS MCAT SELF PREP, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS AND SUPPLIERS FROM AND AGAINST ALL LOSSES, EXPENSES, DAMAGES AND COSTS, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEY’S FEES, RESULTING FROM ANY VIOLATION OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE OR ANY ACTIVITY RELATED TO YOUR ACCOUNT (INCLUDING INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES’ WORLDWIDE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OR NEGLIGENT OR WRONGFUL CONDUCT) BY YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON ACCESSING MCAT SELF PREP’S SITE USING YOUR ACCOUNT.

  1. WAIVER, RELEASE AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU AGREE THAT NEITHER MCAT SELF PREP, NOR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR SUPPLIERS, SHALL HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO YOU UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY OR INDEMNITY IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF MCAT SELF PREP’S SITE. YOU HEREBY RELEASE AND FOREVER WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS YOU MAY HAVE AGAINST MCAT SELF PREP, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR SUPPLIERS (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CLAIMS BASED UPON THE NEGLIGENCE OF MCAT SELF PREP, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR SUPPLIERS) FOR LOSSES OR DAMAGES YOU SUSTAIN IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF MCAT SELF PREP’S SITE.

NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING PARAGRAPH, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF MCAT SELF PREP, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS AND SUPPLIERS, IF ANY, FOR LOSSES OR DAMAGES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE FEES PAID BY THE USER TO MCAT SELF PREP FOR UP TO ONE (1) YEAR FOR THE PARTICULAR INFORMATION OR SERVICE PROVIDED. IN NO EVENT SHALL MCAT SELF PREP, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSSES OR DAMAGES OTHER THAN THE AMOUNT REFERRED TO ABOVE. ALL OTHER DAMAGES, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE ARISING FROM ANY USE OF THE INFORMATION OR OTHER PARTS OF MCAT SELF PREP’S SITE ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED EVEN IF MCAT SELF PREP, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, INFORMATION PROVIDERS OR SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

  1. THIRD PARTY RIGHTS

The provisions of paragraphs 7 (Indemnification) and 8 (Waiver, Release and Limitation of Liability) are for the benefit of MCAT SELF PREP and its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, suppliers, and Information Providers. Each of these individuals or entities shall have the right to assert and enforce those provisions directly against you on its own behalf.

  1. TERM; TERMINATION

User accounts may be terminated:

  1. Either you or MCAT Self Prep may terminate your right to use MCAT SELF PREP’S Site at any time, with or without cause, upon notice.
  2. MCAT SELF PREP may terminate, suspend, temporarily disable, and/or limit your services to MCAT SELF PREP’s Site without prior notice due to violation of these TERMS OF SERVICE.

The provisions of paragraphs 7 (Copyright), 3 (License), 8 (Indemnification), 9 (Waiver, Release and Limitation of Liability), and 10 (Third Party Rights) shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

  1. GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Any cause of action or claim you may have with respect to MCAT SELF PREP’s Site must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises. MCAT SELF PREP’s failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of these TERMS OF SERVICE shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor trade practice shall act to modify any provision of these TERMS OF SERVICE.

  1. NOTICE

Self Prep LLC may deliver notice to you under these TERMS OF SERVICE by means of electronic mail, a general notice on MCAT SELF PREP’s Site, or by written communication delivered by first class U. S. mail to your address on record MCAT SELF PREP’s account information. You may give notice to MCAT SELF PREP at any time via electronic mail or by letter delivered by first class postage prepaid U. S. mail to the following address:

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  1. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (“DMCA”)

MCAT SELF PREP respects the intellectual property rights of others and will seriously investigate and respond to all claims of copyright infringement. If you are a copyright holder, or authorized to act on behalf of a party that is the holder of an exclusive right to a copyrighted work, and if you believe that your copyright has been infringed, please send us a notice as set forth below:

  1. Specifically identify the work you are claiming to have been infringed. If you are claiming multiple works are being infringed a representative list of the copyrighted works may be submitted instead;
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  3. Provide MCAT SELF PREP with the following information to contact you:

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  1. Submit a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
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For other intellectual property or legal claims, please send us a notice at mcatselfprep@gmail.com

  1. SEVERABILITY

The provisions of this Agreement are severable, and in the event any provision hereof is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not in any way affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof.