Terms of Service

Acceptance of These Terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Sturse (defined in Section 2). By creating an account, or by accessing or using the Sturse website, apps, and related services (together, the “Service”), you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

PLEASE READ SECTION 18 CAREFULLY. It contains a binding arbitration agreement, a class action waiver, and special procedures for mass arbitrations, which affect your legal rights, including your right to bring a claim in court or take part in a class action. Section 18 also explains how you may opt out of arbitration within 30 days.

Who We Are

“Sturse,” “we,” “us,” and “our” mean Sturse LLC, a New York limited liability company, and its successors and assigns. Section 21 explains how these Terms carry over if Sturse changes its legal form, merges, or is acquired.

The Service

Sturse is a learning platform for nursing students, educators, and institutions. It uses artificial intelligence and other technology to turn course materials into study tools, such as practice questions, flashcards, study guides, explanations, and answers to questions, and to help students and educators understand what is being learned.

We are constantly improving the Service. We may add, change, limit, or discontinue features, content, or plans, including which features are free and which are paid, at any time. If a change materially reduces what you have already paid for in a current billing period, we will tell you in advance.

Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or use the Service. By using the Service, you represent that you are at least 18.

You may create an account with an email address or through a sign-in provider we support. If you sign in through a provider, that provider’s terms also apply to how you use it. You agree to:

• Provide accurate, current, and complete information, and keep it up to date
• Keep your password and sign-in methods secure, and not share your account
• Accept responsibility for all activity under your account

School and Organization Accounts

If a school, nursing program, or other organization provides or pays for your account, or invites you to use the Service as part of a course, some features and data may also be governed by our agreement with that organization. The organization may be able to see information about your use of the Service as described in the Privacy Policy and that agreement. If these Terms and that agreement conflict, the organization’s agreement controls for that account.

Subscriptions and Billing

Sturse offers free and paid plans. Prices, plan details, and billing terms are shown before you buy. By subscribing, you agree to them.

• Automatic renewal: Paid subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price unless you cancel before renewal.
• Cancel anytime: You can cancel at any time from your account settings or, if you subscribed through an app store, through that app store. You keep access through the end of the current paid period, and the subscription will not renew.
• No refunds: All payments are final and non-refundable, except where applicable law requires otherwise. We do not offer refunds or credits for partial billing periods or unused time.
• App store purchases: If you subscribe through an app store, such as Apple’s App Store, the app store processes the payment, and its terms and refund policies apply to that purchase.
• Taxes: Prices do not include sales tax or similar taxes. Where we are required to collect them, they are added to your charge at checkout and on renewals.
• Price changes: We may change prices. A price change applies to an existing subscription only from its next renewal, after we notify you.
• Responsibility: It is your responsibility to cancel before the next renewal date if you no longer wish to be charged.

Your Content

You own your content. “Your content” means the documents, files, notes, messages, and other materials you upload or submit. You keep any ownership rights you have in it.

The license you give us. So that we can run the Service, you grant Sturse a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process, analyze, and create derivative works from your content (such as quizzes and study guides made from your slides) for the purposes of operating, providing, personalizing, securing, and improving the Service, to analyze your documents to make lecture outlines for Sturse Insights, and as described in the Privacy Policy. This license ends when your content is deleted from the Service, except for copies we must keep for legal reasons or that remain briefly in backups, and except for de-identified data described below.

Learning from how the Service is used. We learn from how the Service is used, including the questions students answer, whether they answer them correctly, the topics involved, and outlines of the topics lectures cover, as described in the Privacy Policy (including Sturse Insights). We never use your documents to train AI models. Your permission covers only the rights you hold: it does not give us rights in your professors’ or your school’s materials that you don’t have.

De-identified data. Sturse owns de-identified and aggregated data that we create from use of the Service, meaning data that does not identify you and cannot reasonably be linked to you. We may use it for any lawful purpose, and it may remain after your account is deleted. We will not attempt to re-identify it. Learning data from students’ activity is pooled across accounts only through Sturse Insights and only as the Privacy Policy describes, including its starting date, its opt-out, and its rules for earlier activity.

Your responsibility. You are responsible for having the right to upload your content. Many course materials belong to your professors or your school. Follow your school’s policies, and do not upload patient information or other people’s personal information.

Study Materials Generated for You

You may use the study materials the Service generates for you for your own study and, where the Service lets you, share them with others. Similar material may be generated for other users, so we cannot promise that generated material is unique to you. If you share material, Sturse may display it to the people you share it with.

Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions, or feedback, we may use them for any purpose without any obligation or payment to you.

Acceptable Use

You may not:

• Use the Service for any unlawful purpose, or to violate any law, regulation, or school policy
• Infringe anyone’s intellectual property, privacy, or other rights
• Harass, abuse, defame, intimidate, or discriminate against anyone
• Upload patient information, malware, or content you don’t have the right to share
• Submit false or misleading information, or impersonate anyone
• Share, sell, or resell your account or access to paid features
• Scrape, copy, or extract the Service or its content by automated means, or use it to build a competing product
• Reverse engineer, interfere with, or try to bypass the limits or security of the Service, except where the law expressly allows it

We may remove content or restrict accounts that violate these Terms.

Our Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, design, features, and the content we create (but not your content), belongs to Sturse and its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. These Terms do not give you any rights in our names, logos, or trademarks.

Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what information we collect and how we use and share it. It is part of these Terms.

Third-Party Services and App Stores

The Service relies on third-party services, such as sign-in providers, payment processors, and AI providers. We are not responsible for third-party services we do not control.

Apple. If you use our iOS app: these Terms are between you and Sturse, not Apple; Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no warranty obligation for the app (if the app fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if any); Sturse, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, consumer protection or privacy claims, and claims of intellectual property infringement; you represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. government embargo and are not on a U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties; and Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time in Settings. We may suspend or end your access at any time, with or without notice, including if you breach these Terms or if we stop offering the Service. Provisions that by their nature should survive (including the de-identified data terms in Section 7, and Sections 9, 11, and 15 through 21) survive termination.

Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Sturse disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. In particular, you acknowledge and agree that:

• AI-generated content may contain errors. Quizzes, flashcards, study guides, explanations, and answers are generated by artificial intelligence and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated. Always verify important information against your course materials, textbooks, and instructors.
• Not medical or professional advice. The Service is an educational study tool only. Nothing in it is medical, nursing, clinical, or other professional advice, and it must not be used to make decisions about patient care.
• No outcome guarantee. Sturse does not guarantee that using the Service will result in passing any course, exam (including the NCLEX), licensure, certification, or other academic or professional outcome.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event shall Sturse or its members, managers, directors, officers, employees, partners, agents, suppliers, or affiliates be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or academic or professional opportunity, resulting from your use of or inability to use the Service.

Cap on total liability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the total liability of Sturse and the persons listed above for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid Sturse in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100).

These limits apply regardless of the legal theory and even if Sturse was advised of the possibility of such damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limits, so some of the above may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the greatest extent the law permits.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Sturse and its members, managers, directors, officers, employees, agents, suppliers, and affiliates from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to:

• Content you upload, submit, or share through the Service, including any claim that it infringes or violates the intellectual property, privacy, or other rights of anyone
• Your violation of any policy of your school or program about recording, sharing, or distributing course materials
• Your breach of these Terms or violation of any law
• Your misuse of the Service, including any use of generated content that Section 15 warns against

We may, at our own expense, take over the defense of any matter you must indemnify, and you agree to cooperate with us.

Dispute Resolution, Binding Arbitration, Class Action Waiver, and Mass Arbitration

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights, including your right to file a lawsuit in court and to take part in a class action.

(a) Informal resolution first. Before starting an arbitration, you and Sturse each agree to try to resolve any dispute informally. The party with the dispute must send the other a written Notice of Dispute. A Notice from you goes to contact@sturseai.com; a Notice from us goes to the email address on your account. Each Notice must include the sender’s name and contact details, the email address on the account involved, a description of the sender’s individual claim, and the relief requested, and it must be signed by the sender (an electronic signature, including a typed name, is fine), together with their lawyer if they have one. A Notice covers one person’s claim only. If a Notice is missing something, the other party will say what within fifteen (15) days, and the sender may fix it. Within the period below, either party may ask for an individual call by phone or video at a mutually convenient time; you may attend with your lawyer, or have your lawyer attend for you if attending yourself is impractical. If the dispute is not resolved within sixty (60) days after the Notice is received, either party may begin arbitration, whether or not a call took place. All statutes of limitations and filing-fee deadlines are paused (tolled) from when a Notice is sent until this period ends. Disputes for which a notice was already sent before this version took effect follow the process in the version that applied then.

(b) Binding individual arbitration. Except for the carve-outs below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Service, or your relationship with Sturse will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (the “AAA Rules”), as modified by this Section, rather than in court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this Section. The arbitrator’s decision is final and may be entered as a judgment in any court with jurisdiction.

(c) Where and how. Arbitration will be held by videoconference or, at your choice, in the county where you live. You will not be required to travel to New York. If your claim is for $10,000 or less, you may choose to have it decided only on written submissions.

(d) Fees. Filing, administration, and arbitrator fees are governed by the AAA Rules and, for a Mass Filing, by the AAA’s mass arbitration rules and fee schedules as modified by subsection (f). If the AAA Rules would require you to pay a filing fee greater than the cost of filing the same claim in court, we will pay the difference.

(e) Class action waiver. YOU AND STURSE AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. An arbitrator may award relief only in favor of the individual party seeking it, may not consolidate more than one person’s claims except as subsection (f) provides for administration, and may not preside over any form of class or representative proceeding. This waiver does not limit any remedy that applicable law says cannot be waived, such as a request for public injunctive relief; any such request will be decided by a court, which may pause it while the arbitration of individual claims proceeds. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) will be severed and decided in court.

(f) Mass arbitration. If twenty-five (25) or more demands for arbitration raising similar claims are filed against Sturse, or by Sturse, by or with the help of the same or coordinated lawyers or organizations (a “Mass Filing”), then, in addition to the AAA Rules:

• Rules and fees. The AAA’s Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules and the fee schedules that apply under them govern, including all fees the AAA charges. Nothing in this subsection changes the fees the AAA sets.
• Notice first. Each demand must first go through the informal process in subsection (a).
• Batches. You and Sturse agree to ask the AAA to assign the demands, in batches of up to one hundred (100) claimants, to one arbitrator per batch, with the batches proceeding at the same time, and with each claimant’s claim decided individually in a separate decision. If the AAA declines any part of this, its own procedures apply to that part.
• Deadlines paused. Statutes of limitations remain tolled for every claim in a Mass Filing from when its Notice was sent until the claim is administered.

(g) Who decides. A court, not an arbitrator, decides disputes about the enforceability of subsection (e) (the class action waiver) and about whether subsection (a) was satisfied. Questions about how a Mass Filing is administered are decided as the AAA’s rules provide. An arbitrator decides all other questions about arbitrability.

(h) Carve-outs. Either party may (1) bring an individual claim in small claims court if it qualifies, and (2) seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to protect intellectual property rights. Nothing in this Section prevents you from reporting a concern to a government agency.

(i) Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing contact@sturseai.com with the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out” within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms, including your name and the email address on your account. If you already opted out of an earlier version, that opt-out remains in effect, and nothing in these Terms brings you back into arbitration. Existing accounts that did not opt out before keep the rights in subsection (j) for this update. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms or your access to the Service.

(j) Changes to this Section. If we make a material change to this Section, you may reject the change by emailing contact@sturseai.com with the subject line “Arbitration Change Rejection” within thirty (30) days of the change taking effect for your account. This includes the changes made to this Section in the update dated October 14, 2026. Rejecting a change means the most recent version of this Section you accepted continues to apply to you.

(k) Survival and severability. This Section survives termination of your account and of these Terms. Except as stated in subsection (e), if any part of this Section is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

Governing Law and Venue

These Terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act for Section 18. Subject to Section 18, any claim not subject to arbitration must be brought only in the state or federal courts located in the State of New York, and you and Sturse consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated Terms here and update the “Last updated” date. If a change is material, we will notify you by email or in the Service before it takes effect for your account, and we may ask you to accept the updated Terms to keep using the Service. Your continued use after a change takes effect means you accept it. Section 18(j) explains your additional rights for changes to the arbitration agreement.

General

• Assignment: You may not transfer these Terms or your account without our written consent. We may assign or transfer these Terms, in whole or in part, without your consent, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, change of legal form (such as conversion to a corporation), or sale of assets.
• Entire agreement: These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any additional terms we show you for specific features or plans are the entire agreement between you and Sturse about the Service.
• Severability and waiver: If any part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Events beyond our control: We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages of third-party services.
• No agency: Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, employment, or agency relationship.

Copyright (DMCA) Policy

Sturse respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users to do the same. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), we respond to valid notices of copyright infringement.

To submit a DMCA takedown notice, send the following in writing to contact@sturseai.com:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or authorized representative
• Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed
• Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it
• Your contact information (name, address, phone number, and email)
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner
• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner

Counter-notification: If you believe your content was removed in error, you may send a counter-notification to contact@sturseai.com with your contact information, identification of the removed material, a statement under penalty of perjury that removal was a mistake, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in your district.

Repeat infringers: Sturse will terminate the accounts of users determined to be repeat infringers.

Our designated DMCA agent:
Sturse LLC, Attn: DMCA Agent
418 Broadway, Ste N
Albany, NY 12207
contact@sturseai.com

Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, contact us at contact@sturseai.com.

Sturse LLC
418 Broadway, Ste N
Albany, NY 12207
contact@sturseai.com