Terms of Service

TC Companion is operated by an individual trading as TC Companion ("TC Companion", "we", "us", "our"), not through a registered company. These Terms govern your use of the TC Companion website and app (the "Platform"). They should be read alongside our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which form part of your agreement with us.

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TC Companion is a tool for organising and strengthening your own vacation scheme and training contract application material: application tracking, Firm Fit research, deadline and task management, a Mistakes Vault for turning feedback into reusable lessons, a Resource Library of guides and frameworks, and an optional one-to-one strategy call with the founder. It is not a law firm, careers advisory service, recruitment agency, or regulated adviser, and nothing on the Platform is legal or professional careers advice.

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. You are responsible for:

• Providing accurate information and keeping it up to date
• Keeping your login credentials confidential
• All activity that happens under your account
• Notifying us at hello@tccompanion.example.com if you suspect unauthorised access

We may refuse registration or close an account where we reasonably believe information provided is false, or where we suspect fraud or abuse.

Subject to these Terms and any payment due, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Platform for your own vacation scheme and training contract applications. This licence does not let you sub-licence, resell, or provide access to the Platform to anyone else, or use it to build a competing product.

The free plan is limited to 1 active application, with full access to Firm Fit research, deadline and task tools, and your home page. Paid access is sold as one-off purchases, not a subscription: specific firms, the Resource Library, the Complete Application Cycle, or a one-to-one call, each described with its exact price on the pricing page. Buying any of these also unlocks unlimited applications, the Mistakes Vault, and the other account-wide features listed there.

Firm access and the Resource Library do not expire once purchased. The Complete Application Cycle grants access to every eligible premium firm and the Resource Library for 6 months from the date of purchase, after which it lapses unless you separately own something permanent. Neither product renews automatically, and we never charge you again without a fresh purchase.

All prices are shown in pounds sterling (GBP) and are payable in full at checkout, processed securely by Stripe. We do not currently charge VAT on any product. [CONFIRM: whether you are or expect to become VAT-registered, since that changes whether VAT must be added to the prices shown.]

Every product is a single, one-off charge made once, at the point of purchase. We never store your card details ourselves — Stripe handles and stores all card and billing information under its own security standards. We only ever retain a Stripe customer reference, the Checkout Session and payment references, the product purchased, the amount paid, and the date — enough to confirm what you bought and provide receipts or support, never your full card number.

If you are a UK consumer, the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 give you a statutory right to cancel most purchases within 14 days without giving a reason. How that applies depends on what you have bought.

Firm access, the Resource Library, and the Complete Application Cycle

These are digital content supplied to you immediately once payment completes — there is nothing to ship, and access begins straight away. Because of that, at checkout we ask you to expressly confirm you want that access to begin immediately and to acknowledge you understand what it means for your cancellation right. Once you confirm this and access has actually been granted, your right to cancel that specific purchase ends — this is what UK law provides for digital content delivered this way, not a choice we have made ourselves.

30-Minute 1-to-1 Call

A one-to-one call is a service, not digital content, so it is treated differently. You have 14 days from the date of purchase to cancel for any reason and receive a full refund, provided the call has not already taken place. If you would like your call to happen sooner than 14 days after purchase, we will ask you to expressly agree to that, and to acknowledge that once the call has taken place in full, your cancellation right ends for that purchase. If we have not been able to arrange a time for your call within 14 days of purchase, you may still cancel it for a full refund at any point before it takes place.

If something goes wrong with a purchase before access is actually granted (for example, a payment that succeeded but was never fulfilled), contact us and we'll resolve it.

To cancel a Stripe Checkout session before paying, simply close the checkout page — you will not be charged. For anything else, email hello@tccompanion.example.com.

You own everything you write into your applications, notes, calendar entries, saved past-application material, and any other content you enter. You are responsible for making sure you have the right to store and use whatever you write or save. By using the Platform, you grant us only the limited licence necessary to store your content and show it back to you — we do not use it for any other purpose, we do not sell it, and we do not use it to train any AI model. We do not currently use any AI or machine-learning functionality in the Platform at all.

The TC Companion name, branding, design, software, guides, frameworks, and other material we author for the Resource Library are our intellectual property or that of our licensors. Your paid access grants you a personal licence to read and use this material for your own applications — you may not copy, reproduce, redistribute, resell, scrape, or create derivative works from it, in whole or in part, without our express written consent.

A very small, separately-managed exception exists: a short preview of one of our own real past application documents may appear publicly on a firm's page as an example. This is our own authored example content, made available at our discretion, and does not affect your ownership of anything you write yourself — see our Privacy Policy for exactly how that works.

Information about law firms shown on the Platform (practice strengths, training structures, what a firm says it looks for, and similar) is independently researched from public sources and kept as current as reasonably possible, but firms change their processes, and we cannot guarantee this information is complete or up to date at the moment you read it. Firm names, logos, and any other trademarks referenced on the Platform belong to their respective owners.TC Companion is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or acting on behalf of any law firm named on the Platform, unless we expressly say otherwise.

TC Companion helps you organise and strengthen your own application material. It does not guarantee interviews, offers, vacation schemes, or training contracts, and nothing on the Platform should be read as a promise of any particular outcome. In particular:

• Any example or past application material is provided to illustrate a strong standard, not as a template to be submitted — recruitment teams can and do check for copied or near-identical answers, and submitting material verbatim is at your own risk and may breach a firm's own application rules
• Recruitment practices, application questions, and assessment formats change between cycles and firms
• You should always verify deadlines, eligibility criteria, and application requirements directly against the relevant firm's own official website before relying on anything shown here
• You remain solely responsible for the content, accuracy, and submission of your own applications

You must not use TC Companion to:

• Store or share content you do not have the right to
• Attempt to access another user's account or data
• Scrape, harvest, or systematically extract Platform data or content
• Use automated tools, bots, or scripts to interact with the Platform
• Interfere with the Platform's operation or circumvent security controls
• Upload or share unlawful, defamatory, or infringing content
• Submit our example or Resource Library material as your own to a third party where doing so would be dishonest or would breach that third party's own rules

Breach of this section may result in suspension or permanent closure of your account.

We aim to keep the Platform available at all times but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may need to carry out maintenance, and we may add, change, or remove features as the product develops. Where a paid feature you have already purchased access to is removed or materially reduced, we will offer a fair remedy, such as a partial refund or equivalent alternative access.

We may suspend or close your account where we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms or engaged in unlawful or abusive activity. You may close your own account at any time from Settings → Danger zone, which permanently deletes the content you have entered. This does not entitle you to a refund for access you have already been granted, except where the law or this section 14 gives you that right.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for:

• Death or personal injury caused by our negligence
• Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation
• Any matter that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under UK law, including your statutory rights as a consumer

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent the law allows:

• We are not liable for losses that were not reasonably foreseeable to both of us when you started using the Platform
• We are not liable for losses arising from events outside our reasonable control
• Our total liability to you arising from your use of the Platform is limited to the amount you have paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose

If something goes wrong, contact us at hello@tccompanion.example.com as soon as possible and we will try to resolve it directly and promptly. We may update these Terms as the product develops. Material changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date; continuing to use the Platform after a change takes effect means you accept the revised Terms, and if you do not, you may close your account beforehand.

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and any dispute is subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. Nothing here affects your statutory rights as a consumer under UK law, or your right to bring proceedings in the courts of the part of the UK you live in.

Questions about these terms: hello@tccompanion.example.com, or via the contact page.