Terms of Service

TC Companion's purpose is to help vacation scheme and training contract applicants organise, understand, and present their own genuine experience more effectively. Every piece of firm research and guidance on the Platform is either the operator's own original writing from their own past applications, or is compiled independently from material a firm has already made public.

• The Platform does not obtain, use, or disclose any confidential, internal, or proprietary information belonging to any law firm
• Nothing on it is designed or intended to give any user an unfair advantage in, or improper insight into, any firm's recruitment or assessment process
• TC Companion is not a law firm, careers advisory service, recruitment agency, or regulated adviser, and nothing on the Platform is legal or professional careers advice
• Using the Platform does not create a relationship between you and any firm referenced on it, and has no bearing on the outcome of any application you make

You must be at least 18 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 admin@tccompanion.co.uk 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.

Accounts, and any paid access attached to them, are personal to you. You must not share your login credentials or otherwise let another person access paid content through your account. We may suspend or close an account where we reasonably believe it is being shared, or that paid content is being accessed by more than one person, in breach of these Terms.

Creating an account is free. It gives you:

• Independently researched public information on every firm on the Platform, including "Why This Firm" and "What This Firm Looks For"
• Our From the Founder guidance
• Your Calendar
• Unlimited application tracking with the Offer Tracker
• The Mistakes Vault, to turn feedback into lessons you can reuse

No card is required for any of this.

Paid access is sold as one-off purchases, not a subscription: specific firms, the Resource Library, or the Complete Application Cycle, each priced individually on the pricing page. Each purchase grants exactly what it describes there: the firm document archive(s) or Resource Library content included in that product.

Every paid product grants access for 6 months from the date of purchase. Access lapses automatically once that period ends, and you would need to purchase it again to regain it. No product renews automatically, and we do not charge you again without a fresh, separate purchase.

All prices are shown in pounds sterling (GBP) and are payable in full at checkout through Stripe, our payment processor. We are not VAT-registered, so no VAT is added to any price shown.

Every product is a single, one-off charge taken at the point of purchase. We never store your card details ourselves. Stripe holds and processes all card and billing information under its own security standards. We retain only a Stripe customer reference, the relevant 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.

For firm access, the Resource Library, and the Complete Application Cycle, your purchase is digital content supplied to you immediately after payment. Because of this, at checkout you will be asked to expressly consent to that immediate supply and to acknowledge that, once it begins, you lose your right to cancel that purchase. This does not affect any other right you may have, including where digital content is faulty, not as described, or otherwise does not conform to the contract.

If a payment succeeds but access is never granted, contact us and we will resolve it. For anything else, email admin@tccompanion.co.uk.

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.

Using the Platform grants 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
• 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, the real application material shown on the Platform, and other material we author are our intellectual property or that of our licensors, and none of it is sold to you. Paid access grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to view and use this material for your own applications, for as long as the relevant purchase remains active (see Free and Paid Access, above). It does not transfer ownership of anything to you, and we do not guarantee that any specific piece of content remains unchanged for the whole of that period.

Your account, and any paid access attached to it, is personal to you. Without our express written consent, you may not:

• Share your login credentials, or otherwise let anyone else access paid content through your account
• Copy, reproduce, redistribute, resell, or sub-licence it
• Download or copy it, except where the Platform itself provides a feature to do so
• Scrape it, or create derivative works from it, in whole or in part
• Use the Platform to build a competing product or service

A separately-managed exception exists: every firm page shows a blurred preview of real past application material on file for that firm, before it is unlocked. This preview material is our own authored content, made available at our discretion; see our Privacy Policy for how it works. It does not affect your ownership of anything you write yourself.

TC Companion is independent of, and has no relationship with, any law firm referenced on the Platform. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, instructed by, or acting on behalf of any such firm. Firm names, logos, and other trademarks referenced on the Platform belong to their respective owners and are used only to identify and describe the relevant firm.

All information about firms on the Platform, including practice strengths, training structures, and what a firm says it looks for in candidates, is compiled independently from material the relevant firm has already made public: its website, published rankings, recruitment marketing, and similar sources. Any characterisation of a firm's approach, culture, or priorities is our own honest, good-faith interpretation of that public material, not a statement of fact made on the firm's behalf. No confidential, proprietary, internal, or non-public information belonging to any firm is used, obtained, or disclosed anywhere on the Platform, and we neither hold nor claim to hold inside knowledge of how any firm actually assesses candidates. Firms change their processes, so we cannot guarantee this information is complete or current at the moment you read it, and we accept no liability for any decision made in reliance on it.

Real application material shown on the Platform, whether in your own private archive or in the blurred preview text described in our Privacy Policy, is original material the relevant person wrote for their own application. It illustrates one applicant's own approach and is provided as a standard to learn from, not as a template, a leaked document, or any kind of guarantee.

We believe nothing on the Platform infringes any right held by, or breaches any duty owed to, any law firm. If a firm disagrees, we ask that it contact us at admin@tccompanion.co.uk in the first instance so the matter can be resolved directly.

TC Companion helps you organise and strengthen your own application material. Access to real, high-quality examples does not guarantee interviews, offers, vacation schemes, or training contracts, and nothing on the Platform is a promise of any particular outcome. In particular:

• Every example on the Platform illustrates a high standard to learn from, not a guarantee that it led to an offer, and not every one was successful. It is provided to give you ideas and show different approaches, not as a template to copy, adapt, or submit as your own
• Past application materials reflect the circumstances, questions, and recruitment processes that applied when they were originally prepared. Firms may since have changed their questions, criteria, processes, policies, or expectations, and we do not represent that any past material reflects a firm's current recruitment process
• Recruitment teams can and do check for copied or near-identical answers. Submitting this material, or anything close to it, as your own is entirely 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. Law firms constantly change their recruitment and application processes, and we do not guarantee that any information on the Platform is necessarily the most current
• 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
• Access, or 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 its security controls
• Sub-licence, resell, or provide access to the Platform to anyone else
• Use the Platform, or anything on it, to build a competing product or service
• 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, without refund, to the extent the law allows.

We aim to keep the Platform available at all times but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may 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 a reasonably equivalent alternative, without affecting any other statutory remedy available to you.

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 already granted, except where the law requires it.

The Platform, and all content on it, is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we exclude all warranties, express or implied, as to accuracy, completeness, reliability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or affects any right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted under UK law, including your statutory rights as a consumer. In particular, nothing here excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

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 indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, business, data, or opportunity
• 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

Except as set out above, our liability to you for any loss or damage, however arising, is excluded to the fullest extent the law allows.

You agree to indemnify us against losses we reasonably incur as a direct result of your unlawful conduct, your breach of these Terms, or your infringement of a third party's rights, except to the extent the law does not allow a consumer to be held liable in this way.

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, are the entire agreement between us regarding the Platform and supersede any prior agreement on the subject.

• If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest continues in effect
• Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later
• You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms; we may assign or transfer ours, including to a successor of our business, without affecting your rights
• No one other than you and us has any right to enforce any of these Terms, whether under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise

If something goes wrong, contact us at admin@tccompanion.co.uk 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 exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. This does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer under UK law, or any right you have under mandatory law to bring proceedings in the courts of the part of the UK you live in.

Questions about these terms: admin@tccompanion.co.uk, or via the contact page.