Compliance & Legal Documentation

1. Introduction & Overview

StudentsToCareer (“the Platform,” “we,” “us”) is a professional networking and career-development platform for students and recent graduates, operated in Canada by Alphabets Business Innovation Ltd. (“the Company”) and powered by ABIEdu. This document is the consolidated legal and compliance framework governing your access to and use of the Platform at studentstocareer.com. By creating an account or using the Platform, you agree to these terms.

This framework is organized into numbered sections for ease of reference. Where a section links to a dedicated policy page, that page forms part of these terms.

2. Definitions

• Student — an individual who registers for a free Career Passport to build a professional profile and discover opportunities.
• Employer — an organization or its authorized representative that registers to post opportunities and, once verified, contact opted-in students.
• Institution — a school, college or university that partners with the Platform for verification, reporting or licensing.
• Career Passport — a student’s profile: education, skills, experience, projects, credentials and related records.
• Verified Credential — a completion record issued by ABIEdu or an approved administrator; it is never self-declared.
• Content — any information, text, files, images or other material submitted to the Platform.
• ABIEdu — a brand and operating division of Alphabets Business Innovation Ltd.; it is not a separate legal entity.

3. Eligibility & Accounts

• You must be at least 19 years old (the age of majority in British Columbia) and legally capable of entering into a binding contract to create an account during the current controlled pilot. A future option to admit younger users is not active pending additional safeguards and legal review. See Section 20.
• You must provide accurate, current information. Impersonating a person or organization is prohibited and results in removal.
• You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for activity under your account. We support optional multi-factor authentication and encourage its use.
• One person may hold one personal account. Employer and institutional access is granted through organization records after verification.

4. Free Student Access & No-Fee Guarantee

Core Platform services are free of charge for students. Students are never required to pay to create a Career Passport, to be discovered, or to apply for any opportunity listed on the Platform. StudentsToCareer does not charge students to access or apply for opportunities; any on-Platform listing or message demanding payment from an applicant violates these terms — please report it. We do not control fees or practices imposed by unaffiliated external websites (Section 33), but the same guidance applies: never pay to apply, and report suspicious requests. Optional paid services, if any are offered in future, apply only to employers or institutions and never to students.

5. Verification of Students, Employers & Credentials

• The Verified Student badge indicates a confirmed institutional email address. It is not an academic transcript and does not certify enrolment status beyond that confirmation.
• Verified Credentials displayed on a Career Passport originate from ABIEdu or administrator-approved records and cannot be self-added. Forging or manipulating credential records is grounds for permanent removal.
• Employer accounts remain restricted until the organization is verified by our team. Verification may be revoked at any time for cause, including misuse of student data, and is subject to periodic re-verification; badges may expire if re-verification is not completed.
• What verification means. Verification confirms only that StudentsToCareer completed its stated organization-verification process at a particular time. It is not an endorsement, a guarantee of an organization’s conduct, a guarantee of employment, or confirmation that every listing is accurate or safe.

6. Acceptable Use & Community Standards

You agree not to engage in harassment, hate speech, sexual solicitation, discrimination, doxxing, spam, scams, unauthorized data collection (including scraping or bulk export), malware distribution, academic misconduct or credential fraud. You will not use the Platform to circumvent a student’s privacy choices. Our Community Standards set out expected behaviour in detail and form part of these terms.

7. User-Generated Content & Licence

You retain ownership of the Content you submit. You grant the Company a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce and display your Content solely to operate the Platform in accordance with your privacy settings — for example, showing your profile to the audiences you have chosen. This licence ends when you delete the Content or your account, except for residual backups retained briefly for security and legal compliance. You are responsible for ensuring you have the rights to any Content you post. The licence includes the technical steps needed to operate the service: reformatting and resizing, generating thumbnails and previews, making transient technical copies, and transmitting Content through our hosting and delivery providers; where you choose to make a profile public, it may be viewable outside Canada. It includes a limited right to sublicense to our hosting, content-delivery, email, security and other technical providers solely to operate the service, and — solely for those necessary technical modifications — you consent to the modifications not being attributed and waive moral-rights objections to them to the extent permitted by law. Copies of Content you have chosen to deliver to others (for example a résumé downloaded by an opted-in employer, or a message or application received by its recipient) remain with the recipient under Section 14 and applicable law even after you delete the original.

Complaints & takedown. If you believe Content on the Platform infringes your copyright, privacy or other rights, or is unlawful, report it via the contact form (topic: Safety concern) or the in-Platform report tools. We review reports within a reasonable time, may remove or restrict Content while a report is assessed, may preserve evidence connected to a complaint as required for investigations or legal process, and will act on court orders and valid legal notices, including obligations under Canada’s copyright notice-and-notice regime.

8. Intellectual Property

The Platform, including its software, design, trademarks, and non-user content, is owned by the Company or its licensors and is protected by law. Except for the limited rights expressly granted to use the Platform, no rights are transferred to you. “StudentsToCareer,” “ABIEdu” and related marks and logos may not be used without written permission (see Section 29).

9. AI-Assisted & AI-Generated Features

Certain optional features use automated or AI-assisted processing — for example, skill-gap insights, résumé suggestions, and the “build my profile from my résumé” import. These features are clearly labelled, are opt-in, and require your consent before your résumé or passport content is processed. They produce advisory suggestions only: they never make hiring decisions, are never shared with employers, and always leave you to review and confirm any change before it is saved. Rule-based matching uses only your skills, stated interests and curated role requirements — never your name, photo, age, gender or institution prestige. You may switch these features off at any time.

• Providers & location. Résumé and passport text is processed by a third-party AI model provider under our instructions; processing may occur in the United States. We select business/API offerings whose current published terms state customer content is not used to train models, do not opt into any data-sharing or training programs, and record the provider, plan, processing location and applicable terms in our subprocessor register (available on request via Section 40); these statements are qualified by, and current as of, those recorded terms.
• Retention. Under the recorded provider terms, content submitted for processing is retained by the provider only briefly (for abuse prevention and as required by law) and is not used for training; we do not opt into longer retention.
• Your care. Please do not include highly sensitive or unnecessary information (for example health, financial account or government-ID numbers) in a résumé you submit for processing.
• Accuracy. AI outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete or biased. They are drafts for your review, and are not professional, legal, immigration or career advice. You can edit or delete any AI-drafted profile entry at any time from your Passport, and can ask us to correct AI-generated information via Section 40.
• Consent records. When you consent to résumé processing we log the consent, the policy version and the date; withdrawing consent is logged the same way and stops further processing.

10. Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, why we process it, how long we keep it, and your rights — including access, correction, export (machine-readable download) and deletion. Key commitments: your profile is private by default; we do not sell personal information; we do not show your profile to employers unless you opt in to employer discovery or publish a public link; and we do not read private messages except through a documented, logged safety or legal process. We have designated a Privacy Officer accountable for these practices and align with Canada’s PIPEDA and, where applicable, British Columbia’s PIPA (regulators: the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the OIPC for British Columbia). Depending on where you live, other privacy laws may also apply (for example Alberta’s PIPA, Quebec’s Law 25, or foreign laws); the controlled pilot is directed at students in British Columbia while counsel review of additional regimes is pending.

Information we collect. Depending on how you use the Platform, we collect:

• Account data — name (preferred and, optionally, legal), email address, hashed password, and sign-in records. If you use Google sign-in, Google shares your name, email and profile picture (Section 34).
• Profile data you choose to add — photo, banner image, headline, summary, education, experience, projects, skills, languages, awards, publications, availability, career interests, LinkedIn URL and similar profile fields.
• Résumé data — if you upload a résumé, we store the file and, only with your explicit consent, process its text (which may include contact details such as a phone number or address that you included in it).
• Verification data — institutional email address (if you choose to verify), employer organization details, and verification evidence.
• Communications — messages you send on the Platform and enquiries you send to us.
• Technical & security data — IP address, device and browser information, session tokens, and audit logs kept for safety and security.

We collect this information to operate the Platform, verify participants, keep the community safe and meet legal obligations — not for advertising, and never for sale. You control profile visibility at all times, and you can access, correct, export or delete your information as described in the Privacy Policy.

Purposes. We collect, use and disclose personal information to: create and secure accounts; display profiles according to each user’s visibility choices; verify students, employers and credentials; operate messaging, applications and mentorship features; provide opt-in AI features; send transactional email and, with separate consent, marketing email; prevent fraud and abuse and keep audit records; respond to enquiries; and meet legal obligations. We do not use personal information for advertising and we never sell it.

Service providers. Categories of providers that process personal information for us: cloud application hosting, database hosting and storage, transactional email delivery, opt-in AI model processing, and error/uptime monitoring. We maintain a register of these subprocessors, available on request (Section 40). Cross-border processing: some providers process data in the United States; while there, information may be accessible to those providers and to authorities under applicable foreign laws. We remain responsible for personal information handled by our providers.

Retention schedule. Unless a legal obligation or open dispute requires longer:

• Account & profile data — kept while the account is active; deleted or anonymized within 30 days of account deletion. Accounts inactive for 24 months receive notice and are then closed.
• Résumé files — deleted when replaced or removed, and within 30 days of account deletion.
• Messages & applications — deleted with the account; copies already delivered to recipients remain with them.
• AI inputs — transient at the provider (see Section 9); AI-drafted profile entries are stored like other profile data until you edit or delete them.
• Consent records, identity/credential verification records, employer search & résumé-download logs, security & audit logs, complaint and appeal records — retained 24 months (from account deletion or resolution, as applicable), then deleted or anonymized.
• Records of security breaches meeting the federal “real risk of significant harm” threshold — retained at least 24 months as required by the Breach of Security Safeguards Regulations.
• Encrypted backups — rolled off automatically within 35 days.

Employer copies. Where a student has opted in and an employer downloads their résumé, the employer becomes responsible for that copy and is contractually required to use it only for the recruitment purpose, protect it, delete it when no longer required (subject to retention required by applicable law), and honour student deletion requests (Section 14). We log résumé downloads.

Withdrawing consent. You may withdraw any optional consent at any time (employer discovery, AI features, marketing) in your settings, and may close your account entirely (Section 35). Withdrawal stops the related processing going forward; it does not affect processing that occurred while consent was in place, and some information may be retained as described above.

Complaints. Privacy questions and complaints go to our Privacy Officer (contact: info@abiedu.com, attention “Privacy Officer”). We aim to acknowledge within 10 business days and to resolve complaints promptly. If you are not satisfied, you may complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia.

11. Cookie & Tracking Policy

We use strictly necessary cookies to keep you signed in and to protect your account (for example, session and security tokens). We do not use advertising cookies or sell tracking data. Where any optional analytics are used, they are privacy-preserving and disclosed; you can decline non-essential cookies without losing access to core features.

12. Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) Compliance

• Transactional messages necessary to provide the service (verification links, security notices, application updates) are sent on the basis of the service you requested.
• Marketing or promotional email is sent only with your separate, express, revocable consent.
• Every commercial message identifies the sender and includes a working unsubscribe mechanism; unsubscribe links remain valid for at least 60 days and requests are processed within 10 business days.

13. Data Security & Breach Response Protocol

We apply administrative, technical and physical safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the data, including encrypted transport, hashed passwords (modern, salted), least-privilege access and audit logging. In the event of a security incident affecting personal information, we will investigate, contain and remediate, and will notify affected individuals and the applicable privacy regulator where required by law and without undue delay, describing the nature of the incident and the steps you can take. We keep records of breaches of security safeguards involving personal information for at least 24 months as required by the federal Breach of Security Safeguards Regulations, and keep proportionate internal records of other security incidents as part of our security program.

14. Employer & Recruiter Terms

• Employers must complete organization verification before contacting students or searching candidates.
• Employers see only students who have opted into employer discovery, and may download a student’s résumé only where that student has opted in. Bulk export, resale or off-platform redistribution of student data is prohibited.
• All recruitment contact must be lawful, non-discriminatory and clearly identified as recruitment. Charging applicants any fee is strictly prohibited.
• Employers agree to: use student information solely for the legitimate recruitment purpose for which it was made available; maintain appropriate security controls over any student information they receive; delete student information when it is no longer required for that purpose (subject to retention required by applicable law); promptly notify StudentsToCareer of any unauthorized access to student information; and honour student deletion and consent-withdrawal requests.
• Employers must not: build or maintain profiles of students beyond the recruitment purpose; infer or record sensitive characteristics (for example ethnicity, religion, health, sexual orientation); make hiring decisions by unlawful automated decision-making; or scrape, sell, enrich, combine or disclose student data for unrelated purposes.
• Employers must comply with applicable privacy, employment, human-rights and anti-spam laws, and will cooperate with StudentsToCareer investigations and reasonable audits relating to their use of the Platform.
• Employers represent that every listing they post is genuine, accurate, authorized by their organization and legally compliant.

15. Institutional & Faculty Terms

Institutional partners receive aggregate, privacy-preserving reporting only, with small counts suppressed so no individual can be singled out. Institutions and faculty do not receive access to students’ private messages or browsing behaviour. Licensing, single sign-on and reporting are governed by supplementary terms provided at onboarding.

16. Micro-Credentials & Verified Records

Verified Credentials shown on the Platform are issued by ABIEdu or approved administrators and include the credential title, completion date, an identifier and a verification link where available. They cannot be self-declared. Verification confirms only the specific information identified in the verification record; it does not constitute academic credit, professional licensing, accreditation, employer endorsement or a guarantee of employment unless expressly stated otherwise. Misrepresenting a credential, or attempting to alter a verified record, is a serious violation.

17. Messaging & Recruitment Contact

Private messaging is available between accepted connections. Recruitment messages from employers are clearly labelled, and students can decline, block or report at any time. Messages may be scanned automatically for abuse and safety signals, and may be reviewed by a person when a report, appeal or documented safety or legal process requires it — never for advertising or profiling.

18. Payments, Billing & Refunds

Students are never charged. Online billing is disabled by default and will only ever apply to employer or institutional services if and when such services are activated with appropriate notice. Where paid services apply, prices, billing cycles and any refund terms will be presented clearly before purchase, consistent with applicable consumer-protection law. Before enabling employer candidate-search, recruitment, matching, referral or direct-contact functionality in British Columbia, the Company will obtain written advice on whether an employment-agency licence or foreign-worker recruiter’s licence is required under the BC Employment Standards Act (and equivalent rules elsewhere). Monetization will not begin until all applicable licensing requirements have been satisfied; workers are never charged hiring fees.

19. Accessibility Statement

We are committed to accessible design and aim to conform to recognized accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA as a target; automated checks currently pass, with a manual screen-reader and keyboard review in progress). Our Accessibility Statement describes current status and how to request accommodations or report a barrier. We treat accessibility feedback as a priority.

20. Age Restrictions & Guardian Consent

During the current controlled pilot the Platform is available only to individuals who are at least 19 years old (the age of majority in British Columbia) and legally capable of entering into a binding contract, and is not directed to anyone younger; you must meet the minimum-age requirement in Section 3 to register. A future option to admit younger users — only on specific legal advice, with a proper minor-user framework, verifiable guardian consent where required and additional safeguards for visibility, employer contact and mentorship — is not active pending completion of those controls and legal review. We do not knowingly collect information from ineligible users; if we learn we have, we will delete it.

21. Professional Conduct & Non-Discrimination

All users must act professionally and lawfully. Discrimination or harassment on the basis of protected characteristics is prohibited for every participant, including employers in their recruiting conduct. Academic integrity and honest representation of one’s experience and credentials are required.

22. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

The Platform connects people and opportunities but does not guarantee employment, admission, or any specific outcome, and is not a party to any relationship formed between students and employers or institutions. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Platform is provided “as is” and “as available,” and the Company’s aggregate liability arising from the Platform is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim and (b) CAD $100. To the same extent, the Company is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, or for loss of profits, data, goodwill or opportunities. Any claim must be commenced within the limitation period prescribed by applicable law; nothing in these terms shortens or excludes a limitation period that cannot lawfully be modified. The CAD $100 floor is a consumer protection for individual users; liability frameworks for employers and institutions are addressed in their commercial agreements and are not governed by it. The exclusions and caps in this section do not apply to: fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; wilful misconduct or gross negligence; death or personal injury caused by negligence; privacy or security obligations that cannot be excluded; or any other liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including rights under mandatory consumer-protection legislation.

23. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company (including its ABIEdu division) and its personnel from third-party claims, losses and reasonable expenses arising out of your Content, your use of the Platform, or your violation of these terms or of any law or third-party right, except to the extent caused by the Company’s own wrongdoing. This obligation applies in full to employers, institutions and other commercial users; for individual students it applies only to the extent permitted by applicable consumer-protection law. In every case: the Company will give you prompt notice of the claim, the Company controls the defence, you will provide reasonable cooperation, and no settlement imposing liability on you may be made without your consent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

24. Governing Law & Dispute Resolution

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. The parties will first attempt to resolve disputes informally by contacting us; unresolved disputes are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in British Columbia, unless applicable law grants you the right to bring proceedings elsewhere.

25. Force Majeure

The Company is not liable for any delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of nature, outages, network or provider failures, labour disputes, or governmental actions. Force majeure does not excuse confidentiality, privacy or security obligations, refund obligations, or payment obligations already accrued.

26. Severability

If any provision of these terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

27. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer your rights under these terms without our consent. The Company may assign these terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, on notice to you.

28. Modifications to These Terms

We may update these terms from time to time. For material changes we will provide at least 30 days’ notice to account holders and record the version in effect. Each version carries a version number and effective date, and we retain the version you accepted together with the acceptance timestamp. Acceptance of these terms at registration is separate from the optional consents (marketing, employer discovery, AI processing), each of which is recorded individually. Acceptance is affirmative: registration requires actively ticking an acceptance box with conspicuous links to these terms, and we store the accepted version and timestamp. For material changes we may require re-acceptance in the same way; where required by law, we will seek your renewed consent.

29. Trademark & Brand Use

“StudentsToCareer,” “ABIEdu,” the tagline “From Classroom to Career,” and associated logos are marks of the Company or its affiliates. You may not use them without prior written permission, and you may not imply endorsement or partnership that does not exist.

30. Notices

We may provide notices to you by email, by posting within the Platform, or on this page. Formal legal notices to the Company must be sent by email to info@abiedu.com with the subject “Legal Notice”, or by mail to Alphabets Business Innovation Ltd.’s registered office in British Columbia, Canada (address available on request and in corporate registry records). See Section 40.

31. Survival

Provisions that by their nature should survive termination — including intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, governing law and these general provisions — survive termination of your account or these terms.

32. Entire Agreement

These terms, together with the policies they incorporate by reference (including the Privacy Policy, Community Standards, Accessibility Statement and any onboarding terms for employers or institutions), constitute the entire agreement between you and the Company regarding the Platform and supersede prior agreements on that subject.

33. External & Curated Opportunities

In addition to opportunities posted directly on the Platform by verified employers, we may share curated external opportunities — links to postings on third-party websites, gathered for convenience (for example by an instructor during the pilot). External postings are clearly labelled, are not verified by StudentsToCareer, and are not endorsements. Applications for external postings occur on the third party’s own site under its terms and privacy policy; we are not a party to that process and are not responsible for third-party content, availability or conduct. The no-fee rule in Section 4 still applies as guidance: never pay to apply, and report any posting that requests money or banking details.

34. Third-Party Sign-In (Google)

You may register or sign in using Google. When you do, Google shares your name, email address and profile picture with us; we use this only to create and secure your account and never receive your Google password. Your use of Google sign-in is also governed by Google’s own terms and privacy policy. You can stop using Google sign-in at any time by setting a Platform password via “Forgot password” and, if you wish, revoking the Platform’s access in your Google account settings.

35. Suspension, Termination & Account Closure

• By you. You may close your account at any time from Settings (or by contacting us). On closure, your profile becomes inaccessible immediately and your personal information is deleted or anonymized as described in Section 10.
• By us, with notice. We may suspend or terminate an account for breach of these terms, extended inactivity, or discontinuation of the service, normally with prior notice and an explanation.
• By us, immediately. We may suspend or permanently remove an account without advance notice where necessary to protect users or the Platform — for example credential fraud, impersonation, scams, threats to safety, unlawful conduct, or a court or regulator requirement.
• Appeal. Except where legally prohibited, you may appeal a suspension or termination via the contact form; appeals are reviewed by a person.
• After termination. Profiles, messages and files cease to be visible to other users. We may retain limited records where required for fraud prevention, open disputes, security, or legal compliance (Section 10), after which they are deleted or anonymized. Verified Credential source records remain with their issuer (ABIEdu).

36. Service Availability & Changes

We aim for high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted service; maintenance windows, updates and outages may occur. We may add, modify or discontinue features, including phased pilot features, and will give reasonable notice of material discontinuations affecting your stored data, together with an opportunity to export it.

Controlled pilot / beta. During the pilot, features may change frequently, may be provided for evaluation, and may occasionally require data adjustments; where a reset would affect your stored data we will give notice and an export opportunity. We may ask for voluntary feedback, which we can use to improve the service. We may end the pilot at any time on notice. Privacy and security obligations apply in full during the pilot and survive its termination.

37. Third-Party Links & Services

The Platform links to third-party websites and services (for example external job postings, ABIEdu, LinkedIn profiles, and sign-in providers). Those services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies; we are not responsible for their content, availability or practices, and a link is not an endorsement.

38. Complaints, Moderation & Appeals

Reports of content or conduct can be made in-Platform or via the contact form and are reviewed by a person within a reasonable time; urgent safety reports are prioritized. Moderation decisions that remove content or restrict an account are recorded and, except where legally prohibited, can be appealed (Section 35). The Safety Centre describes the process.

39. Order of Precedence & Language

If there is a conflict between these terms and a signed agreement with an employer or institution, the signed agreement prevails for that party; otherwise this document prevails over summaries on other pages. Any translations are provided for convenience only — the English version controls.

40. Contact Information

Alphabets Business Innovation Ltd., British Columbia, Canada — operator of StudentsToCareer, powered by ABIEdu.

• General, support & privacy enquiries: info@abiedu.com
• Report a safety or abuse concern: see the Safety Centre.

Related policies: Terms of Service · Privacy Policy · Community Standards · Accessibility · Safety.