These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of discussearth.com and the DiscussEarth platform (the "Service"), operated by DiscussEarth. By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms.
1. The Service
DiscussEarth provides IELTS and TOEFL exam preparation materials, AI-assisted feedback on Writing and Speaking tasks, progress tracking, and a community forum. As part of our 1-for-1 mission, each paid subscription funds a free account for a displaced learner.
2. Accounts
You must provide accurate information when creating an account and are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure. You're responsible for all activity that happens under your account.
3. Subscriptions and billing
Basic and Premium plans are available for IELTS and TOEFL, billed monthly or quarterly through Stripe. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless cancelled beforehand. You can cancel at any time from your Account page or by contacting us; cancellation stops future renewals but does not automatically refund the current billing period. Free accounts are limited to one test per skill before a subscription is required to continue.
4. AI-generated feedback
Writing and Speaking feedback, band scores, and CEFR mappings are generated by AI models against published IELTS/TOEFL scoring rubrics, and by our own scoring logic for objective sections. These are study aids intended to help you practice — they are estimates, not official scores, and are not issued by, affiliated with, or guaranteed to match results from IELTS, the British Council, IDP, Cambridge Assessment English, or ETS (the administrators of TOEFL).
5. Acceptable use
When using the Service, and especially the Community forum, you agree not to: share your account with others in a way that circumvents subscription limits; post abusive, hateful, or illegal content; attempt to reverse-engineer, scrape, or disrupt the Service; or use the Service for any purpose other than genuine exam preparation.
6. Your content
You retain ownership of the essays, responses, and forum posts you submit. By submitting them, you grant us a license to store, process, and display that content as needed to operate the Service (for example, sending your essay to our grading system, or showing your forum post to other subscribers).
7. Our content
Test questions, passages, audio, and other materials on DiscussEarth are our property or licensed to us, and are provided for your personal study use only. You may not redistribute, resell, or republish them.
8. Disclaimers
The Service is provided "as is." We work hard to keep test content accurate and the platform reliable, but we don't guarantee the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we don't guarantee any particular exam outcome from using it.
9. Termination
You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, including abusive conduct toward other users or staff.
10. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms as the Service evolves. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.
11. Contact us
Questions about these Terms can be sent to team@discussearth.com.