Version 2026.07 · Applies to groupstudy.net and every GroupStudy subdomain.
GroupStudy ("we", "us") is operated by [FILL: legal entity / trading name]. By creating an account you agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and our Community Guidelines — each accepted separately at signup, with the version you accepted recorded. When we change these Terms materially, we'll tell you (in-product and via the changelog) and record any re-acceptance the same way.
You must be 16 or older to use GroupStudy — you confirm this at signup. If we learn an account holder is under 16 we will close the account.
One account per person; you're responsible for what happens under your credentials (including personal access tokens you create for the API). You may sign in with email + password or a linked GitHub / Google account. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or the Community Guidelines — see section 13.
Everything you create on GroupStudy — chat and direct messages, notes and their revision history, code files, whiteboards, community posts, flashcards, and uploaded files — remains yours. You grant us the license we need to operate the product: to store, transmit, and display that content to the people it's shared with — your group, your DM counterpart, or the community board, respectively. We do not sell your content, use it in advertising, or surface it beyond the audience you gave it to.
Video and screen-share run over WebRTC via our video provider; media flows directly between participants and the provider's servers. A session may be recorded when a host enables recording; recording state is indicated in the call UI, and by remaining in a session while recording is active you consent to being recorded. If you don't consent, leave the session and tell your group. [LAWYER REVIEW: two-party-consent jurisdictions — wording and any additional in-product notice requirements.]
The watch-together feature synchronizes playback position only. Each participant streams content from their own account with the relevant provider, under that provider's terms. GroupStudy never hosts, streams, rebroadcasts, or circumvents access controls on third-party content — and you must not use GroupStudy to do so (screen-sharing a paid course to people who haven't bought it is a violation of section 13).
Mock exams, chat summaries, study-plan suggestions, code explanations, and the Study Buddy are generated by AI. They are study aids: they can be wrong, incomplete, or outdated, and they are not exam predictions, legal, medical, or professional advice. Your exam result is determined by the certification body, not by anything GroupStudy displays — including the readiness score. See the Privacy Policy for how AI-feature content is processed.
AWS, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, CKA, CompTIA, Security+, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, CISSP, PMP, and every other exam or certification name on this platform are trademarks of their respective owners. GroupStudy is an independent study platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any certification body. We don't guarantee that using GroupStudy will result in passing any exam.
Sharing real exam questions ("braindumps"), impersonating another person in an exam, or otherwise violating a certification body's exam agreement is prohibited on GroupStudy and grounds for termination. Practice questions on GroupStudy are AI-generated or curated study material — never actual exam content.
The free plan lets you join groups and use the core study room. Premium ($12/month or $108/year) unlocks hosting your own groups, unlimited video duration, unlimited 1-on-1 connections, and the other features listed on Pricing. Payments are processed by Stripe — we never see or store card numbers.
Groups are capped at 6–8 members by design; seats are personal and can't be sold or transferred. Group owners and moderators may remove members from their group; that's a group-level action, not an account sanction.
Personal access tokens act as you and are subject to per-token quotas. Don't share tokens, circumvent quotas, scrape at abusive rates, or use the API to violate any other section of these Terms. We may revoke tokens that do.
The Community Guidelines are part of these Terms. We may remove content, restrict features, suspend, or ban accounts that violate them — proportionate to severity, as described there. We may also suspend accounts to protect the platform (security incidents, legal orders, payment fraud).
We respond to copyright infringement notices and terminate repeat infringers. The full notice-and-takedown process — what a valid notice must contain, our designated agent's contact details, the counter-notice procedure, and the repeat-infringer policy — is our Copyright policy, which forms part of these Terms.
You can delete your account any time from Settings — see the Privacy Policy for exactly what is erased and what we must retain (e.g. consent and payment records). We can terminate accounts as described in section 13; where reasonable we'll say why.
GroupStudy is provided "as is". We target high availability (our live status is public at /status) but don't warrant uninterrupted service. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability is capped at the amounts you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. [LAWYER REVIEW: liability cap enforceability, consumer-law carve-outs, warranty disclaimers per jurisdiction.]
These Terms are governed by the laws of [FILL: jurisdiction]; disputes go to the courts of [FILL: venue], without limiting any mandatory consumer protections where you live. [LAWYER REVIEW.]
Questions about these Terms: [FILL: legal contact email].