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The rules for using Startup Thinking School websites, applications, content, tools, events, and community workflows.

Last updated: September 1, 2026

These Terms & Conditions (“Terms”) apply to your use of Startup Thinking School and related public pages, application flows, tools, events, content, partner offers, and community features. By using STS, you agree to these Terms.

Your commitments

  • Provide accurate account and profile information, and keep it current when applying, posting, joining events, or using STS tools.
  • Keep your password, linked sign-in accounts, and active sessions secure, and promptly report suspected unauthorized access.
  • Do not upload unlawful, harmful, infringing, misleading, or abusive content.
  • Do not attack, scrape, reverse engineer, or interfere with the website or platform.
  • Do not impersonate another person, startup, partner, investor, mentor, or institution.
  • Respect confidentiality, founder privacy, partner materials, and community trust.

Important disclaimers

  • STS is a school and guidance platform, not a fund, broker, law firm, accounting firm, or regulated investment adviser.
  • Calculators, AI-first-pass tools, and mentor feedback are educational and directional.
  • Funding, regulatory, perks, and partner information may be incomplete, planned, or subject to change.
  • Founders remain responsible for their own legal, tax, regulatory, financial, product, hiring, and investment decisions.

Eligibility and accounts

You may use public STS pages without an account. Member profiles, connections, posts, and some application or tool features require a verified account. You may register with email and password or use a supported third-party sign-in provider. You are responsible for keeping account credentials secure, keeping your profile accurate, and for activity under your account. One person may not create deceptive or impersonating profiles.

Member profiles and community interactions

Your profile visibility and field-level contact settings control how STS displays your information, but people who can view it may still copy or share what they see. Follows, connection requests, posts, reactions, and public STS List attribution are community interactions, not endorsements by STS. Respect another member's contact preferences and do not use profile information for spam, harassment, scraping, or unauthorized marketing.

Startup profiles and team membership

A startup profile owner must have authority to describe the venture and may invite STS members to appear as founders, executives, employees, or advisers. An invitation does not create employment, ownership, agency, or any other legal relationship, and the invited person must approve before STS shows them as an accepted team member. STS does not verify fundraising, traction, investor, customer, award, or regulatory claims and may remove misleading or impersonating venture profiles.

Comments, stories, resources, and BlogBooks

Public comments, Startup Stories, resource contributions, and BlogBooks are user-generated content. Contributors remain responsible for accuracy, permission to share, copyright, privacy, and lawful use. A BlogBook curates links to published posts; it does not transfer ownership of those posts. STS may moderate, hide, or remove public material when needed for safety, legality, accuracy, or community integrity.

Applications and tools

STS may review applications, generate first-pass tool outputs, and connect founders to mentor-loop workflows. Acceptance, showcase placement, ranking, partner access, perks, or funding introductions are not guaranteed.

Founder content and licence

You keep ownership of startup information, documents, answers, logos, pitch materials, profile details, posts, feedback, and other content you submit. You give STS limited permission to host, process, analyse, display, and share that content according to your visibility choices and as needed to operate requested services, member connections, mentor loops, showcase features, events, partner workflows, moderation, and ecosystem reporting. STS may remove content or restrict an account when reasonably necessary for safety, legality, accuracy, or community integrity.

Confidentiality

Do not submit highly sensitive trade secrets unless a specific STS workflow asks for them and you are comfortable sharing them. STS will take reasonable steps to protect founder information, but community, event, mentor, or partner settings may involve human review and discussion.

Partners and third-party services

STS may reference mentors, investors, enablers, professional service providers, cloud credits, software discounts, events, grants, or other partners. Third-party terms, eligibility rules, pricing, and privacy practices may apply. STS is not responsible for third-party services unless expressly stated in writing.

Acceptable use and cyber safety

You must not use STS to commit cyber offences, spread malicious code, harass others, unlawfully access systems, misuse personal data, or publish unlawful content. We may restrict, suspend, or remove access when needed to protect STS, founders, partners, or the public, or to comply with applicable Bangladesh ICT and cyber safety laws.

Intellectual property

STS content, branding, frameworks, layouts, tools, and materials belong to STS or its licensors unless stated otherwise. You may not copy, resell, or commercially exploit STS materials without permission. Founder-submitted content remains subject to the licence above.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, STS is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or loss-of-profit damages arising from use of the website, content, tools, events, partner listings, or community interactions.

Changes

We may update these Terms as STS grows, especially as Bangladesh's data protection, data governance, ICT, and cyber safety frameworks develop. Continued use after an update means you accept the updated Terms.