Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using Small Study Tools at smallstudytools.com, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, please do not use the site.

These terms apply to all visitors and users of the website, including students, educators and any other individuals who access our tools.

2. What Small Study Tools Provides

Small Study Tools provides a collection of free, browser-based academic productivity tools for students and educators. Our tools include but are not limited to:

• Text analysis tools — word counters, character counters, readability checkers
• Academic calculators — GPA calculators, grade calculators, attendance calculators
• Text formatting tools — case converters, text cleaners, bullet point converters
• Citation and reference tools
• Diagram and planning generators
• Productivity and study tools

All tools are provided free of charge and are intended for personal, educational and non-commercial use.

3. Acceptable Use

You agree to use Small Study Tools only for lawful purposes. You must not:

• Use our tools in any way that violates applicable laws or regulations
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to our systems, servers or databases
• Use automated scripts, bots or scrapers to access our tools or content at scale
• Attempt to reverse-engineer, copy or redistribute our tool code without permission
• Use our tools to generate, distribute or support academic misconduct or plagiarism
• Attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the website
• Impersonate Small Study Tools or any of its representatives

4. Academic Integrity

Small Study Tools provides tools to help students understand, organise and improve their own work. Our tools are intended to support learning and academic writing — not to replace it.

Users are solely responsible for ensuring their use of our tools complies with their institution's academic integrity policies. We do not condone or support academic dishonesty, plagiarism or any form of cheating. If you are unsure whether using a particular tool is permitted by your institution, please check with your tutor or academic integrity office before using it in assessed work.

5. Accuracy of Results

We make every effort to ensure our tools produce accurate results. However, Small Study Tools provides all tools "as is" without warranty of any kind. Specifically:

• GPA and grade calculations are estimates based on standard formulas and may not exactly match your institution's calculation method
• Readability scores are approximations and should be used as guidance rather than definitive assessments
• Citation generators produce references in standard formats but you should always verify against your institution's official style guide before submission
• Word and character counts may vary slightly from word processor counts due to different counting methodologies

Always verify important results with your institution before relying on them for submission decisions.

6. Intellectual Property

All content on Small Study Tools — including tool code, written content, design elements, graphics and branding — is the intellectual property of Small Study Tools and is protected by copyright law.

You may not reproduce, distribute, modify or create derivative works from our content without our explicit written permission. Sharing links to our tools is welcomed and encouraged.

Content you input into our tools remains entirely your own. We make no claim to ownership of any text, data or documents you use with our tools.

7. Advertisements and Third-Party Links

Small Study Tools may display advertisements from third-party providers. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy or practices of any advertised products or services and do not endorse any advertiser.

Our site may contain links to third-party websites for reference purposes. We are not responsible for the content, privacy practices or availability of any linked external sites.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Small Study Tools shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising from your use of or inability to use our tools or website. This includes any errors or inaccuracies in tool results, any loss of data, any academic consequences arising from tool usage and any third-party actions.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

Small Study Tools is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We make no warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. We do not guarantee that the website will be available at all times or that tools will be error-free.

10. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to update these Terms of Service at any time. Changes will be indicated by the updated date at the top of this page. Continued use of the site after any changes constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

11. Governing Law

These Terms of Service are governed by and construed in accordance with applicable laws. Any disputes relating to these terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the appropriate courts.

12. Contact

For any questions regarding these Terms of Service, please contact us at contat@smallstudytools.com