Terms & Conditions

Last updated: July 31, 2026

These Terms & Conditions (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of Haloway (the “Service”), an editorial writing studio for college essays operated by Haloway (“Haloway”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). Simply by accessing or using the Service — with or without an account — you agree to be bound by these Terms in their entirety. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

Please read Section 3 (Your content) carefully. It describes the license you grant us over the material you create on the Service and our ownership of the anonymized and aggregated data we derive from it. Please also read Section 18 (Dispute Resolution) carefully. It requires most disputes to be resolved through binding individual arbitration and waives your right to a jury trial and to participate in class actions.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you may use the Service only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian. If you are under 18, you represent that a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf — including the license granted in Section 3 and the dispute-resolution terms in Section 18 — and that they accept responsibility for your use of the Service. By using the Service you represent that you meet these requirements and that the information you provide is accurate.

2. Your account

You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us promptly of any unauthorized use. We are not liable for any loss arising from your failure to keep your credentials secure.

3. Your content, our license, and derived data

You keep ownership.You retain ownership of the essays, drafts, activities, and other materials you create or upload (“Your Content”). We do not claim ownership of Your Content, and nothing in these Terms transfers your copyright in it to us.

License you grant us. You grant Haloway a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable, and sublicensable license to host, store, copy, transmit, display, reformat, excerpt, index, annotate, analyze, modify, and create derivative works from Your Content, and to have third parties do the same on our behalf, for the following purposes:

  • operating, providing, securing, personalizing, and supporting the Service, including saving your drafts, generating the writing feedback you request, and syncing your work across devices;
  • developing, testing, evaluating, and improving the Service and its features, including building, tuning, and training Haloway’s own models, classifiers, prompts, scoring systems, and quality benchmarks;
  • detecting, investigating, and preventing fraud, abuse, plagiarism, academic-integrity violations, security incidents, and violations of these Terms;
  • conducting internal research and analytics about writing, applications, and admissions outcomes; and
  • creating Derived Data, as defined below.

Derived data belongs to us.“Derived Data” means anonymized, de-identified, aggregated, statistical, or otherwise non-identifying data, insights, statistics, benchmarks, annotations, labels, embeddings, model parameters, and other outputs that we create from or inform with Your Content, your use of the Service, and information you provide (including admissions outcomes). As between you and Haloway, Haloway solely and exclusively owns all Derived Data. Because Derived Data does not identify you, it is not your personal information, and we may use, retain, reproduce, publish, disclose, license, and otherwise commercialize it for any lawful purpose, in perpetuity, without restriction and without attribution or compensation to you — including for product development, marketing and promotional materials, published research and admissions statistics, abuse prevention, and making Derived Data available to third parties, including for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating artificial-intelligence models. We will not attempt to re-identify Derived Data, and we do not need your further consent to use it.

We do not sell your data. Haloway does not sell Your Content or your personal information to third parties for money. That commitment is about identifiable information being exchanged for monetary consideration. It does not limit: our ownership and use of Derived Data as described above; our use of service providers and third-party processors under Sections 8 and 11; disclosures required by law or made to protect our users, the Service, or our rights; or a transfer of data in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets. References in these Terms and in our marketing to not selling, sharing, or training on your data describe Haloway’s own conduct and carry the meaning given in this section; the separate third-party processing described in Section 8 (AI features) and our Privacy Policy is not limited by those statements.

Deletion. You may delete Your Content and your account at any time. Deletion ends our operational use of the deleted material going forward and removes it from active systems within a reasonable period, but it does not require us to delete, unwind, retract, or cease using Derived Data already created, models or systems already trained or improved, published or disclosed aggregate results, or routine backups, logs, and records we retain for legal, security, or accounting purposes.

You are solely responsible for Your Content and represent and warrant that you own it or have all rights necessary to submit it and to grant the licenses in this section, and that it does not violate any law or third-party right.

Feedback. If you send us ideas, suggestions, feature requests, or other feedback about the Service, you grant us an unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free right to use and implement it for any purpose, without any obligation or compensation to you.

Content that Haloway provides through the Service is owned by or licensed to Haloway and remains under Haloway’s total control. We may add, edit, unpublish, or permanently remove any such content at any time and for any reason, including where we believe removal is necessary for legal or copyright reasons, without notice or compensation. Your use of the Essay Library is further governed by the Essay Library Terms.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • use the Service to violate any law or infringe anyone’s rights;
  • submit content that is unlawful, abusive, or that you do not have the right to submit;
  • use the Service to plagiarize or to misrepresent authorship — including prompting the Service to write an essay, application, or other work that you then submit as your own — or otherwise use the Service in violation of any school’s, college’s, or organization’s academic-integrity or admissions policies;
  • attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other accounts, or our systems;
  • interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service; or
  • reverse engineer or scrape the Service except as permitted by law.

5. Academic integrity

Haloway is a writing tool intended to help you organize, draft, and refine your own work. Any AI-assisted feedback is a suggestion meant to guide your own writing, not to replace it.

You may not use the Service to generate an essay, personal statement, application, or other work for you to pass off as your own, or in any way that violates the academic-integrity, original- work, or outside-assistance rules of the schools, colleges, scholarship programs, or other institutions you apply to. Doing so is a violation of these Terms and may result in suspension or termination of your account. You are solely responsible for how you use the output and for ensuring your submissions comply with each institution’s rules.

6. No guarantee of outcomes; no affiliation

Haloway is an independent tool for college applicants and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any college, university, admissions office, testing organization, or scholarship program. Any names or logos of such institutions that appear are used only for identification and do not imply any association.

Haloway is a writing and organization aid — it does not write essays for you, and you are responsible for using AI responsibly and in accordance with each institution’s policies. Haloway makes no guarantee, representation, or warranty of admission to any school, of any scholarship, grade, score, or other particular outcome. Results vary and depend on many factors outside our control.

7. Admissions outcomes information

As a condition of using the Service, you agree to inform us of your college admissions results (for example, which schools you applied to and which admitted, denied, or waitlisted you) when we request them, and we may request reasonable supporting documentation. By using the Service you accept these Terms in full, including this obligation; if you do not agree, do not use the Service.

When you provide admissions outcomes or supporting documentation, you represent and warrant that everything you provide is truthful, accurate, and not fabricated or altered. The burden of substantiating any claimed admissions outcome rests solely with you. Haloway is entitled to rely in good faith on the information and documentation you submit, has no obligation to independently verify it, and bears no liability arising from false, fabricated, or misleading outcomes information provided by you or any other user. Submitting fabricated outcomes or documentation is a material breach of these Terms and grounds for immediate termination, and you agree to indemnify Haloway under Section 15 for any claims arising from it.

Admissions outcomes you provide are subject to the license and Derived Data provisions of Section 3, including our right to publish anonymized and aggregated admissions statistics.

8. AI features and third-party processing

The Service includes artificial-intelligence features powered by third-party AI providers. When you use these features, the relevant portions of Your Content and related context are transmitted to and processed by those third-party providers in order to generate a response. Those providers process your inputs and outputs under their own terms and privacy practices, as described in our Privacy Policy. Haloway does not sell Your Content, and we instruct our providers not to use it for their own model training where that option is available to us — but we do not control, and are not responsible for, the independent practices of third-party AI providers. Nothing in this section limits Haloway’s own use of Your Content and Derived Data under Section 3, including to develop and improve Haloway’s features and models.

By using the AI features, you further acknowledge and agree that:

  • AI outputs may be inaccurate, incomplete, or inappropriate, and you remain solely responsible for reviewing, verifying, and deciding whether to rely on them;
  • we make no warranties as to the accuracy, reliability, or fitness of AI-generated content; and
  • your use of AI outputs remains subject to Sections 4 (Acceptable use) and 5 (Academic integrity).

9. Platform oversight

We reserve the right, but do not assume any obligation, for authorized Haloway personnel and administrators, and for automated systems acting on our behalf, to access, review, monitor, and analyze activity, account information, and Your Content on the Service — for example, to operate and improve the Service, provide support you request, evaluate quality, detect and investigate abuse or academic-integrity violations, enforce these Terms, ensure compliance with applicable law, or protect the Service, our users, and third parties. We are not obligated to monitor the Service, and any decision not to act in a particular case does not waive our right to act in another. Administrators who access your information do so under this limited purpose; we will not sell your data, as described in Section 3.

10. Payments and refunds

Some features require a paid plan. Prices and plan details are shown at checkout. The Admissions packages are one-time payments processed by our third-party payment processor; they are not subscriptions and do not renew. If we offer any recurring plan in the future, it will be billed in advance and renew automatically until cancelled, as stated at checkout.

14-day money-back window. You may request a full refund of any paid package, for any reason, within 14 days of the date of purchase by contacting us through our contact page. Except where required by applicable law, purchases are otherwise final and non-refundable, and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial access periods or unused features.

Refunds are never contingent on admissions outcomes. No service — human or software — can guarantee admission, and we do not sell outcomes. The refund window is a product-satisfaction check, not results insurance, and no refund claim may be premised on an admissions decision. We may change prices or plan features on a prospective basis.

11. Third-party services

The Service relies on third-party providers (for example, for hosting, authentication, payments, and AI processing). Your use of the Service may be subject to those providers’ terms. We are not responsible for third-party services.

12. Intellectual property

All branding, logos, software, designs, and core features of the Service are the intellectual property of Haloway or its licensors. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works from, or attempt to reverse engineer any part of the Service without our prior written consent, except as permitted by law.

13. Disclaimers; service availability

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that any feedback generated will be accurate, complete, or suitable for your purposes. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service or any feature at any time without liability. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you.

14. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Haloway and its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue, business, or goodwill, arising from or related to your use of or inability to use the Service. This exclusion applies regardless of the legal theory and even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

You further agree that Haloway will not be liable for emotional distress, mental anguish, humiliation, reputational harm, or personal injury of any kind, or for any lost admission, rejection, deferral, waitlist, rescinded offer, lost scholarship, or lost educational, academic, or career opportunity, arising from or related to the Service, its availability, its output, or any decision made by any school or institution.

Cap. Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you actually paid Haloway in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD $50. This cap applies in the aggregate across all claims and applies even if a limited remedy is found to have failed of its essential purpose.

Time limit on claims. Any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service must be brought within one (1) year after the claim arises, or it is permanently barred, except where applicable law prohibits shortening the limitations period.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations or exclusions of liability, so parts of this section may not apply to you. In those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

15. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Haloway and its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) arising out of or related to Your Content, your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right. We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, at your expense, and you agree to cooperate with our defense and not to settle any such matter without our prior written consent.

16. Costs of bad-faith claims

Except as provided in this section and in Section 15, each party bears its own attorneys’ fees and costs. This is deliberate: a general prevailing-party fee provision is omitted so that neither party can recover fees merely for winning.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you will reimburse Haloway’s reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in responding to any claim you bring (a) in a forum inconsistent with Section 18, or (b) that a court or arbitrator determines to be frivolous, brought in bad faith, or brought for an improper purpose such as harassment or to impose settlement pressure. Nothing in this section requires you to pay Haloway’s fees where doing so is prohibited by applicable consumer-protection law or by the rules of the arbitration provider.

17. Governing law

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to Section 18, the state and federal courts located in New Jersey will have exclusive jurisdiction, and you consent to venue there.

18. Dispute resolution; binding arbitration; class-action waiver

Please read this section carefully — it affects your legal rights. Except for the exceptions below, you and Haloway agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding individual arbitration rather than in court. This agreement to arbitrate is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. The arbitration will be administered by a recognized arbitration provider under its consumer arbitration rules, and will take place in New Jerseyor, at your election, by telephone or video or based on written submissions. The arbitrator’s decision is final and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Informal resolution first. Before starting an arbitration or other proceeding, you agree to send us a written Notice of Dispute through our contact page describing the claim and the relief sought, and to give us 60 days to resolve it informally. Completing this process is a condition precedent to commencing arbitration. The limitations period in Section 14 is tolled while the parties engage in this process.

Class-action and jury-trial waiver. You and Haloway agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, private-attorney-general, or representative proceeding. You and Haloway waive any right to a jury trial. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding, and may award relief only to the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to redress that party’s individual claim.

Coordinated claims. If 25 or more claimants submit demands for arbitration raising substantially similar claims and represented by the same or coordinated counsel, the parties agree the demands will be administered in sequential batches of no more than 50 at a time, with a single arbitrator per batch, and that the limitations period in Section 14 is tolled for claims awaiting their batch.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this Section 18 by sending us written notice through our contact page within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name, the email on your account, and that you are opting out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms, and we will not terminate your account for opting out.

Exceptions. Either party may (a) bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and (b) seek injunctive or equitable relief in court for actual or threatened infringement or misuse of intellectual property. If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) will be severed and may proceed in court, and the remainder of this section stays in effect. Where binding pre-dispute arbitration is not permitted by applicable law, this Section 18 does not apply to you and Section 17 governs instead.

19. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your account from your settings. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms or if we discontinue the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 3, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 21 — will survive.

20. Changes to these Terms and our policies

We may revise, update, or replace these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and any other legal terms or policies governing the Service at our sole discretion, at any time, and without prior notice. Changes are effective upon posting to the Service, with the “Last updated” date revised accordingly. We may, but are not obligated to, provide additional notice of material changes. Your continued use of the Service after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms and policies; if you do not agree to a change, your sole remedy is to stop using the Service and, if applicable, delete your account.

21. General

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Haloway regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements. If any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will stay in effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. There are no third-party beneficiaries to these Terms.

22. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Reach us through our contact page.