The rules for using CampusGrader, submitting reviews, and participating responsibly.

1. Acceptance of These Terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of CampusGrader.com (“CampusGrader,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). By using the website, submitting a review, sending a contact form, uploading content where available, or interacting with CampusGrader pages, you agree to these Terms.

If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use CampusGrader or submit information through the website.

2. Purpose of CampusGrader

CampusGrader is an independent college review and comparison platform designed to help students, parents, families, alumni, transfer students, visitors, and researchers compare schools using approved review signals, star ratings, letter grades, review counts, resource guides, and decision-focused categories.

CampusGrader is intended for general informational and research support. It does not provide admissions counseling, legal advice, financial aid advice, safety services, emergency services, or official college decisions.

3. No College Affiliation or Endorsement

Unless clearly stated otherwise, CampusGrader is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or officially connected to the colleges, universities, schools, organizations, brands, or institutions mentioned on the website.

College names, logos, locations, and related details may be used for identification, research, comparison, or informational purposes. Visitors should verify official details directly with each college.

4. Reviews, Ratings, Grades, and Moderation

Visitors may submit reviews, ratings, feedback, and optional photos where available. CampusGrader may review, moderate, approve, reject, edit for formatting, hide, or remove submissions at its discretion.

Pending reviews do not affect public star ratings, CampusGrader letter grades, ranking positions, comparison displays, or approved review counts. Only approved reviews should be included in public ratings and review counts.

CampusGrader may reject or remove submissions that appear fake, spammy, duplicate, abusive, threatening, misleading, promotional, irrelevant, privacy-invasive, or otherwise inconsistent with the platform’s review standards.

5. Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to use CampusGrader in a way that harms the platform, other visitors, schools, reviewers, or the integrity of the review system.

• Do not submit fake, misleading, paid, manipulated, or duplicate reviews.
• Do not post threats, harassment, hate, intimidation, or personal attacks.
• Do not submit private student records, identification documents, private addresses, phone numbers, medical information, or sensitive personal details.
• Do not upload invasive, unsafe, irrelevant, or privacy-violating photos.
• Do not attempt to manipulate ratings, grades, rankings, review counts, or comparison displays.
• Do not scrape, copy, attack, disrupt, reverse engineer, overload, or misuse the website.
• Do not use CampusGrader for unlawful, harmful, deceptive, or abusive activity.

6. User Content and Submitted Material

If you submit reviews, ratings, comments, photos, messages, correction requests, or other content to CampusGrader, you are responsible for the content you provide.

By submitting content, you give CampusGrader permission to use, store, display, publish, moderate, edit for formatting, summarize, categorize, and distribute that content in connection with the website and related platform features. This permission allows CampusGrader to operate review pages, college profiles, rankings, comparison tools, and resource pages.

You should only submit content you have the right to share. Do not submit content that violates another person’s privacy, intellectual property rights, or legal rights.

7. Accuracy, Corrections, and Official Verification

CampusGrader aims to provide useful college comparison information, but we do not guarantee that all content is complete, current, accurate, or suitable for every visitor’s situation.

Visitors should verify admissions requirements, tuition, fees, financial aid, housing, safety policies, academic programs, deadlines, accreditation, graduation requirements, and other official details directly with each college.

If you believe a page contains outdated or unclear information, you may submit a correction request through the Contact page.

8. Future Accounts, Ambassadors, and College Representatives

CampusGrader may add user accounts, ambassador features, college representative areas, dashboards, verified review tools, or administrative systems in the future.

If those features are added, additional rules may apply. CampusGrader may limit access, review activity, suspend accounts, remove content, or restrict participation if users misuse the platform or violate these Terms.

9. Intellectual Property

CampusGrader’s website design, branding, written content, page layouts, graphics, code, review display structure, grade presentation, and platform materials are owned by CampusGrader or its licensors unless otherwise stated.

You may use CampusGrader for personal, educational, and research purposes. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, sell, scrape, or redistribute substantial portions of the site without permission.

10. Third-Party Links and Services

CampusGrader may link to college websites, official resources, third-party tools, embedded content, form services, analytics tools, or external resources. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, policies, or practices of third-party websites.

When you visit a third-party website, that website’s own terms and privacy policies apply.

11. Disclaimers and Limitation of Responsibility

CampusGrader is provided for general informational purposes. The website is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, to the extent permitted by law.

CampusGrader does not guarantee admission outcomes, financial aid results, safety outcomes, career outcomes, school quality, review accuracy, ranking accuracy, or suitability of any college for any specific student.

To the extent permitted by law, CampusGrader is not responsible for losses, damages, decisions, disputes, or consequences that may result from using the website or relying on information found on the platform.

12. Changes to These Terms

CampusGrader may update these Terms from time to time as the platform grows, laws change, features are added, or moderation systems evolve.

Continued use of CampusGrader after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms.

13. Contact CampusGrader

For questions about these Terms, review concerns, correction requests, privacy questions, or general platform feedback, please contact CampusGrader through the Contact page.

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