The fine print
Terms of use, in plain words.
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Using this site means you agree to what's below. We wrote it so a 19-year-old can read it in five minutes — if anything is unclear, email aimhoneststudy@gmail.com before relying on it. Last updated: September 16, 2026.
What this site is
Guidance. Not professional advice.
We are not your lawyer, banker, or visa officer
Everything on HonestStudyAbroad — guides, checklists, calculators, university data, visa walkthroughs — is general guidance for international students. It is not legal advice, financial advice, or immigration advice. Loan rates move, visa rules change, and your situation has details we can't see. Before you make a decision involving real money or your immigration status, verify the current facts on the official source (the bank's site, the embassy's site, the university's site) and talk to a licensed professional where it matters.
No guarantees, on anything
Nobody can sell you an outcome. Including us.
- Admissions: we can help you build a stronger application. We cannot get you admitted anywhere.
- Visas: we can help you prepare. The visa officer decides, and no website changes that.
- Jobs and ROI: salary figures, placement stats, and break-even math are estimates from public sources — the job market owes you nothing.
- Figures change: tuition, fees, loan rates, policy rules — we date our numbers, but they go stale. If a number drives your decision, re-check it on the official page first.
Acceptable use
Be a decent human.
No spam, no abuse
Don't flood our forms, don't harass other users, don't post anything illegal. Automated scraping of the whole site at aggressive rates will get blocked — polite, reasonable use won't.
Your submissions
Anything you submit — stories, questions, comments — must be yours to share and must not contain anyone else's private information. We may edit for length and clarity, anonymise, delay, or decline to publish anything, for any reason. Published submissions may stay up indefinitely unless you ask us to take them down.
Our content
Everything here is free for your personal use — read it, print it, forward it to your cousin. What you may not do: resell it, repackage it as your own, or run a consultancy off our guides. Link to us freely; that we encourage.
Paid reviews
SOP reviews, shortlist reviews, and application reviews have their own payment terms and refund policy — published on the Our Model page, in the same plain language. Those terms are part of this agreement when you buy a review. The short version: you pay for hours of review work, never for an outcome.
Liability, honestly stated
We stand behind our honesty, not your outcome.
We work hard to keep this site accurate, and we correct mistakes when we find them — tell us at aimhoneststudy@gmail.com if you spot one. But we can't accept liability for decisions you make based on free guidance: if a visa is refused, a loan falls through, or a job doesn't materialise, that's not something we can be responsible for. Use this site as a starting point for your own research, not the final word. Nothing here overrides the terms of the paid-review agreement where one exists.
Changes and contact
We may update these terms as the site grows; the current version is always on this page, with the date at the top. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept it. Questions about any of this — or anything else: aimhoneststudy@gmail.com.