Intellectual property rights policy

This policy explains who owns the content and software you encounter on studee.com, what you may and may not do with it, what happens to material you submit to us, and how we handle complaints that something on our site infringes someone else's rights.

We take intellectual property seriously - both ours and other people's. If you believe something on our site infringes a right you hold, the takedown procedure later in this document tells you how to reach us.

What we own

Unless we say otherwise on a specific page or asset, the material you encounter on studee.com is owned by Studee Ltd or licensed to us. This includes:

• The text, layout, and editorial content of pages we publish (guides, programme write-ups, comparison content, help articles).
• The Studee name, the Studee logo, and the visual identity associated with our product.
• The software that powers studee.com.
• Our internal documentation, schemas, and the way we structure our programme and university data for display.

These rights are protected under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Trade Marks Act 1994, and equivalent laws in other jurisdictions.

You may read, browse, and link to our public pages for personal, non-commercial use. Any other use - copying substantial parts of the site, scraping our data, republishing our content, or building a derivative product on top of it - needs our written permission first.

What we license from third parties

A meaningful share of what you see on studee.com is not ours. We license it in from third parties under contract, and onward use is constrained by those contracts. In particular:

• University and programme listings. Our programme data, university descriptions, and related reference content are sourced from partner universities and aggregators under data-sharing agreements. We display this material to help you research; we do not grant onward redistribution rights.
• Imagery. Many of the photographs you see on the site - campus images, student lifestyle photography, country and city imagery - are licensed from agencies and image partners. Some are served through our image-delivery provider. The licence we hold typically permits use on Studee surfaces only.
• Fonts, icons, and code libraries. We use third-party fonts, icon sets, and open-source software components, each under its own licence. Open-source attributions are maintained in our software and made available on request.

Where a third-party right is involved, your ability to reuse the material is governed by that third party's licence, not by anything we could grant you.

What you submit to us

The public studee.com site offers limited opportunities to submit material to us - for example, the contents of an enquiry form. We refer to anything you send us this way as your content.

Your content stays yours. Submitting material to us does not transfer ownership of it to Studee.

To operate the service, however, we need a narrow licence to use your content. By submitting content to us, you grant Studee a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, display back to you where appropriate, and otherwise process your content only to the extent necessary to operate the site, respond to your enquiry, and improve the service.

This licence is deliberately narrow:

• It lasts only while we need the content for those operational purposes (including any retention period set out in our Privacy notice).
• It does not let us sell, rent, sublicense for unrelated purposes, or train commercial models on your content.
• It does not let us publish your content publicly.
• It does not extend to marketing or promotional use of your content without separate, specific consent from you.

Your underlying contractual relationship with us - including this licence-back - sits inside our Terms and conditions. Please read those alongside this policy.

You are responsible for what you submit. By submitting it, you confirm that you have the right to do so and that the content does not infringe anyone else's rights, breach any law, or violate any obligation you owe to a third party.

Trademarks

Studee and the Studee logo are trademarks of Studee Ltd. The Trade Marks Act 1994 and corresponding laws in other jurisdictions protect them.

You may:

• Refer to Studee by name in editorial, journalistic, or descriptive contexts.
• Link to studee.com using the word "Studee" as the link text.

You may not, without our prior written permission:

• Use the Studee name or logo in a way that suggests we endorse, sponsor, or are affiliated with you, your product, or your service when we are not.
• Incorporate the Studee name or logo into your own product name, domain name, social-media handle, or trademark.
• Modify the Studee logo, or use it in a context that misrepresents Studee.

Other names, logos, and marks shown on studee.com - for example university names and crests - belong to their respective owners. We display them under the licences described above and not as our own.

Respecting other people's rights

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect users of our services to do the same. If we are notified of material on our site that infringes a third-party right, and the notice gives us enough information to act on, we will review the material and remove or restrict it where appropriate.

We may also act on our own initiative - for example, removing material we display that we discover to be unlawful or in clear breach of our Terms and conditions.

Notice-and-takedown procedure

This notice-and-takedown procedure operates against the framework set by regulation 19 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 (SI 2002/2013), which limits the liability of a hosting service for unlawful material stored at a user's request, provided the host acts expeditiously to remove or disable access to that material on obtaining actual knowledge or awareness of it. Our acknowledgement and review windows below are the maximum we aim for; in clear-cut cases we will act faster.

If you believe material on studee.com infringes a copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property right that you hold (or that you are authorised to act on behalf of), please send us a written notice containing all of the following:

• Your identity and contact details - your full name, the organisation you represent (if any), a postal address, an email address, and a daytime telephone number.
• The right you are asserting - a clear identification of the original work, mark, or other right (for example, the title and date of a copyrighted work, or the registered trademark number).
• The infringing material - a clear identification of the material on our site you believe to be infringing, including the URL, the page, the filename, or any other detail that lets us locate it precisely.
• A statement of belief - a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the rights-holder, its agent, or the law.
• A statement of accuracy - a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, to the extent it asserts you are the rights-holder or authorised to act on the rights-holder's behalf, that this assertion is correct.
• A signature - your physical or electronic signature.

Send your notice to [email protected].

Incomplete notices slow us down. If we cannot verify a notice - for example because the right is not adequately identified, or the material is not locatable from what you have given us - we will come back to you for the missing information rather than act on guesswork.

How we will respond

When we receive a notice that meets the requirements above, we will:

• Acknowledge receipt within 2 working days, faster for clear-cut notices.
• Review the notice and the material complained of within 5 working days of acknowledgement for ordinary notices, and decide what action to take. For clearly unlawful material we act immediately on receipt.
• Where we decide to remove, disable, or restrict access to the material, do so promptly and tell you what we have done.
• Where the material was supplied by a user of our services, tell that user that the material has been removed or restricted, the reason, and that they may submit a counter-notice if they believe the action was incorrect.
• Where we decide that the material is not infringing, or that the notice is not sufficient to act on, tell you our reasoning so you can decide whether to refine the notice or pursue the matter through other channels.

We do not adjudicate disputes between rights-holders. Where a notice and a counter-notice conflict on the merits, the appropriate forum is a court - in the first instance, a court of England and Wales.

Counter-notice

If material you provided has been removed or restricted in response to a notice and you believe that action was wrong, you may send us a counter-notice. A counter-notice should include your identity and contact details, identify the material that was removed and where it appeared, and explain why you believe the removal was incorrect (for example, that you hold the right, that your use was permitted by the rights-holder, or that your use was lawful for another reason - such as fair dealing for research or private study under section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, fair dealing for criticism, review or news reporting under section 30, or fair dealing for caricature, parody or pastiche under section 30A). Send counter-notices to the same address as takedown notices.

Applicable law

This policy and the takedown procedure operate under the laws of England and Wales. The principal statutes relevant to the rights covered by this policy are the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, the Trade Marks Act 1994, and the hosting safe-harbour framework in regulation 19 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002 (SI 2002/2013).

We have not designed this procedure to track the safe-harbour scheme of the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998. If you need to follow a DMCA-style process for a US-law claim, please tell us so when you contact us, and we will work with you on the appropriate route.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time - for example, to reflect changes in the law, in our products, or in our partner relationships. Material changes will be reflected in the effective_date and version shown in the page metadata. Please check back if you rely on this policy for a specific use.

Contact

For takedown notices and IP-related correspondence, write to [email protected].

For broader questions about how this policy interacts with our services, please see our Terms and conditions or contact our Data Protection Officer.

This policy was last reviewed on 28 April 2026 and is next due for review by 28 April 2027.