Terms of Use
What this website is for, what it does not promise, and the ground rules for using it.
Working draft, not in force. These terms are written for the site as it will be when it is finished, and they have not yet been reviewed by qualified counsel or approved for publication. They do not govern your use of the site today. The site is listed by search engines while it is still being built, which is why you may have found this page before that review has happened.
Draft last updated July 24, 2026.
Who we are, and what you are agreeing to
This website, lecturebound.com, is operated by LectureBound Inc., an Illinois corporation (“LectureBound,” “we”), Tali Levy’s college counseling practice. By using the site you agree to these Terms of Use. The Privacy Policy explains how the site handles information about you. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use the site.
The website is information, not counseling
Everything on this site is general information about LectureBound’s practice and about the college process. It is not advice about your student. Reading the site, or emailing us, does not make you a client and does not create a counselor–client relationship. Working with LectureBound begins only when both sides sign a written services agreement, and that agreement, not these terms, governs the counseling itself. Nothing on the site is legal or financial advice either: anything it says about scholarships or paying for college is educational, and decisions about money belong with you and your own advisors.
No admissions promises
Admission decisions are made by colleges, and by no one else. Nothing on this site promises, predicts, or implies that any student will be admitted to any college, receive any scholarship, or achieve any particular result, and no page of it should be read that way. Where the site reports the outcomes of past students, those figures describe what students have done. They are a record, not a prediction.
Who the site is for
The site is written for parents and guardians and for high school students. If you are under 18, use it with a parent or guardian’s knowledge. If a student is under 13, a parent or guardian should be the one to get in touch. The Privacy Policy explains why.
Using the site
You may view the site, and share links to it, for personal, noncommercial purposes. You agree not to misuse it, which means, among other things: no attempting to breach or probe its security or its hosting provider’s; no interfering with its availability; no automated collection of its content at a volume no person could produce; no framing it or misrepresenting an affiliation with LectureBound; and no unlawful use of any kind.
Whose content this is
The text, design, and brand of this site, including the LectureBound name and logo, belong to LectureBound Inc. and may not be used commercially without written permission. Any student or parent quotations and photographs that appear on this site do so with documented permission, given for this site specifically, and may not be copied or republished anywhere else. The IECA and WACAC membership marks belong to those associations and indicate membership, nothing more.
Links to other places
The site links out, to LinkedIn for example. Those services are not ours, these terms do not cover them, and a link is not an endorsement of everything found at the other end.
Accuracy, and the site being available
The college admissions world changes constantly, and this site’s content will change with it. We work to keep it accurate and current, but we do not promise that every detail is complete or up to the minute, and we may change, move, or remove content at any time. The site itself may occasionally be unavailable, and we do not promise uninterrupted access.
No warranties
The website is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, LectureBound disclaims all warranties about it, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. This disclaimer applies only to the extent the law of the state where you live permits it.
Limits on liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, LectureBound will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your use of this website, and its total liability for claims arising out of the website will not exceed one hundred dollars ($100). This section is about the free website only. It does not limit anything in a signed services agreement, and it does not limit any liability that the law does not allow to be limited, including rights your state’s consumer protection laws give you that cannot be waived. These limits apply only to the extent the law of the state where you live permits them.
Governing law, and where disputes go
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and any dispute about the website will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Cook County, Illinois. Both of us consent to those courts. If the consumer protection law of the state where you live gives you a non-waivable right to a different law or forum, nothing here takes that right away.
Housekeeping
If part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands. If we do not enforce a provision, we are not giving it up. These terms are the whole agreement about using the website itself; a signed services agreement is the whole agreement about the counseling.
Changes
If these terms change, the date above will change with them, and a material change will be described here rather than quietly edited in. Using the site after a change means the updated terms apply.
Contact
Questions about these terms go to tali@lecturebound.com.