Terms and Conditions

ApplyBoard Inc. (“ApplyBoard”) is excited to announce the International Alumni of Impact Program Scholarship (the “Scholarship”), a merit-based program pursuant to which ApplyBoard will select recipients to receive  its International Alumni of Impact Program Scholarships. These merit-based scholarships are available to international students who have enrolled for the Summer 2023 or Fall 2023 intake  through the ApplyBoard platform, via a recruitment partner or directly, for full-time study in a program at select ApplyBoard partner institutions (university or college) in Canada and are eligible for the Scholarship, all as further set out in these Terms and Conditions (these “Terms”).

Please read these Terms in their entirety (as hereinafter defined). By submitting your application to an Eligible Institution (defined below) through the ApplyBoard platform and being enrolled at the Eligible Institution for the Summer 2023 or Fall 2023 intake, you are eligible  to be considered for a Scholarship. Students selected to receive a Scholarship will need to agree to be legally bound by these Terms and acknowledge and agree that these Terms form a binding legal agreement between the student and ApplyBoard.

For any questions regarding the Scholarship or these Terms, please contact: alumniofimpact@applyboard.com.

1. Eligibility to qualify for a Scholarship. To be eligible to qualify for a Scholarship, a student:
   1. must be a international student who has submitted an application through the ApplyBoard platform (whether directly, or through an ApplyBoard recruitment partner) to study in any program on a full-time basis at Cambrian College, Coast Mountain College, Cape Breton University, George Brown College, Justice Institute of British Columbia, Mount Saint Vincent University, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, University of Ottawa, University of Waterloo and Vancouver Community College (collectively, an “Eligible Institution”) commencing in the Summer 2023 or Fall 2023 intake and the Eligible Institution has confirmed enrollment;
   2. must be eighteen (18) years of age or older as of the date of October 1, 2023;
   3. must not be an employee, independent contractor, representative or agent of ApplyBoard or domiciled with an employee, independent contractor, representative or agent of ApplyBoard; and
   4. must have read and agreed to be bound by these Terms.
      (such a student that satisfies the above conditions, an “Eligible Student”).
2. Scholarship Recipient Selection Process and Conditions.
   1. Selection. Scholarship recipients will be determined based on merit, with a strong emphasis on grades (GPA) as the primary criterion by a selection committee. In addition to merit, factors such as financial need, education background and other relevant accomplishments may also be considered by the selection committee. The selection committee will identify as potential Scholarship recipients the ten (10) Eligible Students which the selection committee has determined, in its sole discretion, are most deserving of the Scholarship. The odds of receiving a Scholarship depend on the number of Eligible Students.
   2. Notification of Scholarship Recipients. On or around October 16, 2023, ApplyBoard will notify the ten (10) Eligible Students referred to in Section 2.3.1 that they have been selected as potential recipients of a Scholarship, subject to these Terms. ApplyBoard will notify such potential scholarship recipients by email at the email address in their Applyboard platform account  (such email notice, a “Qualifying Notice”). Receipt of a Qualifying Notice does not mean that an  Eligible Student will receive a Scholarship. To be declared and confirmed as a recipient of a Scholarship, the Eligible Student must comply with further terms and conditions as set out herein. On receipt of a Qualifying Notice, an Eligible Student will have an opportunity to be declared as a Scholarship recipient by satisfying the requirements as set out in Section 2.3.
   3. Declaration as a Scholarship Recipient; Disqualification.
      1. Becoming a recipient of a Scholarship is subject to and conditional on validation and verification of eligibility, compliance with these Terms and satisfaction of the requirements as set out in this Section. The declaration of an Eligible Student that has received a Qualifying Notice as a Scholarship recipient is subject to the following conditions:
         1. The Eligible Student must, within five (5) calendar days of the date that ApplyBoard has sent to the student the Qualifying Notice:
         2. sign and return by email to ApplyBoard a consent, declaration and release form that will be provided by ApplyBoard in the Qualifying Notice. The consent, declaration and release form will, among other things: (i) set out these Terms; (ii) release ApplyBoard and related releasees from any and all liability in connection with  the awarding (or not awarding) of a Scholarship to the Eligible Student; and (iii) require the student to agree to further marketing, advertising and publicity activities, including publication, disclosure and use of the Eligible Student’s name, country of residence, school and  program (“Student’s Information”), without notice or compensation, in any manner whatsoever, including print, broadcast or the internet.
      2. If the Eligible Student that has received a Qualifying Notice:
         1. fails to properly sign and return to ApplyBoard the aforementioned consent, declaration and release form within the timeline specified above;
         2. does not respond to a request by ApplyBoard for information or additional documentation within five (5) calendar days of the date of ApplyBoard’s request therefor;
         3. cannot accept a Scholarship for any reason;
            has submitted or communicated any information that ApplyBoard reasonably believes is untrue, misleading, deceptive or fraudulent;
         4. in the reasonable opinion of ApplyBoard, violated applicable laws, or if ApplyBoard reasonably believes that payment of the Scholarship to the Eligible Student would violate applicable laws or the rights of any third party or be the subject of a claim or any litigation; or
         5. fails to comply with or breaches these Terms (including breaching the representations and warranties herein),
         6. then the Eligible Student will be disqualified (and will be deemed to forfeit all eligibility and opportunity to receive a Scholarship). In such a case, ApplyBoard reserves the right (but has no obligation) to select an alternate potential Scholarship recipient, in its sole discretion.  In such a case, the provisions of Section 2.3.1 and this Section will apply with respect to such alternate potential Scholarship recipient.
      3. If an Eligible Student that has received a Qualifying Notice has complied with these Terms and satisfies the conditions set out in Section 2.3 and is not disqualified pursuant to these Terms, such student will be declared a recipient of a Scholarship. The specific Scholarship to be awarded to such an Eligible Student (subject to these Terms) is based on how ApplyBoard has evaluated the Eligible Student’s merit, relative to the other Scholarship recipients.
   4. Scholarship Recipient Announcement. The declared recipients of Scholarships will be announced  on or around November 16, 2023, where they will be officially recognized by ApplyBoard as Scholarship recipients. Declaration of a student as a Scholarship recipient does not unconditionally entitle or guarantee the Eligible Student a Scholarship. ApplyBoard, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify a declared Scholarship recipient and not award such disqualified students.
3. Scholarships.
   1. Scholarship Awards. The following ten (10) scholarships (“Scholarships”) are available to be awarded in accordance with and subject to these Terms:
      1. 1. ten (10) Scholarships  each of CAD $1,000.00 in total;
         2. There will be one (1) Scholarship per each Eligible Institution.
         3. All amounts in these Terms are in Canadian Dollars. Each Eligible Student acknowledges that ApplyBoard shall not be required under any circumstances to award more scholarships than the number of available Scholarships set out in these Terms.
   2. Cancellation of Scholarship Program. In the event that  there are: (i) not enough Eligible Students or (ii) not ten (10) students that are confirmed as Scholarship recipients, the Scholarship program may be cancelled in its entirety and all of the available Scholarships above may not be awarded.
   3. Payment of Scholarships. Subject to these Terms, ApplyBoard will award the Scholarships to the Scholarship recipients in November 2023 in the manner determined by ApplyBoard in its sole discretion. Scholarship Recipients will be required to have a Canadian bank account in order to receive the Scholarship. ApplyBoard will only award the Scholarship to the Scholarship recipient. Scholarships must be accepted as awarded and are not exchangeable or substitutable. Scholarships cannot be assigned or transferred to a third party. ApplyBoard is not responsible for any Scholarship recipient’s failure to receive a Scholarship due to the Scholarship recipient’s provision of incorrect or incomplete information to ApplyBoard or failure to undertake the actions required in order to accept the Scholarship.
   4. Taxes. Scholarship recipients are solely responsible for payment of any applicable taxes and reporting any taxable income associated with the Scholarships (if any).
   5. Conditions Precedent to Payment. Notwithstanding that an Eligible Student has been declared a Scholarship recipient, if:
      1. 1. ApplyBoard discovers that the Scholarship recipient has violated applicable laws, or ApplyBoard reasonably believes that awarding of the Scholarship to the Scholarship recipient would violate applicable laws or the rights of any third party or be the subject of a claim or any litigation; or
         2. ApplyBoard discovers that the Scholarship recipient otherwise failed to comply with or breached these Terms (including breaching the representations and warranties made herein),

            then, ApplyBoard reserves the right to disqualify the Scholarship recipient and not award to the Scholarship recipient the Scholarship that the Scholarship recipient otherwise would have been eligible to receive if not for disqualification pursuant to these Terms.

4. Release, Exclusion of Liability and Indemnification. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Eligible Student irrevocably waives all rights relating to any and all claims and actions of whatever nature or kind arising in connection with the Scholarship, these Terms, and ApplyBoard’s use of the Eligible Student’s information, covenants not to bring any such claim or action against ApplyBoard, its affiliates, or their respective directors, officers, shareholders, employees, agents, representatives and independent contractors (“ApplyBoard Releasees”) and forever releases, discharges and agrees to hold harmless ApplyBoard Releasees from any and all liability or damages of whatever nature or kind for any such claim or action. Each Eligible Student agrees to fully indemnify and hold harmless the ApplyBoard Releasees from any and all third party claims, actions, liabilities or damages of whatever nature or kind arising in connection with the Eligible Student’s information or other acts and omissions in connection with the Scholarship or breach or failure to comply with these Terms (including, for certainty, breach of the representations and warranties made to ApplyBoard herein).
5. General Terms.
   1. Right to Amend. ApplyBoard reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to amend these Terms without prior notice.
   2. Right to Modify, Cancel or Terminate. ApplyBoard reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to withdraw, cancel, suspend, modify, extend or terminate the Scholarship in whole or in part in any way at any time without prior notice in the event of an accident or error of any kind (whether technical, administrative or otherwise), technical problem, computer virus, bug, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failure, government orders related to pandemic, occurrence of any event outside the reasonable control of ApplyBoard or any other cause which ApplyBoard determines in its sole discretion, interferes with or affects the proper conduct, security, fairness or integrity of the Scholarship. Without limiting the foregoing, ApplyBoard reserves the right, in its sole discretion, and without prior notice, to adjust any of the dates and/or timeframes set out in these Terms, to the extent reasonably necessary, for purposes of verifying compliance by any Eligible  Student with these Terms, or as a result of technical problems, or in light of any other circumstances which, in the opinion of ApplyBoard in its sole discretion, affect the proper administration of the Scholarship.
   3. Costs.Any and all costs and expenses incurred in connection with applying for or receiving a Scholarship are the sole responsibility of Eligible Students.
   4. ApplyBoard Decisions. The decisions of ApplyBoard with respect to all aspects of this Scholarship are final and binding on all Eligible Students without right of appeal, including, without limitation, any decisions regarding the eligibility/disqualification of Eligible Students.
   5. Applicable Laws. This Scholarship is subject to all applicable federal, provincial, state, municipal and local laws and regulations. The Scholarship is void where prohibited.
   6. Privacy.  Each student consents to and expressly agrees that its personal data submitted with their application to an Eligible Institution through the ApplyBoard platform, including, without limitation, its name, country of residence and email address may be collected, processed, stored and otherwise used by ApplyBoard and its agents and/or representatives for the purposes of conducting and administering the Scholarship and communicating with the student with respect thereto. Each student further consents and agrees to disclosure, publicizing and other use of certain of its personal information as set out in these Terms.
   7. Notices. ApplyBoard will provide any notices contemplated by these Terms by email to the email address in the Eligible Student’s ApplyBoard platform account . Such notices shall be deemed effective and received by an Eligible Student  at the time they are sent by ApplyBoard, as recorded by ApplyBoard. ApplyBoard is not responsible for any failure by an Eligible Student to receive an email sent by ApplyBoard for whatever reason, including, without limitation, due to any automatic spam-filtering that may be applied by a student, its email provider or its internet service or network provider.  ApplyBoard is not responsible for its failure to receive an email or electronic message sent by an Eligible Student or Scholarship recipient for whatever reason, including, without limitation, due to any automatic spam-filtering that may be applied by an email provider or internet service or network provider. If an Eligible Student has any questions regarding the Scholarship or these Terms, the Eligible Student may contact ApplyBoard at alumniofimpact@applyboard.com.
   8. Governing Law and Forum. These Terms will be governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without giving effect to any choice-of-law rules that may require the application of the laws of another jurisdiction. All disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Scholarshipshall be resolved exclusively in the jurisdiction and venue of the courts in Toronto, Ontario and each Eligible Student irrevocably consents to such jurisdiction and venue.
   9. Severability; Waiver. In the event that any provision of these Terms, or part thereof, is deemed, invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court, these Terms will continue in force with respect to the enforceable provisions, and any non-enforceable provision will, to the extent permitted by law, be replaced by a provision which, being valid, comes closest to the intention underlying the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision. No failure or delay by ApplyBoard in exercising any right or enforcing any provision of these Terms will constitute a waiver of that right or provision. A waiver of any default, breach or non-compliance under these Terms is not effective unless in writing and signed by ApplyBoard. The waiver by ApplyBoard of any default, breach or non-compliance under these Terms will not operate as a waiver in respect of any continuing or subsequent default, breach or non-compliance (whether of the same or any other nature).
   10. Social Media Disclaimer. The Scholarship is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or any social media platform. All such third parties are released of any liability by each student in this Scholarship. All questions, comments or complaints regarding the Scholarship must be directed to ApplyBoard and not to such third parties
   11. Force Majeure. ApplyBoard will not be liable for delays caused by any event beyond its reasonable control, including, for example, an act of God, act of government, pandemic, epidemic, flood, fire, earthquake, civil unrest, act of terror, strike or other labour problem, Internet service provider failure or delay or denial of service attack.
   12. Interpretation. The term “includes” and “including” mean, respectively, “include without limitation” and “including without limitation”. Headings are for reference purposes only and have no substantive effect.