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This platform (app.internshipabroad.me and any associated sub-domains) is operated by Students Abroad, a sole proprietorship registered in the Netherlands, trading as Internship Abroad (TO CONFIRM: registration number and registered address). When these Terms say "we", "us", or "Internship Abroad", we mean Students Abroad.
By creating an account, completing any onboarding step, accessing the platform, or clicking "I agree", you enter into a binding agreement with us under these Terms. If you are acting on behalf of an organisation (a company or university), you represent that you have the authority to bind that organisation.
Internship Abroad is an introduction platform. We help students find internship placements abroad by building Living Profiles, matching students with relevant opportunities, and making students discoverable to companies and host organisations who are looking for interns.
Parts of the platform, including the onboarding conversation (Isa) and matching logic, are AI-assisted. The AI operates under our team's supervision. A real person reviews every Living Profile before it goes live. Automated matching is used to suggest opportunities; it never makes a decision with legal effect about you, and you can always request a manual review.
You may use the platform as a student if:
A company may browse and contact students only after creating a company account and accepting the company-specific terms in Section 5. Access to student profiles is a paid feature.
Universities access dedicated partner portals and are bound by the university terms in Section 6 as well as any separate agreement signed with us.
As a student using the platform, you agree to:
These obligations apply to any organisation that creates a company account or accesses student profiles through the platform. By accessing a student profile, the company accepts these obligations in full.
Student profiles and the information contained in them may be accessed and used solely for the purpose of evaluating and pursuing internship placements through the Internship Abroad platform. You may not use student data for any other purpose.
You must not discriminate against any student on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Access to student profiles does not permit selection criteria that would be unlawful under EU or applicable national employment law.
Any internship arrangement entered into with a student must comply with applicable labour law, including minimum-wage rules (where they apply to interns), working-hours rules, and health and safety obligations. We are not a party to any such arrangement and accept no liability for it.
You must not scrape, crawl, automate, or systematically extract student data or any other content from the platform by any means, technical or otherwise.
Universities and sending institutions access the platform through dedicated partner portals. By activating a portal or accessing student data through it, the university agrees to:
The following conduct is prohibited for all users, regardless of account type:
Breach of this section may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account, removal of your data, and, where applicable, referral to law enforcement.
The personal information and content you submit to the platform is yours. We process it to provide the service. Our detailed data practices are set out in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of this agreement.
Before your profile becomes visible to companies, we will ask for your explicit consent. Consent is always:
Consent for displaying your photo is requested separately. You can participate in the platform and receive matches without making your photo visible to companies.
You can withdraw consent at any time from your profile settings, or by writing to us. Withdrawal takes effect immediately: your profile stops being shown to companies. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of any processing that occurred while consent was in place. We retain a minimal suppression record after deletion to prevent accidental re-registration; this does not constitute continued use of your data.
As a data subject under the GDPR, you have the right to access your data, correct inaccuracies, request erasure, restrict processing, object to processing, and receive a portable copy of your data. You can exercise any of these rights by writing to privacy@internshipabroad.nl TO CONFIRM: privacy contact address. We respond within one calendar month.
When your profile is live, it is visible to companies who have paid for access and have agreed to handle your data only for internship-evaluation purposes (see Section 5). We also use a small set of third-party service providers who process data on our behalf under data-processing agreements: our hosting provider, payment processor (Stripe), email platform, and analytics tool (Umami, privacy-first, no cookies). A full list of sub-processors is in our Privacy Policy.
We do not run facial recognition, biometric template extraction, or any automated identification processing on profile photos. Photos are stored and displayed as ordinary images. We will not introduce such processing without separate explicit consent and a prior Data Protection Impact Assessment.
We use automated logic to suggest which opportunities are shown to you and which students are surfaced to companies. No automated decision with a legal or similarly significant effect is made about you without human review. You may request a manual review of any match at any time.
All software, design, graphics, text, and content we create for the platform (excluding your content) belong to us or our licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual-property law. You may not copy, reproduce, or distribute any part of it without our written permission.
You retain ownership of all content you submit (text, photos, answers). You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to store, process, display, and transmit your content solely as necessary to provide the service, including displaying your Living Profile to companies in accordance with your consent choices. This licence ends when you delete your account or withdraw consent for the relevant processing, subject to any retention obligations we have under law.
Internship listings, company profiles, editorial content, and guidance materials we publish are our intellectual property. You may use them only for the purpose of finding or evaluating an internship through the platform. You may not republish or commercialise them.
Student onboarding and profile creation is free of charge TO CONFIRM: confirm if any student-paid tier exists at launch. Companies pay to access and contact students. University partners pay under a separately agreed fee structure. Certain add-on features (such as the Full Service placement track or hand-crafting upgrades) are charged to students where applicable; prices are shown at checkout.
Company access is available on the following plans TO CONFIRM: finalise tier names, prices, and feature limits before launch:
Prices are shown on the pricing page and confirmed at checkout before any charge is made. We may change pricing by giving 30 days' notice; changes do not affect an active subscription period already paid for.
All payments are processed by Stripe, Inc., a third-party payment provider. We do not see, store, or process your card number or payment credentials. By making a payment, you also agree to Stripe's terms of service. Stripe is available at stripe.com.
If you purchase a paid student add-on and change your mind within 14 days of payment, and we have not yet started work on the deliverable, you are entitled to a full refund. Once work has started, refunds are at our discretion and reflect the proportion of work not yet completed. Contact daan@internshipabroad.nl to request a refund.
If you request an introduction to a student and the student's profile is found to have been materially inaccurate (for example, the student is not genuinely available for the period stated), we will credit the fee to your account within 5 business days of a verified complaint.
48-hour availability refund. If a student does not respond to your introduction request within 48 hours of delivery, or if the student's profile becomes unavailable within 48 hours of your purchase, we will refund the introduction fee in full. This refund is automatic where technically possible; otherwise, contact us within 7 days of the request.
Season passes and monthly subscriptions are non-refundable once the access period has begun, except where required by applicable consumer-protection law. If you cancel a monthly subscription, access continues to the end of the current billing period and no further charges are made.
No refund is issued where the user violated these Terms or where the refund request is made in connection with prohibited conduct.
We provide the platform in good faith and work hard to keep it accurate, available, and useful. However, we make no warranty, express or implied, that the platform will be error-free, uninterrupted, or free of harmful components, or that internship opportunities listed will be available or accurate at the time you access them.
We are an introduction platform. We do not guarantee that any student will receive an internship offer, that any company will find a suitable candidate, or that any placement will be completed. Outcomes depend on many factors outside our control, including student and company conduct, visa conditions, and third-party availability.
Internship listings, company descriptions, and external links on the platform come from third parties. We do not endorse them and are not responsible for their accuracy, legality, or safety. Visiting third-party sites or engaging with third-party companies is at your own risk.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, our total liability to you for any claim arising from or related to these Terms or the platform is limited to the greater of: (a) the total amount you paid us in the 3 months before the event giving rise to the claim; or (b) EUR 100.
We are not liable, under any theory of liability, for: loss of profits or revenue; loss of data; indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages; or any damage or harm arising from a placement, internship, or employment arrangement entered into through the platform.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, you benefit from any mandatory protections provided by the law of your country of residence that cannot be waived by contract. Nothing in this section affects those rights.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Internship Abroad, Students Abroad, and our officers, team members, contractors, and agents from and against any claims, losses, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to:
This section does not apply where the claim arises from our own negligence or wilful misconduct.
You can close your account at any time by using the "Delete account" option in your settings or by writing to us. We will delete your active data within 30 days, subject to any data we are required to retain under applicable law.
We may suspend or terminate your access to the platform immediately if:
Where we terminate for breach, we will notify you by email and explain the reason. You will have the opportunity to contest the decision by writing to us within 14 days.
On termination, your access ends immediately. Sections that by nature survive termination continue in force: intellectual property (Section 9), disclaimers and limitation of liability (Section 11), indemnity (Section 12), and governing law (Section 14). Outstanding payment obligations also survive.
These Terms and any dispute or claim arising from or connected with them are governed by the laws of TO CONFIRM: Italy (Sardinia) once the Italian entity is incorporated; until then, the Netherlands. The parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of TO CONFIRM: [city], Italy / Amsterdam, Netherlands for the resolution of any dispute, except that:
EU Online Dispute Resolution. The European Commission offers an online dispute-resolution platform for consumers at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not currently obliged to participate in an alternative dispute-resolution procedure, but we commit to trying to resolve any complaint through direct communication first.
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we will notify you by email at the address on your account and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page at least 14 days before the change takes effect.
If you continue to use the platform after the effective date of the change, you are agreeing to the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you should close your account before the change takes effect.
Minor changes (for example, fixing a typo, clarifying a sentence without changing its meaning, or updating a contact address) may be made at any time without advance notice.
Questions about these Terms, a refund request, a data-rights request, or anything else: write to us at daan@internshipabroad.nl. We respond within two business days.
For data-protection matters specifically, you can also write to privacy@internshipabroad.nl TO CONFIRM: privacy contact address.