Terms of Service

Last updated: November 6, 2026

Pathway Ahead is run by Colosimo Ventures LLC, an Ohio company ("we", "us")

1. Agreeing to these terms

These Terms are an agreement between you and Colosimo Ventures LLC. By creating an account or using Pathway Ahead, you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.

If you're under 18, read these Terms with a parent or guardian. If you're 13 to 15, your parent or guardian must approve your account, and by approving they agree to these Terms for you and for themselves. If you're 16 or 17, you can use Pathway Ahead on your own, and you confirm that you're allowed to agree to these Terms. A parent who buys Pro for a student, or links to a student's account, also agrees to these Terms.

2. Who can use Pathway Ahead

You must be at least 13 and live in the United States. Give true information when you sign up, including your birth month and year. One account per person. You sign in with a code sent to your email: keep access to that email private, because you're responsible for what happens on your account. Tell us right away at support@colosimoventures.com if you think someone else is using it.

3. What Pathway Ahead is, and isn't

Pathway Ahead gives career matches, education path comparisons, cost and earnings estimates, deadline tracking, scholarship matches and writing feedback to help you plan. It is guidance, not a guarantee.

• Career matches come from your answers and general information about careers. They aren't a test of ability or a prediction of success.
• Costs, financial aid, pay, loan payments and job outlooks are estimates based on public sources such as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Department of Education's College Scorecard. Real numbers vary by school, program, employer, location, year and family. Confirm them with the school, program or employer before you decide.
• Deadlines, scholarships and program rules come from you or from public sources and can change. You're responsible for meeting real deadlines and requirements. Check them with each school, program or scholarship.
• Pathway Ahead and its Coach are not a licensed school counselor, financial advisor, admissions consultant, lawyer or mental health professional, and nothing in the app is professional advice.

4. The Coach

The Coach is an AI, not a person. It gives feedback and asks questions about your essays, résumé and interview answers. You own what you write. Use the Coach for feedback, not to have work written for you. Don't send work that isn't yours, and follow your school's, program's and scholarship's rules on outside help and AI. AI feedback can be wrong or incomplete, so use your own judgment. Pro plans include a set number of Coach reviews, shown in the app, and we may limit use to keep the service fair and running.

5. Pathway Ahead Pro, payments and renewals

• Free: the career assessment, your top matches, and every risk and debt warning.
• Pathway Ahead Pro unlocks full comparisons, the application tracker, cost and aid tools, the Coach and the parent view. Prices are shown in the app before you buy and may differ by app store or change over time. At launch, Pro is sold as:
  • Yearly: $79 per year, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. If you don't cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, you'll be charged $79, and it renews automatically every year until you cancel.
  • Monthly: $12.99 per month, renewing automatically every month until you cancel.
  • Graduation Pass: a one-time payment of $129 for access through June 30 of the student's expected high school graduation year. It doesn't renew.
  • Senior Pass: a one-time payment of $59 for seniors, on the same terms as the Graduation Pass.
  • Sibling add-on: a one-time payment of $29 for one more student in a family that already has Pro, good through June 30 of that student's graduation year.
• Pro belongs to the student's account. It works on any phone the student signs in on, and a linked parent sees the parent view at no extra cost.
• Purchases go through Apple or Google and follow their payment terms. Your payment is charged to your Apple or Google account when you confirm the purchase, or when a free trial ends.
• To cancel a yearly or monthly plan, go to your Apple or Google account's subscription settings at least 24 hours before it renews. You'll keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for. Deleting the app or your account does not cancel a subscription.
• Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their policies; we can't refund app store purchases ourselves.
• If a price goes up, we'll tell you before it applies, and it won't apply until your next renewal. Where the law requires it, we'll also remind you before a yearly plan renews.

6. Your content

You own what you put into Pathway Ahead: your answers, plans, notes and writing. You give us permission to store, copy and process it only to run Pathway Ahead for you, as the Privacy Policy describes. We don't sell it or use it to train AI. Make sure you have the right to anything you send, and don't send other people's private information.

7. Rules for using Pathway Ahead

Don't: break the law; harass, threaten or impersonate anyone; send anything hateful, sexual, violent or harmful; send someone else's personal information; try to get into other people's accounts or our systems; copy, scrape or resell the app's content or data; reverse engineer or overload the app; use bots; get around plan limits or age protections; or use Pathway Ahead to cheat.

8. Our content

The app, its design, name, career information, writing and software (everything except your content) belong to us or the people we license them from. We give you a personal, non-transferable permission to use them for your own planning while you have an account. Public data we show, such as government statistics, belongs to its source.

9. Other sites and data

Pathway Ahead links to schools, programs, scholarships and government sites we don't control. We're not responsible for their content, accuracy or practices. Check their own terms and privacy policies.

10. Feedback

If you send us ideas, reports or suggestions, we may use them to improve Pathway Ahead without owing you anything. Please don't send ideas you want to keep secret.

11. Ending your account

You can delete your account anytime in Settings. A parent can withdraw approval for a 13- to 15-year-old, which deletes the account. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these Terms or the law, or puts others at risk, and we'll tell you why unless the law or safety prevents it. If we stop offering Pathway Ahead or close your account without a good reason, we'll work with you on a fair refund of any unused paid time where the app store allows it. Sections 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17 still apply after an account ends.

12. Disclaimers

Pathway Ahead is provided "as is" and "as available." To the extent the law allows, we don't promise that it will always work, be error-free or be up to date, or that its estimates will match real costs, pay or outcomes. You're responsible for the decisions you make using it. Some states don't allow these disclaimers, so they may not all apply to you.

13. Limit on liability

To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses, such as lost money, lost scholarships or missed deadlines. Our total liability for any claim relating to Pathway Ahead is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for Pro in the 12 months before the claim, or $50. These limits don't apply to anything the law doesn't let us limit.

14. If someone makes a claim

If you're 18 or older and someone makes a claim against us because you broke these Terms or the law, you'll cover our reasonable costs of that claim, to the extent the law allows.

15. Disputes

Ohio law governs these Terms, except where your state's consumer protection law gives you rights that can't be waived. If you have a problem, email support@colosimoventures.com first and give us 30 days to try to fix it. If we can't, disputes go to the state or federal courts in Franklin County, Ohio, or either of us may use small claims court where you live.

16. Apple and Google

If you got Pathway Ahead from the Apple App Store or Google Play:

• These Terms are between you and us, not Apple or Google. We, not they, are responsible for the app and its content, support and maintenance.
• Apple's Standard License Agreement or Google Play's terms also apply. If they conflict with these Terms about the app's use, theirs control.
• If the app doesn't meet a warranty that applies by law, you can tell Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price. Apple has no other warranty duty for the app.
• Apple and Google aren't responsible for claims about the app, including product liability, failure to meet a law or rule, consumer protection or privacy claims, or claims that the app infringes someone's rights. We handle those.
• You confirm you aren't in a country under a U.S. government embargo and aren't on a U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted people.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

17. General

• Changes: if we change these Terms in a meaningful way, we'll tell you in the app or by email at least 14 days before the change takes effect, and also tell any linked parent of a user under 18. If you keep using the app after that, the new Terms apply. If you don't agree, you can delete your account.
• Transfer: we may move these Terms and Pathway Ahead to another company, including a new company we form for it, or to a buyer. We'll tell you first. You can't transfer your account.
• Whole agreement: these Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about Pathway Ahead.
• If part doesn't hold up: if a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a part right away, we haven't given up the right to.
• Things outside our control: we aren't responsible for delays or outages caused by events we can't reasonably control.
• Notices: we'll contact you by email or in the app.

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