Terms of Use

NCA Edge — operated by 1600339 B.C. Ltd. ("NCA Edge", "we", "us", "our")

Last updated / Effective date: 4 August 2026 · Version 1.1

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and 1600339 B.C. Ltd., which operates NCA Edge. They govern your access to and use of the NCA Edge website, application, content, and services (together, the "Service"). Please read them carefully — they include important disclaimers, a description of the pass guarantee, a limitation of our liability, and a binding arbitration clause and class-action waiver (§14) that require most disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration in Vancouver rather than in court.

These Terms govern your use of the Service. By accessing or using the site in any way — including simply browsing it — you agree to these Terms. You also expressly accept them by ticking the acceptance box we present when you create your account (which specifically flags the arbitration clause in §14); you only need to do this once. If you do not agree, do not access or use the Service. These Terms incorporate our Privacy Policy.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least the age of majority where you live and able to enter a binding contract. The Service is intended for adults preparing for professional accreditation.

2. What the Service is — and what it is not

NCA Edge is an independent study and practice tool. It provides practice questions, model-style prompts, and automated feedback from "Lexi", an artificial-intelligence examiner, to help you prepare for the accreditation examinations of the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA).

2.1 No affiliation with the NCA or the Federation of Law Societies of Canada

NCA Edge is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, approved by, or connected in any way to the National Committee on Accreditation, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, any law society, or any examining or regulatory body. We use the term "NCA" and the names of subject areas descriptively, only to identify the exams our Service is designed to help you study for. All third-party names and marks belong to their respective owners. Our questions, marking schemes, and materials are our own independent work and are not official NCA questions, are not drawn from any confidential NCA materials, and may not reflect the current NCA syllabus, format, or marking. Always rely on the official NCA materials for what is actually examinable.

2.2 Lexi is AI and can be wrong — study aid only

You understand and agree that:

• Lexi is automated software built on a large language model. Its marks, scores, annotations, summaries, and suggestions are generated by AI and can be inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, including on points of law.
• Lexi's output is a general study aid only. It is not legal advice, not a legal opinion, and must not be relied on as a statement of the law.
• Lexi's marks are not official NCA results, are not provided or validated by the NCA, and are not a prediction or guarantee of how you will actually be marked or whether you will pass.
• You must independently verify everything against primary sources, the official NCA materials, and your own study, and always double-check before relying on anything.
• Your NCA readiness score is an estimate generated from your practice activity to help you gauge your preparation. It is not a prediction, guarantee, or assessment of your actual exam performance.

You are solely responsible for your own exam preparation and results.

3. The Pass Guarantee

The "pass guarantee" is a goodwill feature with specific, limited terms. Read this section carefully — it is not a money-back guarantee and it is not a promise that you will pass.

3.1 What it is

If you buy a course, sit the corresponding NCA exam, and do not pass, you may claim one free 3-month extension of access to that course, so you can keep preparing for your next sitting at no additional cost.

3.2 What it is not

• It is not a guarantee, representation, or promise that you will pass any exam. Your result depends on many factors outside our control, including your own preparation and the NCA's own marking.
• It is not a refund or money-back offer, and has no cash value. It cannot be exchanged for money or transferred to another person or course.

3.3 Eligibility and conditions

To claim the extension, all of the following must be true:

• you purchased the relevant course and your access has been (or is being) used in good faith;
• you actually sat the corresponding NCA exam after your purchase; and
• you did not pass that exam and tell us so (for example, by reporting your outcome when we ask).

We may ask you to confirm these facts. The extension is limited to one per course, provides a fresh 3-month access window with a start date you choose, and does not stack with other extensions for the same course. We may decline or revoke an extension where we reasonably believe the conditions are not met or the feature is being misused.

3.4 Changes

We may change or discontinue the pass guarantee for future purchases at any time. The terms that applied at the time of your purchase govern your claim.

4. Accounts and access

• Access period. Each course you buy gives you 3 months of access, running from a start date you choose (you can start immediately, or set a future start, and change it before it begins). When your window ends, the course locks, though you can still review questions you completed. You may reopen access by claiming a pass-guarantee extension (if eligible) or by purchasing again.
• Attempts. Every question marked by Lexi — whether a standalone practice question or a question within a mock exam — allows a limited number of graded attempts (currently two per question). Multiple-choice questions are self-marked and may be retried.
• One account per person. Your account and access are personal to you. Do not share your sign-in link, account, or the content with anyone else.
• Sign-in. We use one-time email sign-in links. Keep your email account secure; you are responsible for activity under your account.

5. Payment, pricing, and refunds

Prices are shown at checkout and are processed by our third-party payment processor, which acts as merchant of record for your purchase. You are responsible for any applicable taxes. Except for the pass guarantee described above and any rights you have that cannot be excluded under applicable consumer law (see §11), all sales are final and access fees are non-refundable. We may change prices for future purchases.

All fees are non-refundable — for any reason. Except for the pass guarantee (§3) and any consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded (§11), we do not give refunds, credits, or any other remedy for any reason whatsoever. This includes, without limitation and by way of example only, that you are not entitled to a refund because a question, model answer, marking scheme, score, annotation, or piece of Lexi's feedback is — in your view or in fact — wrong, inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, poorly reasoned, harsh, unhelpful, or not of a standard or quality you expected; because the Service (which is AI-generated and provided "as is", see §§2.2 and 9) otherwise did not meet your expectations; or because you did not use it, changed your mind, or decided it was not right for you. These examples are illustrative only and do not limit the general rule that all fees are non-refundable. You accept these risks when you buy, and you alone are responsible for deciding whether the Service is suitable and fit for your purposes before you purchase and before you rely on it.

EU/UK consumers — 14-day withdrawal. If you are a consumer in the EU or UK you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a purchase of digital content. Because your access can begin immediately, by starting your access you expressly consent to immediate performance and acknowledge that you lose the right of withdrawal once your access has begun.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• reproduce or capture our content other than incidentally for your own personal study, or systematically copy, record, republish, distribute, sell, or sublicense it to others;
• share your account or access credentials, or let anyone else use your access;
• use the Service, our questions, marking, or Lexi's output to build, train, or improve a competing product, or to create a dataset or model;
• scrape, crawl, or use bots or automated means to access the Service, or attempt to circumvent attempt limits, access windows, security, or rate limits;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code or prompts;
• submit unlawful, infringing, or abusive content, or interfere with the Service or other users; or
• misuse the pass guarantee or any other feature.

We may suspend or terminate access for breach of these Terms.

7. Intellectual property

7.1 Our content

All content and materials in the Service — including the questions, prompts, case files, marking schemes, Lexi's prompts and output format, the readiness scoring, text, design, software, and the NCA Edge name and branding — are owned by NCA Edge or our licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the content for your own exam preparation while your access is active. No other rights are granted.

7.2 Your answers

You keep ownership of the original answers you write. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable licence to host, store, reproduce, process, and transmit your answers to: (a) provide the Service, including sending them to our AI marking provider to grade them; (b) operate, maintain, secure, support, and resolve disputes about the Service; and (c) improve and develop the Service and our technology — including reviewing and calibrating our marking, training and evaluating our AI models, and developing new questions and content. We store your answers on our servers and associate them with your account (through a hash of your answer) so we can link them back to you where necessary — for example, to look into a query you raise about your marking; for improvement and model-training we use them in de-identified form wherever practical. How we store this and how long we keep it is set out in our Privacy Policy.

7.3 Feedback — we own it

If you send us feedback, ratings, suggestions, ideas, or proposals about the Service (for example, the thumbs-up/down and comments on marking, or any suggestion for improvement) ("Feedback"), you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to use that Feedback for any purpose without any obligation, restriction, attribution, or compensation to you; and, to the extent permitted by law, you assign to us the intellectual-property rights in the Feedback and waive any moral rights in it. We may use Feedback to improve the Service and develop new features freely. This does not apply to the substance of your exam answers, which is governed by §7.2.

8. Third-party services

The Service relies on third-party providers (such as our payment processor, our AI/LLM provider, our email-delivery provider, and our hosting and security provider) and may link to third-party sites. Your use of those services may be subject to their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for third-party services or content.

9. Disclaimers of warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and any warranty that the Service or Lexi's output will be correct, reliable, uninterrupted, error-free, or will help you pass any exam. We do not warrant that the content matches the current NCA syllabus or marking. You — not us — are responsible for deciding whether the Service is fit for your purposes; we do not warrant that it is suitable for any particular purpose or that using it will improve your results. Any reliance you place on the Service is at your own risk.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, and subject to §11:

• NCA Edge, its owner, and its personnel will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, exam results, wasted time or fees, or loss of data, arising out of or relating to the Service or Lexi's output, even if advised of the possibility.
• Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the course(s) giving rise to the claim in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) CAD $100.
• Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by our negligence, (ii) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or (iii) any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

11. Consumer rights that cannot be excluded

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any guarantee, right, or remedy you have under applicable consumer-protection law that cannot lawfully be excluded — including the Australian Consumer Law, applicable Canadian provincial consumer legislation, UK/EU consumer law, and applicable U.S. state law. Where such a law applies and a guarantee cannot be excluded, our liability is limited, where the law allows, to re-supplying the Service or paying the cost of re-supply. If any part of these Terms is unenforceable in your jurisdiction, it is read down or severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the rest continues to apply.

12. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will indemnify and hold harmless NCA Edge, its owner, and personnel from third-party claims, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your unlawful or infringing content or your breach of these Terms. This does not apply to the extent a consumer-protection law that applies to you prohibits it.

13. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time (see the Privacy Policy for deletion). We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, misuse the Service, or where necessary to protect the Service or others. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including §§5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 16) survive.

14. Governing law, and binding arbitration in Vancouver

Please read this section carefully. It requires most disputes to be resolved by final and binding arbitration on an individual basis, in Vancouver, and waives court trials, jury trials, and class actions for covered disputes.

14.1 Governing law. These Terms and any dispute relating to them or to the Service are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

14.2 Informal resolution first. Before starting an arbitration, you agree to contact us at hello@ncaedge.com and try in good faith to resolve the dispute for at least 30 days.

14.3 Binding arbitration. Except for the excluded matters in §14.6, any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service — including their existence, validity, interpretation, breach, or termination — will be referred to and finally resolved by binding arbitration, and not in court. The arbitration will:

• be seated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (hearings held there or by video as the arbitrator directs);
• be administered under the Rules of the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC) in effect when it begins, or, if that body is unavailable, the Arbitration Rules of the ADR Institute of Canada;
• be decided by one arbitrator, conducted in English, and governed by British Columbia law and the province's Arbitration Act.

The award is final and binding and may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. You and NCA Edge waive the right to a trial in court and to a jury trial for covered disputes.

14.4 Individual basis; class-action waiver. Disputes will be arbitrated only on an individual basis. You and NCA Edge agree not to bring or participate in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding, and the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any representative action.

14.5 Costs, accessibility, and remote hearings. For any consumer claim: we will pay the VanIAC and arbitrator fees to the extent they exceed what it would cost you to file the same claim in a British Columbia court; hearings will be held remotely (by video or on the documents) by default; and the applicable expedited or low-value procedure will be used where available — so arbitration is no more costly or onerous for you than court would be. Each party otherwise bears its own legal fees unless the arbitrator or the law provides otherwise.

14.6 Excluded matters. Nothing here prevents either party from (a) seeking injunctive or equitable relief in court to protect intellectual property or confidential information; or (b) bringing an individual claim in a small-claims court with jurisdiction, if the claim qualifies.

14.7 Consumer protections; enforceability. This section applies only to the extent permitted by the law that applies to you. In particular, mandatory arbitration and the class-action waiver do not apply to a consumer to the extent they are unenforceable under the law where you live. Where any part of this section does not apply to your dispute, that dispute may proceed in the courts of British Columbia or, where mandatory law requires, the courts of the place where you live, and nothing here limits non-excludable consumer rights (see §11). The remainder of this section continues to apply to the fullest extent permitted.

14.8 30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration and class-action-waiver section by emailing hello@ncaedge.com with your account email and the words "arbitration opt-out" within 30 days of first accepting these Terms. Opting out affects only this §14; it does not change the rest of these Terms, and we will not treat it as a breach.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the new version with an updated date and, for material changes, take reasonable steps to notify you. Material changes do not apply to access you have already purchased — the version in force when you purchased governs that purchase (including your pass-guarantee claim) — and for material changes we will seek your acceptance before they take effect for you. Non-material changes apply going forward.

16. General

• Modifying or discontinuing the Service. We may change, add, or remove features and content. If we discontinue a course while you have paid, current access to it, we will give you a comparable extension or a pro-rata refund of the fee for that course.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control (including third-party provider outages, network failures, or acts of government).
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign or transfer them (for example, in connection with a sale or reorganization of the business) on notice to you.
• Notices. We give notice to the email on your account; you give notice to hello@ncaedge.com.
• Entire agreement; no waiver. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about the Service and supersede prior discussions (except for fraud). A failure to enforce a term is not a waiver of it.
• Severability. If any term is unenforceable, it is read down or severed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest continues in force.
• Language. The parties have agreed that these Terms be drafted in English. *Les parties ont convenu que la présente entente soit rédigée en anglais.*

17. Contact

hello@ncaedge.com — 1600339 B.C. Ltd. (o/a NCA Edge), Canada.