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Terms & agreements
Last updated July 10, 2026
Everything that governs how Practica works, in full. Two policies apply to everyone; each role also accepts one short agreement the first time it does the thing that agreement covers. The exact text you agreed to is always here, never hidden behind an “Accepted.”
Role agreements
Each is a click-through commitment tied to the role’s part of the record, accepted the first time it’s needed. Institution-level agreements are handled offline with each university.
Students
In effect July 10, 2026
Practica Student Project Agreement
Practica turns your real project work into verified evidence you own. This agreement rests on one commitment: the work and evidence you submit are authentic. Everything below supports that.
1. Your work and its authenticity
You agree to participate in good faith, communicate professionally with your sponsor and faculty, and produce original work that is genuinely your own. The evidence attached to your record, including your deliverables, participation, and outcomes, accurately reflects the work you actually did. Your project is supervised by university faculty as part of your experiential learning.
2. Using AI and other tools
You may use AI-assisted tools where your course policy and any sponsor requirements permit. You remain responsible for the originality, accuracy, and integrity of everything you submit, and you will disclose your use of AI where your course or sponsor requires it.
3. Intellectual property
For deliverables you create on a sponsored project, you grant the sponsor a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use and commercialize that work. You grant this license only to the intellectual property you have the legal right to license, meaning your own original contribution. You do not grant rights to anything you do not own, including third-party or pre-existing material and any AI-generated content you do not have the right to license. On a team project, each student licenses only their own contribution.
4. Your verified record is yours to keep
You keep a permanent, verified record of this work: the project title, your verified participation, the skills you demonstrated, your completion certificate, and any verified career outcome. This record belongs to you. No sponsor can revoke it, except that a confidential project limits what is shown publicly. It is yours to carry beyond this project, this course, and graduation.
5. Confidential projects
When a project involves proprietary or sensitive information, it may be designated confidential before you begin work. On a confidential project you keep the deliverables and details private. Your verified completion, certificate, faculty and sponsor verification, and outcome still count, but your public record shows only limited metadata. A project that was not confidential when you began cannot later restrict your right to display your participation without your agreement.
6. Conduct and data
You will handle any sponsor information responsibly and only as needed for the project, and you will not misrepresent your role or the outcome of the work.
7. When a project cannot continue
Practica may suspend, remove, or close a project where participation or verification cannot reasonably continue. A verified record requires faculty certification; sponsor review adds to it but is not required for it.
8. General
This agreement may be updated, and material changes require re-acceptance.
Faculty verifiers
In effect July 10, 2026
Practica Faculty Verification Agreement
Your verification is what makes a student's record trustworthy. This agreement rests on one commitment: your verification is an honest academic attestation. Everything below supports that.
1. Your certification is an attestation
When you certify a deliverable, your name appears on the student's verified record as the faculty member who reviewed the work. You agree to certify only work you have actually reviewed, and to assess it with honest professional judgment against the standards of your course or discipline.
2. Integrity of verification
You will not certify your own work, work you have a personal stake in, or work you have not examined. Certification is not a favor, a formality, or a courtesy. It is the professional attestation that makes a student's record verified, not claimed.
3. Your academic judgment is your own
You remain solely responsible for your academic judgment and for any grading. Practica records your verification; it does not direct, influence, or substitute for your assessment or your institution's grading.
4. What your certification does
Your certification permanently associates your name and assessment with the deliverable, and it can appear on the student's verified record and completion certificate. Requesting changes on a deliverable is feedback and carries no attestation; only certification does. Your certification and any sponsor verification are separate attestations, and neither overrides the other.
5. Confidential projects
Where a project is designated confidential, you will respect that designation in what you disclose about the work, while your verification itself still counts toward the student's record.
6. The record belongs to the student
The record your certification powers belongs to the student. You will not condition certification on anything other than the quality of the work itself.
7. General
This agreement may be updated, and material changes require re-acceptance.
Business sponsors
In effect July 10, 2026
Practica Sponsor Agreement
You sponsor real student project work and help turn it into verified evidence. This agreement rests on one commitment: your project, feedback, and verification accurately reflect the work performed. Everything below supports that.
1. Educational experience, not employment
Students work on a project you sponsor, overseen by university faculty. A Practica project is an educational experience with defined learning objectives. It is not a substitute for hiring an employee or contractor. You will not use Practica to obtain unpaid labor, and you will not represent students as your employees or contractors.
2. What "review" means
You agree to provide a real, named point of contact and to review deliverables in good faith. To review a deliverable is to engage with the work the student submitted: to read it, leave substantive feedback, and indicate whether the project's objectives were met, within a reasonable time. Any rating or verification you give must accurately reflect the work performed. You will treat students professionally throughout.
3. Intellectual property
You receive a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, and commercialize the deliverables the student team produces for your project. This license covers only the intellectual property each student has the legal right to license. It does not extend to third-party or pre-existing material, or to anything a contributor does not own. On a team project, each student licenses only their own contribution.
4. Acceptable use
You will not require students to perform work that is unlawful, unsafe, or outside the scope of the agreed project. You will not ask students to handle proprietary, personal, or otherwise sensitive data unless the project is designated confidential.
5. Confidential projects
A project that involves proprietary data, unreleased work, or sensitive information must be designated confidential at creation, before students begin work, unless all parties agree otherwise afterward. Work that was not confidential when a student began cannot be made confidential after the fact to limit what the student may display, without that student's agreement. On a confidential project the student still receives verified completion, a certificate, faculty and sponsor verification, and outcome credit, but the public record shows only limited metadata.
6. The student's verified record
The student keeps a permanent, verified record of this work: the project title, their verified participation, the skills demonstrated, their completion certificate, and any verified career outcome. This record belongs to the student and cannot be revoked, except that a confidential project limits what is shown publicly.
7. Verification and outcomes
A verified record requires faculty certification. Your review and verification add to the record but are not required for it. Faculty certification and sponsor verification are separate attestations, and neither overrides the other. Where a student you sponsored later reports an employment outcome with your organization, the university may verify and display it. You will not condition project participation on a hiring outcome.
8. When a project cannot continue
Practica may suspend, remove, or close a project where participation or verification cannot reasonably continue, for example if a party becomes unreachable or a dispute over scope or quality cannot be resolved.
9. Responsibility and the platform's role
Practica provides the platform that hosts projects and records verifications. It does not perform the work, employ any party, or speak for the university. Except for the platform functions it explicitly provides, Practica is not responsible for the conduct, decisions, or work product of any sponsor, student, faculty member, or institution.
10. General
This agreement may be updated, and material changes require re-acceptance.