Terms of Use

These terms are a straightforward agreement between you and BlowIns ("we", "us") covering your use of blowins.com and the BlowIns Student Passport. By creating a passport or using the site, you're agreeing to them.

1. What BlowIns is (and isn't)

BlowIns matches rural and regional students to housing, scholarships, people and part-time work, ranked by fit against the constraints in your Student Passport. We are a matching and information service:

• We are not a real estate agent, landlord, employer or scholarship provider. Decisions about leases, jobs and awards are made by the providers, not by us.
• A match score is our honest, explained estimate of fit. It is not a guarantee you'll get the room, the job or the money.
• Scholarship eligibility is ultimately determined by the provider's own rules. Always check the provider's official page before applying, because deadlines and criteria change.
• Nothing on BlowIns is financial, legal or migration advice. For Youth Allowance and government payments, Services Australia's information is the source of truth.

2. Your account

• You need to be 15 or older to create a passport. If you're under 18, we recommend involving a parent, guardian or careers adviser.
• Keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for what happens under your login, so tell us straight away if you think someone else has access.
• One passport per person, and the details in it need to be true. The matching only works, for you and for everyone else, if passports are honest.

3. Fair dinkum use

BlowIns is built by blow-ins, for blow-ins. Don't be the reason we need more rules. Specifically, you agree not to:

• Pose as someone you're not, or create a passport for anyone but yourself.
• Use Meet People to harass, scam, solicit or advertise to other students.
• Scrape, copy or resell the site's data or other students' information.
• Probe, overload or interfere with the service or its security.

If you do, we can suspend or close your account. If another student makes you feel unsafe, email blowinsenquiries@gmail.com. A human reads it, and we act on it.

4. Your content, our content

Your passport stays yours. You give us permission to use it for one purpose: running BlowIns and matching you, as set out in the Privacy Policy. Everything else (the site, the design, the matching logic, the BlowIns name and logo) belongs to us, and these terms don't transfer any of it to you.

5. Liability

Nothing in these terms excludes rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law that can't be excluded. Beyond those rights:

• BlowIns is provided as-is. We work hard to keep information accurate and the service up, but we can't promise either will be perfect or uninterrupted.
• We're not liable for the conduct of landlords, employers, scholarship providers or other students, or for decisions they make.
• To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you in connection with the service is limited to AUD $100.

Common sense still applies on your end too: inspect properties (in person or by video) before paying anyone, never transfer bond to an unverified account, and be careful meeting people from the internet. Meet in public the first time.

6. Ending things

You can close your account whenever you like, and we'll delete your data as described in the Privacy Policy. We can suspend or end accounts that break these terms, and we can wind back or change features of the prototype as we build.

7. Changes and the law

If we change these terms materially, we'll flag it on this page and by email before it takes effect. These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and any disputes belong in the courts of NSW.

8. Talk to us

Questions, worries, or something doesn't seem right? blowinsenquiries@gmail.com. Our team reads and responds to every message.