The rules for using Eternal

Eternal is an educational application that teaches private equity, investing, diligence, modelling, and related decision-making through simulations, guided cases, rankings, and skill systems.

Eternal does not provide investment advice, legal advice, tax advice, accounting advice, valuation opinions, brokerage services, fiduciary services, or guaranteed recruiting outcomes. Nothing on Eternal is an offer to buy or sell any security, fund interest, or financial product.

Eternal may include references to real companies, sectors, funds, sponsors, and transaction structures. Those references are intended to be based on public information and educational synthesis only.

Scenarios may also be fictionalised, anonymised, or blended from multiple public or historical sources. Eternal is not intended to disclose confidential deal information, material non-public information, or privileged commercial data.

You are responsible for ensuring that you may lawfully use the service in your jurisdiction. You must provide accurate information when creating an account and keep your login credentials secure.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that are fraudulent, abusive, disruptive, unlawful, or in breach of these terms. Free and paid access tiers may have different feature sets, limits, and eligibility requirements.

You may not use Eternal to:

• Violate law, regulation, sanctions, or another person's rights.
• Scrape, reverse engineer, copy, or republish the product at scale without permission.
• Upload or transmit confidential information you are not allowed to share.
• Attempt to bypass account limits, pricing gates, access controls, or security features.
• Interfere with the service, introduce malware, abuse APIs, or automate harmful traffic.
• Use the platform to produce misleading financial, legal, recruiting, or compliance claims.

Some features are free, some may be limited, and some require a paid plan, one-time purchase, or usage-based unlock. Stripe Checkout is the payment surface for subscriptions, Cornerstone attempts and retakes, recruiter candidate unlocks, and the Owner-Side Buyout Defense War Room.

Recruiters pay for approved candidate unlocks. Candidates do not owe Eternal a recruiting commission, placement fee, or salary percentage. Billing and renewal terms shown at checkout apply in addition to these terms.

Cornerstone credentials use the same 100-point rubric for Human-Only and AI-Augmented Deal Operator modes. Human-Only requires the user to leave the AI-use disclosure unchecked; checked attempts are eligible only for AI-Augmented credentials. Seals expire after 12 months, while review and credential records may be retained for auditability.

Browser telemetry, similarity checks, proof tokens, reviewer notes, and audit outcomes may be used to validate credential integrity. Flagged attempts are routed to audit or review; misconduct may result in a zero score, loss of credential eligibility, account limits, or termination.

Reviewers participate as independent contractors or expert reviewers, not employees, agents, legal advisers, investment advisers, or recruiters of Eternal. Reviewer access may require credential checks, calibration, confidentiality obligations, Stripe Connect onboarding, and ongoing quality review.

Reviewers must follow Eternal rubrics and escalation rules. Reviewer payments are contingent on completed eligible reviews, calibration standards, and applicable payout compliance checks.

The Owner-Side Buyout Defense War Room is an educational and category-guidance product for owner-operators evaluating buyout processes. It may provide adviser categories, diligence questions, negotiation topics, risk prompts, mission feedback, and one written review where included.

The War Room does not provide named-firm recommendations, legal advice, tax advice, valuation advice, financing advice, transaction advice, fairness opinions, or instructions to accept or reject a specific transaction. Users should consult qualified legal, tax, accounting, valuation, financing, and transaction advisers before taking action.

Employer or recruiter acknowledgments are factual registry records only. Eternal may say a credential is "acknowledged by" an organization only when a registry record exists. Acknowledgment does not mean endorsement, sponsorship, employment guarantee, regulator approval, or acceptance by any school, employer, or professional body.

Eternal, including its brand, cases, scoring systems, interface, design, prompts, educational materials, and software, is protected by intellectual property and other laws. Except where law permits otherwise, you may not reproduce, distribute, modify, or create derivative works from the service without written permission.

If you submit feedback, suggestions, or optional user content, you grant Eternal a non-exclusive right to use that material to operate, improve, and promote the service, subject to applicable law and our privacy notice.

You are responsible for ensuring anything you submit is lawful and does not breach confidentiality, employment obligations, or third-party rights.

Essential cookies are used for login, security, and core site delivery. Optional analytics and attribution technologies are only enabled if you consent through Cookie settings.

More detail about cookies, analytics providers, and privacy rights is set out in the Privacy Notice.

Eternal is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis to the extent permitted by applicable law. We do not guarantee that simulations are error-free, uninterrupted, complete, or suitable for any specific interview, employer, investment, examination, or commercial decision.

Educational case outcomes, XP, rankings, role-fit scores, and issued credential seals are not regulated professional certifications and are not guaranteed predictors of hiring, investment performance, or legal compliance.

To the extent permitted by law, Eternal will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost opportunities, or loss of data arising from or related to the service.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including non-waivable consumer rights or liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death, or personal injury caused by negligence where applicable law forbids exclusion.

These terms are drafted on a United States commercial baseline using Delaware law and New York forum concepts, except where mandatory local law provides non-waivable rights. Product availability, consumer rights, and dispute processes may vary by jurisdiction.

If you access Eternal as a consumer, you may have rights under the laws of your country, state, or region that cannot be waived by contract. These terms are intended to operate alongside those mandatory rights, not replace them.

Users in the UK, EEA, and other jurisdictions should read these terms together with the Privacy Notice and any mandatory local consumer protections that apply to digital services and educational platforms.

We may update the service or these terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we may post the revised terms on this page and update the effective date.

We may suspend or terminate access where reasonably necessary for security, abuse prevention, legal compliance, operational changes, or violations of these terms.

For questions about these terms or the service, email hello@eternalpe.com.