Acadomic Terms of Service

1. Who we are and what this service is

Acadomic provides supervisor-style QA feedback, grammar review, and optional AI-use and plagiarism signals on assignment drafts. It is a software tool for students, tutors, and institutions. It is not an official grade, not a plagiarism determination, not legal advice, and not a substitute for your institution’s academic integrity process or a human supervisor.

2. Eligibility and accounts

You must be able to form a binding contract and use the service only for lawful academic and teaching purposes. Authentication is provided by Clerk. You are responsible for the activity on your account and for keeping sign-in details secure. Institutional workspaces (organizations) may be administered by an enterprise admin; members must follow their organisation’s rules as well as these terms.

3. Academic integrity

Acadomic is built so a draft can be reviewed before it leaves your hands. We maintain academic integrity by making the product a formative QA instrument — not a writer, not a ghostwriter, and not a substitute for your institution’s integrity process.

In operating the service we:

• Give supervisor-style notes against the brief, rubric, and draft you upload, not an official grade.
• Flag grammar and style with suggestions. Acadomic does not rewrite the draft for you.
• Offer optional AI-use and plagiarism tabs as indicators you request. They are not findings, not proof of misconduct, and not a report we send to a school or a client.
• Keep scans in the workspace that owns them. Tutors and organisation members only see work they are allowed to open.
• Leave the meaning of a highlight to a human being.

We do not:

• Write, complete, or submit an assignment on your behalf.
• Sell a way to beat a detector or to hide AI-use or source overlap.
• Replace a supervisor, a school originality checker, or an institutional academic integrity investigation.

You remain responsible for the files you upload and for the work you submit. You must follow your institution’s academic integrity, copyright, disclosure-of-tool-use, and data-protection rules. Do not upload work you are not allowed to share. Do not break or scrape the service, impersonate a marker, fabricate a misconduct report, or use Acadomic to evade assessment rules. Feedback is formative. Submitting it, or a draft revised with it, as if it were solely your unaided work may violate local policy — that is your decision and your risk. We may suspend accounts that breach this section.

The same stance is described in Data privacy and the AI-use risk band guide.

4. Plans, credits, and scans

Every scan needs at least 300 words in the solution draft. Free personal accounts include 10 complimentary scans, each limited to 3,000 words in the solution draft. A free scan includes supervisor-style feedback. Grammar, AI-use signals, and plagiarism are included on a paid plan.

Paid student and tutor plans are billed as a credit wallet. One credit covers 3,000 words. Longer drafts deduct extra credits automatically. Unused plan credits do not roll over: each renewalresets the wallet to that plan’s period allocation. You may buy extra credits mid-cycle (typically 1–10 credits at $2.50 per 1 credit) from Settings. Those top-ups add to the current wallet.

Student and tutor are different products. A first purchase chooses an audience. Changing monthly and yearly happens on the existing subscription (upgrade now with proration; downgrade at period end). Switching student to tutor, or the reverse, is not a plan change — cancel at period end, then buy the other product. Enterprise workspaces are quoted separately.

5. Billing, renewal, and cancellation

Paid plans and credit top-ups are processed by Paddle as merchant of record when checkout is configured. Prices are shown on the Pricing page. Subscriptions renew at the end of the current period unless you cancel. Cancellation takes effect at period end: you keep access and remaining credits until that date, then the account returns to the free tier. Refunds follow the Refund policy: we do not refund unused time or unused credits for a mid-cycle downgrade or cancel. If an upgrade payment fails, your current plan stays in place.

Only one personal credit subscription is active at a time. Repeat checkout is blocked while that subscription is active, including after you have scheduled a cancel.

6. Your content and our licence to operate the service

You retain rights in the briefs, drafts, notes, and comments you upload. You grant Ontinity Private Limited a limited licence to host, process, and display that content so we can run scans, show reports, generate PDFs, and operate organisation workspaces. Optional analysis may send draft text to subprocessors listed in the Privacy policy (including model and integrity providers). We do not sell your assignments as a dataset. How we secure that processing, and which laws we align with worldwide, is described in the Privacy policy and Data privacy pages.

7. Intellectual property and trademark

Acadomic™ is a trademark of Ontinity Private Limited. The site, software, models prompts, report layout, and branding belong to us or our licensors. You may not copy the product, remove notices, or use the Acadomic name or logo except to refer to the service accurately.

8. Third-party services

The service depends on third parties, including Clerk (accounts), Paddle (payments), object storage for files, Google reCAPTCHA (the contact form), and analysis providers used for QA, grammar, and integrity signals. Their outages or changes can affect availability. Those providers have their own terms.

9. Disclaimers

The service is provided “as is”. Feedback quality depends on the brief, rubric, and draft you supply. AI-use and plagiarism tabs are indicators, not findings. We do not warrant that the service is uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for a particular grade or publication outcome.

10. Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ontinity Private Limited is not liable for lost grades, academic misconduct proceedings, lost profits, or indirect or consequential loss. Our aggregate liability for a claim relating to the service is limited to the amounts you paid us for Acadomic in the three months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

11. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, creates risk, or fails payment. You may stop using the service and cancel a paid plan as described above. After access ends we may delete or anonymise workspace data in line with the Privacy policy, except where we must keep records (for example billing).

12. Changes

We may update these terms as the product changes. The effective date at the top will change. Continued use after an update is acceptance of the new terms. Material billing changes will be shown on Pricing or in the product.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-lawrules. Courts of competent jurisdiction in India will have exclusive jurisdiction, except that we may seek injunctive relief anywhere to protect the Acadomic trademark or the service.

14. Contact

Ontinity Private Limited operates Acadomic. Email contact@acadomic.com for support, institutional agreements, or legal notices.