TERMS & CONDITIONS

Integrito.ai is a website operated by Teaching Writing Online Limited (the “Company”, “we” or “us”).

Your use of this Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, do not use this Website.

If You are an underage person, you are not allowed to access or use this Website unless such is authorized by your educational institution as part of the educational process. You further acknowledge and agree that You must be of legal age to use the service this Website provides, or that You were directly invited by Your educational institution.

By submitting a paper for a check, You acknowledge that you have read and understand these terms and conditions. By registering at this Website, you are also agreeing to be legally bound by these terms and conditions, which form the entire agreement between you and us. You claim and warrant that you have full legal authority to enter this contract and to be legally bound by it.

DEFINITIONS

In this document:

  • Website” means Integrito.ai, its subdomains, and PlagiarismCheck.org as may be relevant.
  • Client“, “You” or “Yours” means and refers to you and/or any other person registered at this Website and/or submitting a Paper to the Website on your behalf.
  • Company“, “We“, “Us” or “Our” means and refers to Teaching Writing Online Ltd, a company registered in the United Kingdom with the registered office address: Dixcart House Addlestone Road, Bourne Business Park, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom, KT15 2LE, Company Registration Number: 09737975, which operates this Website.
  • Services” – services provided to You at this Website, namely the machinery provided plagiarism check reports for Papers submitted by the Client, AI detection services, Fingerprint authorship detection, revision history report, and other services that may be offered by the Website from time to time.
  • Software” means a software complex with online access to the Website, which provides You with locating signs of similarity between text information submitted by You and information available on the Internet and databases available to Us.
  • Product” means a service pack in a defined number of pages the Client can check for plagiarism (1-page counts for 275 words), according to the service pack they have purchased as defined by this Agreement.
  • Paper” means a written document, a piece of text in a standard electronic form submitted online by the Client to the Website for Services. We reserve the right to determine the requirements regarding the size and the format of the files with the Paper You may upload in order to perform the similarity check.
  • Agreement” shall mean these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, which together shall form an entire agreement between You and the Company about your use of the information, the Products, and the Services contained in or available through Website.
  • Corporate Account” – university, school, or other legal entity or organization that has subscribed to the Services and Software by separate agreement between us.
  • Authorized User” shall mean employee, member or student of the Corporate Account.

AGREEMENT

By using the Website, you agree to be bound by and to comply with the Agreement. The Website is offered to you conditional on your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions and any notices contained in these Terms and Conditions and the Website itself. Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before you start to use the Website. You acknowledge that by accessing and using the Website, Products, and Services, or by downloading and/or posting any content from or on the Website, you indicate having read, understood, and agreed to all these terms, conditions, and notices. If You disagree with any of these Terms and Conditions, please refrain from using the Website.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through Your Internet connection are aware of these Terms and Conditions and that they comply with them.

We aim to update the Website regularly and can change the content at any time without prior notice to you. We will use our reasonable efforts to keep the Website available to you, but if necessary, we may suspend access to the Website, or close it indefinitely. We will not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

Sanctions: You represent and warrant that You are not on a list of persons barred You from receiving services under U.S. laws (including, without limitation, the Denied Persons List and the Entity List issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security) and are not the subject of any sanction administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury, or other relevant sanction authority.

If you are an Authorized User of Corporate Account, you represent and warrant, that (1) you represent that you have your Corporate Account’s permission and authority to use the Website, Services, Software, and your Corporate Account’s User Content (as defined below) subject to this Agreement, (2) this Agreement is an agreement between you, individually, and us, and (3) your Corporate Account is jointly responsible for your use of the Website, Services, and Software.

If you are entering into this Agreement on behalf of a Corporate Account, you represent that you have the authority to bind the Corporate Account to this Agreement, in which case references to “you” in this Agreement shall mean the Corporate Account. If you do not have such authority, you must not accept this Agreement and may not use the Website, Software, or Services.

LICENSE TO USE WEBSITE

We grant you a non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use the Website and Services, only for your personal, non-commercial use to obtain the plagiarism reports. No other licence is granted. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, licence, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information or the Services from the Website without the direct prior written consent of the Company.

USER CONTENT

You are solely responsible for all text, documents, or other content or information uploaded, entered or otherwise transmitted by you in connection with your use of the Services and/or Software (“User Content”). User Content includes, among other things, any mistakes contained in the content or information transmitted by you. We do not have an obligation to monitor any User Content and shall have no liability to you or any other person or entity with respect thereto, including, without limitation, liability with respect to any information (including your confidential information) contained in or apparent from any User Content. You warrant, represent, and covenant that you own or have a valid and enforceable licence to use all User Content, and that no User Content infringes, misappropriates, or violates the rights (including, without limitation, any copyrights or other intellectual property rights) of any person or entity or any applicable law, rule or regulation of any government authority of competent jurisdiction while being uploaded to our database. We are not responsible for the loss, corruption, or other changes to User Content. Without limiting the foregoing, any feature(s) of the Services and/or Software that may permit you to temporarily save or otherwise store User Content is offered for your convenience only, and we do not guarantee that the User Content will be retrievable. You are solely responsible for saving, storing, and otherwise maintaining User Content, including by maintaining backup copies of your User Content on appropriate independent systems that do not rely on the Services and/or Software. By uploading or entering any User Content, you give us (and those we work with) a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and fully paid, transferable and sub-licensable, perpetual, and irrevocable licence to copy, store and use your User Content (and, if you are an Authorized User, your Corporate Account’s User Content) in connection with the provision of the Software and the Services and to improve the algorithms underlying the Software and the Services.

SERVICES

By submitting a Paper, you agree that the Services are provided to you and you obtain a plagiarism report for your personal, non-commercial use only. All the Papers are checked for plagiarism by the Website’s own plagiarism detection system. The Website possesses all rights and ownership of this system, while the ownership of the Paper belongs to the Client.

We may temporarily or permanently block your account or terminate your use of the Website without explanation in case we assume you in any way breach this Agreement.

In order to use our Services, you may be prompted to register an account at the Website. You are solely responsible for storing your login credentials safely and are not allowed to share your account with any third party.

If you register a Corporate Account, you may share login credentials only with another authorized representative of a legal person in whose name the account is registered.

You are solely responsible and liable for all consequences of cases of unauthorized access to your account.

INTEGRITO TERMS

We may maintain different types of User Accounts for different types of Users. If you open a User Account on behalf of an educational institution, company, organization or other entity, then: (i) “you” includes you and that entity, and (ii) you represent and warrant that you are an authorized representative of the entity with the authority to bind the entity to this Agreement, and that you agree to this Agreement on the entity’s behalf.

By signing-up to the Website with a third-party service, you give us permission to access and use your information from that service as permitted by that service, and to store your log-in credentials for that service. Without limiting the foregoing, with respect to any use of Google OAuth to log in to your User Account and any use of Google Classroom as integrated with the Services, you agree to comply with the Google APIs Terms of Service and such other terms and conditions as Google may provide from time to time.

If you are an individual teacher/lecturer/etc. who provides us access to Google Documents, you represent and warrant that you have permission to do so.

USE RESTRICTIONS

You are allowed to use our services in the scope of a limited, non-exclusive, non-sub-licensable, and non-transferable (unless permitted by us in writing) licence to access and use and permit other authorized representatives of your legal person (if applicable) to access and use the service solely for the permitted purpose.

You are not allowed to use the services of the Company to:

  1. copy, modify, or create derivative works based on our intellectual property rights;
  2. distribute, transmit, publish, or otherwise disseminate our intellectual property;
  3. transfer to any third person any of your rights to use our Services;
  4. access or use the Services for the benefit of any third party;
  5. permit any third party to use or access our Services;
  6. use our Services other than for the permitted purpose;
  7. access content or data not intended for the Client, log onto a server or account that the Client is not authorized to access, or otherwise violate or attempt to violate any security feature of the services;
  8. attempt to access or derive the source code or architecture of any of Our software;
  9. attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our Services, or any associated system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures;
  10. interfere or attempt to interfere with service to any other user, host, or network, including by means of submitting a virus to our Services, load testing, overloading, “flooding,” “spamming,” “mail bombing,” or “crashing”;
  11. automate access to the Services, including through the use of bots, scrapers, or other similar devices;
  12. export or re-export any of our intellectual property;
  13. alter, remove, or conceal any government restricted rights notice or any copyright, trademark, trade name, or other proprietary marking or notice that may appear in any of the documentation or other our intellectual property;
  14. use our Services in a manner that violates any applicable law, ordinance, regulation, or administrative order or the rights of any third party;
  15. use or access any Services, or any other intellectual property to build a competitive solution; or
  16. permit any third party to do any of the foregoing.
  17. Abuse the Services by spamming documents, uploading the non-adequate amount of documents for check, reselling the services from the personal account to educational institutions. Should we discover that the relation between the number of submitters stated in the contract and the number of documents submitted is abnormally high, the Corporate Customer is obligated to help find the reason or source and help remedy the situation. If the Corporate Account holder neglects to do so or if the situation is deemed by us to be urgent, we reserve the right to restrict access to the system with immediate effect. The number of documents submitted for analysis under an unlimited licence must correspond to “fair use”, i.e. to be reasonable in that the number of submitted documents is to be in line with what can be reasonably expected to have been produced by the number of students for which the university is licensing Software. The document per student ratio is perceived to be normal if it is within the interval 0-15 documents/student/year. Should the number of documents submitted to us exceed this interval, we reserve the right to investigate the matter by carrying out a review of documents submitted to us during the licence period. Deviations may be considered as a breach of contract and these Terms, and shall be settled by adjusted pricing.

In case of violation or suspected violation by you of the provisions of this section, these Terms and Conditions, other obligations, warranties or representations, or to comply with the law, we reserve the right to suspend your account, including cases of document flooding, exploitation of the services, interference to the software, or other unusual activities on the account. You will be notified of such suspension and offered to check the activities on your account. We will restore access to your account as soon as the event giving rise to suspension has been resolved. In case the violation continues, we reserve the right to (i) review the pricing offer to cover its risks, or (ii) terminate your account.

PRIVACY

For an explanation of the Company’s practices and policies related to the collection, security, use, and storage of online guest’s and/or Client’s information, please read our Privacy Policy.

EMAILING

By agreeing to these Terms and Conditions you consent to receive e-mails from us, concerning the Services, the Product updates, and special offers, as well as related product information from our business partners. You can unsubscribe from these e-mails at any time by clicking the ‘Unsubscribe from this list’ in one of the e-mails you have already received.

We will also send you e-mails related to Your account and use of our Service in general (e.g., account registration, refills, low balance, etc.) which you cannot unsubscribe from.

PAYMENT (applies for individual users)

Payment Terms. Valid information on the cost of the Services is provided in the Pricing Page on the Website.

Billing. We outsource all online payment processing to Stripe (“Stripe”). We do not have access to credit card numbers and all other payment information submitted to Stripe as a result of the online payment process. You agree to provide Stripe with a valid credit card and accurate, complete and updated information required by the Stripe to process payment. Failure to comply may result in the immediate termination of Services. You must contact us via the technical support page at about any billing problems or discrepancies when they first appear on your account statement. If you do not bring them to our attention when they first appear on your account statement, you agree that this will be deemed a waiver of your right to dispute such problems or discrepancies.

Taxes. A VAT may be added to your price at checkout, depending on your location.

ACCOUNT BALANCE

You should top up your Account balance by a payment method offered on the Website. This does not apply to Corporate Accounts and Authorized Users. Account balance is updated with a number of pages according to the Product you have purchased. After you upload the Paper you would like to check, it is automatically divided into pages with equal word count, which is 275 words per page. This number of pages will be written off of your balance after you confirm the plagiarism check. Unused pages will expire after a year has passed since the purchase date.

FREE PAGE

Upon registration, you get 5 bonus pages. We may also deposit bonus pages to your account during our promotions.

AI DETECTOR

Without derogating from these Terms, the following provisions shall apply specifically to any use by you of our AI Detector tool, including by way of sampling the AI Content Detector on the applicable webpage:

AI Detector is our proprietary tool which, at the request of our users, scans content provided by such user to the AI Detector and provides a score between 0 and 100 reflecting the probability that the scanned content is generated by a human or an artificial intelligence (AI) tool.

We do not provide – and expressly disclaims – any warranty regarding the accuracy of the result provided by the AI Detector, which in some cases may incorrectly flag certain content as more likely to be AI-generated.

The AI Detector is an assessment tool which in no way guarantees whether any given content was generated by a human or by AI, and any result provided by the AI Detector shall not constitute an endorsement or determination by us regarding whether or not the scanned content, or any part of it, was generated by human or by AI.

We shall in no way be liable for any action taken by you or any third party on the basis of a result provided by the AI Detector. You are solely responsible for any inquiry, investigation or other action taken by you on the basis of such result.

To the extent the content you provided for a scan by the AI Detector is copied from a webpage – you alone shall be fully responsible for compliance with the terms of use of such third-party webpage from which the content was copied, and we disclaim any and all liability for any breach of such terms of use.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Although this Website may be linked to other Websites, we do not endorse, approve, certify, or sponsor the linked sites unless specifically stated therein. The Company is not the owner of, does not control, and is not responsible for any content of any site linked to this Website. Your linking to other websites is at your own risk.

WARRANTY DISCLAIMER

The Website is provided on “as is” basis. The Company makes no representations or warranties with regard to the Website or any materials therein, whether expressed or implied, arising by law or otherwise, including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement, or any implied warranty arising out of the course of performance, the course of dealing, or usage of trade. In addition, the Company makes no representation that the operation of the Service or the Website will be uninterrupted or error-free. The Company will not be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors on the Website. It is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any opinion, advice, information, or other content provided in connection with the Service or otherwise available through the Website. Please seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any such opinion, advice, information, or other content.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

You agree to release and hold the Company and its employees, officers, directors, shareholders, agents, representatives, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion and fulfilment agencies, any third-party providers or sources of information, or data and legal advisers (the “Company’s Affiliates“) harmless from any and all losses, damages, rights, claims, and actions of any kind arising from or related to the Services, including but not limited to: (a) telephone, electronic, hardware or software, network, Internet, email, or computer malfunctions, failures, or difficulties of any kind; (b) failed, incomplete, garbled, or delayed computer transmissions; (c) any condition caused by events beyond the control of the Company that may cause the Services to be delayed, disrupted, or corrupted; (d) any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind arising in connection with or as a result of utilizing the Services; or (e) any printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with the Services. In addition, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the Company and Company’s Affiliates harmless from any claim, suit, or demand, including attorney’s fees made by a third party due to or arising out of your utilizing of Services, Your violation or breach of these Terms and Conditions, your violation of any rights of a third party, or any other act or omission by you.

In no event shall the Company be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising out of or in any way connected with the use of this Website or any information provided on this Website. Because some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you.

CORPORATE ACCOUNT (Responsibility for Authorized Users)

Corporate Accounts shall ensure that the total number of Authorized Users does not exceed the maximum number of seats authorized by and purchased from us (each of which seats represents a unique Authorized User). Corporate Accounts may assign different Authorized Users to the seats authorized by and purchased from us, so long as the total number of Authorized Users at any time does not exceed the maximum number of seats authorized by and purchased from us, but Authorized Users may not transfer (including by way of sublicense, lease, assignment or other transfer, including by operation of law) their seat, username or right to use the Website, Services or Software to any third party. You, the Corporate Account, and your Authorized Users are jointly responsible for your Authorized Users’ use of the Website, Services, and Software. You are also responsible for ensuring that all of your Authorized Users comply with all the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Any violation of the terms and/or conditions of this Agreement by any of your Authorized Users shall be deemed to be a violation thereof by you.

Please note that if you are an authorized representative of a legal person, all your actions on the Website shall be deemed as actions of a legal person you represent.

CORPORATE ACCOUNT (Fingerprint)

The Corporate Account provides upon request access to the Fingerprint special feature. Fingerprint allows analysing Papers to assess the likeliness of their authorship by a specific author. This feature helps determine alleged plagiarism, though the final decision remains after the Client. Fingerprint is available under the subscription model. Terms and conditions for this feature are stipulated in a separate contract.

TERMINATION FOR AUTHORIZED USERS

If you are an Authorized User of a Corporate Account, and this Agreement or the applicable agreement for Services and Software is terminated in relation to such Corporate Account, or if you otherwise lose access to the Services and Software via your Corporate Account (e.g., if you graduate from that Corporate Account or are no longer employed by that Corporate Account), we may elect in our discretion to (a) terminate your account or (b) downgrade your account to an individual subscriber account, at which point you agree that your use of the Services and Software will be as an individual subscriber in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (which Agreement at that point will be solely between you and us).

If you are an Authorized User of a Corporate Account, your Corporate Account may elect at its discretion and at any time to revoke your Authorized User status and (a) terminate your account or (b) downgrade your account to an individual subscriber account, at which point you agree that your use of the Services and Software will be as an individual subscriber in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (which Agreement at that point will be solely between you and us).

AMENDMENTS

You acknowledge and agree that we may unilaterally change these Terms and Conditions. We recommend You review these Terms and Conditions from time to time, as any such changes will be reflected in this section of our Website.

ASSIGNMENT

This Agreement is personal to you, and you may not assign your rights or obligations to anyone. We may assign its rights and obligations under the Agreement without notice or prior consent.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Should one or more of the stipulations in the Terms be held to be invalid by competent jurisdiction, the remaining clauses shall remain valid and enforceable. These Terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. The parties agree that all disputes arising out of this Agreement shall be subject to, and each party hereby consents to, the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts located in the State of Connecticut. The United Nations Convention for the International Sale of Goods shall not apply. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in any jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property rights.