Acceptable Use Policy and Academic Integrity Statement

Last updated: 19 April 2026

Tesify was built to help you do better academic work — not to replace you.

The line between proper use and misuse is not in the tool — it’s in how you use it. Every feature of Tesify is designed to guide you toward academic rigor: we suggest, you decide; we organize, you write; we verify, you fix. Academic integrity requires conscious effort on your part. Tesify supports that effort — it does not substitute for it.

1. Core Principle: Authorship is Yours

Tesify may suggest structure, improve formatting, and flag citation issues — but the decision about content, argument, and interpretation is always yours. Using Tesify does not transfer authorship.

2. How the Platform is Designed

Tesify was built to make the good-practice path the natural one. Every feature exists to reinforce your authorship — never to bypass it:

Structure suggestions are a starting point — they need to be adapted to your argument to be useful.
Phrasing suggestions are alternatives, not final text — they exist for you to rewrite in your own voice.
The integrity checker surfaces uncited passages for you to fix, not to hide them.
Automatic bibliography formats sources you read and chose.

Using Tesify as designed is the natural path. Circumventing that design — for example, pasting generated text without rewriting it, or ignoring citation warnings — requires deliberate effort against the product and against your institution’s rules.

3. Acceptable Uses

Organising and structuring your own ideas into a chapter outline
Reviewing your text for clarity, academic register, and formal tone
Formatting citations according to APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, or Vancouver
Checking integrity to identify uncited passages before submission
Finding and evaluating sources for your own critical review
Getting academic phrasing suggestions that you revise in your own voice
Exporting your work with correct academic formatting

4. Unacceptable Uses

Submitting AI-generated text as your own original work without disclosure
Using Tesify to circumvent your institution’s AI use policies
Concealing use of Tesify when your institution requires disclosure
Using Tesify as a ghostwriting or contract-writing service
Removing, falsifying, or misrepresenting citations
Self-plagiarism without permission

5. Your Responsibilities as a Student

Check your institution’s policy on AI-assisted tools
Declare use of AI tools where required
Cite all sources used in your research
Review suggestions critically — do not accept output without reading and evaluating
Write in your own words

6. Alignment with Academic Integrity Frameworks

UK: QAA guidance on responsible AI use in assessment
US: AAUP principles on academic integrity and AI literacy
Australia/NZ: TEQSA guidance on AI and academic integrity
Ireland: HEA and institutional policies
Canada: CAIA principles on AI transparency

Always check your specific institution. Policies differ between universities and departments.

7. What Tesify Is Not

Tesify is not a contract cheating service, essay mill, or ghostwriting platform. It does not write your thesis for you. Any attempt to use it in that way violates this Policy.

8. Reporting Abuse

Contact integrity@tesify.app. We respond within 5 business days.