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Thank you for visiting and using Originality.AI. These Terms and Conditions of Service (Terms) form a binding legal agreement between you and Originality AI Inc. (“Originality.AI,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), located at 64 Hurontario St, Collingwood, Ontario L9Y 2L6, Canada.
By accessing or using our website, application, dashboard, Chrome extension, Moodle plugin, API, educational integrations, enterprise tools, free tools, paid tools, content-integrity services, reporting features, or any other feature or service that links to these Terms (collectively, the “Services”), you agree to these Terms.
If you use the Services on behalf of a company, agency, school, college, university, district, government entity, or other organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization. In that case, “you” and “your” refer to both you and the organization.
If you do not agree to these Terms, do not access or use the Services.
These Terms incorporate by reference our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, order forms, product-specific documentation, data processing terms, security terms, school or enterprise addenda, acceptable-use rules, and any other supplemental terms we expressly make applicable to a Service.
If there is a conflict, the following order of precedence applies unless the parties agree otherwise in writing: (1) signed enterprise agreement or order form; (2) data processing, student-data, or security addendum; (3) product-specific supplemental terms; (4) these Terms; and (5) website FAQs, help-center content, marketing pages, or documentation.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, retain, delete, and otherwise process personal information, Customer Data, Student Data, scan history, and related information. By using the Services, you acknowledge that you have reviewed the Privacy Policy.
Originality.AI provides tools designed to assist with content integrity, originality, AI-content analysis, plagiarism detection, fact checking, readability, grammar and spelling, SEO and optimization workflows, team review, scan history, reporting, API access, and educational or enterprise integrations.
The Services are decision-support tools. They are not a substitute for professional judgment, editorial review, legal advice, academic due process, instructor discretion, or human evaluation.
AI Detection Outputs are probabilistic estimates. They may produce false positives or false negatives and may be affected by language, genre, paraphrasing, translation, editing, short text length, model changes, mixed authorship, or other factors. You must not treat any AI Detection Output as conclusive proof that a person used or did not use AI.
Plagiarism and originality checks are designed to identify textual similarity and other indicators within the available data sources, settings, and search capabilities of the Services. They do not identify every possible source, every idea-based similarity, every citation issue, every paraphrase, or every form of academic misconduct.
Fact-checking, grammar, readability, SEO, and writing outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or unsuitable for your context. You are responsible for reviewing and validating all Output before relying on, publishing, submitting, or sharing it.
APIs, plugins, browser extensions, Moodle integrations, and other integrations may be subject to documentation, technical limits, rate limits, authentication requirements, version changes, and additional terms. You are responsible for properly configuring integrations and for ensuring that your use complies with applicable law, your own policies, and any third-party platform rules.
The Services are intended for business, professional, educational, and lawful personal use. You may use the Services only if you can form a binding contract under applicable law and are not prohibited from using the Services under applicable law.
If you are a minor in your jurisdiction, you may use the Services only with permission and supervision from a parent, legal guardian, school, or other authorized institution, as applicable. School Customers are responsible for providing notices and obtaining consents required for student use, including where applicable under COPPA, FERPA, state student-privacy laws, provincial education laws, or similar requirements.
Outside of a School Customer context, we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information without a lawful basis or appropriate authorization, contact support@originality.ai
To access certain Services, you may need to create an Account. You must provide accurate, current, and complete information and keep it updated.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of usernames, passwords, API keys, tokens, single sign-on credentials, and other authentication methods. You are responsible for all activity under your Account, including unauthorized activity caused by your failure to safeguard credentials.
You must notify us promptly at support@originality.ai if you suspect unauthorized access, credential compromise, or misuse of your Account.
Administrators and Managers may be able to access, manage, export, restrict, delete, or control Content, users, settings, billing, scan history, API keys, integrations, and reports associated with a Customer workspace. Customer is responsible for its Administrators’ actions and for ensuring that Administrator permissions are appropriate.
Some Services are free. Other Services require payment, a subscription, prepaid credits, usage-based fees, enterprise fees, API fees, overage charges, or other charges described at the time of purchase or in an order form.
By purchasing a paid Service, you authorize us and our payment processors to charge your payment method for applicable fees, taxes, renewals, overages, and other amounts due.
Unless stated otherwise, subscriptions renew automatically for the applicable billing period until cancelled. To avoid renewal charges, you must cancel before the renewal date or within the cancellation window stated at purchase, in the product, or in supplemental subscription terms.
Credits, scan allowances, word allowances, API usage, or similar usage units may expire, be subject to plan limits, or be non-transferable unless we state otherwise in writing. Overage or top-up charges may apply if your usage exceeds plan limits.
You are responsible for all taxes, duties, levies, and governmental charges associated with your purchase, excluding taxes based on our net income.
We may offer trials, promotional pricing, beta access, limited free scans, free word limits, or similar offers. We may change, suspend, or discontinue promotional offers at any time. Trials may convert to paid subscriptions unless cancelled before the trial ends, where this is disclosed at signup.
You may cancel recurring subscriptions using the available Account controls or by contacting support. Cancellation stops future renewals but does not automatically refund prior charges.
Unless required by applicable law or expressly stated in an order form or supplemental refund policy, fees are non-refundable once paid, and completed scans, plagiarism checks, AI-detection checks, citation checks, fact checks, proofreading outputs, API calls, credit usage, and other consumed Services cannot be cancelled or refunded.
Nothing in these Terms limits any mandatory consumer withdrawal, cancellation, refund, or statutory warranty rights that cannot be waived under applicable law.
You represent and warrant that:
You may use the Services only in accordance with these Terms, applicable law, documentation, and any plan limits. You must not encourage or assist anyone to:
The Services can support academic-integrity workflows but cannot replace institutional judgment, instructor review, student engagement, appeals processes, or applicable due-process obligations.
School Customers, instructors, and administrators should communicate their AI-use and plagiarism policies to students, apply those policies consistently, consider context and available evidence, and provide an appropriate opportunity for response or appeal before taking adverse action.
AI Detection Outputs, plagiarism scores, source matches, highlights, and reports should be treated as indicators requiring review, not as definitive proof of misconduct. You are responsible for interpreting Outputs responsibly and lawfully.
As between you and Originality.AI, you retain ownership of Input and User Content, subject to any rights held by third parties. Uploading, scanning, or processing Content through the Services does not transfer ownership of that Content to us.
To operate the Services, you grant Originality.AI a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, process, transmit, display, create technical reproductions of, analyze, and otherwise use Content as necessary to provide, secure, maintain, support, troubleshoot, enforce, and improve the Services, comply with law, prevent abuse, and exercise rights under these Terms.
To the extent we have any rights in Output generated specifically for you through the Services, we assign those rights to you, subject to these Terms, applicable law, and third-party rights. This assignment does not apply to our Services, models, algorithms, interfaces, general know-how, templates, generic suggestions, system outputs provided to other users, or third-party content.
Because AI and automated systems can generate similar or identical outputs for different users, you acknowledge that Output may not be unique and that other users may receive similar or identical Output.
Our use of Content for improvement is governed by these Terms, the Privacy Policy, your settings, and any applicable enterprise, school, data processing, or student-data terms.
Unless you opt out where an opt-out is available, we may use scan history, Inputs, Outputs, results, feedback, telemetry, and related data to evaluate, test, secure, maintain, develop, and improve our plagiarism, AI detection, fact-checking, grammar, readability, and related Services. Where appropriate, we use de-identification, anonymization, aggregation, encryption, access controls, and other safeguards.
If you opt out in Account settings, we will apply that preference to eligible past and future data associated with your Account as described in the Privacy Policy and product controls. Some uses may continue where necessary to provide the Services, maintain security, comply with law, enforce Terms, investigate abuse, or meet contractual obligations.
For School Customer use under an official institutional agreement with Originality.ai, Student Data and Education Records are processed only for school-authorized educational purposes and as described in the Privacy Policy and applicable agreement. We do not sell Student Data, use Student Data for targeted advertising, or use Student Data to train general-purpose AI models.
For Enterprise Services, we will honor any negotiated data-use restrictions in the applicable order form, enterprise agreement, data processing agreement, or security addendum.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, contractual, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information and Customer Data. However, no system or transmission method is completely secure.
You are responsible for configuring your Account securely, managing user access, protecting credentials, using secure integrations, and complying with your own privacy and security obligations.
If the parties exchange non-public business, technical, security, pricing, product, or other confidential information in connection with Enterprise Services, each party will use reasonable care to protect the other party’s confidential information and will use it only to perform under the applicable agreement, except as required by law or authorized in writing.
The Services may integrate with or link to third-party platforms, payment processors, authentication providers, learning management systems, content management systems, browsers, analytics tools, hosting providers, or websites. Third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy practices.
We are not responsible for third-party services, content, policies, availability, security, or processing practices. You are responsible for reviewing and complying with third-party terms before enabling integrations or sharing data with third parties.
The Services, website, software, APIs, plugins, extensions, interfaces, workflows, databases, reports, templates, scoring systems, models, algorithms, documentation, trademarks, logos, service marks, trade dress, and related intellectual property are owned by Originality.AI or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property and other laws.
Subject to these Terms and any applicable third-party or open-source licence terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Services for your internal lawful purposes during the applicable subscription or access period.
If you provide ideas, suggestions, bug reports, improvement requests, or other feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use it without restriction or obligation to you.
The Services may include, incorporate, link to, be distributed with, or otherwise use software, libraries, components, documentation, data, or other materials made available by third parties under open-source, source-available, community, commercial, or other third-party licence terms (“Third-Party Components”).
Third-Party Components are licensed to you under their applicable third-party license terms and not solely under the licence granted by Originality.ai in these Terms. To the extent that an applicable third-party licence grants you rights that are inconsistent with, or cannot lawfully be restricted by, these Terms, the applicable third-party licence will govern solely with respect to the relevant Third-Party Component.
Nothing in these Terms is intended to restrict any right to copy, modify, reverse engineer, debug, relink, distribute, or otherwise use a Third-Party Component where and to the extent that such a right is expressly granted under an applicable open-source license and may not be restricted by agreement.
Copyright notices, attribution notices, applicable licence terms, source-code offers, and other information concerning Third-Party Components may be provided with the Services, accompanying documentation, source-code repositories, distributed software, an Open Source Software Notices page, or another location identified by Originality.ai.
Third-Part Components are provided subject to the warranties, disclaimers, limitations, conditions, and other terms contained in their respective licences. Except where expressly agreed otherwise by Originality.ai., no author contributor, licensor, or supplier of a Third-Party Component provides any warranty, support, indemnity, or other obligation, to you on behalf of Originality.ai, and Originality.ai does not provide any warranty, representation, or obligation on behalf of those third parties.
The inclusion of a Third-Party Component does not grant you any right to use the trade names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of its author, licensor, or contributors, except as permitted by the applicable licence or applicable law.
You must not upload or submit Content that infringes copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights.
If you believe Content available through the Services infringes your rights, contact support@originality.ai with enough information for us to evaluate your request, including identification of the allegedly infringing material, your rights, contact information, and a statement that the information provided is accurate. We may remove or disable access to Content where appropriate.
Knowingly submitting false or misleading takedown notices or claims may result in liability or Account action.
We may modify, update, suspend, discontinue, limit, or replace any part of the Services at any time, including features, models, scoring methods, data sources, APIs, limits, plans, credits, prices, or documentation.
We may offer alpha, beta, preview, trial, or experimental features. These features may be unstable, incomplete, inaccurate, unavailable, or changed without notice. Beta features are provided “as is” and may be subject to additional terms.
We do not guarantee that the Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, error-free, or available at all times. Service interruptions may occur due to maintenance, security issues, third-party failures, high demand, force majeure events, or factors outside our control.
We may suspend or terminate access to the Services, remove Content, disable API keys, limit usage, or close Accounts if we reasonably believe that you violated these Terms, created risk or liability, failed to pay amounts due, exceeded usage limits, compromised security, infringed rights, violated law, or misused the Services.
You may stop using the Services at any time. You may cancel paid subscriptions as described in Section 7. Termination does not relieve you of payment obligations incurred before termination.
Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including payment obligations, ownership, licenses needed for prior processing, confidentiality, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnities, dispute resolution, and miscellaneous provisions.
THE SERVICES AND OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ORIGINALITY.AI AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, SUPPLIERS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR TRADE USAGE.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES OR OUTPUTS WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, ERROR-FREE, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR SUITABLE FOR YOUR PURPOSES; THAT ALL PLAGIARISM, AI-GENERATED CONTENT, FACTUAL ERRORS, CITATION ISSUES, SECURITY ISSUES, OR POLICY VIOLATIONS WILL BE DETECTED; OR THAT CONTENT WILL NOT BE LOST, ALTERED, OR DISCLOSED.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVALUATING OUTPUTS, USING HUMAN REVIEW, APPLYING YOUR OWN POLICIES, AND DETERMINING WHETHER THE SERVICES ARE APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR USE CASE.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ORIGINALITY.AI AND ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, LICENSORS, SUPPLIERS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR ENHANCED DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS; LOST REVENUE; LOST GOODWILL; LOST DATA; BUSINESS INTERRUPTION; COSTS OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES; ACADEMIC, EMPLOYMENT, DISCIPLINARY, REPUTATIONAL, OR COMMERCIAL CONSEQUENCES; OR CLAIMS ARISING FROM RELIANCE ON OUTPUTS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF: (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO ORIGINALITY.AI FOR THE SERVICE GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM IN THE THREE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY; OR (B) CAD $100. FOR A SINGLE PAY-PER-SCAN TRANSACTION, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID FOR THE RELEVANT SCAN.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability. In those jurisdictions, liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.
If you are a business, organization, School Customer, agency, publisher, institution, or other non-consumer user, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Originality.AI and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, contractors, suppliers, licensors, service providers, agents, successors, and assigns from and against claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or relating to:
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.
Subject to any mandatory rights you may have under applicable law, the courts located in Ontario, Canada, will have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services. You irrevocably submit to that jurisdiction and waive any objection based on inconvenient forum.
Before filing a claim, the parties will attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally by contacting support@originality.ai unless emergency injunctive relief or legal compliance requires otherwise.
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Date of Last Amendment” and post the revised Terms. Where required by law or where changes are material, we may provide additional notice.
Your continued use of the Services after the updated Terms take effect means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Services and cancel any subscription.
You consent to receive service-related, transactional, billing, security, legal, and administrative communications electronically, including by email, in-product notice, dashboard notice, or posting on our website. You are responsible for keeping contact information current.
You must comply with all applicable export control, sanctions, import, and international trade laws. You may not use the Services if you are located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in a sanctioned jurisdiction, or if you are on a restricted-party list, except where authorized by law.
Questions about these Terms may be sent to:
Originality AI Inc.
64 Hurontario St
Collingwood, Ontario L9Y 2L6
Canada
Email: support@originality.ai
AI & Plagiarism Detector for Serious Content Publishers
Originality.ai
64 Hurontario St
Collingwood, Ontario
L9Y 2L6
