Acceptable Use Policy

Version 1.0 · Effective July 5, 2026 · Last updated July 5, 2026

This policy is part of our Terms of Service. Violating it can result in content removal, suspension, or termination of your account.

1. General prohibited conduct

You may not use the Service to:

• Violate any applicable law or regulation.
• Infringe anyone's intellectual property, privacy, or other rights.
• Transmit malware, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or other users' accounts.
• Scrape, crawl, or bulk-extract data from the Service except through an API we explicitly provide for that purpose.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of the Service, except as permitted by law.
• Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service (e.g. denial-of-service, excessive automated requests outside documented rate/quota limits — including scripting around the AI-assist free-usage limit described in the AI Disclosure).
• Resell or provide the Service to third parties as your own, except as your plan explicitly permits.

2. Content you submit

You may not submit content, including study text or titles submitted for evaluation, that:

• Is illegal, fraudulent, or deceptive.
• Is defamatory, harassing, hateful, or threatens violence against a person or group.
• Sexually exploits or endangers minors in any way.
• Infringes someone else's intellectual property or violates their privacy or publicity rights.
• Impersonates a person or organization in a misleading way, including AI-generated deepfakes of real people without consent.

3. AI-assist misuse

The study evaluator's AI-assist feature (see AI Disclosure) adds AI-generated reasoning and a plain-speak summary on top of the deterministic scorecard. You additionally may not:

• Attempt to bypass, "jailbreak," or manipulate the AI-assist feature's safety controls, or circumvent the per-visitor free-usage limit or the site-wide monthly cap (e.g. by rotating IP addresses or automating requests).
• Use AI assist to generate content prohibited under Section 2, or to build a competing product by systematically extracting its outputs.
• Present AI-assist output as a substitute for professional scientific, medical, or statistical judgment, or as independently peer-reviewed analysis.
• Rely on AI-assist output for a "consequential decision" about a specific person — e.g. employment, lending, housing, insurance, healthcare, or education — unless you've confirmed with counsel that your specific use complies with applicable AI-specific law (see docs/legal.md) and have added the human-review/appeal process those laws require.

4. Reporting violations

To report a suspected violation of this policy, contact ajkaiserauer@gmail.com.