Terms
Terms of Use
These terms explain how to use the ClarityScholar website and the boundaries of the academic support described on it.
Last updated: 15 October 2026
These terms are pre-launch. They are not indexed. Paid checkout, refunds, cancellation, revisions, governing law, and the legal name of the business are not settled, so they are not written here as if they were.
Agreement to these terms
By using the ClarityScholar website, you agree to follow these terms.
Visiting the site does not create a paid-service contract. The website does not currently take payment, open an account, or accept an order.
Using the website
You may use the site for lawful purposes: to learn about ClarityScholar, read the service descriptions, use the guides and checklists, and read the academic-integrity boundaries.
The free-assessment and contact forms are on the site. Their online delivery is not connected yet, so submitting them does not send a request to a support team. Each of those pages says so.
What the support is
ClarityScholar describes support such as academic editing, proofreading, research-document review, literature-review support, formatting, application-document editing, presentation-related support, and responsible AI content review. What is included depends on the scope agreed for a request.
Your work stays yours. We help you improve it.
The site is not a marketplace for hiring a named reviewer, and it is not a place to book or contract directly with an individual expert.
A free assessment, when delivery is connected, is meant to identify:
- The document type
- The stage of the draft
- The concerns you describe
- The type of support that may fit
An assessment is not a grade, an admissions or publication prediction, a guaranteed result, or completion of academic work. The assessment page explains that online submission is not connected yet.
The contact page shows the channels that exist today. The contact form does not deliver messages yet, and these terms do not add an email address or a phone number.
Not a service for completing assessed work
ClarityScholar does not provide support that is meant to impersonate a student, sit an exam or test, attend an interview for someone else, fabricate research, data, findings, or sources, create false citations, complete assessed work on someone's behalf, misrepresent authorship, bypass academic-integrity controls, or evade AI-detection systems.
The academic integrity page is the fuller statement of those boundaries. Using the site for academic support means staying inside them.
Your responsibilities
You are responsible for checking whether outside editing, outside review, or a particular use of AI is allowed by your institution, department, course, supervisor, journal, or employer. ClarityScholar does not claim that every institution accepts outside support.
You are also responsible for:
- Giving accurate information
- Sharing only work you are entitled to share
- Reading suggested edits
- Checking facts, citations, and research data
- Following ethics requirements and institutional rules
- Making the final academic decisions
- Submitting only work you are entitled to submit
Prohibited use
Do not use the site to request academic fraud or impersonation, to send a stolen document or material you are not entitled to share, or to request fabricated evidence, fake credentials, invented sources, or AI-detection evasion.
Do not attempt unauthorised access, interfere with the site's security, or abuse the forms or their rate limits. When file upload exists, do not send malware. Do not use the site unlawfully.
Articles, guides, and checklists
Articles, guides, checklists, and FAQ answers are general information for study and research. They are not a substitute for an institution's rules, a supervisor's instructions, or a journal's requirements.
ClarityScholar aims to keep that material useful and accurate. Conventions, style guides, and institutional rules change. Check the requirements that apply to your own work. These terms do not promise that every page is error-free or right for every institution.
You may print or save a website resource for your own non-commercial study or research, unless a page says otherwise. Do not resell it or republish it as a collection.
Expert profiles
The public experts area currently uses pre-launch placeholder profiles. Those placeholders are not real people, and the page is not a way to hire or book a reviewer.
Verified individual profile information will be published only after the relevant details have been checked.
Intellectual property
You keep ownership of your original work, subject to any rights other people already hold in it. Because document upload and live submission are not operating, these terms do not take a licence over material you might send later. A limited permission to process submitted work can be added when that workflow exists.
The site design, original written resources, branding, graphics, and templates may be protected by intellectual-property law. These terms do not claim your documents, third-party trademarks, or material the site merely links to.
Ordinary reading and the personal printing described above are allowed. These terms do not restrict normal browsing.
Third-party links
The website may link to other sites. ClarityScholar does not control those sites and is not responsible for their content, availability, or privacy practices.
Availability and changes to the site
The site may be unavailable during maintenance, technical problems, or updates. These terms do not promise uninterrupted access or a particular uptime.
Pages, features, services, and resources may change as the site develops. These terms do not promise an individual notice for every change.
No guaranteed outcomes
ClarityScholar does not guarantee grades, passing marks, admission, scholarships, publication, journal acceptance, supervisor approval, employment, academic advancement, or an AI-detector result.
Universities, journals, employers, and other organisations make their own decisions. ClarityScholar does not control those decisions.
The website and its educational resources are provided as available. ClarityScholar aims to keep information useful and current, and does not guarantee that every page will always be complete, error-free, or suitable for every institution or circumstance.
A deadline you mention on a form is information about your timing. These terms do not promise that a date will be met. If a future paid arrangement includes dates, those dates belong in the scope agreed for that work, not in these website terms.
Liability
Final wording on liability has to be approved before any paid service launches. These draft terms do not set a monetary cap, and they do not say that ClarityScholar is never responsible for anything.
What these terms do say is that decisions made by a university, a journal, an employer, or another organisation are decisions ClarityScholar does not control.
Privacy
How the website handles personal information is described in the current privacy policy. That policy is also a pre-launch draft. Linking to it here does not mean it has had a final legal approval.
Changes to these terms
These terms may be updated as the website, the services, and the business practices develop.
The date at the top of the page will change when a material update is made. The site does not currently email people about changes to the terms.
Pricing, payment, and later commercial terms
No public website pricing or checkout terms are established in these terms at the current pre-launch stage. The website does not currently process payment-card transactions.
Refund and cancellation terms have not been published, because paid online transactions are not enabled. A revision policy, including any number of revisions or any revision window, is not part of these website terms.
Those commercial terms have to be written and approved before a paid service can be taken through the site. They are not filled in here with placeholder rules.
Questions about these terms
Questions can be raised from the Contact page once a verified channel is listed there. The contact form does not deliver messages yet, and these terms do not publish a legal email address or an office.