Acceptable use
What Wordcheck is for
This policy is short on purpose, because the line matters more than the wording.
Use it for
- Making your own drafts — including AI-assisted drafts you are permitted to use — read as though a person wrote them, because a person is responsible for them.
- Holding a client's or colleague's voice consistent across content you produce for them, with their knowledge.
- Checking your work for unattributed overlap before you publish or submit it.
- Learning what makes writing read as generic, so you write better without the tool.
Don't use it for
- Academic misconduct. Disguising AI-generated work submitted as your own is prohibited at essentially every institution, and it is prohibited here. We do not sell a detector-bypass mode and we will not build one.
- Impersonation. Building a voice profile from someone's writing in order to publish under their name, or to make readers believe they wrote something they did not.
- Deception at scale. Fake reviews, fabricated testimonials, astroturfing, or content designed to be mistaken for independent journalism or genuine personal experience.
- Laundering plagiarism. Rewriting someone else's work to defeat an originality check rather than to cite it properly.
On detectors, plainly. AI detectors are unreliable in both directions — they flag genuine human writing and miss lightly edited machine text. We don't optimise for beating them, we don't guarantee a result against them, and we'd encourage you to be sceptical of any tool that does. What we optimise for is writing that is actually better: varied rhythm, real specifics, a consistent voice. That tends to score well as a consequence, and it keeps scoring well after the next detector update.
What we do if you breach this
We suspend the account. We don't monitor the content of your documents to enforce it, and we don't want to — but reports are investigated, and repeated or egregious breaches end the relationship.
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