Acceptable Use Policy

1. Status and scope

This Acceptable Use Policy (Policy) applies whenever you access or use the website, applications, APIs and related services operated by humanizes, the operator of humanizes.com (the Service). It applies to your inputs, uploaded writing samples, prompts, generated or rewritten output, account activity and any use you enable.

This Policy is part of your contract

The Terms of Service incorporate this Policy by reference. Breaking this Policy is therefore a breach of the Terms, not merely a breach of guidance. You must not attempt, assist, encourage or enable another person to do anything this Policy prohibits.

A use may breach more than one rule below. Examples explain the rules but are not exhaustive. If conduct creates a comparable risk of unlawful harm, deception or abuse, we may treat it in the same way.

2. Academic integrity and contract cheating

ACADEMIC CHEATING AND CONTRACT CHEATING ARE PROHIBITED

DO NOT USE THE SERVICE TO SUBMIT AI-ASSISTED WORK WHERE AI USE IS PROHIBITED, OR TO CONCEAL AI ASSISTANCE WHERE DISCLOSURE IS REQUIRED. DO NOT USE IT TO COMPLETE, OR HELP COMPLETE, ASSESSED WORK FOR SOMEONE ELSE.

This includes any assignment, examination, take-home test, dissertation, thesis, coursework, admissions essay, professional assessment or certification exercise. It applies whether the work is submitted in whole or in part, whether money changes hands, and whether the requester calls the service editing, tutoring, proofreading or humanizing.

You must not use the Service to fulfil an order placed by a student for work intended to be submitted for academic credit, or advertise, broker, arrange, resell or package the Service for that purpose. You must not rewrite purchased or machine-generated work to disguise its origin, defeat an institution’s AI-use rules, or create false evidence of a student’s authorship.

Legitimate study support is permitted only where the relevant institution’s rules permit it: for example, improving clarity in your own draft, producing practice material that will not be submitted, or exploring a topic with appropriate disclosure. The user remains responsible for checking the applicable rules.

Contract cheating can be a crime

In England and Wales, providing or arranging a cheating service for a student is a criminal offence under the Skills and Post-16 Education Act 2022. Similar contract-cheating prohibitions exist in Australia, where the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency regulates academic cheating services, and in Ireland, New Zealand and several US states. We will not knowingly provide, facilitate or promote such a service.

3. Authorship, authenticity and provenance

Do not use the Service to create a false impression about who wrote, experienced, endorsed or verified something, or to defeat a check that a person or organisation is entitled or required to perform.

• impersonating another person or falsely presenting output as that person’s words;
• creating fake reviews, testimonials, endorsements, comments or grassroots support, including astroturfing;
• passing off ghost-written or AI-assisted content as wholly human-authored where a law, contract, employer, publisher, platform or professional rule requires disclosure;
• inventing, altering or laundering citations, sources, quotations, data, credentials, evidence or research findings; or
• evading plagiarism, authorship, provenance or AI-use checks where a rule, contract or law requires the work to be checked.

The Service is not an authorship certificate or plagiarism checker. A detector score does not establish that a submission is permitted, original or honestly attributed.

4. Fraud, manipulation and deception

Do not use the Service to deceive someone for money, access, influence or another improper advantage. Prohibited uses include:

Fraud and scams

Phishing, advance-fee or investment scams, romance fraud, financial fraud, fraudulent refund or chargeback claims, and messages designed to obtain credentials, payment or confidential information by deception.

False identity

Fabricating a person, organisation, qualification, employment history or relationship, or impersonating a real person without authority.

Misleading promotion

Advertising, fundraising or sales copy containing material claims you know are false or misleading, including fabricated customer experiences or results.

Public manipulation

Synthetic disinformation, coordinated inauthentic activity, voter suppression, deceptive election communications, or interference with an election or civic process.

Satire, fiction and authorised simulations are not prohibited merely because they describe invented events, but they must not be deployed as a deceptive representation of real facts where harm is reasonably foreseeable.

5. Harmful and illegal content

Do not use the Service to create, transform, conceal, facilitate or distribute content that is unlawful or that enables serious harm. This includes:

• harassment, stalking, credible threats, coercion or targeted abuse;
• hate speech that attacks, dehumanises or incites discrimination or violence against people based on a protected characteristic;
• incitement, praise or operational facilitation of terrorism or violence;
• actionable instructions for constructing or obtaining weapons, evading safety controls, or causing serious physical harm;
• non-consensual intimate imagery, sexual exploitation, sexual violence, or content intended to facilitate them;
• publishing private identifying or location information to expose someone to harassment or harm (doxxing); and
• malware, credential theft or other content intended to compromise systems or data.

Sexual content involving minors is absolutely prohibited

DO NOT SUBMIT, REQUEST, CREATE, TRANSFORM OR DESCRIBE CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL OR ANY SEXUAL CONTENT INVOLVING A MINOR. We may preserve and report apparent child sexual exploitation to the appropriate authorities and reporting bodies as the law requires or permits.

This rule does not prevent proportionate discussion for genuine news reporting, safeguarding, legal, medical or educational purposes, but it never permits exploitative material or practical assistance that creates a serious risk of harm.

6. Privacy, confidentiality and sensitive information

Do not submit another person’s personal data unless you have a lawful basis and all permissions required to do so. Do not submit trade secrets, material protected by legal professional privilege, confidential business information, material covered by a non-disclosure agreement, or any other information you are not authorised to disclose.

As the Terms explain, the Service is not designed or contracted for regulated data. Do not submit payment card data, government identification numbers, health or medical records, biometric data, children’s data, criminal-record data, classified material or export-controlled material. Do not use output to infer, expose or exploit sensitive information about another person.

Removing a name may not make information anonymous if the person can still be identified from context. Before submitting material, minimise it and remove personal or confidential details that the task does not require.

7. Platform, account and model abuse

Access is personal to the account holder or purchasing organisation and remains subject to the plan and technical limits shown by the Service. You must not:

• circumvent a quota, paywall, rate limit, authentication check, usage meter or feature restriction, including through multiple accounts;
• share credentials or API keys, transfer an account, pool unrelated users behind one account, or use another person’s payment or identity details without permission;
• scrape, crawl or make automated bulk requests to extract the Service, its outputs, prompts, scores or underlying behaviour;
• use the Service or its output to train, fine-tune, evaluate or benchmark a competing model or writing service;
• resell, sublicense, rent, white-label or offer access to the Service as your own product without our written permission;
• reverse-engineer or attempt to discover source code, system prompts, model weights, scoring logic or non-public safeguards, except to the limited extent the law expressly permits; or
• probe, scan, exploit or test the security or resilience of the Service or its providers without our prior written authorisation.

Good-faith security research must be authorised before testing begins. Report an accidental security finding to support@humanizes.com and do not access, retain or disclose more data than is necessary to describe it.

8. Spam and abusive bulk content

Do not use the Service to generate or rewrite mass unsolicited email, messages, comments or other communications, or to evade a platform’s anti-spam systems. This includes personalised-looking outreach sent without a lawful basis or the consent required in the recipient’s jurisdiction.

Do not produce SEO doorway pages, keyword-stuffed pages, fake local pages, link-network copy or substantially duplicative content at scale where its purpose is to manipulate ranking systems or mislead visitors. Legitimate campaign drafting and ordinary website copy are permitted when they comply with applicable marketing, privacy and platform rules.

9. Reporting a violation

Send an acceptable-use or academic-integrity report to support@humanizes.com. An institution, examination body, publisher, employer or affected person may use the same address. A report should include:

• the relevant URL or page, if one exists;
• the dates and approximate times of the conduct;
• the account, user, order, publication or content concerned, described precisely enough for us to identify it;
• copies, screenshots, correspondence or other evidence supporting the report, with unnecessary personal data redacted;
• for suspected academic misuse, the institution or publisher, the work or assessment concerned, and the rule said to have been breached; and
• your name, role, organisation if applicable, and reliable contact details so we can ask focused follow-up questions.

Do not obtain evidence unlawfully, send us account passwords, or include sensitive information that is not needed. Knowingly false or abusive reports may themselves breach this Policy. Copyright complaints should instead follow the Copyright & Intellectual Property Policy.

10. Investigation, enforcement and review

We assess credible reports fairly and in context. We may examine the report and evidence, account and usage metadata, payment or entitlement signals, and relevant tamper-evident audit records. We do not routinely read user text to police compliance. Where necessary and permitted by law, a focused investigation may examine the specific content identified in a report or preserved in the relevant account.

Our response depends on severity, evidence, intent, repetition, harm and legal obligations. Available measures include:

1. a warning or request to stop or correct the conduct;
2. restriction of a feature or removal of access to particular content;
3. rate limiting or reduction of technical access;
4. temporary suspension while facts are checked or risk is contained;
5. account termination, including termination without refund where the Terms permit it; and
6. preservation or referral to law enforcement, a regulator, an affected institution or publisher where the law requires or permits that step.

Serious conduct can lead directly to termination

The list is not a mandatory sequence. A serious first offence — including contract cheating, child sexual exploitation, credible threats, fraud or deliberate security abuse — may skip every earlier step and lead immediately to suspension or termination.

There is no single investigation deadline: a clear report may be resolved quickly, while a disputed or legally sensitive case may require further evidence or preservation. We prioritise imminent safety risks and legal deadlines, seek to avoid unnecessary delay, and will tell the affected account the outcome and principal reason where doing so is lawful and would not compromise safety, an investigation or another person’s rights.

To contest a decision, email support@humanizes.com from the account email, identify the decision, explain specifically why it was mistaken or disproportionate, and provide relevant permission, institutional rules, source material, dates or other evidence. A person not logged in should provide enough information to verify their connection to the matter. A reviewer will consider the available evidence; enforcement remains in place during review unless we decide otherwise.

11. If you are unsure

Before using output in study or work, check the current policy of your institution, examining body, employer, client or publisher. Ask the responsible person if the rule is unclear. When in doubt, disclose that AI assistance was used and keep your drafts and sources so you can explain your process.

Our tools and detector scores cannot tell you whether a particular use is honest, permitted or lawful. That depends on the rules and circumstances that apply to you.

12. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy as the Service, misuse risks or applicable law change. The current version and effective date appear at the top, and the version history at the bottom records what each published version establishes or changes. Material changes apply as described in the Terms of Service.