Acceptable Use Policy

1. Overview

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") is an expanded presentation of Section 6 ("Academic Integrity and Acceptable Use") of our Terms of Service. Violations may result in account suspension or termination.

This policy applies to all users of americanenglishediting.com, revisepilot.com, and proposepilot.com.

2. Prohibited Conduct

You may not use the platform to engage in:

• Fraud, deception, fabrication, plagiarism, unlawful surveillance, credential abuse, malware distribution, sanctions evasion, or copyright infringement.
• Submission bundling or other attempts to bypass pricing, file, word-count, or plan limits.
• Generating false data, false references, false reviewer identities, or misleading disclosures.
• Scraping, crawling, bulk extraction, mirroring, benchmarking, prompt harvesting, or other automated access intended to copy the service or build a competing product.
• Reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or attempting to extract source code, underlying prompts, workflow logic, or model-routing behavior.
• Bypassing or testing access controls, authentication measures, rate limits, billing mechanisms, or security protections.
• Uploading content you do not have the right to use.
• Uploading protected health information (PHI) subject to HIPAA, government classified or controlled-unclassified information, or third-party confidential corporate data.
• Uploading FERPA-protected education records of other students without appropriate authorization.
• Automated activity that imposes an unreasonable load on the platform.

3. Your Responsibilities

• You remain responsible for any required AI-use disclosures to journals, funders, institutions, or regulators.
• You are responsible for ensuring you have the legal right and authorization to upload content.
• Lab plan primary account holders are responsible for all activity by their collaborators.

4. Enforcement

Violations may result in: a warning, suspension of account access, account termination, revocation of delivered credits or services, and recovery of damages where permitted by law. We reserve the right to take action without prior notice.

5. Reporting

If you become aware of any violation of this policy, please contact hello@americanenglishediting.com.