Acceptable Use Policy

1. Purpose

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") describes what you can and cannot do when using Recursity. Its goal is to protect users, institutions, and the integrity of the platform, and to prevent misuse that could cause harm, violate the law, or undermine academic standards.

This AUP applies to all access and use of our websites, web application, APIs (if any), and related services (collectively, the "Service"), including any content you upload, generate, store, share, or export using Recursity.

2. Academic Integrity and Prohibited Academic Misconduct

Recursity is designed to support research and writing workflows, including drafting, summarization, citation management, and source-aware assistance. However, Recursity is not intended to facilitate academic dishonesty. You remain solely responsible for how you use outputs from the Service and for ensuring your use complies with your institution’s rules, honor codes, assessment policies, and applicable laws.

Academic misconduct can take many forms and policies vary between institutions. In this AUP, we list a non-exhaustive set of behaviors that are always prohibited on Recursity, regardless of whether a particular institution explicitly addresses them.

The following are explicitly prohibited:

• Contract cheating: producing graded work on behalf of another person.
• Selling academic work: selling papers, assignments, or exam responses.
• Ghostwriting for grades: writing submissions intended to be represented as someone else’s original graded work.
• Providing or soliciting "ready-to-submit" work where prohibited by an institution’s rules.
• Using the Service to evade plagiarism detection or academic integrity enforcement.

For clarity: Recursity may assist with brainstorming, outlining, rewriting for clarity, and summarizing sources, but you must not use the Service to impersonate authorship, fabricate academic work, or submit content as your own when doing so would violate your obligations. If you are unsure whether a use is permitted, you should consult your institution’s guidance before using Recursity for that task.

3. Illegal, Harmful, or Abusive Activity

You may not use Recursity for any unlawful purpose or to violate the rights of others. This includes uploading, generating, or distributing content that is illegal, harmful, or abusive, or using the Service to facilitate wrongdoing.

You may not use Recursity to:

• Violate any law or regulation.
• Infringe intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights.
• Upload pirated, unlawfully obtained, or unauthorized copies of books, papers, or other materials.
• Harass, threaten, defame, or impersonate others.
• Distribute malware, ransomware, or other harmful code.
• Attempt unauthorized access to systems or accounts.

We may remove content, restrict features, or suspend accounts when we believe this is necessary to comply with law, protect users, protect our infrastructure, or prevent harm. We may also cooperate with lawful requests from authorities.

4. Prohibited High-Risk Use Cases

Recursity is a writing and research tool. It is not designed or certified for use in high-risk contexts where errors could lead to serious harm, such as clinical decisions, legal representation, or surveillance.

You may not use Recursity for:

• Medical advice or clinical decision support.
• Legal advice in regulated contexts.
• Government intelligence, surveillance, or profiling.
• Any safety-critical or life-critical decision-making.

This restriction applies even if you label outputs as “draft” or “for informational purposes.” If you need professional advice, consult a qualified professional and do not rely on Recursity outputs.

5. Scraping, Automation, and Abuse

To protect availability and fairness, you may not abuse the Service or attempt to extract data or functionality at scale in a way that harms Recursity, its users, or its providers. This includes attempts to bypass plan limits, usage quotas, and technical restrictions.

You may not:

• Mass scrape, crawl, or harvest data from the Service.
• Use automated methods that degrade performance or bypass restrictions.
• Attempt to bypass plan limits, quotas, or feature gating.
• Abuse AI usage limits; repeated abuse may result in throttling or suspension.

We may implement rate limits, automated abuse detection, and manual review processes. If we detect behavior that suggests abuse (for example, unusually high-volume automated requests, repeated attempts to circumvent limits, or scraping patterns), we may throttle traffic, restrict features, require additional verification, or suspend access.

6. Enforcement

We may investigate suspected violations of this AUP. Enforcement decisions may be based on a range of signals, including user reports, automated detection systems, and manual review. We may consider the severity of the conduct, whether it was repeated, and whether it created risk of harm.

Actions we may take include warnings, requiring corrective steps, throttling or restricting features, temporarily suspending access, terminating accounts, removing content, and (where legally required or appropriate) reporting matters to authorities. We may also take steps to prevent re-registration or continued misuse.

7. Reporting

If you believe someone is misusing Recursity or if you encounter content or behavior that violates this AUP, please report it. Reports help us protect users and maintain the integrity of the platform.

When reporting, include as much context as possible (e.g., the affected account email if known, timestamps, screenshots, document IDs, and a description of what happened). We will review reports and may contact you for additional information.

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