Acceptable use policy

What these tools are for

The Phrasit tools are writing and study aids. The paraphraser, summarizer, grammar checker, tone rewriter, translator, citation generator, and the rest exist to help you draft faster, understand your own writing better, and produce clearer work. They are a partner in the work, not a replacement for it. The output is a starting point you read, edit, and take responsibility for, not a finished answer you hand in unread.

You are responsible for academic integrity

You, not Phrasit, are responsible for following the rules that apply to your work. Every school, university, journal, and employer sets its own policy on what help is allowed and how it must be acknowledged. Some allow AI assistance freely, some allow it with disclosure, and some forbid it for a particular assignment. It is your job to know which rule applies to you and to follow it.

Where your institution, publisher, or employer requires you to disclose that you used an AI tool, disclose it. Being transparent about how a piece of work was created is almost always the safe choice, and it is the one we recommend. When in doubt, ask the person setting the work before you submit it.

How to read each AI tool honestly

A few of the tools are easy to misunderstand, so here is plainly what each one does and does not do.

AI Humanizer. This is a natural-voice rewriter. It varies sentence rhythm, replaces overused AI phrasing with plainer words, and keeps your meaning, facts, and citations intact. It is not a detection-bypass tool. We do not design it to defeat AI detectors, we make no promise that its output will read as human to any detector, and we never use words like undetectable or bypass to describe it. If you are using AI assistance on work where that must be disclosed, disclose it.
AI Detector. This is a fallible aid, never proof. It returns a likelihood band and a plain explanation of the patterns behind it, never a precise percentage. AI detection is genuinely unreliable and frequently flags real human writing, especially from non-native English speakers and on short passages. Do not use the result to accuse anyone, and do not treat it as evidence that a piece of writing was or was not produced by AI.
Plagiarism checker. This is a similarity and citation cross-check, not a Turnitin-grade or academic-database scan. It searches the public web for near-exact matches of your most distinctive sentences and shows you which ones you have cited. It can miss paywalled, book, and journal sources entirely. Treat it as a self-check that helps you spot passages you forgot to attribute, not as proof that your work is original.

Acceptable uses

Rewriting your own draft for clarity, tone, or readability.
Summarizing a source so you can understand it, then writing about it in your own words.
Checking your grammar, spelling, and punctuation before you submit.
Generating correctly formatted citations and bibliographies for sources you actually used.
Translating text and refining the result into natural prose.
Using AI assistance where it is permitted, and disclosing it where disclosure is required.
Self-checking your work for unattributed overlap before you hand it in.

Prohibited uses

You must not use Phrasit to:

Pass off AI-generated work as your own where the rules that apply to you forbid it, or present AI output as human-written where you are required to say otherwise.
Cheat on graded, assessed, or examined work, or have the tools produce work that you submit as wholly your own when that is not allowed.
Attempt to evade or defeat AI detection, plagiarism checks, or any academic-integrity process. Phrasit will not build detection-evasion features, and using our tools as if they were one is a misuse of them.
Plagiarize, by copying another person’s work and submitting it without attribution.
Generate deceptive, fraudulent, harassing, hateful, or otherwise unlawful content, or anything that infringes someone else’s rights.
Abuse the service, for example by scraping it, hammering it with automated traffic, or trying to get around the rate limits that keep it free for everyone.

Our commitment

We will not market or build any tool around bypassing detectors, beating Turnitin, or guaranteeing a human score. That stance is deliberate. It is better for you, because honest writing help is what actually improves your work, and it is the only stance we are willing to stand behind. The full legal terms are in our terms of use, what we do and do not collect is in the privacy policy, and how the content is built is in our editorial standards.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you want to report misuse of the tools, email team@palenebula.com.