Acceptable Use Policy

1. Purpose

ThesisForge is intended to assist with legitimate academic writing by providing a structured, user-friendly interface for generating LaTeX-formatted thesis documents. This Acceptable Use Policy outlines the expected and prohibited uses of the Service to promote academic integrity and responsible scholarship.

2. Permitted Uses

You may use ThesisForge for the following purposes:

• Personal academic research — Structuring and formatting your own original thesis, dissertation, or research report.
• Thesis writing — Creating, editing, and exporting academic documents for submission at your educational institution.
• Learning LaTeX — Using ThesisForge as a learning tool to understand LaTeX document structure, syntax, and best practices.
• Structuring academic documents — Organizing chapters, sections, references, and formatting for academic manuscripts.
• Collaboration — Sharing exported LaTeX files with advisors, co-authors, or collaborators for review.

3. Prohibited Uses

You must not use ThesisForge for any of the following:

• Academic dishonesty — Submitting documents generated or formatted with ThesisForge as original work without proper attribution, or representing AI-generated content as your own without disclosure as required by your institution.
• Plagiarism — Using the Service to generate, structure, or format content that you do not have the right to use, or that constitutes plagiarism under your institution's policies.
• Circumventing plagiarism detection — Using ThesisForge to deliberately evade plagiarism detection software or academic integrity systems.
• Fraudulent credentials — Generating academic documents for the purpose of obtaining fraudulent degrees, certifications, or credentials.
• Automated abuse — Using bots, scripts, or automated tools to generate large volumes of documents through the Service in a manner that could degrade performance for other users.
• Unlawful activity — Using the Service for any purpose that violates applicable local, national, or international laws.

4. Academic Integrity

ThesisForge is a formatting and structuring tool — it does not generate thesis content for you. You are entirely responsible for the originality, accuracy, and academic merit of the content you input into the Service.

We strongly encourage all users to comply with their institution's academic integrity policies. If your institution requires disclosure of tools used in the writing process, you should disclose your use of ThesisForge. When in doubt, consult your academic advisor or institution's integrity office.

ThesisForge does not monitor, review, or validate the content of documents created by its users. We have no mechanism to detect academic dishonesty and bear no responsibility for how the output is used.

5. Enforcement

ThesisForge is a fully client-side service that does not require user accounts. As such, we do not have the ability to monitor individual user activity or enforce usage policies at the user level. However:

• We reserve the right to implement rate limiting or access restrictions to prevent automated abuse of the Service.
• We may block abusive API usage patterns that degrade the Service for legitimate users.
• Reports of systematic misuse may result in IP-level restrictions at our hosting provider level.

Academic enforcement is the responsibility of your educational institution, not ThesisForge. Institutional plagiarism detection tools, honor codes, and academic integrity committees are the appropriate mechanisms for addressing misuse.

6. Contact

If you have questions or concerns about this Acceptable Use Policy, please contact us through our website.

7. Effective Date

This Acceptable Use Policy is effective as of May 28, 2026.