Terms of Service

The services on this website are provided by Dr. Jan Philip Wahle and Lars Kaesberg, Siedlungsweg 24, 37124 Rosdorf, Germany (“we”, “us”). You can reach us at [email protected].

CheckMyThesis provides online tools for citation verification, AI text detection, plagiarism checking, BibTeX formatting, and related academic writing assistance. The exact features included in each plan are described on our pricing page and may change over time.

Results produced by our tools are generated automatically, including by machine-learning and AI systems, and are provided for informational purposes only on a best-effort basis. They are inherently probabilistic and may be incomplete, outdated, biased, or factually incorrect — for example, citation matches may be missed or wrongly flagged, AI-detection results may produce false positives or false negatives, and plagiarism checks do not cover every possible source. Outputs do not constitute legal, academic-integrity, editorial, scientific, or professional advice. You are solely responsible for independently reviewing, verifying, and deciding whether to rely on any output, and for any decisions, submissions, disciplinary, academic, or legal consequences that may result. We give no warranty, express or implied, of fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, accuracy, or non-infringement.

Some features require a free or paid account. You must provide accurate information when registering and keep your credentials confidential. You are responsible for all activity under your account.

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. By using the service, you confirm that you meet this requirement.

Paid plans are billed in advance on a monthly basis through our payment processor. Prices shown include applicable German VAT unless stated otherwise.

You can cancel your subscription at any time through your account. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; access remains available until then. We do not issue prorated refunds for partial billing periods except where required by law or under our refund policy.

If you are a consumer in the EU, you have a statutory 14-day right of withdrawal for digital services. Details, including the conditions under which the right of withdrawal expires, are set out in our refund and withdrawal policy.

We operate the website and its services on a reasonable-effort basis. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free availability. The website and its services may be temporarily unavailable due to:

• Scheduled maintenance, security updates, or infrastructure changes
• Outages of third-party hosting providers, networks, or external academic data providers
• Force majeure events, denial-of-service attacks, or other incidents outside our reasonable control
• Bugs, software defects, or emergency shutdowns required to protect user data or system integrity

We do not offer a service-level agreement or uptime guarantee for free or paid plans. Short interruptions or temporary unavailability do not entitle you to a price reduction. If a paid service is unavailable for an extended continuous period that materially prevents you from using features included in your plan, contact us at [email protected] and we will review the situation and, at our discretion, extend your billing period or issue a partial refund covering the affected time.

We may at any time add, modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue individual features, models, integrations, or the Service as a whole, including for technical, legal, security, or commercial reasons. You have no right to demand the provision, restoration, continuation, or performance of any specific feature, model, output, integration, data source, level of accuracy, response time, or service level beyond what is expressly described in your current paid plan. Material reductions of the bundled scope of features included in an active paid plan will be announced with reasonable notice in accordance with Section 10.

Statutory rights of consumers under German law (e.g., §§ 327e ff. BGB for digital services) remain unaffected by this section.

You agree not to:

• Upload content you do not have the right to process
• Use the service to violate applicable law, third-party rights, or academic integrity rules binding on you
• Attempt to circumvent usage limits, rate limits, or security measures, or to reverse-engineer or scrape the service
• Use the service in a way that interferes with other users or imposes disproportionate load on our infrastructure

We may suspend or terminate accounts that materially violate these rules.

You retain all rights to documents and text you upload. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive licence to process that content solely to provide the service you requested (e.g., extracting citations, running detection, returning results). We do not use your content to train machine-learning models.

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us, our affiliates, and our personnel from and against any third-party claims, demands, proceedings, losses, damages, liabilities, fines, penalties, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with:

• content you upload, submit, process through, or generate using the Service, including alleged infringement of intellectual property, personality, data-protection, or confidentiality rights of third parties;
• your use of, or reliance on, any output of the Service, including decisions you make about academic submissions, publications, grading, accusations of misconduct, or communications with third parties;
• your breach of these terms, the acceptable-use rules, or applicable law;
• unauthorised access to or misuse of the Service through your account or credentials.

This indemnification obligation applies in full to users acting in a commercial, professional, or institutional capacity. For consumers (Verbraucher within the meaning of § 13 BGB), it applies only to the extent permitted by mandatory consumer-protection law, and in any event only where the claim is attributable to your fault.

We are liable without limitation for damages arising from intent or gross negligence, for injury to life, body, or health, under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), and within the scope of any express guarantee we have given. For slight negligence, we are only liable for the breach of essential contractual obligations (cardinal duties), i.e., obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely; in such cases liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.

Subject to the preceding paragraph and to the extent not already excluded, our aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or in connection with the Service or these terms is capped, per affected user and per twelve-month period, at the greater of (a) one hundred euros (EUR 100) or (b) the fees you actually paid us for the Service in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim. This cap applies in particular to liability for slight negligence and to claims that are not separately covered by the unlimited-liability carve-outs above.

Any further liability is excluded to the extent permitted by law. In particular, we are not liable for indirect damages, consequential damages, loss of profits, lost savings, loss of revenue, loss of goodwill, loss of business opportunity, loss of expected results (e.g., grades, publication acceptance, plagiarism findings), or for the loss of data that could have been recovered through reasonable and customary backups by you.

You acknowledge that the fees we charge reflect the allocation of risk set out in this section, and that we would not be able to offer the Service on the agreed terms without this allocation.

We may update these terms when the service, legal requirements, or our pricing change. The current version is always available at this URL. For existing subscribers, we will notify you of material changes by email or in-app notice at least 30 days before they take effect; you may cancel your subscription before the change applies if you do not agree.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer protection laws of your country of residence remain unaffected.

The European Commission provides an online dispute resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not obliged and not willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

Questions about these terms? Email us at [email protected].