Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (Terms) are a binding agreement governing access to and use of the Inline website, application, pilot, support channels, and related features (the Service). By creating an account, clicking an acceptance control, continuing with Google after the linked notice, accepting an invitation, or otherwise using the Service after having an opportunity to review these Terms, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Our Privacy Policy explains how personal information is handled and is incorporated into these Terms by reference. A separate institutional agreement controls if it expressly conflicts with these Terms for an institutionally sponsored use. A research consent form governs participation in a separate study and is not replaced by these Terms.

The Service is currently provided by Alexandr Tkachyov, an individual based in Pennsylvania, United States. “Inline” is the name of the Service and is not presently a separate corporation, limited liability company, or other incorporated legal entity. In these Terms, “Inline,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Alexandr Tkachyov as the Service operator.

If a legal entity is later formed to operate or succeed the Service, these Terms and the Service may be assigned to that entity as described in Section 20. Until then, contractual obligations identified as Inline's are obligations of the individual operator.

Direct account registration is currently limited to people who are at least 18 years old and legally able to enter this agreement. The Service is not directed to children under 13.

A person under 18 may use the Service only if Inline expressly enables access under a written school or institutional arrangement and all authorization required from the institution, parent, or legal guardian has been obtained. An ordinary invitation code does not by itself authorize minor use.

If you use the Service for an institution or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to the applicable agreement and to provide the content and instructions you submit. An educator must obtain any institutional approval required before introducing the Service in a course.

You must provide accurate account information, keep credentials and active share links secure, and promptly update information that affects eligibility or authorization. You are responsible for activity under your account unless caused by Inline's breach of these Terms or security obligations. Do not share an account, impersonate another person, or allow someone else to use a role or entitlement issued to you. Notify us promptly of suspected unauthorized access.

A user may have student, educator, writing-center, or institutional roles in different contexts. A persona selected during onboarding is a navigation preference, not authorization. Privileged roles are scoped to verified organizations and courses and may be granted, audited, changed, or revoked by an authorized administrator.

Course invitation links, codes, and trial entitlements are limited to their intended recipients, term, enrollment cap, and course. You may not sell, publish, recycle, forge, or use them to grant yourself or another person unauthorized access or benefits.

Inline is a Socratic writing-support tool. Draft Feedback analyzes a user's writing and assignment context and returns passage-specific questions, observations, and an overall draft-stage note. Brainstorming responds to an assignment and optional student-owned starting material with bounded questions intended to help the student think. By design, Inline does not provide a thesis, outline, paragraph, complete answer, or rewrite intended for submission.

Available features may also include document storage, local recovery, feedback history, meaningful revision checkpoints, comparison and export, fixed process reports, classes and assignments, student-chosen submissions, educator review, privacy-limited aggregates, multilingual feedback, and user-approved external source queries or integrations. Availability, limits, and quality may vary by plan, institution, language, course, device, and release stage.

You retain ownership of drafts, starting material, assignments, rubrics, notes, reflections, comments, ratings, and other material you submit or create through the Service (Your Content). Inline does not claim ownership of Your Content.

You grant Inline a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, copy, transmit, parse, format, process, display, and back up Your Content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, maintain, and support the Service; fulfill actions you request; comply with law; and enforce these Terms. This includes processing content on Inline's controlled inference infrastructure to return feedback. The license is limited by the Privacy Policy and ends when the content is deleted, subject to temporary backups, legally required retention, and any fixed course submission that an authorized institution must retain under the disclosed course rules.

You represent that you have the rights and permissions needed to submit Your Content and direct its processing. Do not submit confidential third-party material, personal data, copyrighted works, or education records unless you are authorized to do so. Assignments and rubrics may be copyrighted by an educator or institution and remain subject to their rules.

Educators and institutional users must use only the role and data reasonably necessary for a legitimate educational purpose. They are responsible for institutional approval, student-facing notices, accessibility and equivalent participation routes required by their institution, applicable education-record obligations, and their own grading and academic-integrity decisions.

Inline feedback or process data must not be the sole basis for a grade, disciplinary action, academic-integrity allegation, admission, employment, or another consequential decision. An educator must apply independent judgment, follow institutional procedures, and give the student a meaningful opportunity to respond. Educators may not require separate research participation or ask Inline to reveal who consented to a study.

Using the Service, joining a course, answering an ordinary product survey, or rating feedback does not enroll anyone in research and does not authorize model training. Inline may use voluntary surveys, educator usefulness ratings separated from student identity and content, and de-identified or aggregate operational measures to improve prompts, reliability, interfaces, and service operations.

Individual-level research requires a separate invitation and affirmative study consent. Student-linked writing or feedback requires the applicable student authorization, and linked educator judgments require the applicable educator consent. Model-development use requires express permission in the approved protocol and every applicable consent. Research participation must be voluntary and cannot affect grades, course standing, or ordinary Service access.

Private workspace content remains visible to its owner unless the owner deliberately submits or shares a fixed artifact. When course submissions are available, a student will preview the selected draft snapshot, process report, Inline questions, reflection, or other listed fields before submitting them to one named assignment. Later private edits do not silently change that submission. Withdrawal or replacement follows the course rules shown at submission.

A student may separately create a revocable, read-only process-report link with a maximum 30-day expiration. Anyone who obtains an active link may view the fixed report, including exact draft versions or Inline feedback only when the student selected those fields in the preview. Feedback disclosure includes its highlighted draft passages. A recipient must not forward, republish, scrape, or use it outside the purpose for which the student shared it. Revocation prevents future access but cannot retrieve a copy already lawfully viewed or saved by a recipient.

Revision data and process reports show how a document changed over time. They do not establish identity, authorship, originality, plagiarism, or whether AI was used. Inline may suspend sharing if a report or token is abused or exposes unlawful content.

Inline output is generated by an automated model and may be incomplete, repetitive, misleading, inaccurate, or inappropriate for a particular assignment, genre, language, citation style, or institution. It may miss an important problem or identify a problem that is not present. Inline does not verify facts, sources, quotations, calculations, citations, plagiarism, authorship, AI use, or compliance with a current style manual.

You remain responsible for every idea, fact, source, quotation, decision, and sentence you submit. You must verify output, use independent judgment, and follow the applicable instructor and institutional rules. Inline is educational support, not a substitute for an instructor, editor, writing center, accessibility service, counselor, attorney, or other professional.

You may reject, adapt, discuss, or ignore feedback. No grade, learning outcome, publication result, or acceptance decision is promised. Quality may differ across languages and fields, and beta language support must not be treated as an authoritative translation or discipline-specific review.

You may not use or attempt to use the Service to:

• violate law, another person's rights, an institution's policies, or these Terms;
• submit content you are not authorized to process or expose another person's confidential or sensitive information without permission;
• obtain finished academic work, misrepresent authorship, facilitate cheating, or evade an authorized academic-integrity process;
• harass, threaten, discriminate, exploit, or distribute illegal, malicious, or infringing material;
• probe, scan, attack, overload, disable, disrupt, or bypass the Service, authentication, rate limits, quotas, role gates, privacy controls, or security measures;
• access another user's account or data, guess or harvest share tokens, scrape rosters or reports, or re-identify aggregate or de-identified information;
• reverse engineer, extract, reproduce, benchmark for a competing service, discover hidden prompts or model weights, or build a derivative model from the Service except where law expressly prohibits that restriction;
• use automated scripts, bots, bulk requests, or resale without our written permission; or
• use Inline output or process measures as an automated high-impact decision, AI detector, authorship verifier, or cheating score.

We may investigate suspected misuse and apply proportionate technical limits. Security testing requires prior written authorization and an agreed scope.

The Service, software, interface, design, branding, prompts, schemas, evaluation methods, documentation, and model configurations are owned by Inline or its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property law. Except for the limited right to use the Service under these Terms, no rights are granted by implication.

Subject to these Terms, Inline grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access the Service and to copy, export, and use feedback generated for Your Content for your own educational, teaching, or authorized institutional purpose. Because automated output may be similar across users and may not be protectable by copyright, Inline does not promise that generated feedback is unique or exclusively yours.

If you send a product suggestion that does not include student writing or confidential information, you permit Inline to use it without an obligation to compensate you. This does not authorize use of drafts, course submissions, private feedback, or research data.

The Service depends on infrastructure and may link to or interoperate with third-party services, such as Google sign-in, Google Docs, source searches, library systems, a future payment processor, LMS or SSO, and document or browser integrations. Third-party terms and privacy notices apply to their services, and Inline does not control their content, availability, security, or decisions.

Opening a blank Google Doc currently copies text to your clipboard; it does not automatically upload the draft. If a source-suggestion feature is offered, a query will leave Inline only after you review it and choose an external destination. Search terms, links, and suggested resources are not verified citations. You are responsible for reviewing the query, source, license, relevance, authorship, and accuracy before use.

Future integrations may require separate authorization or OAuth permissions. You may revoke an integration through the available settings or third-party account, subject to data already transmitted at your direction.

Plans may differ in feedback limits, draft length, saved history, course features, and other capabilities. We may enforce daily, weekly, document, course, and fair-use limits disclosed in the Service. We may prospectively adjust free limits or plan features to protect reliability and control compute cost, but a change will not create a charge without your express agreement.

A current no-card pilot or Pro trial ends or returns to the stated free plan automatically and does not convert to a paid subscription. You will not be charged unless and until you separately complete a checkout that clearly shows the price, billing cycle, taxes, renewal terms, and cancellation method.

If paid plans are introduced, fees are due as shown at purchase, taxes may be added, and a third-party processor may handle payment details. Renewal, cancellation, refund, and price-change terms will be presented before purchase and will comply with mandatory consumer law. An institutional plan may instead be governed by an order form or written agreement.

Inline is an early-stage pilot under active development. We may add, change, limit, pause, release-gate, or discontinue a feature; correct output or metadata; impose a maintenance window; or change the selected model. We will give reasonable notice when a change materially reduces a paid feature or affects user privacy, except when an immediate change is needed for security, law, abuse prevention, or service reliability.

We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability, permanent storage, backward compatibility, or that a feature will move from pilot to general availability. Keep an independent copy of important writing and export content before a course ends, an account is deleted, or access expires.

You may stop using the Service at any time and may export workspace documents and delete your account through Settings. Account deletion is permanent and subject to the retention rules in the Privacy Policy. Leaving a course, withdrawing a submission, deleting a document, and deleting an account are different actions; the interface or course rules will identify what each action affects.

We may limit, suspend, or terminate access if you materially or repeatedly breach these Terms, create security or legal risk, misuse an educator role, fail to pay an applicable fee, or threaten the Service or other users. Where reasonably practicable, we will give notice and an opportunity to cure or export content. We may act immediately for a serious security, safety, fraud, legal, or privacy risk.

Upon termination, the license to use the Service ends. Provisions that by their nature should survive remain effective, including ownership, payment obligations, disclaimers, liability limits, dispute terms, and narrowly necessary content licenses for retained records.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” INLINE DISCLAIMS ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED, AND STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, AND THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR MEET A PARTICULAR EDUCATIONAL OR INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT.

Inline does not warrant that feedback, stage labels, source queries, translations, revision measures, or aggregates are correct or suitable for grading, discipline, publication, fact-checking, citation checking, legal compliance, accessibility compliance, or academic-integrity determinations. Some jurisdictions do not permit certain warranty exclusions, so some exclusions may not apply to you.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INLINE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, OPPORTUNITY, GOODWILL, OR DATA; OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INLINE'S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE DURING ANY 12-MONTH PERIOD WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID INLINE FOR THE SERVICE DURING THAT PERIOD OR (B) USD $100.

These limits do not exclude liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for fraud, willful misconduct, or personal injury caused by negligence where applicable law so provides. They also do not limit rights available under mandatory consumer law. The allocations of risk in these Terms are an essential basis of the agreement, including where the Service is provided without charge.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Subject to any mandatory consumer right or controlling institutional agreement, the state courts located in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from these Terms or the Service, and each party consents to personal jurisdiction there.

Before filing a claim, please send a description of the issue and requested resolution to hello@inlinetutor.com and allow 30 days for an informal resolution attempt. This does not prevent either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief, using an eligible small-claims process, or meeting a legal filing deadline. These Terms do not require arbitration or waive a right to participate in a class action where that right otherwise exists.

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, and any applicable order form, institutional agreement, or feature-specific terms are the entire agreement concerning the Service. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified only to the minimum extent needed and the remaining provisions will remain effective. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. Headings are for convenience only.

You may not assign these Terms or transfer an account without our written consent. We may assign these Terms and transfer operation of the Service to a corporation or other successor that assumes the applicable obligations, including as part of incorporation, financing, reorganization, sale, or transfer. We will provide notice when required by law or when the change materially affects users.

Neither party is liable for delay caused by events reasonably outside its control, except for payment obligations. These Terms do not create an employment, partnership, agency, fiduciary, or joint-venture relationship. There are no third-party beneficiaries except where an institutional agreement expressly says otherwise.

We may update these Terms as the Service or law changes. We will post the revised Terms with a new effective date. For a material change, we will provide reasonable advance notice in the Service or by email and request renewed acceptance where required. Continued use after the effective date of a properly noticed update constitutes acceptance to the extent permitted by law. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and may delete your account.

You consent to receive account, legal, security, and transactional notices electronically at the email associated with your account or in the Service. Keep that email current. Marketing preferences can be changed separately and do not affect necessary service notices.

Questions, legal notices, and intellectual-property concerns may be sent to hello@inlinetutor.com. Please identify the account or content involved and provide enough detail for us to evaluate the request.