Last updated: 22 August 2026 — Effective immediately upon publication
These Terms govern your use of thesisdraft.com and of the checks offered on it. They were rewritten on 22 August 2026: the previous version described a written-thesis service withdrawn on 17 August 2026 and said almost nothing about the checks, which are what the site now offers. If you placed an order under the previous version, § 10 sets out what still applies to it.
1.1. In these Terms of Service (the "Terms"), the following definitions apply unless the context otherwise requires:
1.2. Words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa. Words importing any gender include all genders. References to statutory provisions are to be construed as references to those provisions as amended, re-enacted, or replaced from time to time.
1.3. Headings and sub-headings are inserted for convenience of reference only and do not affect the construction or interpretation of these Terms.
2.1. These Terms govern the entirety of the contractual relationship between the Service Provider and the Client with respect to all services offered through the Platform. By accessing the Platform or using any Analysis Tool, the Client agrees to be bound by these Terms.
2.2. Any terms and conditions submitted by the Client that deviate from, conflict with, or supplement these Terms are expressly rejected, unless the Service Provider has explicitly agreed to their applicability in writing.
2.3. These Terms apply to consumers within the meaning of § 13 of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, "BGB") as well as to entrepreneurs within the meaning of § 14 BGB, unless a specific provision indicates otherwise.
2.4. The Service Provider may amend these Terms with effect for the future. Amended Terms are published on the Platform and take effect upon publication. An amendment does not apply retroactively to a Check Pass already purchased, which continues to be governed by the Terms in force at the time of purchase.
2.5. The contract language is English. German, French and Spanish versions of these Terms are provided for convenience; in the event of any discrepancy, the English version prevails.
3.1. Use of the Free Tier requires no contract of sale and no account. It is offered as a gratuitous service and may be modified, limited, or discontinued at any time, subject to § 14.
3.2. The presentation of a Check Pass on the Platform does not constitute a binding offer within the meaning of § 145 BGB but an invitation to the Client to submit an offer (invitatio ad offerendum).
3.3. By completing the checkout process operated by the Platform's payment processor, Stripe, Inc. ("Stripe"), the Client submits a binding offer to purchase a Check Pass on these Terms.
3.4. The contract is formed upon the Service Provider's acceptance, which is communicated by the issue of a Check Pass following confirmation of payment. Acknowledgment of receipt of a payment does not by itself constitute acceptance.
3.5. The Service Provider may decline any purchase at its discretion. In such a case any payment already rendered is refunded in full without undue delay.
4.1. The Service Provider offers automated tools that analyse a text and report statistical properties of it. No Analysis Tool writes, rewrites, or produces academic work of any kind on the Client's behalf.
4.2. The AI-detection check reports the extent to which the statistical properties of a Submitted Text resemble those of machine-generated text, expressed as a score and a banded verdict, together with the individual measures contributing to it.
4.3. The plagiarism and citation check reports quoted passages that appear without a nearby citation, passages repeated within the Client's own document, and standard academic formulations that a similarity report may highlight. It does not compare the Submitted Text against the web or against any publication database, and accordingly it does not produce and will not display a similarity percentage.
4.4. The watermark and hidden-character check reports invisible Unicode characters, mixed-alphabet words and document metadata. It does not detect, and no publicly available tool at present detects, the statistical watermarks that some providers of generative artificial intelligence embed in generated text.
4.5. The Service Provider may add, alter, or withdraw an Analysis Tool. Where a Check Pass is in force, the Service Provider will not withdraw the AI-detection check or the plagiarism and citation check for the remainder of its term; if it nonetheless becomes unable to provide them, § 9.5 applies.
5.1. The Free Tier analyses the first 1,500 words of a Submitted Text. Where a document is longer, the Result states the proportion analysed. No account, name, or email address is required.
5.2. No verdict is issued on a text shorter than 300 words. This is a measured limit rather than a commercial one: below that length the Service Provider is not able to state an error rate, and it does not issue verdicts it cannot qualify.
5.3. A Check Pass entitles the Client to run the Analysis Tools on a whole document of up to 30,000 words, and to repeat those checks without limit, for 14 days from purchase. It expires at the end of that period. It does not renew, and there is no subscription to cancel.
5.4. A Check Pass is held in the browser in which it was purchased. It is not an account, and it is not linked to a name or an email address, because the Service Provider does not collect either in connection with an analysis. A Client who clears their browser storage, or who wishes to use a different device, may restore the Pass using the order code shown at checkout. The Service Provider holds no mapping between an order code and a person and therefore cannot identify or restore a Pass without that code. This is a consequence of the anonymity described in § 7 and is not a defect in the service.
5.5. A Check Pass is personal to the Client and may not be resold, shared, or made available to others.
No Result produced by any Analysis Tool is proof that a text was, or was not, written by a person. This is the single most important limitation in these Terms and it applies without exception.
6.1. The Analysis Tools measure statistical properties of text. Human writing that is formal, highly structured, or produced by an author writing in a second language shares many of those properties. A Result is a reason to ask a question; it is never, by itself, a reason to conclude an answer.
6.2. The Service Provider publishes the measured rate at which verified human-written academic text receives each verdict, together with the corpus each rate was measured on, at thesisdraft.com/accuracy. Those rates are measured on English and German corpora. No such rate has been measured for French or Spanish, and the Service Provider does not state one; this is disclosed on the Platform wherever a Result is shown in those languages.
6.3. The Service Provider does not warrant that any individual Result is correct, and expressly warns against relying on one as evidence in an academic misconduct proceeding, whether by a Client or by a third party who has obtained a Result.
6.4. The Service Provider makes no representation that use of the Analysis Tools will produce any particular academic outcome, that a text will or will not be flagged by any third-party detector, or that any educational institution will accept a Result.
7.1. The Service Provider does not ask for, and does not hold, a name, a university, a supervisor, a matriculation number, or an account in connection with a Submitted Text. Payment records and Submitted Text are held in separate systems and are not joined.
7.2. Submitted Text is retained and used to measure and improve the accuracy of the Analysis Tools, including by contributing to the reference corpus. What is retained, for what purpose, on what legal basis, and how to have it deleted is set out in full in the Privacy Policy, which forms an integral part of these Terms.
7.3. A Result derived from the reference corpus is expressed only as a statistical measure. No Result ever displays, quotes, names, or points to another person's document.
7.4. The Client may require deletion of a Submitted Text at any time, without giving reasons and free of charge, by contacting the Service Provider with the analysis reference printed in the report. This is in addition to the rights under Articles 17 and 21 GDPR.
7.5. The Client warrants that they are entitled to submit the text they submit, and undertakes not to submit special categories of personal data within the meaning of Article 9 GDPR.
8.1. A Check Pass costs €4.99, inclusive of applicable statutory value-added tax (Umsatzsteuer) pursuant to the German Value Added Tax Act (Umsatzsteuergesetz, "UStG"). A reduced price applies in the regions listed on the Platform's pricing page. The price applicable to a purchase is the price displayed to the Client at checkout.
8.2. Payment is due in full at purchase and is processed exclusively by Stripe. The Service Provider does not collect, process, or store payment card data. The Client's use of Stripe is subject to Stripe's own terms and privacy policy.
8.3. The prices displayed are subject to change with effect for future purchases. A Check Pass already purchased is unaffected by a subsequent price change.
8.4. The Client bears any currency conversion or intermediary charges levied by their own payment provider, unless mandatory law provides otherwise.
8.5. In the event of a chargeback initiated without prior contact with the Service Provider, the Service Provider may suspend the Check Pass concerned and pursue available legal remedies.
A Check Pass is digital content. As things currently stand the Service Provider does not ask you, at checkout, to consent to immediate performance and to acknowledge the loss of your right of withdrawal. The consequence is set out in § 9.3 and is in your favour: your fourteen-day right of withdrawal is not excluded, and it survives your using the Pass.
9.1. Consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB domiciled in a Member State of the European Union have a right of withdrawal in accordance with §§ 355 to 357 BGB and Directive 2011/83/EU. The Client may withdraw within fourteen (14) calendar days of contract formation, without giving reasons, by an unequivocal statement sent to contact@morphica.de.
9.2. Pursuant to § 356(5) BGB, that right would expire before the end of the withdrawal period where the Service Provider has begun to supply the digital content and the Client has (a) expressly consented to performance beginning before the expiry of that period, and (b) acknowledged that they thereby lose the right of withdrawal.
9.3. The Service Provider does not presently obtain that consent or that acknowledgement at checkout. The condition in § 9.2 is therefore not met, and the right of withdrawal is not excluded. A consumer may accordingly withdraw within fourteen (14) calendar days of purchase and receive a full refund, whether or not they have used the Check Pass in the meantime. Should the Service Provider introduce the consent step described in § 9.2, it will do so prospectively and these Terms will be amended accordingly; a Check Pass purchased before that change remains governed by this clause.
9.4. Reimbursement is made without undue delay and no later than fourteen (14) calendar days after receipt of the withdrawal, using the payment method originally used, at no charge to the Client.
9.5. Independently of the right of withdrawal, where the Service Provider is unable to provide the Analysis Tools for a continuous period exceeding seventy-two (72) hours during the term of a Check Pass, the Client may request either an extension of the Pass by the period of unavailability or a refund proportionate to the unexpired term. Statutory rights in respect of defective performance are unaffected.
9.6. Nothing in this section limits any mandatory statutory right of the Client.
10.1. The written Reference Material service was withdrawn from sale on 17 August 2026. No new order for it can be placed, and the Service Provider no longer offers it.
10.2. This section is retained solely so that a Client who paid for Reference Material before that date retains their entitlement. Such a Client may still collect their Deliverable against the order code issued at the time of purchase.
10.3. Reference Material was, and is, supplied exclusively as reference material, structural guidance and research orientation. It was never intended, designed, or suitable for submission to any educational institution as the Client's own work. The Academic Disclaimer continues to apply to it in full.
10.4. Any revision entitlement attaching to such an order remains exercisable by written request to contact@morphica.de.
10.5. Collection is by order code and not by email, in order to preserve the Client's anonymity. The Service Provider stores no mapping between an order code and the identity of a Client and therefore cannot restore a lost code.
11.1. The Client shall not use the Platform or any Analysis Tool to attempt to conceal machine-generated text, to circumvent any academic integrity process, or to represent machine-generated work as their own.
11.2. The Client shall not attempt automated or bulk access to the Analysis Tools, circumvent word limits or metering, resell access, or interfere with the operation or security of the Platform.
11.3. The Service Provider may suspend or terminate access where it has reasonable grounds to believe this section has been breached. Where a paid Check Pass is suspended other than for a breach, § 9.5 applies.
12.1. The Client retains all rights in their Submitted Text. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of it to the Service Provider. The Client grants the Service Provider a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to process and retain it for the purposes, and subject to the limits, set out in § 7 and in the Privacy Policy.
12.2. The Service Provider retains all intellectual property rights in the Platform, the Analysis Tools, the reference corpus, and the reports the Analysis Tools generate, including copyright pursuant to the German Copyright Act (Urheberrechtsgesetz, "UrhG").
12.3. The Client may use, retain, and share a report generated about their own Submitted Text, including with an educational institution, for any purpose that is not resale or systematic redistribution.
12.4. The Client shall not reproduce, publish, sublicense, sell, or create derivative works from the Platform or the Analysis Tools, nor remove or obscure any proprietary notice.
13.1. The Service Provider is not liable for any failure or delay in performance to the extent it results from events beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, epidemics or pandemics, war, terrorism or civil unrest, governmental action, sanctions or embargoes, labour disputes, failures of third-party services, infrastructure or telecommunications, cyberattacks, or system failures.
13.2. Where such an event persists for more than thirty (30) consecutive calendar days, either party may terminate the affected contract by written notice, and the Service Provider shall refund any amount paid for a period during which the service was not available.
14.1. The Service Provider bears unlimited liability for damages arising from injury to life, body, or health attributable to an intentional or negligent breach of duty by the Service Provider, its legal representatives, or its vicarious agents, in accordance with §§ 823, 831 BGB.
14.2. The Service Provider bears unlimited liability for damages caused by willful misconduct (Vorsatz) or gross negligence (grobe Fahrlässigkeit) on the part of the Service Provider, its legal representatives, or its vicarious agents.
14.3. In the event of a negligent breach of a material contractual obligation (wesentliche Vertragspflicht / Kardinalpflicht), liability is limited to the foreseeable, contract-typical damages. Material contractual obligations are those whose fulfilment is essential to the proper execution of the contract and upon whose compliance the Client may regularly rely.
14.4. Subject to §§ 14.1 to 14.3, the Service Provider's aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall not exceed the amount paid by the Client for the Check Pass giving rise to the claim. Where the claim arises from use of the Free Tier, for which no payment was made, liability is limited in accordance with §§ 14.1 to 14.3 and § 521 BGB.
14.5. Subject to §§ 14.1 to 14.3, the Service Provider is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, loss of data, loss of academic standing, or reputational damage.
14.6. In particular, and subject to §§ 14.1 to 14.3, the Service Provider is not liable for any consequence of a Result being relied upon as proof of authorship, by the Client or by any third party, contrary to the express warning in § 6.
14.7. Liability under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) is unaffected.
14.8. The limitations in this § 14 also apply in favour of the Service Provider's employees, agents, subcontractors, and other vicarious agents.
15.1. The Client shall indemnify and hold harmless the Service Provider and its officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, losses, damages, liabilities, costs, and reasonable legal expenses arising out of (a) the Client's breach of these Terms; (b) the Client's use of the Platform in breach of § 11; or (c) any third-party claim arising from text the Client submitted which they were not entitled to submit.
15.2. This section does not apply to a Client who is a consumer within the meaning of § 13 BGB except to the extent of loss caused by that Client's intentional or grossly negligent conduct.
16.1. The Service Provider processes personal data in accordance with its Privacy Policy, available at thesisdraft.com/legal/privacy, which forms an integral part of these Terms.
16.2. Processing is carried out in compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, "GDPR") and the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, "BDSG").
17.1. These Terms and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the substantive laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and the conflict-of-laws rules of German private international law.
17.2. For Clients who are entrepreneurs within the meaning of § 14 BGB, the exclusive place of jurisdiction is the courts of competent jurisdiction at the registered seat of the Service Provider.
17.3. For Clients who are consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB and domiciled in a Member State of the European Union, Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 (Brussels Ia) applies to consumer contracts. Nothing in these Terms deprives such a consumer of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of their habitual residence.
17.4. The European Commission provides a platform for Online Dispute Resolution at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. The Service Provider is neither obligated nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
18.1. Should any provision of these Terms be or become invalid, unenforceable, or void in whole or in part, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected. The invalid provision shall be replaced by a valid provision that most closely reflects its economic purpose (salvatorische Klausel). The same applies to any unintended gap.
18.2. No failure or delay by the Service Provider in exercising any right operates as a waiver of it, nor does any partial exercise preclude any further exercise.
18.3. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Academic Disclaimer, constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to their subject matter and supersede all prior agreements and understandings relating to it.
19.1. For any inquiry, complaint, or legal notice relating to these Terms, the Client may contact the Service Provider at:
Morphica Technologies
(operating as ThesisDraft)
Email: contact@morphica.de
Website: thesisdraft.com