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Integrity & trust

Policies, disclosure, privacy, and what the app can and cannot verify for you.

Is using EssayGenius cheating?

The honest answer depends on which features you use and what your course allows.

How to disclose AI assistance

When and how to tell your institution you used AI tools.

Citation integrity checker

A four-layer system that catches uncited borrowing, missing quotation marks, and passages that need paraphrasing without costing a fortune.

How source verification works

What is verified automatically, what is imported as-is, and what still needs your judgment.

Your privacy and data

Where your essays are stored, what's sent to AI, and how to delete your data.