Acceptable use.
Lecturly is a study tool. This policy explains what you can upload, what you can do with what Lecturly makes for you, and what happens if someone breaks the rules. It is part of our Terms of Service, so agreeing to the Terms means agreeing to this too.
The short version: upload material you have the right to study from, use what you make to learn, and don’t use Lecturly to hurt anyone, cheat, or break the law.
1. What you can upload
- Slides, notes, handouts and readings from your own classes that you are allowed to use for your own study.
- Material you wrote yourself.
- Material that is in the public domain or licensed in a way that allows you to use it like this.
- Anything else you have permission to use, or that fair use (or fair dealing, where you live) covers for personal study.
2. What you can’t upload
- Copyrighted material you have no right to use, like a pirated textbook or a paid course you didn’t buy.
- Confidential material you were told not to share, like an employer’s internal documents or an exam you weren’t supposed to have.
- Anything that sexualizes or exploits a minor, in any form. We report this to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and law enforcement, as the law requires.
- Sensitive personal information about other people without their permission, such as health records, government ID numbers, financial account details, or private contact details.
- Malware, or files built to attack, probe or break Lecturly or the AI systems behind it.
- Anything else that is illegal where you live or in the United States.
3. What you can’t do with Lecturly
- Harass, threaten, bully, or promote violence or hatred against anyone, including through a shared lesson or the AI tutor.
- Create or spread content meant to deceive people, such as fake medical, legal or financial advice dressed up as real instruction.
- Pass off a Lecturly lesson as the original work of a professor, author or anyone else who didn’t make it.
- Sell, resell, or publish Lecturly lessons commercially, or republish them without saying they were made with Lecturly.
- Use Lecturly or anything it produces to build or train a competing product or AI model.
- Scrape the service, use bots or automated scripts, or get around rate limits, usage limits, paywalls, or the share link preview limit.
- Try to get the AI to ignore its instructions, reveal how it’s built, or produce content this policy doesn’t allow.
- Make extra accounts to get more free lessons, or game the referral program with fake or self-referred accounts.
- Share your account or sell access to it.
- Probe, scan or test the security of Lecturly without our written permission. If you find a security issue, please tell us at legal@lecturly.ai instead.
4. Academic integrity
Lecturly is built to help you understand your material, not to do your graded work for you. Your school’s rules on AI tools apply to you, and following them is your responsibility. Don’t use Lecturly during an exam or on an assignment where your instructor has said AI tools aren’t allowed, and don’t submit anything Lecturly made as your own work where that isn’t permitted.
5. Shared lessons
When you share a lesson, anyone with the link can access it, including its narration, transcript and your name (or, if you haven’t set one, the part of your email before the @). Only share lessons made from material you have the right to share. Turn sharing off any time from the lesson or from Settings.
6. If someone breaks this policy
Depending on how serious it is, we may remove the content, turn off sharing, limit features, or suspend or close the account. We will usually tell you what happened and why, unless the law or safety reasons stop us. Serious or repeated violations can mean closing the account without a refund, as the Terms of Service explain. We report illegal content to the authorities when the law requires it or when someone’s safety is at risk.
If you think we got it wrong, reply to our message or write to legal@lecturly.ai and a person will review it.
7. Reporting a problem
To report a lesson or user that breaks this policy, email legal@lecturly.ai with the share link (or the account email, if you know it) and what’s wrong. If your copyrighted work is being used without permission, follow the copyright steps in our Terms of Service so we can act on it quickly.