Terms of Service

1. About EAIPAM

EAIPAM is a manuscript-integrity assessment and editorial decision-support platform. Depending on the selected service, EAIPAM may provide reference-integrity assessment, plagiarism and similarity analysis, or a comprehensive manuscript-integrity assessment.

EAIPAM is operated by the EAIPAM Team in India. Questions about these terms may be sent to eaipm.admin@gmail.com.

EAIPAM currently offers the following assessment services:

• Reference Integrity Audit — assessment of reference authenticity, bibliographic accuracy and traceability.
• Plagiarism & Similarity Analysis — identification of textual overlap, similarity levels and major matching sources.
• Comprehensive Manuscript Analysis — plagiarism and similarity screening together with the full EAIPAM scholarly-integrity assessment.

The EAIPAM scholarly-integrity assessment evaluates four defined criteria: Reference Integrity, Citation-to-Claim Accuracy, Scientific Accuracy and Evidence Depth.

Plagiarism and similarity analysis is a separate analysis. Similarity percentages are not mathematically combined with the EAIPAM integrity-risk score.

EAIPAM does not provide legal advice, determine research misconduct or independently establish that a manuscript was written using artificial intelligence.

2. Acceptance of these terms

By creating an account, uploading a manuscript, purchasing an assessment or otherwise using EAIPAM, you agree to these Terms of Service and the policies linked from the Legal & Policies section.

You must not use EAIPAM if you do not agree to these terms.

3. Who may use EAIPAM

EAIPAM may be used by authors, editors, publishers, academic institutions, research organisations and other persons who have lawful authority to submit and assess the relevant material.

Users must be legally capable of entering into a binding agreement. An individual using EAIPAM on behalf of an organisation confirms that they are authorised to bind that organisation to these terms.

4. Account responsibilities

You are responsible for providing accurate account information and maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials.

You must:

• Use a secure password and protect access to your account.
• Notify EAIPAM promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without authorisation.
• Ensure that information submitted through your account is accurate and lawful.
• Accept responsibility for activity conducted through your account, except where caused by an established failure of EAIPAM's systems.

5. Authority to upload manuscripts

You may upload a manuscript only when you own the material or have appropriate authority from the author, copyright holder, publisher, institution or other authorised party.

You are responsible for obtaining any permission required to submit unpublished, confidential, third-party or personally identifiable material.

Uploading a manuscript without authority may result in immediate suspension, deletion of the material and termination of the account.

6. Manuscript ownership and processing licence

Authors and other lawful rights holders retain ownership of their manuscripts. Uploading material to EAIPAM does not transfer copyright or other intellectual-property rights to EAIPAM.

By submitting a manuscript, you grant EAIPAM a limited, non-exclusive and temporary licence to store, reproduce and process the file solely for:

• Performing the selected assessment.
• Generating reports and related outputs.
• Providing authorised support.
• Maintaining service security and quality control.
• Meeting documented legal and compliance obligations.

This licence ends when the relevant files are permanently deleted, except for records that EAIPAM is required or permitted to retain under applicable law.

7. Manuscript confidentiality

EAIPAM will treat uploaded manuscripts as confidential assessment material.

EAIPAM will not:

• Publish or publicly distribute uploaded manuscripts.
• Claim ownership of manuscript content.
• Sell manuscript content to third parties.
• Use manuscripts to train general-purpose artificial intelligence models without explicit permission from the authorised user.

Authorised administrators may access manuscripts only when reasonably necessary for assessment, quality control, technical support, security, investigation of misuse or compliance with legal obligations.

8. Authorised service providers

EAIPAM may use authorised service providers for hosting, secure storage, database management, authentication, email delivery, payment processing, scholarly-data access, security, monitoring and defined analytical functions.

Service providers should receive only the information reasonably necessary for their authorised function and should be subject to appropriate confidentiality, security, processing, retention and deletion requirements.

Where manuscript content or related assessment information must be made available to an authorised service provider, such processing should be limited to what is reasonably necessary to provide or support the selected service. Relevant provider categories and processing disclosures are described in the Privacy Policy.

9. Assessment reports

Assessment reports are prepared from available manuscript content, retrieved scholarly records, configured analytical processes and, where required, authorised editorial review.

Reference Integrity Audit produces the applicable reference-integrity assessment output.

Plagiarism & Similarity Analysis provides a separate Plagiarism & Similarity Report that may include an overall similarity percentage, source-level similarity information and major matching sources.

Comprehensive Manuscript Analysis provides two analytically independent report outputs: a Plagiarism & Similarity Report and an EAIPAM Integrity Report. These reports are prepared independently and are released together when both are ready.

Similarity findings indicate textual overlap with identified sources and do not, on their own, establish plagiarism, copyright infringement or research misconduct.

Reports may identify possible concerns, inconsistencies, incomplete records or areas requiring further examination. They do not constitute a final finding of misconduct.

Generated findings do not transfer ownership of the manuscript to EAIPAM. EAIPAM retains ownership of its platform, assessment framework, software, report structure, scoring methodology and underlying analytical systems.

10. Limitations of assessments

EAIPAM assessments are intended to support, not replace, professional editorial judgement.

• Similarity percentages indicate textual overlap and do not independently establish plagiarism. They are not mathematically combined with the EAIPAM integrity-risk score.
• An unverifiable reference does not automatically establish fabrication.
• A citation mismatch requires editorial examination in context.
• Scientific-accuracy findings are decision-support observations.
• AI-mediated writing indicators are corroborative rather than determinative.
• Reports do not replace peer review, specialist review, institutional investigation or legal assessment.
• Final decisions remain with the responsible editor, publisher, institution or other authorised decision-maker.

11. Fees and payment

Users must pay the applicable fees displayed at the time an assessment is ordered. Prices may depend on the selected service, manuscript length, applicable taxes and any additional processing requested.

Users authorise EAIPAM and its payment-service provider to process the selected payment method for confirmed orders.

EAIPAM may revise its prices for future orders. A price change will not ordinarily affect an assessment that has already been purchased and accepted for processing.

12. Refunds and cancellations

Refund and cancellation rights are governed by the separate Refund Policy and Cancellation Policy.

Unless those policies state otherwise, an assessment may become non-refundable once manuscript processing or analysis has begun.

13. Prohibited use

You must not use EAIPAM to:

• Upload material that you do not have authority to submit.
• Upload malware, malicious code or content intended to disrupt the service.
• Upload unlawfully obtained, stolen or improperly disclosed manuscripts.
• Infringe copyright, privacy, confidentiality or other legal rights.
• Attempt to reverse engineer, bypass, manipulate or misuse the assessment or scoring systems.
• Use automated methods that impose an unreasonable burden on the platform.
• Use reports to make knowingly false, misleading or defamatory allegations.
• Engage in unlawful, fraudulent or abusive activity.

14. Service availability and changes

EAIPAM aims to provide reliable access but does not guarantee that the service will always be uninterrupted, error-free or available at a particular time.

Access may be interrupted for maintenance, updates, security events, infrastructure failures or circumstances beyond reasonable control.

EAIPAM may modify features, assessment methods or service requirements where reasonably necessary. Material contractual or privacy changes will be communicated as required.

15. Suspension and termination

EAIPAM may suspend or terminate an account where there is reasonable evidence of:

• Breach of these terms or another applicable policy.
• Unauthorised manuscript submission.
• Fraudulent or disputed payment.
• Security risk or attempted system misuse.
• Unlawful or harmful use of the platform.

Where appropriate, EAIPAM may provide notice and an opportunity to correct the issue before termination. Immediate action may be taken where necessary to protect users, manuscripts, systems or legal rights.

16. Account closure and deletion

Users may request account closure and deletion of eligible manuscripts, report files and personal information, subject to the applicable retention and deletion rules.

Removing a released report from an author-facing dashboard does not by itself require deletion of an administrator audit copy or other records that EAIPAM is permitted or required to retain.

Some limited records may be retained after account closure where reasonably necessary for payment reconciliation, fraud prevention, security, audit, dispute resolution, legal claims or compliance obligations.

Retention and deletion practices are explained in the Data-Retention Policy.

17. Disclaimer of warranties

To the extent permitted by applicable law, EAIPAM is provided on an “as available” basis. EAIPAM does not guarantee that every reference, claim, scientific issue or AI-mediated pattern will be identified.

No automated or human-assisted assessment can eliminate all false positives, false negatives, incomplete findings or differences in professional judgement.

18. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, EAIPAM and its operators will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive losses arising from use of the platform, reliance on an assessment report, interruption of service or a decision made by a user or third party.

Any financial liability cap, exclusions and exceptions must be finalised by legal counsel and stated here before commercial launch.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

19. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to be responsible for claims arising from material you submitted without authority, your unlawful use of the service or your material breach of these terms.

20. Governing law and dispute resolution

These terms will be governed by the laws of India.

Before filing formal proceedings, the parties should attempt in good faith to resolve a dispute through written communication.

EAIPAM is currently operated as a beta-stage project by the EAIPAM Team in India. Any mandatory court, forum or dispute-resolution requirement will be determined in accordance with applicable law.

21. Changes to these terms

EAIPAM may update these terms to reflect changes in the service, applicable law, security practices or commercial arrangements.

The effective date will be updated when material changes are published. Where required, additional notice or renewed acceptance will be obtained.

22. Contact information

Questions about these terms may be submitted using the EAIPAM contact details below.