Terms of Service

Your agreement with Quill, Inc.

These Terms govern your use of ContributionArc, operated by Quill, Inc. under the Granderson Writing Academy name. By affirmatively accepting them, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge the Privacy Notice. If you do not agree, you may still download your records, sign out or close your account. Contact kgranderson@mac.com with questions.

Accounts and eligibility

You must be at least 18 and engaged in graduate study, research or teaching. Provide accurate account details, protect access to your email and sign-in accounts, and use only accounts you are authorized to use. If you use ContributionArc for an institution, you are responsible for any permission or agreement that institution requires.

Your work, ownership and permitted processing

You retain your rights in the content you submit. You give Quill, Inc. the limited permission needed to store, process, display, back up and transmit that content to provide the features you request and operate the service, including sending it to the AI and scholarly services described in the Privacy Notice and to services you choose to use, such as Overleaf and Google Docs. You must have the right to upload the sources and material you submit.

ContributionArc is a research and writing aid. You are responsible for your arguments, claims, citations and compliance with your institution's, funders' and publishers' rules, including any rules on disclosing AI assistance. AI output can be inaccurate or incomplete; review it before using it. ContributionArc does not guarantee publication, a degree, funding, acceptance or any particular outcome.

Acceptable use

Do not access another person's records, impersonate others, upload unlawful material or material you have no right to use, upload or link unpublished work that someone shared with you in confidence (such as a manuscript or grant proposal you are reviewing), distribute malicious code, bypass access controls, usage limits or spending limits, scrape the service, forge citation stamps, contribute misleading gap signals, or interfere with the service.

Fees and third-party services

ContributionArc is currently offered without charge. Any future paid feature will be presented with its price and terms before you buy it. AI, sign-in, email-delivery, scholarly-index and linked services, such as Google Docs, have their own terms, and their availability can change.

Availability, suspension and closure

Features may change, become unavailable or require maintenance. Keep copies of important work using the download or your own files. We may restrict access for misuse, security concerns or other justified operational or legal reasons. Contact us if you believe a restriction is incorrect.

You can close your account at any time from Account and privacy. Your records are removed as described in the Privacy Notice; backups and provider copies follow their own retention. Applicable statutory rights remain unaffected.

Updates and contact

Revised Terms receive a new version and are presented for affirmative acceptance before you continue using your account. We preserve the text associated with agreement records. Contact Quill, Inc. at kgranderson@mac.com for support, privacy requests or questions about these Terms.

Changes in version 2026-11-01: Google Docs is named among the services you can choose to use, and Acceptable use now covers linking, as well as uploading, unpublished work shared with you in confidence.